Quality of life measures soar [Full text]

	Teenage pregnancy prevention strategies are ineffective [Full text]

	Sex education does not change behaviour [Full text]

	Stress is not linked to breast cancer relapse [Full text]

	Telemedicine is not cost effective [Full text]

	Child health improves in the developing world [Full text]

	Bavarian hairdressers get less skin disease [Full text]

	Food has a future [Full text]

	Surgical studies have problems [Full text]

Editorials

	Thinking the unthinkable!
	Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Samiran Nundy
	BMJ  2002;324:1405-1406, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1405 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Oxygen therapy in acute medical care
	Alastair J Thomson, David J Webb, Simon R J Maxwell, Ian S Grant
	BMJ  2002;324:1406-1407, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1406 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Adoption by lesbian couples
	Susan Golombok
	BMJ  2002;324:1407-1408, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1407 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Forensic pathology services
	Derrick Pounder
	BMJ  2002;324:1408-1409, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1408 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Our favourite drug
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  2002;324:1410, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1410 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Lack of progress at summit spells disaster for poor countries
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;324:1411, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1411 [Full text] [PDF]

	Negligence settlements in England increase sevenfold in five years
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;324:1411, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1411/a [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;324:1412, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1412 [Full text] [PDF]

	Gene responsible for most malignant melanomas is discovered
	Mark Gould
	BMJ  2002;324:1412, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1412/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors in India and Pakistan campaign against nuclear war
	Shamim-ur-Rahman, Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2002;324:1412, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1412/b [Full text] [PDF]

	Oncologists protest about NICE's decision on cancer drugs
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:1413, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1413 [Full text] [PDF]

	NICE guidance "a real victory" for people with schizophrenia
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2002;324:1413, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1413/a [Full text] [PDF]

	UK pill compensation claim collapses
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:1415, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1415/b [Full text] [PDF]

	Changing hearts and minds
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:1416, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1416 [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Lawyers poised to sue US junk food manufacturers
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;324:1414, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1414 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Polio cases rise in Nigeria as vaccine is shunned for fear of AIDS
	Abiodun Raufu
	BMJ  2002;324:1414, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1414/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Surgeon found liable for injuries because did not inform patient of risks
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:1414, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1414/b [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Welsh whistleblower is reinstated
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;324:1414, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1414/c [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Cancer charity highlights risks of testicular cancer
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2002;324:1414, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1414/d [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	One in 50 Europeans are living with cancer or are in remission
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:1415, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1415 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

	R J Reynolds fined $20m for advertising to young people
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2002;324:1415, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1415/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	US government supports Maine law to curb drug prices
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;324:1416, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1416/a [Full text]

	Europe agrees plan for chemical terrorism alert system
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;324:1416, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1416/b [Full text]

	UK consumers reject direct advertising to patients by drug industry
	Mark Hunter
	BMJ  2002;324:1416, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1416/c [Full text]

	Organic meat products contaminated with carcinogenic herbicide
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2002;324:1416, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1416/d [Full text]

	New ethical standards set for health service managers
	Sally Hargreaves
	BMJ  2002;324:1416, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1416/e [Full text]

	Childhood obesity in Canada has tripled in past 20 years
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2002;324:1416, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1416/f [Full text]

	Specialists attack government for not prioritising HIV
	Jo Carlowe
	BMJ  2002;324:1416, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1416/g [Full text]

	Public health doctors must press for health targets
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2002;324:1416, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1416/h [Full text]

Papers

	Quality of life measurement: bibliographic study of patient assessed health outcome measures
	Andrew Garratt, Louise Schmidt, Anne Mackintosh, Ray Fitzpatrick
	BMJ  2002;324:1417, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1417 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Stressful life experiences and risk of relapse of breast cancer: observational cohort study
	Jill Graham, Amanda Ramirez, Sharon Love, Michael Richards, Caroline Burgess
	BMJ  2002;324:1420, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1420 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Impact of preventive strategies on trend of occupational skin disease in hairdressers: population based register study
	Heinrich Dickel, Oliver Kuss, Anne Schmidt, Thomas L Diepgen
	BMJ  2002;324:1422-1423, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1422 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Postmortem examinations using magnetic resonance imaging: four year review of a working service
	R A L Bisset, N B Thomas, I W Turnbull, S Lee
	BMJ  2002;324:1423-1424, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1423 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rising incidence of Kawasaki disease in England: analysis of hospital admission data
	Anthony Harnden, Bernadette Alves, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2002;324:1424-1425, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1424 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Interventions to reduce unintended pregnancies among adolescents: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
	Alba DiCenso, Gordon Guyatt, A Willan, L Griffith
	BMJ  2002;324:1426, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1426 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Limits of teacher delivered sex education: interim behavioural outcomes from randomised trial
	Daniel Wight, Gillian M Raab, Marion Henderson, Charles Abraham, Katie Buston, Graham Hart, Sue Scott
	BMJ  2002;324:1430, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1430 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Information in practice

