22 January 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7229)

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Editor's Choice

Getting a prime minister to turn: roast slowly and then turn up the heat suddenly

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

Getting a prime minister to turn: roast slowly and then turn up the heat suddenly

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

News

US health spending accelerated in 1998

BMJ 2000;320:203.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

Patients with cancer asked to sign waivers on dangers of delays

BMJ 2000;320:203.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

Pinochet's opponents call for medical evidence to be made public

BMJ 2000;320:204.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

Scientists make rats' torn nerves regenerate

BMJ 2000;320:204.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:204.3 (Published 22 January 2000)

Blair promises to raise spending on NHS to European average

BMJ 2000;320:205.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

Lord Winston attacks Labour's health policy

BMJ 2000;320:205.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

UK nurses and doctors receive pay boost

BMJ 2000;320:205.3 (Published 22 January 2000)

US company claims to have 90%of human genome on its database

BMJ 2000;320:206.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

EU law makes Netherlands reconsider its health system

BMJ 2000;320:206.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

AIDS activists in Thailand pressurise US government

BMJ 2000;320:207.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

US relaxes its guidelines on herbal supplements

BMJ 2000;320:207.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

Drug companies seek MS patients to lobby for new products

BMJ 2000;320:207.3 (Published 22 January 2000)

European Commission proposes a European food authority

BMJ 2000;320:208.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

Mental health experts should offer training to GPs, report says

BMJ 2000;320:208.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

Non-compliance often the cause when AIDS drugs “fail”

BMJ 2000;320:208.3 (Published 22 January 2000)

US relaxes its guidelines on herbal supplements

BMJ 2000;320:208.7 (Published 22 January 2000)

European Commission proposes a European food authority

BMJ 2000;320:208.8 (Published 22 January 2000)

Editorials

Paying for the NHS

BMJ 2000;320:197 (Published 22 January 2000)

Improving cancer outcomes through radiotherapy

BMJ 2000;320:198 (Published 22 January 2000)

The rise in bacterial resistance

BMJ 2000;320:199 (Published 22 January 2000)

Why can't GPs follow guidelines on depression?

BMJ 2000;320:200 (Published 22 January 2000)

Private health care: modernisation stops here

BMJ 2000;320:202 (Published 22 January 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Meningococcal disease in healthcare workers

BMJ 2000;320:247 (Published 22 January 2000)

Guided self management of asthma

BMJ 2000;320:249.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

Why mortality from heart disease is low in France

BMJ 2000;320:249.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

Private finance initiative

BMJ 2000;320:250 (Published 22 January 2000)

Medical advice columns give both good and bad counsel

BMJ 2000;320:252.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

Patient partnership is just one aspect of treating patients

BMJ 2000;320:252.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

Composite indicators may not be helpful in comparing health authorities

BMJ 2000;320:252.3 (Published 22 January 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:260 (Published 22 January 2000)

Fillers

Disability is in the mind of the beholder

BMJ 2000;320:216 (Published 22 January 2000)

National enthusiasm and alcohol

BMJ 2000;320:224.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

Not thinking of things

BMJ 2000;320:243.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

Smoking: a hateful custom

BMJ 2000;320:243.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Simple tests help identify systolic dysfunction in primary care

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 22 January 2000)

Behavioural treatment may help solve childhood sleep problems

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 22 January 2000)

More deaths from heart disease in Scotland on Mondays may relate to binge drinking

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 22 January 2000)

Reporting of blood cultures shows worrying increase in antibiotic resistance in England and Wales

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 22 January 2000)

Single booster dose does not protect adults from diphtheria

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 22 January 2000)

Evidence based education in adolescent health seems to work

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 22 January 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Allergic disorders

BMJ 2000;320:231 (Published 22 January 2000)

Lesson of the week Warming milk—a preventable cause of scalds in children

BMJ 2000;320:235 (Published 22 January 2000)

Clinical features and complications

BMJ 2000;320:236 (Published 22 January 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Bayer made to tone down aspirin advertisements

BMJ 2000;320:208.4 (Published 22 January 2000)

Tobacco companies want more government cooperation

BMJ 2000;320:208.5 (Published 22 January 2000)

MP introduces bill to protect children from unlicensed medicines

BMJ 2000;320:208.6 (Published 22 January 2000)

Papers

A systematic review of treatments for settling problems and night waking in young children

BMJ 2000;320:209 (Published 22 January 2000)

Bacteraemia and antibiotic resistance of its pathogens reported in England and Wales between 1990 and 1998: trend analysis

BMJ 2000;320:213 (Published 22 January 2000)

Response to diphtheria booster vaccination in healthy adults: vaccine trial

BMJ 2000;320:217 (Published 22 January 2000)

“I don't like Mondays”—day of the week of coronary heart disease deaths in Scotland: study of routinely collected data

BMJ 2000;320:218 (Published 22 January 2000)

Systemic granulomatous disease after intravesical BCG instillation

BMJ 2000;320:219 (Published 22 January 2000)

General practice

Risk assessment of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in primary care: cross sectional study evaluating a range of diagnostic tests

BMJ 2000;320:220 (Published 22 January 2000)

Evaluation of the effectiveness of an educational intervention for general practitioners in adolescent health care: randomised controlled trialCommentary: Applying the BMJ's guidelines on educational interventions

BMJ 2000;320:224.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

Education and debate

Concerns about immunisation

BMJ 2000;320:240 (Published 22 January 2000)

Clinical trial safety committees: the devil's spoon

BMJ 2000;320:244 (Published 22 January 2000)

Using cost effectiveness information

BMJ 2000;320:246 (Published 22 January 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

GPs given advice on primary care trustsMore countries should be relieved of debtCarers to have rightsBMA seeks clarification on Care Standards Bill

BMJ 2000;320:255 (Published 22 January 2000)

Books

Auscultation Skills: Breath and Heart Sounds

BMJ 2000;320:256.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

What a Blessing She Had Chloroform

BMJ 2000;320:256.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

THEATRE

WIT

BMJ 2000;320:257.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

BESTSELLERS

December bestsellers

BMJ 2000;320:257.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

PRESS

The flu news epidemic

BMJ 2000;320:258.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Competing interests

BMJ 2000;320:258.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

Personal View

Surfacing after burnout

BMJ 2000;320:259.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

Soundings

Changes

BMJ 2000;320:259.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

Corrections

Revalidation of doctors in Canada

BMJ 2000;320:234.1 (Published 22 January 2000)

The Icelandic database: do modern times need modern sagas?

BMJ 2000;320:234.2 (Published 22 January 2000)

Implementing screening for colorectal cancer

BMJ 2000;320:234.3 (Published 22 January 2000)

Dietary management of hepatic encephalopathy

BMJ 2000;320:234.4 (Published 22 January 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Maxwell CrannaAndrew Walters ForbesGeoffrey Frederick James GoddardDaniel John GoldsteinGinette Lesley HarrisonMichael LeibsonJohn David LewisPatrick Joseph O'RourkeKathleen Mary SpencerAndrew WattJohn Leslie David Williams

BMJ 2000;320:253 (Published 22 January 2000)