05 February 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7231)

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Editor's Choice

Language is the culprit

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

Language is the culprit

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

News

Tighter control on GPs to follow doctor's murder convictions

BMJ 2000;320:331.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

Earlier inquiry found no evidence of criminal activity

BMJ 2000;320:331.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

Surgeon amputated healthy legs

BMJ 2000;320:332.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

College begins inquiry into removal of wrong kidney

BMJ 2000;320:332.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:332.3 (Published 5 February 2000)

French health staff strike over budget cuts

BMJ 2000;320:333.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

Women taking combination HRT are at greater risk of breast cancer

BMJ 2000;320:333.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

PAR2 antagonists—the next generation of anti-inflammatories?

BMJ 2000;320:334.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

UK lifts ban on frozen eggs

BMJ 2000;320:334.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

Drug company issues warning about flu drug

BMJ 2000;320:334.3 (Published 5 February 2000)

New advice issued on prevention of sudden infant death

BMJ 2000;320:335.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

Advertisement breached code of practice

BMJ 2000;320:335.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

Tube feeding bad for patients with dementia

BMJ 2000;320:335.3 (Published 5 February 2000)

Gene therapy experiments put on “clinical hold”

BMJ 2000;320:336.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

Talks continue on UK juniors' pay

BMJ 2000;320:336.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

Patients, but not doctors, like mediation for settling claims

BMJ 2000;320:336.3 (Published 5 February 2000)

Patients, but not doctors, like mediation for settling claims

BMJ 2000;320:336.8 (Published 5 February 2000)

Editorials

Antenatal corticosteroids to prevent neonatal respiratory distress syndrome

BMJ 2000;320:325 (Published 5 February 2000)

The specialist of the discipline of general practice

BMJ 2000;320:326 (Published 5 February 2000)

On target for health?

BMJ 2000;320:327 (Published 5 February 2000)

Childhood obesity: time for action, not complacency

BMJ 2000;320:328 (Published 5 February 2000)

Doctor as murderer

BMJ 2000;320:329 (Published 5 February 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Zanamivir, influenza, and meningococcal disease

BMJ 2000;320:378.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

Very old people may not use excessive proportion of hospital budgets

BMJ 2000;320:378.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

Letters - continued

Managing patients with lung cancer

BMJ 2000;320:379 (Published 5 February 2000)

Consumer involvement in research is essential

BMJ 2000;320:380 (Published 5 February 2000)

Morphine induced allodynia in child with brain tumour

BMJ 2000;320:381.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

Competing interests and controversy about third generation oral contraceptives

BMJ 2000;320:381.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

Italian paediatric association has launched code on competing interests

BMJ 2000;320:382 (Published 5 February 2000)

Immunisation does not rule out tetanus

BMJ 2000;320:383.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

Not such distant mirrors

BMJ 2000;320:383.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:390 (Published 5 February 2000)

Fillers

On ageing: contentment

BMJ 2000;320:348.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

Religion

BMJ 2000;320:348.3 (Published 5 February 2000)

Modern English abusage

BMJ 2000;320:357 (Published 5 February 2000)

For want of a bag of blood

BMJ 2000;320:365 (Published 5 February 2000)

New doctors

BMJ 2000;320:375 (Published 5 February 2000)

A more helpful technique

BMJ 2000;320:377 (Published 5 February 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

HRT makes no difference to the types of breast tumour found

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 5 February 2000)

UK screening programme for haemoglobin disorders fails to reach many couples

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 5 February 2000)

Immunoassay is promising non-invasive test for H pylori in children

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 5 February 2000)

Even infants with otitis media do not need antibiotics

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 5 February 2000)

New definition of general practice is needed to underpin education

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 5 February 2000)

Hip fractures are profound threat to quality of life

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 5 February 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Recent advances in intensive care

BMJ 2000;320:358 (Published 5 February 2000)

Lesson of the week Difficulties in diagnosing acute rheumatic fever—arthritis may be short lived and carditis silent

BMJ 2000;320:362 (Published 5 February 2000)

Non-drug management

BMJ 2000;320:366 (Published 5 February 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Audit Commission plans changes to its work in the NHS

BMJ 2000;320:336.4 (Published 5 February 2000)

BMA supports full inquiry into the Shipman case

BMJ 2000;320:336.5 (Published 5 February 2000)

Dutch doctors reject government advice on HIV testing in pregnant asylum seekers

BMJ 2000;320:336.6 (Published 5 February 2000)

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

Tobacco companies to make their research available on internet

BMJ 2000;320:336.7 (Published 5 February 2000)

Northern Ireland's health minister sparks controversy

BMJ 2000;320:336.9 (Published 5 February 2000)

FDA tells doctors to use heartburn drug as last resort

BMJ 2000;320:336.10 (Published 5 February 2000)

Papers

Informed choice in genetic screening for thalassaemia during pregnancy: audit from a national confidential inquiry

BMJ 2000;320:337 (Published 5 February 2000)

Quality of life related to fear of falling and hip fracture in older women: a time trade off studyCommentary: Older people's perspectives on life after hip fractures

BMJ 2000;320:341 (Published 5 February 2000)

Detection of Helicobacter pylori in stool specimens by non-invasive antigen enzyme immunoassay in children: multicentre Italian study

BMJ 2000;320:347 (Published 5 February 2000)

Effect of hormone replacement therapy on the pathological stage of breast cancer: population based, cross sectional study

BMJ 2000;320:348.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

General practice

Primary care based randomised, double blind trial of amoxicillin versus placebo for acute otitis media in children aged under 2 years

BMJ 2000;320:350 (Published 5 February 2000)

General practice—time for a new definition

BMJ 2000;320:354 (Published 5 February 2000)

Education and debate

Oral examinations—equal opportunities, ethnicity, and fairness in the MRCGPCommentary: Oral exams—get them right or don't bother

BMJ 2000;320:370 (Published 5 February 2000)

Should journals publish systematic reviews that find no evidence to guide practice? Examples from injury research

BMJ 2000;320:376 (Published 5 February 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

BMA criticises benefits agency workRace relations loophole should be closedConsultants advise on changes to referral patternsGPs asked to help spot “elder abuse”

BMJ 2000;320:386 (Published 5 February 2000)

Books

Diagnosing Cancer in Primary Care

BMJ 2000;320:387.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

Childfree and Sterilised: Women's Decision and Medical Responses

BMJ 2000;320:387.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

TV

Driving Mum Crazy

BMJ 2000;320:388.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Specialists and generalists

BMJ 2000;320:388.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

Personal View

MMR, autism, and Adam

BMJ 2000;320:389.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

Soundings

Publish and be praised

BMJ 2000;320:389.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

Corrections

Increase in congenital rubella occurrence after immunisation in Greece: retrospective survey and systematic review

BMJ 2000;320:361.1 (Published 5 February 2000)

Obituaries

BMJ 2000;320:361.2 (Published 5 February 2000)

The price of coffins: specious arguments by eminent doctors against the dangers of tobacco

BMJ 2000;320:361.3 (Published 5 February 2000)

Hypericum extract versus imipramine or placebo in patients with moderate depression: randomised multicentre study of treatment for eight weeks

BMJ 2000;320:361.4 (Published 5 February 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Norman AshtonRobert Gregory HendersonMichael HerzMaurice Wingate PatersonGerald Barcroft RobinsonRobert Joseph SmithWilliam Deane SteelAlistair McElderry TurnbullRoland Charles UrenMichael Treharne WadeKathleen WarinDiane Elizabeth Killcross

BMJ 2000;320:384 (Published 5 February 2000)