Neuraxial blockade reduces major postoperative complications [Full text]

	Screening relatives for familial hypercholesterolaemia can detect new patients [Full text]

	Health funding policies affect Chilean caesarean section rates [Full text]

	Having relatives present at brain stem testing may be helpful to them [Full text]

	Patients, GPs, and nurses dislike self management plans for asthma [Full text]

	Quality of web based information on depression is poor [Full text]

Editorials

	Using injury data for violence prevention
	Jonathan P Shepherd, Vaseekaran Sivarajasingam, Frederick P Rivara
	BMJ  2000;321:1481-1482, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1481 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Self management in asthma care
	Bart Thoonen, Chris van Weel
	BMJ  2000;321:1482-1483, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1482 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia
	J J P Kastelein
	BMJ  2000;321:1483-1484, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1483 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Emerging arboviral encephalitis
	Tom Solomon, Mary Jane Cardosa
	BMJ  2000;321:1484-1485, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1484 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Research misconduct: Britain's failure to act
	Michael Farthing, Richard Horton, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2000;321:1485-1486, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1485 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing chronic diseaseround 2
	BMJ  2000;321:1486, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1486 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Plans for tackling research fraud may not go far enough
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2000;321:1487, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1487 [Full text] [PDF]

	University must tell patients that they were research "guinea pigs"
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2000;321:1487, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1487/a [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;321:1488, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1488 [Full text] [PDF]

	Public's satisfaction with the NHS declines
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2000;321:1488, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1488/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Gut cells engineered to produce insulin
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2000;321:1488, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1488/b [Full text]

	Trusts must use, not just collect, clinical data
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2000;321:1489, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1489 [Full text] [PDF]

	Early x ray for low back pain confers little benefit
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2000;321:1489, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1489/a [Full text] [PDF]

	US doctors consider access to health care for all
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2000;321:1491, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1491/c [Full text] [PDF]

	Untying the strings
	BMJ  2000;321:1492, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1492 [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Sanctions against Iraq "double" child mortality
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2000;321:1490, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1490 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Patients will consult doctors through a TV screen in 2020
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2000;321:1490, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1490/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Calcium antagonists not best for first line therapy for hypertension
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2000;321:1490, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1490/b [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctor who revealed patient details cleared by GMC
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:1490, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1490/c [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Unicef report calls for children to move to the top of the health agenda
	BMJ  2000;321:1490, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1490/d [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Guide to ethics of treating children published
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:1491, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1491 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Cloned chickens to help fight cancer
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2000;321:1491, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1491/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Patient dies of alternative cancer remedy
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2000;321:1491, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1491/b [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	University must tell patients that they were research "guinea pigs"
	BMJ  2000;321:1492, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1492/a [Full text]

	Welsh children’s commissioner will have powers over hospitals
	BMJ  2000;321:1492, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1492/b [Full text]

Papers

	Reduction of postoperative mortality and morbidity with epidural or spinal anaesthesia: results from overview of randomised trials
	Anthony Rodgers, Natalie Walker, S Schug, A McKee, H Kehlet, A van Zundert, D Sage, M Futter, G Saville, T Clark, S MacMahon
	BMJ  2000;321:1493, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1493 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Outcome of case finding among relatives of patients with known heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia
	D Bhatnagar, J Morgan, S Siddiq, M I Mackness, J P Miller, P N Durrington
	BMJ  2000;321:1497, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1497 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history]

	Relation between private health insurance and high rates of caesarean section in Chile: qualitative and quantitative study
	Susan F Murray
	BMJ  2000;321:1501-1505, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1501 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables]

	Presence of relatives during testing for brain stem death: questionnaire study
	Janet Pugh, Linda Clarke, Janine Gray, Jolien Haveman, Paul Lawler, Stephen Bonner
	BMJ  2000;321:1505-1506, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1505 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Questionnaires]

Information in practice

	Quality of web based information on treatment of depression: cross sectional survey
	Kathleen M Griffiths, Helen Christensen
	BMJ  2000;321:1511-1515, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1511 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history]

