This week's This week in the BMJ

	Post-acute care in a nurse-led unit is as good as standard care [Full text] FREE

	No correlation found between MMR vaccine and autism [Full text] FREE

	What parents are told about sex chromosome anomalies varies widely [Full text] FREE

	Mortality in Irish immigrants remains high [Full text] FREE

	Do patients want patient centred care? [Full text] FREE

	Many asylum seekers in Britain live in poverty [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Prenatal diagnoses of sex chromosome conditions
	Barbara Biesecker
	BMJ  2001;322:441-442, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.441 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Undermining data privacy in health information
	Ross Anderson
	BMJ  2001;322:442-443, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.442 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Physical health of people with severe mental illness
	Michael Phelan, Linda Stradins, Sue Morrison
	BMJ  2001;322:443-444, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.443 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Towards a global definition of patient centred care
	Moira Stewart
	BMJ  2001;322:444-445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.444 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional table] FREE

	Wider lessons of the pulmonary artery catheter trial
	Derek Angus, Nick Black
	BMJ  2001;322:446, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.446 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	The failings of NICE
	Michael D Rawlins, Toby Lipman, Julian Tudor Hart, Robert Walker, Mike Powell, Jagdeesh S Dhaliwal, Simon J Ellis, Stephen Robinson, Jonathan Valabhji, Mike Schachter
	BMJ  2001;322:489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.489 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Foundation is helping carers to reduce risk of sudden infant death syndrome
	Ann Deri-Bowen
	BMJ  2001;322:491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.491 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Needle length and incidence of local reactions to immunisation
	John Platt, Barry Gibson-Smith, Mando Watson, Linda Diggle, Jonathan Deeks, Ulrich Heininger
	BMJ  2001;322:492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.492 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of St John's wort and imipramine
	Peter L Cornwall, James L Spira, Abdullah Alkhenizan, Andreas Völp, H Woelk
	BMJ  2001;322:493, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.493 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Addison's disease: after 40 years much remains the same
	Sarah Baker, Deana Kenward, Katherine G White
	BMJ  2001;322:494, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.494 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Editorial on management of anal warts is misleading
	Lynn A Riddell, Anne Edwards
	BMJ  2001;322:494, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.494/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Access to undergraduate medical education is being broadened
	M A Lumsden, Fiona Andrews, Ruth Stewart
	BMJ  2001;322:495, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.495 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Practices should determine their own strategies for identifying patients
	Ruth Cooper, Andrew Robinson, Julie Thornbury
	BMJ  2001;322:495, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.495/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Increasing use of abbreviations is unacceptable
	W Denys Wells
	BMJ  2001;322:495, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.495/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Drug companies sue South African government over generics
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2001;322:447, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.447 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;322:448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.448 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Medical research under threat after Alder Hey scandal
	Mark Hunter
	BMJ  2001;322:448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.448/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Complaints against UK doctors rise 50%
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2001;322:448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.448/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Alcohol and drug misuse sweeping world, says WHO
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2001;322:449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.449 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	US employer agrees to stop genetic testing
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;322:449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.449/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	India plans massive hospital rebuilding after earthquake
	Rohit Sharma
	BMJ  2001;322:451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.451/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Blair unable to fulfil pledge on health spending, says analysis
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2001;322:452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.452 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Dutch smokers seek tobacco damages
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2001;322:452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.452/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Antismoking drug comes under scrutiny after deaths
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2001;322:452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.452/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Scotland faces GP crisis
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2001;322:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.450 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Exposure in utero to maternal smoking increases risk of asthma
	Tudor Toma
	BMJ  2001;322:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.450/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	US abortion clinics and harassed patients win damages
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;322:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.450/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Obesity rates treble in England
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2001;322:450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.450/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Fast track centres aim to cut waiting times
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2001;322:451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.451 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Heart failure study finds more diastolic cases in older patients
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2001;322:451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.451/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	World’s poorest depend on private health care
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2001;322:451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.451/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	More women than men use smoking cessation services
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2001;322:452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.452/c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Therapeutic nursing or unblocking beds? A randomised controlled trial of a post-acute intermediate care unit • Commentary: Problems with randomised consent • Authors' reply
	Andrea Steiner, Bronagh Walsh, Ruth M Pickering, Rose Wiles, Jilly Ward, Julia I Brooking, David J Torgerson
	BMJ  2001;322:453-460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.453 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mumps, measles, and rubella vaccine and the incidence of autism recorded by general practitioners: a time trend analysis
	James A Kaye, Maria del Mar Melero-Montes, Hershel Jick
	BMJ  2001;322:460-463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.460 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Fast track: MMR (version 1)] FREE

