This week's This week in the BMJ

	Doctors are overoptimistic in predicting survival for patients with cancer [Full text] FREE

	Chemotherapy may benefit young, low risk breast cancer patients [Full text] FREE

	Sleep apnoea contributes to hypertension [Full text] FREE

	Doctors and patients misunder- stand each other when relevant information is not exchanged [Full text] FREE

	Mortality data for GPs may not identify future murders [Full text] FREE

	Renaming adrenaline is wrong and may lead to errors [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Treating young patients with breast cancer
	J M Dixon, G Hortobagyi
	BMJ  2000;320:457-458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.457 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is CS gas dangerous?
	F T Fraunfelder
	BMJ  2000;320:458-459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.458 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cholesterol and strokes
	Michael F Oliver
	BMJ  2000;320:459-460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.459 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Innovation to prevent dependency in old age
	David Metz
	BMJ  2000;320:460-461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.460 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Beds in the NHS
	A M Pollock, M G Dunnigan
	BMJ  2000;320:461-462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.461 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Doctors write on patients' eye view of quality
	Stephen Hayes, Peter Davies, Andrew Warin, Judith Wright, T Quasim, M G Booth
	BMJ  2000;320:510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.510 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effectiveness of rivastigmine in Alzheimer's disease
	Roger Bullock, Peter Passmore, David Wilkinson, Robert Howard, Roy Jones, Peter Bentham, Richard Gray, James Raftery
	BMJ  2000;320:511, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.511 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Accuracy of perceptions of hepatitis B and C status
	M E Ramsay, M A Balogun, C G Teo, P P Mortimer, Ali Judd, Gerry V Stimson, Matthew Hickman, John Macleod, Rupert Suckling, Kevin Perrett, Mike McKendrick, David Best, Alison Noble, Emily Finch, Michael Gossop, Clare Sidwell, John Strang
	BMJ  2000;320:512, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.512 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acupuncture may be associated with serious adverse events
	E Ernst, A R White
	BMJ  2000;320:513, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.513 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Reference details]

	Healthcare providers in New Zealand and England could learn from each other
	Huw Charles-Jones, Tom Butler
	BMJ  2000;320:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.514 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bible's stance on homosexuality
	Alan Sheard
	BMJ  2000;320:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.514/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence produced in evidence based medicine needs to be relevant
	Jacqueline Barker, David Gilbert
	BMJ  2000;320:515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.515 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fatigue and psychological distress
	Martin Bland, Trudie Chalder, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2000;320:515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.515/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluation of effect of changes is essential in policymaking
	Simon Dixon, Guy Rotherham, Malcolm Whitfield, Colin Green
	BMJ  2000;320:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.516 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Getting HIV/AIDS accepted on the political agenda
	Nigel O'Farrell
	BMJ  2000;320:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.516/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Government inquiry finds inadequate beds provision
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;320:463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.463 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Police question medical MP over "euthanasia"
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;320:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.464 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Clinic sued for unauthorised use of sperm
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;320:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.464/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;320:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.464/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Senators introduce bill to improve patient safety
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2000;320:465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.465 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctor's book shames French prisons
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  2000;320:465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.465/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC speeds up disciplinary action against doctors
	Siän Knight
	BMJ  2000;320:466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.466 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC reprimands doctor for denigrating rival's service
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;320:466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.466/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bristol inquiry hears closing submissions
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;320:466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.466/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Heart disease rising in central and eastern Europe
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2000;320:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.467 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Clinton outlaws genetic discrimination in federal jobs
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2000;320:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.468 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Nestlé accused of breaking international code
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;320:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.468/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Additives may be displayed on cigarette packs
	Muhunthan Thillai
	BMJ  2000;320:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.468/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Bristol inquiry hears closing submissions
	BMJ  2000;320:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.468/c [Extract] [Full text]

	EU examines accuracy of tests for genetically modified foods
	BMJ  2000;320:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.468/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Radical changes will help NHS survive
	BMJ  2000;320:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.468/e [Extract] [Full text]

	"Kits" for male contraceptive pill
	BMJ  2000;320:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.468/f [Extract] [Full text]

	Children from south Wales will go to Bristol for heart surgery
	BMJ  2000;320:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.468/g [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Tropical medicine
	Henry W Murray, Jacques Pépin, Thomas B Nutman, Stephen L Hoffman, Adel A F Mahmoud
	BMJ  2000;320:490-494, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.490 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table 1W]

