Calcipotriol is a useful drug for treating mild to moderate psoriasis [Full text]

	Early catch-up growth is a risk factor for childhood obesity [Full text]

	What makes organisational downsizing a risk to the health of employees? [Full text]

	Nominal group technique is reliable for deciding research priorities [Full text]

	Weapon carrying by young people is linked to illegal drug use [Full text]

Editorials

	"Chest painplease admit": is there an alternative?
	Simon Capewell, John McMurray
	BMJ  2000;320:951-952, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.951 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Vaccines and medicines for the world's poorest
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2000;320:952-953, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.952 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Draft consensus statement]

	Managing status epilepticus
	M T E Heafield
	BMJ  2000;320:953-954, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.953 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Practitioners of evidence based care
	Gordon H Guyatt, Maureen O Meade, Roman Z Jaeschke, Deborah J Cook, R Brian Haynes
	BMJ  2000;320:954-955, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.954 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Systems for emergency care
	Jon Nicholl, James Munro
	BMJ  2000;320:955-956, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.955 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Analgesic effects of sweet solutions and pacifiers in term neonates
	Carol Campbell, S Blomstrand, Mark Morris, Richard Rogers, Asrar Rashid, Ricardo Carbajal, Sophie Couderc, Marie Olivier-Martin
	BMJ  2000;320:1002, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1002 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnose and be damned
	Derek Pheby, Carl Henshall, Deborah Henshall, Brian Morgan, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2000;320:1004, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1004 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Correcting" bmj.com
	Brian Morgan, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2000;320:1005, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1005 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How much to do at the accident scene?
	John Warwick, Charles D Deakin, Hans Okkels Birk, Lars Onsberg Henriksen
	BMJ  2000;320:1005, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1005/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Predicted impact of intravenous thrombolysis
	Joris Berwaerts, Andrew McDonald Johnston, Mary-Joan Macleod, Jerome R Hoffman, Henrik Stig Jørgensen
	BMJ  2000;320:1006, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1006 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intention to treat analysis is related to methodological quality
	Miguel Ruiz-Canela, Miguel Angel Martínez-González, Jokin de Irala-Estévez
	BMJ  2000;320:1007, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1007 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Using anticoagulation or aspirin to prevent stroke
	Simon J Ellis, Renu Hans, Jonathan Mant, David Fitzmaurice, Ellen Murray, Richard Hobbs, Andy Evans, Iñigo Perez, Lallit Kalra, Frans H Rutten, Eelko Hak, Arno W Hoes, P E Rose, Fiona Clair Taylor, Shah Ebrahim, Beppie Hellemons, Machteld Langenberg, Jan van Ree, André Knottnerus, Jan Lodder, Frank Vermeer, Hubert Schouten
	BMJ  2000;320:1008, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1008 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence of a CJD epidemic may still be missed
	James Lowe
	BMJ  2000;320:1011, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1011 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Tobacco companies in US to pay smoker $22m (£13.8m)
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2000;320:957, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.957 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC ruling upheld despite records obtained "without consent"
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;320:957, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.957/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scientists build a peptide to stop toxic shock syndrome
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2000;320:958, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.958 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Wales launches health promotion strategy
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2000;320:958, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.958/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;320:958, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.958/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Unsupervised nurses may soon give anaesthetics in United States
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2000;320:959, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.959 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Tuberculosis is spreading in central and eastern Europe
	Marta Balinska
	BMJ  2000;320:959, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.959/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Managers accuse ministers of spin over money for NHS
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2000;320:960, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.960 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Research needed into effects of IVF
	Peter Moore
	BMJ  2000;320:960, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.960/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Blair must raise taxes to eradicate child poverty, academics say
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2000;320:961, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.961 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health minister announces initiatives on men's health
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;320:961, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.961/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Ireland faces shortage of doctors
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2000;320:961, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.961/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Services for disabled people are "unacceptably poor"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2000;320:962, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.962 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Altering a gene in mice prevents obesity
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2000;320:962, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.962/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Ireland faces shortage of doctors as applications from outside the EU fall
	BMJ  2000;320:962, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.962/b [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Pharmacogenetics
	C Roland Wolf, Gillian Smith, Robert L Smith
	BMJ  2000;320:987-990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.987 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of arterial and venous disease: Secondary prevention of transient ischaemic attack and stroke
	Kennedy R Lees, Philip M W Bath, A Ross Naylor
	BMJ  2000;320:991-994, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.991 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Association between illegal drugs and weapon carrying in young people in Scotland: schools' survey
	Neil McKeganey, John Norrie
	BMJ  2000;320:982-984, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.982 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Measuring brain natriuretic peptide in suspected left ventricular systolic dysfunction in general practice: cross-sectional study
	Martin J Landray, Richard Lehman, Ian Arnold
	BMJ  2000;320:985-986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.985 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

