12 August 2000 (Vol 321, Issue 7258)

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Editor's Choice

Answers descend, questions ascend

BMJ 2000;321:0.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Answers descend, questions ascend

BMJ 2000;321:0.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

News

Israeli surgeons implant first permanent artificial ventricle

BMJ 2000;321:399.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Cost effectiveness of multiple sclerosis drugs remains unknown

BMJ 2000;321:399.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Gene therapy can reduce tumours

BMJ 2000;321:400.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Folic acid researchers honoured

BMJ 2000;321:400.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;321:400.3 (Published 12 August 2000)

Health watchdog criticises NHS helpline

BMJ 2000;321:401.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Sildenafil may help diabetic patients

BMJ 2000;321:401.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Study questions ethics of covert medication

BMJ 2000;321:402.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Canadian prisoners strike over smoking ban

BMJ 2000;321:402.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Indian agency admits publishing “wrong” HIV figures

BMJ 2000;321:402.3 (Published 12 August 2000)

Spanish women to sue over breast implants

BMJ 2000;321:403.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

India struggles to meet polio deadline

BMJ 2000;321:403.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Huntington's centre faces closure

BMJ 2000;321:404.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Research finds high hepatitis B rate in Indian island tribes

BMJ 2000;321:404.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Editorials

Will intermediate care be the undoing of the NHS?

BMJ 2000;321:393 (Published 12 August 2000)

Controlling glucose and blood pressure in type 2 diabetes

BMJ 2000;321:394 (Published 12 August 2000)

Herbal medicines: where is the evidence?

BMJ 2000;321:395 (Published 12 August 2000)

The increasing use of peripheral bone densitometry

BMJ 2000;321:396 (Published 12 August 2000)

Cheating at medical school

BMJ 2000;321:398 (Published 12 August 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

NHS Direct

BMJ 2000;321:446.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Ramifications of Ledward case

BMJ 2000;321:446.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Doctors' attitudes resemble those of the old aristocracy

BMJ 2000;321:447.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Antibiotic prescribing in general practice

BMJ 2000;321:447.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Family history is important in estimating coronary risk

BMJ 2000;321:448.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Letters - continued

Prevalence of obesity in asthmatic adults

BMJ 2000;321:448.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Mentally ill people in prisons

BMJ 2000;321:448.3 (Published 12 August 2000)

Care is required with cost effectiveness approach

BMJ 2000;321:449.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Assessment of competence and performance at interview

BMJ 2000;321:449.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Drug use and weapon carrying by young people

BMJ 2000;321:449.3 (Published 12 August 2000)

Ectopic pregnancy with oral contraceptive use has been overlooked

BMJ 2000;321:450.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Implementing honesty about screening using community informed consent

BMJ 2000;321:450.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Drugs do not only relieve male menopause

BMJ 2000;321:451.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Tinea capitis should be on the public health agenda

BMJ 2000;321:451.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Perhaps it is not time to switch from whole cell to acellular pertussis vaccine

BMJ 2000;321:451.3 (Published 12 August 2000)

Combination treatment seems rarely to be used in psoriasis

BMJ 2000;321:452.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Psychoactive drugs may have role in pressure sore origin

BMJ 2000;321:452.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Underlying psychological distress must be addressed in chest pain

BMJ 2000;321:452.3 (Published 12 August 2000)

Is distribution of vacancies for hospital jobs a reflection of new NHS?

BMJ 2000;321:453.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Use of polymorphism analysis requires ethical guidelines

BMJ 2000;321:453.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;321:460 (Published 12 August 2000)

Fillers

Eating a manchineel “beach apple”

BMJ 2000;321:428 (Published 12 August 2000)

The Temperature of Underground Railway Tunnels

BMJ 2000;321:429.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Treves's young patient

BMJ 2000;321:437 (Published 12 August 2000)

Dangers of anaesthesia, 1884

BMJ 2000;321:442.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

Ethics code should outlaw placebo controlled trials when an accepted treatment exists

BMJ 2000;321:0.7 (Published 12 August 2000)

Patient management questions asked by primary care doctors fall into 64 generic types

BMJ 2000;321:0.6 (Published 12 August 2000)

Risk of childhood diabetes rises with increasing maternal age at delivery

BMJ 2000;321:0.4 (Published 12 August 2000)

UK prescribing indicators have limited value in assessing practice

BMJ 2000;321:0.5 (Published 12 August 2000)

People with type 2 diabetes should aim at normal blood pressure and HbA1c

BMJ 2000;321:0.3 (Published 12 August 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Stem cell transplantation

BMJ 2000;321:433 (Published 12 August 2000)

Improving occlusion and orofacial aesthetics: tooth repair and replacement

BMJ 2000;321:438 (Published 12 August 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Inspector condemns “substandard” psychiatric hospitals in Ireland

BMJ 2000;321:404.3 (Published 12 August 2000)

Breast surgeon reprimanded by GMC

BMJ 2000;321:404.4 (Published 12 August 2000)

UK to set up new regulatory bodies

BMJ 2000;321:404.5 (Published 12 August 2000)

Papers

Association of glycaemia with macrovascular and microvascular complications of type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 35): prospective observational study

BMJ 2000;321:405 (Published 12 August 2000)

Association of systolic blood pressure with macrovascular and microvascular complications of type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 36): prospective observational study

BMJ 2000;321:412 (Published 12 August 2000)

Influence of maternal age at delivery and birth order on risk of type 1 diabetes in childhood: prospective population based family study

BMJ 2000;321:420 (Published 12 August 2000)

Th1 and Th2 responses: what are they?

BMJ 2000;321:424.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

General practice

Prescribing indicators for UK general practice: Delphi consultation study

BMJ 2000;321:425 (Published 12 August 2000)

Information in practice

A taxonomy of generic clinical questions: classification study

BMJ 2000;321:429.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Education and debate

For and againstDeclaration of Helsinki should be strengthenedForAGAINSTRothman and Michels' riposte

BMJ 2000;321:442.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Books

Matrons, Medics and Maladies: Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the 1840s; The Edinburgh City Hospital

BMJ 2000;321:456.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury

BMJ 2000;321:456.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

THEATRE

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

BMJ 2000;321:457.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

ART

For most of it I have no words: genocide, landscape and memory

BMJ 2000;321:457.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

TV

Hypothetically speaking

BMJ 2000;321:458.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Question capture

BMJ 2000;321:458.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Personal View

From scalpel to surfboard

BMJ 2000;321:459.1 (Published 12 August 2000)

Soundings

Summer news

BMJ 2000;321:459.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Corrections

Cost effectiveness analysis of screening for sight threatening diabetic eye disease

BMJ 2000;321:424.2 (Published 12 August 2000)

Towards better treatment of glaucoma

BMJ 2000;321:424.3 (Published 12 August 2000)

Ectopic pregnancy

BMJ 2000;321:424.4 (Published 12 August 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Minnie AtkinHerbert Nevile BurwellGeorge William CsonkaThomas Plunkett FearisSarah Maxine Crosby FraserPaula Jane Hampton GoslingFarooq HussainRowland Bevan JonesRees Daniel Sidney Rhys-LewisJohn Christopher Wagner

BMJ 2000;321:454 (Published 12 August 2000)