17 July 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7203)

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

Letters - continued

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

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

Papers - continued

General practice

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

Book

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

Obituary