	I saw Satan fall like lightning
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  2000;320:1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1017/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Medical tourism can do harm
	Rachel Bishop, James A Litch
	BMJ  2000;320:1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1017 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Role of external evidence in monitoring clinical trials: experience from a perinatal trial
	Peter Brocklehurst, Diana Elbourne, Zarko Alfirevic
	BMJ  2000;320:995-998, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.995 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of trial]

	Developing learning organisations in the new NHS
	Huw T O Davies, Sandra M Nutley
	BMJ  2000;320:998-1001, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.998 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;320:1018, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1018 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	An unexpected present
	Gita Mathai
	BMJ  2000;320:981, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.981 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word: Fortuitousambiguously inappropriate to describe maternal death?
	Graham Howarth
	BMJ  2000;320:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.986 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . .: Cheque your spelling
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2000;320:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.990 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Notice of duplicate publication: Pituitary surgery for acromegaly
	BMJ  2000;320:956 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Immediate and long term effects of weight reduction in obese people with asthma: randomised controlled study
	BMJ  2000;320:984 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Systematic reviews and meta-analyses on treatment of asthma: critical evaluation
	BMJ  2000;320:984 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of arterial and venous disease: Acute limb ischaemia
	BMJ  2000;320:991 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Stages of change model for smoking prevention and cessation in schools
	BMJ  2000;320:1011 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

	Book: The Evolution of Hypnotism
	David Healy
	BMJ  2000;320:1015, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1015 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	CD: Video Casebook: MedicineThe Toy Boy and The Burgundy Car
	Martin Talbot
	BMJ  2000;320:1015, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1015/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: Clouding the AIDS issue
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2000;320:1016, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1016 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	On the house
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	On the house
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Men's health
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2000;320:1016, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1016/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Talks continue on intensity payments for consultants • Revalidation will require a cultural change • GPs issued with new sickness certification guidelines • Students want random alcohol and drug testing of doctors
	BMJ  2000;320:1014, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1014 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Alison Jane Graham Bell • Antony Robert Phillips Ellis • Enid Josephine Fair • Robert Charles Hunt • Ernst Jacoby • David Kendall • Eric Clare ("Ric") Raybould • Denis George Blackwood Richards • Matthew Herbert Patrick Sayers • Ruth Janet Smith • David Spencer • Andrew Felix Verney
	R W Hughes, D R J Snead, B M Jones, Seeta Siriwardene, R H K Marsh, Robert Bluglass, Anne Hunter, E W Borastero, J R Tighe, Tommy Pace, Ruth E Coles, J J Taylor, Richard Bayliss, Peter Hansell
	BMJ  2000;320:1012, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.1012 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Systematic review of comparative efficacy and tolerability of calcipotriol in treating chronic plaque psoriasis
	Darren M Ashcroft, Alain Li Wan Po, Hywel C Williams, Christopher E M Griffiths
	BMJ  2000;320:963-967, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.963 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional figures and tables] FREE

	Association between postnatal catch-up growth and obesity in childhood: prospective cohort study
	Ken K L Ong, Marion L Ahmed, Pauline M Emmett, Michael A Preece, David B Dunger
	BMJ  2000;320:967-971, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.967 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Factors underlying the effect of organisational downsizing on health of employees: longitudinal cohort study
	Mika Kivimäki, Jussi Vahtera, Jaana Pentti, Jane E Ferrie
	BMJ  2000;320:971-975, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.971 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of consensus development to establish national research priorities in critical care
	Keryn Vella, Caroline Goldfrad, Kathy Rowan, Julian Bion, Nick Black
	BMJ  2000;320:976-980, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.976 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ethnicity and prescription of analgesia in an accident and emergency department: cross sectional study
	Desiree M A Choi, Paul Yate, Tim Coats, Paul Kalinda, Elizabeth A Paul
	BMJ  2000;320:980-981, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7240.980 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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