This week's This week in the BMJ

	Potential exposure to chromium is not associated with poorer self reported health [Full text] FREE

	Poorer patients wait longer for heart surgery than affluent ones [Full text] FREE

	Do landfill sites cause ill health? [Full text] FREE

	NHS trusts want national guidelines on advance directives [Full text] FREE

	Problem solving is an effective treatment for depression in primary care [Full text] FREE

	Use of steroids for first line treatment of asthma is debated [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Joining together to combat poverty
	Andy Haines, Iona Heath, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2000;320:1-2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.1 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: A list of signatories]

	Conviction by mathematical error?
	Stephen J Watkins
	BMJ  2000;320:2-3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.2 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing women with epilepsy
	Samuel Wiebe
	BMJ  2000;320:3-4, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.3 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Long term nursing: social care or health care?
	Andrea Loux, Susan Kerrison, Allyson M Pollock
	BMJ  2000;320:5-6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.5 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Giving something back to authors
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2000;320:6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.6 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Time for a smoke? One cigarette reduces your life by 11 minutes
	Mary Shaw, Richard Mitchell, Danny Dorling
	BMJ  2000;320:53, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.53 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stumbling into occupational health: the influenza conundrum
	John Harrison
	BMJ  2000;320:53, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.53/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lack of funding will inhibit evidence based commissioning of cancer treatments
	June So, J Howard Scarffe, Elizabeth Rous, Robbie Foy
	BMJ  2000;320:54, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.54 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Decisions to withdraw treatment
	Chris Docker, Paul Frost, Adrian T Goh, Quen Mok, Raj Mohindra
	BMJ  2000;320:54, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.54/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	So much time for so little: Italy's pharmaceutical industry and doctors' information needs
	Emilio Maestri, Gilberto Furlani, Fabio Suzzi, Annalisa Campomori, Giulio Formoso, Nicola Magrini
	BMJ  2000;320:55, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of temazepam on ventilatory response at moderate altitude
	Georg Röggla, Berthold Moser, Martin Röggla
	BMJ  2000;320:56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.56 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines are needed if drug testing of those arrested by the police becomes compulsory
	A R W Forrest
	BMJ  2000;320:56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.56/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Incidence of venous thromboembolism in users of combined oral contraceptives
	Hershel Jick, Jan P Vandenbroucke, Kitty W M Bloemenkamp, Frits R Rosendaal, Frans M Helmerhorst, R A Lawrenson, A Whalley, E Simpson, R D T Farmer
	BMJ  2000;320:57, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Some patients are happy for doctors to make decisions
	Ian Taylor
	BMJ  2000;320:58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long term vascular complications of Coxiella burnetii infection
	Martin Wildman, Jon G Ayres, Pierre-Yves Lovey, Alfredo Morabia
	BMJ  2000;320:58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.58/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Internet helps communication between doctors and patients
	Badal Pal
	BMJ  2000;320:59, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New guidelines for urgent referral of patients with cancer are waste of energy
	Karol Sikora
	BMJ  2000;320:59, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.59/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	US mental health service is "highly fragmented"
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2000;320:7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.7 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MPs say the market for generic drugs is "ripe for manipulation"
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2000;320:7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.7/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMJ set to sign with PubMed Central, JSTOR, and WorldSpace
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2000;320:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.8 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Angolans face threat of severe malnutrition
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2000;320:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.8/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;320:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.8/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bristol inquiry into baby deaths to move into new phase
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;320:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.9 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors suspended in child health inquiry
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  2000;320:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.9/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Marrying the public and the private
	BMJ  2000;320:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.10 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Health secretary admits that NHS rationing is government policy
	BMJ  1999;320:10 [Extract] [Full text]

