This week's This week in the BMJ

	Multiple vaccines received during deployment may explain Gulf war illness [Full text] FREE

	Adding salmeterol is more effective than increasing inhaled steroids in symptomatic asthma [Full text] FREE

	Tight glucose control is cost effective in diabetes [Full text] FREE

	Beer drinking protects against heart disease [Full text] FREE

	Patient preferences conflict with guidelines on atrial fibrillation [Full text] FREE

	All policies should be subjected to some form of health impact assessment [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Shots in the desert and Gulf war syndrome
	Seif Shaheen
	BMJ  2000;320:1351-1352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1351 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for breast and cervical cancer as a common cause for litigation
	Robin M Wilson
	BMJ  2000;320:1352-1353, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1352 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A national screening policy for sickle cell disease and thalassaemia major for the United Kingdom
	Allison Streetly
	BMJ  2000;320:1353-1354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1353 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction
	Nick M Robinson, Adam D Timmis
	BMJ  2000;320:1354-1355, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1354 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The GMC: where now?
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2000;320:1356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1356 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Childhood obesity
	Carol Campbell, Russell Viner, Rachel Bryant-Waugh, Dasha Nicholls, Deborah Christie, Colin Guthrie, Joyce Carter, Annette Lyons, Vasiliy Vlassov, Gema Frühbeck
	BMJ  2000;320:1401, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1401 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Visual field defect associated with vigabatrin
	I F Comaish, C Gorman, N R Galloway, Kaykhosrov Manuchehri, Anna Midelfart, L V Wilton
	BMJ  2000;320:1403, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1403 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guideline for prescribing vigabatrin in children has been revised
	Vigabatrin Paediatric Advisory Group
	BMJ  2000;320:1404, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1404 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Association between SSRIs and upper gastrointestinal bleeding
	D Williams, A Kelly, J Feely, N R Dunn, G L Pearce, S A W Shakir, Tim Dickinson, Saj Malhi, Susan Painter, Jonathon Pyott, Avleen Sawhney, Francisco J de Abajo, Dolores Montero, Luis Alberto García Rodríguez
	BMJ  2000;320:1405, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1405 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heartburn treatment in primary care
	Alexander Williams, Sonia Saxena, Richard C G Pollok, Hugh Alberti, J G Hatlebakk, A Berstad, P H Madsen, P O Walle
	BMJ  2000;320:1406, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1406 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Incidence of congenital rubella in Greece has decreased
	G Giannakos, M Pirounaki, C Hadjichristodoulou
	BMJ  2000;320:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1408 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Points for reading as part of continuing medical education
	Miles Mack, Jim Bolton
	BMJ  2000;320:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1408/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Drug companies cut HIV drug prices in the developing world
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;320:1357, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1357 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors demand more information on GMC candidates
	Clare Dyer, Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2000;320:1357, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1357/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Controversy over new editor at New England Journal of Medicine
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2000;320:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1358 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Surgeon dies from hospital exposure to asbestos
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;320:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1358/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;320:1358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1358/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors' arrogance blamed for retention of childrens' organs
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;320:1359, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1359 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health websites in US propose new ethics code
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2000;320:1359, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1359/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Coverage for cancer treatment extended to poor women in US
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2000;320:1360, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1360 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cochlear hair cells generated in mammals after birth
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2000;320:1360, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1360/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Too early to introduce colorectal screening, say specialists
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2000;320:1361, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1361 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Heart transplants suspended in Scotland
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2000;320:1361, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1361/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctor puts herring on prescription
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2000;320:1361, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1361/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	WHO accused of stifling debate about infant feeding
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2000;320:1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1362 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug industry is unwilling to run trials in children
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2000;320:1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1362/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Note accents on Pecoul and Médecins Sans Frontières Drug companies cut HIV drug prices in the developing world
	BMJ  2000;320:1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1362/b [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors demand more information on GMC candidates
	BMJ  2000;320:1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1362/c [Extract] [Full text]

	New reporting system for euthanasia shows doctors follow rules
	BMJ  2000;320:1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1362/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Estimate of 98 000 deaths from medical errors is too low, says specialist
	BMJ  2000;320:1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1362/e [Extract] [Full text]

	EU to tighten rules on dietary supplements
	BMJ  2000;320:1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1362/f [Extract] [Full text]

	US spends $2.7m to prevent spread of West Nile virus
	BMJ  2000;320:1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1362/g [Extract] [Full text]

