29 July 2000 (Vol 321, Issue 7256)

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Editor's Choice

Blemished, unsprayed plums

BMJ 2000;321:0.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Blemished, unsprayed plums

BMJ 2000;321:0.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

News

MPs call for far reaching reforms to mental health services

BMJ 2000;321:257.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

Executives fly the koop.com

BMJ 2000;321:257.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Gynaecologist struck off the medical register

BMJ 2000;321:258.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

Women doctors earn $63000 less than male counterparts

BMJ 2000;321:258.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;321:258.3 (Published 29 July 2000)

UK licence for cisapride suspended

BMJ 2000;321:259.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

Cancer drug may cause heart failure

BMJ 2000;321:259.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Relatives of Shipman victims win first round in fight for open inquiry

BMJ 2000;321:260.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

$1bn drug deal creates debt for “tomorrow's AIDS orphans”

BMJ 2000;321:260.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Better screening needed for sickle cell and thalassaemia

BMJ 2000;321:260.3 (Published 29 July 2000)

Lumpectomy as good as mastectomy for tumours up to 5 cm

BMJ 2000;321:261.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

Irish blood service sues its former medical consultant

BMJ 2000;321:261.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

US judge approves distribution of marijuana

BMJ 2000;321:261.3 (Published 29 July 2000)

Concern mounts over female genital mutilation

BMJ 2000;321:262.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

MPs call for far reaching reforms to mental health services

BMJ 2000;321:262.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Better screening needed for sickle cell and thalassaemia

BMJ 2000;321:262.6 (Published 29 July 2000)

Editorials

Adolescent mental health and risky sexual behaviour

BMJ 2000;321:251 (Published 29 July 2000)

Thiazolidinediones for type 2 diabetes

BMJ 2000;321:252 (Published 29 July 2000)

Training overseas doctors in the United Kingdom

BMJ 2000;321:253 (Published 29 July 2000)

Molecular stool screening for colorectal cancer

BMJ 2000;321:254 (Published 29 July 2000)

Which clinical studies provide the best evidence?

BMJ 2000;321:255 (Published 29 July 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

The quality of systematic reviews

BMJ 2000;321:297 (Published 29 July 2000)

Letters - continued

Paramedics should delay giving aspirin to patients with stroke

BMJ 2000;321:299.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

Acute ischaemic stroke

BMJ 2000;321:299.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Patients in rheumatology clinics need reassurance

BMJ 2000;321:300.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

Clinical academic medicine

BMJ 2000;321:300.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Quick fixes for research assessment exercise will not work

BMJ 2000;321:302.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

Feedback is necessary in strategies to reduce hospital acquired infection

BMJ 2000;321:302.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Police surgeons are important part of criminal justice system

BMJ 2000;321:303.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

Infant feeding and HIV study does not support Minerva's view

BMJ 2000;321:303.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;321:308 (Published 29 July 2000)

Fillers

To coin a phrase

BMJ 2000;321:272 (Published 29 July 2000)

Plague in Glasgow

BMJ 2000;321:276.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Great Aunt Rose

BMJ 2000;321:285.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

Scientists should die at 60

BMJ 2000;321:285.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Greek and Latin Useless for Doctors

BMJ 2000;321:288.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

General practices use a wide variety of methods for controlling their prescribing costs

BMJ 2000;321:0.7 (Published 29 July 2000)

Reliance on endoscopy makes NSAID studies unreliable

BMJ 2000;321:0.8 (Published 29 July 2000)

Psychiatric disorders predispose to risky sexual behaviour

BMJ 2000;321:0.3 (Published 29 July 2000)

Prevention of acute mountain sickness depends on ascent rate and drug dose

BMJ 2000;321:0.4 (Published 29 July 2000)

Long allele α oestrogen receptor genotype may increase risk of coronary artery disease

BMJ 2000;321:0.5 (Published 29 July 2000)

Early neonatal mortality and asphyxia related deaths are greater for night births

BMJ 2000;321:0.6 (Published 29 July 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Medical ethics

BMJ 2000;321:282 (Published 29 July 2000)

Horse allergy in children

BMJ 2000;321:286 (Published 29 July 2000)

Improving occlusion and orofacial aesthetics: orthodontics

BMJ 2000;321:288.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

$1bn drug deal creates debt for “tomorrow's AIDS orphans”

BMJ 2000;321:262.3 (Published 29 July 2000)

Women doctors earn $63 000 less than male counterparts

BMJ 2000;321:262.4 (Published 29 July 2000)

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

Junior doctor faces manslaughter charge

BMJ 2000;321:262.5 (Published 29 July 2000)

UK government should be “tough” on smoking

BMJ 2000;321:262.7 (Published 29 July 2000)

Papers

Psychiatric disorders and risky sexual behaviour in young adulthood: cross sectional study in birth cohort

BMJ 2000;321:263 (Published 29 July 2000)

Efficacy and harm of pharmacological prevention of acute mountain sickness: quantitative systematic review

BMJ 2000;321:267 (Published 29 July 2000)

Association of polymorphism of human α oestrogen receptor gene with coronary artery disease in men: a necropsy study

BMJ 2000;321:273 (Published 29 July 2000)

Early neonatal mortality, asphyxia related deaths, and timing of low risk births in Hesse, Germany, 1990-8: observational study

BMJ 2000;321:274 (Published 29 July 2000)

Atrial fibrillation associated with sumatriptan

BMJ 2000;321:275.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

General practice

A prescription for improvement? An observational study to identify how general practices vary in their growth in prescribing costsCommentary: Beware regression to the mean

BMJ 2000;321:276.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

Education and debate

Outcomes studies of drug induced ulcer complications: do we need them and how should they be done?

BMJ 2000;321:291 (Published 29 July 2000)

Peace building through health initiatives

BMJ 2000;321:293 (Published 29 July 2000)

Books

Don't Tell the Patient: Behind the Drug Safety Net

BMJ 2000;321:305.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy

BMJ 2000;321:305.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

The Meat Business: Devouring a Hungry Planet

BMJ 2000;321:306.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Accessing ethical information

BMJ 2000;321:306.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

NETLINES

NETLINES

BMJ 2000;321:306.3 (Published 29 July 2000)

Personal View

What is the future for training overseas graduates?

BMJ 2000;321:307.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

Soundings

Gourmets

BMJ 2000;321:307.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Corrections

Prospective investigation of transfusion transmitted infection in recipients of over 20 000 units of blood

BMJ 2000;321:266.1 (Published 29 July 2000)

ABC of arterial and venous disease: swollen lower limb (part 1—general assessment and deep vein thrombosis)

BMJ 2000;321:266.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Measuring performance in the NHS: what really matters?

BMJ 2000;321:266.3 (Published 29 July 2000)

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses on treatment of asthma: critical evaluation

BMJ 2000;321:275.2 (Published 29 July 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Mary Lois Cartledge (née Barrett)John CaugheyVernon Kenneth HochuliRobert Adrian Lloyd-WilliamsJohn McRobert

BMJ 2000;321:304 (Published 29 July 2000)