The perils of free speech
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.0-h [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Defibrillation by first responder has limited benefit [Full text]

	Public place defibrillators are not cost effective [Full text]

	Medium dose aspirin may improve graft patency [Full text]

	Perinatal mortality in Chinese girls is high [Full text]

	Children with sore throat may not benefit from penicillin [Full text]

	Treat anaphylaxis with adrenaline [Full text]

	Health service research has to improve [Full text]

	Cold can protect life in near drowning [Full text]

Editorials

	Missing women—revisited
	Amartya Sen
	BMJ  2003;327:1297-1298, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1297 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Giving aspirin and ibuprofen after myocardial infarction
	Stephen E Kimmel, Brian L Strom
	BMJ  2003;327:1298-1299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1298 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Faecal incontinence
	Michael A Kamm
	BMJ  2003;327:1299-1300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1299 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Health services research
	Jonathan Lomas
	BMJ  2003;327:1301-1302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1301 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Online Firsts
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2003;327:1302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1302 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

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	Routinely asking women about domestic violence: Seeking the causes of disease, not routine inquiry, is good practice
	Fiona Duxbury
	BMJ  2003;327:1345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1345 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Routinely asking women about domestic violence: Inquiry may be acceptable in different healthcare environments and to different women
	Adrian A Boyle
	BMJ  2003;327:1345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1345-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Routinely asking women about domestic violence: Ill considered professional interference in personal relationships will prove damaging
	Michael Fitzpatrick
	BMJ  2003;327:1345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1345-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of urinary tract infections in children: Priorities need to be set
	Lyda P Jadresic
	BMJ  2003;327:1346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1346 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of urinary tract infections in children: No evidence exists
	Adam Sandell
	BMJ  2003;327:1346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1346-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of urinary tract infections in children: Authors' reply
	Malcolm G Coulthard, Sue J Vernon, Heather J Lambert
	BMJ  2003;327:1346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1346-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paying for bmj.com: BMJ is the property of the world
	Rafael Gonzalez
	BMJ  2003;327:1346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1346-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paying for bmj.com: Move is understandable but sad end to a decade
	Susanne Stevens
	BMJ  2003;327:1347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1347 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paying for bmj.com: Nothing is for free
	Anna Belozerova
	BMJ  2003;327:1347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1347-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paying for bmj.com: Move is a sensible surprise
	Christine Porter
	BMJ  2003;327:1347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1347-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paying for bmj.com: Researchers will submit their articles elsewhere
	Gunther Eysenbach
	BMJ  2003;327:1347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1347-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paying for bmj.com: Is this measure scientific literature's half open sesame?
	Clarence C Tam, Ben A Lopman, Dina Handan
	BMJ  2003;327:1347, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1347-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paying for bmj.com: Let the journal be innovative in maintaining information flows and linkages
	Adrian Midgley
	BMJ  2003;327:1347-1348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1347-e [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paying for bmj.com: Summary of responses
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2003;327:1348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1348 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dietary fat intake and risk of stroke: Association may differ with subtypes of ischaemic stroke
	Elliot F Epstein
	BMJ  2003;327:1348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1348-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dietary fat intake and risk of stroke: Allegations about dietary fat are unfounded
	Uffe Ravnskov
	BMJ  2003;327:1348, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1348-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dietary fat intake and risk of stroke: Authors' reply
	Ka He, Walter C Willett, Alberto Ascherio
	BMJ  2003;327:1348-1349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1348-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Non-commercial randomised clinical trials need money for meetings and travel expenses
	Ian H Kunkler
	BMJ  2003;327:1349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1349 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Illiteracy is not just a historical phenomenon
	Mark S MacGregor, Margaret-Mary Gordon
	BMJ  2003;327:1349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1349-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients need comfort and control in beds and chairs
	Alan W Fowler
	BMJ  2003;327:1349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1349-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Number of chronically hungry people is rising by 5m a year
	Jane Burgermeister
	BMJ  2003;327:1303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1303 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories has damaged health, charity report says
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:1303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1303-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;327:1304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1304 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Queen's Speech: Mental health bill will be subject to pre-legislative scrutiny
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;327:1304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1304-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Queen's Speech: New bill will regulate the retention of tissue
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:1304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1304-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	blockers and calcium antagonists equally effective for hypertension
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;327:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1305 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Human body inspires festive tree decoration
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;327:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1305-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors told how to manage hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1305-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Schistosomiasis initiative extended to five more countries
	Stephen Pincock
	BMJ  2003;327:1307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1307-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In pursuit of "humanitarian science"
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2003;327:1308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1308 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Reid accused of breach of promise over foundation hospitals
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:1306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1306 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Medical ethics teaching should be overhauled, says BMA
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;327:1306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1306-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Large increases occur in cancers of skin and prostate
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;327:1306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1306-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Canada supports agency criticised as an "AIDS denier"
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;327:1306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1306-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Iraqi doctors overseas are asked to go back home and help
	Ioana Vlad
	BMJ  2003;327:1306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1306-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctors in Germany will have to charge patients €10 a visit
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2003;327:1307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1307 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Curate given go-ahead to challenge decision over abortion
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;327:1307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1307-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Infectious diseases expert convicted over missing plague bacteria
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;327:1307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1307-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Israeli government rejects charity's report that claims occupation has damaged health of Palestinians
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:1308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1308-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Canadian task force on preventive health care under threat
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2003;327:1308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1308-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Food Standards Agency must do more to protect public health
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:1308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1308-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Obesity costs UK economy £2bn a year
	Ioana Vlad
	BMJ  2003;327:1308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1308-d [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS hospitals are dirty and poorly managed, claims think tank
	Amanda Elliot
	BMJ  2003;327:1308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1308-e [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA welcomes review of NHS quangos
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;327:1308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1308-f [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Penicillin for acute sore throat in children: randomised, double blind trial
	Sjoerd Zwart, Maroeska M Rovers, Ruut A de Melker, Arno W Hoes
	BMJ  2003;327:1324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1324 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: More valid criteria may be needed
	Paul Little
	BMJ  2003;327:1327-1328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1327 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Knowledge about using auto-injectable adrenaline: review of patients' case notes and interviews with general practitioners
	Grant R Hayman, Jacqueline A Bansal, Amolak S Bansal
	BMJ  2003;327:1328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1328 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Quality improvement reports

