30 October 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7218)

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Editor's Choice

Revalidating and rethinking

BMJ 1999;319:0.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Revalidating and rethinking

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

News

Government orders inquiry as price of generic drugs soars

BMJ 1999;319:1151.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

Scientists identify enzymes implicated in Alzheimer's

BMJ 1999;319:1151.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Surgeons were “fall guys” for a wider problem, inquiry told

BMJ 1999;319:1152.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

Audit Commission calls for improvements to critical care

BMJ 1999;319:1152.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;319:1152.3 (Published 30 October 1999)

Tobacco chiefs sell shares in their own company

BMJ 1999;319:1153.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

Medicines Control Agency takes over GP research database

BMJ 1999;319:1153.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Nerve gas antidote a possible cause of Gulf war illness

BMJ 1999;319:1154.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

Euthanasia campaigner to stand in byelection

BMJ 1999;319:1154.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

COX 2 inhibitors might be useful in cancer prevention

BMJ 1999;319:1155.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

Furby not guilty as “charged”

BMJ 1999;319:1155.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Europe should give Alzheimer's disease higher priority

BMJ 1999;319:1155.3 (Published 30 October 1999)

Radiologists accused in “scan scam”

BMJ 1999;319:1156.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

US research scientist found guilty of fraud

BMJ 1999;319:1156.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Editorials

Revalidation is the answer

BMJ 1999;319:1145 (Published 30 October 1999)

Dangerous people with severe personality disorder

BMJ 1999;319:1146 (Published 30 October 1999)

Meningococcal disease and healthcare workers

BMJ 1999;319:1147 (Published 30 October 1999)

Screening for osteoporosis

BMJ 1999;319:1148 (Published 30 October 1999)

How much to do at the accident scene?

BMJ 1999;319:1150 (Published 30 October 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

People who condemn eugenics may be in minority now

BMJ 1999;319:1196.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

Treatment of toenail onychomycosis

BMJ 1999;319:1196.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

CT scanning can differentiate between ischaemic attack and haemorrhage

BMJ 1999;319:1197 (Published 30 October 1999)

Letters - continued

Getting letters published in journals is good aim for medical students

BMJ 1999;319:1198.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

In general practice Scottish NHS and English NHS differ considerably

BMJ 1999;319:1198.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Study confirms tendency towards lower risk of myocardial infarction with second generation oral contraceptives in UK

BMJ 1999;319:1199.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

Numbers needed to treat derived from meta-analysis

BMJ 1999;319:1199.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Cholesterol lowering margarine is effective

BMJ 1999;319:1200 (Published 30 October 1999)

Trends in emergency admissions

BMJ 1999;319:1201.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

Effect of supplementation with vitamin A or β carotene on mortality related to pregnancy

BMJ 1999;319:1201.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Human rights are based on consensus

BMJ 1999;319:1203.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

When I use a word…

BMJ 1999;319:1203.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:1210 (Published 30 October 1999)

Fillers

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 1999;319:1166.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Take a lodger

BMJ 1999;319:1179 (Published 30 October 1999)

What is health?

BMJ 1999;319:1193.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Treatment of shock

BMJ 1999;319:1193.3 (Published 30 October 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Teaching undergraduates affects general practitioners' morale positively

BMJ 1999;319:0.5 (Published 30 October 1999)

Making a difference to patient care is the challenge for all methods of recertification

BMJ 1999;319:0.7 (Published 30 October 1999)

Association between income distribution and health changes with level of economic development

BMJ 1999;319:0.4 (Published 30 October 1999)

H pylori is weakly associated with heart disease

BMJ 1999;319:0.3 (Published 30 October 1999)

Patients probably measure their own blood pressure accurately

BMJ 1999;319:0.6 (Published 30 October 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Urinary tract infection in children

BMJ 1999;319:1173 (Published 30 October 1999)

The manipulative therapies: osteopathy and chiropractic

BMJ 1999;319:1176 (Published 30 October 1999)

Papers

Helicobacter pylori infection and early onset myocardial infarction: case-control and sibling pairs study

BMJ 1999;319:1157 (Published 30 October 1999)

Economic transition and changing relation between income inequality and mortality in Taiwan: regression analysis

BMJ 1999;319:1162 (Published 30 October 1999)

Visual field defect associated with vigabatrin: observational cohort study

BMJ 1999;319:1165 (Published 30 October 1999)

Papers - continued

Association of variant alleles of mannose binding lectin with severity of pulmonary disease in cystic fibrosis: cohort study

BMJ 1999;319:1166.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

General practice

Influence on general practitioners of teaching undergraduates: qualitative study of London general practitioner teachers

BMJ 1999;319:1168 (Published 30 October 1999)

Reliability of patients measuring blood pressure at home: prospective observational study

BMJ 1999;319:1172 (Published 30 October 1999)

Education and debate

Revalidation in the United Kingdom: general principles based on experience in general practice

BMJ 1999;319:1180 (Published 30 October 1999)

Recertification in the United States

BMJ 1999;319:1183 (Published 30 October 1999)

Revalidation in Australia and New Zealand: approach of Royal Australasian College of Physicians

BMJ 1999;319:1185 (Published 30 October 1999)

Revalidation of doctors in Canada

BMJ 1999;319:1188 (Published 30 October 1999)

Reregistration of medical specialists in the Netherlands

BMJ 1999;319:1191 (Published 30 October 1999)

Staffing of hospitals: future needs, future provision

BMJ 1999;319:1193.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Sixty one PCTs could be in place in 2000GPs' patients want more flexible servicesMinister wants to cooperate with GPsAcademic staff should be covered by EU directive

BMJ 1999;319:1206 (Published 30 October 1999)

Book

Infections and Human Cancer: Cancer Surveys, Volume 33; Microbes and Malignancy: Infection as a cause of human cancers

BMJ 1999;319:1207.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

Poem

Poems: Body Parts

BMJ 1999;319:1207.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Ad

Selling drugs to consumers

BMJ 1999;319:1208.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Drug advertising

BMJ 1999;319:1208.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Personal View

The blues and pellagra: a public health detective story

BMJ 1999;319:1209.1 (Published 30 October 1999)

Soundings

Have you heard who's on Ward 3?

BMJ 1999;319:1209.2 (Published 30 October 1999)

Career focus

Going on strike

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7218 (Published 30 October 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7218 (Published 30 October 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3a-7218 (Published 30 October 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Desmond BardonRonald Alwyne BowenGordon DuttonErnest HuntCynthia Mary Illingworth (née Redhead)Gerald Francis (“Joe”) MurnaghanWilliam PhillipsEdward PlattsAlexander SlessorKota Seetharama Urala

BMJ 1999;319:1204 (Published 30 October 1999)