Beyond doing
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.0-h [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Breast feeding may not prevent high blood pressure in later life [Full text] FREE

	Poor health of patients affects success of cancer surgery [Full text] FREE

	New model predicts short term survival of cancer patients [Full text] FREE

	Should ear drops for acute otitis externa contain steroids? [Full text] FREE

	Evaluating telehealthcare needs flexibility [Full text] FREE

	COX 2 inhibitors may cause temporary visual impairment [Full text] FREE

	Classification of drug reactions is inadequate [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Controlling methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
	Georgia Duckworth
	BMJ  2003;327:1177-1178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1177 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Trauma life support in conflict
	Jon Clasper, David Rew
	BMJ  2003;327:1178-1179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1178 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Monitoring drug treatment
	Munir Pirmohamed, Robin E Ferner
	BMJ  2003;327:1179-1181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1179 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diastolic heart failure
	Ramachandran S Vasan
	BMJ  2003;327:1181-1182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1181 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

Letters

This week's Letters

	In vitro fertilisation for all?: Fertility treatment may be an economic blessing
	Jonathan H West
	BMJ  2003;327:1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1226 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In vitro fertilisation for all?: Postcode lottery is more complex than it seems
	Gaby J Tobias
	BMJ  2003;327:1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1226-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In vitro fertilisation for all?: Central planning is required
	Gillian M Lockwood
	BMJ  2003;327:1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1226-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In vitro fertilisation for all?: Society must hear the voices of infertile people
	Alison P Murdoch
	BMJ  2003;327:1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1226-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In vitro fertilisation for all?: Local decision making has led to inequality
	Raj Mathur
	BMJ  2003;327:1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1226-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coeliac disease and subfertility: association is often neglected
	David S Sanders
	BMJ  2003;327:1226-1227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1226-e [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	High result in prostate specific antigen test: Repeat the test before doing anything further
	Keith Baxby
	BMJ  2003;327:1227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1227 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	High result in prostate specific antigen test: Ten minutes is not enough to deal with the PSA question
	Jammi N Rao
	BMJ  2003;327:1227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1227-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	High result in prostate specific antigen test: Reference intervals for PSA differ
	Eric S Kilpatrick
	BMJ  2003;327:1227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1227-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	High result in prostate specific antigen test: Repeated testing and free tests might help
	Andrew M Davis
	BMJ  2003;327:1227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1227-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More on preventing skin cancer: No evolutionary connection exists between skin colour and cancer
	Marco Procopio
	BMJ  2003;327:1227-1228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1227-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More on preventing skin cancer: Author's reply
	John N Burry
	BMJ  2003;327:1228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1228 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More on preventing skin cancer: Sun avoidance will increase incidence of cancers overall
	Cedric F Garland
	BMJ  2003;327:1228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1228-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: References]

	Death in heat waves: Beware of fans...
	Robert M Wolfe
	BMJ  2003;327:1228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1228-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death in heat waves: ... and injudiciously opening windows
	Anne Pauleau
	BMJ  2003;327:1228-1229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1228-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis: Desensitisation for hay fever works
	Stephen R Durham
	BMJ  2003;327:1229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1229 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis: Useless versus helpful allergy therapy
	Michael L Loren
	BMJ  2003;327:1229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1229-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Proactive asthma care does not suit everyone
	Terry Kemple
	BMJ  2003;327:1229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1229-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Target centred medicine: why it is essential to cheat
	Andrew N Bamji
	BMJ  2003;327:1229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1229-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Group calls for agency to boost UK bioscience industry
	Mark Gould
	BMJ  2003;327:1183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1183 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Fewer night emergency operations are performed by juniors
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:1183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1183-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;327:1184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1184 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Face transplants should not be done without more research
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;327:1184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1184-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	London is more likely to detain people with mental problems
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;327:1184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1184-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Pain management was the subject of a special issue of JAMA last week: Children are often undertreated for pain
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;327:1185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1185 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Pain management was the subject of a special issue of JAMA last week: Painkillers before knee surgery improve outcomes
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;327:1185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1185-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Pain management was the subject of a special issue of JAMA last week: Treatment for depression improves pain in elderly patients
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;327:1185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1185-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Israel allows removal of sperm from dead men at wives' request
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2003;327:1187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1187-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Malaria researchers say global fund is buying "useless drug"
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2003;327:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1188 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Antiretroviral therapy increases risk of heart attack
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;327:1186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1186 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Uganda to launch door to door anonymous testing for HIV
	Benjamin Ochan
	BMJ  2003;327:1186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1186-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Boxing should be banned unless rules are tightened, advises Dutch body
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2003;327:1186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1186-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Parliament to look again at issue of "assisted dying" for terminally ill patients
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:1186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1186-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Manager at baby food company is under investigation for manslaughter
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:1186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1186-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Government fights opposition to foundation hospitals
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:1187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1187 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Half of US doctors want national health insurance programme
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;327:1187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1187-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Health authorities cannot force doctors to act against conscience
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:1187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1187-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	"Gender blindness" threatens success of government's health strategy
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2003;327:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1188-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Liberia appeals for funds to rebuild health system after peace
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;327:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1188-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Three die in US outbreak of hepatitis A
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2003;327:1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1188-c [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Clinical efficacy of three common treatments in acute otitis externa in primary care: randomised controlled trial
	Frank A M van Balen, W Martijn Smit, Nicolaas P A Zuithoff, Theo J M Verheij
	BMJ  2003;327:1201-1205, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1201 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Recurrent urinary tract infection in women
	Josip Car, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2003;327:1204, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1204 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Integrating service development with evaluation in telehealthcare: an ethnographic study
	Tracy Finch, Carl May, Frances Mair, Maggie Mort, Linda Gask
	BMJ  2003;327:1205-1209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1205 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent developments in lactamases and extended spectrum lactamases
	Joumana N Samaha-Kfoury, George F Araj
	BMJ  2003;327:1209-1213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1209 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra table]

