20 March 1999 (Vol 318, Issue 7186)

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

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

Papers - continued

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

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

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

Obituary