24 June 2000 (Vol 320, Issue 7251)

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Editor's Choice

Answers to big questions

BMJ 2000;320:0.2 (Published 24 June 2000)

Answers to big questions

BMJ 2000;320:0.1 (Published 24 June 2000)

News

France heads WHO's league table of health systems

BMJ 2000;320:1687 (Published 24 June 2000)

US Supreme Court bars federal lawsuits against HMOs

BMJ 2000;320:1688.1 (Published 24 June 2000)

NICE approves taxanes for breast cancer

BMJ 2000;320:1688.2 (Published 24 June 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;320:1688.3 (Published 24 June 2000)

English NHS to set up new reporting system for errors

BMJ 2000;320:1689.1 (Published 24 June 2000)

Doctors need more training in delivering breech babies

BMJ 2000;320:1689.2 (Published 24 June 2000)

Ombudsman slams deputising service

BMJ 2000;320:1689.3 (Published 24 June 2000)

Gangrene bug “killed 35 heroin users”

BMJ 2000;320:1690.1 (Published 24 June 2000)

US cancer institute funds trial of complementary therapy

BMJ 2000;320:1690.2 (Published 24 June 2000)

Legality of European ban on tobacco advertising questioned

BMJ 2000;320:1691.1 (Published 24 June 2000)

European Court of Justice likely to annul ban

BMJ 2000;320:1691.2 (Published 24 June 2000)

MPs want a tobacco regulatory authority

BMJ 2000;320:1691.3 (Published 24 June 2000)

Health and social services “locked in a vicious circle”

BMJ 2000;320:1692.1 (Published 24 June 2000)

GPs want self regulation to continue

BMJ 2000;320:1692.3 (Published 24 June 2000)

GPs want self regulation to continue

BMJ 2000;320:1692.7 (Published 24 June 2000)

English NHS to set up new reporting system for errors

BMJ 2000;320:1692.8 (Published 24 June 2000)

Editorials

The risks of having children in later life

BMJ 2000;320:1681 (Published 24 June 2000)

The epidemiology of stomach cancer: correlating the past with the present

BMJ 2000;320:1682 (Published 24 June 2000)

How the NHS can improve safety and learning

BMJ 2000;320:1683 (Published 24 June 2000)

Isolated systolic hypertension: a radical rethink

BMJ 2000;320:1685 (Published 24 June 2000)

Giving medicine a fair trial

BMJ 2000;320:1686 (Published 24 June 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Reforms to the health sector must retain vertical programmes like those for tuberculosis

BMJ 2000;320:1726.1 (Published 24 June 2000)

Misconceptions about tuberculosis among immigrants to the United States

BMJ 2000;320:1726.2 (Published 24 June 2000)

GMC's advice in Serious Communicable Diseases

BMJ 2000;320:1727.1 (Published 24 June 2000)

Tracker trials

BMJ 2000;320:1727.2 (Published 24 June 2000)

Are generalists still needed in a specialised world?

BMJ 2000;320:1728 (Published 24 June 2000)

Qualitative research in health care

BMJ 2000;320:1729 (Published 24 June 2000)

Open access follow up for inflammatory bowel disease

BMJ 2000;320:1730 (Published 24 June 2000)

Burns after photodynamic therapy

BMJ 2000;320:1731 (Published 24 June 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;320:1740 (Published 24 June 2000)

Fillers

New insights into mental illness

BMJ 2000;320:1701 (Published 24 June 2000)

Amusing the patient

BMJ 2000;320:1706.2 (Published 24 June 2000)

“You heard all wrong”

BMJ 2000;320:1707 (Published 24 June 2000)

To whom it concerns

BMJ 2000;320:1712 (Published 24 June 2000)

Benefits of a cooperative

BMJ 2000;320:1725 (Published 24 June 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Fetal loss is high in women aged over 40 years

BMJ 2000;320:0.6 (Published 24 June 2000)

Past infant mortality predicts current adult mortality from stomach cancer and stroke

BMJ 2000;320:0.7 (Published 24 June 2000)

Troponin T can be used to detect missed heart attacks

BMJ 2000;320:0.5 (Published 24 June 2000)

Gene mutation found that might predispose to type 2 diabetes

BMJ 2000;320:0.8 (Published 24 June 2000)

Many women with a normal cervix on colposcopy may be safely discharged from follow up

BMJ 2000;320:0.3 (Published 24 June 2000)

Expensive anthelmintic treatment to improve growth and cognitive performance is not warranted

BMJ 2000;320:0.4 (Published 24 June 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Consumer health informatics

BMJ 2000;320:1713 (Published 24 June 2000)

Dental damage, sequelae, and prevention

BMJ 2000;320:1717 (Published 24 June 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Access to investigations is needed 7 days a week

BMJ 2000;320:1692.2 (Published 24 June 2000)

New cancer journal to seek strategies for developing countries

BMJ 2000;320:1692.5 (Published 24 June 2000)

French cattle to be screened for BSE

BMJ 2000;320:1692.6 (Published 24 June 2000)

Leaving condoms on motel room beds promotes safe sex

BMJ 2000;320:1692.9 (Published 24 June 2000)

Ombudsman criticises deputising service

BMJ 2000;320:1692.10 (Published 24 June 2000)

Access to investigations is needed 7 days a week

BMJ 2000;320:1692.11 (Published 24 June 2000)

Papers

Management guidelines for women with normal colposcopy after low grade cervical abnormalities: population study

BMJ 2000;320:1693 (Published 24 June 2000)

Effects of treatment for intestinal helminth infection on growth and cognitive performance in children: systematic review of randomised trials

BMJ 2000;320:1697 (Published 24 June 2000)

Prospective audit of incidence of prognostically important myocardial damage in patients discharged from emergency departmentCommentary: Time for improved diagnosis and management of patients presenting with acute chest pain

BMJ 2000;320:1702 (Published 24 June 2000)

Infant mortality, stomach cancer, stroke, and coronary heart disease: ecological analysis

BMJ 2000;320:1705 (Published 24 June 2000)

Role of C282Y mutation in haemochromatosis gene in development of type 2 diabetes in healthy men: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2000;320:1706.1 (Published 24 June 2000)

General practice

Maternal age and fetal loss: population based register linkage study

BMJ 2000;320:1708 (Published 24 June 2000)

Education and debate

Seeing what you want to see in randomised controlled trials: versions and perversions of UKPDS data

BMJ 2000;320:1720 (Published 24 June 2000)

Practical partnerships for health and local authorities

BMJ 2000;320:1723 (Published 24 June 2000)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Local medical committee conferenceShipman was a criminal and not a poorly performing doctorThe conference …Medical academic staffs conferenceAgreement reached on influenza vaccinationBMA wins victory over pensions challenge

BMJ 2000;320:1734 (Published 24 June 2000)

PRESS

The BMJ, spin, and the stockmarket

BMJ 2000;320:1737 (Published 24 June 2000)

A register of blunders or botchers?

BMJ 2000;320:1738.1 (Published 24 June 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Older parents

BMJ 2000;320:1738.2 (Published 24 June 2000)

Personal View

Devaluing clinical skills

BMJ 2000;320:1739.1 (Published 24 June 2000)

Soundings

Cunegonde's ears, or multiple medical errors

BMJ 2000;320:1739.2 (Published 24 June 2000)

Correction

Correction

BMJ 2000;320:1692.4 (Published 24 June 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Peter John AndrewBasil Ivor EamesDuncan MacaulayEdmund RobinsonRobert George TroupDavid Weiner

BMJ 2000;320:1733 (Published 24 June 2000)