20 February 1999 (Vol 318, Issue 7182)

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This Week In the BMJ

Air bags may damage hearing

BMJ 1999;318:0.6 (Published 20 February 1999)

Patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease can benefit from intermittent treatment

BMJ 1999;318:0.7 (Published 20 February 1999)

Patients' competence to complete advance directives can be easily assessed

BMJ 1999;318:0.4 (Published 20 February 1999)

Feedback to GPs does not reduce rates of prescribing

BMJ 1999;318:0.8 (Published 20 February 1999)

Incidence of antibiotic resistant tuberculosis remains low in UK

BMJ 1999;318:0.5 (Published 20 February 1999)

Exercise is the answer for stress incontinence

BMJ 1999;318:0.3 (Published 20 February 1999)

Editorials

Difficult asthma or Churg-Strauss syndrome?

BMJ 1999;318:475 (Published 20 February 1999)

Patients with learning disability in the community

BMJ 1999;318:476 (Published 20 February 1999)

Managing osteoporosis in older people with fractures

BMJ 1999;318:477 (Published 20 February 1999)

London's health: a role for the new mayor

BMJ 1999;318:478 (Published 20 February 1999)

Short course antiretroviral regimens to reduce maternal transmission of HIV

BMJ 1999;318:479 (Published 20 February 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

New diagnostic criteria for diabetes mellitus

BMJ 1999;318:531 (Published 20 February 1999)

GPs should not connect to NHSnet until it is restructured

BMJ 1999;318:533 (Published 20 February 1999)

Prescription of proton pump inhibitors

BMJ 1999;318:534.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

Insecurity about progression is an added stress for senior house officers

BMJ 1999;318:534.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

Survey of white coat hypertension

BMJ 1999;318:535.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

Advanced trauma life support prolongs patients' lives until specialist help arrives

BMJ 1999;318:535.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

Indwelling needles carry greater risks than acupuncture techniques

BMJ 1999;318:536.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

Few GPs tell patients of their diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 1999;318:536.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

Cervical screening for women with learning disability

BMJ 1999;318:536.3 (Published 20 February 1999)

Central regulating body is needed for ATLS courses

BMJ 1999;318:537 (Published 20 February 1999)

Contact allergy is unlikely to mimic basal cell carcinoma

BMJ 1999;318:538.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

Diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

BMJ 1999;318:538.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

Cholesterol: how low is low enough?

BMJ 1999;318:538.3 (Published 20 February 1999)

Women's risk of dying of heart disease is always greater than their risk of dying of breast cancer

BMJ 1999;318:539 (Published 20 February 1999)

News

$50m record damages awarded against tobacco company

BMJ 1999;318:481.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

English judge rules that smokers' claims are “too late”

BMJ 1999;318:481.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

News - continued

In brief

BMJ 1999;318:482.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

All UK doctors to be required to prove competence

BMJ 1999;318:482.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

Minister to look again at NHS bill's threat to GMC

BMJ 1999;318:482.3 (Published 20 February 1999)

Scientists call for moratorium on genetically modified foods

BMJ 1999;318:483.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

Microscopic changes may double risk of breast cancer

BMJ 1999;318:483.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

NHS pay structure to be overhauled

BMJ 1999;318:484.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

Israel prepares for “Jerusalem syndrome”

BMJ 1999;318:484.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

Three women win in cancer screening case

BMJ 1999;318:484.3 (Published 20 February 1999)

Beijing conference reviews Kashin-Beck disease

BMJ 1999;318:485.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

English prison doctor struck off

BMJ 1999;318:485.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

Legal suit over Norplant collapses

BMJ 1999;318:485.3 (Published 20 February 1999)

Preventing sexually transmitted diseases may not reduce HIV risk

BMJ 1999;318:486.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

Bristol parents protest over removal of hearts

BMJ 1999;318:486.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

Bristol chief executive appeals against GMC

BMJ 1999;318:486.3 (Published 20 February 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Cosmetic surgery

BMJ 1999;318:512 (Published 20 February 1999)

Tethered cord syndrome after myelomeningocoele repair

BMJ 1999;318:516 (Published 20 February 1999)

Sexual problems of disabled patients

BMJ 1999;318:518 (Published 20 February 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;318:546 (Published 20 February 1999)

Editor's Choice

A health planner's delight?

