12 June 1999 (Vol 318, Issue 7198)

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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

Patient complaints are damaging for doctors' health and practice

BMJ 1999;318:0.7 (Published 12 June 1999)

Hospital experiences affect pain management in sickle cell disease

BMJ 1999;318:0.4 (Published 12 June 1999)

Lymphoedema and site of entry are risk factors for cellulitis

BMJ 1999;318:0.5 (Published 12 June 1999)

Surveillance of playground accidents can lead to their reduction

BMJ 1999;318:0.6 (Published 12 June 1999)

No link supported between myocardial infarction and oral contraceptive use

BMJ 1999;318:0.3 (Published 12 June 1999)

Is choosing the right antibiotic really that difficult?

BMJ 1999;318:0.8 (Published 12 June 1999)

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

Oral contraceptives and myocardial infarction: results of the MICA case-control studyCommentary: Oral contraceptives and myocardial infarction: reassuring new findings

BMJ 1999;318:1579 (Published 12 June 1999)

Experiences of hospital care and treatment seeking for pain from sickle cell disease: qualitative study

BMJ 1999;318:1585 (Published 12 June 1999)

Risk factors for erysipelas of the leg (cellulitis): case-control study

BMJ 1999;318:1591 (Published 12 June 1999)

Papers - continued

Preventing injuries in public playgrounds through partnership between health services and local authority: community intervention study

BMJ 1999;318:1595.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

General practice

General practitioners' experiences of patients' complaints: qualitative study

BMJ 1999;318:1596 (Published 12 June 1999)

Education and debate

Towards an understanding of oedema

BMJ 1999;318:1610 (Published 12 June 1999)

How do you choose antibiotic treatment?Commentary: Resist jumping to conclusionsCommentary: A matter of good clinical practiceCommentary: Honesty is the best policy

BMJ 1999;318:1614.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Senior medical staffs conferenceJunior doctors conferenceBMA's ARM agenda

BMJ 1999;318:1628 (Published 12 June 1999)

Books

High Life: A History of High Altitude Physiology and Medicine

BMJ 1999;318:1631.1 (Published 12 June 1999)

Against the Grain: The Genetic Transformation of Global Agriculture

BMJ 1999;318:1631.2 (Published 12 June 1999)

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

This week's Obituary section

Robert Hugh CawleyJohn David EbsworthAnne Lydia EvansHoward Brinley JenkinsKenneth Arthur LatterMartin LawrenceAnn MoranJames Robinson RowellAnne SpoerreyKenneth Eric WarrenLeslie Andrew Wilson

BMJ 1999;318:1626 (Published 12 June 1999)