31 July 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7205)

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Editor's Choice

Legitimising personal experience

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

Legitimising personal experience

BMJ 1999;319:0.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

News

Editor of New England Journal of Medicine departs

BMJ 1999;319:273.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

Fears that a rise in genetic testing will rule out insurance are “paranoia”

BMJ 1999;319:273.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

Max-Planck Society investigates misconduct

BMJ 1999;319:274.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

Viagra makes flowers stand up straight

BMJ 1999;319:274.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;319:274.3 (Published 31 July 1999)

Dobson defends use of the PFI for hospital building

BMJ 1999;319:275.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

Scottish doctors call for a moratorium on PFI

BMJ 1999;319:275.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

Drug cuts deaths from heart failure by a third

BMJ 1999;319:276.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

MPs call for tighter regulation of private sector

BMJ 1999;319:276.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

Netherlands will “lead the way in cooperation with the private sector”

BMJ 1999;319:276.3 (Published 31 July 1999)

Cardiac surgery audit raises concern over equity of access

BMJ 1999;319:277.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

Wimps can blame their genes

BMJ 1999;319:277.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

UK introduces new meningitis C vaccine

BMJ 1999;319:278.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

Mother fails to win right to control treatment for son

BMJ 1999;319:278.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

Editorials

Fluoridation of water supplies

BMJ 1999;319:269 (Published 31 July 1999)

Writing as therapy

BMJ 1999;319:270 (Published 31 July 1999)

Intensive care medicine comes of age

BMJ 1999;319:271 (Published 31 July 1999)

Another editor bites the dust

BMJ 1999;319:272 (Published 31 July 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Low dose aspirin for preventing and treating pre-eclampsia

BMJ 1999;319:316 (Published 31 July 1999)

Training in large bowel cancer surgery

BMJ 1999;319:317.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

What is publication?

BMJ 1999;319:317.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

Laterality of lower limb amputation in diabetic patients

BMJ 1999;319:318 (Published 31 July 1999)

Inequalities in health

BMJ 1999;319:319 (Published 31 July 1999)

Safer non-cardiac surgery for patients with coronary artery disease

BMJ 1999;319:320 (Published 31 July 1999)

Letters - continued

Health care is not a human right

BMJ 1999;319:321.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

Opiate detoxification under anaesthesia

BMJ 1999;319:321.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

Policy of “hands poised” care by attendant in normal birth is not recommended

BMJ 1999;319:322.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

Delays experienced by doctors suspended by GMC

BMJ 1999;319:322.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:328 (Published 31 July 1999)

Fillers

Forever in his debt

BMJ 1999;319:291.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

Medical statisticians

BMJ 1999;319:291.3 (Published 31 July 1999)

STD outreach by taxi

BMJ 1999;319:296 (Published 31 July 1999)

Patient controlled hallucinations

BMJ 1999;319:301 (Published 31 July 1999)

The pen is mightier than the sword

BMJ 1999;319:305 (Published 31 July 1999)

Allergy and immunity

BMJ 1999;319:308 (Published 31 July 1999)

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 1999;319:312.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

GPs need models for managing bereavement

BMJ 1999;319:0.8 (Published 31 July 1999)

Coxiella burnetii infection may be linked to cardiovascular disease

BMJ 1999;319:0.4 (Published 31 July 1999)

Mass media campaign on folic acid did not alter socioeconomic differences

BMJ 1999;319:0.7 (Published 31 July 1999)

Community exercise classes help people with back pain

BMJ 1999;319:0.3 (Published 31 July 1999)

Unexpected late stillbirths are more common than sudden infant deaths

BMJ 1999;319:0.5 (Published 31 July 1999)

Near patient test for respiratory syncytial virus identifies positive cases

BMJ 1999;319:0.6 (Published 31 July 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Near patient microbiological tests

BMJ 1999;319:298 (Published 31 July 1999)

Sciatica: which intervention?

BMJ 1999;319:302 (Published 31 July 1999)

Physiological effects of starvation interpreted as food allergy

BMJ 1999;319:304 (Published 31 July 1999)

Withdrawal of treatment

BMJ 1999;319:306 (Published 31 July 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Goals of UK white paper could be achieved without helping worst off

BMJ 1999;319:278.3 (Published 31 July 1999)

Hungary's plan to privatise family practice founders for lack of funds

BMJ 1999;319:278.4 (Published 31 July 1999)

Man who supplied cannabis for medicinal purposes acquitted

BMJ 1999;319:278.5 (Published 31 July 1999)

Welsh heart surgeons demand expansion in services

BMJ 1999;319:278.6 (Published 31 July 1999)

Papers

Randomised controlled trial of exercise for low back pain: clinical outcomes, costs, and preferences

BMJ 1999;319:279 (Published 31 July 1999)

Long term vascular complications of Coxiella burnetii infection in Switzerland: cohort study

BMJ 1999;319:284 (Published 31 July 1999)

Prospective risk of unexplained stillbirth in singleton pregnancies at term: population based analysis

BMJ 1999;319:287 (Published 31 July 1999)

Predicted impact of intravenous thrombolysis on prognosis of general population of stroke patients: simulation model

BMJ 1999;319:288 (Published 31 July 1999)

Near patient testing for respiratory syncytial virus in paediatric accident and emergency: prospective pilot study

BMJ 1999;319:289 (Published 31 July 1999)

Accuracy of perceptions of hepatitis B and C status: cross sectional investigation of opiate addicts in treatment

BMJ 1999;319:290 (Published 31 July 1999)

Effect of mass media campaign to reduce socioeconomic differences in women's awareness and behaviour concerning use of folic acid: cross sectional study

BMJ 1999;319:291.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

General practice

General practitioners' beliefs and attitudes about how to respond to death and bereavement: qualitative studyCommentary: Use of personal experience should be legitimised

BMJ 1999;319:293 (Published 31 July 1999)

Improving aspirin prophylaxis after myocardial infarction in primary care: collaboration in multipractice audit between primary care audit group and health authority

BMJ 1999;319:297 (Published 31 July 1999)

Education and debate

Cancer in old age—is it inadequately investigated and treated?

BMJ 1999;319:309 (Published 31 July 1999)

Interpreting the evidence: choosing between randomised and non-randomised studies

BMJ 1999;319:312.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Junior doctors rebut government claimsBMA sets up audit committeeGPs must get involved in walk-in health centresConsultant bodies should have strong voice in trusts

BMJ 1999;319:324 (Published 31 July 1999)

Books

Women and Health Services: An Agenda for Change

BMJ 1999;319:325.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

Hypertension in Pregnancy

BMJ 1999;319:325.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

PRESS

Presumed dangerous

BMJ 1999;319:326.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Genes and insurance

BMJ 1999;319:326.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

Personal View

A peaceful death

BMJ 1999;319:327.1 (Published 31 July 1999)

Soundings

Hello and goodbye

BMJ 1999;319:327.2 (Published 31 July 1999)

Career focus

Doctoring doctors

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7205 (Published 31 July 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7205 (Published 31 July 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3a-7205 (Published 31 July 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3b-7205 (Published 31 July 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Keith HodgkinDavid LintottPhilippa Mary LudlamMichael Patrick QuinlanRoy Kenneth Rowley

BMJ 1999;319:323 (Published 31 July 1999)