Doctors mangled by "justice"
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Laparoscopic hysterectomy: less pain, more complications, similar costs [Full text] FREE

	Autopsies after termination provide vital information [Full text] FREE

	Internet misinforms about breast cancer screening [Full text] FREE

	Asthma specialist nurses reduce unscheduled care [Full text] FREE

	Women but not men get equal access to healthcare jobs [Full text] FREE

	Health tsars: more like Peter the Great than Ivan the Terrible [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Health tsars
	Harry Burns
	BMJ  2004;328:117-118, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.117 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Recipients of blood or blood products "at vCJD risk"
	Sheila M Bird
	BMJ  2004;328:118-119, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.118 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Key data]

	A revised classification of headache disorders
	Richard Peatfield
	BMJ  2004;328:119-120, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.119 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Long term cognitive dysfunction in older people after non-cardiac surgery
	Amber Selwood, Martin Orrell
	BMJ  2004;328:120-121, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.120 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics review roulette: what can we learn?
	Paul Glasziou, Iain Chalmers
	BMJ  2004;328:121-122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.121 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Death of the teaching autopsy: Autopsy findings are important to all clinicians, including general practitioners
	Brian S Hurwitz, Berry Beaumont
	BMJ  2004;328:165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.165 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death of the teaching autopsy: Hospital and coroners' postmortem examinations are different, not least in payment
	John C Alcolado
	BMJ  2004;328:165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.165-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death of the teaching autopsy: Advances in technology have not reduced the value of the autopsy
	Gema Frühbeck
	BMJ  2004;328:165-166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.165-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death of the teaching autopsy: In Hong Kong teaching autopsies have been championed in public mortuaries
	Philip S L Beh
	BMJ  2004;328:166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.166 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death of the teaching autopsy: Autopsy is a success story in Cuba
	Alfredo Espinosa-Brito, Julian Viera-Yaniz, Osmel Chavez-Troya, Raul Nieto-Cabrera
	BMJ  2004;328:166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.166-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death of the teaching autopsy: Histopathologists should not obtain consent for autopsy
	Simon Rose
	BMJ  2004;328:166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.166-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death of the teaching autopsy: Summary of responses
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2004;328:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.167 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Timing of drug treatment is crucial
	Martin Knapp
	BMJ  2004;328:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.167-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Timing of simvastatin treatment: Results are not what really matters
	Dan P Ewald
	BMJ  2004;328:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.167-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Timing of simvastatin treatment: Results are not strong enough to change practice
	Alan J Young
	BMJ  2004;328:167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.167-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Timing of simvastatin treatment: Trial is not reported according to CONSORT guidelines
	Melanie Calvert, Richard McManus, John MacLeod
	BMJ  2004;328:167-168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.167-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Timing of simvastatin treatment: What about the shift workers?
	James P Bell
	BMJ  2004;328:168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.168 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Timing of simvastatin treatment: Authors' reply
	Alan Wallace, David Chinn, Greg Rubin
	BMJ  2004;328:168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.168-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Timing of simvastatin treatment: No matter the time of day, does UK policy reflect the evidence?
	Martin G Duerden, Maria D Allinson, Jo Lockett
	BMJ  2004;328:168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.168-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Resuscitation in pregnancy article omitted several points
	Rajesh Varma
	BMJ  2004;328:168-169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.168-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Parents key to reducing overweight in children: Marketing targets children
	Kath Dalmeny
	BMJ  2004;328:169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.169 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Parents key to reducing overweight in children: Political pressure is needed
	Brenda Griffiths
	BMJ  2004;328:169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.169-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Parents key to reducing overweight in children: Health Development Agency responds
	Yve Buckland
	BMJ  2004;328:169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.169-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Shipman found dead in prison cell
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.123 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	WHO confirms avian flu outbreak in Hanoi
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2004;328:123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.123-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;328:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.124 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Inadequate regulations undermine India's health care
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2004;328:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.124-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Risk of cancer from mobile phones is unclear
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2004;328:124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.124-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Urgent action is needed to tackle smoking in armed forces
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2004;328:125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.125 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	London hospital to face High Court for allegedly refusing to resuscitate disabled girl
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.125-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health tsars: Professor Mike Richards
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2004;328:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.126 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Health tsars: Dr Roger Boyle
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2004;328:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.126-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Health tsars: Professor Louis Appleby
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2004;328:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.126-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Health tsars: Professor Ian Philp
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2004;328:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.126-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Health tsars: Dr David Colin-Thome
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2004;328:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.127 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Health tsars: Professor Al Aynsley-Green
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2004;328:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.127-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Health tsars: Harry Cayton
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2004;328:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.127-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	Health tsars: Professor Sir George Alberti
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2004;328:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.127-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Longer version]

	University fee changes may deter poor students from studying medicine
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;328:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.128 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Vasopressin for cardiac arrest increases chances of survival
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;328:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.128-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	WHO queries culling of civet cats
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2004;328:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.128-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Report calls for universal health cover for all US citizens
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2004;328:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.128-c [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO to revamp statistics to include sudden infant death syndrome
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2004;328:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.128-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Health minister rebuts accusation over NHS star ratings
	Claire Laurent
	BMJ  2004;328:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.128-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Zimbabwe�s public sector doctors temporarily return to work
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2004;328:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.128-f [Extract] [Full text]

	Arkansas plans to reward healthy employees
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2004;328:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.128-g [Extract] [Full text]

