Cholesterol reduction does not affect non-illness mortality [Full text]

	HbA1c concentration predicts mortality in whole population [Full text]

	Increase in overweight in children has now been quantified [Full text]

	Lisinopril is effective in preventing migraine [Full text]

	UK antenatal units lack clear policies on screening [Full text]

	More could be done to manage women with a family history of breast cancer in primary care [Full text]

Editorials

	PubMed Central: creating an Aladdin's cave of ideas
	Tony Delamothe, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2001;322:1-2, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.1 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A new mental health (and public protection) act
	George Szmukler
	BMJ  2001;322:2-3, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.2 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The renaissance of C reactive protein
	Mark B Pepys, Abi Berger
	BMJ  2001;322:4-5, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.4 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	"Normal" blood glucose and coronary risk
	Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Deborah L Wingard
	BMJ  2001;322:5-6, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.5 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Commons votes for human embryo stem cell research
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2001;322:7, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.7 [Full text] [PDF]

	MEPs back tougher health warnings on cigarette packets
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2001;322:7, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.7/a [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;322:8, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.8 [Full text] [PDF]

	US sets national standards for patient privacy
	Debbie Josefson
	BMJ  2001;322:8, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.8/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Spain agrees palliative care plan
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  2001;322:8, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.8/b [Full text]

	Vaccine improves memory in "Alzheimer's" mice
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2001;322:9, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.9 [Full text] [PDF]

	GP stuck off for agreeing to perform female circumcision
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2001;322:9, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.9/a [Full text] [PDF]

	US settles biggest ever healthcare fraud case
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;322:10, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.10 [Full text] [PDF]

	UK plans shake-up of mental health laws
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2001;322:10, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.10/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Polish nurses strike for better wages
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  2001;322:10, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.10/b [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	UK "urgently" needs more cancer specialists
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  2001;322:10, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.10/c [Full text]

	Israel’s health ministry ends circumcisers’ monopoly
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2001;322:10, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.10/d [Full text]

	Doctors’ pay deal disappoints BMA
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  2001;322:10, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.10/e [Full text]

	Scottish NHS Plan promises speedier treatment
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2001;322:10, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.10/f [Full text]

	STIs at highest level in UK since 1990
	BMJ  2001;322:10, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.10/g [Full text]

Papers

	Cholesterol reduction and non-illness mortality: meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials
	Matthew F Muldoon, Stephen B Manuck, Aaron B Mendelsohn, Jay R Kaplan, Steven H Belle
	BMJ  2001;322:11-15, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.11 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of the trials] [extra: Full references]

	Glycated haemoglobin, diabetes, and mortality in men in Norfolk cohort of European Prospective Investigation of Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Norfolk)
	Kay-Tee Khaw, Nicholas Wareham, Robert Luben, Sheila Bingham, Suzy Oakes, Ailsa Welch, Nicholas Day
	BMJ  2001;322:15, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.15 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prophylactic treatment of migraine with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (lisinopril): randomised, placebo controlled, crossover study
	Harald Schrader, Lars Jacob Stovner, Grethe Helde, Trond Sand, Gunnar Bovim
	BMJ  2001;322:19, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.19 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Existence and quality of written antenatal screening policies in the United Kingdom: postal survey
	Beverley Lane, Kirsty Challen, Hilary J Harris, Rodney Harris
	BMJ  2001;322:22-23, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.22 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Copies of the questionnaires]

	Drug points: Tachycardia associated with moxifloxacin
	Martin Siepmann, Wilhelm Kirch
	BMJ  2001;322:23, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.23 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Prevalence and trends in overweight and obesity in three cross sectional studies of British children, 1974-94
	Susan Chinn, Roberto J Rona
	BMJ  2001;322:24-26, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.24 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How women with a family history of breast cancer and their general practitioners act on genetic advice in general practice: prospective longitudinal study
	Geertruida H de Bock, Christi J van Asperen, Josephine M de Vries, George C H A Hageman, Machiel P Springer, Job Kievit
	BMJ  2001;322:26-27, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.26 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history]

	Raising concerns about family history of breast cancer in primary care consultations: prospective, population based study
	Women's Concerns Study Group
	BMJ  2001;322:27-28, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.27 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of all authors]

Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Islet and stem cell transplantation for treating diabetes
	Palle Serup, Ole D Madsen, Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen
	BMJ  2001;322:29-32, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.29 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Appendix and Fig A] [extra: Table w1]

