The positive in negatives
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

	The best way to protect infants is to ban smoking in the home [Full text]

	Enzyme potentiated desensitisation fails to prevent hay fever [Full text]

	Diabetes review articles don't include POEMs [Full text]

	Informed patients donate tissue to the commercial sector [Full text]

	Vitamin A given soon after birth increases survival of newborns [Full text]

	GPs must act as gatekeepers to bowel cancer services [Full text]

Editorials

	Breast cancer in men
	George H Perkins, Lavinia P Middleton
	BMJ  2003;327:239-240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.239 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical trials for tomorrow funded by the MRC
	Charles Warlow
	BMJ  2003;327:240-241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.240 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Paying for bmj.com
	Tony Delamothe, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;327:241-242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.241 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The impact of parental psychiatric disorder on children
	Paul Ramchandani, Alan Stein
	BMJ  2003;327:242-243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.242 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tuberculin testing before BCG vaccination
	Graham H Bothamley, Ed Cooper, Delane Shingadia, Alex Mellanby
	BMJ  2003;327:243-244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.243 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Co-proxamol and suicide: Licence needs to be changed
	D N Bateman, R Afshari
	BMJ  2003;327:287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.287 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Co-proxamol and suicide: Co-proxamol should be restricted, not banned
	Ivan L Marples
	BMJ  2003;327:287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.287-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Co-proxamol and suicide: Availability of co-proxamol has been successfully reduced in Doncaster
	Paul T Fryers, Michael Geraghty, Christine Hall
	BMJ  2003;327:287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.287-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antidepressant prescribing and suicide: Analysis is misleading
	Joanna Moncrieff
	BMJ  2003;327:288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.288 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antidepressant prescribing and suicide: Associations attribute possible causality inappropriately
	Brian M Draper
	BMJ  2003;327:288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.288-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antidepressant prescribing and suicide: Decline in suicide rate among older people predates 1991
	Thomas J Verberne
	BMJ  2003;327:288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.288-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antidepressant prescribing and suicide: Antidepressants do not reduce suicide rates
	Peter H Ankarberg
	BMJ  2003;327:288-289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.288-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antidepressant prescribing and suicide: Authors' reply
	Wayne D Hall, Andrea Mant, Phillip B Mitchell
	BMJ  2003;327:289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.289 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pharmacological heterogeneity limits antidepressant study
	Anthony S Hale
	BMJ  2003;327:289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.289-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European Commission's proposal for a council recommendation on cancer screening
	Marc Arbyn, Herman Van Oyen, Elsebeth Lynge, Michael Micksche, Jean Faivre, Joe Jordan
	BMJ  2003;327:289-290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.289-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Opportunistic screening for Chlamydia: Microbiological input is essential in Chlamydia screening programmes
	C Y William Tong, Helen Dunn, David A Lewis
	BMJ  2003;327:290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.290 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Opportunistic screening for Chlamydia: Authors' reply
	Veronique Moens, Geoffrey Baruch
	BMJ  2003;327:290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.290-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines for anecdotes might include more information
	Sergio Abanades, Mag Farré
	BMJ  2003;327:290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.290-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Two groups were different in cardiovascular risk study
	Malvinder S Parmar
	BMJ  2003;327:290-291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.290-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Behavioural approaches are helpful in overactive bladder
	Tim Lane, Christian Brown, Mark Emberton
	BMJ  2003;327:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.291 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Randomise foundation trusts
	David J Torgerson
	BMJ  2003;327:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.291-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Time has come for a medical minister of health
	Ian H Kunkler
	BMJ  2003;327:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.291-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Hitting the Headlines" is useful resource
	Jon R Brassey
	BMJ  2003;327:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.291-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Liberia faces a humanitarian catastrophe, warn aid agencies
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2003;327:245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.245 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	HIV cases rising sharply in India
	Sanjay Kumar
	BMJ  2003;327:245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.245-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;327:246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.246 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US agrees to cheap drug imports—as Florida officials break fake drugs ring
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2003;327:246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.246-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Proposed US stroke centres under fire for planned use of alteplase
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2003;327:247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.247 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Company plans to sell snuff as "smokeless tobacco"
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;327:247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.247-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Study shows poor reliability of prostate cancer test
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;327:249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.249-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Ice hockey can lead to brain injury, experts warn
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;327:249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.249-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Fertilisation authority to review "egg giving"
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.250 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Germany reaches controversial deal on healthcare reform
	Jane Burgermeister
	BMJ  2003;327:250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.250-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Apparent increase in autism in children has stopped, study shows
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.248 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Presidential commission urges revamp of US mental health system
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;327:248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.248-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Fishy diet could help prevent Alzheimer�s disease
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;327:248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.248-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Asbestos poisoning was covered up by doctors, claims health team
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2003;327:248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.248-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Commons committee calls for more choice over home births
	Upasana Tayal
	BMJ  2003;327:249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.249 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Kidney trafficking is "big business," says Council of Europe
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  2003;327:249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.249-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Prize winner to donate funds from Israeli university to Arab researchers
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2003;327:250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.250-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Female hospital doctors find it harder than GPs to balance career and family
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;327:250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.250-c [Extract] [Full text]

