This Week In the BMJ Brief psychotherapy in general practice leads to speedier recovery for depressed patients BMJ 2000; 321 :f (Published 02 December 2000) Permission New antipsychotics are not more effective than conventional drugs BMJ 2000; 321 :b (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Ethnographic studies can help make sense of patients' and clinicians' worlds BMJ 2000; 321 :d (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Cancer patients and doctors might collude in false optimism BMJ 2000; 321 :c (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Rate of change in Barthel score can be used to predict survival in terminally ill patients with cancer BMJ 2000; 321 :e (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Editorials Personal medical services: a barometer for the NHS? BMJ 2000; 321 :1359 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Atypical antipsychotics BMJ 2000; 321 :1360 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses The People's Health Assembly BMJ 2000; 321 :1361 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses Economic evaluation and clinical trials: size matters BMJ 2000; 321 :1362 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission The failings of NICE BMJ 2000; 321 :1363 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses LettersDownload PDF A practice that changed my patience BMJ 2000; 321 :1406 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses Health effects of prisons BMJ 2000; 321 :1406 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Responses Studies in meta-analysis of treatment of stable angina had methodological flaws BMJ 2000; 321 :1408 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Management of women with early breast cancer BMJ 2000; 321 :1408 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Women's attitudes to false positive mammography results BMJ 2000; 321 :1409 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Baby food industry lobbies WHO BMJ 2000; 321 :1411 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Distinguishing mental illness in primary care BMJ 2000; 321 :1412 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission US has placed tobacco imports to China high on priority list for liberalisation BMJ 2000; 321 :1413 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission GPs should take hold of mental health agenda BMJ 2000; 321 :1414 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Hospital ethics committees may discourage staff from making own decisions BMJ 2000; 321 :1414 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Responses Can heart failure be diagnosed in primary care? 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BMJ 2000; 321 :1415 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Responses News Lords call for regulation of complementary medicine BMJ 2000; 321 :1365 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission MPs recommend tightening the law on female circumcision BMJ 2000; 321 :1365 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission In brief BMJ 2000; 321 :1366 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission English GP suspended for misleading drug companies BMJ 2000; 321 :1366 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Doctors question new test for Down's syndrome BMJ 2000; 321 :1366 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Talks on climate change collapse in acrimony BMJ 2000; 321 :1367 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Reducing greenhouse gases will have good short term effect BMJ 2000; 321 :1367 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission US calls for research into research integrity BMJ 2000; 321 :1369 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Data collection system needed for gun injuries BMJ 2000; 321 :1370 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses Hospital acquired infections kill 5000 patients a year in England BMJ 2000; 321 :1370 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses Clinical Reviews Urology BMJ 2000; 321 :1393 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses Innovative treatment for colon cancer BMJ 2000; 321 :1397 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Minerva Minerva BMJ 2000; 321 :1422 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Editor's Choice Apocalypse soon: doctors needed BMJ 2000; 321 :0 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses Apocalypse soon: doctors needed BMJ 2000; 321 :a (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal] EU to test cattle aged over 30 months “at risk” of BSE BMJ 2000; 321 :1368 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Responses Drug resistant cholera in India attributed to antibiotic misuse BMJ 2000; 321 :1368 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission South Africa draws up new rules for foreign doctors BMJ 2000; 321 :1368 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Irish committee backs genetically modified crops BMJ 2000; 321 :1368 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Responses US strengthens rights of insured patients BMJ 2000; 321 :1368 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission “Buffer zone” law for abortion clinics declared unconstitutional BMJ 2000; 321 :1368 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission US bill on pain relief bars doctor assisted suicide BMJ 2000; 321 :1369 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Regulations not keeping up with developments in genetics, says poll BMJ 2000; 321 :1369 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission News extra [these stories appear only on the web] Hungarian GPs to be taught about depression BMJ 2000; 321 :1370 (Published 02 December 2000) Permission Papers Atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia: systematic overview and meta-regression analysis BMJ 2000; 321 :1371 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses Collusion in doctor-patient communication about imminent death: an ethnographic study BMJ 2000; 321 :1376 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses Using the modified Barthel index to estimate survival in cancer patients in hospice: observational study BMJ 2000; 321 :1381 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses Apparent interaction between warfarin and levonorgestrel used for emergency contraception BMJ 2000; 321 :1382 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses General practice Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-behaviour therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with depression. I: Clinical effectiveness BMJ 2000; 321 :1383 (Published 02 December 2000) PDF Permission Responses Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-behaviour therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with depression. 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