	Lesson of the week: Celecoxib, rofecoxib, and acute temporary visual impairment
	David Morris Coulter, David Walter John Clark, Ruth Lesley Savage
	BMJ  2003;327:1214-1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1214 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Resuscitation: The automated external defibrillator
	Roy Liddle, C Sian Davies, Michael Colquhoun, Anthony J Handley
	BMJ  2003;327:1216-1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1216 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Continuity of care: a multidisciplinary review
	Jeannie L Haggerty, Robert J Reid, George K Freeman, Barbara H Starfield, Carol E Adair, Rachael McKendry
	BMJ  2003;327:1219-1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1219 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: List of reviewed articles]

	Joining the DoTS: new approach to classifying adverse drug reactions
	J K Aronson, R E Ferner
	BMJ  2003;327:1222-1225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1222 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables and references]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	Book: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
	Boleslav L Lichterman
	BMJ  2003;327:1232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1232 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Scotland's Health and Health Services
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2003;327:1233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1233 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Art: Cradle to Grave
	Colin Martin
	BMJ  2003;327:1233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1233-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Getting animated about medicine
	Naomi Marks
	BMJ  2003;327:1234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1234 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hit Parade
	BMJ  2003;327:1234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1234-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Chaos and corruption: an everyday tale of health care in Macedonia
	Katka Krosnar
	BMJ  2003;327:1235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1235 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Eternal youth
	Imre Loefler
	BMJ  2003;327:1235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1235-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:1236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1236 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: When DNA test for HPV is negative, patients are unlikely to have cervical cancer
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;327:1200, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1200 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Driven to distraction
	Hamish Cole
	BMJ  2003;327:1203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1203 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	"I was too well brought up to say it"
	Marcus Gore
	BMJ  2003;327:1208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1208 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Good medical practice
	Rahij Anwar
	BMJ  2003;327:1213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1213 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Poles apart?
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2003;327:1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1215 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Edinburgh poverty 1840
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2003;327:1225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1225 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Cold comfort
	Mark Griffiths
	BMJ  2003;327:1225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1225-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2003;327:1231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1231-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BMJ USA

This week's BMJ USA

	EDITOR'S CHOICE: Dead issue
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2003;327:E255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.E255 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	COMMENTARY: Oregon update
	Eric Walsh, Sharmon Hendrickson
	BMJ  2003;327:E256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.E256 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	LETTER: Letters
	Michael S Goldrich
	BMJ  2003;327:E257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.E257 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	MINERVA: Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:E258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.E258 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Adair Stuart Mason
	David Worsfold
	BMJ  2003;327:1230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1230 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Trevor Alfred Ridley Dinning
	Donald Simpson
	BMJ  2003;327:1230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1230-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Bertram Binnie
	Paul Netts, Tony Bleetman
	BMJ  2003;327:1231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1231 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Christopher John Richard Elliott
	Richard Dreaper
	BMJ  2003;327:1231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1231-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Leslie Alfred Gibbons
	Gillian Gibbons
	BMJ  2003;327:1231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1231-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ronald David Graham
	Alasdair Graham, Brian Keighley
	BMJ  2003;327:1231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1231-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Declan John O'Brien
	Paul Downey
	BMJ  2003;327:1231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1231-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Nigel Joseph Walter Royston
	Mary Smith
	BMJ  2003;327:1231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1231-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Effect of breast feeding in infancy on blood pressure in later life: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Christopher G Owen, Peter H Whincup, Julie A Gilg, Derek G Cook
	BMJ  2003;327:1189-1195, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1189 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References] FREE

	Mortality and morbidity in gastro-oesophageal cancer surgery: initial results of ASCOT multicentre prospective cohort study
	Peter McCulloch, Jeremy Ward, Paris P Tekkis
	BMJ  2003;327:1192-1197, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1192 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Operative mortality in colorectal cancer: prospective national study
	Paris P Tekkis, Jan D Poloniecki, Michael R Thompson, Jeffrey D Stamatakis
	BMJ  2003;327:1196-1201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1196 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: The statistical model and list of references] FREE

	RESEARCH POINTERS: The thrifty phenotype hypothesis and hearing problems
	Marie-Louise Barrenäs, Åsa Bratthall, Jovanna Dahlgren
	BMJ  2003;327:1199-1200, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7425.1199 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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