Polypill may be available in two years
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;327, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.0-g [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

This week in the BMJ

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

	Death rate after fractured neck of femur has stabilised [Full text]

	Sexual pleasure improves after hysterectomy [Full text]

	Dietary fat is not associated with stroke in men [Full text]

	Cluster trials are vulnerable to bias [Full text]

	Simvastatin should be taken at night [Full text]

	Global coalition builds research capacity in Africa [Full text]

Editorials

	Consent to using human tissue
	Peter Furness
	BMJ  2003;327:759-760, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.759 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Blindness in children
	Clare Gilbert, Haroon Awan
	BMJ  2003;327:760-761, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.760 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of postoperative nausea and vomiting
	Martin R Tramèr
	BMJ  2003;327:762-763, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.762 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Race, ethnic group, and clinical research
	Saif S Rathore, Harlan M Krumholz
	BMJ  2003;327:763-764, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.763 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	NIH announces new strategy for research
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:765, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.765 [Full text] [PDF]

	Small improvement seen in teenager with vCJD
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:765, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.765-a [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;327:766, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.766 [Full text] [PDF]

	NICE announces guidelines for use of rituximab
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:766, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.766-a [Full text] [PDF]

	Veterans of the first Gulf war are developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:766, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.766-b [Full text] [PDF]

	Head of German medicines body likens HRT to thalidomide
	Jane Burgermeister
	BMJ  2003;327:767, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.767 [Full text] [PDF]

	HRT may increase risk of ovarian cancer
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;327:767, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.767-a [Full text] [PDF]

	Breast cancer survivors turn to art for healing
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;327:767, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.767-b [Full text] [PDF]

	Spending on UK health care is increasing faster than other public spending
	Andrew Iles
	BMJ  2003;327:769, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.769-c [Full text] [PDF]

	Intensive care patients should be given prophylactic antibiotics
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2003;327:770, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.770 [Full text] [PDF]

	Long term care will "implode" unless personal care comes free
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2003;327:770, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.770-a [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Doctors test drug to prevent cancer in high risk women
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;327:768, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.768 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Pressure grows for EU to set up a European Research Council
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2003;327:768, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.768-a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	High heels ruled out as risk factor in osteoarthritis of the knee
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;327:768, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.768-b [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Improvement initiative rolled out for acute trusts in England
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2003;327:768, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.768-c [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctors in India prescribe unapproved fertility drug
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2003;327:768, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.768-d [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Slovak patients use health services less since charges were imposed
	Katka Krosnar
	BMJ  2003;327:769, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.769 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	WHO and MSF appeal for funds for new meningitis vaccine
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;327:769, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.769-a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	No eradication of polio without inactivated vaccine, says expert
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2003;327:769, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.769-b [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Medicines committee felt unable to recommend use of pentosan polyphosphate in vCJD
	Mark Gould
	BMJ  2003;327:770, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.770-b [Full text]

Papers

	Time trends and demography of mortality after fractured neck of femur in an English population, 1968-98: database study
	Stephen E Roberts, Michael J Goldacre
	BMJ  2003;327:771-775, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.771 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hysterectomy and sexual wellbeing: prospective observational study of vaginal hysterectomy, subtotal abdominal hysterectomy, and total abdominal hysterectomy
	Jan-Paul W R Roovers, Johanna G van der Bom, C Huub van der Vaart, A Peter M Heintz
	BMJ  2003;327:774-778, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.774 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Study group members and selected questions]

	Dietary fat intake and risk of stroke in male US healthcare professionals: 14 year prospective cohort study
	Ka He, Anwar Merchant, Eric B Rimm, Bernard A Rosner, Meir J Stampfer, Walter C Willett, Alberto Ascherio
	BMJ  2003;327:777-782, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.777 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Family attitudes to research using samples taken at coroner's postmortem examinations: review of records
	Christopher Womack, Alison L Jack
	BMJ  2003;327:781-782, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.781 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	British hospitals and different versions of the Glasgow coma scale: telephone survey
	Martin F Wiese
	BMJ  2003;327:782-783, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.782 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Substance misuse in psychiatric inpatients: comparison of a screening questionnaire survey with case notes
	Ben Barnaby, Colin Drummond, Annie McCloud, Tom Burns, Nicola Omu
	BMJ  2003;327:783-784, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.783 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Evidence for risk of bias in cluster randomised trials: review of recent trials published in three general medical journals
	Suezann Puffer, David Torgerson, Judith Watson
	BMJ  2003;327:785-789, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.785 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Taking simvastatin in the morning compared with in the evening: randomised controlled trial
	Alan Wallace, David Chinn, Greg Rubin
	BMJ  2003;327:788, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.788 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnostic impact of signs and symptoms in acute infectious conjunctivitis: systematic literature search
	Remco P Rietveld, Henk C P M van Weert, Gerben ter Riet, Patrick J E Bindels
	BMJ  2003;327:789, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.789 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Information in practice

