A very obstetric issue
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Midwifery shortages increase mishaps in maternity wards [Full text] FREE

	Management styles in primary care trusts are complementary [Full text] FREE

	Innovations improve management of pre-eclampsia and prematurity [Full text] FREE

	Oncologists may underestimate the risk of thromboembolism [Full text] FREE

	Small changes can improve survival after caesarean section in Africa [Full text] FREE

	Many French doctors want the legalisation of euthanasia [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	New deal from the World Trade Organisation
	Allyson M Pollock, David Price
	BMJ  2003;327:571-572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.571 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What are all the things that aspirin does?
	Rod Flower
	BMJ  2003;327:572-573, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.572 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Wanless report and public health
	David J Hunter
	BMJ  2003;327:573-574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.573 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Self esteem and health
	Michael Marmot
	BMJ  2003;327:574-575, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.574 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of multiple myeloma
	Seema Singhal
	BMJ  2003;327:575-576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.575 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Methods to identify increased risk of coronary disease in the general population: Conclusion is oversimplification
	Gerd Assmann, Paul Cullen, Helmut Schulte
	BMJ  2003;327:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.619 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Methods to identify increased risk of coronary disease in the general population: Authors' reply
	Sarah Wilson, Atholl Johnston, John Robson
	BMJ  2003;327:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.619-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What becomes of junior doctors in non-training positions?
	Ian Ramnarine
	BMJ  2003;327:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.619-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are clinical negligence and legal action related?
	Anthony Barton
	BMJ  2003;327:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.620 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SARS: understanding the coronavirus: Accuracy of WHO criteria was similar in a "non-SARS" hospital in Singapore
	Paul Ananth Tambyah, Kamaljit S Singh, Abdul G Habib
	BMJ  2003;327:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.620-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SARS: understanding the coronavirus: Apoptosis may explain lymphopenia of SARS
	Roddy O'Donnell, Robert C Tasker, Michael F E Roe
	BMJ  2003;327:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.620-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electroconvulsive therapy: Conflicting advice confuses prescribers
	Rob Evans, P C Naik, S Alikhan
	BMJ  2003;327:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.621 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electroconvulsive therapy: NICE guidance may deny many patients treatment that they might benefit from
	Catherine Cole, Robert Tobiansky
	BMJ  2003;327:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.621-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electroconvulsive therapy: Patients must be confident that evidence of efficacy is compelling
	H Louise Relton
	BMJ  2003;327:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.621-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Energy intake in pregnant women carrying boys or girls: Energy intake may correlate with prebirth knowledge of sex of child
	Sarah D Shay
	BMJ  2003;327:621-622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.621-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Energy intake in pregnant women carrying boys or girls: Difference is chance observation
	Simon Langley-Evans, Alison Langley-Evans
	BMJ  2003;327:622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.622 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Energy intake in pregnant women carrying boys or girls: Authors' reply
	Rulla M Tamimi, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Pagona Lagiou, Lorelei A Mucci, Hans-Olov Adami, Chung-Cheng Hsieh
	BMJ  2003;327:622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.622-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electronic patient records in primary care: Study has serious flaw
	N T Shaw
	BMJ  2003;327:622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.622-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electronic patient records in primary care: Author's reply
	Julia Hippisley-Cox
	BMJ  2003;327:622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.622-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sharing patient information electronically throughout NHS: Change of culture is needed
	Andrew Langton
	BMJ  2003;327:622-623, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.622-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sharing patient information electronically throughout NHS: Patients must be involved too
	Michael Innes, Lindsay Ward
	BMJ  2003;327:623, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.623 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sharing patient information electronically throughout NHS: Ability to provide seamless decision support will be key factor
	P Ramnarayan, Emma Steel, Joseph Britto
	BMJ  2003;327:623, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.623-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sharing patient information electronically throughout NHS: Patient confidentiality may not be guaranteed
	Paul D Oldfield
	BMJ  2003;327:623, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.623-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Government proposes shake up in child protection services
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;327:577, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.577 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US clinics fear violence after execution of antiabortion murderer
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;327:577, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.577-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;327:578, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.578 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Infusing hormone fragment reduces appetite
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:578, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.578-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US medical students opt for better life not better pay
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;327:578, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.578-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug users in China tested for HIV without consent
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:579, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.579 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Science forced to retract article on "ecstasy"
	Stephen Pincock
	BMJ  2003;327:579, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.579-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Patients put their relationship with their doctors as second only to that with their families
	Stephen Pincock
	BMJ  2003;327:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.581-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	The right man for the moment?
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2003;327:582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.582 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	New powers for CHAI "threaten patient confidentiality"
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.580 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	GMC clears psychiatrist accused of encouraging "false memories"
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.580-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Users and staff of mental health service exhibit their work
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;327:580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.580-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Sudan to tighten law on female genital mutilation
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2003;327:580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.580-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Eye surgeon claims that new treatment centre is a threat to NHS
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.580-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Australian doctors want a register of women buying the emergency pill
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2003;327:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.581 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Foundation trusts "will pressure regulator to allow changes to licence"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;327:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.581-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Pilot schemes to screen for fragile X syndrome to be considered
	Andrew Iles
	BMJ  2003;327:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.581-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Asymptomatic animal traders prove positive for SARS virus
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2003;327:582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.582-a [Extract] [Full text]

	"Direct to consumer" advertising of drugs in Canada could add £550m to healthcare costs
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;327:582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.582-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Text messaging is spoiling teenagers� sleep
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;327:582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.582-c [Extract] [Full text]

