26 June 1999 (Vol 318, Issue 7200)

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Editor's Choice

Revisiting old debates

BMJ 1999;318:0.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

News

England publishes first tables of hospital performance

BMJ 1999;318:1715.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

US research funding depends on lobbying, not need

BMJ 1999;318:1715.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;318:1716.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

EU plans more antibiotic resistance surveillance

BMJ 1999;318:1716.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

UK will ban tobacco advertisements by December

BMJ 1999;318:1716.3 (Published 26 June 1999)

BMA calls for extra safeguards for life and death decisions

BMJ 1999;318:1716.4 (Published 26 June 1999)

Closed circuit television does not reduce violence

BMJ 1999;318:1717.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

Oestrogen modulator reduces risk of breast cancer

BMJ 1999;318:1717.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

NHS ombudsman will name doctors who do not accept ruling

BMJ 1999;318:1718.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

Wellcome Trust boosts pay to keep researchers in Britain

BMJ 1999;318:1718.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

Food safety remains high on EU agenda

BMJ 1999;318:1718.3 (Published 26 June 1999)

Model predicts who benefits from carotid endarterectomy

BMJ 1999;318:1719.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

WHO's cancer chief resigns

BMJ 1999;318:1719.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

Bristol inquiry reveals that inspections were inadequate

BMJ 1999;318:1719.3 (Published 26 June 1999)

Kansas sues internet medicine suppliers

BMJ 1999;318:1720.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

England gets more medical students

BMJ 1999;318:1720.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

Men using IVF inadequately screened for cystic fibrosis

BMJ 1999;318:1720.3 (Published 26 June 1999)

Editorials

Withdrawing or withholding life prolonging treatment

BMJ 1999;318:1709 (Published 26 June 1999)

Gluten sensitivity: a many headed hydra

BMJ 1999;318:1710 (Published 26 June 1999)

Helping parents identify severe illnesses in their children

BMJ 1999;318:1711 (Published 26 June 1999)

Secret government revisited

BMJ 1999;318:1712 (Published 26 June 1999)

Preventing teenage pregnancies, supporting teenage mothers

BMJ 1999;318:1713 (Published 26 June 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Caring for and about acute general medicine

BMJ 1999;318:1759 (Published 26 June 1999)

Developments have been made on cardiac surgical audit in Bristol

BMJ 1999;318:1760.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

Cooperative language in consultations by male and female doctors

BMJ 1999;318:1760.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

Onset of adolescent eating disorders

BMJ 1999;318:1761 (Published 26 June 1999)

Job applications could be electronic

BMJ 1999;318:1762.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

Sponsored trials do not necessarily give more-favourable results

BMJ 1999;318:1762.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

Letters - continued

Patients must be told of unintended injuries during treatment

BMJ 1999;318:1762.3 (Published 26 June 1999)

Politicians may not have same goals as clinicians with regard to mergers

BMJ 1999;318:1762.4 (Published 26 June 1999)

Views on rationing of treatments for erectile dysfunction are mixed

BMJ 1999;318:1763.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

Doctors can benefit from spending time with their dying patients

BMJ 1999;318:1763.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

Spacer devices increase dose of inhaled corticosteroids delivered

BMJ 1999;318:1764.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

Needs of patients with learning disabilities are not being met

BMJ 1999;318:1764.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

Ethics of GMC's decision to suspend doctor need to be explained

BMJ 1999;318:1764.3 (Published 26 June 1999)

Confidence intervals for the number needed to treat

BMJ 1999;318:1764.4 (Published 26 June 1999)

Assessment of competence to complete advance directives

BMJ 1999;318:1765 (Published 26 June 1999)

Role of the routine neonatal examination

BMJ 1999;318:1766.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

“Health care is a human right” is a meaningless and devastating manifesto

BMJ 1999;318:1766.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;318:1774 (Published 26 June 1999)

Fillers

Three very unwise men

BMJ 1999;318:1729 (Published 26 June 1999)

A painful lesson

BMJ 1999;318:1744 (Published 26 June 1999)

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 1999;318:1745.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

Oranges and grapefruit

BMJ 1999;318:1758 (Published 26 June 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Feedback can improve doctors' record keeping—a bit

