07 October 2000 (Vol 321, Issue 7265)

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Editor's Choice

The road not taken

BMJ 2000;321:0.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

The road not taken

BMJ 2000;321:0.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

News

Cancer registries fear imminent collapse

BMJ 2000;321:849.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

UK death rates from breast cancer fall by a third

BMJ 2000;321:849.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;321:850.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

UK drugs industry sets up trials register

BMJ 2000;321:850.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

Doctors doubt whether cancer targets can be met

BMJ 2000;321:850.3 (Published 7 October 2000)

Abortion pill is approved for sale in United States

BMJ 2000;321:851.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

Interferon treatment is beneficial in early multiple sclerosis

BMJ 2000;321:851.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

Flu experts warn of need for pandemic plans

BMJ 2000;321:852.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

Netherlands bans cloning of human embryos for research

BMJ 2000;321:852.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

EU aims to reduce suicides

BMJ 2000;321:852.3 (Published 7 October 2000)

Twins' lawyers may demand change of venue for operation

BMJ 2000;321:853.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

More drugs pass the NICE test

BMJ 2000;321:853.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

The gene collector

BMJ 2000;321:854.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

Cancer registries fear imminent collapse

BMJ 2000;321:854.4 (Published 7 October 2000)

Abortion pill is approved for sale in United States

BMJ 2000;321:854.6 (Published 7 October 2000)

Interferon treatment is beneficial in early multiple sclerosis

BMJ 2000;321:854.7 (Published 7 October 2000)

Netherlands bans cloning of human embryos for research

BMJ 2000;321:854.8 (Published 7 October 2000)

Editorials

Quality of websites: kitemarking the west wind

BMJ 2000;321:843 (Published 7 October 2000)

Fluoridation, fractures, and teeth

BMJ 2000;321:844 (Published 7 October 2000)

The risk of bias from omitted research

BMJ 2000;321:845 (Published 7 October 2000)

Electronics, clinicians, and the NHS

BMJ 2000;321:846 (Published 7 October 2000)

Cancer and insulin-like growth factor-I

BMJ 2000;321:847 (Published 7 October 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Health care for asylum seekers

BMJ 2000;321:893 (Published 7 October 2000)

Use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

BMJ 2000;321:894.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

The secret life of the NHS

BMJ 2000;321:894.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

Predicting left ventricular systolic dysfunction

BMJ 2000;321:895 (Published 7 October 2000)

Randomised controlled trial of chest pain units is needed

BMJ 2000;321:896.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

Societal cost-benefit analysis of teledermatology

BMJ 2000;321:896.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

Life is as much a pain as it ever was

BMJ 2000;321:897.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

Paying for the NHS

BMJ 2000;321:897.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

Minimising harm from hepatitis C virus needs better strategies

BMJ 2000;321:899.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

Combination treatment for hepatitis C is not being given

BMJ 2000;321:899.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;321:906 (Published 7 October 2000)

Fillers

“Old Man” (after Marot)

BMJ 2000;321:865.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

How to die

BMJ 2000;321:871.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

All in a day's work

BMJ 2000;321:885 (Published 7 October 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Advances in rheumatology can be integrated into routine practice

BMJ 2000;321:0.8 (Published 7 October 2000)

99% of Scottish general practices are linked to NHSnet

BMJ 2000;321:0.6 (Published 7 October 2000)

Water fluoridation reduces risk of osteoporotic fractures

BMJ 2000;321:0.4 (Published 7 October 2000)

Patients' desires for participation in decision making vary

BMJ 2000;321:0.5 (Published 7 October 2000)

Fluoridation reduces caries but increases mottled teeth

BMJ 2000;321:0.3 (Published 7 October 2000)

Prescription chart improves oxygen prescribing

BMJ 2000;321:0.7 (Published 7 October 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Recent advances: Rheumatology

BMJ 2000;321:882 (Published 7 October 2000)

Molecular basis for risk factors

BMJ 2000;321:886 (Published 7 October 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

New gene implicated in type 2 diabetes

BMJ 2000;321:854.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

Japan's medical insurance system is on verge of bankruptcy

BMJ 2000;321:854.3 (Published 7 October 2000)

Statement by the U.K. Association of Cancer Registries (UKACR) on the General Medical Council (GMC) Guidance on Confidentiality.

BMJ 2000;321:854.5 (Published 7 October 2000)

Papers

Systematic review of water fluoridation

BMJ 2000;321:855 (Published 7 October 2000)

Community water fluoridation, bone mineral density, and fractures: prospective study of effects in older women

BMJ 2000;321:860 (Published 7 October 2000)

Audit of oxygen prescribing before and after the introduction of a prescription chart

BMJ 2000;321:864 (Published 7 October 2000)

Refused and granted requests for euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands: interview study with structured questionnaire

BMJ 2000;321:865.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

General practice

Do patients wish to be involved in decision making in the consultation? A cross sectional survey with video vignettes

BMJ 2000;321:867 (Published 7 October 2000)

Knowledge and information for clinical governance

BMJ 2000;321:871.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

Information in practice

Back to basics on NHS networking

BMJ 2000;321:875 (Published 7 October 2000)

NHSnet in Scottish primary care: lessons for the future

BMJ 2000;321:878 (Published 7 October 2000)

Education and debate

Data protection legislation: interpretation and barriers to research

BMJ 2000;321:890 (Published 7 October 2000)

Books

Textbook of Rehabilitation Medicine

BMJ 2000;321:902.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

Manufacturing Victims: What The Psychology Industry Is Doing To People

BMJ 2000;321:902.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

Slide Atlas of Diabetes: Lecture Notes

BMJ 2000;321:903.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

ART

Paradise Now: picturing the genetic revolution

BMJ 2000;321:903.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

TV

Uncomfortable viewing

BMJ 2000;321:904.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Water fluoridation

BMJ 2000;321:904.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

Personal View

Baubles are a waste of time

BMJ 2000;321:905.1 (Published 7 October 2000)

Soundings

My hero

BMJ 2000;321:905.2 (Published 7 October 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Dorothy Agnes Mary CarrHarry O'FlanaganNorman Middleton JamesJohn KeelingSamuel Maver Gunn McGuffieRobert Garden MurrayThomas Arthur Gainsford ReedDavid Linford Parry ReesJames Oswald RobinsonEdith Schulman

BMJ 2000;321:900 (Published 7 October 2000)