29 January 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7230)

Editor's Choice

Craziness

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

Craziness

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

News

Blair will have difficulty in matching European spending

BMJ 2000;320:267.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

Government seems to soften pledge on NHS

BMJ 2000;320:267.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

Scientists discover how helicobacter survives gastric acid

BMJ 2000;320:268.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

University sues scientist for £400000 for undeclared fees

BMJ 2000;320:268.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:268.3 (Published 29 January 2000)

Global alliance launches plan to eliminate lymphatic filariasis

BMJ 2000;320:269.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

Trust accused of racism in awarding payments

BMJ 2000;320:269.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

First UK patents for cloning issued to creators of Dolly the sheep

BMJ 2000;320:270.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

Screening trial for lung cancer planned for UK

BMJ 2000;320:270.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

NHS owes £2.8bn in negligence cases

BMJ 2000;320:270.3 (Published 29 January 2000)

College urges maximum of two embryos for in vitro fertilisation

BMJ 2000;320:271.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

South African minister accused of human rights abuse

BMJ 2000;320:271.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

Health at the hustings

BMJ 2000;320:272.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

Editorials

Giving guidance on child discipline

BMJ 2000;320:261 (Published 29 January 2000)

Keeping patients out of hospital

BMJ 2000;320:262 (Published 29 January 2000)

Psychosocial factors in selection for liver transplantation

BMJ 2000;320:263 (Published 29 January 2000)

Information on community health services

BMJ 2000;320:265 (Published 29 January 2000)

New formula for GP prescribing budgets

BMJ 2000;320:266 (Published 29 January 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Debate on cot death

BMJ 2000;320:310 (Published 29 January 2000)

Childhood vulval lichen sclerosus and sexual abuse are not mutually exclusive diagnoses

BMJ 2000;320:311.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

Antidepressant drugs have previously been shown to be ineffective in mild depression

BMJ 2000;320:311.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

Eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection in non-ulcer dyspepsia

BMJ 2000;320:311.3 (Published 29 January 2000)

Stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BMJ 2000;320:312 (Published 29 January 2000)

Letters - continued

Young people should be included as partners

BMJ 2000;320:313.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

Moving the research agenda

BMJ 2000;320:313.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

Patient surveys identify needs

BMJ 2000;320:314.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

Patients need more than written prompts for communication to be successful

BMJ 2000;320:314.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

Risk assessment is open to public interpretation

BMJ 2000;320:315.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

Medical ethicists do not conform to stereotypes in ER

BMJ 2000;320:315.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

Quality at general practice consultations

BMJ 2000;320:315.3 (Published 29 January 2000)

Is germ cell harvest and storage justified in minors treated for cancer?

BMJ 2000;320:316 (Published 29 January 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:324 (Published 29 January 2000)

Fillers

How we improved our treatment of hypertension

BMJ 2000;320:309 (Published 29 January 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Clinical Reviews

Chronic fatigue syndrome

BMJ 2000;320:292 (Published 29 January 2000)

Investigation

BMJ 2000;320:297 (Published 29 January 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Pharmaceutical association launches electronic drugs compendium for patients

BMJ 2000;320:272.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

NHS may have to pay out £2.8bn in negligence cases

BMJ 2000;320:272.3 (Published 29 January 2000)

Impotence more common after prostatectomy than previously thought

BMJ 2000;320:272.4 (Published 29 January 2000)

Papers

Papers - continued

Lichenoid drug eruption with proton pump inhibitors

BMJ 2000;320:283 (Published 29 January 2000)

General practice

Education and debate

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Books

Flu

BMJ 2000;320:320.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

Surgical Ethics

BMJ 2000;320:320.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

The Unequal Burden of Cancer

BMJ 2000;320:321.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

Fundamentals of Anaesthesia

BMJ 2000;320:321.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

HIT PARADE

Hit parade

BMJ 2000;320:321.3 (Published 29 January 2000)

TV

Have a Heart

BMJ 2000;320:322.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Reducing multiple births

BMJ 2000;320:322.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

Personal View

So who's teaching whom?

BMJ 2000;320:323.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

Soundings

Looking for the man who fell off the roof

BMJ 2000;320:323.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

Corrections

First myocardial infarction in patients of Indian subcontinent and European origin: comparison of risk factors, management, and long term outcome

BMJ 2000;320:278 (Published 29 January 2000)

ABC of complementary medicine: Unconventional approaches to nutritional medicine

BMJ 2000;320:296.1 (Published 29 January 2000)

National electronic Library for Health (NeLH)

BMJ 2000;320:296.2 (Published 29 January 2000)

Obituaries

BMJ 2000;320:296.3 (Published 29 January 2000)

Reviews

BMJ 2000;320:296.4 (Published 29 January 2000)

Obituary