09 January 1999 (Vol 318, Issue 7176)

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Editor's Choice

Rapid responses and the death of the editor's arts

BMJ 1999;318:0.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

News

Transsexuals win case for NHS funded surgery

BMJ 1999;318:75.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

US considers name based tracking for HIV positive patients

BMJ 1999;318:75.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;318:76.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

German doctors strike against health budget cuts

BMJ 1999;318:76.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

France abandons fines to control health costs

BMJ 1999;318:76.3 (Published 9 January 1999)

Community care does not increase homicide risk in UK

BMJ 1999;318:77.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

More British abortions for Irish women

BMJ 1999;318:77.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

Canadian case questions funding

BMJ 1999;318:77.3 (Published 9 January 1999)

BMA proposes strategy to reformulate waiting lists

BMJ 1999;318:78.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

Faulty gene linked to chronic leukaemia

BMJ 1999;318:78.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

Dutch crisis in care of learning difficulties

BMJ 1999;318:78.3 (Published 9 January 1999)

Updates for US heart disease death rates

BMJ 1999;318:79.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

Indian surgeon challenges banon xenotransplantation

BMJ 1999;318:79.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

British twin database to be floated

BMJ 1999;318:79.3 (Published 9 January 1999)

Health to get a higher priority in post-devolution Scotland

BMJ 1999;318:80 (Published 9 January 1999)

Editorials

Oral contraception and health

BMJ 1999;318:69 (Published 9 January 1999)

Down's syndrome, cardiac anomalies, and nuchal translucency

BMJ 1999;318:70 (Published 9 January 1999)

Improving the position of women in medicine

BMJ 1999;318:71 (Published 9 January 1999)

Hearing without ears: do cochlear implants work in children?

BMJ 1999;318:72 (Published 9 January 1999)

Caring for and about acute general medicine

BMJ 1999;318:73 (Published 9 January 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Elective caesarean section on request

BMJ 1999;318:120 (Published 9 January 1999)

Protease inhibitors in HIV infection

BMJ 1999;318:122 (Published 9 January 1999)

Palliative care needs to be provided on basis of need rather than diagnosis

BMJ 1999;318:123.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

Letters - continued

Only half of GPs in study knew that advance directives could carry legal force in UK

BMJ 1999;318:123.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

Acute obstructive hydrocephalus complicating bacterial meningitis

BMJ 1999;318:123.3 (Published 9 January 1999)

50 years of the NHS

BMJ 1999;318:124 (Published 9 January 1999)

UK blood service is responding to current needs

BMJ 1999;318:125.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

Risk of breast cancer among female airline cabin attendants

BMJ 1999;318:125.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

Patients with prostate cancer should be enrolled in a national, controlled trial

BMJ 1999;318:126.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

Bournewood: an indefensible gap in mental health law

BMJ 1999;318:126.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

Descriptions of adverse drug events should be standardised

BMJ 1999;318:127.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

Other method for adjustment of multiple testing exists

BMJ 1999;318:127.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

Counselling is not appropriate for all patients with cancer

BMJ 1999;318:128.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

Any variability in outcome comparisons adjusted for case mix must be accounted for

BMJ 1999;318:128.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;318:136 (Published 9 January 1999)

Fillers

Special correspondence: Rome

BMJ 1999;318:95.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

Doctor suggests a young woman should smoke

BMJ 1999;318:116 (Published 9 January 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Simple computer program accurately predicts individual risks of coronary heart disease

BMJ 1999;318:0.7 (Published 9 January 1999)

Increased fetal nuchal translucency is associated with major cardiac defects

BMJ 1999;318:0.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

Effects of pill on mortality do not persist after 10 years

BMJ 1999;318:0.6 (Published 9 January 1999)

Simple clinical signs predict hypoxaemia

BMJ 1999;318:0.3 (Published 9 January 1999)

Women need more flexible career structure to get to the top

BMJ 1999;318:0.4 (Published 9 January 1999)

Transmission of hepatitis B by transfusion is rare

BMJ 1999;318:0.5 (Published 9 January 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Drug treatment of epilepsy

BMJ 1999;318:106 (Published 9 January 1999)

Female sexual problems II: sexual pain and sexual fears

BMJ 1999;318:110 (Published 9 January 1999)

Papers

Using fetal nuchal translucency to screen for major congenital cardiac defects at 10-14 weeks of gestation: population based cohort study

BMJ 1999;318:81.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

Clinical predictors of hypoxaemia in Gambian children with acute lower respiratory tract infection: prospective cohort study

BMJ 1999;318:86 (Published 9 January 1999)

Papers - continued

Female medical leadership: cross sectional study Editorial by Showalter

BMJ 1999;318:91 (Published 9 January 1999)

Acute hepatitis B infection associated with blood transfusion in England and Wales, 1991-7: review of database

BMJ 1999;318:95.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

Science Commentary

What is fetal nuchal translucency?

BMJ 1999;318:81.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

General Practice

Mortality associated with oral contraceptive use: 25 year follow up of cohort of 46 000 women from Royal College of General Practitioners' oral contraception study

BMJ 1999;318:96 (Published 9 January 1999)

Information in practice

A simple computer program for guiding management of cardiovascular risk factors and prescribing

BMJ 1999;318:101 (Published 9 January 1999)

Education and debate

Selection, training, and support of relief workers: an occupational health issue

BMJ 1999;318:113 (Published 9 January 1999)

A narrative approach to mental health in general practice

BMJ 1999;318:117 (Published 9 January 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Medicopolitical digestBMA starts debate on presumed organ donationDefence medicine in UK given a boostMoving nearer to PCGsJDC sets priorities for next session

BMJ 1999;318:131 (Published 9 January 1999)

MULTIMEDIA

The Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine

BMJ 1999;318:132.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

Medicines Management

BMJ 1999;318:132.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

The Circumpolar Inuit: Health of A Population in Transition

BMJ 1999;318:133.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

Chronic fatigue and its syndromes

BMJ 1999;318:133.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

Selected Writings: Anna Freud

BMJ 1999;318:134.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

BMJ 1999;318:135.3 (Published 9 January 1999)

BESTSELLERS

Reviews

BMJ 1999;318:134.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

Personal View

What are the benefits of editorials and non-systematic reviews?

BMJ 1999;318:135.1 (Published 9 January 1999)

Soundings

Vampires

BMJ 1999;318:135.2 (Published 9 January 1999)

Career focus

The overseas doctors training scheme

BMJ 1999;318:S2-7176 (Published 9 January 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3-7176 (Published 9 January 1999)

Corrections

Subdural haemorrhages in infants

BMJ 1999;318:74 (Published 9 January 1999)

Factors affecting likelihood of applicants being offered a place in medical schools in the United Kingdom in 1996and 1997: retrospective study

BMJ 1999;318:94 (Published 9 January 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

ObituariesLord Smith of MarlowJohn AitkenJames (“Jimmy”) George LedinghamRobert (“Bob”) MurrayArthur Salmon (“Sam”) WigfieldJohn Frederick Wilkinson

BMJ 1999;318:129 (Published 9 January 1999)