This week's This week in the BMJ

	Smoking has little net effect on the incidence of severe dementia [Full text] FREE

	Smoking is most prevalent among people of low education [Full text] FREE

	UK clinical guidelines tend to cite UK research [Full text] FREE

	Violent thoughts are common among psychiatric inpatients but rarely asked about [Full text] FREE

	GPs need to critically appraise evidence before adopting it [Full text] FREE

	Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring can lead to less drug treatment [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Smoking and the brain
	Carol Brayne
	BMJ  2000;320:1087-1088, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1087 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Assessing the risk of violence in patients
	Jenny Shaw
	BMJ  2000;320:1088-1089, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1088 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fighting biological warfare
	Stephen Pullinger
	BMJ  2000;320:1089-1090, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1089 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	General practitioners and cancer
	Nicholas Summerton
	BMJ  2000;320:1090-1091, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1090 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Periodic fevers enter the era of molecular diagnosis
	Joost P H Drenth, Jos W M van der Meer
	BMJ  2000;320:1091-1092, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1091 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Is infestation with the common bedbug increasing?
	John Paul, Janice Bates
	BMJ  2000;320:1141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1141 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of hypericum as antidepressant
	Andrew Thornett, Mike Walton, Andrew Vickers, Tim Gorski, David B Menkes, Peter Balfour, Michael Philipp, Ralf Kohnen, Karl-O Hiller
	BMJ  2000;320:1141, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1141/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Article about Canadian guidelines on proton pump inhibitors was misleading
	Sheila Frame
	BMJ  2000;320:1143, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1143 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and theologians
	Peter Davies, Kevin Pearce
	BMJ  2000;320:1143, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1143/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Caring for marginalised people
	Subbiah Arunachalam, Neill Simpson, Catherine Hewitt
	BMJ  2000;320:1144, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1144 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and complementary medicine
	Mary S Norrie, Peter Morrell, L Leibovici
	BMJ  2000;320:1145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1145 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgeons should have to demonstrate competence as pilots do
	Duncan Innes
	BMJ  2000;320:1145, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1145/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths attributed to haemochromatosis are rare in Britain
	Gavin Willis, Ian W Fellows, Jennie Z Wimperis
	BMJ  2000;320:1146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1146 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Differences in suicide rates may be even more pronounced
	Cameron Stark, Frances Matthewson
	BMJ  2000;320:1146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1146/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scottish group is developing guideline for managing pregnant women with epilepsy
	Robbie Foy, Gillian Penney, Ian Greer
	BMJ  2000;320:1146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1146/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Waiting time for cardiac surgery in Scotland is relatively short
	Georgios Liratsopulos
	BMJ  2000;320:1147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1147 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More work is needed to explain why patients ask for amputation of healthy limbs
	Keren Fisher, Robert Smith
	BMJ  2000;320:1147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1147/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Openness is fine but deferred responsibility is not
	Robert J MacFadyen
	BMJ  2000;320:1147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1147/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Could the GMC institute an appeal procedure?
	Gerald Graham
	BMJ  2000;320:1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1148 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unlike GMC, GP did not follow line of political correctness
	Jim Newmark
	BMJ  2000;320:1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1148/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drivers who take insulin must tell Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
	N Essex, P J Watkins, J Durston
	BMJ  2000;320:1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1148/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Clinton fires latest salvo in Medicare drug benefit war
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2000;320:1093, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1093 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	College recommends new post of healthcare practitioner
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2000;320:1093, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1093/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch tighten their rules on advertising of alcohol
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2000;320:1094, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1094 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;320:1094, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1094/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	FDA committee recommends approval for Viagra rival
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2000;320:1094, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1094/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Rich countries accused of breaking promises on debt
	Dorothy Logie
	BMJ  2000;320:1095, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1095 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	AIDS patients in South Africa to get free drug
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2000;320:1095, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1095/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA launches review on UK healthcare spending
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2000;320:1096, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1096 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK juniors advised to accept new pay offer
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2000;320:1096, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1096/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	George W Bush proposes insurance help for the poor
	BMJ  2000;320:1096, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1096/b [Extract] [Full text]

	Irish health board tackles waiting lists
	BMJ  2000;320:1096, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1096/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Suicide in young men needs multiagency solutions
	BMJ  2000;320:1096, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1096/d [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Regular review: Ulcerative colitis
	Subrata Ghosh, Alan Shand, Anne Ferguson
	BMJ  2000;320:1119-1123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1119 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional datails]

