17 March 2001 (Vol 322, Issue 7287)

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Editor's Choice

Facets of the global health divide

BMJ 2001;322:0.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Facets of the global health divide

BMJ 2001;322:0.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

News

Use of confidential HIV data helps convict former prisoner

BMJ 2001;322:633.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

A fifth of suicides among people with mental illness are preventable

BMJ 2001;322:633.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Whistleblower thanked but still suspended

BMJ 2001;322:634.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

In brief

BMJ 2001;322:634.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

South African court battle damages drug industry's image

BMJ 2001;322:635.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

Review clears Harefield surgeons

BMJ 2001;322:635.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Obesity drug endorsed by NICE

BMJ 2001;322:637.3 (Published 17 March 2001)

US doctors call for simpler Medicare rules

BMJ 2001;322:638.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

Prenatal diagnosis of heart defects aids survival after surgery

BMJ 2001;322:638.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Editorials

Does the duration of breast feeding matter?

BMJ 2001;322:625 (Published 17 March 2001)

Providing clean water: lessons from Bangladesh

BMJ 2001;322:626 (Published 17 March 2001)

Electronic publishing in science

BMJ 2001;322:627 (Published 17 March 2001)

Poor world health and rich world wealth

BMJ 2001;322:629 (Published 17 March 2001)

Obesity genes

BMJ 2001;322:630 (Published 17 March 2001)

What is the optimal weight for cardiovascular health?

BMJ 2001;322:631 (Published 17 March 2001)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Judicial functions of GMC should be abolished

BMJ 2001;322:671.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

Inferiority of calcium channel blockers to cheaper drugs

BMJ 2001;322:671.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Testing night vision for driving

BMJ 2001;322:672.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

Registry for torsades de pointes with drug treatment exists

BMJ 2001;322:672.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Glucosamine and chondroitin may help in osteoarthritis

BMJ 2001;322:673.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

Secondary prevention may help intermittent claudication

BMJ 2001;322:673.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Vision is needed to address problem of global health information

BMJ 2001;322:673.3 (Published 17 March 2001)

Data collection barriers can be overcome by schemes such as MEDICS

BMJ 2001;322:674.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

Hospital accreditation is important

BMJ 2001;322:674.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Insulin-like growth factor-I can be helpful towards end of life

BMJ 2001;322:674.3 (Published 17 March 2001)

Letters - continued

Drug development means economics in the end

BMJ 2001;322:675.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

When response rates do matter

BMJ 2001;322:675.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Census of availability of neonatal intensive care should have used different denominator

BMJ 2001;322:675.3 (Published 17 March 2001)

Drugs may have reduced effect of falls intervention

BMJ 2001;322:675.4 (Published 17 March 2001)

Tampons could be used to diagnose sexually transmitted diseases

BMJ 2001;322:676.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

Putting patients first will help interprofessional education

BMJ 2001;322:676.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

It is time to dismiss calls to ban DDT

BMJ 2001;322:676.3 (Published 17 March 2001)

Proposals for preventing community violence are naive

BMJ 2001;322:677.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

Is this the end of the line for flu vaccine as we know it?

BMJ 2001;322:677.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2001;322:684 (Published 17 March 2001)

Fillers

Endpiece: Different ways of saving lives

BMJ 2001;322:652.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Endpiece: A politician

BMJ 2001;322:658.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

One hundred years ago: An American professor's view of the medical woman

BMJ 2001;322:660.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

A memorable patient: The benefits of attending the dentist

BMJ 2001;322:667.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

One hundred years ago: “Kissing the book”

BMJ 2001;322:667.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

This Week In the BMJ

Late presentation with glaucoma is linked to social deprivation

BMJ 2001;322:0.3 (Published 17 March 2001)

Increased minor psychiatric morbidity follows job insecurity and unemployment

BMJ 2001;322:0.6 (Published 17 March 2001)

Glucocorticoid receptor gene polymorphism (Ser363 variant) does not lead to obesity

BMJ 2001;322:0.5 (Published 17 March 2001)