	Urologists cleared of manslaughter now face GMC
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.128-h [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Specialist nurse intervention to reduce unscheduled asthma care in a deprived multiethnic area: the east London randomised controlled trial for high risk asthma (ELECTRA)
	Chris Griffiths, Gill Foster, Neil Barnes, Sandra Eldridge, Helen Tate, Shamoly Begum, Mo Wiggins, Carolyn Dawson, Anna Eleri Livingstone, Mike Chambers, Tim Coats, Roger Harris, Gene S Feder
	BMJ  2004;328:144, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37950.784444.EE, (Published 12 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Protocol for study] FREE

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Presentation on websites of possible benefits and harms from screening for breast cancer: cross sectional study
	Karsten Juhl Jørgensen, Peter C Gøtzsche
	BMJ  2004;328:148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.148 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of the search engines] FREE

	Surgical quality: review of Californian measures
	Michael S Broder, Lisa Payne Simon, Robert H Brook
	BMJ  2004;328:152-153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.152 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Not everything that counts can be counted; not everything that can be counted counts
	Martin McKee
	BMJ  2004;328:153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.153 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Extracts from Clinical Evidence Concise: Severe life threatening malaria in endemic areas
	Aika Omari, Paul Garner
	BMJ  2004;328:154, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.154 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Treating severe and complicated malaria
	Umberto D'Alessandro
	BMJ  2004;328:155, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.155 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Eyes: Glaucoma—2: Treatment
	P T Khaw, P Shah, A R Elkington
	BMJ  2004;328:156-158, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.156 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Public involvement in health care
	Dominique Florin, Jennifer Dixon
	BMJ  2004;328:159-161, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.159 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Using industrial processes to improve patient care
	Terry Young, Sally Brailsford, Con Connell, Ruth Davies, Paul Harper, Jonathan H Klein
	BMJ  2004;328:162-164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.162 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	Book: Nature Encyclopaedia of the Human Genome
	Stephen Abbs, Tracy Bussoli, Fred Kavalier
	BMJ  2004;328:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.172 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Alarm call over reality gameshow
	Joanna Lyall
	BMJ  2004;328:173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.173 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hit Parade
	BMJ  2004;328:173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.173-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Press: Fast and furious
	Naomi Marks
	BMJ  2004;328:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.174 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Bioethics needs to rethink its agenda
	Leigh Turner
	BMJ  2004;328:175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.175 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Student selected caesareans
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2004;328:175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.175-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;328:176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.176 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: Earlier mobilisation improves pneumonia outcomes
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The internet—friend or foe?
	J Bentham, P Todd
	BMJ  2004;328:133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.133 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Only one good
	Zameer Shah
	BMJ  2004;328:143, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.143 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	bmjlearning.com: Childhood asthma
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2004;328:147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.147 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Hypnotism in Abyssinia
	BMJ  2004;328:155, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.155-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Owning up
	J G Fairer
	BMJ  2004;328:161, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.161 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Experts predict big rise in dengue fever in South East Asia
	BMJ  2004;328:147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.147-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Indirect comparison meta-analysis of aspirin therapy after coronary surgery
	BMJ  2004;328:147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.147-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Sir George Smart
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2004;328:170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.170 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Garden Hendry
	H Caplan
	BMJ  2004;328:170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.170-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Robert Hodkinson
	Alice Hodkinson
	BMJ  2004;328:170-171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.170-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ursula Margaret Hutchinson
	Mike Ions, David Webborn
	BMJ  2004;328:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.171 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Mary Rose Kirkpatrick
	Joan Clegg
	BMJ  2004;328:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.171-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Hugh Hunter Morrison
	Christopher Morrison
	BMJ  2004;328:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.171-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Richard George Macmillan Poston
	Graeme Poston
	BMJ  2004;328:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.171-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Shri Ram Purwar
	R Purwar
	BMJ  2004;328:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.171-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Diane Rawle
	Michael Rawle
	BMJ  2004;328:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.171-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Rasaratnam ("Esha") Sarvesvaran
	Christian Mahendra
	BMJ  2004;328:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.171-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

This week's Papers

	The eVALuate study: two parallel randomised trials, one comparing laparoscopic with abdominal hysterectomy, the other comparing laparoscopic with vaginal hysterectomy
	Ray Garry, Jayne Fountain, Su Mason, Jeremy Hawe, Vicky Napp, Jason Abbott, Richard Clayton, Graham Phillips, Mark Whittaker, Richard Lilford, Stephen Bridgman, Julia Brown
	BMJ  2004;328:129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37984.623889.F6, (Published 7 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Complete list of members of study group] FREE

	Cost effectiveness analysis of laparoscopic hysterectomy compared with standard hysterectomy: results from a randomised trial
	Mark Sculpher, Andrea Manca, Jason Abbott, Jayne Fountain, Su Mason, Ray Garry
	BMJ  2004;328:134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37942.601331.EE, (Published 7 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Autopsy after termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly: retrospective cohort study
	P A Boyd, F Tondi, N R Hicks, P F Chamberlain
	BMJ  2004;328:137, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37939.570104.EE, (Published 8 December 2003) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of requirements of research ethics committees in 11 European countries for a non-invasive interventional study
	Hilary Hearnshaw
	BMJ  2004;328:140-141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.140 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Questionnaire] FREE

	Sex ratios in healthcare occupations: population based study
	Valerie J Grant, Elizabeth Robinson, Paul Muir
	BMJ  2004;328:141-142, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.141 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figure] FREE

	Gender gap in undergraduate experience and performance in obstetrics and gynaecology: analysis of clinical experience logs
	Jenny Higham, Philip J Steer
	BMJ  2004;328:142-143, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7432.142 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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