16 January 1999 (Vol 318, Issue 7177)

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Editor's Choice

Education, teaching, and learning: all good for health

BMJ 1999;318:0.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

News

Police investigate “euthanasia” deaths

BMJ 1999;318:143.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

Artery wall thickness useful in detecting heart risk

BMJ 1999;318:143.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;318:144.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

Medical students at risk from needlestick injury

BMJ 1999;318:144.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

Fat is a medical issue

BMJ 1999;318:144.3 (Published 16 January 1999)

Health secretary reports on winter crisis

BMJ 1999;318:144.4 (Published 16 January 1999)

What caused the winter crisis in the NHS?

BMJ 1999;318:145.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

Holocaust victims are discharged into the community

BMJ 1999;318:145.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

Antenatal clinics fail HIV mothers

BMJ 1999;318:145.3 (Published 16 January 1999)

Researchers discover new mutant gene

BMJ 1999;318:146 (Published 16 January 1999)

Some “cot deaths” are child abuse

BMJ 1999;318:147.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

GPs loth to report child abuse

BMJ 1999;318:147.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

US effort to cut caesarean section rate may be harmful

BMJ 1999;318:147.3 (Published 16 January 1999)

Doctors cleared of manslaughter

BMJ 1999;318:148.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

US doctors' earnings up, surveys show

BMJ 1999;318:148.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

British GP wins libel case against partners

BMJ 1999;318:148.3 (Published 16 January 1999)

Editorials

Severe mental illness and substance misuse

BMJ 1999;318:137 (Published 16 January 1999)

Managing smoking cessation

BMJ 1999;318:138 (Published 16 January 1999)

Medical students, their electives, and HIV

BMJ 1999;318:139 (Published 16 January 1999)

Consensus in stroke management?

BMJ 1999;318:140 (Published 16 January 1999)

Elementary education and its impact on health

BMJ 1999;318:141 (Published 16 January 1999)

What is publication?

BMJ 1999;318:142 (Published 16 January 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Laparoscopic versus open mesh repair of inguinal hernia

BMJ 1999;318:189 (Published 16 January 1999)

Identification of patients with atrial fibrillation in general practice

BMJ 1999;318:191.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

A national target for reducing suicide

BMJ 1999;318:191.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

Unexplained haemoglobinuria may have been haematuria

BMJ 1999;318:192.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

Simvastatin seems unlikely to cause impotence

BMJ 1999;318:192.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

Letters - continued

General practitioners are victims too

BMJ 1999;318:192.3 (Published 16 January 1999)

Public should be told that vaccines may have long term adverse effects

BMJ 1999;318:193.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

Selective evidence was used to support link between immunisation and asthma

BMJ 1999;318:193.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

Sensitivity and specificity and their confidence intervals cannot exceed 100%

BMJ 1999;318:193.3 (Published 16 January 1999)

Prospects for general practice research are bright despite research assessment exercise

BMJ 1999;318:194.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

Outcome of neonatal hypoglycaemia

BMJ 1999;318:194.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

Quality of care before admission to intensive care

BMJ 1999;318:195 (Published 16 January 1999)

Research into meningococcal disease is too fragmented

BMJ 1999;318:196.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

Refugee doctors can do valuable work in European host countries

BMJ 1999;318:196.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

Iraqi doctors regret bombing by United States and Britain

BMJ 1999;318:196.3 (Published 16 January 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;318:204 (Published 16 January 1999)

Fillers

Alternative definitions

BMJ 1999;318:157.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

Some quotes from patients and their doctors

BMJ 1999;318:163 (Published 16 January 1999)

Learning from our mistakes

BMJ 1999;318:177 (Published 16 January 1999)

The spitting nuisance

BMJ 1999;318:178.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

He was going to die anyway

BMJ 1999;318:185 (Published 16 January 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Recognising prodromes reduces manic relapses

BMJ 1999;318:0.3 (Published 16 January 1999)

Indian lorry drivers help to spread HIV infection

BMJ 1999;318:0.6 (Published 16 January 1999)