	The Ptolemy project: a scalable model for delivering health information in Africa
	Massey Beveridge, Andrew Howard, Kirsteen Burton, Warren Holder
	BMJ  2003;327:790-793, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.790 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Basal cell carcinoma
	C S M Wong, R C Strange, J T Lear
	BMJ  2003;327:794-798, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.794 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of subfertility: Assisted conception. I—General principles
	Paula Rowell, Peter Braude
	BMJ  2003;327:799-801, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.799 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Death of the teaching autopsy
	Gregory O'Grady
	BMJ  2003;327:802-803, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.802 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Resuscitating the teaching autopsy
	James Underwood
	BMJ  2003;327:803-804, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.803 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Obtaining consent for autopsy
	Michael B McDermott
	BMJ  2003;327:804-806, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.804 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	"Polypill" to fight cardiovascular disease: Patients before populations
	Peter Trewby, Catherine Trewby
	BMJ  2003;327:807, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.807 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Polypill" to fight cardiovascular disease: Now who's playing God?
	Steve Taylor, Angela Konings
	BMJ  2003;327:807, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.807-a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Polypill" to fight cardiovascular disease: Universal polypharmacy goes against recent beliefs in prescribing practice
	Mark Powlson
	BMJ  2003;327:807-808, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.807-b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Polypill" to fight cardiovascular disease: Old joke has element of truth
	Adrian K Midgley
	BMJ  2003;327:808, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.808 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Polypill" to fight cardiovascular disease: Birthday present was much appreciated
	Felipe Ramos
	BMJ  2003;327:808, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.808-a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Polypill" to fight cardiovascular disease: Interpretation of trial data is optimistic
	Gerd Assmann, Paul Cullen, Helmut Schulte
	BMJ  2003;327:808, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.808-b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Polypill" to fight cardiovascular disease: Cost effectiveness of statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular events is questionable
	Andrea Messori, Benedetta Santarlasci, Sabrina Trippoli, Monica Vaiani
	BMJ  2003;327:808-809, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.808-c [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Polypill" to fight cardiovascular disease: Summary of rapid responses
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2003;327:809, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.809 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Polypill" to fight cardiovascular disease: Authors' reply
	Nicholas Wald, Malcolm Law, Joan Morris, Alicja Rudnicka, Rachel Jordan
	BMJ  2003;327:809-810, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.809-a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do school exams predict doctors' success?: Career achievements are not only measure
	Nick Myerson
	BMJ  2003;327:810, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.810 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do school exams predict doctors' success?: Is it not a retrospective study?
	Rohit Chaturvedi, Shailesh Chaturvedi
	BMJ  2003;327:810, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.810-a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do school exams predict doctors' success?: Author's reply
	I C McManus
	BMJ  2003;327:810-811, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.810-b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Research was evidence based
	Allen F Shaughnessy, David C Slawson
	BMJ  2003;327:811, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.811 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dyspepsia results may not apply in primary care
	Brendan C Delaney, Paul Moayyedi, Richard F A Logan
	BMJ  2003;327:811, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.811-a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smoke free hospitals: Withdrawal from cigarettes should not be confused with withdrawal from nicotine
	Martin McKee, Anna Gilmore, Tom Novotny
	BMJ  2003;327:811, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.811-b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smoke free hospitals: Rising to the challenge
	Hayden McRobbie, Cressida Darwin, Peter Hajek
	BMJ  2003;327:811-812, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.811-c [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diabetes may be independent risk factor for hyperkalaemia
	Paul R Jarman, Hugh M Mather
	BMJ  2003;327:812, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.812 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Be careful when extrapolating trial data to real life
	Nigel Dudley
	BMJ  2003;327:812, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.812-a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Confidentiality of patients' information must be guaranteed
	Joanna Russell
	BMJ  2003;327:812, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.812-b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Frank Samuel Preston
	W M DIXON
	BMJ  2003;327:813, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.813 [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Jack Edwards
	M VOIGHT, J EDWARDS, J EDWARDS
	BMJ  2003;327:813, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.813-a [Full text]

