An extreme failure of concordance
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Compliance therapy does not improve drug adherence in schizophrenia [Full text] FREE

	Chronically ill patients are ambivalent about drug taking [Full text] FREE

	Limited haemorrhoidectomy is the most effective treatment for intractable disease [Full text] FREE

	Divergent views on drug prescribing influence concordance [Full text] FREE

	Preventive drug treatment decisions are individualised [Full text] FREE

	Trial results have dramatically reduced HRT use [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Prescribing and taking medicines
	Giselle Jones
	BMJ  2003;327:819, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.819 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Taking hormone replacement therapy
	Frances Griffiths
	BMJ  2003;327:820-821, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.820 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is concordance the primrose path to health?
	Robin E Ferner
	BMJ  2003;327:821-822, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.821 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Treatment of tuberculosis
	Dermot Maher, Mukund Uplekar, Leopold Blanc, Mario Raviglione
	BMJ  2003;327:822-823, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.822 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Directly observed treatment for tuberculosis
	Paul Garner, Jimmy Volmink
	BMJ  2003;327:823-824, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.823 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The patient's perspective on medicines in mental illness
	Mike Shooter
	BMJ  2003;327:824-826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.824 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The BMJ Careers job archive
	Jackie Connor, Jonathan Beadle, Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2003;327:826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.826 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Women need better information on routine mammography: Information on expected mortality reduction from attending screening must be correct
	Roger Graham Blanks
	BMJ  2003;327:868, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.868 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Women need better information on routine mammography: Framing is important in presenting risk information
	Tom P Marshall
	BMJ  2003;327:868, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.868-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Women need better information on routine mammography: Understanding of principles of screening must be improved
	John Nottingham
	BMJ  2003;327:868, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.868-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Women need better information on routine mammography: Women's needs inform contents of screening literature
	Julietta Patnick
	BMJ  2003;327:868-869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.868-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Women need better information on routine mammography: Authors' reply
	Hazel Thornton, Adrian Edwards, Michael Baum
	BMJ  2003;327:869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.869 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders: Normal rules of critical evaluation were presumably suspended
	Roger L Weeks
	BMJ  2003;327:869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.869-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders: New tools will lead to more valid classification system
	Michael B First, Darrel A Regier
	BMJ  2003;327:869-870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.869-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders: Maybe pharmaceutical failure has created culture of niche diagnosis
	Michael Joffe
	BMJ  2003;327:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.870 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Separation of anxiety and depressive disorders: Authors' reply
	Peter Tyrer, Edward Shorter
	BMJ  2003;327:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.870-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Study of plantar fasciitis treatment is flawed
	James Michelson
	BMJ  2003;327:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.870-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Care and outcomes in young adults with type 1 diabetes: Services do not usually include psychological care
	Christine Bundy
	BMJ  2003;327:871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.871 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Care and outcomes in young adults with type 1 diabetes: More laser treatment is used in England than the Netherlands
	David J Kinshuck
	BMJ  2003;327:871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.871-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Identifying patients at low risk of bowel cancer: Personal or familial risk factors need to be mentioned
	Margaret M O'Riordan
	BMJ  2003;327:871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.871-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Identifying patients at low risk of bowel cancer: Authors' reply
	M R Thompson, B G Ellis, I Heath
	BMJ  2003;327:871-872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.871-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Tables for predicting survival for preterm births are updated
	Elizabeth S Draper, Bradley Manktelow, David J Field, David James
	BMJ  2003;327:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.872 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use eggs, not embryos, to derive stem cells
	Daniel R Brison, Brian A Lieberman
	BMJ  2003;327:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.872-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	"Egg giving" is trading, not one way process of giving
	Peter A West
	BMJ  2003;327:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.872-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Time to clarify effect of socioeconomic class on subfertility
	Naomi H Pfeffer
	BMJ  2003;327:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.872-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Nobel prize in medicine awarded to MRI pioneers
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:827, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.827 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Teacher was refused job because relatives have Huntington's disease
	Jane Burgermeister
	BMJ  2003;327:827, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.827-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;327:828, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.828 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Labour leaders are defeated over foundation hospitals
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:828, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.828-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Research should be accessible to all, says Wellcome Trust
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2003;327:828, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.828-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Nature group extends rules on disclosure to review authors
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;327:829, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.829 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Governments failing to invest in education and health
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;327:829, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.829-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Women lose legal fight to use their frozen embryos
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:831, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.831-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Africa's visionary editor
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2003;327:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.832 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Number of uninsured in the United States increases by 2.4m
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;327:830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.830 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	GPs should encourage more HIV testing, says AIDS foundation
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2003;327:830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.830-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Arranging genes to create art and understanding
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;327:830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.830-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	GPs protest at plans to publicise their performance
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.830-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	FDA chief wants other rich countries to share drug development costs
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;327:830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.830-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	German doctor is investigated for killing 76 patients with morphine
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2003;327:830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.830-e [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Court rules that NHS must pay for overseas treatment
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:831, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.831 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Study of London taxi drivers wins Ig Nobel prize
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2003;327:831, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.831-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Patients should ask more about their medicines, group says
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2003;327:831, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.831-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Nazi’s euthanasia files are made public
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2003;327:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.832-a [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Hong Kong hampered in fight against SARS by lack of cooperation from mainland
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2003;327:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.832-b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Netherlands postpones smoking ban in restaurants and theatres
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2003;327:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.832-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Australian doctors threaten industrial action over proposed indemnity levy
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2003;327:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.832-d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Canada decides to lead the way in exempting AIDS drugs from patent laws
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;327:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.832-e [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	British Iraqi doctors set up charity to support Iraq’s mental health services
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.832-f [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Council will be able to appeal against "too lenient" decisions by GMC
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2003;327:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.832-g [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Safeguards to restrict foundation hospitals will not be effective, conference told
	Ann McGuaran
	BMJ  2003;327:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.832-h [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Parents key to reducing overweight in children
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2003;327:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.832-i [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Forty per cent of carers have illness or disability
	Andrew Iles
	BMJ  2003;327:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.832-j [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Top up fees in England will create a two tier education system in United Kingdom
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2003;327:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.832-k [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Compliance therapy: a randomised controlled trial in schizophrenia
	Colin O'Donnell, Gary Donohoe, Louise Sharkey, Nicholas Owens, Maria Migone, Raewynn Harries, Anthony Kinsella, Conall Larkin, Eadbhard O'Callaghan
	BMJ  2003;327:834, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.834 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Managing multiple morbidity in mid-life: a qualitative study of attitudes to drug use
	Anne Townsend, Kate Hunt, Sally Wyke
	BMJ  2003;327:837, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.837 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Commentary: Does a prescribed treatment match a patient's priorities?
	Nicky Britten
	BMJ  2003;327:840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.840 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

