02 October 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7214)

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Editor's Choice

The straightforward and the not so straightforward

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

The straightforward and the not so straightforward

BMJ 1999;319:0.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

News

US government to sue tobacco companies

BMJ 1999;319:869.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

UK juniors demand more talks on pay offer

BMJ 1999;319:869.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

Peace process leads to cooperation on health

BMJ 1999;319:870.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

A sixth of new cases of HIV are drug resistant strains

BMJ 1999;319:870.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;319:870.3 (Published 2 October 1999)

Professor accused of threatening staff

BMJ 1999;319:871.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

Ovarian transplant raises hope for women facing cancer treatment

BMJ 1999;319:871.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

Mental health services are failing children and adolescents

BMJ 1999;319:872.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

Dutch doctors call for all pregnant women to be screened for Down's

BMJ 1999;319:872.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

CDC study quantifies foodborne illnesses

BMJ 1999;319:873.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

New York outbreak of E coli poisoning affects 1000 and kills two

BMJ 1999;319:873.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

Scottish GPs could save £26m by changes in prescribing

BMJ 1999;319:873.3 (Published 2 October 1999)

Missouri passes antiabortion law

BMJ 1999;319:874.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

Cancer doctors told to become lobbyists

BMJ 1999;319:874.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

US government to sue tobacco companies

BMJ 1999;319:874.5 (Published 2 October 1999)

Editorials

When are the seeds of postoperative pressure sores sown?

BMJ 1999;319:863 (Published 2 October 1999)

The effects of weapons and the Solferino cycle

BMJ 1999;319:864 (Published 2 October 1999)

Time to register randomised trials

BMJ 1999;319:865 (Published 2 October 1999)

Improving access needs a whole systems approach

BMJ 1999;319:866 (Published 2 October 1999)

Junior doctors: the moment of decision

BMJ 1999;319:868 (Published 2 October 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Managing patients with deliberate self harm who refuse treatment in accident and emergency departments

BMJ 1999;319:916 (Published 2 October 1999)

Relation between hostility and coronary heart disease

BMJ 1999;319:917 (Published 2 October 1999)

Benzodiazepine use in pregnancy and major malformations or oral clefts

BMJ 1999;319:918 (Published 2 October 1999)

Vascular anomalies must be properly classified

BMJ 1999;319:919.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

Letters - continued

Choosing the right antibiotic

BMJ 1999;319:919.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

Work of mental health review tribunals is increasing faster than detentions

BMJ 1999;319:920.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

Prophylaxis against early anaphylactic reactions to snake antivenom

BMJ 1999;319:920.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

Naturalistic treatment study of depression in general practice

BMJ 1999;319:921 (Published 2 October 1999)

UK's diagnostic criteria for diabetes are different from US's

BMJ 1999;319:922.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

Money to modernise adult mental health services is insufficient

BMJ 1999;319:922.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:930 (Published 2 October 1999)

Fillers

Street noises

BMJ 1999;319:888.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

An inspirational teacher

BMJ 1999;319:889 (Published 2 October 1999)

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 1999;319:890.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

Alcohol and life assurance

BMJ 1999;319:901.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

The gifts needed to be prime minister

BMJ 1999;319:914.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

Taking a lodger—19th century style

BMJ 1999;319:914.3 (Published 2 October 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Co-amoxiclav reduces infection after gastrostomy

BMJ 1999;319:0.5 (Published 2 October 1999)

Pentoxifylline does not significantly improve healing of venous ulcers

BMJ 1999;319:0.3 (Published 2 October 1999)

Injection close to the carpal tunnel should be first line treatment

BMJ 1999;319:0.6 (Published 2 October 1999)

Benefits from hormone replacement therapy may be an artefact of self selection

BMJ 1999;319:0.7 (Published 2 October 1999)

Resident children suffer more than refugee children in a non-camp setting

BMJ 1999;319:0.4 (Published 2 October 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Controversial aspects of thyroid disease

BMJ 1999;319:894 (Published 2 October 1999)

Lesson of the week Child sexual abuse enquiries and unrecognised vulval lichen sclerosus et atrophicus

BMJ 1999;319:899 (Published 2 October 1999)

Complementary medicine in conventional practice

BMJ 1999;319:901.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Public interest in child health not matched by government resources

BMJ 1999;319:874.3 (Published 2 October 1999)

German government breaks off talks with doctors

BMJ 1999;319:874.4 (Published 2 October 1999)

Papers

Randomised, double blind placebo controlled trial of pentoxifylline in the treatment of venous leg ulcers

BMJ 1999;319:875 (Published 2 October 1999)

Nutritional status and mortality of refugee and resident children in a non-camp setting during conflict: follow up study in Guinea-Bissau

BMJ 1999;319:878 (Published 2 October 1999)

Prospective, randomised, double blind trial of prophylaxis with single dose of co-amoxiclav before percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

BMJ 1999;319:881 (Published 2 October 1999)

Papers - continued

Injection with methylprednisolone proximal to the carpal tunnel: randomised double blind trial

BMJ 1999;319:884 (Published 2 October 1999)

Seasonality of birth in children with diabetes in Europe: multicentre cohort study

BMJ 1999;319:887 (Published 2 October 1999)

Testicular neoplasia in cryptorchid boys at primary surgery: case series

BMJ 1999;319:888.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

General practice

Pre-existing risk factor profiles in users and non-users of hormone replacement therapy: prospective cohort study in Gothenburg, Sweden

BMJ 1999;319:890.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

Education and debate

The law on managing patients who deliberately harm themselves and refuse treatment

BMJ 1999;319:905 (Published 2 October 1999)

The medical service increment for teaching (SIFT): a £400m anachronism for the English NHS?

BMJ 1999;319:908 (Published 2 October 1999)

Hospital provision, activity, and productivity in England since the 1980s

BMJ 1999;319:911 (Published 2 October 1999)

Discounting

BMJ 1999;319:914.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Working lives of doctors must be improvedPublic health must not be sidelinedNI GPs must have primary role in decision makingBMA amends guidance on abortion

BMJ 1999;319:925 (Published 2 October 1999)

Books

The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character

BMJ 1999;319:926.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

Intensive Care Medicine

BMJ 1999;319:927.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

Breast Cancer

BMJ 1999;319:927.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

HIT PARADE

Hit parade

BMJ 1999;319:926.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

PRESS

The problem with medical advice columns

BMJ 1999;319:928.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Complementary medicine

BMJ 1999;319:928.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

Personal View

The machismo of medicine

BMJ 1999;319:929.1 (Published 2 October 1999)

Soundings

Do you believe in God?

BMJ 1999;319:929.2 (Published 2 October 1999)

Career focus

Medical ethics

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7214 (Published 2 October 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7214 (Published 2 October 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3a-7214 (Published 2 October 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3b-7214 (Published 2 October 1999)

Corrections

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:926.3 (Published 2 October 1999)

A patient's eye view of quality

BMJ 1999;319:926.4 (Published 2 October 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

John David BaumQueenie Muriel Francis AdamsSinnadorai BalaIan Hamilton BarclaySamuel Lovell DavidsonKenneth HollinrakePeter Anthony Layard HorsfallHenry LachWilliam Tennant McClatcheyJohn Charlton Moor

BMJ 1999;319:923 (Published 2 October 1999)