Articles

ISSUE

EDITORIAL

20/27 December 2003

(1)A New Year's resolution after a lost decade

(2)Providing the world with clean water

(3)Clinical arithmetic

(4)Dignity is a useless concept

13 December 2003

(1)The health consequences of the Gulf war

(2)Evening primrose oil for atopic dermatitis

(3)Treatment options for trigeminal neuralgia

(4)Delayed prescriptions

(5)Monitoring the medical education evolution

6 December 2003

(1)Missing women--revisited

(2)Giving aspirin and ibuprofen after myocardial infarction

(3)Faecal incontinence

(4)Health service research

(5)Online Firsts

29 November 2003

(1)What do we gain from the sixth coronary heart disease drug?

(2)Risk factor scoring for coronary heart disease

(3)Is the NHS getting better or worse?

(4)Lesson for the NHS from Kaiser Permanente

(5)Should we be screening for and treating amblyopia?

(6)Treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding

22 November 2003

(1)Controlling methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2)Trauma life support in conflict

(3)Monitoring drug treatment

(4)Diastolic heart failure

15 November 2003

(1)How many conditions can a GP screen for?

(2)The criminalisation of fatal medical mistakes

(3)Shock in polytrauma

(4)Intensive education for lifestyle change in diabetes

(5)Genomic imprinting as a cause of disease

8 November 2003

(1)Preventing diabetes in South Asians

(2)Aspirin for diabetic retinopathy

(3)WHO evaluates NICE

(4)Locoregional treatment for breast cancer

(5)Launching BMJ Learning

1November 2003

(1)Improving clinical research

(2)Practising just medicine in an unjust world

(3)BMJ Publishing Group to launch an international campaign to promote academic medicine

(4)The management of acute mania

(5)Treatment of postnatal depression

25 October 2003

(1)Health needs of women who have sex with women

(2)Britain prefers talk to action

(3)Why a special issue of the BMJ on South Asia?

(4)Topical corticosteroids in atopic dermatitis

(5)The rise of trust doctors

18 October 2003

(1)Breast feeding and obesity

(2)Intrauterine factors,adiposity, and hyperinsulinaemia

(3)Herbal medicines put into context

(4)Equality for people with disabilities in medicine

(5)When to retract?

11 October 2003

(1)Prescribing and taking medicines

(2)Taking hormone replacement therapy

(3)Is concordance the primrose path to health?

(4)Treatment of tuberculosis

(5)Directly observed treatment for tuberculosis

(6)The patients' perspective of medicines in mental illness

(7)The BMJ Careers job archive

04 October 2003

(1)Consent to using human tissue

(2)Blindness in children

(3)Treatment of postoperative nausea and vomiting

(4)Race,ehnic group, and clinical research

27 September 2003

(1)Communicating risks

(2)The role of risk communication in shared decision making

(3)Patients' understanding of risk

(4)Teaching medical students and doctors how to communicate risk

(5)Making sense of risk information on the web

20 September 2003

(1)Treating acute rheumatic fever

(2)Elucidating the pathogenesis of Schizophrenia

(3)Partner notification for the control of sexually transmitted infections

(4)Immunomodulatory drugs for psoriasis

(5)Comparing cannabis with tobacco-again

13 September 2003

(1)New deal from the World Trade Organisation

(2)What are all the things that Aspirin does?

(3)The Wanless report and public health

(4)Selfesteem and health

(5)Treatment of multiple myeloma

6 September 2003

(1)In vitro fertilisation for all?

(2)Death in heat waves

(3)Polypharmacy and comorbidity in heart failure

(4)Voice pathology in the United Kingdom

(5)Social anxiety disorder

30 August 2003

(1)Constipations and its management

(2)General practitioners with special clinical interests

(3)Treatment of lysosomal storage disorders

(4)The increasing number of older people with renal disease

23 August 2003

(1)Indigenous by definition,experience,or world view

(2)the health status of indigenous peoples and others

(3)Chaning pattern of ill-health for indigenous people

(4)Haelth benefits of swimming pools in remote Aboriginal communities

(5)Provinding health services to indigenous peoples

(6)What do symptoms mean?

16 August 2003

(1)Brain injury and heading in soccer

(2)Self-reports in research with non-English patients

(3)Anti-inflammatory drugs and Alzheimer's disease

(4)Treatment of anal fissure

(5)Treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis

9 August 2003

(1)Suspected child abuse:the potential for justice to miscarry

(2)From electronic gadgets to better health:where is the knowledge?

(3)Endocrine treatment of physiological gynaecomastia

(4)General practitioners and occupational health physicians

(5)Speak up!

2 August 2003

(1)Breast cancer in men

(2)Clinical trials for tomorrow funded by the MRC

(3)Paying for bmj.com

(4)The impact of parental psychiatric disorder on children

(5)Tuberculin testing before BCG vaccination

26 July 2003

(1)"The best places to die"

(2)Patient centered death

(3)Reforming the coroner's service

(4)Palliative care needs of minorities

(5)Helping people bereaved by suicide

19 July 2003

(1)Overconsumption of fluids by athletes

(2)Sharing patient information electronically throughout the NHS

(3)Rhabdomyolysis

(4)Acut psychiatric day hospitals

(5)Immunonutrition

12 July 2003

(1)The metabolic syndrome

(2)Sexual health

(3)Reproductive and sexual health of older women in developing countries

(4)Balanmcing benefits and harms in healthcare

5 July 2003

(1)Prehospital thrombolysis

(2)Genetic and the general practitioner

(3)Water,sanitation, and hygiene at Kyoto

(4)Managing agitation and aggression after head injury

(5)INRs and point of care testing

28 June 2003

(1)A cure for cardiovascular disease?

