"Let food be thy medicine..."
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Prospective collection of data provides better assessment of risk [Full text] FREE

	Exercise training is beneficial in heart failure [Full text] FREE

	Electrocautery strategy can induce ovulation in polycystic ovary syndrome [Full text] FREE

	Chronic disease needs a generic management model [Full text] FREE

	Atypical presentation of SARS may generate an outbreak [Full text] FREE

	Hypertensive? See you every six months [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Chronic disease care
	Edward H Wagner
	BMJ  2004;328:177-178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.177 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Reconfiguration of surgical, emergency, and trauma services in the United Kingdom
	Andy Black
	BMJ  2004;328:178-179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.178 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of acute pyelonephritis in children
	Jonathan C Craig, Elisabeth M Hodson
	BMJ  2004;328:179-180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.179 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Health claims for functional foods
	Martijn B Katan
	BMJ  2004;328:180-181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.180 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Suspension of doctors
	Duncan Empey
	BMJ  2004;328:181-182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.181 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Diagnosis of autism: Adequate funding is needed for assessment services
	Iain McClure, Haider Mamdani, Roslyn McCaughey
	BMJ  2004;328:226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.226 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis of autism: Current epidemic has social context
	Sami Timimi
	BMJ  2004;328:226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.226-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis of autism: Use of autistic spectrum shows undisciplined thinking
	P V Finn Cosgrove
	BMJ  2004;328:226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.226-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Autism seems to be increasing worldwide, if not in London
	F Edward Yazbak
	BMJ  2004;328:226-227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.226-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: References]

	Guidelines on neuraminidase inhibitors in children are not supported by evidence
	Mkael Symmonds, Nicholas J Matheson, Anthony Harnden
	BMJ  2004;328:227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.227 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children need international formulary to guarantee rational use of drugs
	Maurizio Bonati, Chiara Pandolfini
	BMJ  2004;328:227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.227-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescription of heroin to treatment resistant heroin addicts: Double blinding is not possible
	Trudy Dehue
	BMJ  2004;328:228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.228 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescription of heroin to treatment resistant heroin addicts: Replacement therapies need to be tested on a level playing field
	Laurence J Reed, Cornelis de Wet, Jennifer Bearn
	BMJ  2004;328:228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.228-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescription of heroin to treatment resistant heroin addicts: Treatment needs to be multifaceted
	Iain B Craighead
	BMJ  2004;328:228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.228-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescription of heroin to treatment resistant heroin addicts: Dutch heroin trials show retention is better with methadone alone
	John Caplehorn
	BMJ  2004;328:228-229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.228-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescription of heroin to treatment resistant heroin addicts: Heroin handouts are flawed policy
	Eric A Voth, Ernst Aeschbach
	BMJ  2004;328:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.229 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescription of heroin to treatment resistant heroin addicts: Authors' reply
	Wim van den Brink, Peter Blanken, Vincent M Hendriks
	BMJ  2004;328:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.229-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Britain's failure to tackle research misconduct: Britain is ahead of most countries
	Herv Maisonneuve, Alain Bérard, Dominique Bertrand
	BMJ  2004;328:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.229-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Britain's failure to tackle research misconduct: UK bodies are now working together to set up panel on misconduct
	Gordon D O Lowe, Gordon D Murray, Niall D Finlayson
	BMJ  2004;328:229-230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.229-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Editors and their priorities about libel and fraud: We need whistleblowers
	John S Garrow
	BMJ  2004;328:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.230 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Editors and their priorities about libel and fraud: External checks must be imposed to protect the public
	Peter Wilmshurst
	BMJ  2004;328:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.230-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Editors and their priorities about libel and fraud: Everyone in science must be active in its process
	John H Lange
	BMJ  2004;328:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.230-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Parents convicted of killing to have their cases reviewed
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.183 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Researchers accuse WHO and Global Fund of malpractice
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2004;328:183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.183-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;328:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.184 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Thousands of families to sue over retained organs
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.184-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US government rejects WHO's attempts to improve diet
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.185 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Claim of human reproductive cloning provokes calls for international ban
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;328:185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.185-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Whistleblower vows to fight on
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.187-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug company sues Spanish bulletin over fraud claim
	Liza Gibson
	BMJ  2004;328:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.188 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Surgery in early stage breast cancer should be followed by radiotherapy
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;328:186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.186 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Pathologist cleared over failure to spot signs of abuse
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.186-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Australia accused of blocking doctors� visit to asylum seekers
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2004;328:186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.186-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New infectious diseases will continue to emerge
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2004;328:186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.186-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	GPs may offer dialysis to kidney patients under new framework
	Jenny Bryan
	BMJ  2004;328:186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.186-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Scientists beg EU to repeal new rules for clinical trials
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2004;328:187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.187 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctor accused of misrepresenting evidence in child abuse cases
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.187-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Suspended consultant is reinstated
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.187-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Use of antibiotic in contraceptive trial sparks controversy
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2004;328:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.188-a [Extract] [Full text]

