Diabetes is not as fatal as coronary heart disease [Full text]

	Richer women have caesarean sections [Full text]

	In Latin America 90% of women have an episiotomy [Full text]

	Basic training in cognitive behaviour therapy is not effective [Full text]

	Australian GPs overestimate their knowledge of evidence based concepts [Full text]

	Academic record predicts success at medical school [Full text]

	Lack of acute beds overcrowds emergency departments [Full text]

	Regulation in the NHS: is it good news? [Full text]

	When should transplants not be performed? [Full text]

Editorials

	Driving and arrhythmias
	Helen Binns, John Camm
	BMJ  2002;324:927-928, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.927 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Promoting evidence based practice in maternal care
	Ana Langer, Jos Villar
	BMJ  2002;324:928-929, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.928 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors' knowledge about evidence based medicine terminology
	James D Woodcock, Sarah Greenley, Stuart Barton
	BMJ  2002;324:929-930, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.929 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Using drugs safely
	Simon Maxwell, Tom Walley, Robin E Ferner
	BMJ  2002;324:930-931, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.930 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Left and right sided large bowel cancer
	Susan Richman, Julian Adlard
	BMJ  2002;324:931-932, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.931 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	"Unacceptable" errors found in breast screening service
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2002;324:933, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.933 [Full text] [PDF]

	The metatarsal finds stardom at last
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2002;324:933, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.933/a [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2002;324:934, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.934 [Full text] [PDF]

	Single flexible sigmoidoscopy screening could help prevent colorectal cancer
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2002;324:934, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.934/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Smoker wins £250000 from BAT
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2002;324:934, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.934/b [Full text] [PDF]

	Labour and Conservatives draw up battle lines on NHS
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2002;324:935, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.935 [Full text] [PDF]

	Serious Fraud Office swoops on drug companies
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:935, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.935/a [Full text] [PDF]

	World Medical Association condemns harassment of health workers in West Bank and Gaza
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2002;324:937, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.937/c [Full text] [PDF]

	UK government must stop making heroic promises, report says
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2002;324:938, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.938 [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Study adds to evidence that statins reduce risk of Alzheimer’s disease
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2002;324:936, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.936 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Consultants need flexibility in their careers
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;324:936, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.936/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Eradication of polio threatened by $300m funding shortfall
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2002;324:936, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.936/b [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	GMC decides not to proceed with case against Craft
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2002;324:936, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.936/c [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	FDA halts sales of nicotine lollipops
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2002;324:936, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.936/d [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Australia’s plan to reduce drug spending attacked by doctors
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2002;324:937, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.937 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	NHS must provide bupropion for smokers wanting to quit, NICE says
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2002;324:937, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.937/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	International trade rules "rigged in favour of the rich," Oxfam says
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2002;324:937, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.937/b [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Dr Wouter Basson cleared of murder of apartheid opponents
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2002;324:938, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.938/a [Full text]

	Drugs agency reminds companies of duty to report side effects
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2002;324:938, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.938/b [Full text]

	Delay in diagnosis of breast cancer after screening is associated with bigger tumours
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2002;324:938, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.938/c [Full text]

Papers

	Comparison of cardiovascular risk between patients with type 2 diabetes and those who had had a myocardial infarction: cross sectional and cohort studies
	Josie M M Evans, Jixian Wang, Andrew D Morris
	BMJ  2002;324:939, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.939 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Consumer demand for caesarean sections in Brazil: informed decision making, patient choice, or social inequality? A population based birth cohort study linking ethnographic and epidemiological methods
	Dominique P Béhague, Cesar G Victora, Fernando C Barros
	BMJ  2002;324:942, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.942 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Episiotomy rates in primiparous women in Latin America: hospital based descriptive study
	Fernando Althabe, José M Belizán, Eduardo Bergel
	BMJ  2002;324:945-946, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.945 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Primary care

	Effectiveness of teaching general practitioners skills in brief cognitive behaviour therapy to treat patients with depression: randomised controlled trial
	Michael King, Oliver Davidson, Fiona Taylor, Andrew Haines, Deborah Sharp, Rebecca Turner
	BMJ  2002;324:947, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.947 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	General practitioners' self ratings of skills in evidence based medicine: validation study
	Jane M Young, Paul Glasziou, Jeanette E Ward
	BMJ  2002;324:950-951, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.950 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Box and table]

Learning in practice

	Factors associated with success in medical school: systematic review of the literature
	Eamonn Ferguson, David James, Laura Madeley
	BMJ  2002;324:952-957, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.952 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References list and modelling explanation]