	ABC of diseases of liver, pancreas, and biliary system: Investigation of liver and biliary disease
	I J Beckingham, S D Ryder
	BMJ  2001;322:33-36, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.33 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	My famous friends
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2001;322:59, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.59/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Africa revisited: a distressing experience
	A W Logie
	BMJ  2001;322:59, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.59 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Bioethical aspects of the recent changes in the policy of refusal of blood by Jehovah's Witnesses
	Osamu Muramoto
	BMJ  2001;322:37-39, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.37 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Computer assisted learning in undergraduate medical education
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2001;322:40-44, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.40 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	We may be in danger of bribing volunteers
	Charles Young
	BMJ  2001;322:45, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.45 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More on BMA's approval of acupuncture
	William Asscher, David J Grant, Mike Cummings
	BMJ  2001;322:45, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.45/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Avoidance of ingestion of anti-inflammatory drugs in dyspepsia is confounding variable
	Philip J B Brown
	BMJ  2001;322:46, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.46 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of torsades de pointes with non-cardiac drugs
	Paul B Iannini, Sanjay Doddamani, Eteri Byazrova, Iulia Curciumaru, Harvey Kramer, Phillip Marinucci
	BMJ  2001;322:46, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.46/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outpatient hysteroscopy versus day case hysteroscopy
	J C R Hardwick, Sean Duffy, Richard Baker
	BMJ  2001;322:47, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.47 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pharmacological prevention of acute mountain sickness
	Peter Hackett, Peter Bärtsch, Michael Schneider, L Dumont, M R Tramèr, C Mardirosoff
	BMJ  2001;322:48, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.48 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trial experience and problems of parental recollection of consent
	Diana Elbourne, Claire Snowdon, Jo Garcia, David Field
	BMJ  2001;322:49, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.49 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Birth events and cerebral palsy: facts were not presented clearly
	Fiona Stanley, Eve Blair, Eva Alberman
	BMJ  2001;322:50, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.50 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing speed limit to 20 mph in urban areas
	David S Morrison, Rudi Coetzer, Imti Choonara, Dermot Gorman, Margaret Douglas, Phil Noble, Gary Patton
	BMJ  2001;322:50, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.50/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Email health support service is already operating in Africa
	F J Cooke, A Holmes
	BMJ  2001;322:51, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.51 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doesn't everyone know that purpose of advertising is to promote products?
	Y Chan
	BMJ  2001;322:52, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.52 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Support from pharmacies can help people stop smoking
	Hazel Sinclair, A Scott Lennox
	BMJ  2001;322:52, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.52/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Thomas Morrison Clayton • Jean Arthur Gemmell • John Giles • Colin Woodward Graham-Stewart • Michael John Gryspeerdt • Peter Anthony Richard Morley • Denis Ellison Nash • William John (Bill) O'Brien • John Kemp Scott • John Arnaud Tobin
	Nigel M Clayton, Elizabeth Gemmell, Jocelyn S Giles, R B Chalmers, Allan Withnell, Jason Morley, Louise Morley, Lord McColl, Wynne Aveling, James A Dick, Robert G Forster, Jeremy Stenhouse
	BMJ  2001;322:53, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.53 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;322:60, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.60 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  2001;322:6, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.6/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The French Senate and its medical attendants
	BMJ  2001;322:23, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.23/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: For a sundial
	BMJ  2001;322:23, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.23/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Ruminant and other sucking animals
	BMJ  2001;322:29, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.29/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An experience that changed my practice: Breaking news
	Rashid N Siddiqui
	BMJ  2001;322:36, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.36 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Age related macular degeneration
	BMJ  2001;322:6 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of venous thromboembolism among users of third generation oral contraceptives compared with users of oral contraceptives with levonorgestrel before and after 1995: cohort and case-control analysis
	BMJ  2001;322:28 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The timing of the "fertile window" in the menstrual cycle: day specific estimates from a prospective study
	BMJ  2001;322:28 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctoring malaria, badly: the global campaign to ban DDT
	BMJ  2001;322:28 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

TV

	TV: Driving Mum Crazy
	Iain McClure
	BMJ  2001;322:56, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.56/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: The Constant Gardener
	Andrew Herxheimer
	BMJ  2001;322:55, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.55 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Nursing Practice, Policy and Change
	Alba DiCenso
	BMJ  2001;322:55, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.55/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: The milk of human kindness
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2001;322:57, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.57 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

RADIO

	Radio: The Consultants
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  2001;322:56, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.56 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Africa: a continent for the third millennium
	BMJ  2001;322, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2001;322:58, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.58/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Africa: a continent for the third millennium
	BMJ  2001;322, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Drug company ethics
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2001;322:58, doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7277.58 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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