This week's This week in the BMJ

	Tricyclics work at low dosages [Full text] FREE

	Free smoke alarm programmes are failing [Full text] FREE

	Age bias exists for older patients with head injury [Full text] FREE

	Epilepsy is linked to social deprivation [Full text] FREE

	International cooperation needed to tackle health inequalities [Full text] FREE

	Doctors are participating in executions [Full text] FREE

	Planned caesarean delivery may prevent deaths of twins [Full text] FREE

	Used mattresses may increase risk of cot death [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Smoke detectors and house fires
	Barry Pless
	BMJ  2002;325:979-980, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.979 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Treating acute gouty arthritis with selective COX 2 inhibitors
	Adel G Fam
	BMJ  2002;325:980-981, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.980 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mattresses, microenvironments, and multivariate analyses
	Peter J Fleming, Peter S Blair, Ed A Mitchell
	BMJ  2002;325:981-982, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.981 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A POEM a week for the BMJ
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2002;325:983, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.983 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A theme issue for medics and an increasingly health informed public
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;325:984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.984 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Local funding would reduce waiting lists for cataracts
	Richard Harrad
	BMJ  2002;325:1033, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1033 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Outbreak of legionnaires' disease in the United Kingdom
	Raj S Bhopal, Hiroshi Kawane, Nikki C Jones
	BMJ  2002;325:1033, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1033/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antenatal screening policies for Down's syndrome
	Nicholas J Wald, Wayne Huttly, Allan K Hackshaw, Michael Christiansen, Severin Olesen Larsen, Bent Nørgaard-Pedersen, David Howe, Diana Wellesley
	BMJ  2002;325:1034, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1034 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Myopia
	Martin Barnes, Tom Eke, Huseyin Bayramlar
	BMJ  2002;325:1035, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1035 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Message about hormone replacement therapy is unclear
	J Michael Dixon
	BMJ  2002;325:1036, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1036 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Authors' refute careless talk about ADP receptor antagonists
	Imad W Uthman, Habib A Dakik, Ibrahim Salti, Rachid Haidar
	BMJ  2002;325:1036, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1036/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prophylaxis for early onset group B streptococcal sepsis is not so effective in practice
	Philip Owen
	BMJ  2002;325:1037, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1037 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antibiotic prophylaxis after CSF leaks lacks evidence base
	James R Greig
	BMJ  2002;325:1037, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1037/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Epidurals and backache: again?
	Felicity Reynolds
	BMJ  2002;325:1037, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1037/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Growth hormone in growth hormone deficiency
	Jean-Claude Carel, Emmanuel Ecosse, Joël Coste, Sandro Loche, Mohamad Maghnie, Marco Cappa
	BMJ  2002;325:1037, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1037/c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Local warming does help when inserting cannulas
	Jeanette Beer
	BMJ  2002;325:1038, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1038 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Supportive evidence is lacking for report on animal studies
	Pandora Pound, Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  2002;325:1038, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1038/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	New heart risk equations do not affect existing guidelines
	Richard Milne
	BMJ  2002;325:1039, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1039 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Role of emotional capacity in consent should be clarified
	Steve Moorhead, Doug Turkington
	BMJ  2002;325:1039, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1039/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Simple measures could increase life expectancy by 5-10 years
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:985, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.985 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Better standards needed for industry sponsored clinical trials
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2002;325:985, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.985/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;325:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.986 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Wellcome Trust promotes ethical research in developing world
	Sally Hargreaves
	BMJ  2002;325:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.986/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	UK heart surgery results similar to those in the United States
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2002;325:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.986/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Second long term HRT trial stopped early
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2002;325:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.987 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Protestors lobby parliament over proposed change in mental health law
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;325:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.987/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	US mammography programme beset by flaws
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;325:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.987/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Healthcare staff have difficulty distinguishing pain from disgust, study finds
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;325:989, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.989/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Government paints too rosy a picture of A&E, report says
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;325:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.990 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	MEPs reject US-style direct advertising of drugs
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2002;325:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.990/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Elderly need better coordinated services to keep them independent
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;325:988, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.988 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Australian government bails out medical indemnity funds
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2002;325:988, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.988/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Charity calls for ban on cluster bombs
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2002;325:988, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.988/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Aspirin use to be banned in under 16 year olds
	Sarah Macdonald
	BMJ  2002;325:988, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.988/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Unsafe abortions cause 20 000 deaths a year in Nigeria
	Abiodun Raufu
	BMJ  2002;325:988, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.988/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Raised homocysteine levels not as risky as once thought
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;325:989, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.989 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Multivitamins improve weight gain in pregnant women with HIV
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2002;325:989, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.989/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	A third of Europeans and almost half of Americans use internet for health information
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;325:989, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.989/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Indian scientists object to export of human biological material for research
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2002;325:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.990/b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Intensity of exercise reduces cardiovascular risk
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;325:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.990/c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Californian authorities want ban on cleaning fluid to reduce smog
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;325:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.990/d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Three out of four Germans have used complementary or natural remedies
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2002;325:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.990/e [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Novelty contact lenses are banned in the United States
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;325:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.990/f [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Meta-analysis of effects and side effects of low dosage tricyclic antidepressants in depression: systematic review
	Toshi A Furukawa, Hugh McGuire, Corrado Barbui
	BMJ  2002;325:991, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.991 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Incidence of fires and related injuries after giving out free smoke alarms: cluster randomised controlled trial
	Carolyn DiGuiseppi, Ian Roberts, Angie Wade, Mark Sculpher, Phil Edwards, Catherine Godward, Huiqi Pan, Suzanne Slater
	BMJ  2002;325:995, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.995 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of working smoke alarms in local authority inner city housing: randomised controlled trial
	Diane Rowland, Carolyn DiGuiseppi, Ian Roberts, Katherine Curtis, Helen Roberts, Laura Ginnelly, Mark Sculpher, Angela Wade
	BMJ  2002;325:998-1001, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.998 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of patients' age on management of acute intracranial haematoma: prospective national study
	Philip T Munro, Rik D Smith, Timothy R J Parke
	BMJ  2002;325:1001, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1001 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Birth order, gestational age, and risk of delivery related perinatal death in twins: retrospective cohort study
	Gordon C S Smith, Jill P Pell, Richard Dobbie
	BMJ  2002;325:1004, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1004 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Used infant mattresses and sudden infant death syndrome in Scotland: case-control study
	David Tappin, Hazel Brooke, Russell Ecob, Angus Gibson
	BMJ  2002;325:1007, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1007 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Protection from HIV on electives: questionnaire survey of UK medical schools
	Anthea J Tilzey, Jangu E Banatvala
	BMJ  2002;325:1010-1011, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1010 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Questionnaire] FREE

