05 June 1999 (Vol 318, Issue 7197)

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This Week In the BMJ

The way data are presented affects the conclusions drawn

BMJ 1999;318:0.8 (Published 5 June 1999)

Postal prompts do not improve secondary prevention of coronary events

BMJ 1999;318:0.6 (Published 5 June 1999)

Compulsory admissions have risen as psychiatric beds have fallen

BMJ 1999;318:0.5 (Published 5 June 1999)

Why doctors don't always apply effective health care

BMJ 1999;318:0.7 (Published 5 June 1999)

Numbers of hospital doctors and GPs affect inpatient mortality

BMJ 1999;318:0.4 (Published 5 June 1999)

Evidence for antenatal toxoplasmosis screening is poor

BMJ 1999;318:0.3 (Published 5 June 1999)

Editorials

Reducing the risk of recurrent coronary heart disease

BMJ 1999;318:1499 (Published 5 June 1999)

Angiogenic revascularisation in ischaemic disease

BMJ 1999;318:1500 (Published 5 June 1999)

Same information, different decisions: format counts

BMJ 1999;318:1501 (Published 5 June 1999)

The coroner service

BMJ 1999;318:1502 (Published 5 June 1999)

Managing drug misuse in general practice

BMJ 1999;318:1503 (Published 5 June 1999)

Minimising the impact of visual impairment

BMJ 1999;318:1504 (Published 5 June 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Use of renal transplants from living donors

BMJ 1999;318:1553.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Call to needle times after acute myocardial infarction

BMJ 1999;318:1553.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

Emerging tobacco hazards in China

BMJ 1999;318:1554 (Published 5 June 1999)

I don't want to be invited to invest in the tobacco trade

BMJ 1999;318:1555.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Women must be given fully informed information about cervical screening

BMJ 1999;318:1555.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

Cancer patients should be offered semen cryopreservation

BMJ 1999;318:1556.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Few patients with prostate cancer are willing to be randomised to treatment

BMJ 1999;318:1556.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

Trial of prophylactic mastectomy is needed

BMJ 1999;318:1556.3 (Published 5 June 1999)

Article on Colombia should have been more objective

BMJ 1999;318:1557.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Behaviour described in scenario in paper would be unethical

BMJ 1999;318:1557.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

Teaching patients with bipolar disorder to identify early symptoms of relapse

BMJ 1999;318:1557.3 (Published 5 June 1999)

Recognition of depression and anxiety in primary care

BMJ 1999;318:1558 (Published 5 June 1999)

Authors' words foster stigmatisation of commercial sex workers in India

BMJ 1999;318:1559.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Careers article on psychotherapy was not balanced

BMJ 1999;318:1559.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

Vulvodynia is important cause of vulval pain

BMJ 1999;318:1559.3 (Published 5 June 1999)

Medical examiners employed by health authorities should audit death certificates

BMJ 1999;318:1559.4 (Published 5 June 1999)

Letters - continued

Trauma related shin splints

BMJ 1999;318:1560.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

All GPs have problems when they first start in practice

BMJ 1999;318:1560.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

News

Sale of prescription data breaches confidentiality

BMJ 1999;318:1505.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Cycle helmets should not be compulsory

BMJ 1999;318:1505.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;318:1506.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Moratorium on GM food would perpetuate world hunger

BMJ 1999;318:1506.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

Gonads are the key to a long life

BMJ 1999;318:1506.3 (Published 5 June 1999)

Doctors demand AIDS drugs for women who have been raped

BMJ 1999;318:1507.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Canada sends patients with cancer to United States

BMJ 1999;318:1507.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

EU supports delay in reducing doctors' hours

BMJ 1999;318:1508.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Scotland appoints health minister

BMJ 1999;318:1508.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

Scare tactics cut smoking rates in Australia to all time low

BMJ 1999;318:1508.3 (Published 5 June 1999)

Most deaths related to abortion occur in the developing world

BMJ 1999;318:1509.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Carvedilol seems no better than metoprolol for heart failure