BMJ family highlights

This week's BMJ family highlights

	What's new this month in BMJ Journals
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2003;327:833, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.833 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Factors involved in deciding to start preventive treatment: qualitative study of clinicians' and lay people's attitudes
	David K Lewis, Jude Robinson, Ewan Wilkinson
	BMJ  2003;327:841, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.841 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: A small study, but the results ring true
	Robert Johnstone
	BMJ  2003;327:844-845, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.844 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Changes in use of hormone replacement therapy after the report from the Women's Health Initiative: cross sectional survey of users
	Beverley Lawton, Sally Rose, Deborah McLeod, Anthony Dowell
	BMJ  2003;327:845-846, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.845 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Managing haemorrhoids
	Pasha J Nisar, John H Scholefield
	BMJ  2003;327:847-851, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.847 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references] FREE

	ABC of subfertility: Assisted conception. II—In vitro fertilisation and intracytoplasmic sperm injection
	Peter Braude, Paula Rowell
	BMJ  2003;327:852-855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.852 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	A wolf in sheep's clothing: a critical look at the ethics of drug taking
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2003;327:856-858, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.856 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Concordance and children's use of medicines
	Emilio J Sanz
	BMJ  2003;327:858-860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.858 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What information do patients need about medicines?
	BMJ  2003;327:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.861 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ask the patients—they may want to know more than you think
	David Dickinson, D K Theo Raynor
	BMJ  2003;327:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.861-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	"Doc, tell me what I need to know"—a doctor's perspective
	James G Kennedy
	BMJ  2003;327:862-863, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.862 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Perspectives from the pharmaceutical industry
	Silvia Bonaccorso, Jeffrey L Sturchio
	BMJ  2003;327:863-864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.863 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	"Doing prescribing": how doctors can be more effective
	Glyn Elwyn, Adrian Edwards, Nicky Britten
	BMJ  2003;327:864-867, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.864 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Elspeth Mavor McKechnie
	TIM BULLAMORE
	BMJ  2003;327:873, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.873 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Rose Marion Ferry
	PETER EDWARDS
	BMJ  2003;327:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.874 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Allan Frederic ("Tommy") Granger
	DAVID GRANGER
	BMJ  2003;327:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.874-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Wilfred Howe
	DAVID MCKINLAY, CHRIS ROYTHORNE
	BMJ  2003;327:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.874-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Richard William Cordiner Murray
	MURRAY STEWART
	BMJ  2003;327:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.874-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Alfred Reeves
	JOHN C GALLAGHER
	BMJ  2003;327:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.874-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Mona Viviette Rivlin
	J J RIVLIN
	BMJ  2003;327:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.874-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Malcolm Peter Taylor
	CATHY READ
	BMJ  2003;327:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.874-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Book: Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  2003;327:875, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.875 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Better than Prozac: Creating the Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2003;327:875, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.875-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Press: Heat wave in France: how did the media treat the crisis?
	Laurent Boyer, Stephane Robitail, Pascal Auquier
	BMJ  2003;327:876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.876 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Website of the week: Help the medicine go down
	Giselle Jones
	BMJ  2003;327:876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.876-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEW: When ignorance is not bliss
	Wendy Jones
	BMJ  2003;327:877, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.877 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	SOUNDINGS: Death, where is thy sting?
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2003;327:877, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.877-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;327:878, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.878 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: Routine use of magnetic resonance scans for back pain increases costs without improving pain or function
	BMJ  2003;327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable patient: The importance of being understood
	Iona Vlad
	BMJ  2003;327:836, doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.836 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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