Economics first; health third, fourth, or nowhere
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Richard Smith's Davos diary] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Triple therapy is the best treatment for some HIV patients [Full text]

	Vignettes make self reported questionnaire comparable [Full text]

	Internet education can alleviate depression [Full text]

	Acute chest pain? Better go to a chest pain unit [Full text]

	Singletons but not twins are at risk after assisted conception [Full text]

	Simulation of medical emergencies improves patients' care [Full text]

Editorials

	Radical surgery for mesothelioma
	Tom Treasure, David Waller, Simon Swift, Julian Peto
	BMJ  2004;328:237-238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.237 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Pandemic risks from bird flu
	Wendy S Barclay, Maria Zambon
	BMJ  2004;328:238-239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.238 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Exchanging health lessons globally
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2004;328:239-240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.239 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Implementing the European clinical trials directive
	Kent Woods
	BMJ  2004;328:240-241, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.240 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Access to antiretroviral treatment in Africa
	Rene Loewenson, David McCoy
	BMJ  2004;328:241-242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.241 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Save European research campaign
	Brian Moulton
	BMJ  2004;328:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.286 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality of randomised controlled trials: Quality of trial methods is not good in all disciplines
	Helen H G Handoll
	BMJ  2004;328:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.286-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality of randomised controlled trials: Quality of research may be worse than it appears
	Vasiliy V Vlassov
	BMJ  2004;328:286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.286-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality of randomised controlled trials: Caution is important
	Naomi J Brewer
	BMJ  2004;328:286-287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.286-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stress and exacerbations in multiple sclerosis: Whether stress triggers relapses remains a conundrum
	Ian Galea, Tracey A Newman, Yori Gidron
	BMJ  2004;328:287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.287 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stress and exacerbations in multiple sclerosis: Authors' reply
	R Q Hintzen, D Buljevac, W C J Hop, A C J W Janssens
	BMJ  2004;328:287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.287-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO's world health report 2003: Actions speak louder than words
	Vireshwar K Singh
	BMJ  2004;328:287-288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.287-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO's world health report 2003: Time to ease the mental health burden
	A W Amarasinghe
	BMJ  2004;328:288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.288 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Special issue on South Asia: Health economics is neglected in this region
	D Varatharajan
	BMJ  2004;328:288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.288-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Special issue on South Asia: Focus will be an eye opener
	Sonal Singh
	BMJ  2004;328:288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.288-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Colchicine in acute gout: Optimal dose of colchicine is still elusive
	Anthony R Cox
	BMJ  2004;328:288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.288-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Colchicine in acute gout: Low dose colchicine was started after usual dose
	G Sivagnanam
	BMJ  2004;328:288-289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.288-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Colchicine in acute gout: Authors' reply
	Ian Morris, George Varughese, Peter Mattingly
	BMJ  2004;328:289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.289 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Polypill debate continues: Concept is a fascinating thought experiment
	James Willis
	BMJ  2004;328:289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.289-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Polypill debate continues: People will always be sceptical
	Hans P Colvin
	BMJ  2004;328:289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.289-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Polypill debate continues: Similar combination of drugs has worked in natural experiment
	Eric Frankel
	BMJ  2004;328:289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.289-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Judge may report drug company executive to attorney general
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.243 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Death toll mounts in avian flu outbreak
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2004;328:243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.243-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;328:244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.244 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shortage of sperm donors predicted when anonymity goes
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.244-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Journal rejects article after objections from marketing department
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.244-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Psychological therapies recommended for eating disorders
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2004;328:245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.245 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	United States wins more time to lobby against WHO diet plan
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:245, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.245-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	More evidence that folic acid reduces risk of ischaemic stroke
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;328:247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.247-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Changing practice
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;328:248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.248 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Metapneumovirus is a leading cause of respiratory tract infection in infants
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;328:246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.246 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctors suspended for removing wrong kidney
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.246-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	BMJ ethics committee elects new chairperson
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2004;328:246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.246-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Kidney trade arrest exposes loopholes in India's transplant laws
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2004;328:246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.246-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Payments announced for patients infected with hepatitis C
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:246, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.246-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Australian drug pricing scheme under pressure in free trade talks
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2004;328:247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.247 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	GPs reluctant to cover out of hours work, survey shows
	Nadeeja Koralage
	BMJ  2004;328:247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.247-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Controversy surrounds proposed Italian alternative to female genital mutilation
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2004;328:247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.247-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Hospital's charitable donations diverted to pay running costs
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2004;328:248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.248-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Report calls for strategies to reduce medication errors
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;328:248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.248-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Parents discover their stillborn babies are alive four months after birth
	Ioana Vlad
	BMJ  2004;328:248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.248-c [Extract] [Full text]

