17 June 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7250)

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Editor's Choice

A week of overexcitement

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 17 June 2000)

A week of overexcitement

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 17 June 2000)

News

One in six children live in relative poverty

BMJ 2000;320:1621.1 (Published 17 June 2000)

Senior doctors split over General Medical Council

BMJ 2000;320:1621.2 (Published 17 June 2000)

Pallidotomy relieves some symptoms of Parkinson's disease

BMJ 2000;320:1622.1 (Published 17 June 2000)

Antibodies can repair damaged myelin in model of MS

BMJ 2000;320:1622.2 (Published 17 June 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:1622.3 (Published 17 June 2000)

Gynaecologist banned in Canada appears before GMC

BMJ 2000;320:1623.1 (Published 17 June 2000)

Chinese herb may cause cancer

BMJ 2000;320:1623.2 (Published 17 June 2000)

WHO warns of threat of “superbugs”

BMJ 2000;320:1624.1 (Published 17 June 2000)

Clinical Evidence to go to 400000 US doctors

BMJ 2000;320:1624.2 (Published 17 June 2000)

Supply of generic drugs still unreliable

BMJ 2000;320:1624.3 (Published 17 June 2000)

Budget cuts may have led to E coli outbreak

BMJ 2000;320:1625.1 (Published 17 June 2000)

Private finance scheme for Worcester “will cut beds”

BMJ 2000;320:1625.2 (Published 17 June 2000)

Clinton orders Medicare to cover patients in clinical trials

BMJ 2000;320:1625.3 (Published 17 June 2000)

More doctors criticise the GMC

BMJ 2000;320:1626.1 (Published 17 June 2000)

Claim that events before birth cause cerebral palsy is disputed

BMJ 2000;320:1626.2 (Published 17 June 2000)

Supply of generic drugs still unreliable

BMJ 2000;320:1626.5 (Published 17 June 2000)

Senior doctors split over General Medical Council

BMJ 2000;320:1626.7 (Published 17 June 2000)

One in six children live in relative poverty

BMJ 2000;320:1626.10 (Published 17 June 2000)

Editorials

Midline versus mediolateral episiotomy

BMJ 2000;320:1615 (Published 17 June 2000)

Fix what's wrong, not what's right, with general practice in Britain

BMJ 2000;320:1616 (Published 17 June 2000)

Suicidal behaviour in gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth

BMJ 2000;320:1617 (Published 17 June 2000)

How living wills can help doctors and patients talk about dying

BMJ 2000;320:1618 (Published 17 June 2000)

Editorials - continued

Towards better treatment of glaucoma

BMJ 2000;320:1619 (Published 17 June 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Length of penicillin treatment of streptococcal infections

BMJ 2000;320:1665 (Published 17 June 2000)

Treating children with sleep disorders

BMJ 2000;320:1667 (Published 17 June 2000)

Recent advances in intensive care

BMJ 2000;320:1668 (Published 17 June 2000)

Genetic factors and osteoporotic fractures in elderly people

BMJ 2000;320:1669 (Published 17 June 2000)

Improving the debate on cannabis

BMJ 2000;320:1671 (Published 17 June 2000)

Emergency admissions in Stockport were exaggerated

BMJ 2000;320:1672.1 (Published 17 June 2000)

Number of embryos allowed in fertility treatment should be flexible

BMJ 2000;320:1672.2 (Published 17 June 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:1680 (Published 17 June 2000)

Fillers

Two case histories

BMJ 2000;320:1641 (Published 17 June 2000)

There's more inside the tablet

BMJ 2000;320:1646 (Published 17 June 2000)

A wise headmaster

BMJ 2000;320:1651 (Published 17 June 2000)

A message from Holland

BMJ 2000;320:1655 (Published 17 June 2000)

The BMA from a general practitioner's point of view

BMJ 2000;320:1660.2 (Published 17 June 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

NSAIDs may reduce risk of gastrointestinal cancers

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 17 June 2000)

Almost half of adults with a head injury suffer long term disability

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 17 June 2000)

Women are unaware that mammography may detect non-progressive cancer

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 17 June 2000)

Systematic screening for diabetic eye disease is cost effective

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 17 June 2000)

Most elderly people inpatients haven't heard of living wills

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 17 June 2000)

Mixed feeding may be the most dangerous option for babies of HIV positive mothers in Africa

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 17 June 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Diagnosis and management of porphyria

BMJ 2000;320:1647 (Published 17 June 2000)

Oral health and disease

BMJ 2000;320:1652 (Published 17 June 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Clinical Evidence to go to 400 000 US doctors

BMJ 2000;320:1626.3 (Published 17 June 2000)

New female “condom” to be trialled

BMJ 2000;320:1626.4 (Published 17 June 2000)

PHLS advises drug users and doctors about unidentified illness

BMJ 2000;320:1626.6 (Published 17 June 2000)

New cervical smear technique to be piloted in NHS

BMJ 2000;320:1626.8 (Published 17 June 2000)

BMA campaigns for “presumed consent” to organ donation

BMJ 2000;320:1626.9 (Published 17 June 2000)

Papers

Cost effectiveness analysis of screening for sight threatening diabetic eye disease

BMJ 2000;320:1627 (Published 17 June 2000)

Disability in young people and adults one year after head injury: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2000;320:1631 (Published 17 June 2000)

US women's attitudes to false positive mammography results and detection of ductal carcinoma in situ: cross sectional survey

BMJ 2000;320:1635 (Published 17 June 2000)

Views of elderly people on living wills: interview study

BMJ 2000;320:1640.1 (Published 17 June 2000)

General practice

Effect of anti-inflammatory drugs on overall risk of common cancer: case-control study in general practice research database

BMJ 2000;320:1642 (Published 17 June 2000)

Education and debate

Appropriate feeding methods for infants of HIV infected mothers in sub-Saharan AfricaCommentary: The feeding debate is still unresolved and of secondary importance

BMJ 2000;320:1656 (Published 17 June 2000)

Patient care (empowerment): the view from a national society

BMJ 2000;320:1660.1 (Published 17 June 2000)

Patient care (empowerment): a local view

BMJ 2000;320:1663 (Published 17 June 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Public health conferenceJunior doctors conferenceNumber of doctors' suspensions risePrivate consultants may increase waiting lists

BMJ 2000;320:1674 (Published 17 June 2000)

Book

Teaching Made Easy: A Manual for Health Professionals

BMJ 2000;320:1677.1 (Published 17 June 2000)

ART

The Origin of Captured Images

BMJ 2000;320:1677.2 (Published 17 June 2000)

PRESS

Tarring consultants with the Ledward brush

BMJ 2000;320:1678.1 (Published 17 June 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Transplant organs

BMJ 2000;320:1678.2 (Published 17 June 2000)

Personal View

Priority setting in health care: should we ask the tax payer?

BMJ 2000;320:1679.1 (Published 17 June 2000)

Soundings

Why seeing a patient after the counsellor is so difficult

BMJ 2000;320:1679.2 (Published 17 June 2000)

Correction

Burns after photodynamic therapy

BMJ 2000;320:1640.2 (Published 17 June 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Julia Mary BealeChristopher Gordon BirdJohn Stewart Waring BrierleyJohn Gray CraigPeter Noel MageeRobert Cox

BMJ 2000;320:1673 (Published 17 June 2000)