Volume 324;1

5 January 2002

(1)Income inequality and population health

(2)Comparing percutaneous tracheostomy with open surgical tracheostomy

(3)Screening for inherited metabolic disease in new born infants using tandem mass spectrometry

(4)The BMJ:moving on

12 January 2002

(1)Gathering intelligence on antiplatelet drugs:the view from 30,000 feet

(2)Treating extremely low birth weight infants with prophylactic indomethacin

(3)Bipolar affetctive disorder-left out in the cold

(4)Clinical Networks

(5)Helping patients in hospital to quit smoking

19 January 2002

(1)Obstetric cholestasis

(2)Caring for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome

(3)Learning in practice:a new section in the BMJ

(4)Researching the outcomes of educational interventions:a matter of design

(5)oh,NHS thou art sick

26 January 2002

(1)AIDS and global justice

(2)Can India avoid being devastated by HIV?

(3)How men's power over women fuels the HIV epidemic

(4)Governments as facilitators or obstacles in the HIV epidemic

(5)Mass orphanhood in the ear of HIV/AIDS

2 February 2002

(1)Winter vomiting

(2)Hyperprolactinaemia caused by antpsychotic drugs

(3)Long waiting lists in hospitals

(4)Preventing domestic violence

9 February 2002

(1)Medicine in the age of global interdependence

(2)Comlex political emergencies

(3)Treating tumour necrosis with factor alpha blockade

(4)Quality of economic evaluations in healthcare

(5)A plea to authors:ensure your studies comply with guidelines

23 February 2002

(1)Recombinant human parathyroid hormone

(2)Guidelines for managing community acquired pneumonia in adults

(3)Academic medicine;a faltering engine

(4)Yellow fever vaccine

(5)Doctors working in prisons

2 March 2002

(1)The misdiagnosis of epilepsy

(2)Surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy

(3)The discomfort of patient power

(4)Randomised controlled trials for homeopathy

(5)Brain drain and health professionals

9 March 2002

(1)From patients to end users

(2)Against internet exceptionalism

(3)The quality of health information on the internet

(4)NHS Direct audited

(5)Three new initiatives invloving bmj.com

16 March 2002

(1)Shame:the elephant in the room

(2)Declining altruism in medicine

(3)Epidemic of cardiovascular disease in South Asians

(4)Time to abandon the "tendinitis" myth

(5)Deprofessionalising doctors?

23 March 2002

(1)Preventing stroke

(2)Africa can solve its own health problems

(3)New treatments for varicose veins

(4)Modern worries,new technology, and medicine

(5)Air pollution and short term mortality

30 March 2002

(1)Initial antiretroviral regimens

(2)Long case versus objective structured clinical examinations

(3)Falling neonatal autopsy rates

(4)Protein conjugate penumococcal vaccines

(5)Global nursing shortages

06 April 2002

(1)Areca nut use:an independent risk factor for oral cancer

(2)Murder by fake drugs

(3)Management of co-infection with HIV and TB

(4)Epidemiology of HIV in China

13 April 2002

(1)Too much medicine?

(2)Health:perception versus observation

(3)The medicalisation of old age

(4)Genetics and medicalisation

(5)Medicalisation,limits to medicine,or never enough money to go around?

(6)Medicalisation:peering from inside medicine

20 April 2002

(1)Driving and arrhythmias

(2)Promoting evidence based practice in maternal care

(3)Doctors' knowldge about evidence based medicine terminology

(4)Using drugs safely

(5)Left and right sided large bowel cancer

27 April 2002

(1)Gold for the NHS

(2)Managing differentiated thyroid cancer

(3)Lithium in bipolar mood disorder

(4)Confronting rhe small arms pandemic

(5)Health care and the European Union

4 May 2002

(1)Treatment options for benign prostate hyperplasia

(2)A fresh new contract for general practitioners

(3)Childhood drowning is a global concern

(4)Genomics and global health

(5)Paediatric Asthma a new virtual journal

Volume 324

11 May 2002

(1)War on the roads

(2)Ensuring the safety of school age passengers

(3)Protecting pedestrians

(4)A new deal for road crash victims

(5)Flexible training under the new deal

(6)Discrimination in medicine

Volume 324

18 May 2002

(1)Emergency vascular surgery

(2)Imroving the response rate to questionnaires

(3)Implications of the EU directive on clinical trials for emergency medicine

(4)Selection of medical students

(5)Twenty thousand conversations

Volume 324

25 May 2002

(1)Postpartum urinary incontinence

(2)Panayiotopoulos syndrome

(3)Regulating cosmetic surgery

(4)Using telephones in primary care

(5)Healthcare for older people

Volume 324

1 June 2002

(1)Are selective COX2 inhibitors superior to tradition non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs?

(2)Potentional alternatives to COX2 inhibitors

(3)Off label prescribing in children

(4)Quality care at the end of life

Volume 324

8 June 2002

(1)Managing antibiotic associated diarrhoea

(2)the power of the pres in smokers' attempts to quit

(3)Intermediate care

(4)Dealying folic acid fortification of flour

(5)Physicians' and patients' choices in evidence based practice

Volume 324

15 June 2002

(1)Thinking the unthinkable!