BMJ 1999;318:1509.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

Viagra guidance declared unlawful

BMJ 1999;318:1509.3 (Published 5 June 1999)

Liver cancer toll high in Japan

BMJ 1999;318:1510.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Report finds no evidence of ethnic bias in GMC

BMJ 1999;318:1510.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

GP loses libel action

BMJ 1999;318:1510.3 (Published 5 June 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Therapeutic angiogenesis

BMJ 1999;318:1536 (Published 5 June 1999)

Prevention of ischaemic stroke

BMJ 1999;318:1539 (Published 5 June 1999)

Criteria for admission

BMJ 1999;318:1544 (Published 5 June 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;318:1566 (Published 5 June 1999)

Editor's Choice

The mysterious and the prosaic

BMJ 1999;318:0.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Editor's Choice [GP]

The mysterious and the prosaic

BMJ 1999;318:0.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Smoking bans do not hurt tourism

BMJ 1999;318:1510.4 (Published 5 June 1999)

Spanish patients with rare diseases demand a better deal

BMJ 1999;318:1510.5 (Published 5 June 1999)

Wales sets up cervical screening body

BMJ 1999;318:1510.6 (Published 5 June 1999)

Papers

Congenital toxoplasmosis: systematic review of evidence of efficacy of treatment in pregnancy

BMJ 1999;318:1511 (Published 5 June 1999)

Explaining differences in English hospital death rates using routinely collected data

BMJ 1999;318:1515 (Published 5 June 1999)

Trends in the use of the Mental Health Act: England, 1984-96

BMJ 1999;318:1520 (Published 5 June 1999)

Aseptic meningitis after treatment with amoxicillin

BMJ 1999;318:1521.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Filler

Medical practitioners and the plague duty in India

BMJ 1999;318:1521.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

Ideas must be comforting

BMJ 1999;318:1532.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

X marks the spot

BMJ 1999;318:1543 (Published 5 June 1999)

What a rotten job you've got

BMJ 1999;318:1547 (Published 5 June 1999)

The one neither of us saw

BMJ 1999;318:1552 (Published 5 June 1999)

General practice

Effect of postal prompts to patients and general practitioners on the quality of primary care after a coronary event (POST): randomised controlled trial

BMJ 1999;318:1522 (Published 5 June 1999)

Information in practice

Influence of data display formats on physician investigators' decisions to stop clinical trials: prospective trial with repeated measures

BMJ 1999;318:1527 (Published 5 June 1999)

General practitioners' perceptions of effective health care

BMJ 1999;318:1532.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Education and debate

Numbers needed to treat derived from meta-analyses—sometimes informative, usually misleading

BMJ 1999;318:1548 (Published 5 June 1999)

Opportunity cost

BMJ 1999;318:1551 (Published 5 June 1999)

MULTIMEDIA

Artists for Médecins du Monde

BMJ 1999;318:1562 (Published 5 June 1999)

Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer: Clinical, Predictive and Ethical Perspectives

BMJ 1999;318:1563.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Our NHS: A celebration of 50 years

BMJ 1999;318:1563.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

Skin cancer: in your face

BMJ 1999;318:1564.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

BMJ 1999;318:1564.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

Personal View

Iceland's database is ethically questionable

BMJ 1999;318:1565.1 (Published 5 June 1999)

Soundings

New England journal

BMJ 1999;318:1565.2 (Published 5 June 1999)

Career focus

Where now for Career focus?

BMJ 1999;318:S2-7197 (Published 5 June 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3-7197 (Published 5 June 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3a-7197 (Published 5 June 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3b-7197 (Published 5 June 1999)

Fillers

A neglected but prevalent tragedy

BMJ 1999;318:1526 (Published 5 June 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

ObituariesSaadi Hussain Al-RoumaniEdward Ambrose CresswellCharles Hardinge GoingNicholas JaswonDerek Clifford LambJohn Taylor Smith

BMJ 1999;318:1561 (Published 5 June 1999)