	EU health minister renews calls for specialist disease control centre
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2003;327:250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.250-d [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Identifying and managing patients at low risk of bowel cancer in general practice
	M R Thompson, I Heath, B G Ellis, E T Swarbrick, L Faulds Wood, W S Atkin
	BMJ  2003;327:263-265, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.263 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Quality improvement reports

	Improving compliance with requirements on junior doctors' hours
	Hilary D Cass, Isabel Smith, Cheryl Unthank, Colin Starling, Jane E Collins
	BMJ  2003;327:270-273, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.270 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional details][extra: Figure A][extra: Figure B]

Information in practice

	What happened to the valid POEMs? A survey of review articles on the treatment of type 2 diabetes
	Allen F Shaughnessy, David C Slawson
	BMJ  2003;327:266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.266 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: List of review articles] FREE

	Commentary: The faults of expert reviews are already well known
	D A Fitzmaurice
	BMJ  2003;327:269, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.269 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	New approaches to preventing restenosis
	Balram Bhargava, Ganesan Karthikeyan, Alexandre S Abizaid, Roxana Mehran
	BMJ  2003;327:274-279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.274 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references and tables]

	ABC of interventional cardiology: Percutaneous interventional electrophysiology
	Gerry C Kaye
	BMJ  2003;327:280-283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.280 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Modified informed consent procedure: consent to postponed information
	Han Boter, Johannes J M van Delden, Rob J de Haan, Gabriël J E Rinkel
	BMJ  2003;327:284-285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.284 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: List of members of steering committee]

	Commentary: an imperfect compromise
	Martin Dennis
	BMJ  2003;327:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.286 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: My First MRCP Book
	Paul Grant
	BMJ  2003;327:294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.294 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Tony Copperfield's Primary Care Scream
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2003;327:294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.294-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: New US drama outrages plastic surgeons
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;327:295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.295 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hit Parade
	BMJ  2003;327:295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.295-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ads: Gay tobacco ads come out of the closet
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2003;327:296, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.296 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Poppies in Kosovo, gerbera daisies in Basra
	Celia Duff
	BMJ  2003;327:297, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.297 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Honorary woman
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2003;327:297, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.297-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:298, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.298 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Hip protectors are ineffective for preventing hip and pelvic fractures
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	British biological warfare
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2003;327:261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.261 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Penalised
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2003;327:262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.262-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Theme issues (2004): Call for papers
	BMJ  2003;327:265, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.265 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A case of "Alpine armailli's apple hands syndrome"
	Bertrand Graz
	BMJ  2003;327:273, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.273 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Shy and retiring
	Barbara M Southcott
	BMJ  2003;327:279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.279 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Compartment syndrome
	Rahij Anwar
	BMJ  2003;327:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.286-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2003;327:293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.293-f [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Paul Wilson Brand
	June E Nash
	BMJ  2003;327:292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.292 [Extract] [Full text]

	James Mellis Dunbar
	James A Dunbar, James A T Dunbar
	BMJ  2003;327:292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.292-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Euan Horniman
	William Jory
	BMJ  2003;327:293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.293 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Dhanamjaya Rao Kandula
	Prasad Rao
	BMJ  2003;327:293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.293-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Khondker ("Salim") Mosleh-Uddin
	Ifti Lone
	BMJ  2003;327:293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.293-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Sydney Charles Sandifer
	Jon Sandifer, Geoffrey Cunningham
	BMJ  2003;327:293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.293-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alastair Douglas Short
	David Blair, Stuart Murray, Lewis Reay, Iain Wallace
	BMJ  2003;327:293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.293-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Beatrice Elizabeth Sleigh
	Joan Mitchell
	BMJ  2003;327:293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.293-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Enzyme potentiated desensitisation in treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis: double blind randomised controlled study
	Michael J Radcliffe, George T Lewith, Richard G Turner, Philip Prescott, Martin K Church, Stephen T Holgate
	BMJ  2003;327:251-254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.251 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of supplementing newborn infants with vitamin A on early infant mortality: community based randomised trial in southern India
	Lakshmi Rahmathullah, James M Tielsch, R D Thulasiraj, Joanne Katz, Christian Coles, Sheela Devi, Rajeesh John, Karthik Prakash, A V Sadanand, N Edwin, C Kamaraj
	BMJ  2003;327:254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.254 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Effect of strategies to reduce exposure of infants to environmental tobacco smoke in the home: cross sectional survey
	Clare Blackburn, Nick Spencer, Sheila Bonas, Christine Coe, Alan Dolan, Rob Moy
	BMJ  2003;327:257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.257 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Retrospective review of care and outcomes in young adults with type 1 diabetes
	C J Wills, A Scott, P G F Swift, M J Davies, A D R Mackie, P Mansell
	BMJ  2003;327:260-261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.260 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Why surgical patients do not donate tissue for commercial research: review of records
	Alison L Jack, Christopher Womack
	BMJ  2003;327:262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.262 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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