Educational visits to GPs and pharmacists improve prescribing

BMJ 2001;322:0.7 (Published 17 March 2001)

Duration of breast feeding is related to arterial “stiffness”

BMJ 2001;322:0.4 (Published 17 March 2001)

Older people are often not treated with dignity by health- care workers

BMJ 2001;322:0.8 (Published 17 March 2001)

Clinical Reviews

Extracts from “Clinical Evidence”: Pelvic inflammatory disease

BMJ 2001;322:658.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

ABC of diseases of liver, pancreas, and biliary system: Chronic pancreatitis

BMJ 2001;322:660.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

New alcohol strategy being developed for England

BMJ 2001;322:636.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

More than 4000 out of date vaccines given to children in Ireland

BMJ 2001;322:636.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Scientists isolate HIV blocker in placenta

BMJ 2001;322:636.3 (Published 17 March 2001)

Bush urged to lift cash ban to groups offering abortion

BMJ 2001;322:636.4 (Published 17 March 2001)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal] - continued

Funding of hospital equipment underfunded by £8m in Scotland

BMJ 2001;322:636.5 (Published 17 March 2001)

Parents should remove risk factors to reduce asthma in children

BMJ 2001;322:637.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

Review confirms workplace counselling reduces stress

BMJ 2001;322:637.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Drug reduces death from sepsis

BMJ 2001;322:638.3 (Published 17 March 2001)

MEPs try to mobilise public opinion against extension of euthanasia

BMJ 2001;322:638.4 (Published 17 March 2001)

Clinical academics worry that their interests are ignored

BMJ 2001;322:638.5 (Published 17 March 2001)

A fifth of suicides among mentally ill are preventable

BMJ 2001;322:638.6 (Published 17 March 2001)

Papers

Deprivation and late presentation of glaucoma: case-control study

BMJ 2001;322:639 (Published 17 March 2001)

Duration of breast feeding and arterial distensibility in early adult life: population based study

BMJ 2001;322:643 (Published 17 March 2001)

Employment status and health after privatisation in white collar civil servants: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2001;322:647 (Published 17 March 2001)

Cardiovascular events in users of sildenafil: results from first phase of prescription event monitoring in England

BMJ 2001;322:651 (Published 17 March 2001)

Tsp509I polymorphism in exon 2 of the glucocorticoid receptor gene in relation to obesity and cortisol secretion: cohort study

BMJ 2001;322:652.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

Primary care

Reducing prescribing of highly anticholinergic antidepressants for elderly people: randomised trial of group versus individual academic detailing

BMJ 2001;322:654 (Published 17 March 2001)

Education and debate

Patient choice modules for summaries of clinical effectiveness: a proposal

BMJ 2001;322:664 (Published 17 March 2001)

Care of older people: Maintaining the dignity and autonomy of older people in the healthcare setting

BMJ 2001;322:668 (Published 17 March 2001)

Books

Circumcision: A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery

BMJ 2001;322:680.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

Prophets, Cults and Madness

BMJ 2001;322:680.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Hitler's Gift: Scientists Who Fled Nazi Germany

BMJ 2001;322:681.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

Street Foods

BMJ 2001;322:681.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

HIT PARADE

Hit parade

BMJ 2001;322:681.3 (Published 17 March 2001)

PRESS

Fear of frying: power lines and cancer

BMJ 2001;322:682 (Published 17 March 2001)

Personal View

When a doctor is suspended so is family life

BMJ 2001;322:683.1 (Published 17 March 2001)

Soundings

Such gratitude

BMJ 2001;322:683.2 (Published 17 March 2001)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Robert Cruickshank (Jim) BurgessEvan Lewis ButlerDonald John CampbellSusanta Kumar GuptaAndrew Henry Garmany LoveJane Ann Marks (née Blythe)Adèle Nye (née Fischbacher)Gordon Jackson ReesRobert MacDonald ShawThambipillai Sivalingham

BMJ 2001;322:678 (Published 17 March 2001)