	Robert Finlay
	STUART FINLAY
	BMJ  2003;327:813, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.813-b [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David Llywelyn James
	DAVID PICKWORTH
	BMJ  2003;327:813, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.813-c [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

reviews

This week's reviews [PDF]

	Book: The Doctors' Tale: Professionalism and Public Trust
	Charles George
	BMJ  2003;327:814, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.814 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Reducing the Burden of Headache
	Anne Walling
	BMJ  2003;327:815, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.815 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
	Jill Thistlethwaite
	BMJ  2003;327:815, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.815-a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: Knocking Bruno when he is down
	Raj Persaud
	BMJ  2003;327:816, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.816 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hit Parade
	BMJ  2003;327:816, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.816-a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: A tight squeeze
	Brian T Maurer
	BMJ  2003;327:817, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.817 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Bioterrorism
	Imre Loefler
	BMJ  2003;327:817, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.817-a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	MINERVA: Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:E168, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.02110005 (published 20 February 2003) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:818, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.818 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Paroxetine may help with hot flushes
	BMJ  2003;327, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.0-f [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;327:784, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.784 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Three sides
	Robert Evans
	BMJ  2003;327:789, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.789-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interactive case report: A 2 year old child with rash and fever
	BMJ  2003;327:798, doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7418.798 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BMJ USA

	EDITOR'S CHOICE: Who's in control?
	BMJ  2003;327:E1, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01020001 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	EDITORIAL: BMJ USA: A British contribution to American medicine
	Ronald M Davis, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;327:E2-E3, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01020002 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	LETTER: RAPID RESPONSES FROM BMJ.COM: Ask your pharmacist
	Jim Latona, Kirby F Sebro, Susan Wearne, Read Weaver Schusky
	BMJ  2003;327:E4, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01020004 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	LETTER: RAPID RESPONSES FROM BMJ.COM
	Rod Lawson, James S Smeltzer, Mike Thomas
	BMJ  2003;327:E5, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01020003 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	MINERVA: Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:E6, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01020005 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	EDITOR'S CHOICE: News on blood
	BMJ  2003;327:E7, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01030001 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	EDITORIAL: Migraine prevention
	Alfred L Clavel, Jr
	BMJ  2003;327:E8-E9, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01030002 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	NETLINES: Netlines
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2003;327:E10, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01030005 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	NEWS: Patient privacy rule goes into effect
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2003;327:E11-E12, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01030007 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	NEWS: A bold plan to achieve unity in medicine
	Ronald M Davis
	BMJ  2003;327:E13-E14, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01030006 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	LETTER: RAPID RESPONSES FROM BMJ.COM
	Christopher Buttery, Ellen Goudsmit, Richard Gist, Will Johnstone, Grace Heckenberg
	BMJ  2003;327:E15, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01030004 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	LETTER: RAPID RESPONSES FROM BMJ.COM
	Tony Barrett, Osamu Muramoto, Ian Nesbitt, Lee Elder
	BMJ  2003;327:E16, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01030003 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	MINERVA: Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:E17, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01030008 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	EDITOR'S CHOICE: Perturbations in the ergonomics of primary care
	BMJ  2003;327:E18, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01040001 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	EDITORIAL: The third report of the US Preventive Services Task Force
	Mary Ann Gilligan, Rebekah Wang-Cheng
	BMJ  2003;327:E19-E20, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01040002 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	CLINICAL REVIEW: First new screening recommendations from the third US Preventive Services Task Force
	David Atkins
	BMJ  2003;327:E21-E24, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01040004 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	LETTER: RAPID RESPONSES FROM BMJ.COM
	Andrew Martyn Thornett, Bartosz Szkandera, Wayne Lee
	BMJ  2003;327:E25, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01040006 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	LETTER: RAPID RESPONSES FROM BMJ.COM
	Kati Morrison, H R Millar, David Lim
	BMJ  2003;327:E26, doi:10.1136/bmjusa.01040005 (published 5 September 2002) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]