Clinical review

	Recent developments: Emergency medicine
	Daniel M Fatovich
	BMJ  2002;324:958-962, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.958 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Acute myocardial infarctionPart II
	June Edhouse, William J Brady, Francis Morris
	BMJ  2002;324:963-966, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.963 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Roots
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2002;324:985, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.985/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	It can happen to anyone
	BMJ  2002;324:985, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.985 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The rise of regulation in the NHS
	Kieran Walshe
	BMJ  2002;324:967-970, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.967 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A tale of two novel transplants not done: the ethics of limb allografts
	David Benatar, Don A Hudson
	BMJ  2002;324:971-973, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.971 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Patients' denial of disease may pose difficulty for achieving informed consent
	A T Gavin, D Fitzpatrick, R J Middleton, M P Coleman
	BMJ  2002;324:974, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.974 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunizations
	Gill Walt, Ruairi Brugha, Mary Starling, R K Ojha, Jacob Abraham, Meenakshi Khosla, Jacob M Puliyel
	BMJ  2002;324:974, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.974/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fifth revision of Declaration of Helsinki
	J M Bland, David Kerr
	BMJ  2002;324:975, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.975 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bipolar affective disorder
	Thomas J P Verberne, Richard Morriss
	BMJ  2002;324:976, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.976 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	First episode psychosis
	Andrew Sandor, Ken Courtenay
	BMJ  2002;324:976, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.976/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for donor babies carries some harm
	Sue Turner
	BMJ  2002;324:976, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.976/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rehabilitation services remain important in multiple sclerosis
	Richard Richards
	BMJ  2002;324:977, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.977 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Postoperative chemoradiotherapy helps in gastric adenocarcinoma
	Kenneth S Wilson
	BMJ  2002;324:977, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.977/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endoscopy is useful during percutaneous tracheostomy
	Paul Jefferson, David R Ball
	BMJ  2002;324:977, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.977/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Income inequality and population health
	Richard Wilkinson, Stephen Bezruchka
	BMJ  2002;324:978, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.978 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	If only lottery winnings were randomly assigned
	Ian Walker
	BMJ  2002;324:979, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.979 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgeons should beware of plans to print individual performance
	Nicholas Pace
	BMJ  2002;324:979, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.979/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Open letter to the National Blood Service
	Arabella Melville
	BMJ  2002;324:979, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.979/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	David Ernest Bolt
	Tony Grabham
	BMJ  2002;324:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.980 [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David Bainton
	Iain Chalmers
	BMJ  2002;324:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.980/a [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ellis Baker
	J R T Greene, S Betmouni
	BMJ  2002;324:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.980/b [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alastair Batchelor
	Ann Sutherland, Connie Howie, Keith Dodd
	BMJ  2002;324:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.980/c [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	William Donald McNaul
	John Alexander
	BMJ  2002;324:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.980/d [Full text]

	Jim McSherry
	Harry Gray
	BMJ  2002;324:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.980/e [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Thomas James Kitson Merritt
	John Howells
	BMJ  2002;324:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.980/f [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alexander James Mutch
	Helen Mutch, Susan Mutch
	BMJ  2002;324:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.980/g [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Geoffrey Robert Peberdy
	Kurt Schapira
	BMJ  2002;324:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.980/h [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter David Phelps
	Susan Phelps
	BMJ  2002;324:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.980/i [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2002;324:986, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.986 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Advertising
	BMJ  2002;324:945, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.945/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word: Round the back
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2002;324:957, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.957 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A case of mistaken muscles
	Hashim Uddin Ahmed, Sarah Ali
	BMJ  2002;324:962, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.962 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: As in a mirror
	Kirsten Guest
	BMJ  2002;324:966, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.966 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New manuscript submission system: fast track papers only
	BMJ  2002;324:971, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.971/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Seeing properly
	BMJ  2002;324:971, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.971/b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Dorothy Wright (née Senior)
	BMJ  2002;324:981, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.981 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Thinking about Patients
	Jeremy Playfer
	BMJ  2002;324:982, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.982 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Oxymorons: The Myth of a US Health Care System
	David Woods
	BMJ  2002;324:982, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.982/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930
	Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2002;324:983, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.983 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: Why scare stories are good for the NHS
	Fay Weldon
	BMJ  2002;324:984, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.984 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Least worst solutions
	BMJ  2002;324, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.0/i [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Caesarean sections
	Alex Vass
	BMJ  2002;324:983, doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7343.983/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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