29 January 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7230)

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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

Norethisterone might be being used as a lifestyle drug

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 29 January 2000)

Patients are equally satisfied with outpatient and day case hysteroscopy

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 29 January 2000)

No association found between prenatal ultrasound and childhood leukaemia

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 29 January 2000)

New allocation formula for primary care prescribing explains nearly two thirds of variation

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 29 January 2000)

British psychiatrists resist home treatment

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 29 January 2000)

Adult lifestyles count more than childhood factors in determining cardiovascular health

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 29 January 2000)

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

Risk of cardiovascular disease measured by carotid intima-media thickness at age 49-51: lifecourse study

BMJ 2000;320:273 (Published 29 January 2000)

Patient satisfaction with outpatient hysteroscopy versus day case hysteroscopy: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2000;320:279 (Published 29 January 2000)

Prenatal ultrasound examinations and risk of childhood leukaemia: case-control study

BMJ 2000;320:282 (Published 29 January 2000)

Papers - continued

Lichenoid drug eruption with proton pump inhibitors

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

General practice

Derivation of a needs based capitation formula for allocating prescribing budgets to health authorities and primary care groups in England: regression analysisCommentary: The emphasis on transparency weakens the formula

BMJ 2000;320:284 (Published 29 January 2000)

Analysis of the ability of the new needs adjustment formula to improve the setting of weighted capitation prescribing budgets in English general practice

BMJ 2000;320:288 (Published 29 January 2000)

Is norethisterone a lifestyle drug? Results of database analysis

BMJ 2000;320:291 (Published 29 January 2000)

Education and debate

Exploring a fiscal food policy: the case of diet and ischaemic heart diseaseCommentary: Alternative nutrition outcomes using a fiscal food policy

BMJ 2000;320:301 (Published 29 January 2000)

The home treatment enigmaHome treatment—enigmas and fantasies

BMJ 2000;320:305 (Published 29 January 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Review body report 2000BMA launches Millennium Festival of MedicineMP wants to tighten law on euthanasia

BMJ 2000;320:319 (Published 29 January 2000)

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

This week's Obituary section

Josephine BarnesAlan Humphrey BarkerVictor Meir DellalHock Hoo EeJohn Rushworth HoldenCharles Cotton KennedyGeorge KrasnerGeorge Kenneth LaxtonJames Brian Bonella RiddellMichael Edward SnellNualla Briggs (née Sommerville)

BMJ 2000;320:317 (Published 29 January 2000)