10 July 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7202)

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Editor's Choice

Ignoring doctors: often advisable

BMJ 1999;319:0.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

Ignoring doctors: often advisable

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

News

UK public health plan aims to save 300 000 lives in next decade

BMJ 1999;319:73.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

US National Institutes of Health clarifies E-biomed database

BMJ 1999;319:73.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

BMA backs junior doctors' fight against government

BMJ 1999;319:74.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

Newly identified gene linked to dementia

BMJ 1999;319:74.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

BMA calls for independent commissioner on child health

BMJ 1999;319:75.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

US government debates Medicare coverage of prescription costs

BMJ 1999;319:75.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

Euthanasia endorsed in Dutch patient with dementia

BMJ 1999;319:75.3 (Published 10 July 1999)

Philippine plan to cut diarrhoea deaths

BMJ 1999;319:75.4 (Published 10 July 1999)

UK guidelines aim to improve pain management in children

BMJ 1999;319:76.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

First national paediatric formulary is launched in the UK

BMJ 1999;319:76.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

Report calls for GP research in Scotland

BMJ 1999;319:76.3 (Published 10 July 1999)

Ovarian cancer should be treated by specialist teams

BMJ 1999;319:77.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

Suboptimal care implicated in many infant deaths in UK

BMJ 1999;319:77.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

US reconsiders use of seclusion and restraints in psychiatric patients

BMJ 1999;319:77.3 (Published 10 July 1999)

Scientist, superwoman, and sock drawer sorter

BMJ 1999;319:78 (Published 10 July 1999)

Editorials

What do hospital admission rates say about primary care?

BMJ 1999;319:67 (Published 10 July 1999)

Radioiodine and thyroid eye disease

BMJ 1999;319:68 (Published 10 July 1999)

Reasons for not seeing drug representatives

BMJ 1999;319:69 (Published 10 July 1999)

Prescribing medicines for children

BMJ 1999;319:70 (Published 10 July 1999)

Skin and nail fungi—almost beaten

BMJ 1999;319:71 (Published 10 July 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Routine screening of children returning home from the tropics

BMJ 1999;319:121 (Published 10 July 1999)

In screening for congenital cataract, many false positive referrals will occur

BMJ 1999;319:122.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

Body mass index standards for children

BMJ 1999;319:122.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

Letters - continued

Closure of Royal Hospital Haslar is necessary

BMJ 1999;319:122.3 (Published 10 July 1999)

Treatment of myocardial infarction should be audited before heart failure clinics are set up

BMJ 1999;319:123.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

Drug and alcohol policies are rare at medical schools in UK

BMJ 1999;319:123.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

Bible is disapproving of homosexual activity but not homosexual orientation

BMJ 1999;319:123.3 (Published 10 July 1999)

Reducing antibiotic use in children with acute otitis media

BMJ 1999;319:124.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

Comparison of inhaled beclomethasone and budesonide

BMJ 1999;319:124.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:134 (Published 10 July 1999)

Fillers

“Thank you for ending 40 years of misery”

BMJ 1999;319:86 (Published 10 July 1999)

Do texts in English encourage quacks?

BMJ 1999;319:92.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

Wallabies on the runway

BMJ 1999;319:93 (Published 10 July 1999)

No silent areas

BMJ 1999;319:103 (Published 10 July 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Many diabetic patients do not monitor their blood glucose regularly

BMJ 1999;319:0.4 (Published 10 July 1999)

Folate supplements have not reduced neural tube defects

BMJ 1999;319:0.7 (Published 10 July 1999)

Leukotriene receptor antagonist reduces need for inhaled corticosteroids

BMJ 1999;319:0.6 (Published 10 July 1999)

Treatment for athlete's foot should begin with over the counter drugs

BMJ 1999;319:0.3 (Published 10 July 1999)

Easy access to emergency contraception does not make it the contraceptive of choice

BMJ 1999;319:0.5 (Published 10 July 1999)

Patient factors largely explain variation in GP admission rates

BMJ 1999;319:0.8 (Published 10 July 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Glycaemic control in diabetes

BMJ 1999;319:104 (Published 10 July 1999)

Managing patients with deliberate self harm who refuse treatment in the accident and emergency department

BMJ 1999;319:107 (Published 10 July 1999)

Neurological support

BMJ 1999;319:110 (Published 10 July 1999)

Papers

Systematic review of topical treatments for fungal infections of the skin and nails of the feet

BMJ 1999;319:79 (Published 10 July 1999)

Frequency of blood glucose monitoring in relation to glycaemic control: observational study with diabetes database

BMJ 1999;319:83 (Published 10 July 1999)

Randomised, placebo controlled trial of effect of a leukotriene receptor antagonist, montelukast, on tapering inhaled corticosteroids in asthmatic patients

BMJ 1999;319:87 (Published 10 July 1999)

What are leukotrienes and how do they work in asthma?

BMJ 1999;319:90.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

Questionnaire study of use of emergency contraception among teenagers

BMJ 1999;319:91 (Published 10 July 1999)

Papers - continued

Neural tube defects and periconceptional folic acid in England and Wales: retrospective studyCommentary: Food should be fortified with folic acid

BMJ 1999;319:92.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

General practice

Measuring quality of care with routine data: avoiding confusion between performance indicators and health outcomes

BMJ 1999;319:94 (Published 10 July 1999)

Explaining variation in hospital admission rates between general practices: cross sectional study

BMJ 1999;319:98 (Published 10 July 1999)

Education and debate

Are we really dying for a tan?

BMJ 1999;319:114 (Published 10 July 1999)

PFI in the NHS—is there an economic case?

BMJ 1999;319:116 (Published 10 July 1999)

Handling uncertainty in economic evaluation

BMJ 1999;319:120 (Published 10 July 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

BMA chairman warns of fight aheadUK government to review workforce planningGPC chairman writes to all GPsBMA warns that more doctors will leave armed servicesPrimary care groups face challengesConsultants' advice on revalidationConsultants' advice on rev…

BMJ 1999;319:128 (Published 10 July 1999)

Books

Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood

BMJ 1999;319:130.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

Tropical Medicine in the Twentieth Century

BMJ 1999;319:130.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

Opium and the People: Opiate Use and Drug Control Policy in Nineteenth Century England

BMJ 1999;319:131.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

Evidence-Based Family Medicine

BMJ 1999;319:131.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

RADIO

Raging hormones miss the target

BMJ 1999;319:132.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Pros and cons of suntans

BMJ 1999;319:132.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

Personal View

Concern, cooperation, and coexistence in healing

BMJ 1999;319:133.1 (Published 10 July 1999)

Soundings

St Mark's guideline

BMJ 1999;319:133.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

Career focus

Planning your life and career

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7202 (Published 10 July 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7202 (Published 10 July 1999)

Corrections

Will the NHS pay awards help recruitment?

BMJ 1999;319:90.2 (Published 10 July 1999)

Guidelines for evaluating papers on educational interventions

BMJ 1999;319:90.3 (Published 10 July 1999)

Opposition to the Icelandic database is based on false information

BMJ 1999;319:90.4 (Published 10 July 1999)

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:90.5 (Published 10 July 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

George Sydney AndersonDavid Paul de BonoJohn McKeeMichael Seddon

BMJ 1999;319:127 (Published 10 July 1999)