11 December 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7224)

Editor's Choice

Openness: a virtue whose time has come

BMJ 1999;319:0.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

News

Patients dialysed at for-profit centres do worse

BMJ 1999;319:1517.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

United States issues guidelines on embryo cell research

BMJ 1999;319:1517.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

COX 2 inhibitors can affect the stomach lining

BMJ 1999;319:1518.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

Government orders inquiry into removal of children's organs

BMJ 1999;319:1518.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;319:1518.3 (Published 11 December 1999)

Medical errors kill almost 100000 Americans a year

BMJ 1999;319:1519.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

Bristol manager dismissed warnings as “exaggerated”

BMJ 1999;319:1519.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

NHS cancer patients denied supportive treatments

BMJ 1999;319:1520.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

Scotland cracks down on antiabortion harassment

BMJ 1999;319:1520.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

Canadian politicians propose expansion of private health care

BMJ 1999;319:1520.3 (Published 11 December 1999)

US changes trade policy on essential medicines

BMJ 1999;319:1521.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

Zinc supplementation prevents diarrhoea and pneumonia

BMJ 1999;319:1521.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

Report finds persisting poverty and social exclusion

BMJ 1999;319:1522.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

Irish government plans a “junior” consultant grade

BMJ 1999;319:1522.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

Passive smoking more risky for women with a missing gene

BMJ 1999;319:1522.3 (Published 11 December 1999)

Editorials

Coping with winter bed crises

BMJ 1999;319:1511 (Published 11 December 1999)

Screening for familial intracranial aneurysms

BMJ 1999;319:1512 (Published 11 December 1999)

Improving reperfusion after myocardial infarction

BMJ 1999;319:1513 (Published 11 December 1999)

Netprints: the next phase in the evolution of biomedical publishing

BMJ 1999;319:1515 (Published 11 December 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Cancer survival in Britain

BMJ 1999;319:1572 (Published 11 December 1999)

Article on bayesian methods was right

BMJ 1999;319:1573.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

Evidence based palliative care

BMJ 1999;319:1573.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

Spurious asystole with use of manual defibrillators

BMJ 1999;319:1574 (Published 11 December 1999)

Relation of C pneumoniae antibodies to ischaemic heart disease

BMJ 1999;319:1575 (Published 11 December 1999)

Breast feeding and obesity

BMJ 1999;319:1576 (Published 11 December 1999)

Letters - continued

Subspecialist psychiatrists are sometimes selective about whom they will treat

BMJ 1999;319:1577.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

Effectiveness of glucocorticoids in treating croup

BMJ 1999;319:1577.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

Overreaction to the Paddington rail disaster may not be beneficial in the long run

BMJ 1999;319:1578.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

Doctors are still committing genocide

BMJ 1999;319:1578.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;319:1586 (Published 11 December 1999)

Fillers

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 1999;319:1541.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

Wise advice

BMJ 1999;319:1541.3 (Published 11 December 1999)

On ageing: the optimist

BMJ 1999;319:1541.4 (Published 11 December 1999)

Abandoning babies safely

BMJ 1999;319:1546.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

Getting at the truth

BMJ 1999;319:1546.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

A case of rupture of the heart

BMJ 1999;319:1554.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

William Harvey, hypothermia, and battle injuries

BMJ 1999;319:1561 (Published 11 December 1999)

Understanding of the world

BMJ 1999;319:1569.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Clinical Reviews

Functional magnetic resonance imaging in neuropsychiatry

BMJ 1999;319:1551 (Published 11 December 1999)

Hyponatraemic seizures and excessive intake of hypotonic fluids in young children

BMJ 1999;319:1554.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

Complementary medicine and the doctor

BMJ 1999;319:1558 (Published 11 December 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Some people are at very low risk from heart disease

BMJ 1999;319:1522.4 (Published 11 December 1999)

EU bans baby toys containing phthalates

BMJ 1999;319:1522.5 (Published 11 December 1999)

“Canada's research funding agency must support RCTs” - Sackett

BMJ 1999;319:1522.6 (Published 11 December 1999)

Canada releases documents showing secrets of tobacco industry

BMJ 1999;319:1522.7 (Published 11 December 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web] - continued

Mbeki claims that AZT is dangerous

BMJ 1999;319:1522.8 (Published 11 December 1999)

Papers

General practice

Education and debate

Books

Sports Medicine Handbook

BMJ 1999;319:1582.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

In the Blood: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race

BMJ 1999;319:1582.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

Film

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

BMJ 1999;319:1583.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

A BOOK THAT CHANGED ME

Birdsong

BMJ 1999;319:1583.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

TV

Don't Be Ashamed

BMJ 1999;319:1584.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Open archives

BMJ 1999;319:1584.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

Personal View

Millennium pay

BMJ 1999;319:1585.1 (Published 11 December 1999)

Soundings

Playing the guru

BMJ 1999;319:1585.2 (Published 11 December 1999)

Career focus

The role of the clinical tutor

BMJ 1999;319:S2-7224 (Published 11 December 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3-7224 (Published 11 December 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3a-7224 (Published 11 December 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;319:S3b-7224 (Published 11 December 1999)

Obituary