	Maternal smoking and risk of hypertrophic infantile pyloric stenosis: 10 year population based cohort study
	Henrik Toft Sørensen, Bente Nørgård, Lars Pedersen, Helle Larsen, Søren Paaske Johnsen
	BMJ  2002;325:1011-1012, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1011 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Socioeconomic variation in incidence of epilepsy: prospective community based study in south east England
	Dominic C Heaney, Bridget K MacDonald, Alex Everitt, Simon Stevenson, Giovanni S Leonardi, Paul Wilkinson, Josemir W Sander
	BMJ  2002;325:1013-1016, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1013 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra table] FREE

	Detection of depression and anxiety in primary care: follow up study
	David Kessler, Olive Bennewith, Glyn Lewis, Deborah Sharp
	BMJ  2002;325:1016-1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1016 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Integrated narrative and evidence based case report: Case report of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and anticoagulation
	Shmuel Reis, Doron Hermoni, Pnina Livingstone, Jeffrey Borkan
	BMJ  2002;325:1018-1020, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1018 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lesson of the week: Wound botulism associated with subcutaneous drug use
	A F A Merrison, K E Chidley, J Dunnett, K A Sieradzan
	BMJ  2002;325:1020-1021, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1020 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Antithrombotic therapy for atrial fibrillation
	Gregory Y H Lip, Robert G Hart, Dwayne S G Conway
	BMJ  2002;325:1022-1025, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1022 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Bill and Bob
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2002;325:1045, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1045/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	After September 11: a doctor's perspective
	Samer Jabbour
	BMJ  2002;325:1045, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1045 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Lethal injection: a stain on the face of medicine
	Jonathan I Groner
	BMJ  2002;325:1026-1028, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1026 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Forensic information sources] FREE

	A strategy for tackling health inequalities in the Netherlands
	Johan P Mackenbach, Karien Stronks
	BMJ  2002;325:1029-1032, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1029 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Paul Freeling
	John Howie, Marshall Marinker
	BMJ  2002;325:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1040 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	John Grant Ashton
	M Jabir
	BMJ  2002;325:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1040/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Alexander ("Alec") Fullerton
	H Max White
	BMJ  2002;325:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1040/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Bernard Wallis Hunt
	David Hunt
	BMJ  2002;325:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1040/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Nansi Eirlys James (née Harry)
	E T R James
	BMJ  2002;325:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1040/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Edward Henry Larkin
	David Woodrow
	BMJ  2002;325:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1040/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Alexander German McKnight
	William Jackson
	BMJ  2002;325:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1040/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	William Marson Maidlow
	John Crossley
	BMJ  2002;325:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1040/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	William Francis Nicholson
	Nigel Keddie
	BMJ  2002;325:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1040/h [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Charles Michael Bromiley Pare
	Peter White
	BMJ  2002;325:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1040/i [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Anthony John Pearce
	Michael Bright
	BMJ  2002;325:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1040/j [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	David George Lowthian Pickering
	Tim Williams, Hamish Hutchinson
	BMJ  2002;325:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1040/k [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2002;325:1042, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1042 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;325:1046, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1046 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM: Newer oral contraceptive pill does not increase risk of breast cancer
	BMJ  2002;325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.0/i [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2002;325:995, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.995/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Images of the good doctor in Western medicine: The doctor-patient relationship
	Cornelius O'Boyle
	BMJ  2002;325:1001, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1001/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: Genius (1815)
	BMJ  2002;325:1007, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1007/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable patient: A Pyrrhic victory
	David Kerr
	BMJ  2002;325:1011, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1011/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How a rare diagnosis caused me to sprain my ankle
	John Williams
	BMJ  2002;325:1016, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1016/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: The perils of publishing
	BMJ  2002;325:1029, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1029/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Gabapentin induced cholestasis
	BMJ  2002;325:1006, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1006 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  2002;325:1043, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1043/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Trauma: Culture, Meaning and Philosophy
	Derek Summerfield
	BMJ  2002;325:1044, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1044 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: The Medical Documentation of Torture
	Sally Hargreaves
	BMJ  2002;325:1044, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7371.1044/a