12 June 1999 (Vol 318, Issue 7198)

Editor's Choice

Failure: the great teacher

BMJ 1999;318:0.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

News

UK junior doctors vote to ballot on industrial action

BMJ 1999;318:1573.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

Increasing numbers of English junior doctors work above agreed limits on hours

BMJ 1999;318:1573.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;318:1574.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

European plan to put obesity on governments' health agenda

BMJ 1999;318:1574.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

US considers ban on British blood

BMJ 1999;318:1574.3 (Published 12 June 1999)

Younger women might benefit from breast cancer screening

BMJ 1999;318:1575.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

Neural stem cells successfully transplanted

BMJ 1999;318:1575.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

Bristol manager argues patient care was a matter for clinicians

BMJ 1999;318:1575.3 (Published 12 June 1999)

Welsh Office to review consultant's lengthy suspension

BMJ 1999;318:1576.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

UK consultants warn of overwork and general demoralisation

BMJ 1999;318:1576.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

New president of the German Medical Council may back reform

BMJ 1999;318:1576.3 (Published 12 June 1999)

English surgeons call for improved management of head injury

BMJ 1999;318:1577.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

Doctors in Israel oppose open performance data

BMJ 1999;318:1577.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

Pregnancy does not increase mortality from breast cancer

BMJ 1999;318:1577.3 (Published 12 June 1999)

Another media scare about MMR vaccine hits Britain

BMJ 1999;318:1578.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

Editorials

Learning from complaints about general practitioners

BMJ 1999;318:1567 (Published 12 June 1999)

Free the slaves

BMJ 1999;318:1568 (Published 12 June 1999)

Nutritional hyperhomocysteinaemia

BMJ 1999;318:1569 (Published 12 June 1999)

Clinical Evidence

BMJ 1999;318:1570 (Published 12 June 1999)

Antithrombotic therapy in cancer

BMJ 1999;318:1571 (Published 12 June 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Is there a rationale for rationing chronic dialysis?

BMJ 1999;318:1619 (Published 12 June 1999)

Rationing of sildenafil

BMJ 1999;318:1620 (Published 12 June 1999)

Patient centred care of diabetes in general practice

BMJ 1999;318:1621 (Published 12 June 1999)

Prenatal and perinatal risk factors for psychiatric diseases of early onset

BMJ 1999;318:1622 (Published 12 June 1999)

Antibiotics for acute sinusitis in general practice

BMJ 1999;318:1623 (Published 12 June 1999)

Letters - continued

Breast feeding and working mothers

BMJ 1999;318:1624.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

Britain's Academy of Medical Sciences has been busy in recent months

BMJ 1999;318:1624.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

Early diet in preterm babies and later intelligence quotient

BMJ 1999;318:1625 (Published 12 June 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;318:1634 (Published 12 June 1999)

Fillers

A new day in surgery

BMJ 1999;318:1595.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

Women's complaints

BMJ 1999;318:1595.3 (Published 12 June 1999)

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 1999;318:1604.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

Something to celebrate

BMJ 1999;318:1609 (Published 12 June 1999)

“It's got to be terrible!”

BMJ 1999;318:1614.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Clinical Reviews

Atopic eczema

BMJ 1999;318:1600 (Published 12 June 1999)

Cavernous haemangioma mimicking multiple sclerosis

BMJ 1999;318:1604.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

Organ dysfunction

BMJ 1999;318:1606 (Published 12 June 1999)

Editor's Choice [GP]

Failure: the great teacher

BMJ 1999;318:0.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Canadian GPs believe that media health reporting could be better

BMJ 1999;318:1578.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

Scrips for Viagra to be free in Ireland

BMJ 1999;318:1578.3 (Published 12 June 1999)

More use of private sector could cut NHS waiting lists

BMJ 1999;318:1578.4 (Published 12 June 1999)

Hungarian doctor charged with running baby selling scheme

BMJ 1999;318:1578.5 (Published 12 June 1999)

Papers

Papers - continued

General practice

Education and debate

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Books

TV

Adding insult to injury

BMJ 1999;318:1632.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

BMJ 1999;318:1632.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

BESTSELLERS

May Bestsellers

BMJ 1999;318:1632.3 (Published 12 June 1999)

Personal View

The beginning of the end

BMJ 1999;318:1633.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

Soundings

Good doctors doing nothing

BMJ 1999;318:1633.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

Career focus

Challenging the “F” word: redefining failure in medical careers

BMJ 1999;318:S2-7198 (Published 12 June 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3-7198 (Published 12 June 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3a-7198 (Published 12 June 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3b-7198 (Published 12 June 1999)

Corrections

Quebec faces severe pressure on casualty departments

BMJ 1999;318:1584.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

Call to needle times after acute myocardial infarction

BMJ 1999;318:1584.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

Reforming British primary care (again)

BMJ 1999;318:1584.3 (Published 12 June 1999)

Ordeals for the fetal programming hypothesis

BMJ 1999;318:1584.4 (Published 12 June 1999)

Preventing injuries in children: cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care

BMJ 1999;318:1584.5 (Published 12 June 1999)

Computer support for determining drug dose: systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ 1999;318:1584.6 (Published 12 June 1999)

ABC of labour care: induction

BMJ 1999;318:1584.7 (Published 12 June 1999)

Obituary