25 March 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7238)

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Editor's Choice

The young as patients and doctors

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

The young as patients and doctors

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

News

Drug resistant tuberculosis can be controlled, says WHO

BMJ 2000;320:821.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

Relatives to be told if organs are to be retained after postmortem

BMJ 2000;320:821.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

Privy Council sets aside GMC ruling

BMJ 2000;320:822.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

Half of Bangladesh population at risk of arsenic poisoning

BMJ 2000;320:822.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:822.3 (Published 25 March 2000)

New clinical guidelines for stroke published

BMJ 2000;320:823.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

Genetics commission consults UK population

BMJ 2000;320:823.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

Blair throws down challenge to GPs over NHS changes

BMJ 2000;320:824.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

EU advisers to declare their interests

BMJ 2000;320:824.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

UK junior doctors to vote on pay offer

BMJ 2000;320:824.3 (Published 25 March 2000)

Saliva test could diagnose cancers

BMJ 2000;320:825.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

Japan to allow in foreign nurses to care for old people

BMJ 2000;320:825.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

Coordinated global action could end malnutrition in young children

BMJ 2000;320:825.3 (Published 25 March 2000)

Cloning of pigs bring xenotransplants closer

BMJ 2000;320:826.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

Canada turns to France for staff to treat cancer patients

BMJ 2000;320:826.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

Dutch insurers flouting law on genetic disease, researchers say

BMJ 2000;320:826.3 (Published 25 March 2000)

Half of Bangladesh population at risk of arsenic poisoning

BMJ 2000;320:826.4 (Published 25 March 2000)

UK junior doctors to vote on pay offer

BMJ 2000;320:826.10 (Published 25 March 2000)

Editorials

Replacing the mercury sphygmomanometer

BMJ 2000;320:815 (Published 25 March 2000)

Heart and heart-lung transplantation in Down's syndrome

BMJ 2000;320:816 (Published 25 March 2000)

Specialist registrar training

BMJ 2000;320:817 (Published 25 March 2000)

Healthy People 2010: objectives for the United States

BMJ 2000;320:818 (Published 25 March 2000)

Total knee replacement: the joint of the decade

BMJ 2000;320:820 (Published 25 March 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Xenotransplantation

BMJ 2000;320:868 (Published 25 March 2000)

GPs can improve their hand washing habits

BMJ 2000;320:869 (Published 25 March 2000)

System to detect tuberculosis in new arrivals to UK must be improved

BMJ 2000;320:870.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

Letters - continued

Antibiotic prophylaxis after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion

BMJ 2000;320:870.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

Honesty about new screening programmes is best policy

BMJ 2000;320:872.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

Higher rate of organ procurement can be achieved in UK

BMJ 2000;320:872.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

Eugenics debate

BMJ 2000;320:873.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

The changing doctor-patient relationship

BMJ 2000;320:873.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

Choice is a gift from the patient to the doctor, not the other way around

BMJ 2000;320:874.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

Continuity of supply of drugs is critical

BMJ 2000;320:874.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

Training for NHS Direct Staff needs funding

BMJ 2000;320:875.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

The other Dr Finlay is commemorated in Cuban stamps

BMJ 2000;320:875.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

Time to switch from whole cell to acellular pertussis vaccines?

BMJ 2000;320:875.4 (Published 25 March 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:882 (Published 25 March 2000)

Fillers

Count sponges and instruments

BMJ 2000;320:840.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

The internet may not be the biggest change in the past 150 years

BMJ 2000;320:846.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

A surprising diagnosis

BMJ 2000;320:849 (Published 25 March 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Teenage pregnancy rates tend to be lower in general practices with young or female doctors

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 25 March 2000)

Weight reduction alleviates asthma in obese asthmatic people

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 25 March 2000)

Current referral times for cancer vary greatly

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 25 March 2000)

Calman trainees are satisfied with specialist training

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 25 March 2000)

