10 June 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7249)

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Editor's Choice

How we spend our money

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

How we spend our money

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

News

Management blamed over consultant's malpractice

BMJ 2000;320:1557.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

Consultants attack “arrogant” GMC

BMJ 2000;320:1557.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

Californian doctors' leaders sue health insurers

BMJ 2000;320:1558.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

Mosquitoes prefer pregnant women

BMJ 2000;320:1558.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:1558.3 (Published 10 June 2000)

UK heroin deaths prompt international alert

BMJ 2000;320:1559.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

Surgeons work evenings to cut Spanish waiting lists

BMJ 2000;320:1559.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

Ireland might relax fluoride rules

BMJ 2000;320:1560.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

Japan plans improved monitoring of new drugs

BMJ 2000;320:1560.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

Doctors' strike in Israel may be good for health

BMJ 2000;320:1561.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

Waiting time limits proposed for specialist referral

BMJ 2000;320:1561.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

FDA censures NEJM editor

BMJ 2000;320:1562.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

Blair chairs UK health summit to tackle NHS reform

BMJ 2000;320:1562.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

Management blamed over consultant's malpractice

BMJ 2000;320:1562.5 (Published 10 June 2000)

Editorials

Cheaper antiretrovirals to treat AIDS in South Africa

BMJ 2000;320:1551 (Published 10 June 2000)

Is life becoming more of a pain?

BMJ 2000;320:1552 (Published 10 June 2000)

Consulting the public about the NHS

BMJ 2000;320:1553 (Published 10 June 2000)

Diabetes care needs evidence based interventions to reduce risk of vascular disease

BMJ 2000;320:1554 (Published 10 June 2000)

The future of gambling in the United Kingdom

BMJ 2000;320:1556 (Published 10 June 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Asymptomatic haematuria

BMJ 2000;320:1598 (Published 10 June 2000)

Long term benefits need to be taken into account when evaluating family support projects

BMJ 2000;320:1600.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

Letters - continued

Organ transplantation and discrimination

BMJ 2000;320:1600.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

Midline episiotomy and anal incontinence

BMJ 2000;320:1601 (Published 10 June 2000)

Diagnosing and treating depression

BMJ 2000;320:1602 (Published 10 June 2000)

Voluntary organisations already help set policy in Scotland

BMJ 2000;320:1604.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

Managing patients with lung cancer

BMJ 2000;320:1604.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

Is norethisterone a lifestyle drug?

BMJ 2000;320:1605 (Published 10 June 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:1614 (Published 10 June 2000)

Fillers

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 2000;320:1583.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

The death of Captain Blifil

BMJ 2000;320:1588 (Published 10 June 2000)

Do you admit to working within the system?

BMJ 2000;320:1596.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

On ageing: oh dear!

BMJ 2000;320:1596.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Young women with diabetes have raised risk of eating disorders

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 10 June 2000)

Patients' suicides stress psychiatrists

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 10 June 2000)

Half of meta-analyses may contain publication bias

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 10 June 2000)

Increase in back pain in Britain is real

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 10 June 2000)

Cost of medical negligence in NHS rose by 7% a year in 1990s

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 10 June 2000)

Increase in prescribing of statins in 1996-8 was greatest in practices in deprived areas

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 10 June 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Treating joint damage in young people

BMJ 2000;320:1585 (Published 10 June 2000)

Ulcerated lower limb

BMJ 2000;320:1589 (Published 10 June 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Patients will challenge doctors more, says study

BMJ 2000;320:1562.3 (Published 10 June 2000)

Israel acts on drug imports to cut healthcare bills

BMJ 2000;320:1562.4 (Published 10 June 2000)

Malaria epidemics seize Venezuela

BMJ 2000;320:1562.6 (Published 10 June 2000)

Papers

Eating disorders in adolescent females with and without type 1 diabetes: cross sectional study

BMJ 2000;320:1563 (Published 10 June 2000)

Current cost of medical negligence in NHS hospitals: analysis of claims database

BMJ 2000;320:1567 (Published 10 June 2000)

Suicide by patients: questionnaire study of its effect on consultant psychiatrists

BMJ 2000;320:1571 (Published 10 June 2000)

Empirical assessment of effect of publication bias on meta-analyses

BMJ 2000;320:1574 (Published 10 June 2000)

Back pain in Britain: comparison of two prevalence surveys at an interval of 10 years

BMJ 2000;320:1577 (Published 10 June 2000)

Socioeconomic variation in hysterectomy up to age 52: national, population based, prospective cohort study

BMJ 2000;320:1579 (Published 10 June 2000)

General practice

Designing trials of interventions to change professional practice in primary care: lessons from an exploratory study of two change strategies

BMJ 2000;320:1580 (Published 10 June 2000)

Use of statins in general practices, 1996-8: cross sectional study

BMJ 2000;320:1583.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

Education and debate

How does male circumcision protect against HIV infection?

BMJ 2000;320:1592 (Published 10 June 2000)

Patient care: access

BMJ 2000;320:1594 (Published 10 June 2000)

Costing in economic evaluation

BMJ 2000;320:1597 (Published 10 June 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Medicopolitical digestSenior medical staffs conferenceCCSC chairman issues challenges to the governmentGMC spells out proposed reformsMedicine needs doctors from all walks of lifePublic confidence in doctors remains high

BMJ 2000;320:1607 (Published 10 June 2000)

Books

Menorrhagia

BMJ 2000;320:1609 (Published 10 June 2000)

Sex, Gender and Health

BMJ 2000;320:1610.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

Second Opinions—Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine

BMJ 2000;320:1610.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture and Identity

BMJ 2000;320:1611.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

Film

The Virgin Suicides

BMJ 2000;320:1611.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

PRESS

Class war

BMJ 2000;320:1612.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Back pain

BMJ 2000;320:1612.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

Personal View

Politically correct references

BMJ 2000;320:1613.1 (Published 10 June 2000)

Soundings

Meetings

BMJ 2000;320:1613.2 (Published 10 June 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

ObituariesAngus Graham BirdJames GillanGeorge Kenneth GrahamDonald Sinclair LyonCharles Trent

BMJ 2000;320:1606 (Published 10 June 2000)