06 January 2001 (Vol 322, Issue 7277)

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This Week In the BMJ

UK antenatal units lack clear policies on screening

BMJ 2001;322:0.7 (Published 6 January 2001)

More could be done to manage women with a family history of breast cancer in primary care

BMJ 2001;322:0.8 (Published 6 January 2001)

HbA1c concentration predicts mortality in whole population

BMJ 2001;322:0.4 (Published 6 January 2001)

Lisinopril is effective in preventing migraine

BMJ 2001;322:0.6 (Published 6 January 2001)

Cholesterol reduction does not affect non-illness mortality

BMJ 2001;322:0.3 (Published 6 January 2001)

Increase in overweight in children has now been quantified

BMJ 2001;322:0.5 (Published 6 January 2001)

Editorials

PubMed Central: creating an Aladdin's cave of ideas

BMJ 2001;322:1 (Published 6 January 2001)

A new mental health (and public protection) act

BMJ 2001;322:2 (Published 6 January 2001)

The renaissance of C reactive protein

BMJ 2001;322:4 (Published 6 January 2001)

”Normal” blood glucose and coronary risk

BMJ 2001;322:5 (Published 6 January 2001)

Letters

This week's Letters section

We may be in danger of bribing volunteers

BMJ 2001;322:45.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

More on BMA's approval of acupuncture

BMJ 2001;322:45.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

Avoidance of ingestion of anti-inflammatory drugs in dyspepsia is confounding variable

BMJ 2001;322:46.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

Risk of torsades de pointes with non-cardiac drugs

BMJ 2001;322:46.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

Outpatient hysteroscopy versus day case hysteroscopy

BMJ 2001;322:47 (Published 6 January 2001)

Pharmacological prevention of acute mountain sickness

BMJ 2001;322:48 (Published 6 January 2001)

Trial experience and problems of parental recollection of consent

BMJ 2001;322:49 (Published 6 January 2001)

Birth events and cerebral palsy: facts were not presented clearly

BMJ 2001;322:50.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

Reducing speed limit to 20 mph in urban areas

BMJ 2001;322:50.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

Email health support service is already operating in Africa

BMJ 2001;322:51 (Published 6 January 2001)

Doesn't everyone know that purpose of advertising is to promote products?

BMJ 2001;322:52.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

Support from pharmacies can help people stop smoking

BMJ 2001;322:52.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

News

Commons votes for human embryo stem cell research

BMJ 2001;322:7.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

MEPs back tougher health warnings on cigarette packets

BMJ 2001;322:7.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

In brief

BMJ 2001;322:8.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

News - continued

US sets national standards for patient privacy

BMJ 2001;322:8.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

Spain agrees palliative care plan

BMJ 2001;322:8.3 (Published 6 January 2001)

Vaccine improves memory in “Alzheimer's” mice

BMJ 2001;322:9.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

GP stuck off for agreeing to perform female circumcision

BMJ 2001;322:9.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

US settles biggest ever healthcare fraud case

BMJ 2001;322:10.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

UK plans shake-up of mental health laws

BMJ 2001;322:10.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

Polish nurses strike for better wages

BMJ 2001;322:10.3 (Published 6 January 2001)

Clinical Reviews

Islet and stem cell transplantation for treating diabetes

BMJ 2001;322:29.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

Investigation of liver and biliary disease

BMJ 2001;322:33 (Published 6 January 2001)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2001;322:60 (Published 6 January 2001)

Editor's Choice

Africa: a continent for the third millennium

BMJ 2001;322:0.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

Africa: a continent for the third millennium

BMJ 2001;322:0.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

UK “urgently” needs more cancer specialists

BMJ 2001;322:10.4 (Published 6 January 2001)

Israel's health ministry ends circumcisers' monopoly

BMJ 2001;322:10.5 (Published 6 January 2001)

Doctors' pay deal disappoints BMA

BMJ 2001;322:10.6 (Published 6 January 2001)

Scottish NHS Plan promises speedier treatment

BMJ 2001;322:10.7 (Published 6 January 2001)

STIs at highest level in UK since 1990

BMJ 2001;322:10.8 (Published 6 January 2001)

Papers

Cholesterol reduction and non-illness mortality: meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials

BMJ 2001;322:11 (Published 6 January 2001)

Glycated haemoglobin, diabetes, and mortality in men in Norfolk cohort of European Prospective Investigation of Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Norfolk)

BMJ 2001;322:15 (Published 6 January 2001)

Prophylactic treatment of migraine with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (lisinopril): randomised, placebo controlled, crossover study

BMJ 2001;322:19 (Published 6 January 2001)

Existence and quality of written antenatal screening policies in the United Kingdom: postal survey

BMJ 2001;322:22 (Published 6 January 2001)

Tachycardia associated with moxifloxacin

BMJ 2001;322:23.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

Primary care

Prevalence and trends in overweight and obesity in three cross sectional studies of British children, 1974-94

BMJ 2001;322:24 (Published 6 January 2001)

How women with a family history of breast cancer and their general practitioners act on genetic advice in general practice: prospective longitudinal study

BMJ 2001;322:26 (Published 6 January 2001)

Raising concerns about family history of breast cancer in primary care consultations: prospective, population based study

BMJ 2001;322:27 (Published 6 January 2001)

Education and debate

Bioethical aspects of the recent changes in the policy of refusal of blood by Jehovah's Witnesses

BMJ 2001;322:37 (Published 6 January 2001)

Computer assisted learning in undergraduate medical education

BMJ 2001;322:40 (Published 6 January 2001)

Books

The Constant Gardener

BMJ 2001;322:55.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

Nursing Practice, Policy and Change

BMJ 2001;322:55.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

RADIO

The Consultants

BMJ 2001;322:56.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

TV

Driving Mum Crazy

BMJ 2001;322:56.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

PRESS

The milk of human kindness

BMJ 2001;322:57 (Published 6 January 2001)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Drug company ethics

BMJ 2001;322:58.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

NETLINES

NETLINES

BMJ 2001;322:58.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

Personal View

Africa revisited: a distressing experience

BMJ 2001;322:59.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

Soundings

My famous friends

BMJ 2001;322:59.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

Fillers

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 2001;322:6.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

The French Senate and its medical attendants

BMJ 2001;322:23.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

For a sundial

BMJ 2001;322:23.3 (Published 6 January 2001)

Ruminant and other sucking animals

BMJ 2001;322:29.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

Breaking news

BMJ 2001;322:36 (Published 6 January 2001)

Corrections

Age related macular degeneration

BMJ 2001;322:6.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

Risk of venous thromboembolism among users of third generation oral contraceptives compared with users of oral contraceptives with levonorgestrel before and after 1995: cohort and case-control analysis

BMJ 2001;322:28.1 (Published 6 January 2001)

The timing of the “fertile window” in the menstrual cycle: day specific estimates from a prospective study

BMJ 2001;322:28.2 (Published 6 January 2001)

Doctoring malaria, badly: the global campaign to ban DDT

BMJ 2001;322:28.3 (Published 6 January 2001)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Thomas Morrison ClaytonJean Arthur GemmellJohn GilesColin Woodward Graham-StewartMichael John GryspeerdtPeter Anthony Richard MorleyDenis Ellison NashWilliam John (Bill) O'BrienJohn Kemp ScottJohn Arnaud Tobin

BMJ 2001;322:53 (Published 6 January 2001)