	MPs question effectiveness of Food Standards Agency on obesity
	Nadeeja Koralage
	BMJ  2004;328:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.188-b [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Randomised equivalence trial comparing three month and six month follow up of patients with hypertension by family practitioners
	Richard V Birtwhistle, Marshall S Godwin, M Dianne Delva, R Ian Casson, Miu Lam, Susan E MacDonald, Rachelle Seguin, Lucia Rühland
	BMJ  2004;328:204, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37967.374063.EE, (Published 15 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

This week's Learning in practice

	Cohort study of examination performance of undergraduate medical students learning in community settings
	Paul Worley, Adrian Esterman, David Prideaux
	BMJ  2004;328:207-209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.207 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What the educators are saying
	Val Wass, Paul O'Neill
	BMJ  2004;328:210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.210 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Is folic acid the ultimate functional food component for disease prevention?
	Mark Lucock
	BMJ  2004;328:211-214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.211 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Misinterpretation of serum cortisol in a patient with hyponatraemia
	Jamie C Smith, H Siddique, R J M Corrall
	BMJ  2004;328:215-216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.215 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of smoking cessation: The problem of tobacco smoking
	Richard Edwards
	BMJ  2004;328:217-219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.217 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Rethinking management of chronic diseases
	Richard Lewis, Jennifer Dixon
	BMJ  2004;328:220-222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.220 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Can the NHS learn from US managed care organisations?
	Jennifer Dixon, Richard Lewis, Rebecca Rosen, Belinda Finlayson, Diane Gray
	BMJ  2004;328:223-225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.223 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	Book: The Challenge for Primary Care
	Martin Marshall
	BMJ  2004;328:233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.233 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
	Jo Ann Rosenfeld
	BMJ  2004;328:233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.233-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Horizon: The Atkins Diet
	Nadeeja Koralage
	BMJ  2004;328:234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.234 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: Diets and obesity
	Vittal Katikireddi
	BMJ  2004;328:234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.234-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Learning to live in a medical household
	Kate Billings
	BMJ  2004;328:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.235 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Land of the free
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2004;328:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.235-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;328:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.236 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: Lipid lowering is crucial in diabetics
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	bmjlearning.com: Heart failure: an update on management
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2004;328:198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.198 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A perfect death
	Cornelius Katona
	BMJ  2004;328:202, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.202 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Life according to Wilde
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2004;328:206, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.206 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medscape conference coverage: 13th Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
	BMJ  2004;328:209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.209-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2004;328:216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.216 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	My lousy doctor
	Moshe E Gatt
	BMJ  2004;328:219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.219 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Coronary heart disease prevention: insights from modelling incremental cost effectiveness
	BMJ  2004;328:209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.209 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Meadow faces GMC over evidence given in child death cases
	BMJ  2004;328:209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.209-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obituary
	BMJ  2004;328:209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.209-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Harold Shipman
	Trevor Jackson, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2004;328:231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.231 [Extract] [Full text]

	Tim Chard
	Gedis Grudzinskas
	BMJ  2004;328:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.232 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Roger Pearce
	Robert Palmer
	BMJ  2004;328:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.232-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Gurmit Singh Sokhi
	Rabinder Sokhi
	BMJ  2004;328:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.232-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Philip ("Jimmy") Starr
	Ruth Starr
	BMJ  2004;328:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.232-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Christopher Strang
	John Walton, Raymond Dobson
	BMJ  2004;328:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.232-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Leonard Wilkins
	John Powley, John Surtees
	BMJ  2004;328:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.232-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Exercise training meta-analysis of trials in patients with chronic heart failure (ExTraMATCH)
	BMJ  2004;328:189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37938.645220.EE, (Published 16 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Using an electrocautery strategy or recombinant follicle stimulating hormone to induce ovulation in polycystic ovary syndrome: randomised controlled trial
	Neriman Bayram, Madelon van Wely, Eugenie M Kaaijk, Patrick M M Bossuyt, Fulco van der Veen
	BMJ  2004;328:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.192 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in a tertiary hospital in Singapore, linked to an index patient with atypical presentation: epidemiological study
	Khuan Yew Chow, Chien Earn Lee, Moi Lin Ling, Derrick Mok Kwee Heng, Soon Ghee Yap
	BMJ  2004;328:195, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37939.465729.44, (Published 15 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of three methods for estimating rates of adverse events and rates of preventable adverse events in acute care hospitals
	Philippe Michel, Jean Luc Quenon, Anne Marie de Sarasqueta, Olivier Scemama
	BMJ  2004;328:199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.199 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of randomisation and data collection] FREE

	Vaccinations against influenza and pneumococcus in children with diabetes: telephone questionnaire survey
	Patrick Davies, Chinedu Nwokoro, Mira Leigh
	BMJ  2004;328:203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7433.203 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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