	ABC of arterial and venous disease: Renal artery stenosis
	Kevin McLaughlin, Alan G Jardine, Jon G Moss
	BMJ  2000;320:1124-1127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1124 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Decision making, evidence, audit, and education: case study of antibiotic prescribing in general practice • Commentary: What can we learn from narratives of implementing evidence?
	Toby Lipman, Dawn Price, Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2000;320:1114-1118, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1114 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	The new kids
	Ricardo S Silva
	BMJ  2000;320:1153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1153/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Stronger campaign needed to end female genital mutilation
	Pascal Abboud, Christian Quereux, Georgette Mansour, Fadila Allag, Michele Zanardi
	BMJ  2000;320:1153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1153 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Use and interpretation of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: recommendations of the British Hypertension Society
	Eoin O'Brien, Andrew Coats, Patrick Owens, James Petrie, Paul L Padfield, William A Littler, Michael de Swiet, Fáinsía Mee
	BMJ  2000;320:1128-1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1128 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: More information about manufacturers]

	What is the optimal age for starting lipid lowering treatment? A mathematical model
	Silvia Ulrich, Aroon D Hingorani, John Martin, Patrick Vallance
	BMJ  2000;320:1134-1140, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1134 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;320:1154, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1154 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A golden rule: Looking first
	Martin Turner
	BMJ  2000;320:1111, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1111 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: A Texan prayer
	BMJ  2000;320:1114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1114/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Damages claimed for antenatal injuries
	BMJ  2000;320:1134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1134/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Care of the newborn in the delivery room
	BMJ  2000;320:1148 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How much to do at the accident scene?
	BMJ  2000;320:1148 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Inequalities in Health: The Evidence • The Widening Gap: Health Inequalities and Policy in Britain
	J P Mackenbach
	BMJ  2000;320:1151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1151 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Death, Hope and Sex
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;320:1152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1152 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Of smokers, enthusiasts, and bedbugs
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Of smokers, enthusiasts, and bedbugs
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

A BOOK THAT CHANGED ME

This week's A BOOK THAT CHANGED ME

	A book that changed me: Why I am not a Christian
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  2000;320:1152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1152/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Robert Cox • Zeta Marion Ursula Eastes • Henry Colin Geldard • Grace Edith Harland (née Mellows) • John Charles Harland • John Howard Inskip • Griselda Jenner (née Seggie) • Jacqueline Vyvienne Keighley (née Burch) • Mary Lennox • Ronald Blackwood Pridie • Creasy Selabhaya Ratnatunga
	John Webster, Henry J Eastes, Jane Richards, Stephen Falk, Tim Harland, Peter C Harland, Stephen J Harland, Hazel Inskip and Tom Inskip, R Martin, Michael Keighley, David Parry, Celia Oakley, Keith Ball
	BMJ  2000;320:1149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1149 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Smoking and dementia in male British doctors: prospective study
	Richard Doll, Richard Peto, Jillian Boreham, Isabelle Sutherland
	BMJ  2000;320:1097-1102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1097 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Educational differences in smoking: international comparison
	A E J M Cavelaars, A E Kunst, J J M Geurts, R Crialesi, L Grötvedt, U Helmert, E Lahelma, O Lundberg, J Matheson, A Mielck, N Kr Rasmussen, E Regidor, M do Rosário-Giraldes, Th Spuhler, J P Mackenbach
	BMJ  2000;320:1102-1107, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1102 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evaluating "payback" on biomedical research from papers cited in clinical guidelines: applied bibliometric study
	Jonathan Grant, Robert Cottrell, Françoise Cluzeau, Gail Fawcett
	BMJ  2000;320:1107-1111, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1107 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Assessment of aggression in psychiatric admissions: semistructured interview and case note survey
	Jonathan Sanders, Steven Milne, Phillip Brown, Angus J Bell
	BMJ  2000;320:1112, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1112 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Worsening of symptoms of multiple sclerosis associated with carbamazepine
	G Ramsaransing, C Zwanikken, J De Keyser
	BMJ  2000;320:1113, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1113 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Immune complex haemolytic anaemia associated with sulfasalazine
	Valery Teplitsky, Irit Virag, Aaron Halabe
	BMJ  2000;320:1113, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7242.1113/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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