	Introducing criteria based audit into Ugandan maternity units
	Andrew D Weeks, Godfrey Alia, Samuel Ononge, Alice Mutungi, Emmanuel O Otolorin, Florence M Mirembe
	BMJ  2003;327:1329-1331, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1329 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Examples of audits]

Clinical review

	Adrenaline in the treatment of anaphylaxis: what is the evidence?
	Andrew P C McLean-Tooke, Claire A Bethune, Ann C Fay, Gavin P Spickett
	BMJ  2003;327:1332-1335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1332 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Grades of evidence and web references]

	ABC of resuscitation: Near drowning
	Mark Harries
	BMJ  2003;327:1336-1338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1336 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Increasing the impact of health services research
	Penelope Dash, Natasha Gowman, Michael Traynor
	BMJ  2003;327:1339-1341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1339 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics and SARS: lessons from Toronto
	Peter A Singer, Solomon R Benatar, Mark Bernstein, Abdallah S Daar, Bernard M Dickens, Susan K MacRae, Ross E G Upshur, Linda Wright, Randi Zlotnik Shaul
	BMJ  2003;327:1342-1344, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1342 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: The decision making tool]

Reviews

	Book: Health Inequalities: Lifecourse Approaches
	Johan P Mackenbach
	BMJ  2003;327:1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1352 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Turnstone: A Doctor's Story
	John Pemberton
	BMJ  2003;327:1353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1353 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Radio: Case Notes
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  2003;327:1353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1353-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Sperm you can bank on
	Allan Pacey
	BMJ  2003;327:1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1354 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: Cardiovascular diseases
	Giulio Bognolo
	BMJ  2003;327:1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1354-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEWS: Die and let live
	Alison Pittard
	BMJ  2003;327:1355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1355 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Looking on the bright side
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2003;327:1355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1355-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:1356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1356 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Glucosamine improves joint mobility for 1 in 5 patients with osteoarthritis
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.0-i [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	All that glisters is not gold
	Tom E Love
	BMJ  2003;327:1315, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1315 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Through the looking glass
	Paul Myhill
	BMJ  2003;327:1323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1323 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: A tyrant
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2003;327:1326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1326 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;327:1327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1327-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Q&A: Wrinkly skin
	BMJ  2003;327:1328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1328-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Fire and ice
	Mark N Lowenthal
	BMJ  2003;327:1335, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1335 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Q&A: Saving expressed breast milk
	BMJ  2003;327:1338, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1338 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Fortunes of war
	Bryn G Jones, Gavin Tait
	BMJ  2003;327:1341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1341 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Q&A: Alcohol and the genitourinary tract
	BMJ  2003;327:1344, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1344 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Balbir Ball Greene Nehaul
	Ahilya Noone
	BMJ  2003;327:1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1350 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Sheila Fay Dawson (Mrs Oleesky)
	Sam Oleesky
	BMJ  2003;327:1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1350-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Brian Rowland Griffiths
	Wayne Lewis
	BMJ  2003;327:1350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1350-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Abu Mustapha Hassim
	Cynthia Lucas
	BMJ  2003;327:1350-1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1350-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Hamid Kamal Khan
	K Raza
	BMJ  2003;327:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1351 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Catherine Maureen Milton
	Graham Venn, Robert Sergeant, Richard Bickerton
	BMJ  2003;327:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1351-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter Edward Morris
	Penny Palfrey, John Palfrey
	BMJ  2003;327:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1351-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Mary Patricia Shepherd
	William Fountain
	BMJ  2003;327:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1351-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter Snell
	R Axon
	BMJ  2003;327:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1351-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Brian Whowell
	Trevor Hall, Joy Whowell, John Feather
	BMJ  2003;327:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1351-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ceri Williams
	J J Murphy
	BMJ  2003;327:1351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1351-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Indirect comparison meta-analysis of aspirin therapy after coronary surgery
	Eric Lim, Ziad Ali, Ayyaz Ali, Tom Routledge, Lyn Edmonds, Douglas G Altman, Stephen Large
	BMJ  2003;327:1309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1309 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of automated external defibrillator by first responders in out of hospital cardiac arrest: prospective controlled trial
	Anouk P van Alem, Rob H Vrenken, Rien de Vos, Jan G P Tijssen, Rudolph W Koster
	BMJ  2003;327:1312, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1312 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost effectiveness and cost utility model of public place defibrillators in improving survival after prehospital cardiopulmonary arrest
	Andrew Walker, Jane M Sirel, Andrew K Marsden, Stuart M Cobbe, Jill P Pell
	BMJ  2003;327:1316, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1316 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Perinatal mortality in rural China: retrospective cohort study
	Zhuochun Wu, Kirsi Viisainen, Ying Wang, Elina Hemminki
	BMJ  2003;327:1319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1319 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Aspirin, ibuprofen, and mortality after myocardial infarction: retrospective cohort study
	Jeptha P Curtis, Yongfei Wang, Edward L Portnay, Frederick A Masoudi, Edward P Havranek, Harlan M Krumholz
	BMJ  2003;327:1322-1323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7427.1322 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table and disclaimer] FREE

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