This week's This week in the BMJ

	Effects of involving patients are unknown [Full text] FREE

	Involving users in delivering mental health services is effective [Full text] FREE

	Off-pump heart surgery causes less neurocognitive impairment [Full text] FREE

	Use lower CHD risk thresholds for ethnic minorities [Full text] FREE

	Report cards are fine in principle [Full text] FREE

	WHO may be passé [Full text] FREE

	Global resurgence of tuberculosis is troubling [Full text] FREE

	Buildings dominate discussions on reconfiguring health care [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Electing WHO's next leader
	Gavin Yamey, Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2002;325:1251-1252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1251 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Optimal duration of exclusive breast feeding in low income countries
	Robert E Black, Cesar G Victora
	BMJ  2002;325:1252-1253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1252 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references] FREE

	Arrhythmias and sudden death in patients taking antipsychotic drugs
	Andrew Herxheimer, David Healy
	BMJ  2002;325:1253-1254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1253 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Symptoms of possible oncological significance: separating the wheat from the chaff
	Nicholas Summerton
	BMJ  2002;325:1254-1255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1254 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	About impaired minds and closed hearts
	David Taggart
	BMJ  2002;325:1255-1256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1255 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Emergency response to 999 calls
	Bernard A Foëx, Darren Walter, Andrew Jones, Charles Essex
	BMJ  2002;325:1299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1299 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Wanted: patients with mental illness in role of teacher
	Sir Nil
	BMJ  2002;325:1300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1300 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Debate on mental illness and violence was oversimplified
	Tom Clark
	BMJ  2002;325:1300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1300/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The NHS, the private sector, and the virtual asylum
	Philip A Sugarman, Lorna Duggan, Geoff Dickens, John C Hughes, Leila B Cooke, Peter Carpenter, Rob Poole, Tony Ryan, Alison Pearsall
	BMJ  2002;325:1300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1300/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sexual health services need wider approach
	Lesley E Bacon, Jacqui Evans
	BMJ  2002;325:1302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1302 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Efficacy, safety, and cost of new anticancer drugs
	Hilary Calvert, Duncan I Jodrell, James Cassidy, Adrian L Harris, Andrea Messori, Sabrina Trippoli, Monica Vaiani, Silvio Garattini, Vittorio Bertele'
	BMJ  2002;325:1302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1302/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Occupational disease can also develop in non-working children
	David A Green
	BMJ  2002;325:1303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1303 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Power is indeed irrelevant in interpreting completed studies
	Stephen J Senn
	BMJ  2002;325:1304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1304 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Follow up of people fitted with hearing aids
	Elizabeth M Bond, Amanda J Kvalsvig
	BMJ  2002;325:1304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1304/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Failure to tackle AIDS puts millions at risk of starvation
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;325:1257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1257 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	China makes its first antiretroviral drugs for treating AIDS
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2002;325:1257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1257/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;325:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1258 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	GMC clears Alder Hey doctor of dishonesty
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1258/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Nine candidates nominated for top WHO post
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2002;325:1259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1259 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Vaccine could give protection against cervical cancer
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2002;325:1259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1259/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Adrenal crisis associated with high dose inhaled steroids is more common than previously thought
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;325:1261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1261/d [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Erecting the barricades
	Matthew Limb
	BMJ  2002;325:1262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1262 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Gynaecologist is struck off for sterilising women without their consent
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:1260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1260 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	EU parliament votes for total ban on tobacco advertising
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2002;325:1260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1260/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Paediatrician suspended after she "threw objectivity to the winds"
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:1260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1260/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	New life form to be created
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;325:1260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1260/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Safeguards in research are needed to protect patients’ privacy, says report
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2002;325:1260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1260/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Malnutrition spreads in Argentina, once the "breadbasket" of the world
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2002;325:1261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1261 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Doctors in the armed forces to get £50 000 "golden hellos"
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:1261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1261/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Gulf war veterans have no common pattern of peripheral nerve damage
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:1261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1261/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Drug advertisers face scrutiny after potentially breaking FDA rules
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;325:1262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1262/a [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Canadian prisons are not meeting their duty to limit spread of HIV
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2002;325:1262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1262/b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Trust criticised for locking up mental health patients
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;325:1262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1262/c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Systematic review of involving patients in the planning and development of health care
	Mike J Crawford, Deborah Rutter, Catherine Manley, Timothy Weaver, Kamaldeep Bhui, Naomi Fulop, Peter Tyrer
	BMJ  2002;325:1263, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1263 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Involving users in the delivery and evaluation of mental health services: systematic review
	Emma L Simpson, Allan O House
	BMJ  2002;325:1265, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1265 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Assessment of neurocognitive impairment after off-pump and on-pump techniques for coronary artery bypass graft surgery: prospective randomised controlled trial
	Vipin Zamvar, David Williams, Judith Hall, Nicola Payne, Clare Cann, Karen Young, S Karthikeyan, John Dunne
	BMJ  2002;325:1268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1268 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Application of Framingham risk estimates to ethnic minorities in United Kingdom and implications for primary prevention of heart disease in general practice: cross sectional population based study
	Francesco P Cappuccio, Pippa Oakeshott, Pasquale Strazzullo, Sally M Kerry
	BMJ  2002;325:1271, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1271 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between outcome of pregnancy and glycaemic control in early pregnancy in type 1 diabetes: population based study
	Rosemary Temple, Vivien Aldridge, Richard Greenwood, Philip Heyburn, Michael Sampson, Katharine Stanley
	BMJ  2002;325:1275-1276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1275 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Observational study of type of surgical training and outcome of definitive surgery for primary malignant melanoma
	Rona M MacKie, Caroline A Bray, David J Hole
	BMJ  2002;325:1276-1277, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1276 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Dysgeusia and burning mouth syndrome by eprosartan
	Xavier Castells, Isidre Rodoreda, Consuelo Pedrós, Gloria Cereza, Joan-Ramon Laporte
	BMJ  2002;325:1277, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1277 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Attitudes to the public release of comparative information on the quality of general practice care: qualitative study
	Martin N Marshall, Julia Hiscock, Bonnie Sibbald
	BMJ  2002;325:1278, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1278 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Pilot card] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Current medical treatment for tuberculosis
	Edward D Chan, Michael D Iseman
	BMJ  2002;325:1282-1286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1282 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Box] FREE

	ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Antithrombotic therapy in myocardial infarction and stable angina
	Gregory Y H Lip, Bernard S P Chin, Neeraj Prasad
	BMJ  2002;325:1287-1289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1287 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	If I ruled the world
	George Dunea
	BMJ  2002;325:1309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1309/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	GPs and the information revolution
	Mayur Lakhani
	BMJ  2002;325:1309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1309 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Reconfiguring health systems
	Andy Black
	BMJ  2002;325:1290-1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1290 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	WHO in 2002: Why does the world still need WHO?
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2002;325:1294-1298, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1294 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Alan Stoddard
	Ingrid Flint, Susanne Hague
	BMJ  2002;325:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1305 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	William Stuart Bost
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2002;325:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1305/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	William John Oldfield Box
	John Strong
	BMJ  2002;325:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1305/b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Birendra ("Brian") Ghosh
	James M Moore
	BMJ  2002;325:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1305/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	John Dudley Jenkins
	C J Smart
	BMJ  2002;325:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1305/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Ian Martin-Scott
	Stephen H Martin-Scott
	BMJ  2002;325:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1305/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Eoin Leonard McQuitty
	Andrew McQuitty
	BMJ  2002;325:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1305/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Michael Antony Prenton
	Walter R Timperley, Libby Prenton
	BMJ  2002;325:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1305/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Esther Stacey (née Fonseca)
	Steven Curson, Barbara Wesby
	BMJ  2002;325:1305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1305/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;325:1310, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1310 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM: Barrett's oesophagus is common in men with or without GORD
	BMJ  2002;325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.0/i [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	One hundred years ago: The Army Medical Service as a career
	BMJ  2002;325:1271, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1271/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A paper that changed my practice: From paper to practice doesn't always take a decade
	Greg Warner
	BMJ  2002;325:1281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1281/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: Learning from each other
	BMJ  2002;325:1282, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1282/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A picture is worth a thousand words
	Brian Davies
	BMJ  2002;325:1298, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1298 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	'No' vote frees £250m
	BMJ  2002;325:1261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1261/c [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A POEM a week for the BMJ
	BMJ  2002;325:1281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1281 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ultrasound plus mammography may detect more early cancers
	BMJ  2002;325:1281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1281/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Protestors lobby parliament over proposed change in mental health law
	BMJ  2002;325:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1293 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A POEM a week for the BMJ
	BMJ  2002;325:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1293/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book review
	BMJ  2002;325:1307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1307/b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

WEB

This week's WEB

	Web: Tumour diary
	Ross Camidge
	BMJ  2002;325:1308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1308 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Work Stress: The Making of a Modern Epidemic
	Michael Fitzpatrick
	BMJ  2002;325:1307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1307 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: The Blood Doctor
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2002;325:1307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1307/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The difficulties of putting patients first
	BMJ  2002;325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.0/h [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

NETLINES

This week's NETLINES

	Netlines
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2002;325:1308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7375.1308/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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