20 March 1999 (Vol 318, Issue 7186)

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Editor's Choice

Permanent revolution in primary care

BMJ 1999;318:0.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

News

Women with heart disease cautioned about HRT

BMJ 1999;318:753.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

Doctors take kidney from patient incapable of giving consent

BMJ 1999;318:753.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;318:754.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

NIH's plans for online publishing could threaten journals

BMJ 1999;318:754.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

Bristol inquiry opens

BMJ 1999;318:754.3 (Published 20 March 1999)

US passes bill protecting low income nursing home patients

BMJ 1999;318:755.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

US reports increase in liver cancer

BMJ 1999;318:755.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

Colleges issue guidelines toreduce deaths of babies

BMJ 1999;318:755.3 (Published 20 March 1999)

Congo polio immunisation campaign gets go ahead

BMJ 1999;318:756.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

Link between pollution and asthma uncovered

BMJ 1999;318:756.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

Walk-in health care

BMJ 1999;318:756.3 (Published 20 March 1999)

Vinegar and visual inspection used to detect cervical cancer

BMJ 1999;318:757.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

Brazil challenges doctors accused of torture

BMJ 1999;318:757.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

South African public sceptical about new AIDS “cure”

BMJ 1999;318:757.3 (Published 20 March 1999)

Quality street

BMJ 1999;318:758.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

Editorials

Reforming British primary care (again)

BMJ 1999;318:747 (Published 20 March 1999)

Independence days

BMJ 1999;318:748 (Published 20 March 1999)

Community development, user involvement, and primary health care

BMJ 1999;318:749 (Published 20 March 1999)

Bone marrow transplantation for autoimmune diseases

BMJ 1999;318:750 (Published 20 March 1999)

Aspirin for preventing and treating pre-eclampsia

BMJ 1999;318:751 (Published 20 March 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Performance indicators for primary care groups

BMJ 1999;318:803 (Published 20 March 1999)

Antenatal screening

BMJ 1999;318:805 (Published 20 March 1999)

Icelandic gene database will uphold patients' rights

BMJ 1999;318:806.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

Modernising mental health services

BMJ 1999;318:806.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

Maggots are useful in treating infected or necrotic wounds

BMJ 1999;318:807 (Published 20 March 1999)

Letters - continued

Prescribing of nutritional supplements is increasing in general practice

BMJ 1999;318:808.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

BMJ introduces a fast track system for papers

BMJ 1999;318:808.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

Trends in deaths from malignant neoplasia of liver are poor indicator of hepatitis C infection

BMJ 1999;318:808.3 (Published 20 March 1999)

More studies are needed before giving magnesium sulphate for pre-eclampsia

BMJ 1999;318:809.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

Breast screening

BMJ 1999;318:809.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

Postmarketing surveillance study of a non-chlorofluorocarbon inhaler

BMJ 1999;318:810 (Published 20 March 1999)

Maintenance programmes are denied to addicted prisoners in Victoria

BMJ 1999;318:811.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

Crisis in cremation

BMJ 1999;318:811.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

Publication time for letters

BMJ 1999;318:812 (Published 20 March 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;318:820 (Published 20 March 1999)

Fillers

The piano as a cause of neuroses

BMJ 1999;318:771.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

Deaf wife

BMJ 1999;318:798 (Published 20 March 1999)

A communication headache

BMJ 1999;318:802 (Published 20 March 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Congenital rubella has fallen dramatically since vaccination started

BMJ 1999;318:0.6 (Published 20 March 1999)

Urinary tract abnormalities are most associated with infections other than E coli

BMJ 1999;318:0.7 (Published 20 March 1999)

Primary care group budgets will require better information systems and collaboration

BMJ 1999;318:0.4 (Published 20 March 1999)

Activities to foster quality and accountability in primary care need to be coordinated

BMJ 1999;318:0.5 (Published 20 March 1999)

Dieting is linked to adolescent eating disorder

BMJ 1999;318:0.3 (Published 20 March 1999)

Aspirin use does not contribute to intracerebral haemorrhage

BMJ 1999;318:0.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Hereditary ovarian carcinoma

BMJ 1999;318:786 (Published 20 March 1999)

Chlamydia infection in general practice

BMJ 1999;318:790 (Published 20 March 1999)

Physiology and management of normal labour

BMJ 1999;318:793 (Published 20 March 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Four out of five Welsh health authorities in deficit

BMJ 1999;318:758.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

US blood banks to use genetic testing to reduce viral transmission

BMJ 1999;318:758.3 (Published 20 March 1999)

Papers

Risk of primary intracerebral haemorrhage associated with aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: case-control study

BMJ 1999;318:759 (Published 20 March 1999)

Onset of adolescent eating disorders: population based cohort study over 3 years

BMJ 1999;318:765 (Published 20 March 1999)

Papers - continued

Surveillance of congenital rubella in Great Britain, 1971-96

BMJ 1999;318:769 (Published 20 March 1999)

Cohort study of bacterial species causing urinary tract infection and urinary tract abnormalities in children

BMJ 1999;318:770 (Published 20 March 1999)

Severe ergotism associated with interaction between ritonavir and ergotamine

BMJ 1999;318:771.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

General practice

Unified budgets for primary care groups

BMJ 1999;318:772 (Published 20 March 1999)

Setting budgets for general practice in the new NHS

BMJ 1999;318:776 (Published 20 March 1999)

A model for clinical governance in primary care groups

BMJ 1999;318:779 (Published 20 March 1999)

Managing the future in Bradford

BMJ 1999;318:783 (Published 20 March 1999)

Education and debate

Should we fight to preserve the independent status of general practitioners?ForAgainst

BMJ 1999;318:797 (Published 20 March 1999)

Should general practitioners perform diagnostic tests on patients before prescribing antibiotics?ForAgainst

BMJ 1999;318:799 (Published 20 March 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

BMA calls for renewed action on debt reliefMedical schools must not be overcrowdedScottish GPs reach some agreement on LHCCsRefugee doctors in United Kingdom need helpBMA secures equal pay victory

BMJ 1999;318:815 (Published 20 March 1999)

MULTIMEDIA

Jackson Pollock

BMJ 1999;318:816.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

Management of Acute and Chronic Pain

BMJ 1999;318:816.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

Patch Adams

BMJ 1999;318:817.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

BMJ 1999;318:817.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

Smoking and women: beauty before age?

BMJ 1999;318:818 (Published 20 March 1999)

NETLINES

Netlines

BMJ 1999;318:817.3 (Published 20 March 1999)

Personal View

A role for advocacy in general medicine

BMJ 1999;318:819.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

Soundings

Erratum

BMJ 1999;318:819.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

Career focus

Disability assessment medicine

BMJ 1999;318:S2-7186 (Published 20 March 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3-7186 (Published 20 March 1999)

Corrections

Nicotine nasal spray with nicotine patch for smoking cessation: randomised trial with six year follow up

BMJ 1999;318:764.1 (Published 20 March 1999)

Assessment of competence to complete advance directives: validation of a patient centred approach

BMJ 1999;318:764.2 (Published 20 March 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Kamal Al-SamarraieBehjat Mukhtar AnsariThomas Leary KellyJohn Charles KnoxLiselotte (Lilo) LennhoffMargaret Mary Crawford LoudenJohn Alexander McKinnonSwapna MajumdarBrian Thomas O'ConnorNawal Kishore Prasad SinghFrederick Robert StoreWilliam Stanley Sut…

BMJ 1999;318:813 (Published 20 March 1999)