Meningococci spread rapidly among new students in first week of university

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 25 March 2000)

Recognition of television images may be a milestone in children's development

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 25 March 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Dermatology

BMJ 2000;320:850 (Published 25 March 2000)

Chronic lower limb ischaemia

BMJ 2000;320:854 (Published 25 March 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

EU advisory committee members declare their interests

BMJ 2000;320:826.5 (Published 25 March 2000)

“Distortion” of passive smoking evidence provokes controversy in Israel

BMJ 2000;320:826.6 (Published 25 March 2000)

Food Standards Agency will be “open and independent”

BMJ 2000;320:826.7 (Published 25 March 2000)

Study throws doubt on protective effects of HRT for heart disease

BMJ 2000;320:826.8 (Published 25 March 2000)

Relatives to be told if organs are retained after postmortem

BMJ 2000;320:826.9 (Published 25 March 2000)

Papers

Immediate and long term effects of weight reduction in obese people with asthma: randomised controlled study

BMJ 2000;320:827 (Published 25 March 2000)

Trainee satisfaction before and after the Calman reforms of specialist training: questionnaire survey

BMJ 2000;320:832 (Published 25 March 2000)

Recognition of television images as a developmental milestone in young children: observational study

BMJ 2000;320:836 (Published 25 March 2000)

Waiting times for cancer patients in England after general practitioners' referrals: retrospective national survey

BMJ 2000;320:838 (Published 25 March 2000)

Relation between infants' birth weight and mothers' mortality: prospective observational study

BMJ 2000;320:839 (Published 25 March 2000)

Cohort study of birthweight, mortality, and disability

BMJ 2000;320:840.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

General practice

Association between teenage pregnancy rates and the age and sex of general practitioners: cross sectional survey in Trent 1994-7

BMJ 2000;320:842 (Published 25 March 2000)

Changing carriage rate of Neisseria meningitidis among university students during the first week of term: cross sectional study

BMJ 2000;320:846.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

Education and debate

The male menopause—does it exist?ForAgainst

BMJ 2000;320:858 (Published 25 March 2000)

Plant sterol and stanol margarines and health

BMJ 2000;320:861 (Published 25 March 2000)

Blair's billions: where will he find the money for the NHS?

BMJ 2000;320:865 (Published 25 March 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Junior doctors oppose idea of new non-consultant gradeGeneral practice must changeConsultants have concerns about revalidation

BMJ 2000;320:878 (Published 25 March 2000)

Books

The Clinician's Practical Guide to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

BMJ 2000;320:879.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

Antimony in Medical History

BMJ 2000;320:879.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

Champion of Women and the Unborn: Horatio Robinson Storer, MD

BMJ 2000;320:880.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

NHS on the web

BMJ 2000;320:880.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

HIT PARADE

Hit parade

BMJ 2000;320:880.3 (Published 25 March 2000)

Personal View

Deaths on the operating table

BMJ 2000;320:881.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

Soundings

How to party

BMJ 2000;320:881.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

Corrections

Leg length and risk of cancer in the Boyd Orr cohort

BMJ 2000;320:867.1 (Published 25 March 2000)

Tumour markers in malignancies

BMJ 2000;320:867.2 (Published 25 March 2000)

How we improved our treatment of hypertension

BMJ 2000;320:867.3 (Published 25 March 2000)

Internal and external morality of medicine: lessons from New Zealand

BMJ 2000;320:867.4 (Published 25 March 2000)

Prediction of survival for preterm births

BMJ 2000;320:875.3 (Published 25 March 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Thomas Keith BradfordRory Shaun CasementDonald Lascelles CrombieNeil FairleyJohn Frederick FoulkesJonathan KersleyNancy Lowe (née Young)Brigid McCannAngus William Bertram MacdonaldDouglas John ParishJon Wilfred ScopesMark Willis Partington WardMaurice C…

BMJ 2000;320:876 (Published 25 March 2000)