This week's This week in the BMJ

	Weight reduction alleviates asthma in obese asthmatic people [Full text] FREE

	Calman trainees are satisfied with specialist training [Full text] FREE

	Recognition of television images may be a milestone in children's development [Full text] FREE

	Current referral times for cancer vary greatly [Full text] FREE

	Teenage pregnancy rates tend to be lower in general practices with young or female doctors [Full text] FREE

	Meningococci spread rapidly among new students in first week of university [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Replacing the mercury sphygmomanometer
	Eoin O'Brien
	BMJ  2000;320:815-816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.815 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Heart and heart-lung transplantation in Down's syndrome
	Helen Leonard, Katherine Eastham, John Dark
	BMJ  2000;320:816-817, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.816 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Specialist registrar training
	Graeme Catto
	BMJ  2000;320:817-818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.817 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Healthy People 2010: objectives for the United States
	Ronald M Davis
	BMJ  2000;320:818-819, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.818 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Total knee replacement: the joint of the decade
	C G Moran, T C Horton
	BMJ  2000;320:820, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.820 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Xenotransplantation
	David K C Cooper, Carl G Groth, Ian F C McKenzie, Emanuel Goldman, Alix Fano, Harold Y Vanderpool
	BMJ  2000;320:868, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.868 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs can improve their hand washing habits
	Barbara Michiels, Dirk Avonts, Paul van Royen, Joke Denekens
	BMJ  2000;320:869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.869 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	System to detect tuberculosis in new arrivals to UK must be improved
	Sally Hargreaves
	BMJ  2000;320:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.870 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antibiotic prophylaxis after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion
	D S Sanders, M J Carter, I Mohammed, B J M Jones, Arno J Dormann, Winfried V Kern
	BMJ  2000;320:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.870/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Honesty about new screening programmes is best policy
	A E Raffle
	BMJ  2000;320:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.872 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Higher rate of organ procurement can be achieved in UK
	P McMaster
	BMJ  2000;320:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.872/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eugenics debate
	Rupert Suckling, Susan Root, Pablo Millares-Martin
	BMJ  2000;320:873, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.873 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The changing doctor-patient relationship
	Vincent McAulay, Lawrence L Weed, Lincoln Weed
	BMJ  2000;320:873, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.873/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Choice is a gift from the patient to the doctor, not the other way around
	Ailsa Harrison
	BMJ  2000;320:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.874 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Continuity of supply of drugs is critical
	Andrew Skinner
	BMJ  2000;320:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.874/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training for NHS Direct staff needs funding
	Elizabeth Armstrong
	BMJ  2000;320:875, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.875 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The other Dr Finlay is commemorated in Cuban stamps
	S W S Menzies
	BMJ  2000;320:875, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.875/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Time to switch from whole cell to acellular pertussis vaccines?
	Adam Finn, Frank Bell
	BMJ  2000;320:875, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.875/c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Drug resistant tuberculosis can be controlled, says WHO
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  2000;320:821, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.821 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Relatives to be told if organs are to be retained after postmortem
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2000;320:821, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.821/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Privy Council sets aside GMC ruling
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;320:822, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.822 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Half of Bangladesh population at risk of arsenic poisoning
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2000;320:822, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.822/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;320:822, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.822/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New clinical guidelines for stroke published
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  2000;320:823, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.823 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Genetics commission consults UK population
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2000;320:823, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.823/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Blair throws down challenge to GPs over NHS changes
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2000;320:824, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.824 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Blair demands reform of the NHS]

	EU advisers to declare their interests
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2000;320:824, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.824/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK junior doctors to vote on pay offer
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2000;320:824, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.824/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Saliva test could diagnose cancers
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2000;320:825, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.825 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Japan to allow in foreign nurses to care for old people
	Joe Lamar
	BMJ  2000;320:825, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.825/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Coordinated global action could end malnutrition in young children
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  2000;320:825, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.825/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cloning of pigs bring xenotransplants closer
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2000;320:826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.826 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Canada turns to France for staff to treat cancer patients
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2000;320:826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.826/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch insurers flouting law on genetic disease, researchers say
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2000;320:826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.826/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Half of Bangladesh population at risk of arsenic poisoning
	BMJ  2000;320:826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.826/c [Extract] [Full text]

	EU advisory committee members declare their interests
	BMJ  2000;320:826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.826/d [Extract] [Full text]

	"Distortion" of passive smoking evidence provokes controversy in Israel
	BMJ  2000;320:826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.826/e [Extract] [Full text]

	Food Standards Agency will be "open and independent"
	BMJ  2000;320:826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.826/f [Extract] [Full text]

	Study throws doubt on protective effects of HRT for heart disease
	BMJ  2000;320:826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.826/g [Extract] [Full text]

	Relatives to be told if organs are retained after postmortem
	BMJ  2000;320:826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.826/h [Extract] [Full text]