BMJ family highlights

This week's BMJ family highlights

	What's new this month in BMJ Journals
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2003;327:583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.583 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Managing change in the culture of general practice: qualitative case studies in primary care trusts
	Martin N Marshall, Russell Mannion, Elizabeth Nelson, Huw T O Davies
	BMJ  2003;327:599-602, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.599 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Eradication of Helicobacter pylori and use of antisecretory drugs: population based cohort study
	Annmarie Lassen, Jesper Hallas, Ove B Schaffalitzky de Muckadell
	BMJ  2003;327:603, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.603 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent developments in obstetrics
	Andrew H Shennan
	BMJ  2003;327:604-608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.604 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Spurious hyperglycaemia and icodextrin in peritoneal dialysis fluid
	Stephen G Riley, James Chess, Kieron L Donovan, John D Williams
	BMJ  2003;327:608-609, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.608 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of subfertility: Tubal subfertility
	Yacoub Khalaf
	BMJ  2003;327:610-613, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.610 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	For and against: Doctors should not discuss resuscitation with terminally ill patients: FOR
	Charlotte Manisty, Jonathan Waxman
	BMJ  2003;327:614-615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.614 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	For and against: Doctors should not discuss resuscitation with terminally ill patients: AGAINST
	Irene J Higginson
	BMJ  2003;327:615-616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.615 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Teleoanalysis: combining data from different types of study
	Nicholas J Wald, Joan K Morris
	BMJ  2003;327:616-618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.616 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of the statistical method]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	Book: Primary Mother Care and Population
	Tony McMichael
	BMJ  2003;327:626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.626 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States
	Petra M Boynton
	BMJ  2003;327:627, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.627 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Sweet Medicine
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2003;327:627, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.627-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: The Third Degree. MMR: Can You Decide?
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2003;327:628, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.628 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: Population
	Andrew Iles
	BMJ  2003;327:628, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.628-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Has the President's Council on Bioethics missed the boat?
	Leigh Turner
	BMJ  2003;327:629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.629 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Weapons of mass destruction kill dinosaurs
	George Dunea
	BMJ  2003;327:629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.629-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.630 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: Anti-inflammatories don't slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer's
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The medical profession in Austria
	BMJ  2003;327:590, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.590 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;327:594, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.594 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A mistake that might have been my last
	David Landsborough
	BMJ  2003;327:598, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.598 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Cyril
	Penny Harding
	BMJ  2003;327:609, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.609 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The advantages and disadvantages of the profession of medicine
	BMJ  2003;327:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.618 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Improving compliance with requirements on junior doctors' hours
	BMJ  2003;327:586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.586 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antidepressant prescribing and suicide
	BMJ  2003;327:586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.586-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease by more than 80%
	BMJ  2003;327:586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.586-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Peter Josef Safar
	JEANNE LENZER
	BMJ  2003;327:624, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.624 [Extract] [Full text]

	Nabil Bajallan
	B AL-SHIHABI
	BMJ  2003;327:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.625 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Robert Michael ("Sam") Forrester
	IAN FORRESTER
	BMJ  2003;327:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.625-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Arthur Clifton Guyton
	FAHED AL-DAOUR
	BMJ  2003;327:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.625-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Eric William Hardman
	ANTHONY HARDMAN
	BMJ  2003;327:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.625-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ghazi Hilmi
	B AL-SHIHABI
	BMJ  2003;327:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.625-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Robert Stanley Miller
	JAMES SINCLAIR, Stephen Miller
	BMJ  2003;327:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.625-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter John Mowbray
	DEREK MOWBRAY
	BMJ  2003;327:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.625-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Patrick Joseph Murphy
	JAMES HEATHCOTE
	BMJ  2003;327:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.625-g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Prospective semistructured observational study to identify risk attributable to staff deployment, training, and updating opportunities for midwives
	Brenda Ashcroft, Max Elstein, Nicholas Boreham, Soren Holm
	BMJ  2003;327:584, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.584 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Caesarean section in Malawi: prospective study of early maternal and perinatal mortality
	Paul M Fenton, Christopher J M Whitty, Felicity Reynolds
	BMJ  2003;327:587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.587 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Preclinical coronary atherosclerosis in a population with low incidence of myocardial infarction: cross sectional autopsy study
	Antonia Bertomeu, Olga García-Vidal, Xavier Farré, Albert Galobart, Manuel Vázquez, Juan Carlos Laguna, Emilio Ros
	BMJ  2003;327:591-592, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.591 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of the study group] FREE

	Contribution of timetabled physical education to total physical activity in primary school children: cross sectional study
	Katie M Mallam, Brad S Metcalf, Joanne Kirkby, Linda D Voss, Terence J Wilkin
	BMJ  2003;327:592-593, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.592 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Severe traffic injuries to children, Trent, 1992-7: time trend analysis
	Carol Coupland, Julia Hippisley-Cox, Denise Kendrick, Lindsay Groom, Elizabeth Cross, Boki Savelyich
	BMJ  2003;327:593-594, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.593 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctors' opinions on euthanasia, end of life care, and doctor-patient communication: telephone survey in France
	P Peretti-Watel, M K Bendiane, H Pegliasco, J M Lapiana, R Favre, A Galinier, J P Moatti
	BMJ  2003;327:595-596, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.595 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Case fatality rates for meningococcal disease in an English population, 1963-98: database study
	Michael J Goldacre, Stephen E Roberts, David Yeates
	BMJ  2003;327:596-597, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.596 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables] FREE

	Prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism during treatment for cancer: questionnaire survey
	C C Kirwan, E Nath, G J Byrne, C N McCollum
	BMJ  2003;327:597-598, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7415.597 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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