BMJ 1999;318:0.8 (Published 26 June 1999)

Rodent control may help prevent human hantavirus infection

BMJ 1999;318:0.7 (Published 26 June 1999)

Baby Check does not reduce GP consultation rate

BMJ 1999;318:0.6 (Published 26 June 1999)

Long term use of β blockers after myocardial infarction saves lives, but they are underused

BMJ 1999;318:0.5 (Published 26 June 1999)

Women should be advised to allow adequate time after stillbirth before next pregnancy

BMJ 1999;318:0.3 (Published 26 June 1999)

No support for moderate drinking improving health

BMJ 1999;318:0.4 (Published 26 June 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Gallbladder disease

BMJ 1999;318:1745.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

Circulatory support

BMJ 1999;318:1749 (Published 26 June 1999)

Editor's Choice [GP]

Revisiting old debates

BMJ 1999;318:0.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

UK considers watchdog for private health care

BMJ 1999;318:1720.4 (Published 26 June 1999)

Ireland draws up plan for junior doctors' hours

BMJ 1999;318:1720.5 (Published 26 June 1999)

Papers

Stillbirth as risk factor for depression and anxiety in the subsequent pregnancy: cohort study

BMJ 1999;318:1721 (Published 26 June 1999)

Alcohol consumption and mortality from all causes, coronary heart disease, and stroke: results from a prospective cohort study of Scottish men with 21 years of follow up

BMJ 1999;318:1725 (Published 26 June 1999)

β Blockade after myocardial infarction: systematic review and meta regression analysis

BMJ 1999;318:1730 (Published 26 June 1999)

Risk factors for human hantavirus infection: Franco-Belgian collaborative case-control study during 1995-6 epidemic

BMJ 1999;318:1737 (Published 26 June 1999)

Improvement in clinical work through feedback: intervention study

BMJ 1999;318:1738 (Published 26 June 1999)

General practice

Randomised controlled trial of effect of Baby Check on use of health services in first 6 months of life

BMJ 1999;318:1740 (Published 26 June 1999)

Education and debate

Ethical dilemmaDiscontinuation of ventilation after brain stem deathTo whom is our duty of care?Policy should be balanced with concern for the familyBrain stem death defines death in law

BMJ 1999;318:1753 (Published 26 June 1999)

Education and debateDo we need a new word for patients?Let's do away with “patients”Commentary: Leave well alone

BMJ 1999;318:1756 (Published 26 June 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Medicopolitical digestMedical academic staffs conferenceBMA criticises report on prescribingHealth bodies could improve financial managementAction needed to help demoralised consultants

BMJ 1999;318:1768 (Published 26 June 1999)

Books

Doctors Talking

BMJ 1999;318:1770.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

Time of Our Lives

BMJ 1999;318:1770.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

Kerala's Demographic Transition: Determinants and Consequences

BMJ 1999;318:1771.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

Review

Bookcase

BMJ 1999;318:1771.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

PRESS

Popularising hospital performance data

BMJ 1999;318:1772.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

www.doh.gov.uk/indicat/indicat.htm

BMJ 1999;318:1772.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

Personal View

Abandoning diastole

BMJ 1999;318:1773.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

Soundings

Bed blocking for beginners

BMJ 1999;318:1773.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

Career focus

Giving feedback

BMJ 1999;318:S2-7200 (Published 26 June 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3-7200 (Published 26 June 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3a-7200 (Published 26 June 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3b-7200 (Published 26 June 1999)

Corrections

Prescribing antibiotics for sore throats

BMJ 1999;318:1724.1 (Published 26 June 1999)

Dutch system of peer review is different and effective

BMJ 1999;318:1724.2 (Published 26 June 1999)

Sexual health of teenagers in England and Wales: analysis of national data

BMJ 1999;318:1724.3 (Published 26 June 1999)

Obituaries

BMJ 1999;318:1724.4 (Published 26 June 1999)

Oral contraceptives and myocardial infarction: results of the MICA case-control study

BMJ 1999;318:1739 (Published 26 June 1999)

Obituary

ObituariesJohn William LawsVerdon DammsHenry Rea PattersonRaymond Hatfield Welch

BMJ 1999;318:1767 (Published 26 June 1999)