Deaths in Hong Kong caused by tobacco may predict what will happen in China [Full text]

	Birth order modifies effect of maternal age on type 1 diabetes [Full text]

	Chest pain assessment units allow safe early discharge of patients [Full text]

	Use of statins lowers risk of macular degeneration [Full text]

	People living near landfill sites have an increased risk of adverse birth outcomes [Full text]

Editorials

	Does exposure to landfill waste harm the fetus?
	R McNamee, H Dolk
	BMJ  2001;323:351-352, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.351 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improving endothelial vasomotor function
	Sagar N Doshi, Malcolm J Lewis, Jonathan Goodfellow
	BMJ  2001;323:352-353, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.352 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bacteriotherapy: the time has come
	Pentti Huovinen
	BMJ  2001;323:353-354, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.353 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Phytoestrogen therapy for menopausal symptoms?
	Susan R Davis
	BMJ  2001;323:354-355, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.354 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Referral of Dr Peter Mansfield to the GMC
	Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  2001;323:356, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.356 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	President Bush sidesteps critics in stem cell debate
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2001;323:357, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.357 [Full text] [PDF]

	"Flying" vacuum cleaners are among hazards in MRI suites
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2001;323:357, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.357/a [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2001;323:358, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.358 [Full text] [PDF]

	Trust defends decision to retain private beds at Heart Hospital
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2001;323:358, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.358/a [Full text] [PDF]

	"Video pill" may supplement standard endoscopy
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  2001;323:358, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.358/b [Full text]

	Exercise and diet reduce risk of diabetes, US study shows
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;323:359, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.359 [Full text] [PDF]

	Bayer decides to withdraw cholesterol lowering drug
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2001;323:359, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.359/a [Full text] [PDF]

	UK government launches anti-tobacco campaign for Asians
	Helen Barratt
	BMJ  2001;323:359, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.359/b [Full text]

	Why a 1940s medical committee should not be forgotten
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2001;323:360, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.360 [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Thalidomide produces benefits in some patients with tumours
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;323:360, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.360/a [Full text]

	HIV patients benefit from dual drug treatment
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2001;323:360, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.360/b [Full text]

	Drug trials still fail to include sufficient numbers of women
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2001;323:360, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.360/c [Full text]

	Non-EU students flock to Ireland for medical training
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2001;323:360, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.360/d [Full text]

	Anxiety disorders linked to gene abnormality
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  2001;323:360, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.360/e [Full text]

Papers

	Mortality and smoking in Hong Kong: case-control study of all adult deaths in 1998
	T H Lam, S Y Ho, A J Hedley, K H Mak, R Peto
	BMJ  2001;323:361, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.361 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of adverse birth outcomes in populations living near landfill sites
	Paul Elliott, David Briggs, Sara Morris, Cornelis de Hoogh, Christopher Hurt, Tina Kold Jensen, Ian Maitland, Sylvia Richardson, Jon Wakefield, Lars Jarup
	BMJ  2001;323:363-368, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.363 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Maternal and paternal age at delivery, birth order, and risk of childhood onset type 1 diabetes: population based cohort study
	Lars C Stene, Per Magnus, Rolv T Lie, Oddmund Søvik, Geir Joner, the Norwegian Childhood Diabetes Study Group
	BMJ  2001;323:369, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.369 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is it possible to exclude a diagnosis of myocardial damage within six hours of admission to an emergency department? Diagnostic cohort study
	K R Herren, K Mackway-Jones, C R Richards, C J Seneviratne, M W France, L Cotter
	BMJ  2001;323:372, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.372 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Targeting deprived areas within small areas in Scotland: population study
	Philip McLoone
	BMJ  2001;323:374-375, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.374 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of macular degeneration in users of statins: cross sectional study
	Nigel F Hall, Catharine R Gale, Holly Syddall, David I W Phillips, Christopher N Martyn
	BMJ  2001;323:375-376, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.375 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Antenatal detection of HIV: national surveillance and unlinked anonymous survey
	Susan Cliffe, Pat A Tookey, Angus Nicoll
	BMJ  2001;323:376-377, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.376 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of methods]