	UK global antipoverty strategy criticised by Royal Society
	Vittal Katikireddi
	BMJ  2004;328:248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.248-d [Extract] [Full text]

	London doctors' do not put patients among the top five factors for job satisfaction
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2004;328:248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.248-e [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Delivering interventions for depression by using the internet: randomised controlled trial
	Helen Christensen, Kathleen M Griffiths, Anthony F Jorm
	BMJ  2004;328:265, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37945.566632.EE, (Published 23 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Quality improvement reports

	Clinical risk management in obstetrics: eclampsia drills
	Sarah Thompson, Shona Neal, Vicki Clark
	BMJ  2004;328:269-271, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.269 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	How to investigate and manage the child who is slow to speak
	Jamiu O Busari, Nielske M Weggelaar
	BMJ  2004;328:272-276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.272 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Boxes]

	Interactive case report: Treatment of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy: presentation
	Nicola Harker, Alan Montgomery, Tom Fahey
	BMJ  2004;328:276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.276 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of smoking cessation: Why people smoke
	Martin J Jarvis
	BMJ  2004;328:277-279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.277 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Antiretroviral therapy in Africa
	Warren Stevens, Steve Kaye, Tumani Corrah
	BMJ  2004;328:280-282, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.280 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluating the health effects of social interventions
	Hilary Thomson, Robert Hoskins, Mark Petticrew, David Ogilvie, Neil Craig, Tony Quinn, Grace Lindsay
	BMJ  2004;328:282-285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.282 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution
	Stuart W G Derbyshire
	BMJ  2004;328:292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.292 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: American Virgins: This World
	Nadeeja Koralage
	BMJ  2004;328:292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.292-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: Public health gets a makeover
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2004;328:293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.293 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2004;328:293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.293-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: Why newspapers cannot ignore maverick claims
	Jeremy Laurance
	BMJ  2004;328:294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.294 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Healing in the valley of Jezreel
	Simon P Joseph
	BMJ  2004;328:295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.295 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: The quest
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2004;328:295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.295-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;328:296, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.296 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Many taking twice daily proton pump inhibitors can step down
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Apple crumble or a selection from the sweet trolley?
	Ayan Panja
	BMJ  2004;328:268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.268 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: No health foods
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2004;328:271, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.271 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Two memorable patients: Two nil
	Joanne Banks
	BMJ  2004;328:285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.285 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Three journals raise doubts on validity of Canadian studies
	BMJ  2004;328:257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.257 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Clinical arithmetic
	BMJ  2004;328:257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.257-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Of Struldbruggs, sugar, and gatekeepers: a tale of our times
	BMJ  2004;328:257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.257-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Melvin Yahr
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2004;328:290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.290 [Extract] [Full text]

	Thelma Rowett Asfour (née Gaunt)
	Mary Asfour
	BMJ  2004;328:290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.290-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Robert George Dalton
	Janet Ropner, Clive Bowman
	BMJ  2004;328:290-291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.290-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Daksha Emson
	David Emson
	BMJ  2004;328:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.291 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Alexander Gillespie
	David Speller, Graham Ayliffe
	BMJ  2004;328:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.291-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ernest George Gustav Jonas
	Peter Dovey
	BMJ  2004;328:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.291-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longe version]

	Selahattin Kologlu
	Philip E Harris
	BMJ  2004;328:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.291-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Clive Baird Nesfield
	Andrew Polmear
	BMJ  2004;328:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.291-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Stephen
	John Topp
	BMJ  2004;328:291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.291-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Clinical efficacy of antiretroviral combination therapy based on protease inhibitors or non-nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors: indirect comparison of controlled trials
	Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Daouda Sissoko, Matthias Egger, Yves Mouton, Marcel Zwahlen, Geneviève Chêne
	BMJ  2004;328:249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37995.435787.A6, (Published 23 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Indirect comparisons: a novel approach to assessing the effect of anti-HIV drugs
	Jens D Lundgren, Andrew N Phillips
	BMJ  2004;328:253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7434.253 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of a chest pain observation unit compared with routine care
	Steve Goodacre, Jon Nicholl, Simon Dixon, Elizabeth Cross, Karen Angelini, Jane Arnold, Sue Revill, Tom Locker, Simon J Capewell, Deborah Quinney, Stephen Campbell, Francis Morris
	BMJ  2004;328:254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37956.664236.EE, (Published 14 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparability of self rated health: cross sectional multi-country survey using anchoring vignettes
	Joshua A Salomon, Ajay Tandon, Christopher J L Murray
	BMJ  2004;328:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37963.691632.44, (Published 23 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Perinatal outcome of singletons and twins after assisted conception: a systematic review of controlled studies
	Frans M Helmerhorst, Denise A M Perquin, Diane Donker, Marc J N C Keirse
	BMJ  2004;328:261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37957.560278.EE, (Published 23 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Nine tables and list] FREE

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