Two thirds of children in European hospitals receive unlicensed drugs [Full text]

	Anonymous shortlisting of medical school applicants does not work [Full text]

	Midline episiotomy can lead to anal incontinence [Full text]

	A quarter of British people disagree with anonymous HIV testing [Full text]

	One sixth of epileptic patients conceal seizures from GPs [Full text]

	Current debate on cannabis is muddled [Full text]

Editorials

	Localised prostate cancer: can we do better?
	Tova Prior, Jonathan Waxman
	BMJ  2000;320:69-70, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.69 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Protecting whistleblowers
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;320:70-71, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.70 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Coping with bioterrorism
	Peter Rosen
	BMJ  2000;320:71-72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.71 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Intraocular lens implants
	Bruce Allan
	BMJ  2000;320:73-74, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.73 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	50 years of reporting on tobacco and health
	Ronald M Davis
	BMJ  2000;320:74, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.74 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Partnership with patients
	Otto P Bleker, Philip Crowley, Chris Drinkwater, Rex Haigh, Ramy Daoud, J S Hopkins, Alan R Watson, David Syme, Robert Fleetcroft
	BMJ  2000;320:117, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.117 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hyperbilirubinaemia in term infants
	Simon Mitchell, Narad Mathura, Nikki Lee
	BMJ  2000;320:119, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.119 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intervention for late life depression in residential care
	Ian Cameron, David Ames, Penelope Hawe, Ian McDonald, Kerr L White
	BMJ  2000;320:119, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.119/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing Lyme disease
	Paul Wright, Phyllis Mervine
	BMJ  2000;320:121, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.121 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All primary care beacons for clinical governance in South West have research funding and fellowship by assessment
	Selena Gray, Lindsay Smith
	BMJ  2000;320:121, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.121/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eighth principle in reconfiguring acute hospital services
	A M Cavenagh
	BMJ  2000;320:122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.122 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Don't compensate less efficient teaching hospitals, redistribute clinical medical students
	Trevor A Sheldon
	BMJ  2000;320:122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.122/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Clinton to regulate internet prescription drug sales
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2000;320:75, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.75 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Suicide rate is decreasing in England and Wales
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;320:75, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.75/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Netherlands faces measles epidemic
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2000;320:76, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.76 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Inquiry discovers fraudulent skin treatments
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;320:76, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.76/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;320:76, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.76/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Storage of human organs prompts three inquiries
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  2000;320:77, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.77 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	German prosecutor investigates the removal of dead babies' organs
	Déirdre Tilmann Mahkorn
	BMJ  2000;320:77, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.77/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Court sanctions use of anonymised patient data
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2000;320:77, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.77/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scotland's way to guarantee quality
	BMJ  2000;320:78, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.78 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Study strengthens link between BSE and vCJD
	BMJ  2000;320:78, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.78/a [Extract] [Full text]

	South Africa legislates to extend private health insurance
	BMJ  2000;320:78, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.78/b [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

	Recent advances: Nephrology
	C R V Tomson
	BMJ  2000;320:98-101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.98 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based case report Managing an elderly patient with a fractured femur
	Martyn J Parker
	BMJ  2000;320:102-103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.102 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of heart failure: Aetiology
	G Y H Lip, C R Gibbs, D G Beevers
	BMJ  2000;320:104-107, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.104 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Cross sectional study of reporting of epileptic seizures to general practitioners
	Jamie Dalrymple, John Appleby
	BMJ  2000;320:94-97, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.94 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

	What crisis?
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2000;320:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.127/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The sharp end of the dural puncture
	Evelyn C Weir
	BMJ  2000;320:127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.127 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Improving the quality of the cannabis debate: defining the different domains
	John Strang, John Witton, Wayne Hall
	BMJ  2000;320:108-110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.108 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tobacco litigation worldwide
	Richard A Daynard, Clive Bates, Neil Francey
	BMJ  2000;320:111-113, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.111 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Qualitative research in health care: Analysing qualitative data
	Catherine Pope, Sue Ziebland, Nicholas Mays
	BMJ  2000;320:114-116, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.114 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;320:128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.128 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	A death on the lawn
	John Woodward
	BMJ  2000;320:85, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.85 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Too much for poetry
	BMJ  2000;320:85, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.85/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A faded memory: My old school
	Om P Sharma
	BMJ  2000;320:97, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.97 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Only the very best
	BMJ  2000;320:102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.102/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Oxford Handbook of Clinical Immunology
	Charles McSharry
	BMJ  2000;320:125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.125 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  2000;320:125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.125/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Patient Power
	Ted Osmun
	BMJ  2000;320:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.126 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Working hard to do harm
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

	NETLINES
	BMJ  2000;320:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.126/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Working hard to do harm
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: GP websites
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2000;320:126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.126/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Alec Henry Alexander Warner Forbes • Robert Frederick Hobson • Iris Mary Magauran • Robert Marshall • Catherine Clare Ozanne • Alan Ernest Richardson • James Frederick ("Eric") Robinson • Emmanuel Saphier • John Sterland Swallow • Sonalee Wijetunge
	John Cosh, Frank Margison, Denise Magauran, Helen Magauran, Donald Lane, Huw Alban Davies, David Uttley, Hal Robinson, Wilred Fine, Graham Prowse, Patrick Sellars, Fiona Sinclair
	BMJ  2000;320:123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.123 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Survey of unlicensed and off label drug use in paediatric wards in European countries
	Sharon Conroy, Imti Choonara, Piero Impicciatore, Angelika Mohn, Henrik Arnell, Anders Rane, Carmen Knoeppel, Hannsjoerg Seyberth, Chiara Pandolfini, Maria Pia Raffaelli, Francesca Rocchi, Maurizio Bonati, Geert `t Jong, Matthijs de Hoog, John van den Anker
	BMJ  2000;320:79-82, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.79 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Difficulties with anonymous shortlisting of medical school applications and its effects on candidates with non-European names: prospective cohort study
	Andrew B Lumb, Andy Vail
	BMJ  2000;320:82-85, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.82 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Midline episiotomy and anal incontinence: retrospective cohort study
	Lisa B Signorello, Bernard L Harlow, Amy K Chekos, John T Repke
	BMJ  2000;320:86-90, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.86 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Bad blood? Survey of public's views on unlinked anonymous testing of blood for HIV and other diseases
	Anthony Kessel, Christopher Watts, Helen A Weiss
	BMJ  2000;320:90-91, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.90 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of antibody to human T cell leukaemia/lymphoma virus in women attending antenatal clinic in southeast London: retrospective study
	Matthew Donati, Habib Seyedzadeh, Teresa Leung, Maggie Blott, Mark Zuckerman
	BMJ  2000;320:92-93, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.92 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Acute renal failure induced by topical ketoprofen
	T Krummel, Y Dimitrov, B Moulin, T Hannedouche
	BMJ  2000;320:93, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7227.93 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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