Angioplasters and thrombolysers
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.0-h [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week's This week in the BMJ

	Infections increase the risk of atopic dermatitis [Full text] FREE

	Lesbian, gay, and bisexual health carers face undue anxiety [Full text] FREE

	More editors and authors from poor countries are needed [Full text] FREE

	Simple mortality data may be misleading... [Full text] FREE

	... and affected by local facilities [Full text] FREE

	School education programmes can reduce obesity [Full text] FREE

	Doctors are not equipped to judge their peers [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Disclosure of sexual preferences and lesbian, gay, and bisexual practitioners
	David Hughes
	BMJ  2004;328:1211-1212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1211 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Another threat to research in the United Kingdom
	Richard Nicholson
	BMJ  2004;328:1212-1213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1212 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Affirmative action: the lessons for health care
	F Sassi, J Carrier, J Weinberg
	BMJ  2004;328:1213-1214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1213 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Vulval vestibulitis
	Pat Munday, Ann Buchan
	BMJ  2004;328:1214-1215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1214 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Inhaled insulin
	Stephanie A Amiel, K George M M Alberti
	BMJ  2004;328:1215-1216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1215 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for uncomplicated falciparum malaria: Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is not working in Malawi
	Nicholas White
	BMJ  2004;328:1259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1259 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references] FREE

	Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for uncomplicated falciparum malaria: Treatment failure and resistance in Malawi remain subject for debate
	P Ringwald
	BMJ  2004;328:1259-1260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1259-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for uncomplicated falciparum malaria: Authors' reply
	Christopher V Plowe, James G Kublin, Fraction K Dzinjalamala, Deborah S Kamwendo, Rabia A G Mukadam, Phillips Chimpeni, Malcolm E Molyneux, Terrie E Taylor
	BMJ  2004;328:1260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1260 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Aid may make roads more dangerous than landmines
	Gregory Rose
	BMJ  2004;328:1260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1260-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Death on the roads could be the chance of life for some
	Alastair D Smith
	BMJ  2004;328:1260-1261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1260-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Acquiring accurate crash data is important
	J Mark Aitken
	BMJ  2004;328:1261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1261 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	More on treating homosexuality as a sickness: Publication of bigoted letter is worrying
	Petra Boynton
	BMJ  2004;328:1261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1261-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	More on treating homosexuality as a sickness: Homosexuality is punishable in India
	Vikas Dhikav
	BMJ  2004;328:1261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1261-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diabetes may be undetected in many children in the UK
	Tim Lobstein, Rachel Leach
	BMJ  2004;328:1261-1262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1261-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Implementing guidelines on sudden infant death
	Anne Livesey, Edmund Hick
	BMJ  2004;328:1262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1262 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Advice on ganglions is flawed
	Peter J Mahaffey
	BMJ  2004;328:1262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1262-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	CSM warning on atypical psychotics and stroke may be detrimental for dementia
	Donald Mowat, Douglas Fowlie, Tom MacEwan
	BMJ  2004;328:1262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1262-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Pfizer pleads guilty, but drug sales continue to soar
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;328:1217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1217 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	GPs to check on patients' residency status to stop "health tourism"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2004;328:1217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1217-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;328:1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1218 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	UK's "ethical recruitment policy" needs to be strengthened
	Daloni Carlisle
	BMJ  2004;328:1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1218-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Report warns of continuing violations of code on breast milk substitute marketing
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;328:1218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1218-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	FDA rejects over the counter status for emergency contraceptive
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;328:1219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1219 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Court dismisses appeals of two mothers
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:1219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1219-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Move to sell statins over the counter raises concerns
	Liza Gibson
	BMJ  2004;328:1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1221-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	New York's war on tobacco produces record fall in smoking
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;328:1222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1222 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	One hospitality worker a week dies from passive smoking, study shows
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2004;328:1222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1222-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Tobacco campaigners worried by slow progress on convention
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2004;328:1220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1220 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Staff may be disciplined over "fiddling" waiting lists
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2004;328:1220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1220-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Number reacting to smallpox vaccination is higher than expected
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;328:1220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1220-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Spending on neglected diseases has increased, says report
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2004;328:1220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1220-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Non-medical staff play key role in healthcare access for uninsured patients
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2004;328:1220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1220-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Medical students with science A levels less likely to drop out
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2004;328:1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1221 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

