22 April 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7242)

Editor's Choice

Of smokers, enthusiasts, and bedbugs

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

Of smokers, enthusiasts, and bedbugs

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 22 April 2000)

News

Clinton fires latest salvo in Medicare drug benefit war

BMJ 2000;320:1093.1 (Published 22 April 2000)

College recommends new post of healthcare practitioner

BMJ 2000;320:1093.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

Dutch tighten their rules on advertising of alcohol

BMJ 2000;320:1094.1 (Published 22 April 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:1094.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

FDA committee recommends approval for Viagra rival

BMJ 2000;320:1094.3 (Published 22 April 2000)

Rich countries accused of breaking promises on debt

BMJ 2000;320:1095.1 (Published 22 April 2000)

AIDS patients in South Africa to get free drug

BMJ 2000;320:1095.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

BMA launches review on UK healthcare spending

BMJ 2000;320:1096.1 (Published 22 April 2000)

UK juniors advised to accept new pay offer

BMJ 2000;320:1096.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

Editorials

Smoking and the brain

BMJ 2000;320:1087 (Published 22 April 2000)

Assessing the risk of violence in patients

BMJ 2000;320:1088 (Published 22 April 2000)

Fighting biological warfare

BMJ 2000;320:1089 (Published 22 April 2000)

General practitioners and cancer

BMJ 2000;320:1090 (Published 22 April 2000)

Periodic fevers enter the era of molecular diagnosis

BMJ 2000;320:1091 (Published 22 April 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Is infestation with the common bedbug increasing?

BMJ 2000;320:1141.1 (Published 22 April 2000)

Use of hypericum as antidepressant

BMJ 2000;320:1141.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

Article about Canadian guidelines on proton pump inhibitors was misleading

BMJ 2000;320:1143.1 (Published 22 April 2000)

Doctors and theologians

BMJ 2000;320:1143.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

Caring for marginalised people

BMJ 2000;320:1144 (Published 22 April 2000)

Doctors and complementary medicine

BMJ 2000;320:1145.1 (Published 22 April 2000)

Letters - continued

Surgeons should have to demonstrate competence as pilots do

BMJ 2000;320:1145.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

Deaths attributed to haemochromatosis are rare in Britain

BMJ 2000;320:1146.1 (Published 22 April 2000)

Differences in suicide rates may be even more pronounced

BMJ 2000;320:1146.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

Scottish group is developing guideline for managing pregnant women with epilepsy

BMJ 2000;320:1146.3 (Published 22 April 2000)

Waiting time for cardiac surgery in Scotland is relatively short

BMJ 2000;320:1147.1 (Published 22 April 2000)

More work is needed to explain why patients ask for amputation of healthy limbs

BMJ 2000;320:1147.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

Openness is fine but deferred responsibility is not

BMJ 2000;320:1147.3 (Published 22 April 2000)

Could the GMC institute an appeal procedure?

BMJ 2000;320:1148.1 (Published 22 April 2000)

Unlike GMC, GP did not follow line of political correctness

BMJ 2000;320:1148.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

Drivers who take insulin must tell Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

BMJ 2000;320:1148.3 (Published 22 April 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:1154 (Published 22 April 2000)

Fillers

Looking first

BMJ 2000;320:1111 (Published 22 April 2000)

A Texan prayer

BMJ 2000;320:1114.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

Damages claimed for antenatal injuries

BMJ 2000;320:1134.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Clinical Reviews

Ulcerative colitis

BMJ 2000;320:1119 (Published 22 April 2000)

Renal artery stenosis

BMJ 2000;320:1124 (Published 22 April 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

George W Bush proposes insurance help for the poor

BMJ 2000;320:1096.3 (Published 22 April 2000)

Irish health board tackles waiting lists

BMJ 2000;320:1096.4 (Published 22 April 2000)

Suicide in young men needs multiagency solutions

BMJ 2000;320:1096.5 (Published 22 April 2000)

Papers

General practice

Education and debate

Books

Inequalities in Health: The Evidence; The Widening Gap: Health Inequalities and Policy in Britain

BMJ 2000;320:1151 (Published 22 April 2000)

Death, Hope and Sex

BMJ 2000;320:1152.1 (Published 22 April 2000)

A BOOK THAT CHANGED ME

Why I am not a Christian

BMJ 2000;320:1152.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

Personal View

Stronger campaign needed to end female genital mutilation

BMJ 2000;320:1153.1 (Published 22 April 2000)

Soundings

The new kids

BMJ 2000;320:1153.2 (Published 22 April 2000)

Corrections

Care of the newborn in the delivery room

BMJ 2000;320:1148.4 (Published 22 April 2000)

How much to do at the accident scene?

BMJ 2000;320:1148.5 (Published 22 April 2000)

Obituary