11 March 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7236)

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Editor's Choice

Being smarter about preventing heart disease

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

Being smarter about preventing heart disease

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

News

Heart disease framework aims to cut deaths in England

BMJ 2000;320:665 (Published 11 March 2000)

Doctors fail to follow advice in giving tPA

BMJ 2000;320:666.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

Cannabinoids might reduce spasticity in multiple sclerosis

BMJ 2000;320:666.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:666.3 (Published 11 March 2000)

Australian government attacked for tobacco funding

BMJ 2000;320:667.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

UN condemns Australian plans for “safe injecting rooms”

BMJ 2000;320:667.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

US launches new clinical trials database

BMJ 2000;320:668.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

Patients must disclose infectious diseases, Israeli doctors say

BMJ 2000;320:668.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

India eradicates guinea worm disease

BMJ 2000;320:668.3 (Published 11 March 2000)

Malaria epidemic expected in Mozambique

BMJ 2000;320:669.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

Surgeon in kidney inquiry himself faces surgery suit

BMJ 2000;320:669.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

Scientists find a new way around blood clotting disorders

BMJ 2000;320:670.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

Romanian national insurance cannot cover GPs' prescriptions

BMJ 2000;320:670.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

Editorials

Guidelines on preventing cardiovascular disease in clinical practice

BMJ 2000;320:659 (Published 11 March 2000)

Promoting the health of looked after children

BMJ 2000;320:661 (Published 11 March 2000)

Good practice in sterilisation

BMJ 2000;320:662 (Published 11 March 2000)

Asthma drug delivery devices for children

BMJ 2000;320:664 (Published 11 March 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Managing self poisoning

BMJ 2000;320:711 (Published 11 March 2000)

Health minister clarifies Care Standards Bill

BMJ 2000;320:713.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

Differentiating between audit and research

BMJ 2000;320:713.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

Letters - continued

Authors take issue with commentary on their paper

BMJ 2000;320:713.3 (Published 11 March 2000)

Mortality prediction model is preferable to APACHE

BMJ 2000;320:714.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

Development and evaluation committees' methods for appraising new drugs

BMJ 2000;320:714.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

Osteoporosis and coeliac disease

BMJ 2000;320:715.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

Hospital of the future

BMJ 2000;320:715.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

Seasonality of birth in children with diabetes

BMJ 2000;320:716 (Published 11 March 2000)

Rationing certainly exists in treatment for cancer

BMJ 2000;320:717.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

Distress symptoms may be easy to miss

BMJ 2000;320:717.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

Centralisation of cancer services in rural areas has disadvantages

BMJ 2000;320:717.3 (Published 11 March 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:724 (Published 11 March 2000)

Fillers

Discovery of a Temple of Æsculapius

BMJ 2000;320:690.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

Mother's milk

BMJ 2000;320:691 (Published 11 March 2000)

A very peculiar dream

BMJ 2000;320:708 (Published 11 March 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

New Zealand and British risk charts are easier to use in primary care than Sheffield table

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 11 March 2000)

NHS needs to implement coronary risk reduction for the 10% of population at high risk

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 11 March 2000)

Hypertensive patients don't gain from computerised risk assessment

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 11 March 2000)

New table for assessing coronary risk has high specificity and sensitivit

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 11 March 2000)

Risk based guidelines may improve hypertension treatment

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 11 March 2000)

Framingham model for risk of heart disease fits a British population well

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 11 March 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Acute ischaemic stroke

BMJ 2000;320:692 (Published 11 March 2000)

Unnecessary surgical treatment of fungal kerions in children

BMJ 2000;320:696 (Published 11 March 2000)

Non-invasive methods of arterial and venous assessment

BMJ 2000;320:698 (Published 11 March 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

College inquiry clears hospital's cardiology services

BMJ 2000;320:670.3 (Published 11 March 2000)

Blair tackled on heart deaths

BMJ 2000;320:670.4 (Published 11 March 2000)

Cell transplantation aids spinal cord repair in rats

BMJ 2000;320:670.5 (Published 11 March 2000)

Papers

Coronary and cardiovascular risk estimation for primary prevention:validation of a new Sheffield table in the 1995 Scottish health survey population

BMJ 2000;320:671 (Published 11 March 2000)

Using the Framingham model to predict heart disease in the United Kingdom: retrospective study

BMJ 2000;320:676 (Published 11 March 2000)

Should treatment recommendations for lipid lowering drugs be based on absolute coronary risk or risk reduction?

BMJ 2000;320:677 (Published 11 March 2000)

Allergy associated with ciprofloxacin

BMJ 2000;320:679 (Published 11 March 2000)

General practice

Using thresholds based on risk of cardiovascular disease to target treatment for hypertension: modelling events averted and number treated

BMJ 2000;320:680 (Published 11 March 2000)

Evaluation of computer based clinical decision support system and risk chart for management of hypertension in primary care: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2000;320:686 (Published 11 March 2000)

Risk assessment in primary prevention of coronary heart disease: randomised comparison of three scoring methods

BMJ 2000;320:690.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

Education and debate

Estimating cardiovascular risk for primary prevention: outstanding questions for primary care

BMJ 2000;320:702 (Published 11 March 2000)

Joint British recommendations on prevention of coronary heart disease in clinical practice: summary

BMJ 2000;320:705 (Published 11 March 2000)

Updated New Zealand cardiovascular disease risk-benefit prediction guide

BMJ 2000;320:709 (Published 11 March 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

BMA wants open debate on regulation of doctorsHealth secretary wants to change NHS workforce planningPM replies on funding promise

BMJ 2000;320:720 (Published 11 March 2000)

Books

The Nazi War on Cancer

BMJ 2000;320:721.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine

BMJ 2000;320:721.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

TV

Some talk of genocide

BMJ 2000;320:722.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Risk of cardiovascular disease

BMJ 2000;320:722.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

Personal View

“Absolute” is inappropriate for quantitative risk estimation

BMJ 2000;320:723.1 (Published 11 March 2000)

Soundings

Seize the day

BMJ 2000;320:723.2 (Published 11 March 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Donald Varley BatemanClive Andrew DevallMargaret Joan GodleyUrsula JamesRodney George Mansfield JonesJames Montague Somerville KnottNikhil Dattatraya KotibhaskarKookal Ramunni KrishnanGeorge Brian LockeKrishna Kumar SinhaRodney Julian WalshFrederick Bria…

BMJ 2000;320:718 (Published 11 March 2000)