	Fourteen cases of euthanasia to be referred to French police
	Brad Spurgeon
	BMJ  2004;328:1221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1221-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Breaches of safety regulations are probable cause of recent SARS outbreak, WHO says
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2004;328:1222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1222-b [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Public health programmes will have to prove they are cost effective
	Colleen Shannon
	BMJ  2004;328:1222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1222-c [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Russia to raise tax rate for unfiltered cigarettes by 30%
	Andrew Osborn
	BMJ  2004;328:1222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1222-d [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Obstetricians at Lisbon hospital go on strike
	Tiago Villanueva
	BMJ  2004;328:1222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1222-e [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Canadian health ministry faces criticism for its secrecy
	Barbara Kermode-Scott
	BMJ  2004;328:1222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1222-f [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Cohort study of sibling effect, infectious diseases, and risk of atopic dermatitis during first 18 months of life
	Christine Stabell Benn, Mads Melbye, Jan Wohlfahrt, Bengt Björkstén, Peter Aaby
	BMJ  2004;328:1223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38069.512245.FE, (Published 30 April 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: the defence of dirt
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2004;328:1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38075.565822.55, (Published 30 April 2004) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Interaction strategies of lesbian, gay, and bisexual healthcare practitioners in the clinical examination of patients: qualitative study
	Daniel C Riordan
	BMJ  2004;328:1227-1229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38071.774525.EB, (Published 27 April 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Representation of authors and editors from countries with different human development indexes in the leading literature on tropical medicine: survey of current evidence
	Jennifer Keiser, Jürg Utzinger, Marcel Tanner, Burton H Singer
	BMJ  2004;328:1229-1232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38069.518137.F6, (Published 1 April 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Substance misuse and violent crime: Swedish population study
	Martin Grann, Seena Fazel
	BMJ  2004;328:1233-1234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1233 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Regional differences in outcome from subarachnoid haemorrhage: comparative audit
	P Mitchell, T Hope, B A Gregson, A David Mendelow
	BMJ  2004;328:1234-1235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38084.592639.AE, (Published 22 April 2004) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Hospital mortality league tables: influence of place of death
	Valerie Seagroatt, Michael J Goldacre
	BMJ  2004;328:1235-1236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38058.517118.47, (Published 29 March 2004) [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table][extra: A table showing rates for places of death] FREE

Primary care

This week's Primary care

	Preventing childhood obesity by reducing consumption of carbonated drinks: cluster randomised controlled trial
	Janet James, Peter Thomas, David Cavan, David Kerr
	BMJ  2004;328:1237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38077.458438.EE, (Published 23 April 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

This week's Learning in practice

	Review of instruments for peer assessment of physicians
	Richard Evans, Glyn Elwyn, Adrian Edwards
	BMJ  2004;328:1240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1240 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra tables and details] FREE

	Commentary: "Soft" assessment—an oxymoron?
	Murray Lough
	BMJ  2004;328:1243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1243 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What the educators are saying
	Lambert Schuwirth, Peter Cantillon
	BMJ  2004;328:1244, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1244 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: RNA interference
	Julian Downward
	BMJ  2004;328:1245-1248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1245 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lesson of the week: Pacemaker induced ventricular fibrillation in coronary care units
	Andrew A McLeod, Percy P Jokhi
	BMJ  2004;328:1249-1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1249 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of sexually transmitted infections: Main presentations of sexually transmitted infections in men
	John Richens
	BMJ  2004;328:1251-1253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1251 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Overview of genetal candidiasis] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	For and against: Primary angioplasty should be first line treatment for acute myocardial infarction: FOR
	David Smith
	BMJ  2004;328:1254-1256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1254 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	For and against: Primary angioplasty should be first line treatment for acute myocardial infarction: AGAINST
	Kevin S Channer
	BMJ  2004;328:1256-1257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1256 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Primary angioplasty or thrombolysis? a topical parable
	Peter Bogaty, James M Brophy
	BMJ  2004;328:1257-1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1257 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	George Edward Hale Enderby
	David Enderby
	BMJ  2004;328:1263, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1263 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Alfred John ("Jack") Drew
	Keith Stewart
	BMJ  2004;328:1264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1264 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Rhoda Rebecca Law
	Adam Law
	BMJ  2004;328:1264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1264-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Robert Lidstone Lindon
	Pat Lindon
	BMJ  2004;328:1264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1264-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Geoffrey Mitchell
	Stuart Ungar
	BMJ  2004;328:1264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1264-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	John Richard Perry
	Chris Strachan
	BMJ  2004;328:1264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1264-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Francis Isidore Rackow
	Malcolm Hodkinson
	BMJ  2004;328:1264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1264-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Sheila Anne Robertson (née Martyn)
	Struan Robertson
	BMJ  2004;328:1264, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1264-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version] FREE

reviews

This week's reviews

	Press: A new model of patient privacy?
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:1265, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1265 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	TV: Bodies
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2004;328:1266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1266 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Film: Super Size Me
	Chloe Veltman
	BMJ  2004;328:1266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1266-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	PERSONAL VIEW: Should reviewers of papers have their names published?
	Ioannis Dimoliatis
	BMJ  2004;328:1267, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1267 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	SOUNDINGS: Hello again
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2004;328:1267, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1267-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;328:1268, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1268 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	POEM*: Lowering homocysteine did not prevent recurrent stroke
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: Time
	Nicholas Hayes
	BMJ  2004;328:1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1250 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	One hundred years ago: The risks to life in London
	BMJ  2004;328:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1258 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Preventing childhood obesity by reducing consumption of carbonated drinks: cluster randomised controlled trial
	BMJ  2004;328:1236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1236 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;328:1236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1236-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Length of patient's monologue, rate of completion, and relation to other components of the clinical encounter: observational intervention study in primary care
	BMJ  2004;328:1236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1236-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Integrating health care for mothers and children in refugee camps and at district level
	BMJ  2004;328:1236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1236-c [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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