08 April 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7240)

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Editor's Choice

On the house

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

On the house

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

News

Tobacco companies in US to pay smoker $22m (£13.8m)

BMJ 2000;320:957.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

GMC ruling upheld despite records obtained “without consent”

BMJ 2000;320:957.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

Scientists build a peptide to stop toxic shock syndrome

BMJ 2000;320:958.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

Wales launches health promotion strategy

BMJ 2000;320:958.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:958.3 (Published 8 April 2000)

Unsupervised nurses may soon give anaesthetics in United States

BMJ 2000;320:959.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

Tuberculosis is spreading in central and eastern Europe

BMJ 2000;320:959.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

Managers accuse ministers of spin over money for NHS

BMJ 2000;320:960.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

Research needed into effects of IVF

BMJ 2000;320:960.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

Blair must raise taxes to eradicate child poverty, academics say

BMJ 2000;320:961.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

Health minister announces initiatives on men's health

BMJ 2000;320:961.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

Ireland faces shortage of doctors

BMJ 2000;320:961.3 (Published 8 April 2000)

Services for disabled people are “unacceptably poor”

BMJ 2000;320:962.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

Altering a gene in mice prevents obesity

BMJ 2000;320:962.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

Editorials

“Chest pain—please admit”: is there an alternative?

BMJ 2000;320:951 (Published 8 April 2000)

Vaccines and medicines for the world's poorest

BMJ 2000;320:952 (Published 8 April 2000)

Managing status epilepticus

BMJ 2000;320:953 (Published 8 April 2000)

Practitioners of evidence based care

BMJ 2000;320:954 (Published 8 April 2000)

Systems for emergency care

BMJ 2000;320:955 (Published 8 April 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Analgesic effects of sweet solutions and pacifiers in term neonates

BMJ 2000;320:1002 (Published 8 April 2000)

Diagnose and be damned

BMJ 2000;320:1004 (Published 8 April 2000)

“Correcting” bmj.com

BMJ 2000;320:1005.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

How much to do at the accident scene?

BMJ 2000;320:1005.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

Predicted impact of intravenous thrombolysis

BMJ 2000;320:1006 (Published 8 April 2000)

Intention to treat analysis is related to methodological quality

BMJ 2000;320:1007 (Published 8 April 2000)

Using anticoagulation or aspirin to prevent stroke

BMJ 2000;320:1008 (Published 8 April 2000)

Evidence of a CJD epidemic may still be missed

BMJ 2000;320:1011.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:1018 (Published 8 April 2000)

Fillers

An unexpected present

BMJ 2000;320:981 (Published 8 April 2000)

Fortuitous—ambiguously inappropriate to describe maternal death?

BMJ 2000;320:986 (Published 8 April 2000)

Cheque your spelling

BMJ 2000;320:990 (Published 8 April 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

What makes organisational downsizing a risk to the health of employees?

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 8 April 2000)

Calcipotriol is a useful drug for treating mild to moderate psoriasis

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 8 April 2000)

Nominal group technique is reliable for deciding research priorities

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 8 April 2000)

Weapon carrying by young people is linked to illegal drug use

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 8 April 2000)

Early catch-up growth is a risk factor for childhood obesity

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 8 April 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Pharmacogenetics

BMJ 2000;320:987 (Published 8 April 2000)

Secondary prevention of transient ischaemic attack and stroke

BMJ 2000;320:991.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Ireland faces shortage of doctors as applications from outside the EU fall

BMJ 2000;320:962.3 (Published 8 April 2000)

Papers

Systematic review of comparative efficacy and tolerability of calcipotriol in treating chronic plaque psoriasis

BMJ 2000;320:963 (Published 8 April 2000)

Association between postnatal catch-up growth and obesity in childhood: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2000;320:967 (Published 8 April 2000)

Factors underlying the effect of organisational downsizing on health of employees: longitudinal cohort study

BMJ 2000;320:971 (Published 8 April 2000)

Use of consensus development to establish national research priorities in critical care

BMJ 2000;320:976 (Published 8 April 2000)

Ethnicity and prescription of analgesia in an accident and emergency department: cross sectional study

BMJ 2000;320:980 (Published 8 April 2000)

General practice

Association between illegal drugs and weapon carrying in young people in Scotland: schools' survey

BMJ 2000;320:982 (Published 8 April 2000)

Measuring brain natriuretic peptide in suspected left ventricular systolic dysfunction in general practice: cross-sectional study

BMJ 2000;320:985 (Published 8 April 2000)

Education and debate

Role of external evidence in monitoring clinical trials: experience from a perinatal trial

BMJ 2000;320:995 (Published 8 April 2000)

Developing learning organisations in the new NHS

BMJ 2000;320:998 (Published 8 April 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Talks continue on intensity payments for consultantsRevalidation will require a cultural changeGPs issued with new sickness certification guidelinesStudents want random alcohol and drug testing of doctors

BMJ 2000;320:1014 (Published 8 April 2000)

Books

The Evolution of Hypnotism

BMJ 2000;320:1015.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

Video Casebook: Medicine—The Toy Boy and The Burgundy Car

BMJ 2000;320:1015.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

PRESS

Clouding the AIDS issue

BMJ 2000;320:1016.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Men's health

BMJ 2000;320:1016.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

Personal View

Medical tourism can do harm

BMJ 2000;320:1017.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

Soundings

I saw Satan fall like lightning

BMJ 2000;320:1017.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

Corrections

Pituitary surgery for acromegaly

BMJ 2000;320:956 (Published 8 April 2000)

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

BMJ 2000;320:984.1 (Published 8 April 2000)

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses on treatment of asthma: critical evaluation

BMJ 2000;320:984.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

ABC of arterial and venous disease: Acute limb ischaemia

BMJ 2000;320:991.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

Stages of change model for smoking prevention and cessation in schools

BMJ 2000;320:1011.2 (Published 8 April 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Alison Jane Graham BellAntony Robert Phillips EllisEnid Josephine FairRobert Charles HuntErnst JacobyDavid KendallEric Clare (“Ric”) RaybouldDenis George Blackwood RichardsMatthew Herbert Patrick SayersRuth Janet SmithDavid SpencerAndrew Felix Verney

BMJ 2000;320:1012 (Published 8 April 2000)