16 December 2000 (Vol 321, Issue 7275)

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Editor's Choice

Getting closer to patients and their families

BMJ 2000;321:0.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

Getting closer to patients and their families

BMJ 2000;321:0.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

News

Plans for tackling research fraud may not go far enough

BMJ 2000;321:1487.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

University must tell patients that they were research “guinea pigs”

BMJ 2000;321:1487.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;321:1488.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

Public's satisfaction with the NHS declines

BMJ 2000;321:1488.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

Gut cells engineered to produce insulin

BMJ 2000;321:1488.3 (Published 16 December 2000)

Trusts must use, not just collect, clinical data

BMJ 2000;321:1489.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

Early x ray for low back pain confers little benefit

BMJ 2000;321:1489.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

US doctors consider access to health care for all

BMJ 2000;321:1491.4 (Published 16 December 2000)

Untying the strings

BMJ 2000;321:1492.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

Editorials

Using injury data for violence prevention

BMJ 2000;321:1481 (Published 16 December 2000)

Self management in asthma care

BMJ 2000;321:1482 (Published 16 December 2000)

Screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia

BMJ 2000;321:1483 (Published 16 December 2000)

Emerging arboviral encephalitis

BMJ 2000;321:1484 (Published 16 December 2000)

Research misconduct: Britain's failure to act

BMJ 2000;321:1485 (Published 16 December 2000)

Managing chronic disease—round 2

BMJ 2000;321:1486 (Published 16 December 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Referral and diagnostic process in suspected colorectal cancer needs to be improved to achieve two week target

BMJ 2000;321:1527.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

Effect of screening programme on mortality from breast cancer

BMJ 2000;321:1527.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

Pitfalls of pharmacoepidemiology

BMJ 2000;321:1528 (Published 16 December 2000)

Primary care is natural place for clinical research and practice

BMJ 2000;321:1529.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

Giving medicine a fair trial

BMJ 2000;321:1529.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

Increased high risk sexual behaviour in homosexual men

BMJ 2000;321:1531 (Published 16 December 2000)

Income inequality and mortality in Canada and the United States

BMJ 2000;321:1532 (Published 16 December 2000)

Letters - continued

Could fewer islet cells be transplanted in type 1 diabetes?

BMJ 2000;321:1534.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

In praise of mercury sphygmomanometers

BMJ 2000;321:1534.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

Clinical Review

Menopausal symptoms

BMJ 2000;321:1516 (Published 16 December 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;321:1540 (Published 16 December 2000)

Fillers

Choosing a collaborator

BMJ 2000;321:1506.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

Endpiece

BMJ 2000;321:1506.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

Always double check

BMJ 2000;321:1510 (Published 16 December 2000)

Much ado about a monument

BMJ 2000;321:1519.4 (Published 16 December 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Health funding policies affect Chilean caesarean section rates

BMJ 2000;321:0.5 (Published 16 December 2000)

Having relatives present at brain stem testing may be helpful to them

BMJ 2000;321:0.6 (Published 16 December 2000)

Neuraxial blockade reduces major postoperative complications

BMJ 2000;321:0.3 (Published 16 December 2000)

Screening relatives for familial hypercholesterolaemia can detect new patients

BMJ 2000;321:0.4 (Published 16 December 2000)

Patients, GPs, and nurses dislike self management plans for asthma

BMJ 2000;321:0.7 (Published 16 December 2000)

Quality of web based information on depression is poor

BMJ 2000;321:0.8 (Published 16 December 2000)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Sanctions against Iraq “double” child mortality

BMJ 2000;321:1490.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

Patients will consult doctors through a TV screen in 2020

BMJ 2000;321:1490.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

Calcium antagonists not best for first line therapy for hypertension

BMJ 2000;321:1490.3 (Published 16 December 2000)

Doctor who revealed patient details cleared by GMC

BMJ 2000;321:1490.4 (Published 16 December 2000)

Unicef report calls for children to move to the top of the health agenda

BMJ 2000;321:1490.5 (Published 16 December 2000)

Guide to ethics of treating children published

BMJ 2000;321:1491.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

Cloned chickens to help fight cancer

BMJ 2000;321:1491.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

Patient dies of alternative cancer remedy

BMJ 2000;321:1491.3 (Published 16 December 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

University must tell patients that they were research “guinea pigs”

BMJ 2000;321:1492.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

Welsh children's commissioner will have powers over hospitals

BMJ 2000;321:1492.3 (Published 16 December 2000)

Papers

Reduction of postoperative mortality and morbidity with epidural or spinal anaesthesia: results from overview of randomised trials

BMJ 2000;321:1493 (Published 16 December 2000)

Outcome of case finding among relatives of patients with known heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia

BMJ 2000;321:1497 (Published 16 December 2000)

Relation between private health insurance and high rates of caesarean section in Chile: qualitative and quantitative study

BMJ 2000;321:1501 (Published 16 December 2000)

Presence of relatives during testing for brain stem death: questionnaire study

BMJ 2000;321:1505 (Published 16 December 2000)

General practice

Qualitative study of views of health professionals and patients on guided self management plans for asthma

BMJ 2000;321:1507 (Published 16 December 2000)

Information in practice

Quality of web based information on treatment of depression: cross sectional survey

BMJ 2000;321:1511 (Published 16 December 2000)

Education and debate

Doctors should advise adolescents to abstain from sexForAgainst

BMJ 2000;321:1520 (Published 16 December 2000)

An integrated national pharmaceutical policy for the United Kingdom?

BMJ 2000;321:1523 (Published 16 December 2000)

CD

StatsDirect—Statistical Software for Medical Research in the 21st Century

BMJ 2000;321:1536.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

Books

From Chaos to Coercion: Detention and the Control of Tuberculosis

BMJ 2000;321:1536.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

Agenda: Ecstasy; Agenda: Heroin; Agenda: Cocaine

BMJ 2000;321:1537.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal Hallucinations

BMJ 2000;321:1537.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

PRESS

Meningitis: the making of a “scandal”

BMJ 2000;321:1538.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Abstinence

BMJ 2000;321:1538.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

Personal View

Christmas Day in London: darling, I'm pregnant

BMJ 2000;321:1539.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

Soundings

The empty chair

BMJ 2000;321:1539.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

Corrections

Use of lipid lowering drugs for primary prevention of coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of randomised trials

BMJ 2000;321:1519.1 (Published 16 December 2000)

Another look at visual standards and driving

BMJ 2000;321:1519.2 (Published 16 December 2000)

Identifying patients with ischaemic heart disease in general practice: cross sectional study of paper and computerised medical records

BMJ 2000;321:1519.3 (Published 16 December 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

David DangerfieldFrancis Russell DicksonTrevor Charles GipsonAnne Ethel McCandless

BMJ 2000;321:1535 (Published 16 December 2000)