	Systematic review of cost effectiveness studies of telemedicine interventions
	Pamela S Whitten, Frances S Mair, Alan Haycox, Carl R May, Tracy L Williams, Seth Hellmich
	BMJ  2002;324:1434-1437, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1434 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of studies]

Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Nutritional genomics
	Ruan Elliott, Teng Jin Ong
	BMJ  2002;324:1438-1442, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1438 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Death from tetanus after a pretibial laceration
	Oliver C S Cassell
	BMJ  2002;324:1442-1443, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1442 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Surfing the web
	George Dunea
	BMJ  2002;324:1463, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1463/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Why the Hippocratic ideals are dead
	Imre Loefler
	BMJ  2002;324:1463, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1463 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Improving child health: the role of research
	Working Group on Women and Child Health, F Dabis, J Orne-Gliemann, F Perez, V Leroy, M L Newell, A Coutsoudis, H Coovadia
	BMJ  2002;324:1444-1447, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1444 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Randomised trials in surgery: problems and possible solutions
	Peter McCulloch, Irving Taylor, Mitsuru Sasako, Bryony Lovett, Damian Griffin
	BMJ  2002;324:1448-1451, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1448 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Unhappy doctors
	Roger Jones, Peter Davies, Woody Caan, Judith Stanton, David H Bevan, Irving Taylor
	BMJ  2002;324:1452, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1452 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nurses need more resources to do their job
	Fiona McLean
	BMJ  2002;324:1453, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1453 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA negotiator calls for more male medical students
	Susan Walker, Madeleine Kathleen Piper
	BMJ  2002;324:1453, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1453/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Access to invasive procedures can be audited by ethnic group
	Ibrahim I Abubakar, David Kanka
	BMJ  2002;324:1454, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1454 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hip protectors
	Jed Rowe, Clive Bowman, Ian Ireland, Jeni M McAughey, Margaret McAdoo, Paul W Thompson, Carol Jones, Tracy Villar
	BMJ  2002;324:1454, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1454/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cardiothoracic surgeons do a good job
	Alastair N J Graham
	BMJ  2002;324:1455, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1455 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Informaticist services for policymakers will differ from those studied
	Helen Thornton-Jones, Susan Hampshaw, Andrew Taylor
	BMJ  2002;324:1456, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1456 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Attitudes towards general practice are changing
	Trevor Lambert, Julie Evans, Michael Goldacre
	BMJ  2002;324:1456, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1456/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Animal models can assist medicine in humans
	Alastair R Michell
	BMJ  2002;324:1457, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1457 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Staphylococci are unlikely to cause acute dental infections
	Noel F F Ribeiro, Gary C S Cousin
	BMJ  2002;324:1457, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1457/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Expert shows how pens should be held
	Richard Middleton
	BMJ  2002;324:1457, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1457/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Richard Dyer Mudd
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2002;324:1458, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1458 [Full text]

	Thomas Freeman
	Clifford Yorke
	BMJ  2002;324:1458, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1458/a [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alan Bailey Bevan
	Brian Woods, Nicola Ramsell
	BMJ  2002;324:1458, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1458/b [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Gordon Cheyne
	Robert Cheyne
	BMJ  2002;324:1458, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1458/c [Full text]

	Lionel Evan Jones
	Brian R Jones
	BMJ  2002;324:1458, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1458/d [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;324:1464, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1464 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	One hundred years ago: How to be happy though a doctor
	BMJ  2002;324:1417, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1417/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Useless again
	Desmond Murphy
	BMJ  2002;324:1425, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1425 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Long ago, at another hospital
	Munchi Choksey
	BMJ  2002;324:1437, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1437 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rating waiting
	Margaret Sutherland
	BMJ  2002;324:1443, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1443/c [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The physician's objectives
	BMJ  2002;324:1448, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1448/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Personal view
	BMJ  2002;324:1443, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1443 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	US report calls for tighter controls on complementary medicine
	BMJ  2002;324:1443, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1443/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Paediatricians meet to tackle child abuse in former Soviet bloc
	BMJ  2002;324:1443, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1443/b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: The Science of the Placebo: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
	Anton J M de Craen
	BMJ  2002;324:1460, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1460 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: In the Land of Pain
	Anna Ellis
	BMJ  2002;324:1460, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1460/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World
	Chin Woo Jung
	BMJ  2002;324:1461, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1461 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: Press releases on trial
	Alex Vass, Claire McKenna
	BMJ  2002;324:1461, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1461/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Big issues
	BMJ  2002;324, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.0/i [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

INTERVIEW

	Interview: Future imperfect
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2002;324:1462, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1462 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Breast cancer and stress
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2002;324:1462, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7351.1462/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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