This week's This week in the BMJ

	Self help intervention during antenatal care fails to cut smoking [Full text] FREE

	Topical blockers may cause new airways obstruction [Full text] FREE

	Worldwide gastroschisis epidemic [Full text] FREE

	Early CT improves diagnosis in abdominal pain [Full text] FREE

	Emergency contraception is not an easy choice [Full text] FREE

	Papers with competing interests are less credible [Full text] FREE

	Introduction of NHS Direct did not cause under-reporting of flu [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Interim smallpox guidelines for the United Kingdom
	Richard Harling, Dilys Morgan, W John Edmunds, Helen Campbell
	BMJ  2002;325:1371-1372, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1371 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluating treatment effects reliably
	Martin J Landray, Gary Whitlock
	BMJ  2002;325:1372-1373, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1372 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ultrasound guided central venous access
	Manfred Muhm
	BMJ  2002;325:1373-1374, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1373 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Influences of the media on suicide
	Keith Hawton, Kathryn Williams
	BMJ  2002;325:1374-1375, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1374 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Making progress with competing interests
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2002;325:1375-1376, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1375 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Correction to BMJ 2002; 325:1375]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Screening for domestic violence
	Jo Nurse, Samuel T Bauer, Elizabeth M Shadigian, Peter Davies, Angela Taft, Kelsey Hegarty, Mike Crilly, Andy Howe, Mary M Goodwin, Patricia Dietz, Alison M Spitz, Ileana Arias, Linda E Saltzman, Gene Feder, Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2002;325:1417, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1417 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Association between competing interests and conclusions
	Benjamin Djulbegovic, Adam Jacobs
	BMJ  2002;325:1420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1420 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating head injuries
	Vincenzo Bonicalzi, Sergio Canavero, Peter Baxter, Charles Stack, Judith Short, Tarek A Gaber, Mamoun Mobayed
	BMJ  2002;325:1420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1420/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Robust evidence is needed in treating acne
	Sarah Garner, Anne Eady, Tony Avery
	BMJ  2002;325:1422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1422 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Galantamine may be effective in treating autistic disorder
	Helmut Niederhofer, W Staffen, A Mair
	BMJ  2002;325:1422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1422/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Broad statements do not tell whole story of prison medicine
	I Jamieson
	BMJ  2002;325:1422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1422/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Watchfulness may not be as good as surgery for prostate cancer
	Paul B Silcocks
	BMJ  2002;325:1423, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1423 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	People with partial hearing need to seek hearing potential
	Richard A Preiss
	BMJ  2002;325:1423, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1423/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	On communicationeditors and reporters should not be blamed
	Michael O'Donnell
	BMJ  2002;325:1423, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1423/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Atrial fibrillation: rate as important as rhythm
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2002;325:1377, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1377 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	FDA limits research of former AHA president for submitting false information
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2002;325:1377, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1377/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;325:1378, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1378 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK royal colleges publish competency based curriculums
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;325:1378, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1378/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Countries with better health systems have better football teams
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;325:1378, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1378/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Novartis breached code after doctors say it "invented" a disease
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2002;325:1379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1379 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Congress criticises drugs industry for misleading advertising
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2002;325:1379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1379/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctor may face manslaughter charges after a confidential report is made public
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2002;325:1381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1381/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Ageing workforce will exacerbate NHS staffing crisis
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2002;325:1382, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1382 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Proposals for UK body to investigate research fraud "lack teeth"
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;325:1382, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1382/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	HIV infection rate among South African children found to be 5.6%
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2002;325:1380, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1380 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Jennifer Colman sues the GMC for £5.2m
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;325:1380, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1380/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Oregon’s governor apologises for forced sterilisations
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2002;325:1380, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1380/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Air pollution responsible for 600 000 premature deaths worldwide
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2002;325:1380, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1380/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	India announces plan to inform HIV infected blood donors
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2002;325:1380, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1380/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Exhibition will act as hospital’s memorial
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2002;325:1380, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1380/e [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	EU ministers support draft legislation for patients to be treated abroad
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2002;325:1381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1381 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Tobacco giant wins appeal over document shredding
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2002;325:1381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1381/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	"Alternative" cigarettes are no safer than conventional brands, report says
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2002;325:1382, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1382/b [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Young women's accounts of factors influencing their use and non-use of emergency contraception: in-depth interview study
	Caroline Free, Raymond M Lee, Jane Ogden
	BMJ  2002;325:1393, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1393 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Blockers for glaucoma and excess risk of airways obstruction: population based cohort study
	James F Kirwan, Julia A Nightingale, Catey Bunce, Richard Wormald
	BMJ  2002;325:1396-1397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1396 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of NHS Direct on general practice consultations during the winter of 1999-2000: analysis of routinely collected data
	Rachel S Chapman, Gillian E Smith, Fiona Warburton, Richard T Mayon-White, Douglas M Fleming
	BMJ  2002;325:1397-1398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1397 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent developments in gastroenterology
	Paul Moayyedi, Alex Ford
	BMJ  2002;325:1399-1402, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1399 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references]

