This Week In the BMJ Public perceptions do not equate to risks, but reflect controversies BMJ 2003; 327 :0-a (Published 25 September 2003) Permission Falls in elderly women are more often due to chronic disease than to drug use BMJ 2003; 327 :0-c (Published 25 September 2003) Permission Midazolam calms agitation faster than haloperidolpromethazine BMJ 2003; 327 :0-d (Published 25 September 2003) Permission Individualised risk communication increases screening but not informed choice BMJ 2003; 327 :0 (Published 25 September 2003) Permission Do you ever mix up sensitivity and specificity? BMJ 2003; 327 :0-b (Published 25 September 2003) Permission Editor's Choice Communicating risk: the main work of doctors BMJ 2003; 327 :0-f (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Responses Editorials Communicating risks BMJ 2003; 327 :691 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Responses The role of risk communication in shared decision making BMJ 2003; 327 :692 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Responses Patients' understanding of risk BMJ 2003; 327 :693 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Teaching medical students and doctors how to communicate risk BMJ 2003; 327 :694 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Responses Making sense of risk information on the web BMJ 2003; 327 :695 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission LettersDownload PDF Communicating risks through analogies BMJ 2003; 327 :749 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Responses Reliability of PSA testing remains unclear BMJ 2003; 327 :750 (Published 25 September 2003) Permission Balancing benefits and harms in health care: BMJ 2003; 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327 :702 (Published 25 September 2003) Permission European experts differ on neonatal intensive care BMJ 2003; 327 :702 (Published 25 September 2003) Permission Responses Papers Effects of communicating individual risks in screening programmes: Cochrane systematic review BMJ 2003; 327 :703 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Rapid tranquillisation for agitated patients in emergency psychiatric rooms: a randomised trial of midazolam versus haloperidol plus promethazine BMJ 2003; 327 :708 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Responses Drug points: Fatal lactic acidosis associated with tenofovir BMJ 2003; 327 :711 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Responses Primary care Association between falls in elderly women and chronic diseases and drug use: cross sectional study BMJ 2003; 327 :712 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Responses Education and debate Communication and miscommunication of risk: understanding UK parents' attitudes to combined MMR vaccination BMJ 2003; 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BMJ 2003; 327 :728 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Influence of the law on risk and informed consent BMJ 2003; 327 :731 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Responses informed consent and risk communication in France BMJ 2003; 327 :734 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission communicating risk in the United Kingdom BMJ 2003; 327 :735 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Responses Risk communication in practice: the contribution of decision aids BMJ 2003; 327 :736 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Simple tools for understanding risks: from innumeracy to insight BMJ 2003; 327 :741 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Responses Strategies to help patients understand risks BMJ 2003; 327 :745 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Responses ReviewsDownload PDF Breast BMJ 2003; 327 :755 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission The New Medical Conversation: Media, Patients, Doctors, and the Ethics of Scientific Communication BMJ 2003; 327 :755 (Published 25 September 2003) Permission Reporting risk–that's entertainment BMJ 2003; 327 :756 (Published 25 September 2003) Permission Responses Risk, statistics, and the individual BMJ 2003; 327 :757 (Published 25 September 2003) Permission Responses Duty doctor BMJ 2003; 327 :757 (Published 25 September 2003) Permission Responses Fillers Herbal tea helps reduce the pain of acute pharyngitis BMJ 2003; 327 :0-e (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission The prolongation of life BMJ 2003; 327 :715 (Published 25 September 2003) PDF Permission Who invented that bleeping thing? 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