20 May 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7246)

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Editor's Choice

The gap between expectations and reality

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

The gap between expectations and reality

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

News

Drug companies cut HIV drug prices in the developing world

BMJ 2000;320:1357.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

Doctors demand more information on GMC candidates

BMJ 2000;320:1357.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

Controversy over new editor at New England Journal of Medicine

BMJ 2000;320:1358.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

Surgeon dies from hospital exposure to asbestos

BMJ 2000;320:1358.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:1358.3 (Published 20 May 2000)

Doctors' arrogance blamed for retention of childrens' organs

BMJ 2000;320:1359.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

Health websites in US propose new ethics code

BMJ 2000;320:1359.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

Coverage for cancer treatment extended to poor women in US

BMJ 2000;320:1360.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

Cochlear hair cells generated in mammals after birth

BMJ 2000;320:1360.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

Too early to introduce colorectal screening, say specialists

BMJ 2000;320:1361.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

Heart transplants suspended in Scotland

BMJ 2000;320:1361.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

Doctor puts herring on prescription

BMJ 2000;320:1361.3 (Published 20 May 2000)

WHO accused of stifling debate about infant feeding

BMJ 2000;320:1362.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

Drug industry is unwilling to run trials in children

BMJ 2000;320:1362.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

Doctors demand more information on GMC candidates

BMJ 2000;320:1362.4 (Published 20 May 2000)

Editorials

Shots in the desert and Gulf war syndrome

BMJ 2000;320:1351 (Published 20 May 2000)

Screening for breast and cervical cancer as a common cause for litigation

BMJ 2000;320:1352 (Published 20 May 2000)

A national screening policy for sickle cell disease and thalassaemia major for the United Kingdom

BMJ 2000;320:1353 (Published 20 May 2000)

Reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction

BMJ 2000;320:1354 (Published 20 May 2000)

The GMC: where now?

BMJ 2000;320:1356 (Published 20 May 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Childhood obesity

BMJ 2000;320:1401 (Published 20 May 2000)

Visual field defect associated with vigabatrin

BMJ 2000;320:1403 (Published 20 May 2000)

Letters - continued

Guideline for prescribing vigabatrin in children has been revised

BMJ 2000;320:1404 (Published 20 May 2000)

Association between SSRIs and upper gastrointestinal bleeding

BMJ 2000;320:1405 (Published 20 May 2000)

Heartburn treatment in primary care

BMJ 2000;320:1406 (Published 20 May 2000)

Incidence of congenital rubella in Greece has decreased

BMJ 2000;320:1408.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

Points for reading as part of continuing medical education

BMJ 2000;320:1408.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:1416 (Published 20 May 2000)

Fillers

The war in South Africa: The hot dry summer

BMJ 2000;320:1378.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

Bladders and Brobdingnag

BMJ 2000;320:1379 (Published 20 May 2000)

When medical journals were much less boring

BMJ 2000;320:1389.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

Eavesdropping on the great and the good

BMJ 2000;320:1390 (Published 20 May 2000)

Ophthalmology in Spain

BMJ 2000;320:1391.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Adding salmeterol is more effective than increasing inhaled steroids in symptomatic asthma

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 20 May 2000)

Patient preferences conflict with guidelines on atrial fibrillation

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 20 May 2000)

Multiple vaccines received during deployment may explain Gulf war illness

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 20 May 2000)

Beer drinking protects against heart disease

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 20 May 2000)

Tight glucose control is cost effective in diabetes

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 20 May 2000)

All policies should be subjected to some form of health impact assessment

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 20 May 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Recent advances in rehabilitation

BMJ 2000;320:1385 (Published 20 May 2000)

Tinea capitis in adults

BMJ 2000;320:1389.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

Varicose veins

BMJ 2000;320:1391.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Note accents on Pécoul and Médecins Sans Frontières Drug companies cut HIV drug prices in the developing world

BMJ 2000;320:1362.3 (Published 20 May 2000)

New reporting system for euthanasia shows doctors follow rules

BMJ 2000;320:1362.5 (Published 20 May 2000)

Estimate of 98 000 deaths from medical errors is too low, says specialist

BMJ 2000;320:1362.6 (Published 20 May 2000)

EU to tighten rules on dietary supplements

BMJ 2000;320:1362.7 (Published 20 May 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web] - continued

US spends $2.7m to prevent spread of West Nile virus

BMJ 2000;320:1362.8 (Published 20 May 2000)

Shortage of nurses in Japan leads to high accident rate

BMJ 2000;320:1362.9 (Published 20 May 2000)

Papers

Role of vaccinations as risk factors for ill health in veterans of the Gulf war: cross sectional study

BMJ 2000;320:1363 (Published 20 May 2000)

Meta-analysis of increased dose of inhaled steroid or addition of salmeterol in symptomatic asthma (MIASMA)

BMJ 2000;320:1368 (Published 20 May 2000)

Cost effectiveness of an intensive blood glucose control policy in patients with type 2 diabetes: economic analysis alongside randomised controlled trial (UKPDS 41)

BMJ 2000;320:1373 (Published 20 May 2000)

Effect of beer drinking on risk of myocardial infarction: population based case-control study

BMJ 2000;320:1378.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

General practice

The impact of patients' preferences on the treatment of atrial fibrillation: observational study of patient based decision analysisCommentary: patients, preferences, and evidence

BMJ 2000;320:1380 (Published 20 May 2000)

Education and debate

Health impact assessment

BMJ 2000;320:1395 (Published 20 May 2000)

Prevention and the reduction of health inequalities

BMJ 2000;320:1399 (Published 20 May 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

GMC will get help to deal with more casesHealth secretary launches consultation exerciseBMA wants to eradicate debt of poorest countriesNI's doctors welcome winter pressures action plan

BMJ 2000;320:1411 (Published 20 May 2000)

Book

Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870

BMJ 2000;320:1412.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

Review

BMJ 2000;320:1412.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

ART

The Museum of Emotions

BMJ 2000;320:1413.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

BOOKCASE

Bookcase

BMJ 2000;320:1413.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

PRESS

The steady drip of biased reporting

BMJ 2000;320:1414.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Gulf war syndrome

BMJ 2000;320:1414.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

Personal View

Failures of process at the GMC

BMJ 2000;320:1415.1 (Published 20 May 2000)

Soundings

Happy forms?

BMJ 2000;320:1415.2 (Published 20 May 2000)

Correction

The value of DALY life: problems with ethics and validity of disability adjusted life years

BMJ 2000;320:1398 (Published 20 May 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Simon BowdenRalph Adair Peebles BrownClive Russell CartwrightJohn Zelman GarsonKenneth Lawrence Granville-GrossmanMathias Thomas Islwyn JonesTimothy MurphyFrancis O'DalyPeter Edward SylvesterJohn Kenneth Booth WaddingtonJames Roslyn Watson

BMJ 2000;320:1409 (Published 20 May 2000)