Coeliac disease is underdiagnosed in primary care

BMJ 1999;318:0.7 (Published 16 January 1999)

Medical students should know more about their risks of HIV infection

BMJ 1999;318:0.5 (Published 16 January 1999)

Maternal anxiety is associated with impaired blood flow to the fetus

BMJ 1999;318:0.4 (Published 16 January 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Pulmonary medicine

BMJ 1999;318:171 (Published 16 January 1999)

Incompatible plasma transfusions and haemolysis in children

BMJ 1999;318:176 (Published 16 January 1999)

A woman's sexual life after an operation

BMJ 1999;318:178.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

Editor's Choice [GP]

Education, teaching, and learning: all good for health

BMJ 1999;318:0.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

Papers

Randomised controlled trial of efficacy of teaching patients with bipolar disorder to identify early symptoms of relapse and obtain treatment

BMJ 1999;318:149 (Published 16 January 1999)

Association between maternal anxiety in pregnancy and increased uterine artery resistance index: cohort based study

BMJ 1999;318:153 (Published 16 January 1999)

Papers - continued

Notice of inadvertent duplicate publication

BMJ 1999;318:157.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

Medical students' risk of infection with bloodborne viruses at home and abroad: questionnaire survey

BMJ 1999;318:158 (Published 16 January 1999)

Provision of health advice for UK medical students planning to travel overseas for their elective study period: questionnaire survey

BMJ 1999;318:161 (Published 16 January 1999)

Sexual lifestyle of long distance lorry drivers in India: questionnaire survey

BMJ 1999;318:162 (Published 16 January 1999)

General practice

Coeliac disease in primary care: case finding study

BMJ 1999;318:164 (Published 16 January 1999)

General PracticeMeeting the information and budgetary requirements of primary care groupsCommentary: Accurate information may be difficult to produce

BMJ 1999;318:168 (Published 16 January 1999)

Education and debate

Smoking cessation: evidence based recommendations for the healthcare system

BMJ 1999;318:182 (Published 16 January 1999)

Stories we hear and stories we tell: analysing talk in clinical practice

BMJ 1999;318:186 (Published 16 January 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGESTBMA hopes for at least 10% pay riseInterpretation of working time directive differsHelp offered for PCG board membersBMA will prepare ideas on revalidation

BMJ 1999;318:199 (Published 16 January 1999)

MULTIMEDIA

Coping With Loss

BMJ 1999;318:200.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

Refugee Health: An Approach to Emergency Situations

BMJ 1999;318:200.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

Evidence-Based Medicine; Evidence-Based Health Care: How to Make Health Policy and Management Decisions

BMJ 1999;318:201.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

Fighting Fat, Fighting Fit

BMJ 1999;318:202.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

BMJ 1999;318:202.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

BOOKCASE

Bookcase

BMJ 1999;318:201.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

Personal View

Cancer services are suffering in Iraq

BMJ 1999;318:203.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

Soundings

Egosurfing

BMJ 1999;318:203.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

Career focus

Psychotherapy

BMJ 1999;318:S2-7177 (Published 16 January 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3-7177 (Published 16 January 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3a-7177 (Published 16 January 1999)

Corrections

Obituary

BMJ 1999;318:170.1 (Published 16 January 1999)

Safer non-cardiac surgery for patients with coronary artery disease

BMJ 1999;318:170.2 (Published 16 January 1999)

Community survey of factors associated with consultation for low back pain

BMJ 1999;318:170.3 (Published 16 January 1999)

ABC of sexual health: Management of sexual problems

BMJ 1999;318:178.3 (Published 16 January 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

ObituariesEmmanuel Andrew DaninoAlexander Stuart DouglasPatrick Thomas DoyleAjay GautamaGraham Douglas Alexander GordonFrank JamesRobert JohnsonLeslie Ely (“Peter”) LucasArchibald (“Archie”) Adam MartinGeorge MayCecil Ashby MaysRobert (“Bob”)…

BMJ 1999;318:197 (Published 16 January 1999)