17 July 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7203)

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Editor's Choice

The wisdoms of other disciplines

BMJ 1999;319:0.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

The wisdoms of other disciplines

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

News

BMA wants presumed consent for organ donors

BMJ 1999;319:141.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

German drug agency approves mifepristone

BMJ 1999;319:141.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

London whistleblower left with career in tatters

BMJ 1999;319:142.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

Anaesthetists do not need separate consent before surgery

BMJ 1999;319:142.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;319:142.3 (Published 17 July 1999)

Florida jury finds tobacco companies guilty of fraud

BMJ 1999;319:143.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

Tobacco could be used to produce interleukin 10

BMJ 1999;319:143.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

Doctors fear that inequalities are slipping down agenda

BMJ 1999;319:144.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

Quebec nurses enter third week of strike

BMJ 1999;319:144.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

Scientists raise possibility of vaccine for Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 1999;319:145.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

Childhood thyroid cancers rise 10-fold in the Ukraine

BMJ 1999;319:145.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

Educator with a vision

BMJ 1999;319:146.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

Editorials

Minimally invasive cardiac surgery

BMJ 1999;319:135 (Published 17 July 1999)

Reducing errors in medicine

BMJ 1999;319:136 (Published 17 July 1999)

Chaperones for genital examination

BMJ 1999;319:137 (Published 17 July 1999)

Treating behavioural and psychological signs in Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 1999;319:138 (Published 17 July 1999)

Saving lives or sustaining the public's health?

BMJ 1999;319:139 (Published 17 July 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Cholesterol lowering margarine may not be useful in healthy fat modified diet

BMJ 1999;319:186.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

Diet and the prevention of cancer

BMJ 1999;319:186.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

Anomalies occur in registrations of fetal deaths in multiple pregnancies

BMJ 1999;319:188.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

Should immunisation against hepatitis B take priority over provision of clean drinking water?

BMJ 1999;319:188.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

Chlamydia screening can have high take-up rates if right methodology is used

BMJ 1999;319:188.3 (Published 17 July 1999)

Effect of discussion and deliberation on public's views of priority setting

BMJ 1999;319:189.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

Probiotics used in trials should be independently checked microbiologically

BMJ 1999;319:189.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

Letters - continued

Patient education is way to influence maternal requests for caesarean section

BMJ 1999;319:190.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

Use of mini-mental state examination by GPs to diagnose dementia may be unnecessary

BMJ 1999;319:190.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

Conservative management of genuine stress incontinence in women

BMJ 1999;319:190.3 (Published 17 July 1999)

Private medical care surely benefits NHS indirectly

BMJ 1999;319:191.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

Economics of PFI in the NHS

BMJ 1999;319:191.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:202 (Published 17 July 1999)

Fillers

The future of the woman physician

BMJ 1999;319:163.3 (Published 17 July 1999)

The ideal

BMJ 1999;319:163.4 (Published 17 July 1999)

Alternative definitions

BMJ 1999;319:173.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

Magic and medicine

BMJ 1999;319:185.3 (Published 17 July 1999)

The BMA in Belfast

BMJ 1999;319:193.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Breast feeding seems to reduce the risk of obesity in children

BMJ 1999;319:0.3 (Published 17 July 1999)

Spare capacity in beds is essential to accommodate emergencies

BMJ 1999;319:0.5 (Published 17 July 1999)

Rise in hospital admission may be an artefact

BMJ 1999;319:0.6 (Published 17 July 1999)

Health authorities fail to manage quality improvement in general practice

BMJ 1999;319:0.8 (Published 17 July 1999)

Many randomised trials of traditional Chinese medicine exist but are of poor quality

BMJ 1999;319:0.7 (Published 17 July 1999)

Zygosity influences glucose homeostasis and insulin resistance in twins

BMJ 1999;319:0.4 (Published 17 July 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Diagnostic radiology

BMJ 1999;319:168 (Published 17 July 1999)

Exacerbating cervical spine injury by applying a hard collar

BMJ 1999;319:171 (Published 17 July 1999)

Sore throat: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas

BMJ 1999;319:173.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

Other supportive care

BMJ 1999;319:175 (Published 17 July 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Coca-Cola health scare may be mass sociogenic illness

BMJ 1999;319:146.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

London's private doctors protest at “managed care”

BMJ 1999;319:146.3 (Published 17 July 1999)

Council of Europe urges better palliative care

BMJ 1999;319:146.4 (Published 17 July 1999)

Papers

Breast feeding and obesity: cross sectional study

BMJ 1999;319:147 (Published 17 July 1999)

Does zygosity influence the metabolic profile of twins? A population based cross sectional study

BMJ 1999;319:151 (Published 17 July 1999)

Papers - continued

Dynamics of bed use in accommodating emergency admissions: stochastic simulation model

BMJ 1999;319:155 (Published 17 July 1999)

The rise in emergency admissions—crisis or artefact? Temporal analysis of health services data

BMJ 1999;319:158 (Published 17 July 1999)

Use of chaperones in clinics for genitourinary medicine: survey of consultants

BMJ 1999;319:159 (Published 17 July 1999)

Review of randomised controlled trials of traditional Chinese medicine

BMJ 1999;319:160 (Published 17 July 1999)

Surgeons' and occupational health departments' awareness of guidelines on post-exposure prophylaxis for staff exposed to HIV: telephone survey

BMJ 1999;319:162 (Published 17 July 1999)

Possible interaction between clindamycin and cyclosporin

BMJ 1999;319:163.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

General practice

Improving quality in general practice: qualitative case study of barriers faced by health authorities

BMJ 1999;319:164 (Published 17 July 1999)

Education and debate

Planning the “new” NHS: downsizing for the 21st century

BMJ 1999;319:179 (Published 17 July 1999)

Baseline imbalance in randomised controlled trials

BMJ 1999;319:185.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

The BMA's annual representative meetingGMC asked to re-examine 1999 election

BMJ 1999;319:193.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

Book

Over our dead bodies: Port Arthur and Australia's fight for gun control

BMJ 1999;319:199.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

PERFORMING ARTS

Performing Arts: The Consulting Room

BMJ 1999;319:199.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

PRESS

In the grip of spin

BMJ 1999;319:200.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Digital imaging

BMJ 1999;319:200.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

MULTIMEDIA

Making a mark

BMJ 1999;319:201.1 (Published 17 July 1999)

Soundings

In England now

BMJ 1999;319:201.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

Career focus

Child and adolescent psychiatry

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7203 (Published 17 July 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7203 (Published 17 July 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3a-7203 (Published 17 July 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3b-7203 (Published 17 July 1999)

Corrections

Reducing the risk of major elective surgery: randomised controlled trial of preoperative optimisation of oxygen delivery

BMJ 1999;319:163.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

Not playing with a full DEC: why development and evaluation committee methods for appraising new drugs may be inadequate

BMJ 1999;319:185.2 (Published 17 July 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

William Alexander DawsonWilloughby Hugh GreanyKenneth Esslemont McIverJohn (“Jack”) Bruce RitchieBruce Ernest Richard Symonds

BMJ 1999;319:192 (Published 17 July 1999)