29 April 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7243)

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Editor's Choice

Ebrahim's quartet

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 29 April 2000)

Ebrahim's quartet

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 29 April 2000)

News

Control malaria to help defeat poverty, says WHO

BMJ 2000;320:1161.1 (Published 29 April 2000)

NHS should be recast in BBC mould, says report

BMJ 2000;320:1161.2 (Published 29 April 2000)

Spain launches national plan for palliative care

BMJ 2000;320:1162.1 (Published 29 April 2000)

Health insurer delays psychiatric admissions

BMJ 2000;320:1162.2 (Published 29 April 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:1162.3 (Published 29 April 2000)

National register will monitor hip replacements

BMJ 2000;320:1163.1 (Published 29 April 2000)

Discrimination “rife” against mental health patients

BMJ 2000;320:1163.2 (Published 29 April 2000)

Guru promotes global health

BMJ 2000;320:1164 (Published 29 April 2000)

Editorials

Do not resuscitate decisions: flogging dead horses or a dignified death?

BMJ 2000;320:1155 (Published 29 April 2000)

Valuing the effects of sildenafil in erectile dysfunction

BMJ 2000;320:1156 (Published 29 April 2000)

Multicentre research ethics committees: has the cure been worse than the disease?

BMJ 2000;320:1157 (Published 29 April 2000)

Risk of torsades de pointes with non-cardiac drugs

BMJ 2000;320:1158 (Published 29 April 2000)

Reducing the speed limit to 20 mph in urban areas

BMJ 2000;320:1160 (Published 29 April 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

A good death

BMJ 2000;320:1205 (Published 29 April 2000)

Older Americans hold on to life dearly

BMJ 2000;320:1206 (Published 29 April 2000)

New models of journals must be sought

BMJ 2000;320:1207.1 (Published 29 April 2000)

Population, consumption, and entrapment

BMJ 2000;320:1207.2 (Published 29 April 2000)

Eradicating war is essential to eliminate poverty and improve health

BMJ 2000;320:1208.1 (Published 29 April 2000)

Letters - continued

Will eradication of Helicobacter pylori improve symptoms of non-ulcer dyspepsia?

BMJ 2000;320:1208.2 (Published 29 April 2000)

Use of unlabelled and off licence drugs in children

BMJ 2000;320:1210 (Published 29 April 2000)

Prescriptions on bioterrorism have it backwards

BMJ 2000;320:1211.1 (Published 29 April 2000)

Pathogen causing infection related to body piercing should be determined

BMJ 2000;320:1211.2 (Published 29 April 2000)

Patient information systems are not more expensive than leaflets

BMJ 2000;320:1212.1 (Published 29 April 2000)

Joint committee on postgraduate training for GPs needs more money for its work

BMJ 2000;320:1212.2 (Published 29 April 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:1218 (Published 29 April 2000)

Fillers

The odd man out

BMJ 2000;320:1178 (Published 29 April 2000)

The cost of getting approval

BMJ 2000;320:1183 (Published 29 April 2000)

Keep looking for a reason

BMJ 2000;320:1187 (Published 29 April 2000)

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 2000;320:1188.2 (Published 29 April 2000)

“Shouldn't we do something about the fire?”

BMJ 2000;320:1196 (Published 29 April 2000)

Fifty five years later

BMJ 2000;320:1204 (Published 29 April 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Healthcare systems should fund sildenafil

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 29 April 2000)

Ethics approval for multicentre research is expensive, slow, and inconsistent

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 29 April 2000)

Material conditions directly affect health inequalities, not income inequality

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 29 April 2000)

New operations bring period of increased hazard for patients

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 29 April 2000)

Non-sedating antihistamines have differing sedative effects

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 29 April 2000)

Temperature measured at the axilla in children and young people may be misleading

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 29 April 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Drug treatment in heart failure

BMJ 2000;320:1188.1 (Published 29 April 2000)

Arterial aneurysms

BMJ 2000;320:1193 (Published 29 April 2000)

Papers

Cost utility analysis of sildenafil compared with papaverine-phentolamine injections

BMJ 2000;320:1165 (Published 29 April 2000)

Scientific, ethical, and logistical considerations in introducing a new operation: a retrospective cohort study from paediatric cardiac surgery

BMJ 2000;320:1168 (Published 29 April 2000)

Temperature measured at the axilla compared with rectum in children and young people: systematic review

BMJ 2000;320:1174 (Published 29 April 2000)

The new system of review by multicentre research ethics committees: prospective study

BMJ 2000;320:1179 (Published 29 April 2000)

Responses of local research ethics committees to a study with approval from a multicentre research ethics committee

BMJ 2000;320:1182 (Published 29 April 2000)

General practice

Sedation with “non-sedating” antihistamines: four prescription-event monitoring studies in general practiceCommentary: Reporting of adverse events is worth the effort

BMJ 2000;320:1184 (Published 29 April 2000)

Education and debate

How should cost data in pragmatic randomised trials be analysed?

BMJ 2000;320:1197 (Published 29 April 2000)

Income inequality and mortality: importance to health of individual income, psychosocial environment, or material conditions

BMJ 2000;320:1200 (Published 29 April 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Consultants' leaders spell out NHS spending prioritiesDoctors are becoming disillusioned with NHSPatients should be involved in quality improvementMedical students issue standards for medical education

BMJ 2000;320:1214 (Published 29 April 2000)

Books

Evidence Based Gastroenterology and Hepatology

BMJ 2000;320:1215.1 (Published 29 April 2000)

Bioethics: An Anthology

BMJ 2000;320:1215.2 (Published 29 April 2000)

Humanitarian Crises: The Medical and Public Health Response

BMJ 2000;320:1216.1 (Published 29 April 2000)

THEATRE

Blue/Orange

BMJ 2000;320:1216.2 (Published 29 April 2000)

Personal View

The ethics of research ethics committees

BMJ 2000;320:1217.1 (Published 29 April 2000)

Soundings

The class reunion

BMJ 2000;320:1217.2 (Published 29 April 2000)

Corrections

Treating young patients with breast cancer

BMJ 2000;320:1173.1 (Published 29 April 2000)

Lord, protect me from my friends

BMJ 2000;320:1173.2 (Published 29 April 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Malcolm John CoptcoatSivabakiyam (“Soondree”) ChettyNorman GillOwen Dermot Gilmore

BMJ 2000;320:1213 (Published 29 April 2000)