Clinical review

	Extracts from "Clinical Evidence": Menopausal symptoms
	Janice Rymer, Edward P Morris
	BMJ  2000;321:1516-1519, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1516 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Qualitative study of views of health professionals and patients on guided self management plans for asthma
	Alan Jones, Roisin Pill, Stephanie Adams
	BMJ  2000;321:1507-1510, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1507 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	The empty chair
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2000;321:1539, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1539/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Christmas Day in London: darling, I'm pregnant
	Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza
	BMJ  2000;321:1539, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1539 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	For and against: Doctors should advise adolescents to abstain from sex • For • Against
	Trevor Stammers, Roger Ingham
	BMJ  2000;321:1520-1522, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1520 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An integrated national pharmaceutical policy for the United Kingdom?
	Tom Walley, Alan Earl-Slater, Alan Haycox, Adrian Bagust
	BMJ  2000;321:1523-1526, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1523 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Referral and diagnostic process in suspected colorectal cancer needs to be improved to achieve two week target
	Coliette Riesewyk, Chris Hayward, Veda Enser, John Northover
	BMJ  2000;321:1527, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1527 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of screening programme on mortality from breast cancer
	Anthony B Miller, Serge Rozenberg, Birgit Carly, Fabienne Liebens, Hamphrey Ham, Michael Baum, J S Tobias
	BMJ  2000;321:1527, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1527/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pitfalls of pharmacoepidemiology
	James A Kaye, Catherine Vasilakis-Scaramozza, Susan S Jick, Hershel Jick
	BMJ  2000;321:1528, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1528 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care is natural place for clinical research and practice
	Maurizio Bonati
	BMJ  2000;321:1529, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1529 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Giving medicine a fair trial
	Laurie Allan, Lance Tooke, Jammi N Rao, Paolo Bruzzi, Massimo Costantini, Imre Szebik, Sean Bydder, Terry Slevin, Paul Katris
	BMJ  2000;321:1529, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1529/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increased high risk sexual behaviour in homosexual men
	Neil Macdonald, Barry Evans, Ranjana Rani, Paul D Woolley, Swatantrata Chandiok, Gavin Fairburn, Kevin McDonald, Julie Dodds, Anthony Nardone, Danielle Mercey, Anne Johnson
	BMJ  2000;321:1531, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1531 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Income inequality and mortality in Canada and the United States
	Tony Blakely, Alistair Woodward, Oliver Razum, Nancy A Ross, Michael Wolfson, Jean-Marie Berthelot, James Dunn, George Kaplan, John Lynch
	BMJ  2000;321:1532, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1532 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Could fewer islet cells be transplanted in type 1 diabetes?
	Norman Waugh
	BMJ  2000;321:1534, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1534 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In praise of mercury sphygmomanometers
	E G Lawes
	BMJ  2000;321:1534, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1534/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	David Dangerfield • Francis Russell Dickson • Trevor Charles Gipson • Anne Ethel McCandless
	Peter Dangerfield, Robert Hall, Nicholas C Thompson, Robert McLaren Todd, Catherine M Durkin
	BMJ  2000;321:1535, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1535 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;321:1540, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1540 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Choosing a collaborator
	Stephen M Shalet
	BMJ  2000;321:1506, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1506 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece
	BMJ  2000;321:1506, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1506/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	My most unfortunate mistake: Always double check
	Lloyd Bradley
	BMJ  2000;321:1510, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1510 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Much ado about a monument
	BMJ  2000;321:1519, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1519/c [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Use of lipid lowering drugs for primary prevention of coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of randomised trials
	BMJ  2000;321:1519 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Another look at visual standards and driving
	BMJ  2000;321:1519 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Identifying patients with ischaemic heart disease in general practice: cross sectional study of paper and computerised medical records
	BMJ  2000;321:1519 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CD

	CD: StatsDirectStatistical Software for Medical Research in the 21st Century
	Nick Freemantle
	BMJ  2000;321:1536, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1536 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: From Chaos to Coercion: Detention and the Control of Tuberculosis
	David Wilkinson
	BMJ  2000;321:1536, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1536/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Agenda: Ecstasy • Agenda: Heroin • Agenda: Cocaine
	Ian Sutherland
	BMJ  2000;321:1537, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1537 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal Hallucinations
	David Ames
	BMJ  2000;321:1537, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1537/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: Meningitis: the making of a "scandal"
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2000;321:1538, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1538 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Getting closer to patients and their families
	BMJ  2000;321, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Getting closer to patients and their families
	BMJ  2000;321, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Abstinence
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;321:1538, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1538/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

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Website extra

bmj.com wins publishing award [Full text]

The ethics of the cash register: taking tobacco research dollars [Full text]

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