08 July 2000 (Vol 321, Issue 7253)

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Editor's Choice

A good week for drugs

BMJ 2000;321:0.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

A good week for drugs

BMJ 2000;321:0.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

News

UN says up to half the teenagers in Africa will die of AIDS

BMJ 2000;321:67.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

Mbeki dismisses “Durban declaration”

BMJ 2000;321:67.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

Whistleblower inquiry clears British hospital

BMJ 2000;321:68.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

Surgeon vows to fight injunction

BMJ 2000;321:68.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;321:68.3 (Published 8 July 2000)

BMA's annual meeting expresses “no confidence” in GMC

BMJ 2000;321:69.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

Japan plans to monitor medical mishaps

BMJ 2000;321:69.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

New York votes to post doctors' details on net

BMJ 2000;321:69.3 (Published 8 July 2000)

Minocycline slows progress of Huntington's disease in mice

BMJ 2000;321:70.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

US court refutes Nebraska's antiabortion law

BMJ 2000;321:70.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

France bans morning after pill from schools

BMJ 2000;321:70.3 (Published 8 July 2000)

US doctors win round in battle for right to negotiate with HMOs

BMJ 2000;321:71.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

Fraud study concludes that self regulation has failed

BMJ 2000;321:71.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

Slovak president's fight for life raises health care fears

BMJ 2000;321:71.3 (Published 8 July 2000)

Hospital doctors face rising threat of suspension

BMJ 2000;321:72.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

Slovak president's fight for life raises health care fears

BMJ 2000;321:72.9 (Published 8 July 2000)

Editorials

Should GMC leaders be put to the sword?

BMJ 2000;321:61 (Published 8 July 2000)

Treatment of stable angina

BMJ 2000;321:62 (Published 8 July 2000)

A “common sense revolution” for UK health care?

BMJ 2000;321:63 (Published 8 July 2000)

Intranasal midazolam for febrile seizures

BMJ 2000;321:64 (Published 8 July 2000)

Bupropion: a new treatment for smokers

BMJ 2000;321:65 (Published 8 July 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Concerns about immunisation

BMJ 2000;321:108 (Published 8 July 2000)

Hyperbaric oxygen in carbon monoxide poisoning

BMJ 2000;321:109 (Published 8 July 2000)

Investigations of doctors by General Medical Council

BMJ 2000;321:111.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

Letters - continued

Risk assessment of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in primary care

BMJ 2000;321:111.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

Ethnic minorities have specific needs with regard to cardiovascular risk

BMJ 2000;321:112.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

Writing a book—a personal experience

BMJ 2000;321:112.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

Career development in public health

BMJ 2000;321:112.3 (Published 8 July 2000)

Allocating prescribing budgets

BMJ 2000;321:113 (Published 8 July 2000)

Lord, protect me from my friends

BMJ 2000;321:114.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

Sexual health through leadership and “sanuk” in Thailand

BMJ 2000;321:114.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;321:124 (Published 8 July 2000)

Fillers

Tolerating tolerability

BMJ 2000;321:77 (Published 8 July 2000)

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 2000;321:82.4 (Published 8 July 2000)

Word association: hepatitis, eh?

BMJ 2000;321:87.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

Up close and personal

BMJ 2000;321:92 (Published 8 July 2000)

Death of Professor Thomas Jones

BMJ 2000;321:97.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Humanitarian aid needs a better evidence base

BMJ 2000;321:0.7 (Published 8 July 2000)

The courts will challenge medical decisions that are not made fairly

BMJ 2000;321:0.8 (Published 8 July 2000)

Drug use and hepatitis are endemic in Irish prisons

BMJ 2000;321:0.4 (Published 8 July 2000)

Prevalence of atopic asthma in adults has increased

BMJ 2000;321:0.6 (Published 8 July 2000)

Intranasal midazolam effectively treats febrile seizures in children

BMJ 2000;321:0.5 (Published 8 July 2000)

Angioplasty may be no better than medical treatment for non-acute heart disease

BMJ 2000;321:0.3 (Published 8 July 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Tolerance and autoimmunity

BMJ 2000;321:93 (Published 8 July 2000)

Oral cancer

BMJ 2000;321:97.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

UN predicts half the teenagers in Africa will die of AIDS

BMJ 2000;321:72.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

Drug companies' leaflets dubbed “confusing”

BMJ 2000;321:72.3 (Published 8 July 2000)

Tories spell out plans for NHS

BMJ 2000;321:72.4 (Published 8 July 2000)

Fraud investigation concludes that self regulation has failed

BMJ 2000;321:72.5 (Published 8 July 2000)

BMA's annual meeting expresses “no confidence” in GMC

BMJ 2000;321:72.6 (Published 8 July 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web] - continued

Japan's plan to monitor medical mishaps means alerting police

BMJ 2000;321:72.7 (Published 8 July 2000)

College says there is no place for “ageism” in care of elderly

BMJ 2000;321:72.8 (Published 8 July 2000)

US doctors win first round in battle for right to negotiate with HMOs

BMJ 2000;321:72.10 (Published 8 July 2000)

Papers

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty versus medical treatment for non-acute coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2000;321:73 (Published 8 July 2000)

Prevalence of antibodies to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV and risk factors in Irish prisoners: results of a national cross sectional survey

BMJ 2000;321:78 (Published 8 July 2000)

Comparison of intranasal midazolam with intravenous diazepam for treating febrile seizures in children: prospective randomised study

BMJ 2000;321:83 (Published 8 July 2000)

Orlistat associated with hypertension

BMJ 2000;321:87.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

General practice

Intergenerational 20 year trends in the prevalence of asthma and hay fever in adults: the Midspan family study surveys of parents and offspring

BMJ 2000;321:88 (Published 8 July 2000)

Education and debate

Public health and humanitarian interventions: developing the evidence base

BMJ 2000;321:101 (Published 8 July 2000)

Tragic choices and the role of administrative law

BMJ 2000;321:105 (Published 8 July 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

The BMA's annual representative meeting

BMJ 2000;321:116 (Published 8 July 2000)

Book

Doctors Afield

BMJ 2000;321:121.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

ART

The sweetness of life

BMJ 2000;321:121.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

PRESS

All gloss and noise

BMJ 2000;321:122.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Angioplasty

BMJ 2000;321:122.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

Personal View

Helping the General Medical Council

BMJ 2000;321:123.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

Soundings

Beware cloth devils

BMJ 2000;321:123.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

Corrections

Isolated systolic hypertension: a radical rethink

BMJ 2000;321:66 (Published 8 July 2000)

Smoking and dementia in male British doctors: prospective study

BMJ 2000;321:82.1 (Published 8 July 2000)

Editor's choice

BMJ 2000;321:82.2 (Published 8 July 2000)

Medicine and the media

BMJ 2000;321:82.3 (Published 8 July 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Laman Amin-ZakiMurray Thomson GreigHorace HartillDorothy Avril Jean Oatway (née Hamilton)

BMJ 2000;321:115 (Published 8 July 2000)