20 November 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7221)

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Editor's Choice

Falling from grace

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

Falling from grace

BMJ 1999;319:0.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

News

NHS doctors in England face audit and annual appraisals

BMJ 1999;319:1319.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

GMC wants a tougher restoration procedure

BMJ 1999;319:1319.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

Controversy erupts over reuse of “single use” medical devices

BMJ 1999;319:1320.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

Quality of surgery was not the only problem at Bristol

BMJ 1999;319:1320.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;319:1320.3 (Published 20 November 1999)

Medical societies accused of being beholden to the drugs industry

BMJ 1999;319:1321.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

Doctors feel pressurised by direct to consumer advertising

BMJ 1999;319:1321.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

Government launches green paper on mental health

BMJ 1999;319:1322.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

Tobacco tax to be ringfenced for NHS

BMJ 1999;319:1322.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

UK's yellow card scheme to be extended

BMJ 1999;319:1322.3 (Published 20 November 1999)

Big US health insurer gives doctors final say in treatment

BMJ 1999;319:1323.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

Japan widens its investigation after nuclear accident

BMJ 1999;319:1323.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

Doctors arrested and beaten up in Turkey

BMJ 1999;319:1323.3 (Published 20 November 1999)

Health situation in former communist bloc is dire, says Unicef

BMJ 1999;319:1324.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

Royal college launches new effectiveness unit

BMJ 1999;319:1324.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

Call for greater care of elderly people in surgery

BMJ 1999;319:1324.3 (Published 20 November 1999)

GMC wants a tougher restoration procedure

BMJ 1999;319:1324.5 (Published 20 November 1999)

Editorials

Twins and fetal programming of blood pressure

BMJ 1999;319:1313 (Published 20 November 1999)

Managing the clinical performance of doctors

BMJ 1999;319:1314 (Published 20 November 1999)

Sexual and reproductive health: what about boys and men?

BMJ 1999;319:1315 (Published 20 November 1999)

The future of clinical forensic medicine

BMJ 1999;319:1316 (Published 20 November 1999)

Screening for ovarian cancer

BMJ 1999;319:1317 (Published 20 November 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Consequences for research if use of anonymised patient data breaches confidentiality

BMJ 1999;319:1366.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

Discontinuation of ventilation after brain stem death

BMJ 1999;319:1366.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

Letters - continued

Criticisms of Swedish mammography trials were wrong

BMJ 1999;319:1367.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

Sexual health of teenagers

BMJ 1999;319:1367.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

Royal Medical Benevolent Fund reminds readers of its Christmas appeal

BMJ 1999;319:1369.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

Reducing the risk of major elective surgery

BMJ 1999;319:1369.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

Changing perceptions in osteoporosis

BMJ 1999;319:1371 (Published 20 November 1999)

Why transition from alternation to randomisation in clinical trials was made

BMJ 1999;319:1372 (Published 20 November 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:1380 (Published 20 November 1999)

Fillers

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 1999;319:1338.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

The most precious thing

BMJ 1999;319:1338.3 (Published 20 November 1999)

The young woman with a wart on her nose

BMJ 1999;319:1349 (Published 20 November 1999)

On the word of the physician

BMJ 1999;319:1355.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

The coal-smoke nuisance

BMJ 1999;319:1355.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

A surgical mishap

BMJ 1999;319:1360 (Published 20 November 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Likelihood of osteoporotic fracture is not strongly genetically influenced

BMJ 1999;319:0.5 (Published 20 November 1999)

New Zealand offers model of clinical governance in primary care

BMJ 1999;319:0.8 (Published 20 November 1999)

Twins confirm importance of fetal programming on adult blood pressure

BMJ 1999;319:0.4 (Published 20 November 1999)

Fetoplacental factors may explain relation of low birth weight with high blood pressure

BMJ 1999;319:0.3 (Published 20 November 1999)

Time spent in hospital increases only slightly with age at death

BMJ 1999;319:0.7 (Published 20 November 1999)

Glucocorticoid receptor variant confers a likelihood of being overweight

BMJ 1999;319:0.6 (Published 20 November 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Medical management of menorrhagia

BMJ 1999;319:1343 (Published 20 November 1999)

Hypnosis and relaxation therapies

BMJ 1999;319:1346 (Published 20 November 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Israeli health insurer curbs activities of drug representatives

BMJ 1999;319:1324.4 (Published 20 November 1999)

Red Cross and Red Crescent draw up action plan

BMJ 1999;319:1324.6 (Published 20 November 1999)

International report reassesses ways to cut maternal mortality

BMJ 1999;319:1324.7 (Published 20 November 1999)

Missouri fines internet pharmacy

BMJ 1999;319:1324.8 (Published 20 November 1999)

Papers

Within pair association between birth weight and blood pressure at age 8 in twins from a cohort study

BMJ 1999;319:1325 (Published 20 November 1999)

Association between birth weight and adult blood pressure in twins: historical cohort study

BMJ 1999;319:1330 (Published 20 November 1999)

Genetic factors and osteoporotic fractures in elderly people: prospective 25 year follow up of a nationwide cohort of elderly Finnish twins

BMJ 1999;319:1334 (Published 20 November 1999)

High penetrance, overweight, and glucocorticoid receptor variant: case-control study

BMJ 1999;319:1337 (Published 20 November 1999)

Does time spent in hospital in the final 15 years of life increase with age at death? A population based study

BMJ 1999;319:1338.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

General practice

New Zealand's independent practitioner associations: a working model of clinical governance in primary care?

BMJ 1999;319:1340 (Published 20 November 1999)

Education and debate

How many, how old, how soon?

BMJ 1999;319:1350 (Published 20 November 1999)

Ageism in cardiology

BMJ 1999;319:1353 (Published 20 November 1999)

Children in an ageing society

BMJ 1999;319:1356 (Published 20 November 1999)

Demographic shifts and medical training

BMJ 1999;319:1358 (Published 20 November 1999)

Planning hospitals with limited evidence: a research and policy problem

BMJ 1999;319:1361 (Published 20 November 1999)

New members of BMJ editorial board

BMJ 1999;319:1364 (Published 20 November 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

GMC advises doctors as teachersBMA calls for alternative medicine to be regulatedTories want doctors to have more training in general practiceDefence medical services are declining

BMJ 1999;319:1375 (Published 20 November 1999)

MEDIA

Diagnose and be damned

BMJ 1999;319:1376 (Published 20 November 1999)

Book

Diabetes: Emergency and Hospital Management

BMJ 1999;319:1378.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

Review

BMJ 1999;319:1378.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

The ageing population

BMJ 1999;319:1378.3 (Published 20 November 1999)

Personal View

Should age based rationing of health care be illegal?

BMJ 1999;319:1379.1 (Published 20 November 1999)

Soundings

Quackery, flummery, and fleas

BMJ 1999;319:1379.2 (Published 20 November 1999)

Career focus

Neurology

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7221 (Published 20 November 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7221 (Published 20 November 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3a-7221 (Published 20 November 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3b-7221 (Published 20 November 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Shameem AhmedArthur Frank BrysonGeorge Harold EllisPeter Stuart Arthur HeyworthThomas Alun Lloyd-JamesRonald Alexander McFaddenMa'ad Mahmoud SalmanPatrick Montrose SmytheWilliam Horrocks TattersallPeter Moor Vicary

BMJ 1999;319:1373 (Published 20 November 1999)