	Germany introduces new criteria for organ allocation
	BMJ  1999;320:10 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Regular review: Treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection
	Wink A de Boer, Guido N J Tytgat
	BMJ  2000;320:31-34, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.31 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week Norwegian scabies misdiagnosed as an adverse drug reaction
	D S Almond, C J Green, D M Geurin, S Evans
	BMJ  2000;320:35-36, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.35 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Permethrin treatment in scabies infestation: importance of the correct formulation
	N H Cox
	BMJ  2000;320:37-38, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.37 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of heart failure: History and epidemiology
	R C Davis, F D R Hobbs, G Y H Lip
	BMJ  2000;320:39-42, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.39 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Randomised controlled trial of problem solving treatment, antidepressant medication, and combined treatment for major depression in primary care
	Laurence M Mynors-Wallis, Dennis H Gath, Ann Day, Frances Baker
	BMJ  2000;320:26-30, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.26 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	No regrets
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2000;320:67, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.67/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Is an apology called for?
	Mary R Bliss
	BMJ  2000;320:67, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.67 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Trials and fast changing technologies: the case for tracker studies
	Richard J Lilford, David A Braunholtz, Roger Greenhalgh, Sarah J L Edwards
	BMJ  2000;320:43-46, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.43 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	For and against: Should steroids be the first line treatment for asthma? • For • Against
	George Strube, Michael Rudolf
	BMJ  2000;320:47-49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Qualitative research in health care: Assessing quality in qualitative research
	Nicholas Mays, Catherine Pope
	BMJ  2000;320:50-52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.50 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;320:68, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.68 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Einstein on science
	BMJ  2000;320:24, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.24/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: What is a medicine?
	BMJ  2000;320:24, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.24/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	My most unfortunate mistake: Did I fail in my duty?
	BMJ  2000;320:25, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.25 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Obtaining the correct information
	Robert Chaplin
	BMJ  2000;320:34, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.34 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Father's privileges
	BMJ  2000;320:34, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.34/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: On ageing: protracted woe
	BMJ  2000;320:37, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.37/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The Bogey of Medical Etiquette.
	BMJ  2000;320:39, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.39/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The magic phrase
	BMJ  2000;320:50, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.50/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	India: looking ahead to one and a half billion people
	BMJ  2000;320:30 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	This week in the BMJ
	BMJ  2000;320:30, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.30/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obituaries
	BMJ  2000;320:30 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A randomised double blind placebo controlled trial of pentoxifylline in the treatment of venous ulcers
	BMJ  2000;320:30 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Breast feeding and obesity
	BMJ  2000;320:59 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CD

This week's CD

	CD: Medical Retina CD Rom
	Hamish M A Towler
	BMJ  2000;320:65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.65 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

ART

This week's ART

	Art: Body Art: Marks of Identity
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2000;320:64, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.64 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: The Mind within the Net: Models of Learning, Thinking and Acting
	Yoav Ben-Shlomo
	BMJ  2000;320:65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.65/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Sight Unseen
	Alistair Fielder
	BMJ  2000;320:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.66 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Pre-hospital Paediatric Life Support
	Ian Barker
	BMJ  2000;320:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.66/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Millennium, what millennium?
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Millennium, what millennium?
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

HIT PARADE

This week's HIT PARADE

	Hit parade
	BMJ  2000;320:65, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.65/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: NHS Direct Online
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2000;320:66, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.66/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Junior doctors call for ballot on industrial action • Consultants reach agreement on £50m award • BMA will review healthcare funding • Too many junior doctors are working too long hours • Talks continue on new consultant contract • Health secretary sets out NICE's programme • Medical school selection: greater care needed
	BMJ  2000;320:62, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.62 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Robert Ballantine • Andrew Niven Tildersley Aikman • Colin Munro Bisset • Robert Russell Dickson • John Anthony Harrington • Frederic Sinclair Jackson • Alan James Mathams • Robert ("Sandy")William Stewart Miller • Michael Garrett ("Garry") O'Flynn • Grace Emily Woods
	Giles Ballantine, Elizabeth Aikman-Higgins, John Milman, D W Barritt, A C P Sims, John Cosh, Tim Williams, R E Page, Fiona Foley, Patricia Bateman, Beryl Corner
	BMJ  2000;320:60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.60 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Self reported health of people in an area contaminated by chromium waste: interview study
	Peter McCarron, Ian Harvey, Robert Brogan, Tim J Peters
	BMJ  2000;320:11-15, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.11 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of socioeconomic deprivation on waiting time for cardiac surgery: retrospective cohort study • Commentary: Three decades of the inverse care law
	Jill P Pell, Alastair C H Pell, John Norrie, Ian Ford, Stuart M Cobbe, Julian Tudor Hart
	BMJ  2000;320:15-19, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.15 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Assessment of impact on health of residents living near the Nant-y-Gwyddon landfill site: retrospective analysis • Commentary: Impact on health needs assessing from different angles
	H M P Fielder, C M Poon-King, S R Palmer, N Moss, G Coleman, Helen Dolk
	BMJ  2000;320:19-23, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.19 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Advance directives: questionnaire survey of NHS trusts
	Peter Diggory, Marion Judd
	BMJ  2000;320:24-25, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7226.24 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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