06 November 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7219)

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Editor's Choice

Struggling towards coherence

BMJ 1999;319:0.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

Struggling towards coherence

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

News

Prime minister launches NHS inspectorate

BMJ 1999;319:1217.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

American Medical Association launches new internet “supersite”

BMJ 1999;319:1217.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

Tobacco companies win delay on advertising ban

BMJ 1999;319:1218.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

Adults will be able to appoint proxies to make health decisions

BMJ 1999;319:1218.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;319:1218.3 (Published 6 November 1999)

Surgeon infects patient with hepatitis C

BMJ 1999;319:1219.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

Dutch consider obligatory testing of surgeons for hepatitis B

BMJ 1999;319:1219.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

US courts in conflict over late term abortion

BMJ 1999;319:1220.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

Drug resistant TB is spreading worldwide

BMJ 1999;319:1220.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

New England Journal's publisher in conflict of interest dispute

BMJ 1999;319:1220.3 (Published 6 November 1999)

Surgeons' college launches campaign to save research

BMJ 1999;319:1221.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

BMA's patient confidentiality rules are deemed unlawful

BMJ 1999;319:1221.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

Panel needed to combat research fraud

BMJ 1999;319:1222.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

Christmas firework “sweets” kill hundreds of children

BMJ 1999;319:1222.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

Council aims to integrate arts and humanities into the NHS

BMJ 1999;319:1222.3 (Published 6 November 1999)

Editorials

Reducing vertical transmission of HIV in the UK

BMJ 1999;319:1211 (Published 6 November 1999)

Implementing screening for colorectal cancer

BMJ 1999;319:1212 (Published 6 November 1999)

Making trade work for public health

BMJ 1999;319:1214 (Published 6 November 1999)

Linkworkers in primary care

BMJ 1999;319:1215 (Published 6 November 1999)

Exploring the medical humanities

BMJ 1999;319:1216 (Published 6 November 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Developing world needs access to low cost pharmaceutical information from reliable sources

BMJ 1999;319:1265.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

Research questions for systematic reviews must be unambiguous from protocol stage

BMJ 1999;319:1265.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

Chaperones for genital examination

BMJ 1999;319:1266.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

Patients' physical disability may influence doctors' perceptions of suitability for risk assessment of CHD

BMJ 1999;319:1266.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

Letters - continued

Alcohol consumption and mortality

BMJ 1999;319:1267 (Published 6 November 1999)

Smoking by young people

BMJ 1999;319:1268 (Published 6 November 1999)

Children are another group at risk of hyponatraemia perioperatively

BMJ 1999;319:1269.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

How often should we go to the dentist?

BMJ 1999;319:1269.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

Only about 1 in 30 predictions of assault by discharged psychiatric patients will be correct

BMJ 1999;319:1270.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

ABC of labour care

BMJ 1999;319:1270.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

Fetus papyraceus is being registered increasingly in Wessex

BMJ 1999;319:1271 (Published 6 November 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:1278 (Published 6 November 1999)

Fillers

There when needed

BMJ 1999;319:1235.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

On ageing: the best things

BMJ 1999;319:1235.3 (Published 6 November 1999)

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 1999;319:1239.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

Bill Gates's strength

BMJ 1999;319:1247.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

Before transfusion became established procedure

BMJ 1999;319:1257 (Published 6 November 1999)

Love and respect after 30 years

BMJ 1999;319:1261.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

In hindsight

BMJ 1999;319:1261.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Antibiotic resistance correlates with use of antibiotics by local practices

BMJ 1999;319:0.7 (Published 6 November 1999)

Vertical transmission of HIV is falling in Britain

BMJ 1999;319:0.4 (Published 6 November 1999)

Patients with cancer prefer personalised clinical information

BMJ 1999;319:0.8 (Published 6 November 1999)

Insulin four times daily is better than twice daily for diabetes in pregnancy

BMJ 1999;319:0.3 (Published 6 November 1999)

Near patient tests for H pylori perform poorly in primary care

BMJ 1999;319:0.6 (Published 6 November 1999)

Universal antenatal HIV testing could be cost effective in UK

BMJ 1999;319:0.5 (Published 6 November 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Virtual colonoscopy

BMJ 1999;319:1249 (Published 6 November 1999)

Lesson of the week Oestrogen and calcium homeostasis in women with hypoparathyroidism

BMJ 1999;319:1252 (Published 6 November 1999)

Massage therapies

BMJ 1999;319:1254 (Published 6 November 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Patients given extra oxygen during surgery have less nausea

BMJ 1999;319:1222.4 (Published 6 November 1999)

Chairman of NICE admits that its judgments are hard to defend

BMJ 1999;319:1222.5 (Published 6 November 1999)

Papers

Twice daily versus four times daily insulin dose regimens for diabetes in pregnancy: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 1999;319:1223 (Published 6 November 1999)

Vertical transmission rates for HIV in the British Isles: estimates based on surveillance data

BMJ 1999;319:1227 (Published 6 November 1999)

Cost effectiveness analysis of antenatal HIV screening in United Kingdom

BMJ 1999;319:1230 (Published 6 November 1999)

Differentiating between audit and research: postal survey of health authorities' views

BMJ 1999;319:1235.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

General practice

Testing for Helicobacter pylori infection: validation and diagnostic yield of a near patient test in primary care

BMJ 1999;319:1236 (Published 6 November 1999)

Antibiotic prescribing and antibiotic resistance in community practice: retrospective study, 1996-8

BMJ 1999;319:1239.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

Information in practice

Randomised trial of personalised computer based information for cancer patients

BMJ 1999;319:1241 (Published 6 November 1999)

Cross sectional survey of patients' satisfaction with information about cancer

BMJ 1999;319:1247.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

Education and debate

Tragic choices in health care: lessons from the Child B case

BMJ 1999;319:1258 (Published 6 November 1999)

Changing hospitals

BMJ 1999;319:1262 (Published 6 November 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

GPC advises on becoming a primary care trustGPC advises on becoming a primary care trustMedical students criticise delay over loansEU's power to act on health issues will be increasedRemoving patients should be subject to further research

BMJ 1999;319:1274 (Published 6 November 1999)

Books

In Your Right Mind

BMJ 1999;319:1275.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

BMJ 1999;319:1276 (Published 6 November 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

HIV testing in pregnancy

BMJ 1999;319:1275.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

HIT PARADE

Hit parade

BMJ 1999;319:1275.3 (Published 6 November 1999)

Personal View

A principle to die for

BMJ 1999;319:1277.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

Soundings

Fading away

BMJ 1999;319:1277.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

Career focus

Clinical pharmacology

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7219 (Published 6 November 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7219 (Published 6 November 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3a-7219 (Published 6 November 1999)

Corrections

Screening of newborn infants for cholestatic hepatobiliary = disease with=20 tandem mass spectrometry

BMJ 1999;319:1253.1 (Published 6 November 1999)

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:1253.2 (Published 6 November 1999)

Letters

BMJ 1999;319:1253.3 (Published 6 November 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Terence David HennesseyPhilip John HoggJohn Anthony LassersonPamela Margaret Le Quesne (née Fullerton)Robert Sinclair PatrickPatrick William Roy PetrieMatthew Neal RankinWilliam Henry ReynoldsRobert Alan RichardsonArthur John Thomas

BMJ 1999;319:1272 (Published 6 November 1999)