	How does it work?: Alcohol breath testing
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2002;325:1403, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1403 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of antithrombotic therapy: Antithrombotic strategies in acute coronary syndromes and percutaneous coronary interventions
	Derek L Connolly, Gregory Y H Lip, Bernard S P Chin
	BMJ  2002;325:1404-1407, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1404 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Protect and survive
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2002;325:1429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1429/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	My mother's name was Jan
	Kevin Perrett
	BMJ  2002;325:1429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1429 [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Longer version]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Managing acute renal colic across the primary-secondary care interface: a pathway of care based on evidence and consensus
	P J Wright, P J English, A P S Hungin, S N E Marsden
	BMJ  2002;325:1408-1412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1408 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	How the tobacco industry responded to an influential study of the health effects of secondhand smoke
	Mi-Kyung Hong, Lisa A Bero
	BMJ  2002;325:1413-1416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1413 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;325:1430, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1430 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM: Steroid injections may be better than shock wave therapy for tennis elbow, but this study has too many biases to conclude this confidently
	BMJ  2002;325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.0/h [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Age and wisdom
	BMJ  2002;325:1391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1391/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Cost of candles
	BMJ  2002;325:1397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1397/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Surgical training
	BMJ  2002;325:1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1399/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2002;325:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1408/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Private doctors must improve their TB treatment
	BMJ  2002;325:1381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1381/b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Work stress and risk of cardiovascular mortality: prospective cohort study of industrial employees
	BMJ  2002;325:1386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1386 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Career focus
	BMJ  2002;325:1386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1386/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Nurse led follow up and conventional medical follow up in management of patients with lung cancer: randomised trial
	BMJ  2002;325:1386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1386/b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty
	Cameron Stark
	BMJ  2002;325:1426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1426 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: A Mind of its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2002;325:1427, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1427 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

FILM

This week's FILM

	Film: Dirty Pretty Things
	Anna Ellis
	BMJ  2002;325:1427, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1427/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Film: Those who are Jesus
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  2002;325:1428, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1428 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Doing better with everyday clinical problems
	BMJ  2002;325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.0/g [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

HIT PARADE

This week's HIT PARADE

	Hit parade
	BMJ  2002;325:1428, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1428/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Drinking, driving, and playing Tetris
	Marcus Müllner
	BMJ  2002;325:1428, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1428/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Morris Nathan Young
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2002;325:1424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1424 [Extract] [Full text]

	Charlotte Morrison Anderson
	Michael Gracey
	BMJ  2002;325:1424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1424/a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Stewart Boyd
	Lawrence Erskine
	BMJ  2002;325:1424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1424/b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Singleton Darling
	Richard Darling, Penny Foster
	BMJ  2002;325:1424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1424/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Duncan Macdonald
	Ewan Macdonald, Jim Douglas
	BMJ  2002;325:1424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1424/d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Anderson McFadzean
	William A McFadzean
	BMJ  2002;325:1424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1424/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Bhagwan Dayal Shrivastava
	S E Shrivastava
	BMJ  2002;325:1424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1424/f [Extract] [Full text]

	Alun Lloyd Thomas
	Hugh Thomas
	BMJ  2002;325:1424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1424/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Sarah Catherine Betty Walker
	BMJ  2002;325:1424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1424/h [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Self help smoking cessation in pregnancy: cluster randomised controlled trial
	Laurence Moore, Rona Campbell, Amanda Whelan, Nicola Mills, Phillippa Lupton, Elizabeth Misselbrook, Julie Frohlich
	BMJ  2002;325:1383, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1383 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evaluation of early abdominopelvic computed tomography in patients with acute abdominal pain of unknown cause: prospective randomised study
	Chaan S Ng, Christopher J E Watson, Christopher R Palmer, Teik Choon See, Nigel A Beharry, Barbara A Housden, J Andrew Bradley, Adrian K Dixon
	BMJ  2002;325:1387, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1387 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of gastroschisis at birth: retrospective study
	Gian Luca Di Tanna, Aldo Rosano, Pierpaolo Mastroiacovo
	BMJ  2002;325:1389-1390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1389 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Contributors details] FREE

	Mortality from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in England and Wales: analysis of death certificates
	N S Crowcroft, M Catchpole
	BMJ  2002;325:1390-1391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1390 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Does declaration of competing interests affect readers' perceptions? A randomised trial
	Samena Chaudhry, Sara Schroter, Richard Smith, Julie Morris
	BMJ  2002;325:1391-1392, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7377.1391 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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