16 September 2000(vol 321, issue 7262)

This Week In the BMJ

• ATLS guidelines overestimate systolic blood pressure

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

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• Management of pregnant women with epilepsy remains poor

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

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• Fall in mortality from breast cancer is partly due to screening

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

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• Global warming could reduce European mortality

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

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• H pylori eradication is cost effective for non-ulcer dyspepsia

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

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• Onset of forearm pain can be predicted

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

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Editorials

• How effective is screening for breast cancer?

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

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• Treating non-ulcer dyspepsia and H pylori

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

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• Clinical ethics committees

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• Saving lives during extreme weather in summer

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

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• Can islet cell transplantation treat diabetes?

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

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Letters

• Doctors and nurses

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• Implications of CJD data need to be clear before release

  BMJ 2000; 321 :701 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Effect of on-site mental health professionals

  BMJ 2000; 321 :701 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Treating hyperhidrosis

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

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• Quality of randomised controlled trials in head injury

  BMJ 2000; 321 :704 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Transfusion transmitted infection

  BMJ 2000; 321 :704 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• National service framework's financial implications are huge

  BMJ 2000; 321 :705 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Advance directives

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• Role of spironolactone in heart failure should be emphasised

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

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• Patient of gynaecologist who was struck off has been denied justice

  BMJ 2000; 321 :707 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• UK and German media differ over complementary medicine

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News

• US hospitals to ask patients for right to sell their tissue

  BMJ 2000; 321 :653 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Doctrine of necessity could allow separation of twins

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• Offspring from artificial insemination demand fathers' details

  BMJ 2000; 321 :654 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• BMA secretary to be Scottish CMO

  BMJ 2000; 321 :654 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2000; 321 :654 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Scooters cause 9500 injuries in US in 8 months

  BMJ 2000; 321 :655 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Cannabis use falls among Dutch youth

  BMJ 2000; 321 :655 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Move to ban private practice may be illegal

  BMJ 2000; 321 :655 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Drug company pays for campaign for chicken pox vaccination

  BMJ 2000; 321 :656 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Sri Lanka accuses drug company of flouting advertising rules

  BMJ 2000; 321 :656 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• US doctor may have killed 60

  BMJ 2000; 321 :657 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Private finance initiative condemned

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• EU institutions divided on therapeutic cloning

  BMJ 2000; 321 :658 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Relatives underestimate patients' desire for truth

  BMJ 2000; 321 :658 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• US hospitals to ask patients for right to sell their tissue

  BMJ 2000; 321 :658 (Published 16 September 2000)

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Clinical Reviews

• Complementary medicine

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• Right sided aortic arch in children with persistent respiratory symptoms

  BMJ 2000; 321 :687 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Screening for breast cancer

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

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• In love with the Lancet

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

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• In love with the Lancet

  BMJ 2000; 321 :0 (Published 16 September 2000)

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Funding boost for prostate cancer research

  BMJ 2000; 321 :658 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• UK government changes yellow card scheme

  BMJ 2000; 321 :658 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• More GPs will have new contract option

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Papers

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

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

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• 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)

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

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

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• 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)

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

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General practice

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

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• Organisational development for clinical governance

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Education and debate

• Framework for design and evaluation of complex interventions to improve health

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

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• Cost effectiveness calculations and sample size

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Film

• Nurse Betty

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Books

• Death in England: An Illustrated History

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• 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 (Published 16 September 2000)

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• Evaluating complex interventions

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PRESS

• Dutch doctors supported by media

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Personal View

• Hospital games

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Soundings

• Source

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Fillers

• Which postcoital contraceptive?

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

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• Chickenpox

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

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• Knowledge

  BMJ 2000; 321 :687 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Misery versus pleasure

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

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Corrections

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

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

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

  BMJ 2000; 321 :675 (Published 16 September 2000)

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• Fillers

  BMJ 2000; 321 :675 (Published 16 September 2000)

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Obituary

• 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)

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