04 September 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7210)

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Editor's Choice

All about doctors

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 4 September 1999)

News

Incontinence campaign tests limits of advertising rules

BMJ 1999;319:591.1 (Published 4 September 1999)

Public awareness of hypertension declines in US

BMJ 1999;319:591.2 (Published 4 September 1999)

Israel introduces generic drugs scheme

BMJ 1999;319:592.1 (Published 4 September 1999)

Turkey surprised by extent of aid

BMJ 1999;319:592.2 (Published 4 September 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;319:592.3 (Published 4 September 1999)

Record numbers of Irish women visit Britain for abortion

BMJ 1999;319:593.1 (Published 4 September 1999)

Dolly's other DNA came from donor egg

BMJ 1999;319:593.2 (Published 4 September 1999)

South African doctors demand action on “unethical” colleagues

BMJ 1999;319:594.1 (Published 4 September 1999)

Canadian provinces want to cut tests to meet doctor shortage

BMJ 1999;319:594.2 (Published 4 September 1999)

Romanian GPs to take control of their practices

BMJ 1999;319:594.3 (Published 4 September 1999)

Editorials

Phantoms in the brain

BMJ 1999;319:587 (Published 4 September 1999)

Pituitary surgery for acromegaly

BMJ 1999;319:588 (Published 4 September 1999)

British guidelines on managing hypertension

BMJ 1999;319:589 (Published 4 September 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

When doctors might kill their patients

BMJ 1999;319:639 (Published 4 September 1999)

Increased mortality from liver cancer in England and Wales is not related to hepatitis C

BMJ 1999;319:640.1 (Published 4 September 1999)

Effectiveness of rivastigmine in Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 1999;319:640.2 (Published 4 September 1999)

Screening and mortality from cervical cancer

BMJ 1999;319:642 (Published 4 September 1999)

Use of guidelines should be evaluated in randomised controlled trials

BMJ 1999;319:643.1 (Published 4 September 1999)

Cognitive therapy is no better than supportive counselling in schizophrenia

BMJ 1999;319:643.2 (Published 4 September 1999)

Door to needle times of 12 minutes are possible in one emergency department

BMJ 1999;319:643.3 (Published 4 September 1999)

Early trials of angiogenic factors have not targeted patients most at risk of ocular disease

BMJ 1999;319:643.4 (Published 4 September 1999)

Letters - continued

Smoking by parents of asthmatic children

BMJ 1999;319:644 (Published 4 September 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:650 (Published 4 September 1999)

Fillers

The grind is the thing

BMJ 1999;319:608.4 (Published 4 September 1999)

The other Dr Finlay

BMJ 1999;319:618 (Published 4 September 1999)

Claude Bernard on the action of curare

BMJ 1999;319:622 (Published 4 September 1999)

Diversity to divinity

BMJ 1999;319:629 (Published 4 September 1999)

How the defibrillator saved a patient's life

BMJ 1999;319:638 (Published 4 September 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Drug counselling improves adherence to antidepressants

BMJ 1999;319:0.7 (Published 4 September 1999)

Critically ill children show same immunoparalysis as adults

BMJ 1999;319:0.5 (Published 4 September 1999)

Long term unemployed workers improve their lifestyle

BMJ 1999;319:0.3 (Published 4 September 1999)

Senior doctors do not use their GP

BMJ 1999;319:0.4 (Published 4 September 1999)

Glucocorticoids are effective in treating croup

BMJ 1999;319:0.2 (Published 4 September 1999)

Women in ethnic minorities are less likely to take HRT

BMJ 1999;319:0.6 (Published 4 September 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Acute dystonia induced by drug treatment

BMJ 1999;319:623 (Published 4 September 1999)

Morphine induced allodynia in a child with brain tumourWhat is allodynia?

BMJ 1999;319:627 (Published 4 September 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Lung cancer deaths in women continue to rise

BMJ 1999;319:594.4 (Published 4 September 1999)

Vertical transmission of HIV through breast milk most likely to occur soon after birth

BMJ 1999;319:594.5 (Published 4 September 1999)

Papers

The effectiveness of glucocorticoids in treating croup: meta-analysis

BMJ 1999;319:595 (Published 4 September 1999)

Predictors and consequences of unemployment among construction workers: prospective cohort study

BMJ 1999;319:600 (Published 4 September 1999)

Doctors as patients: postal survey examining consultants and general practitioners adherence to guidelines

BMJ 1999;319:605 (Published 4 September 1999)

Acquired immunoparalysis in paediatric intensive care: prospective observational study

BMJ 1999;319:609 (Published 4 September 1999)

Ethnic differences in use of hormone replacement therapy: community based survey

BMJ 1999;319:610 (Published 4 September 1999)

General practice

Effect of antidepressant drug counselling and information leaflets on adherence to drug treatment in primary care: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 1999;319:612 (Published 4 September 1999)

Here we go again: repeating implementation errors

BMJ 1999;319:616 (Published 4 September 1999)

Information in practice

Identifying problems with data collection at a local level: survey of NHS maternity units in England

BMJ 1999;319:619 (Published 4 September 1999)

Education and debate

British Hypertension Society guidelines for hypertension management 1999: summary

BMJ 1999;319:630 (Published 4 September 1999)

Handling uncertainty in economic evaluations of healthcare interventions

BMJ 1999;319:635 (Published 4 September 1999)

CD

Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy: Effective Patient Care

BMJ 1999;319:647.1 (Published 4 September 1999)

Book

Terminal Consent

BMJ 1999;319:647.2 (Published 4 September 1999)

TV

Doctors from Hell

BMJ 1999;319:648.1 (Published 4 September 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Earthquake disaster in Turkey

BMJ 1999;319:648.2 (Published 4 September 1999)

Personal View

My years with Lyme disease

BMJ 1999;319:649.1 (Published 4 September 1999)

Soundings

Assets for the meritocracy

BMJ 1999;319:649.2 (Published 4 September 1999)

Career focus

Facing redundancy

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7210 (Published 4 September 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7210 (Published 4 September 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3a-7210 (Published 4 September 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3b-7210 (Published 4 September 1999)

Corrections

Food production and safety

BMJ 1999;319:608.1 (Published 4 September 1999)

Mercury poisoning after spillage at home from a sphygmomanometer on loan from hospital

BMJ 1999;319:608.2 (Published 4 September 1999)

In screening for congenital cataract, many false referrals will occur

BMJ 1999;319:608.3 (Published 4 September 1999)

Evidence based cardiology: Prevention of ischaemic stroke

BMJ 1999;319:626 (Published 4 September 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Peter Thomas FallonWifrid Peter GreeningDonald Ian RobertsonLewis Arthur Scott-WhiteWilliam Pow ThomsonEric TrimmerLysabeth (“Betty”) Rosemary Vaughan Jones (née Hurwich)Edward Geoffrey WadeJames WattFrederick Conon Williams

BMJ 1999;319:645 (Published 4 September 1999)