	What parents are told after prenatal diagnosis of a sex chromosome abnormality: interview and questionnaire study
	Lenore Abramsky, Sue Hall, Judith Levitan, Theresa M Marteau
	BMJ  2001;322:463-466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.463 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mortality of third generation Irish people living in England and Wales: longitudinal study
	S Harding, R Balarajan
	BMJ  2001;322:466-467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.466 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Preferences of patients for patient centred approach to consultation in primary care: observational study
	Paul Little, Hazel Everitt, Ian Williamson, Greg Warner, Michael Moore, Clare Gould, Kate Ferrier, Sheila Payne
	BMJ  2001;322:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.468 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Management of patients in fast track surgery
	Douglas W Wilmore, Henrik Kehlet
	BMJ  2001;322:473-476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.473 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of diseases of liver, pancreas, and biliary system: Liver tumours
	I J Beckingham, J E J Krige
	BMJ  2001;322:477-480, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.477 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lesson of the week: Splenic trauma complicating cardiopulmonary resuscitation
	A Fitchet, R Neal, P Bannister
	BMJ  2001;322:480-481, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.480 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Feeding frenzy
	George Dunea
	BMJ  2001;322:499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.499/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Prioritisation: the new growth of the NHS
	Brian McCloskey, Daphne Austin
	BMJ  2001;322:499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.499 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Depression in developing countries: lessons from Zimbabwe
	Vikram Patel, Melanie Abas, Jeremy Broadhead, Charles Todd, Anthony Reeler
	BMJ  2001;322:482-484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.482 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Asylum seekers and refugees in Britain: What brings asylum seekers to the United Kingdom?
	Angela Burnett, Michael Peel
	BMJ  2001;322:485-488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.485 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	David Fryer • James Goldie • Nicholas Crosbie Roles • John Edward Schofield • Joseph Sheldon
	Carmen Otero, L M Reay, L Bidwell, T S Murray, John Blaxland, John Edward Schofield, David Peter Schofield, L Sheldon
	BMJ  2001;322:496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.496 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;322:500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.500 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Changing stockings
	Martin Sielk
	BMJ  2001;322:476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.476 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: Where truth lies
	BMJ  2001;322:485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.485/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	All in the family of medicine
	Syed M Ahmed
	BMJ  2001;322:488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.488/c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Rectal bleeding and colorectal cancer in general practice: diagnostic study
	BMJ  2001;322:488 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;322:488 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Results of genetic testing: when confidentiality conflicts with a duty to warn relatives
	BMJ  2001;322:488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.488/b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health and a New Environmental Strategy
	Donald Campbell
	BMJ  2001;322:497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.497 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Community Emergency Preparedness: A Manual for Managers and Policy-makers
	Francine Lortie-Monette
	BMJ  2001;322:497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.497/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

RADIO

This week's RADIO

	Radio: The Disease Detectives
	Bernadette Purcell
	BMJ  2001;322:498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.498 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Finding the true track
	BMJ  2001;322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Finding the true track
	BMJ  2001;322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BESTSELLERS

This week's BESTSELLERS

	Bestsellers
	BMJ  2001;322:498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.498/b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Teach yourself statistics
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2001;322:498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7284.498/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

Read this week's articles on http://careers.bmj.com/careers/

To see an article, click its [Full Text] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button. To see one abstract at a time, click its [Abstract] link.