08 January 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7227)

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Editor's Choice

Working hard to do harm

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 8 January 2000)

Working hard to do harm

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 8 January 2000)

News

Clinton to regulate internet prescription drug sales

BMJ 2000;320:75.1 (Published 8 January 2000)

Suicide rate is decreasing in England and Wales

BMJ 2000;320:75.2 (Published 8 January 2000)

Netherlands faces measles epidemic

BMJ 2000;320:76.1 (Published 8 January 2000)

Inquiry discovers fraudulent skin treatments

BMJ 2000;320:76.2 (Published 8 January 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:76.3 (Published 8 January 2000)

Storage of human organs prompts three inquiries

BMJ 2000;320:77.1 (Published 8 January 2000)

German prosecutor investigates the removal of dead babies' organs

BMJ 2000;320:77.2 (Published 8 January 2000)

Court sanctions use of anonymised patient data

BMJ 2000;320:77.3 (Published 8 January 2000)

Scotland's way to guarantee quality

BMJ 2000;320:78.1 (Published 8 January 2000)

Editorials

Localised prostate cancer: can we do better?

BMJ 2000;320:69 (Published 8 January 2000)

Protecting whistleblowers

BMJ 2000;320:70 (Published 8 January 2000)

Coping with bioterrorism

BMJ 2000;320:71 (Published 8 January 2000)

Intraocular lens implants

BMJ 2000;320:73 (Published 8 January 2000)

50 years of reporting on tobacco and health

BMJ 2000;320:74 (Published 8 January 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Partnership with patients

BMJ 2000;320:117 (Published 8 January 2000)

Hyperbilirubinaemia in term infants

BMJ 2000;320:119.1 (Published 8 January 2000)

Intervention for late life depression in residential care

BMJ 2000;320:119.2 (Published 8 January 2000)

Diagnosing Lyme disease

BMJ 2000;320:121.1 (Published 8 January 2000)

Letters - continued

All primary care beacons for clinical governance in South West have research funding and fellowship by assessment

BMJ 2000;320:121.2 (Published 8 January 2000)

Eighth principle in reconfiguring acute hospital services

BMJ 2000;320:122.1 (Published 8 January 2000)

Don't compensate less efficient teaching hospitals, redistribute clinical medical students

BMJ 2000;320:122.2 (Published 8 January 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:128 (Published 8 January 2000)

Fillers

A death on the lawn

BMJ 2000;320:85.1 (Published 8 January 2000)

Too much for poetry

BMJ 2000;320:85.2 (Published 8 January 2000)

My old school

BMJ 2000;320:97 (Published 8 January 2000)

Only the very best

BMJ 2000;320:102.2 (Published 8 January 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

A quarter of British people disagree with anonymous HIV testing

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 8 January 2000)

One sixth of epileptic patients conceal seizures from GPs

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 8 January 2000)

Two thirds of children in European hospitals receive unlicensed drugs

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 8 January 2000)

Midline episiotomy can lead to anal incontinence

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 8 January 2000)

Current debate on cannabis is muddled

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 8 January 2000)

Anonymous shortlisting of medical school applicants does not work

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 8 January 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Nephrology

BMJ 2000;320:98 (Published 8 January 2000)

Evidence based case report Managing an elderly patient with a fractured femur

BMJ 2000;320:102.1 (Published 8 January 2000)

Aetiology

BMJ 2000;320:104 (Published 8 January 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Study strengthens link between BSE and vCJD

BMJ 2000;320:78.2 (Published 8 January 2000)

South Africa legislates to extend private health insurance

BMJ 2000;320:78.3 (Published 8 January 2000)

Papers

Survey of unlicensed and off label drug use in paediatric wards in European countries

BMJ 2000;320:79 (Published 8 January 2000)

Difficulties with anonymous shortlisting of medical school applications and its effects on candidates with non-European names: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2000;320:82 (Published 8 January 2000)

Midline episiotomy and anal incontinence: retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2000;320:86 (Published 8 January 2000)

Bad blood? Survey of public's views on unlinked anonymous testing of blood for HIV and other diseases

BMJ 2000;320:90 (Published 8 January 2000)

Prevalence of antibody to human T cell leukaemia/lymphoma virus in women attending antenatal clinic in southeast London: retrospective study

BMJ 2000;320:92 (Published 8 January 2000)

Acute renal failure induced by topical ketoprofen

BMJ 2000;320:93 (Published 8 January 2000)

General practice

Cross sectional study of reporting of epileptic seizures to general practitioners

BMJ 2000;320:94 (Published 8 January 2000)

Education and debate

Improving the quality of the cannabis debate: defining the different domains

BMJ 2000;320:108 (Published 8 January 2000)

Tobacco litigation worldwide

BMJ 2000;320:111 (Published 8 January 2000)

Analysing qualitative data

BMJ 2000;320:114 (Published 8 January 2000)

Books

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Immunology

BMJ 2000;320:125.1 (Published 8 January 2000)

Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age

BMJ 2000;320:125.2 (Published 8 January 2000)

Patient Power

BMJ 2000;320:126.1 (Published 8 January 2000)

NETLINES

NETLINES

BMJ 2000;320:126.2 (Published 8 January 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

GP websites

BMJ 2000;320:126.3 (Published 8 January 2000)

Personal View

The sharp end of the dural puncture

BMJ 2000;320:127.1 (Published 8 January 2000)

Soundings

What crisis?

BMJ 2000;320:127.2 (Published 8 January 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Alec Henry Alexander Warner ForbesRobert Frederick HobsonIris Mary MagauranRobert MarshallCatherine Clare OzanneAlan Ernest RichardsonJames Frederick (“Eric”) RobinsonEmmanuel SaphierJohn Sterland SwallowSonalee Wijetunge

BMJ 2000;320:123 (Published 8 January 2000)