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24 March 2001 (Vol 322, Issue 7288)

Consultation competence should be assessed in revalidation procedures

BMJ 2001;322:0.7 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Exercise programmes prevent falls in elderly people

BMJ 2001;322:0.3 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Link between hip fracture and benzodiazepines in elderly is not confirmed

BMJ 2001;322:0.6 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Students' ethical worries are often not resolved with their clinical teachers

BMJ 2001;322:0.5 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Women recover quicker from anaesthesia than men but experience more side effects

BMJ 2001;322:0.4 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Editor's Choice

Doctors: still disorganised but still trusted

BMJ 2001;322:0.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

Editorials

Closing the gap between professional teaching and practice

BMJ 2001;322:685 (Published 24 March 2001)

Thromboprophylaxis after replacement arthroplasty

BMJ 2001;322:686 (Published 24 March 2001)

Abdominal obesity and the “hypertriglyceridaemic waist” phenotype

BMJ 2001;322:687 (Published 24 March 2001)

Reforming the GMC

BMJ 2001;322:689 (Published 24 March 2001)

Death through selfishness and failure of imagination

BMJ 2001;322:690 (Published 24 March 2001)

Letters

This week's Letters section

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Rights involve responsibilities for patients

BMJ 2001;322:730.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

Cancer registries fear collapse

BMJ 2001;322:730.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Using internet to access confidential patient records

BMJ 2001;322:731.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Undertreatment of heart failure has high cost to patients

BMJ 2001;322:731.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Menorrhagia

BMJ 2001;322:732.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Postoperative pressure sores after epidural anaesthesia

BMJ 2001;322:732.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Limits to demand for health care

BMJ 2001;322:734 (Published 24 March 2001)

NHS needs plan for all acute, rehabilitative, and long stay care

BMJ 2001;322:735.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Driving after hernia surgery

BMJ 2001;322:735.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Research in complementary medicine is essential

BMJ 2001;322:736 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Continuity in general practice

BMJ 2001;322:737.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Letters - continued

Hamster health care can be solved with more funding

BMJ 2001;322:737.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

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News

Regulators accused of bias against cannabis based medicines

BMJ 2001;322:691.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

Plastic surgeon sacked days before employment tribunal due to begin

BMJ 2001;322:691.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

In brief

BMJ 2001;322:692.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

Drug company to sell AIDS drugs at less than cost price

BMJ 2001;322:692.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

US healthcare spending to rise sharply

BMJ 2001;322:692.3 (Published 24 March 2001)

Low tar cigarettes linked to rise in adenocarcinomas

BMJ 2001;322:693.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

Indian scientists warn of “mutant measles” virus

BMJ 2001;322:693.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

Rubella vaccine may be safe in early pregnancy

BMJ 2001;322:695.3 (Published 24 March 2001)

Doctors give guarded response to £100m for GP services

BMJ 2001;322:696.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

Company played down drug's risks, report says

BMJ 2001;322:696.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

Clinical Reviews

Treatment of obesity: need to focus on high risk abdominally obese patients

BMJ 2001;322:716 (Published 24 March 2001)

Pancreatic tumours

BMJ 2001;322:721 (Published 24 March 2001)

Editor's Choice [GP]

Doctors: still disorganised but still trusted

BMJ 2001;322:0.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

News roundup

Poll shows public still has trust in doctors

BMJ 2001;322:694.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Campaign to reduce waiting lists in Ireland has had little impact

BMJ 2001;322:694.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

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British Columbia tries to reduce stress on health services with 24 hour nurse helpline

BMJ 2001;322:694.3 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Haematologist may face disciplinary action for research fraud

BMJ 2001;322:694.4 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Belfast and Glasgow top the league for heart attacks in women

BMJ 2001;322:694.5 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Nuffield Council invites public to join genetics debate

BMJ 2001;322:695.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Israel bans smoking from almost all public places

BMJ 2001;322:695.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Papers

Effectiveness and economic evaluation of a nurse delivered home exercise programme to prevent falls. 1: Randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2001;322:697 (Published 24 March 2001)

Effectiveness and economic evaluation of a nurse delivered home exercise programme to prevent falls. 2: Controlled trial in multiple centres

BMJ 2001;322:701 (Published 24 March 2001)

Benzodiazepines and hip fractures in elderly people: case-control study

BMJ 2001;322:704 (Published 24 March 2001)

Understanding the clinical dilemmas that shape medical students' ethical development: questionnaire survey and focus group study

BMJ 2001;322:709 (Published 24 March 2001)

Sex differences in speed of emergence and quality of recovery after anaesthesia: cohort study

BMJ 2001;322:710 (Published 24 March 2001)

Filler

Clinical and communication skills conquer all

BMJ 2001;322:711 (Published 24 March 2001)

The future of the British Medical Association

BMJ 2001;322:712.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Primary care

Model for directly assessing and improving clinical competence and performance in revalidation of clinicians

BMJ 2001;322:712.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

Education and debate

Postpsychiatry: a new direction for mental health

BMJ 2001;322:724 (Published 24 March 2001)

Promoting health and function in an ageing population

BMJ 2001;322:728 (Published 24 March 2001)

Reviews

Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology

BMJ 2001;322:740.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

Final Duty

BMJ 2001;322:740.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture 1660-1815

BMJ 2001;322:741 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Science and the Swastika

BMJ 2001;322:742.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Benzodiazepines

BMJ 2001;322:742.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Learning respect

BMJ 2001;322:743.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

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No surrender

BMJ 2001;322:743.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Minerva

BMJ 2001;322:744 (Published 24 March 2001)

Corrections

How animal passions became aroused

BMJ 2001;322:720.1 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Mumps, measles, and rubella vaccine and the incidence of autism recorded by general practitioners: a time trend analysis

BMJ 2001;322:720.2 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Recent advances: Urology

BMJ 2001;322:720.3 (Published 24 March 2001)

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Obituary

This week's Obituary section

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Derek Paul StevensonHugh Jackson HoustonSamuel Thompson (Tom) IrwinJohn Stephen Phillips JonesCesari MaltoniDorothy Anne MorganWilliam Michael O'Connor MooreOwen Parry-JonesHenry Bruce TorranceGerald Wiseman

BMJ 2001;322:738 (Published 24 March 2001)