25 September 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7213)

Editor's Choice

Interpreting competing interests

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

Interpreting competing interests

BMJ 1999;319:0.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

News

Report suggests that NHS is unsustainable in present form

BMJ 1999;319:801.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

Professor accused of covering up mistakes in drug trial

BMJ 1999;319:801.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

UK GPs will be consulted on revalidation proposals

BMJ 1999;319:802.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

Royal College battles for more women surgeons

BMJ 1999;319:802.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;319:802.3 (Published 25 September 1999)

Study identifies why child heart operations go wrong

BMJ 1999;319:803.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

Israel wants to abolish private medicine in public hospitals

BMJ 1999;319:803.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

Report condemns NHS complaints procedure

BMJ 1999;319:804.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

WHO nominates new regional director for Europe

BMJ 1999;319:804.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

Complaints mechanism fails older patients

BMJ 1999;319:804.3 (Published 25 September 1999)

Direct to consumer drug advertising is billion dollar business in US

BMJ 1999;319:805.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

American Medical Association guidelines on direct to consumer advertising

BMJ 1999;319:805.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

AIDS cuts life expectancy insub-Saharan Africa by a quarter

BMJ 1999;319:806.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

AMA sets up “union” for employed doctors

BMJ 1999;319:806.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

Calcium channel blockers affect cognitive function in older people

BMJ 1999;319:806.3 (Published 25 September 1999)

Editorials

The third generation oral contraceptive controversy

BMJ 1999;319:795 (Published 25 September 1999)

Should cases of permanent vegetative state still go to court?

BMJ 1999;319:796 (Published 25 September 1999)

Reconfiguring acute hospital services

BMJ 1999;319:797 (Published 25 September 1999)

Screening for gestational diabetes mellitus

BMJ 1999;319:798 (Published 25 September 1999)

Treatment options for chronic hepatitis

BMJ 1999;319:799 (Published 25 September 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Cancellation of debt must ensure maximum benefit to vulnerable

BMJ 1999;319:849.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

Developing countries cannot afford high fees for speakers

BMJ 1999;319:849.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

Antidepressants for old people

BMJ 1999;319:849.3 (Published 25 September 1999)

Low molecular weight heparins could be important in cancer

BMJ 1999;319:851 (Published 25 September 1999)

Letters - continued

Hypoalbuminaemia and transcapillary pressures have role in nephrotic syndrome

BMJ 1999;319:852.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

Mibefradil was not rushed to market in United States

BMJ 1999;319:852.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

General practitioners' experiences of patients' complaints

BMJ 1999;319:852.3 (Published 25 September 1999)

Prison officers can recognise hidden psychiatric morbidity in prisoners

BMJ 1999;319:853.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

Reducing risk of recurrent coronary heart disease in Cornwall

BMJ 1999;319:853.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

Is recruitment more difficult with a placebo arm in RCTs?

BMJ 1999;319:853.3 (Published 25 September 1999)

Differences in death rates in English hospitals

BMJ 1999;319:854 (Published 25 September 1999)

Competing interests are relevant to lectures approved for PGEA

BMJ 1999;319:855.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

Policy must separate need for hospital beds from demand

BMJ 1999;319:855.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

New epidemiological research in Europe may be thwarted by short term funding

BMJ 1999;319:855.3 (Published 25 September 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:862 (Published 25 September 1999)

Fillers

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 1999;319:828.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

Reasons to be thankful

BMJ 1999;319:844 (Published 25 September 1999)

Dangerous lunatics

BMJ 1999;319:845.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Clinical Reviews

Acute otitis media

BMJ 1999;319:833 (Published 25 September 1999)

Users and practitioners of complementary medicine

BMJ 1999;319:836 (Published 25 September 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Smokers who quit still die earlier than those who never smoked

BMJ 1999;319:806.4 (Published 25 September 1999)

Report reveals health inequalities in Wales

BMJ 1999;319:806.5 (Published 25 September 1999)

Papers

Papers - continued

General practice

Education and debate

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Books

Drug Treatment Systems in an International Perspective: Drugs, Demons, and Delinquents

BMJ 1999;319:859.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

Law Without Enforcement

BMJ 1999;319:859.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

RADIO

Vital Signs

BMJ 1999;319:860.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Women in surgery

BMJ 1999;319:860.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

Personal View

Peer review: thinking the unthinkable

BMJ 1999;319:861.1 (Published 25 September 1999)

Soundings

Pinot Noir powders

BMJ 1999;319:861.2 (Published 25 September 1999)

Career focus

Developing skills in consulting with the public

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7213 (Published 25 September 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7213 (Published 25 September 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3a-7213 (Published 25 September 1999)

Corrections

Nutritional hyperhomocysteinaemia

BMJ 1999;319:800 (Published 25 September 1999)

Ethnic and sex differences in selection for admission to Nottingham University Medical School

BMJ 1999;319:823 (Published 25 September 1999)

Obituary