(2)Oxygen therapy in acute medical care

(3)Adoption by lesbian couples

(4)Forensic pathology services

(5)Our favourite drug

Volume 324

22 June 2002

(1)Defining neurodegenerative diseases

(2)Treating neurodegenerative diseases

(3)Neurodegeneration in the age of molecular biology

(4)The wall between neurology and psychiatry

(5)Demystifying neurology

(6)Iatrogenic stigma of mental illness

Volume 324

29 June 2002

(1)New treatments for atopic dermatitis

(2)Long term care for older people

(3)Psychological medicine

(4)Whooping cough--a continuing problem

Volume 325

6 July 2002

(1)Prevention of age related macular degeneration

(2)Detaining dangerous people with mental disorders

(3)Causes of failure of eradication of Helicobacter pylori

Volume 325

13 July 2002

(1)Macroeconomics and health

(2)A time for global health

(3)A learning world for the Global Fund

(4)Primary prevention of coronary heart disease

(5)Growth hormone in growth hormone deficiency

(6)Diabetic nephropathy

Volume 325

20 July 2002

(1)Hormone replacement therapy

(2)An ethically defensible market in organs

(3)Magnetic resonance imaging of the knee

(4)Chest pain units

(5)Health risks in babies born after assisted reproduction

Volume 325

27 July 2002

(1)Daily doses of multivitamin tablets

(2)Banning smoking in the workplace

(3)Withdrawal of life sustaining treatment

(4)The world's most neglected diseases

(5)Performance league tables

Volume 325

3 August 2002

(1)Depression in children

(2)Mr Milburn's good hospital guide

(3)Continuous combined hormone replacement therapy

(4)Prevention and cure of type 2 diabetes

(5)Counting the cost of medical negligence

Volume 325

10 August 2002

(1)Predicting spontaneous preterm birth

(2)Recruiting overseas doctors

(3)Stroke units

(4)Polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccines

(5)Extending choice in the NHS

Volume 325

17 August 2002

(1)New outbreak of legionnaire's disease in the United Kingdom

(2)Bone marrow transplants

(3)The NHS,the private sector, and the virtual asylum

(4)Physical activity for preventing strokes

(5)Submitting articles to the BMJ via the web

Volume 325

24 August 2002

(1)World summit on sustainable development

(2)Making blood safer

(3)Child labour

(4)Targeting people with pre-diabetes

(5)The BMJ through American eyes

Volume 325

31 August 2002

(1)Reducing risk of injury due to exercise

(2)Treatment of non-small cell lung cancer

(3)Staffing by numbers in the NHS

(4)Treating head injuries

(5)Making research papers in the BMJ more accessible

Volume 325
7 September 2002

(1)Outcome after cardiac arrest outside hospital

(2)Oral contraceptives,venous thromboembolism,and the courts

(3)Managing acute appendicitis

(4)NHS foundation trusts

(5)Violence in society

Volume 325
14 September 2002

(1)Alosetron for irritable bowel syndrome

(2)When medical students go off the rails

(3)Acute compartment syndrome of the leg

(4)Patient education programmes for adults with rheumatoid arthritis

(5)Placebos and standardising new surgical techniques

Volume 325 
21 September 2002

(1)Efficacy and safety of COX 2 inhibitors

(2)The global response to mental illness

(3)Preventing and treating eclapmptic seizures

(4)Average length of stay,delayed discharge,and hospital congestion

(5)Babywalkers

Volume 325
28 September 2002

1)What's a good doctor, and how can you make one?

(2)Patients' views of the good doctor

(3)How can good performance among doctors be maintained?

(4)Putting imrovement at the heart of healthcare

(5)Communications and emotions

Volume 325
5 October 2002

(1)Prostate specific antigen testing for prostate cancer

(2)Treating violence as a public health problem

(3)Bioweapons

(4)Population strategies to prevent obesity

(5)Decision time on consultants' contract

Volume 325
12 October 2002

(1)Surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism

(2)Medical school applications--a critical situation

(3)Volume of procedures and outcome of treatments

(4)Urinary stress incontinence

(5)Your career:planning for the unexpected

Volume 325
19 October 2002

(1)Diagnosis of infective endocarditis

(2)The world's first tobacco control treaty

(3)Electronic tagging of people with dementia who wander

(4)The I in the new CHAI

(5)Electronic books

Volume 325
26 October 2002

(1)Care for chronic diseases

(2)Managing chronic diseases in less developed countries

(3)Palliative care for heart failure

(4)Complications of diabetes in elderly people

(5)Systolic blood pressure

Volume 325
2 November 2002

(1)Smoke detectors and house fires

(2)Treating acute gouty arthritis with selective COX 2 inhibitors

(3)Mattresses,microenvironments, and multivariate analyses

(4)A POEM a week for the BMJ

(5)A theme issue for medics and increasingly health informed public

Volume 325
 9 November 2002

(1)Take back your mink,take back your pearls

(2)Treatments for sleep problems on elderly people

(3)Primary prevention of sudden cardiac death using implantable cardioverter defibrillators

(4)Biphosphanates as adjuvent treatment for breast cancer

Volume 325
16 November 2002

(1)Screening men for aortic aneurysm

(2)New BMJ policy on economic evaluations

(3)Improving iron status in children in poor enviroments

(4)Suicide after parasuicide

(5)Personal medical services

(6)Infection as a cause of multiple sclerosis

21/28 December 2002

(1)How political a general medical journals be?

(2)Spend(slightly)less on health and more on the arts

(3)Time to move beyond the time-body split

(4)Sprituality and clinical care

(5)The joy of banning

(6)Data dredging,bias, or confounding