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21 August 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7208)

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Editor's Choice

A global look at cancer

BMJ 1999;319:0.2 (Published 21 August 1999)

A global look at cancer

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 21 August 1999)

News

Utrecht

BMJ 1999;319:467.1 (Published 21 August 1999)

Immunotherapy produces long term clinical remission

BMJ 1999;319:467.2 (Published 21 August 1999)

Irish doctors protest over pay and conditions

BMJ 1999;319:468.1 (Published 21 August 1999)

Life expectancy of Russian men falls to 58

BMJ 1999;319:468.2 (Published 21 August 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;319:468.3 (Published 21 August 1999)

UK hospitals assess eye damage after solar eclipse

BMJ 1999;319:469.1 (Published 21 August 1999)

Earlier discharge for newborns may increase health risks

BMJ 1999;319:469.2 (Published 21 August 1999)

Global health gap widens says World Bank

BMJ 1999;319:470.1 (Published 21 August 1999)

Drug treatment beats prison for cutting crime and addiction rates

BMJ 1999;319:470.2 (Published 21 August 1999)

Raloxifene can cut fracture risk

BMJ 1999;319:470.3 (Published 21 August 1999)

Editorials

Cancer survival in Britain

BMJ 1999;319:461 (Published 21 August 1999)

Evidence based palliative care

BMJ 1999;319:462 (Published 21 August 1999)

Doctors and nurses: changing family values?

BMJ 1999;319:463 (Published 21 August 1999)

What the millennium bug tells us about ourselves

BMJ 1999;319:464 (Published 21 August 1999)

The joy of being electronic

BMJ 1999;319:465 (Published 21 August 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Contacting GP surgeries over Christmas

BMJ 1999;319:513 (Published 21 August 1999)

Hyponatraemia after orthopaedic surgery

BMJ 1999;319:514 (Published 21 August 1999)

Intensive care is not expensive compared with other treatments

BMJ 1999;319:516.1 (Published 21 August 1999)

Orbital trauma

BMJ 1999;319:516.2 (Published 21 August 1999)

Twins and the fetal origins hypothesis

BMJ 1999;319:517 (Published 21 August 1999)

Letters - continued

Hand washing

BMJ 1999;319:518 (Published 21 August 1999)

“Black boxing:” response by editor of Hospital Doctor

BMJ 1999;319:520.1 (Published 21 August 1999)

Referral to intensive care units should not be limited to consultants

BMJ 1999;319:520.2 (Published 21 August 1999)

Shakespeare knew the layered clothing sign of schizophrenia

BMJ 1999;319:520.3 (Published 21 August 1999)

Evaluation of NHS direct

BMJ 1999;319:521 (Published 21 August 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:526 (Published 21 August 1999)

Fillers

The screaming man

BMJ 1999;319:489 (Published 21 August 1999)

Now concentrate

BMJ 1999;319:494 (Published 21 August 1999)

The qat party

BMJ 1999;319:500 (Published 21 August 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Babies delivered in water: perinatal mortality is no higher

BMJ 1999;319:0.5 (Published 21 August 1999)

Social activities lengthen life in elderly Americans

BMJ 1999;319:0.4 (Published 21 August 1999)

Single screening test for neonatal cholestasis is not yet feasible from blood spots

BMJ 1999;319:0.3 (Published 21 August 1999)

What should the developing world do about cancer?

BMJ 1999;319:0.8 (Published 21 August 1999)

Weight control measures help women stop smoking

BMJ 1999;319:0.7 (Published 21 August 1999)

A single genetic polymorphism may account for a fifth of infarctions

BMJ 1999;319:0.6 (Published 21 August 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BMJ 1999;319:495 (Published 21 August 1999)

Cutting edge

BMJ 1999;319:501 (Published 21 August 1999)

Papers

Screening of newborn infants for cholestatic hepatobiliary disease with tandem mass spectrometryCommentary: What is tandem mass spectrometry?

BMJ 1999;319:471 (Published 21 August 1999)

Population based study of social and productive activities as predictors of survival among elderly Americans

BMJ 1999;319:478 (Published 21 August 1999)

Perinatal mortality and morbidity among babies delivered in water: surveillance study and postal survey

BMJ 1999;319:483 (Published 21 August 1999)

Papers - continued

Polymorphism in high density lipoprotein paraoxonase gene and risk of acute myocardial infarction in men: prospective nested case-control studyCommentary: Causality—the Achilles' heel of observational studiesCommentary: How high density lipoprotein pro…

BMJ 1999;319:487 (Published 21 August 1999)

General practice

Open randomised trial of intermittent very low energy diet together with nicotine gum for stopping smoking in women who gained weight in previous attempts to quitCommentary: results are unlikely to be as good in routine practice

BMJ 1999;319:490 (Published 21 August 1999)

Education and debate

Cancer in the developing world: a call to action

BMJ 1999;319:505 (Published 21 August 1999)

An introduction to bayesian methods in health technology assessment

BMJ 1999;319:508 (Published 21 August 1999)

BOOKS CDS

QBase: Anaesthesia: 1-3; QBase: Anaesthesia: 1; QBase: Anaesthesia: 2; QBase: Anaesthesia: 3

BMJ 1999;319:523.1 (Published 21 August 1999)

BESTSELLERS

JULY BESTSELLERS

BMJ 1999;319:523.2 (Published 21 August 1999)

Ad

“Unselling” the cigarette

BMJ 1999;319:524.1 (Published 21 August 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Water births

BMJ 1999;319:524.2 (Published 21 August 1999)

Personal View

A patient's eye view of quality

BMJ 1999;319:525.1 (Published 21 August 1999)

Soundings

Fancy drugs for worried folks

BMJ 1999;319:525.2 (Published 21 August 1999)

Career focus

What do directors of postgraduate education in general practice do?

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7208 (Published 21 August 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7208 (Published 21 August 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3a-7208 (Published 21 August 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3b-7208 (Published 21 August 1999)

Correction

Comparative efficacy of three mumps vaccines during disease outbreak in eastern Switzerland: cohort study

BMJ 1999;319:477 (Published 21 August 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Charles Peter BroadKenneth Playfair DuncanHoward Larmour EnglishDorothy Younie

BMJ 1999;319:522 (Published 21 August 1999)