04 March 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7235)

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Editor's Choice

Innovation in medicine and threats to innovation

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Innovation in medicine and threats to innovation

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

News

Clinton acts to reduce medical mistakes

BMJ 2000;320:597.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

Series of errors led to 300 unnecessary mastectomies

BMJ 2000;320:597.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Pfizer to sponsor European impotence awareness campaign

BMJ 2000;320:598.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

Scotland to ban general anaesthesia in dental surgeries

BMJ 2000;320:598.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:598.3 (Published 4 March 2000)

NHS cancels record number of operations in England

BMJ 2000;320:599.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

NHS compensation bill set to soar

BMJ 2000;320:599.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Better coronary care reduces deaths from heart disease

BMJ 2000;320:600.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

UK pilot scheme for HPV testing announced

BMJ 2000;320:600.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Drug company bosses jailed for selling HIV infected products

BMJ 2000;320:601.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

Seven die in French listeria outbreak

BMJ 2000;320:601.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Cost of malpractice insurance set to rise in Canada

BMJ 2000;320:601.3 (Published 4 March 2000)

Scientist must pay university a slice of profits

BMJ 2000;320:602.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

Rise in preschool children receiving psychiatric drugs

BMJ 2000;320:602.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Transgenic cell patent granted “in error”

BMJ 2000;320:602.3 (Published 4 March 2000)

Cost of malpractice insurance set to rise in Canada

BMJ 2000;320:602.6 (Published 4 March 2000)

Transgenic cell patent granted “in error”

BMJ 2000;320:602.7 (Published 4 March 2000)

Editorials

Reviving academic medicine in Britain

BMJ 2000;320:591 (Published 4 March 2000)

Evidence based screening for Down's syndrome

BMJ 2000;320:592 (Published 4 March 2000)

Radiation doses in computed tomography

BMJ 2000;320:593 (Published 4 March 2000)

Management of childhood illness in Africa

BMJ 2000;320:594 (Published 4 March 2000)

Self care

BMJ 2000;320:596 (Published 4 March 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

The sexual health of boys and men

BMJ 2000;320:643 (Published 4 March 2000)

Doctor, help! My child has cancer

BMJ 2000;320:644 (Published 4 March 2000)

Letters - continued

Do you believe in God?

BMJ 2000;320:645.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

Injection with methylprednisolone for carpal tunnel syndrome

BMJ 2000;320:645.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Keeping joint medical and nursing notes at foot of bed

BMJ 2000;320:646 (Published 4 March 2000)

Prediction of survival for preterm births

BMJ 2000;320:647 (Published 4 March 2000)

Managing doctors and health care

BMJ 2000;320:648 (Published 4 March 2000)

Menorrhagia and hypothyroidism

BMJ 2000;320:649 (Published 4 March 2000)

Revalidation in the United Kingdom

BMJ 2000;320:650.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

Prevalence of antibodies to HTLV in blood donors in north London

BMJ 2000;320:650.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Centres of excellence are needed for clinical forensic medicine

BMJ 2000;320:650.3 (Published 4 March 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:658 (Published 4 March 2000)

Fillers

Why 19th century institutions are governed by representative bodies

BMJ 2000;320:618.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Overate?

BMJ 2000;320:625 (Published 4 March 2000)

Ambidextrous

BMJ 2000;320:642 (Published 4 March 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

On-site mental health professionals can modify doctors' clinical behaviour

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 4 March 2000)

Patients with stroke benefit from domiciliary occupational therapy

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 4 March 2000)

Short children are bullied more than normal sized ones

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 4 March 2000)

Screening for Down's syndrome by maternal age and routine ultrasonography is effective

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 4 March 2000)

Demand for out of hours care is higher in deprived areas

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 4 March 2000)

UK health spending won't reach EU average with current growth rates

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 4 March 2000)

Clinical Reviews

New interventions in hearing impairment

BMJ 2000;320:622 (Published 4 March 2000)

Heart failure in general practice

BMJ 2000;320:626 (Published 4 March 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Doctors warn of the dangers of trepanning

BMJ 2000;320:602.4 (Published 4 March 2000)

US faces ethical issues after gene therapy death

BMJ 2000;320:602.5 (Published 4 March 2000)

Pet therapy for elderly wins growing recognition

BMJ 2000;320:602.8 (Published 4 March 2000)

Men and women back male pill

BMJ 2000;320:602.9 (Published 4 March 2000)

Papers

Domiciliary occupational therapy for patients with stroke discharged from hospital: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2000;320:603 (Published 4 March 2000)

Six year survey of screening for Down's syndrome by maternal age and mid-trimester ultrasound scans

BMJ 2000;320:606 (Published 4 March 2000)

HTLV-I/II associated disease in England and Wales, 1993-7: retrospective review of serology requests

BMJ 2000;320:611 (Published 4 March 2000)

Bullying in school: are short pupils at risk? Questionnaire study in a cohort

BMJ 2000;320:612 (Published 4 March 2000)

Hypersensitivity reaction to balsalazide

BMJ 2000;320:613 (Published 4 March 2000)

General practice

Systematic review of the effect of on-site mental health professionals on the clinical behaviour of general practitioners

BMJ 2000;320:614 (Published 4 March 2000)

Demand for and supply of out of hours care from general practitioners in England and Scotland: observational study based on routinely collected data

BMJ 2000;320:618.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

Education and debate

More in expectation than in hope: a new attitude to training in clinical academic medicine

BMJ 2000;320:630 (Published 4 March 2000)

Interface between university and medical school: the way ahead?

BMJ 2000;320:633 (Published 4 March 2000)

The research assessment exercise and medical research

BMJ 2000;320:636 (Published 4 March 2000)

“Getting UK health care expenditure up to the European Union mean”—what does that mean?

BMJ 2000;320:640 (Published 4 March 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

BMA starts healthcare funding reviewThe public still trusts doctorsReview body sets out future programmeFirst all Ireland health conference to be held

BMJ 2000;320:653 (Published 4 March 2000)

CD

Interactive Skeleton: Kinetic and Sports Edition

BMJ 2000;320:654.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

EXHIBITION

The Fag Show

BMJ 2000;320:654.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Books

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

BMJ 2000;320:655.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

Examination of the cranial nerves

BMJ 2000;320:655.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Ad

Good intentions gone wrong?

BMJ 2000;320:656.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Academic medicine

BMJ 2000;320:656.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Personal View

Trying to overcome racism in the NHS

BMJ 2000;320:657.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

Soundings

Out of time

BMJ 2000;320:657.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Corrections

Donors and relatives must place no conditions on organ use

BMJ 2000;320:602.10 (Published 4 March 2000)

Clinic sued for unauthorised use of sperm

BMJ 2000;320:602.11 (Published 4 March 2000)

Misunderstandings in prescribing decisions in general practice: qualitative study

BMJ 2000;320:617.1 (Published 4 March 2000)

Cross sectional study of reporting of epileptic seizures to general practitioners

BMJ 2000;320:617.2 (Published 4 March 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Robert James Edwin BellMary Evaline GriffithMercy Jacob JosephWilliam Thomas KennyOmotunde Olutosin (“Tosin”) Manuwa-ClairmonteRobert ProsserMaureen Seddon (née Maxwell)Robert William Magill StrainRichard WaltonGavin (“Guy”) Baird Ross WarnockMa…

BMJ 2000;320:651 (Published 4 March 2000)