04 November 2000 (Vol 321, Issue 7269)

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This Week In the BMJ

Rehabilitation after hip fracture increases independence of patients with dementia

BMJ 2000;321:0.4 (Published 4 November 2000)

The new genetics: which genie out of which bottle?

BMJ 2000;321:0.7 (Published 4 November 2000)

Ranitidine or sucralfate do not prevent stress ulcer in intensive care patients

BMJ 2000;321:0.3 (Published 4 November 2000)

Nose bleeds show same circadian rhythm as blood pressure

BMJ 2000;321:0.5 (Published 4 November 2000)

ACE inhibitors are safe for heart failure in primary care

BMJ 2000;321:0.6 (Published 4 November 2000)

Editorials

The politics of risk: the case of BSE

BMJ 2000;321:1091 (Published 4 November 2000)

Millennial musings

BMJ 2000;321:1092 (Published 4 November 2000)

Clinical trials of medicines in children

BMJ 2000;321:1093 (Published 4 November 2000)

Ten years of German unification

BMJ 2000;321:1094 (Published 4 November 2000)

Taking heart failure seriously

BMJ 2000;321:1095 (Published 4 November 2000)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Decline in teenage smoking with rise in mobile phone ownership: hypothesis

BMJ 2000;321:1155.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

Health hazards of mobile phones

BMJ 2000;321:1155.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

Anticoagulation to prevent stroke in atrial fibrillation

BMJ 2000;321:1156 (Published 4 November 2000)

National claims database belongs to NHS as a whole

BMJ 2000;321:1157 (Published 4 November 2000)

Standard definition of child overweight and obesity worldwide

BMJ 2000;321:1158 (Published 4 November 2000)

Reasons for inadequate health care vary

BMJ 2000;321:1159 (Published 4 November 2000)

Informed consent is being neglected

BMJ 2000;321:1160.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

RCGP should press for increase in resources

BMJ 2000;321:1160.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

Parents do not always understand things doctors might say to them

BMJ 2000;321:1160.3 (Published 4 November 2000)

Substance use seems to be increasing among 11 year olds

BMJ 2000;321:1161.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

Earlobes are less convenient than fingerpricks for blood glucose testing

BMJ 2000;321:1161.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

News

BSE inquiry plays down errors

BMJ 2000;321:1097 (Published 4 November 2000)

In brief

BMJ 2000;321:1098.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

Consent needed for organ retention, BMA says

BMJ 2000;321:1098.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

Spain tops the table for organ donation

BMJ 2000;321:1098.3 (Published 4 November 2000)

News - continued

Celebrity illnesses raise awareness but can give wrong message

BMJ 2000;321:1099.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

FDA panel advises against omeprazole as over the counter drug

BMJ 2000;321:1099.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

Detection rates for breast cancer rising

BMJ 2000;321:1101.3 (Published 4 November 2000)

Where angels fear to tread

BMJ 2000;321:1102.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

Clinical Review

Primary treatment—does the surgeon matter?

BMJ 2000;321:1121 (Published 4 November 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2000;321:1166 (Published 4 November 2000)

Editor's Choice [GP]

The BMJ, BSE, and vCJD

BMJ 2000;321:0.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

Editor's Choice

The BMJ, BSE, and vCJD

BMJ 2000;321:0.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

NICE issues new guidelines on Ritalin

BMJ 2000;321:1100.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

Rumours suggest Mbeki's spokesman died of AIDS related disease

BMJ 2000;321:1100.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

Threat of chemical and germ attacks overstated, report says

BMJ 2000;321:1100.3 (Published 4 November 2000)

Coated stents reduce risk of restenosis

BMJ 2000;321:1100.4 (Published 4 November 2000)

Head injury doubles the risk of Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 2000;321:1100.5 (Published 4 November 2000)

No compensation for hepatitis C patients in Scotland

BMJ 2000;321:1100.6 (Published 4 November 2000)

Alan Milburn signs concordat with the private sector

BMJ 2000;321:1101.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

GMC wins support for revalidation proposals

BMJ 2000;321:1101.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Ombudsman urges health professionals to listen to patients

BMJ 2000;321:1102.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

US federally funded groups will be allowed to promote abortion

BMJ 2000;321:1102.3 (Published 4 November 2000)

Third of Irish doctors regret going into medicine

BMJ 2000;321:1102.4 (Published 4 November 2000)

Budapest votes against plan to privatise most hospitals

BMJ 2000;321:1102.5 (Published 4 November 2000)

Papers

Bleeding and pneumonia in intensive care patients given ranitidine and sucralfate for prevention of stress ulcer: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

BMJ 2000;321:1103 (Published 4 November 2000)

Randomised, clinically controlled trial of intensive geriatric rehabilitation in patients with hip fracture: subgroup analysis of patients with dementia

BMJ 2000;321:1107 (Published 4 November 2000)

Circadian variation in onset of epistaxis: analysis of hospital admissions

BMJ 2000;321:1112.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

General practice

Safety and costs of initiating angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors for heart failure in primary care: analysis of individual patient data from studies of left ventricular dysfunction

BMJ 2000;321:1113 (Published 4 November 2000)

Single gene disorders or complex traits: lessons from the thalassaemias and other monogenic diseases

BMJ 2000;321:1117.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

Education and debate

International comparators and poverty and health in Europe

BMJ 2000;321:1124 (Published 4 November 2000)

Online patient-helpers and physicians working together: a new partnership for high quality health care

BMJ 2000;321:1129 (Published 4 November 2000)

The role of complementary and alternative medicine

BMJ 2000;321:1133 (Published 4 November 2000)

Broadening access to undergraduate medical education

BMJ 2000;321:1136 (Published 4 November 2000)

Interprofessional education and teamworking: a view from the education providers

BMJ 2000;321:1138 (Published 4 November 2000)

Teams: lessons from the world of sport

BMJ 2000;321:1141 (Published 4 November 2000)

Will most people live in cities?

BMJ 2000;321:1143 (Published 4 November 2000)

Safeguards for research using large scale DNA collections

BMJ 2000;321:1146 (Published 4 November 2000)

A healthy old age: realistic or futile goal?

BMJ 2000;321:1149 (Published 4 November 2000)

Cardiology: the development of a managed clinical network

BMJ 2000;321:1152 (Published 4 November 2000)

Why a pomegranate?

BMJ 2000;321:1153.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

PRESS

Close encounters of an alternative kind

BMJ 2000;321:1163 (Published 4 November 2000)

NETLINES

NETLINES

BMJ 2000;321:1164.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Rehabilitation

BMJ 2000;321:1164.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

Personal View

Living with coeliac disease

BMJ 2000;321:1165.1 (Published 4 November 2000)

Soundings

Patterns

BMJ 2000;321:1165.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

Fillers

Just worn out

BMJ 2000;321:1112.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

A proposed international counterblast to tobacco

BMJ 2000;321:1117.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

Poppy Day again

BMJ 2000;321:1123 (Published 4 November 2000)

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 2000;321:1153.2 (Published 4 November 2000)

Proper use of science

BMJ 2000;321:1153.3 (Published 4 November 2000)

Brain and brawn

BMJ 2000;321:1153.4 (Published 4 November 2000)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Donald Robert ColesGeorge Haslett ConnorGeorge Alfred KaneTerence Eric LearFrancis Ian Macadam

BMJ 2000;321:1162 (Published 4 November 2000)