	UK junior doctors to vote on pay offer
	BMJ  2000;320:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.826/i [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Dermatology
	Peter A Foley
	BMJ  2000;320:850-853, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.850 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of arterial and venous disease: Chronic lower limb ischaemia
	Jonathan D Beard
	BMJ  2000;320:854-857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.854 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Association between teenage pregnancy rates and the age and sex of general practitioners: cross sectional survey in Trent 1994-7
	Julia Hippisley-Cox, Jane Allen, Mike Pringle, Dave Ebdon, Marion McPhearson, Dick Churchill, Sue Bradley
	BMJ  2000;320:842-845, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.842 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references] FREE

	Changing carriage rate of Neisseria meningitidis among university students during the first week of term: cross sectional study
	Keith R Neal, Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam, Nicholas Jeffrey, Richard C B Slack, Richard J Madeley, Kamel Ait-Tahar, Katy Job, Martin C J Wale, Dlawer A A Ala'Aldeen
	BMJ  2000;320:846-849, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.846 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Techniques for processing pharyngeal swabs] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	How to party
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2000;320:881, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.881/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Deaths on the operating table
	Mel Jones
	BMJ  2000;320:881, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.881 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	For and against: The male menopausedoes it exist? • For • Against
	Duncan C Gould, Richard Petty, Howard S Jacobs
	BMJ  2000;320:858-861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.858 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Plant sterol and stanol margarines and health
	Malcolm Law
	BMJ  2000;320:861-864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.861 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Blair's billions: where will he find the money for the NHS?
	John Appleby, Sean Boyle
	BMJ  2000;320:865-867, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.865 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;320:882, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.882 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Count sponges and instruments
	BMJ  2000;320:840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.840/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The internet may not be the biggest change in the past 150 years
	BMJ  2000;320:846, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.846/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A surprising diagnosis
	Catherine Harkness
	BMJ  2000;320:849, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.849 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Leg length and risk of cancer in the Boyd Orr cohort
	BMJ  2000;320:867 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Tumour markers in malignancies
	BMJ  2000;320:867 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How we improved our treatment of hypertension
	BMJ  2000;320:867 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Internal and external morality of medicine: lessons from New Zealand
	BMJ  2000;320:867 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prediction of survival for preterm births
	BMJ  2000;320:875 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: The Clinician's Practical Guide to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
	Daphne V Keen
	BMJ  2000;320:879, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.879 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Antimony in Medical History
	Carole Rawcliffe
	BMJ  2000;320:879, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.879/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Champion of Women and the Unborn: Horatio Robinson Storer, MD
	Jeanette Cayley
	BMJ  2000;320:880, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.880 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The young as patients and doctors
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	The young as patients and doctors
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

HIT PARADE

This week's HIT PARADE

	Hit parade
	BMJ  2000;320:880, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.880/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: NHS on the web
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2000;320:880, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.880/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Junior doctors oppose idea of new non-consultant grade • General practice must change • Consultants have concerns about revalidation
	BMJ  2000;320:878, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.878 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Thomas Keith Bradford • Rory Shaun Casement • Donald Lascelles Crombie • Neil Fairley • John Frederick Foulkes • Jonathan Kersley • Nancy Lowe (née Young) • Brigid McCann • Angus William Bertram Macdonald • Douglas John Parish • Jon Wilfred Scopes • Mark Willis Partington Ward • Maurice Cresswell Brough
	Joan Bradford, Brian Mullally, D M Fleming, L Dunbar, I A Crowther, John Foulkes, Arthur D McG Steele, Gordon Lowe, Graham Lowe, John McCann, N H Stentiford, D D Hilton, Janet Wright, ne'e Parish, Graham Clayden, John F Rose, Stephen Brough
	BMJ  2000;320:876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.876 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Immediate and long term effects of weight reduction in obese people with asthma: randomised controlled study
	Brita Stenius-Aarniala, Tuija Poussa, Johanna Kvarnström, Eeva-Liisa Grönlund, Mikko Ylikahri, Pertti Mustajoki
	BMJ  2000;320:827-832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.827 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Flow chart and table] FREE

	Trainee satisfaction before and after the Calman reforms of specialist training: questionnaire survey
	Elisabeth Paice, Maryanne Aitken, George Cowan, Shelley Heard
	BMJ  2000;320:832-836, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.832 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Recognition of television images as a developmental milestone in young children: observational study
	B W Lloyd, K Brodie
	BMJ  2000;320:836-838, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.836 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Waiting times for cancer patients in England after general practitioners' referrals: retrospective national survey
	Peter Spurgeon, Fred Barwell, David Kerr
	BMJ  2000;320:838-839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.838 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Relation between infants' birth weight and mothers' mortality: prospective observational study
	George Davey Smith, Seeromanie Harding, Michael Rosato
	BMJ  2000;320:839-840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.839 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cohort study of birthweight, mortality, and disability
	Chris Power, Leah Li
	BMJ  2000;320:840-841, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7238.840 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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