Primary care

	Prescribing new drugs: qualitative study of influences on consultants and general practitioners
	Miren I Jones, Sheila M Greenfield, Colin P Bradley
	BMJ  2001;323:378, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.378 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Corticosteroid injections in tendon lesions
	C A Speed
	BMJ  2001;323:382-386, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.382 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Causes of haematuria in adult polycystic kidney disease
	Robert Dedi, Sunil Bhandari, John H Turney, Aleck M Brownjohn, Ian Eardley
	BMJ  2001;323:386-387, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.386 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Alphabet soups
	George Dunea
	BMJ  2001;323:407, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.407/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The price isn't right
	Andrew Dyson
	BMJ  2001;323:407, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.407 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Ethical debate: The distinction between withdrawing life sustaining treatment under the influence of paralysing agents and euthanasia • Are we treading a fine line? • Paralysing agents may be given up to but not at or beyond the point of extubation • The parents' perspective on withdrawing treatment • The doctrine of double effect is difficult but not impossible to apply
	K Street, J Henderson, David Inwald, William Vandyck, Hazel Greig-Midlane, Sarah J L Edwards
	BMJ  2001;323:388-391, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.388 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mann-Whitney test is not just a test of medians: differences in spread can be important
	Anna Hart
	BMJ  2001;323:391-393, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.391 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hormonal markers of susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections: are we taking them seriously?
	Loretta Brabin
	BMJ  2001;323:394-395, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.394 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	European consensus on cancer screening should be applied urgently by health ministers
	Marc Arbyn, Herman Van Oyen, Elsebeth Lynge, Michael Mickshe
	BMJ  2001;323:396, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.396 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	End points for predicting coronary risk must be clarified
	Fiona C Lampe, Mary Walker, A Gerald Shaper, Peter M Brindle, Peter H Whincup, Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  2001;323:396, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.396/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medically unexplained symptoms in secondary care
	John McCormack, John Heptonstall, John Heptonstall
	BMJ  2001;323:397, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.397 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	National guidelines are needed to provide sanitary facilities in primary schools
	Fiona Finlay, Rosemary Jones
	BMJ  2001;323:398, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.398 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unvalidated blood pressure devices with small cuffs are being used in hospitals
	Mark Thomas, Tamsin Radford, Indranil Dasgupta
	BMJ  2001;323:398, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.398/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Respectful storage of dead patients needs to be addressed
	Ruth Richardson
	BMJ  2001;323:398, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.398/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Difference in blood pressure between arms might reflect peripheral vascular disease
	C E Clark
	BMJ  2001;323:399, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.399 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"High" ear piercing and perichondritis of the pinna
	Stephen E Kent, Ashok V Rokade, Koppada Premraj, Christine Butcher
	BMJ  2001;323:400, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.400 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sex inequalities in ischaemic heart disease in primary care
	Rosalind Raine, Sarah Wild, Carol Whyman, Marilyn Barter, Kate Wishart, Christine Macleod, T J Ramsbottom, M G Kirby, Karin Friedli
	BMJ  2001;323:400, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.400/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do we need specialist units for adolescents in hospitals?
	Susan Sawyer, Leanne Shea, George Patton, Rita Henryk-Gutt
	BMJ  2001;323:401, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.401 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing psychotropic drugs reduces falls in elderly people
	J W Cooper
	BMJ  2001;323:402, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.402 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Will we all continue to ignore deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes?
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  2001;323:402, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.402/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advising smokers to quit: baling out Titanic with teaspoon
	Seth Jenkinson
	BMJ  2001;323:402, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.402/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Peter Michael Burridge • Alfred Henry Dawes • Ramji Gautam • Robert John Grove-White • Ernest Harold Carr Harper • Richard Corfield Howard • Kathleen Scott • Hamish Watson • James Wightman • Gregory Cain Williams
	John K Orton, Paul Bowron, I M Rogers, J A Strong, I G Grove-White, Clare Pearce and Nigel Pearce, J G Taylor, R M Maister, K G Lowe, G P McNeill, Boyd Gilmore, Lorna Harris, John N Griffin
	BMJ  2001;323:403, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.403 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2001;323:408, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.408 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Memorable patients: Those who sit and wait
	David Jeffrey
	BMJ  2001;323:362, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.362 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	My only sermon
	H V Wyatt
	BMJ  2001;323:368, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.368 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The Siege of Mafeking from a medical point of view
	BMJ  2001;323:378, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.378/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Best when old
	BMJ  2001;323:387, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.387/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . .: Attendee
	Andrew West
	BMJ  2001;323:393, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.393 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	ABC of AIDS: Development of the epidemic
	BMJ  2001;323:387 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Forest plots: trying to see the wood and the trees
	BMJ  2001;323:393 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prevention of type 2 diabetes
	BMJ  2001;323:393 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures
	Donald Campbell
	BMJ  2001;323:405, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.405 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900
	Eoin O'Brien
	BMJ  2001;323:405, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.405/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: Scions made simple
	Helen Barratt, Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2001;323:406, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.406 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	The passage from the BMJ to the Scunthorpe Daily Echo or CNN
	BMJ  2001;323, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NOTICE

	BMA Notice
	J STRACHAN
	BMJ  2001;323:408, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.408/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	The passage from the BMJ to the Scunthorpe Daily Echo or CNN
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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Landfill sites
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2001;323:406, doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7309.406/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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