	Shortage of nurses in Japan leads to high accident rate
	BMJ  2000;320:1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1362/h [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Recent advances in rehabilitation
	Derick T Wade, Bareld A de Jong
	BMJ  2000;320:1385-1388, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1385 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Tinea capitis in adults
	Deirdre A Buckley, L Claire Fuller, Elisabeth M Higgins, Anthony WP du Vivier
	BMJ  2000;320:1389-1390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1389 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of arterial and venous disease: Varicose veins
	Nick J M London, Roddy Nash
	BMJ  2000;320:1391-1394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1391 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	The impact of patients' preferences on the treatment of atrial fibrillation: observational study of patient based decision analysis • Commentary: patients, preferences, and evidence
	Joanne Protheroe, Tom Fahey, Alan A Montgomery, Tim J Peters, Liam Smeeth
	BMJ  2000;320:1380-1384, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1380 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Study profile figure] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Happy forms?
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2000;320:1415, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1415/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Failures of process at the GMC
	Richard Colman
	BMJ  2000;320:1415, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1415 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Health impact assessment
	Karen Lock
	BMJ  2000;320:1395-1398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1395 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Modernising the NHS: Prevention and the reduction of health inequalities
	Sally Macintyre
	BMJ  2000;320:1399-1400, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1399 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	BMJ  2000;320:1412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1412/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;320:1416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1416 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: The war in South Africa: The hot dry summer
	BMJ  2000;320:1378, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1378/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bladders and Brobdingnag
	Kevin J Turner
	BMJ  2000;320:1379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1379 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: When medical journals were much less boring
	BMJ  2000;320:1389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1389/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable dinner party: Eavesdropping on the great and the good
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2000;320:1390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1390 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Ophthalmology in Spain
	BMJ  2000;320:1391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1391/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	The value of DALY life: problems with ethics and validity of disability adjusted life years
	BMJ  2000;320:1398 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

ART

This week's ART

	Art: The Museum of Emotions
	Raj Persaud
	BMJ  2000;320:1413, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1413 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870
	Richard J Coker
	BMJ  2000;320:1412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1412 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: The steady drip of biased reporting
	Neville Goodman
	BMJ  2000;320:1414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1414 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The gap between expectations and reality
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOKCASE

This week's BOOKCASE

	Bookcase
	BMJ  2000;320:1413, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1413/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	The gap between expectations and reality
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Gulf war syndrome
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2000;320:1414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1414/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GMC will get help to deal with more cases • Health secretary launches consultation exercise • BMA wants to eradicate debt of poorest countries • NI's doctors welcome winter pressures action plan
	BMJ  2000;320:1411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1411 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Simon Bowden • Ralph Adair Peebles Brown • Clive Russell Cartwright • John Zelman Garson • Kenneth Lawrence Granville-Grossman • Mathias Thomas Islwyn Jones • Timothy Murphy • Francis O'Daly • Peter Edward Sylvester • John Kenneth Booth Waddington • James Roslyn Watson
	Paul Bowden, D Peebles Brown, T M Richards, Richard E Hudson, Clive Tonks, A L J Williams, M Meagher, E O'Daly, Peter Edward Sylvester, Gwyneth Sylvester, JHE Carmichael, Allan Gordon
	BMJ  2000;320:1409, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1409 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Role of vaccinations as risk factors for ill health in veterans of the Gulf war: cross sectional study
	Matthew Hotopf, Anthony David, Lisa Hull, Khalida Ismail, Catherine Unwin, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  2000;320:1363-1367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1363 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Meta-analysis of increased dose of inhaled steroid or addition of salmeterol in symptomatic asthma (MIASMA)
	Stephen Shrewsbury, Stephen Pyke, Mark Britton
	BMJ  2000;320:1368-1373, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1368 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost effectiveness of an intensive blood glucose control policy in patients with type 2 diabetes: economic analysis alongside randomised controlled trial (UKPDS 41)
	Alastair Gray, Maria Raikou, Alistair McGuire, Paul Fenn, Richard Stevens, Carole Cull, Irene Stratton, Amanda Adler, Rury Holman, Robert Turner
	BMJ  2000;320:1373-1378, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1373 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prospective UK Study Group methods] FREE

	Effect of beer drinking on risk of myocardial infarction: population based case-control study
	Martin Bobak, Zdenka Skodova, Michael Marmot
	BMJ  2000;320:1378-1379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7246.1378 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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