BMJ 1999;318:0.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

Editor's Choice [GP]

A health planner's delight?

BMJ 1999;318:0.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

NHS Executive to research removal of patients from GP lists in England

BMJ 1999;318:486.4 (Published 20 February 1999)

Expert group on meningitis is set up

BMJ 1999;318:486.5 (Published 20 February 1999)

New measures announced for detaining psychiatric patients

BMJ 1999;318:486.6 (Published 20 February 1999)

Medicare payouts for improper claims drop by a third

BMJ 1999;318:486.7 (Published 20 February 1999)

Papers

Single blind, randomised controlled trial of pelvic floor exercises, electrical stimulation, vaginal cones, and no treatment in management of genuine stress incontinence in women

BMJ 1999;318:487 (Published 20 February 1999)

Assessment of competence to complete advance directives: validation of a patient centred approach

BMJ 1999;318:493 (Published 20 February 1999)

Papers - continued

Database study of antibiotic resistant tuberculosis in the United Kingdom, 1994-6

BMJ 1999;318:497 (Published 20 February 1999)

Two case reports of possible noise trauma after inflation of air bags in low speed car crashes

BMJ 1999;318:499 (Published 20 February 1999)

Questionnaire survey of advice given to patients with fractures

BMJ 1999;318:500.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

General practice

Symptomatic gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: double blind controlled study of intermittent treatment with omeprazole or ranitidine

BMJ 1999;318:502 (Published 20 February 1999)

General Practice

Randomised controlled trial of effect of feedback on general practitioners' prescribing in Australia

BMJ 1999;318:507 (Published 20 February 1999)

Education and debate

Is the English NHS underfunded?

BMJ 1999;318:522 (Published 20 February 1999)

Potential benefits, limitations, and harms of clinical guidelines

BMJ 1999;318:527 (Published 20 February 1999)

MULTIMEDIA

Encyclopedia of Biostatistics

BMJ 1999;318:542.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

Learning from the NHS Internal Market: A Review of the Evidence

BMJ 1999;318:543.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

East Meets West

BMJ 1999;318:543.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

Meningitis in Wales

BMJ 1999;318:544.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

BMJ 1999;318:544.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

Soundbite

Soundbites

BMJ 1999;318:542.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

Personal View

Breast feeding and my brain

BMJ 1999;318:545.1 (Published 20 February 1999)

Soundings

Guest faculty

BMJ 1999;318:545.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

Career focus

District general hospital or teaching hospital?

BMJ 1999;318:S2-7182 (Published 20 February 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3-7182 (Published 20 February 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3a-7182 (Published 20 February 1999)

Fillers

Cataract extraction in a lioness

BMJ 1999;318:500.2 (Published 20 February 1999)

67 years on the national health

BMJ 1999;318:511 (Published 20 February 1999)

Say what you mean

BMJ 1999;318:521 (Published 20 February 1999)

Repeating the tests

BMJ 1999;318:526 (Published 20 February 1999)

Correction

Preventing fatal diseases increases healthcare costs: cause elimination life table approach

BMJ 1999;318:498 (Published 20 February 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Alexander Macdougal CookeJames Rollo BallantyneRoger Malcolm Richard BarnesEvan FletcherJohn Nigel Harcourt-WebsterSamuel (“Stanley”) Leslie IsaacsJack JosephSidney LevineJohn Stewart MatherGeorge Ranken Tudhope

BMJ 1999;318:540 (Published 20 February 1999)