09 October 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7215)

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Editor's Choice

Benign uproar

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

Benign uproar

BMJ 1999;319:0.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

News

NICE to rule on influenza flu drug zanamivir

BMJ 1999;319:937.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

Japan's worst nuclear accident leaves two fighting for life

BMJ 1999;319:937.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

London professor struck off for bullying and dishonesty

BMJ 1999;319:938.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

GP faces 15 charges of murder

BMJ 1999;319:938.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;319:938.3 (Published 9 October 1999)

CSM takes small step towards openness

BMJ 1999;319:939.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

Scientists who do not publish trial results are “unethical”

BMJ 1999;319:939.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

England to have more walk-in clinics

BMJ 1999;319:940.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

Mental health services framework welcomed

BMJ 1999;319:940.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

Cooperation could provide better hospital care

BMJ 1999;319:940.3 (Published 9 October 1999)

Kosovo to shift emphasis to a primary care system

BMJ 1999;319:941.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

Eight die in outbreak of virus spread from birds

BMJ 1999;319:941.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

King in a maverick style

BMJ 1999;319:942.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

NICE to rule on influenza flu drug zanamivir

BMJ 1999;319:942.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

Editorials

Contrasting views on human population growth

BMJ 1999;319:931 (Published 9 October 1999)

Impediments to effective fertility reduction

BMJ 1999;319:932 (Published 9 October 1999)

The population policy pendulum

BMJ 1999;319:933 (Published 9 October 1999)

Failure of an intervention to stop teenagers smoking

BMJ 1999;319:934 (Published 9 October 1999)

Fertility after treatment for cancer

BMJ 1999;319:935 (Published 9 October 1999)

Stumbling into rationing

BMJ 1999;319:936 (Published 9 October 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Reasons for not seeing drug representatives

BMJ 1999;319:1002 (Published 9 October 1999)

Postcodes don't indicate individuals' social class

BMJ 1999;319:1003 (Published 9 October 1999)

Coronary artery disease varies seasonably in subtropics

BMJ 1999;319:1004.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

Letters - continued

Acute urinary retention in men

BMJ 1999;319:1004.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

DEC methods for appraising new drugs

BMJ 1999;319:1005 (Published 9 October 1999)

Drugs arriving in Kosovo need checking

BMJ 1999;319:1007.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

Rates of anxiety and depression in African-Caribbeans may not reflect reality

BMJ 1999;319:1007.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

Data on babies' safety during hospital births are being ignored

BMJ 1999;319:1008.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

Midwives would prefer a vaginal delivery

BMJ 1999;319:1008.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:1014 (Published 9 October 1999)

Fillers

That's show business

BMJ 1999;319:972 (Published 9 October 1999)

Intractable hiccups

BMJ 1999;319:976 (Published 9 October 1999)

The need to know

BMJ 1999;319:1001.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

The plague

BMJ 1999;319:1001.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Steroid injection gives best relief for tennis elbow

BMJ 1999;319:0.8 (Published 9 October 1999)

Schools smoking prevention programme based on “stages of change” model does not work

BMJ 1999;319:0.4 (Published 9 October 1999)

Observed association between income inequality and mortality is not a statistical artefact

BMJ 1999;319:0.5 (Published 9 October 1999)

Aspirin is best for mild atrial fibrillation in primary care

BMJ 1999;319:0.7 (Published 9 October 1999)

Behavioural counselling in primary care leads to improvements in health behaviour

BMJ 1999;319:0.3 (Published 9 October 1999)

Tube trains kill fewer people when there's a pit under the rails

BMJ 1999;319:0.6 (Published 9 October 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Contraception

BMJ 1999;319:969 (Published 9 October 1999)

Acupuncture

BMJ 1999;319:973 (Published 9 October 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Japan's worst nuclear accident leave two fighting for life

BMJ 1999;319:942.3 (Published 9 October 1999)

Study finds that most drug donations to developing countries are appropriate

BMJ 1999;319:942.4 (Published 9 October 1999)

Scientists discover that old drug is effective in preventing malaria

BMJ 1999;319:942.5 (Published 9 October 1999)

Antihypertensive drug could be useful for eye disorder

BMJ 1999;319:942.6 (Published 9 October 1999)

Placebo surgery provokes controversy

BMJ 1999;319:942.7 (Published 9 October 1999)

Papers

Behavioural counselling in general practice for the promotion of healthy behaviour among adults at increased risk of coronary heart disease: randomised trialCommentary: Treatment allocation by the method of minimisation

BMJ 1999;319:943 (Published 9 October 1999)

Cluster randomised controlled trial of expert system based on the transtheoretical (“stages of change”) model for smoking prevention and cessation in schools

BMJ 1999;319:948 (Published 9 October 1999)

Relation between income inequality and mortality: empirical demonstrationDiminishing returns to aggregate level studiesTwo pathways, but how much do they diverge?

BMJ 1999;319:953 (Published 9 October 1999)

Effect of station design on death in the London Underground: observational study

BMJ 1999;319:957 (Published 9 October 1999)

Primary prevention of arterial thromboembolism in non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation in primary care: randomised controlled trial comparing two intensities of coumarin with aspirin

BMJ 1999;319:958 (Published 9 October 1999)

General practice

Pragmatic randomised controlled trial of local corticosteroid injection and naproxen for treatment of lateral epicondylitis of elbow in primary care

BMJ 1999;319:964 (Published 9 October 1999)

Education and debate

Human numbers, environment, sustainability, and health

BMJ 1999;319:977 (Published 9 October 1999)

World population and health in transition

BMJ 1999;319:981 (Published 9 October 1999)

Paths to lower fertility

BMJ 1999;319:985 (Published 9 October 1999)

Prospects for feeding the worldCommentary: Bread for the world—another view

BMJ 1999;319:988 (Published 9 October 1999)

China's one child family policy

BMJ 1999;319:992 (Published 9 October 1999)

India: looking ahead to one and a half billion people

BMJ 1999;319:995 (Published 9 October 1999)

The US Department of State is policing the population policy lockstep

BMJ 1999;319:998 (Published 9 October 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Doctors need 5% pay rise just to stand stillAverage cost of college exam is £452Threat of industrial action has not gone away

BMJ 1999;319:1010 (Published 9 October 1999)

Books

The Baby Makers

BMJ 1999;319:1011.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

How the Idea of Profession Changed the Writing of Medical History

BMJ 1999;319:1011.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

TV

Curing the incurable

BMJ 1999;319:1012.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Demographic entrapment

BMJ 1999;319:1012.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

Personal View

Both sides

BMJ 1999;319:1013.1 (Published 9 October 1999)

Soundings

Oracles

BMJ 1999;319:1013.2 (Published 9 October 1999)

Career focus

Forensic psychiatry

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7215 (Published 9 October 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7215 (Published 9 October 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

James Bruce-SmithAustin Braybrooke KettleReginald PassmoreDavid Michael SternJohn Watson-Farrar

BMJ 1999;319:1009 (Published 9 October 1999)