16 September 2000 (Vol 321, Issue 7262)

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Editor's Choice

In love with the Lancet

BMJ 2000;321:0.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

In love with the Lancet

BMJ 2000;321:0.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

News

US hospitals to ask patients for right to sell their tissue

BMJ 2000;321:653.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

Doctrine of necessity could allow separation of twins

BMJ 2000;321:653.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

Offspring from artificial insemination demand fathers' details

BMJ 2000;321:654.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

BMA secretary to be Scottish CMO

BMJ 2000;321:654.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;321:654.3 (Published 16 September 2000)

Scooters cause 9500 injuries in US in 8 months

BMJ 2000;321:655.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

Cannabis use falls among Dutch youth

BMJ 2000;321:655.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

Move to ban private practice may be illegal

BMJ 2000;321:655.3 (Published 16 September 2000)

Drug company pays for campaign for chicken pox vaccination

BMJ 2000;321:656.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

Sri Lanka accuses drug company of flouting advertising rules

BMJ 2000;321:656.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

US doctor may have killed 60

BMJ 2000;321:657.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

Private finance initiative condemned

BMJ 2000;321:657.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

EU institutions divided on therapeutic cloning

BMJ 2000;321:658.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

Relatives underestimate patients' desire for truth

BMJ 2000;321:658.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

US hospitals to ask patients for right to sell their tissue

BMJ 2000;321:658.6 (Published 16 September 2000)

Editorials

How effective is screening for breast cancer?

BMJ 2000;321:647 (Published 16 September 2000)

Treating non-ulcer dyspepsia and H pylori

BMJ 2000;321:648 (Published 16 September 2000)

Clinical ethics committees

BMJ 2000;321:649 (Published 16 September 2000)

Saving lives during extreme weather in summer

BMJ 2000;321:650 (Published 16 September 2000)

Can islet cell transplantation treat diabetes?

BMJ 2000;321:651 (Published 16 September 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Doctors and nurses

BMJ 2000;321:698 (Published 16 September 2000)

Implications of CJD data need to be clear before release

BMJ 2000;321:701.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

Letters - continued

Effect of on-site mental health professionals

BMJ 2000;321:701.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

Treating hyperhidrosis

BMJ 2000;321:702 (Published 16 September 2000)

Quality of randomised controlled trials in head injury

BMJ 2000;321:704.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

Transfusion transmitted infection

BMJ 2000;321:704.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

National service framework's financial implications are huge

BMJ 2000;321:705.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

Advance directives

BMJ 2000;321:705.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

Role of spironolactone in heart failure should be emphasised

BMJ 2000;321:706 (Published 16 September 2000)

Patient of gynaecologist who was struck off has been denied justice

BMJ 2000;321:707.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

UK and German media differ over complementary medicine

BMJ 2000;321:707.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;321:714 (Published 16 September 2000)

Fillers

Which postcoital contraceptive?

BMJ 2000;321:664 (Published 16 September 2000)

Chickenpox

BMJ 2000;321:682 (Published 16 September 2000)

Knowledge

BMJ 2000;321:687.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

Misery versus pleasure

BMJ 2000;321:693 (Published 16 September 2000)

This Week In the BMJ

ATLS guidelines overestimate systolic blood pressure

BMJ 2000;321:0.7 (Published 16 September 2000)

Management of pregnant women with epilepsy remains poor

BMJ 2000;321:0.8 (Published 16 September 2000)

Fall in mortality from breast cancer is partly due to screening

BMJ 2000;321:0.4 (Published 16 September 2000)

Global warming could reduce European mortality

BMJ 2000;321:0.5 (Published 16 September 2000)

H pylori eradication is cost effective for non-ulcer dyspepsia

BMJ 2000;321:0.3 (Published 16 September 2000)

Onset of forearm pain can be predicted

BMJ 2000;321:0.6 (Published 16 September 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Complementary medicine

BMJ 2000;321:683 (Published 16 September 2000)

Right sided aortic arch in children with persistent respiratory symptoms

BMJ 2000;321:687.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

Screening for breast cancer

BMJ 2000;321:689 (Published 16 September 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Funding boost for prostate cancer research

BMJ 2000;321:658.3 (Published 16 September 2000)

UK government changes yellow card scheme

BMJ 2000;321:658.4 (Published 16 September 2000)

More GPs will have new contract option

BMJ 2000;321:658.5 (Published 16 September 2000)

Papers

Systematic review and economic evaluation of Helicobacter pylori eradication treatment for non-ulcer dyspepsia

BMJ 2000;321:659 (Published 16 September 2000)

Effect of NHS breast screening programme on mortality from breast cancer in England and Wales, 1990-8: comparison of observed with predicted mortality

BMJ 2000;321:665 (Published 16 September 2000)

Heat related mortality in warm and cold regions of Europe: observational study

BMJ 2000;321:670 (Published 16 September 2000)

Accuracy of the advanced trauma life support guidelines for predicting systolic blood pressure using carotid, femoral, and radial pulses: observational study

BMJ 2000;321:673 (Published 16 September 2000)

Population based, prospective study of the care of women with epilepsy in pregnancy

BMJ 2000;321:674 (Published 16 September 2000)

General practice

Role of mechanical and psychosocial factors in the onset of forearm pain: prospective population based study

BMJ 2000;321:676 (Published 16 September 2000)

Organisational development for clinical governance

BMJ 2000;321:679 (Published 16 September 2000)

Education and debate

Framework for design and evaluation of complex interventions to improve health

BMJ 2000;321:694 (Published 16 September 2000)

Cost effectiveness calculations and sample size

BMJ 2000;321:697 (Published 16 September 2000)

Film

Nurse Betty

BMJ 2000;321:710.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

Books

Death in England: An Illustrated History

BMJ 2000;321:710.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

The Medical Millennium: 1000 Pioneers Who Have Contributed to the Development of Medicine Over the Last 1000 Years; Dates in Medicine. A chronological record of medical progress over three millennia

BMJ 2000;321:711.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Evaluating complex interventions

BMJ 2000;321:711.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

PRESS

Dutch doctors supported by media

BMJ 2000;321:712 (Published 16 September 2000)

Personal View

Hospital games

BMJ 2000;321:713.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

Soundings

Source

BMJ 2000;321:713.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

Corrections

Birth characteristics of women who develop gestational diabetes: population based study

BMJ 2000;321:669 (Published 16 September 2000)

Increase in high risk sexual behaviour among homosexual men, London 1996-8: cross sectional, questionnaire study

BMJ 2000;321:675.1 (Published 16 September 2000)

Fillers

BMJ 2000;321:675.2 (Published 16 September 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

David Harry SmithFrancis John HallinanRichard HaskellAlfred Gordon HendersonMark MehtaJohn SarkiesIsabel Gertrude SmithMaureen Anne Tudor (Mrs Dulake)David WolfsonKenneth William Woolhead

BMJ 2000;321:708 (Published 16 September 2000)