	ABC of heart failure: Management: digoxin and other inotropes,  blockers, and antiarrhythmic and antithrombotic treatment
	C R Gibbs, M K Davies, G Y H Lip
	BMJ  2000;320:495-498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.495 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Misunderstandings in prescribing decisions in general practice: qualitative study
	Nicky Britten, Fiona A Stevenson, Christine A Barry, Nick Barber, Colin P Bradley
	BMJ  2000;320:484-488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.484 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Mortality variations as a measure of general practitioner performance: implications of the Shipman case
	Stephen Frankel, Jonathan Sterne, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  2000;320:489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.489 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Lord, protect me from my friends
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2000;320:523, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.523/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Why a massive tumour went undetected
	Anonymous
	BMJ  2000;320:523, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.523 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Internal and external morality of medicine: lessons from New Zealand
	Charlotte Paul
	BMJ  2000;320:499-503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.499 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Expressing the magnitude of adverse effects in case-control studies: "the number of patients needed to be treated for one additional patient to be harmed"
	Lise M Bjerre, Jacques LeLorier
	BMJ  2000;320:503-506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.503 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Appendix]

	"Where name and image meet"the argument for "adrenaline"
	Jeffrey K Aronson
	BMJ  2000;320:506-509, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.506 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;320:524, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.524 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable patient: The scars of the Jewish holocaust
	Roni Peleg, Aya Biderman
	BMJ  2000;320:473, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.473 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Before birth
	BMJ  2000;320:489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.489/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	St Columba's case book
	Duncan Hunter
	BMJ  2000;320:494, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.494/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The Royal Academy Exhibition
	BMJ  2000;320:506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.506/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Notice of inadvertent duplicate publication
	BMJ  2000;320:482, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.482 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Hyponatraemic seizures and excessive intake of hypotonic fluids in young children
	BMJ  2000;320:494 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

CD

This week's CD

	CD: ADAM Interactive Anatomy •    The Anatomy Project
	Alistair Hunter
	BMJ  2000;320:521, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.521 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: The Magic Bullet and Other Medical Stories
	John Gillies
	BMJ  2000;320:520, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.520 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Assuming the Risk: The Mavericks, the Lawyers, and the Whistleblowers Who Beat Big Tobacco
	Michael A O'Neill
	BMJ  2000;320:520, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.520/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: The stigma of schizophrenia
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2000;320:522, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.522 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	No quick fixes
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

This week's NETLINES

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2000;320:521, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.521/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	No quick fixes
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Tropical medicine
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2000;320:522, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.522/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	NHS funding confused by lack of clarity • Guidance issued on discretionary points • Deaf patients do not get such good treatment • Patients with hip fracture need better care
	BMJ  2000;320:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.519 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Arnold Steadman Aldis • William Thomson Fullerton • Thomas Cecil De Courcy Hallinen • Lionel Brent Harris • Ahmad Nejad Kazem • Donald John Manton • Henri Rey • Charles John Pratt Seccombe • Clifford Edward Stuart • Selwyn Francis Taylor
	Leslie Hughes, Marion Hall, Vijay Jandial, Nick Ingram, P Harris, J Harris, I A Campbell, S Moalipur, J Roberston, Fred W Wright, Murray Jackson, Martin Seccombe, R Mulroy, C Stuart, John Naish
	BMJ  2000;320:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.517 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Extent and determinants of error in doctors' prognoses in terminally ill patients: prospective cohort study • Commentary: Why do doctors overestimate? • Commentary: Prognoses should be based on proved indices not intuition
	Nicholas A Christakis, Elizabeth B Lamont, Julia L Smith, Colin Murray Parkes
	BMJ  2000;320:469-473, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.469 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Factors influencing the effect of age on prognosis in breast cancer: population based study • Commentary: much still to learn about relations between tumour biology, prognosis, and treatment outcome in early breast cancer
	Niels Kroman, Maj-Britt Jensen, Jan Wohlfahrt, Henning T Mouridsen, Per Kragh Andersen, Mads Melbye, Andrew Tutt, Gillian Ross
	BMJ  2000;320:474-479, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.474 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome as a risk factor for hypertension: population study
	Peretz Lavie, Paula Herer, Victor Hoffstein
	BMJ  2000;320:479-482, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.479 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Effectiveness of modified release isosorbide mononitrate affected by incorrect use
	James D Hider, Zaid Shehab, R Courteney-Harris
	BMJ  2000;320:483, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.483 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Clopidogrel associated with acute arthritis
	Anu Garg, Johannes Radvan, Neil Hopkinson
	BMJ  2000;320:483, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7233.483/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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