11 September 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7211)

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Editor's Choice

An ABC of complementary medicine: a new dawn

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

An ABC of complementary medicine: a new dawn

BMJ 1999;319:0.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

News

AMA backs health reform legislation

BMJ 1999;319:657.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

NIH website of original research to start in January

BMJ 1999;319:657.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

Baby to be tested for HIV against parents' wishes

BMJ 1999;319:658.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

Medical advice in press is often unsuitable, sometimes dangerous

BMJ 1999;319:658.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;319:658.3 (Published 11 September 1999)

Anti-flu drug may not reduce death rate

BMJ 1999;319:659.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

China moves to tackle iodine deficiency

BMJ 1999;319:659.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

UK watchdog issues guidelines to combat medical research fraud

BMJ 1999;319:660.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

Storm rages over revisions to Helsinki Declaration

BMJ 1999;319:660.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

ACE inhibitor reduces cardiovascular events by 22

BMJ 1999;319:661.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

Project makes emergency pill more available

BMJ 1999;319:661.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

New EU health commissioner airs his priorities

BMJ 1999;319:662.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

Commons committee criticises Guy's fiasco

BMJ 1999;319:662.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

Apo E4 gene linked to breast cancer

BMJ 1999;319:662.3 (Published 11 September 1999)

Editorials

Environmental management for vector control

BMJ 1999;319:651 (Published 11 September 1999)

Can it work? Does it work? Is it worth it?

BMJ 1999;319:652 (Published 11 September 1999)

Accepting commercial sponsorship

BMJ 1999;319:653 (Published 11 September 1999)

Legal safeguards for the audit process

BMJ 1999;319:654 (Published 11 September 1999)

Zanamivir for influenza: a public health perspective

BMJ 1999;319:655 (Published 11 September 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Guidelines dismay disabled people unable to speak for themselves

BMJ 1999;319:705.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

Measuring outcomes in economic evaluations

BMJ 1999;319:705.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

Treatment of oral cancer

BMJ 1999;319:706.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

Letters - continued

Concerns about privacy in research may be exaggerated

BMJ 1999;319:706.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

Minimising the impact of visual impairment

BMJ 1999;319:707 (Published 11 September 1999)

Antithrombotic treatment for atrial fibrillation

BMJ 1999;319:708.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

Rationing health care in New Zealand

BMJ 1999;319:708.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

Greenwich asthma study

BMJ 1999;319:709.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

Psychotherapy for severe personality disorder

BMJ 1999;319:709.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

Are postal prompts really ineffective?

BMJ 1999;319:711.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

Factors that might have eased principals' entry into practice

BMJ 1999;319:711.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

Effectiveness of planned short hospital stays for mental health care

BMJ 1999;319:711.3 (Published 11 September 1999)

Moving beyond journals

BMJ 1999;319:712 (Published 11 September 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:718 (Published 11 September 1999)

Fillers

The doctor's fault

BMJ 1999;319:687.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

Always take a proper drug history

BMJ 1999;319:696 (Published 11 September 1999)

Generalisation of salt infusions

BMJ 1999;319:703.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Children entering care have serious psychiatric disorders

BMJ 1999;319:0.6 (Published 11 September 1999)

Malaria incidence is increased around irrigation projects

BMJ 1999;319:0.3 (Published 11 September 1999)

Education of general practitioners improves the health of their elderly patients

BMJ 1999;319:0.8 (Published 11 September 1999)

Cirrhosis mortality is linked with consumption of spirits

BMJ 1999;319:0.4 (Published 11 September 1999)

Intention to treat analysis is often inadequate

BMJ 1999;319:0.5 (Published 11 September 1999)

Multifaceted shared care improves outcomes for elderly depressed people

BMJ 1999;319:0.7 (Published 11 September 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Gynaecology

BMJ 1999;319:689 (Published 11 September 1999)

What is complementary medicine?

BMJ 1999;319:693 (Published 11 September 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

New editor takes charge at New England Journal of Medicine

BMJ 1999;319:662.4 (Published 11 September 1999)

Papers

Incidence of malaria among children living near dams in northern Ethiopia: community based incidence survey

BMJ 1999;319:663 (Published 11 September 1999)

Cirrhosis mortality and per capita consumption of distilled spirits, United States, 1949-94: trend analysis

BMJ 1999;319:666 (Published 11 September 1999)

What is meant by intention to treat analysis? Survey of published randomised controlled trials

BMJ 1999;319:670 (Published 11 September 1999)

Psychiatric disorder among children at time of entering local authority care: questionnaire survey

BMJ 1999;319:675 (Published 11 September 1999)

General practice

Multifaceted shared care intervention for late life depression in residential care: randomised controlled trialCommentary: Beyond the boundary for a randomised controlled trial?

BMJ 1999;319:676 (Published 11 September 1999)

Improving the health behaviours of elderly people: randomised controlled trial of a general practice education programme

BMJ 1999;319:683 (Published 11 September 1999)

Five year follow up of patients at high cardiovascular risk who took part in randomised controlled trial of health promotion

BMJ 1999;319:687.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

Education and debate

For debateTime to put “cot death” to bed?Not time to put cot death to bed

BMJ 1999;319:697 (Published 11 September 1999)

New global Health for All targets

BMJ 1999;319:700 (Published 11 September 1999)

How to randomise

BMJ 1999;319:703.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

Books

The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Human Brain

BMJ 1999;319:715.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

HIV and AIDS: Testing, Screening, and Confidentiality

BMJ 1999;319:715.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

PRESS

An end to health scares?

BMJ 1999;319:716.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Sudden infant death syndrome

BMJ 1999;319:716.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

Personal View

More doctors would aid communication

BMJ 1999;319:717.1 (Published 11 September 1999)

Soundings

Spaced out

BMJ 1999;319:717.2 (Published 11 September 1999)

Career focus

Locum appointments in the specialist registrar grade

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7211 (Published 11 September 1999)

A step up in experience

BMJ 1999;319:S2a-7211 (Published 11 September 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7211 (Published 11 September 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3a-7211 (Published 11 September 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3b-7211 (Published 11 September 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Patrick Forsyth Aitken CrawshawStephen Bernard DaviesEdward Millar DimockHugh Lewis EllisMuriel Frances Mary EvansMichael FeiwelIan Charles FraserLuigi GonsagaWilfred Brian GoughPeter Michael KingWilfred Oakley Nowlan

BMJ 1999;319:713 (Published 11 September 1999)