(2)Managing chronic pain in children and adolescents

(3)What next for human gene therapy?

(4)Persistent atrial fibrillation:rate control or rhythm control

(5)The return of Questions and answers

21 June 2003

(1)Managing pulmonary embolism

(2)Preventing HIV

(3)Electroconvulsive therapy

(4)Foundation trusts

(5)Anecdotes as evidence

14 June 2003

No Editorials this week

7 June 2003

31 May 2003

(1)No more free lunches

(2)Information from drug companies and opinion leaders

(3)Haemophilus influnenzae type B vaccine--booster campaign

(4)Human tissue engineered products--drugs or devices?

24 May 2003
Volume 326

(1)The failures of two contracts

(2)Patients and the new contracts

(3)New leader, new hope for WHO

(4)Why clinical information standards matter

17 May 2003
Volume 326

(1)Finding the age of the patient's heart

(2)Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

(3)Effect of passive smoking on health

(4)The therapeutic effects of meditation

10 May 2003
Volume 326

1)Vulvovaginal candidiasis

(2)Liver cancer in low and middle income families

(3)Safety and efficacy of combination vaccines

(4)Management of bacterial meningitis in adults

(5)No-fault compensation systems

3 May 2003
Volume 326

(1)Smoke free hospitals

(2)Comparing cannabis with tobacco

(3)People missing as a result of armed conflict

(4)Biventricular pacing for heart failure

(5)Scientific literature's open sesame?

26 April 2003
Volume 326

(1)The national service framework for children

(2)Managing Barrett's oesophagus

(3)Screening for cancer with computed tomography

(4)Faiures of the therapeutic chain as a cause of drug ineffectiveness

19 April 2003
Volume 326

(1)Severe acute respiratory syndrome revisited

(2)The surgeon as a risk factor

(3)Research in nursing,midwifery, and allied health professions

(4)The impact of antisocial life style on health

(5)Treatment of pulmonary hypertension

12 April 2003
Volume 326

(1)Fighting "terrorism" with torture

(2)Images of war and medical ethics

(3)Emergency contraception

(4)Work place bullying

(5)Hospital mortality league tables

5 April 2003
Volume 326

(1)Maintaing perioperative normorthermia

(2)Setting global health research priorities

(3)Treatment of raised intraocular pressure and prevention of glaucoma

(4)Patient privacy and confidentiality

(5)Bat rabies

29 March 2003
Volume 326

(1)Sudden acute respiratory syndrome

(2)Doctors,their wellbeing, and their stress

(3)Ethnic and sex bias in discretionary awards

(4)Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

(5)Connecting doctors, patients, and the evidence

22 March 2003
Volume 326

(1)Doctors and managers: a problem without a solution?

(2)What doctors and managers can learn from each other

(3)Doctrors in chambers

(4)Useful information about rare inherited disorders

(5)Not so benign intracranial hypertension

15 March 2003
Volume 326

(1)Efficacy of albumin in critically ill patients

(2)Achieving health for children in public care

(3)Tobbacco,coffee, and Parkinson's disease

(4)Massage treatment for back pain

(5)Fifth international congress on peer review and biomedical publication

(6)Learning from our patients and each other

8 March 2003
Volume 326

(1)Prognosis after heart transplantation

(2)The health of indigenous peoples

(3)Neurocysticercosis

(4)Moving beyond single and dual diagnosis in general practice

(5)BMJ family highlights

1 March 2003
Volume 326

(1)New contract for general practitioners

(2)Management of people who have been raped

(3)Arms sales,health, and security

(4)Mobile phones in hospitals

(5)Fetal surgery

22 February 2003
Volume 326

(1)Ottawa ankle rules for the injured ankle

(2)Should psychiatrists protect the public?

(3)Patients choosing their hospitals

(4)Fewer new drugs from the pharmaceutical industry

(5)Zinc deficiency

15 February 2003
Volume 326

(1)Congestion charges and walking classes

(2)New guidelines on the management of asthma

(3)Safety and efficacy of interventional procedures

(4)Not to be taken as directed

(5)Sudden death in the shadow of epilepsy

8 February 2003
Volume 326

(1)Child protection--lessons from Victoria Climbié

(2)Medical experts and criminal courts

(3)Thysroid function tests and hypothyroidism

(4)The prevention and treatment of jet lag

(5)Donating books and journals to less developed countries

1 February 2003
Volume 326

(1)Therapeutic thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke

(2)"Schools and hospitals" for "education and health"

(3)Old drugs for new bugs

(4)The Better Care judgment--a challenge to health care

(5)Closing the digital divide

25 January 2003
Volume 326

(1)The causes of autism spectrum disorders

(2)Governance for NHS foundation trusts

(3)Reinstutionalisation of mental health care

(4)BMJ Learning

(5)Non-invasive ventilation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

18 January 2003
Volume 326

(1)Monitoring the marketing of infant formula feeds

(2)Preventing skin cancer

(3)Levelling the playing field for regulation of nicotine

(4)Doctors and managers

(5)Preventing and treating tetanus

11 January 2003
Volume 326

(1)Drug treatment of hypertension

(2)Intimate examinations and other ethical challenges in medical education

(3)New edicts for the letter to the editor

(4)Testing new pharmaceutical products in children

(5)Racism and health

4 January 2003
Volume 326

(1)Breast self examination

(2)Using clinical databases in practice

(3)Reporting diagnostic tests

(4)Contraindications to the use of metformin

(5)Evidence based policy making