This week's This week in the BMJ

	Many women with a normal cervix on colposcopy may be safely discharged from follow up [Full text] FREE

	Expensive anthelmintic treatment to improve growth and cognitive performance is not warranted [Full text] FREE

	Troponin T can be used to detect missed heart attacks [Full text] FREE

	Fetal loss is high in women aged over 40 years [Full text] FREE

	Past infant mortality predicts current adult mortality from stomach cancer and stroke [Full text] FREE

	Gene mutation found that might predispose to type 2 diabetes [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The risks of having children in later life
	Zena Stein, Mervyn Susser
	BMJ  2000;320:1681-1682, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1681 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The epidemiology of stomach cancer: correlating the past with the present
	David Forman, Karen J Goodman
	BMJ  2000;320:1682-1683, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1682 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How the NHS can improve safety and learning
	Paul Barach, Stephen D Small
	BMJ  2000;320:1683-1684, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1683 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table]

	Isolated systolic hypertension: a radical rethink
	Ian B Wilkinson, David J Webb Christison, John R Cockcroft
	BMJ  2000;320:1685, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1685 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Giving medicine a fair trial
	Richard Ashcroft
	BMJ  2000;320:1686, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1686 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Reforms to the health sector must retain vertical programmes like those for tuberculosis
	John Crofton
	BMJ  2000;320:1726, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1726 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Misconceptions about tuberculosis among immigrants to the United States
	Susan T Cookson
	BMJ  2000;320:1726, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1726/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC's advice in Serious Communicable Diseases
	G J Gibson, A Seaton, Cyril Chantler
	BMJ  2000;320:1727, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1727 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tracker trials
	David Dunn, Sheena McCormack, Abdel Babiker, Janet Darbyshire, Hazel Thornton
	BMJ  2000;320:1727, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1727/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are generalists still needed in a specialised world?
	Cliff Reid, Anthony Lamb, Richard Hardern, Robert Fleetcroft
	BMJ  2000;320:1728, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1728 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Qualitative research in health care
	William H Isbister, Roy M Poses, Norman J Levitt
	BMJ  2000;320:1729, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1729 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Open access follow up for inflammatory bowel disease
	Julie A Barber, Simon G Thompson, A Coomarasamy, D Van Der Berg, J G Williams, D R Cohen, I T Russell
	BMJ  2000;320:1730, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1730 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Burns after photodynamic therapy
	Richard Bryce, Shehan Hettiaratchy, John Clarke, Jörg Täubel, Chola Besa, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2000;320:1731, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1731 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	France heads WHO's league table of health systems
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2000;320:1687, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1687 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US Supreme Court bars federal lawsuits against HMOs
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2000;320:1688, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1688 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NICE approves taxanes for breast cancer
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2000;320:1688, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1688/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;320:1688, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1688/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	English NHS to set up new reporting system for errors
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2000;320:1689, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1689 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors need more training in delivering breech babies
	Mark Silvert
	BMJ  2000;320:1689, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1689/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Ombudsman slams deputising service
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2000;320:1689, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1689/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Gangrene bug "killed 35 heroin users"
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2000;320:1690, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1690 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US cancer institute funds trial of complementary therapy
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2000;320:1690, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1690/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Legality of European ban on tobacco advertising questioned
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2000;320:1691, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1691 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	European Court of Justice likely to annul ban
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;320:1691, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1691/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MPs want a tobacco regulatory authority
	Mark Silvert
	BMJ  2000;320:1691, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1691/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health and social services "locked in a vicious circle"
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2000;320:1692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1692 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Access to investigations is needed 7 days a week
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2000;320:1692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1692/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs want self regulation to continue
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2000;320:1692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1692/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	New cancer journal to seek strategies for developing countries
	BMJ  2000;320:1692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1692/d [Extract] [Full text]

	French cattle to be screened for BSE
	BMJ  2000;320:1692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1692/e [Extract] [Full text]

	GPs want self regulation to continue
	BMJ  2000;320:1692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1692/f [Extract] [Full text]

	English NHS to set up new reporting system for errors
	BMJ  2000;320:1692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1692/g [Extract] [Full text]

	Leaving condoms on motel room beds promotes safe sex
	BMJ  2000;320:1692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1692/h [Extract] [Full text]

	Ombudsman criticises deputising service
	BMJ  2000;320:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1692/i [Extract] [Full text]

	Access to investigations is needed 7 days a week
	BMJ  2000;320:1692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1692/j [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Consumer health informatics
	Gunther Eysenbach
	BMJ  2000;320:1713-1716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1713 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional information]

	ABC of oral health: Dental damage, sequelae, and prevention
	Ruth Holt, Graham Roberts, Crispian Scully
	BMJ  2000;320:1717-1719, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1717 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Maternal age and fetal loss: population based register linkage study
	Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, Jan Wohlfahrt, Peter Christens, Jørn Olsen, Mads Melbye
	BMJ  2000;320:1708-1712, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1708 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Cunegonde's ears, or multiple medical errors
	George Dunea
	BMJ  2000;320:1739, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1739/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Devaluing clinical skills
	Peter Wilmshurst
	BMJ  2000;320:1739, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1739 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Seeing what you want to see in randomised controlled trials: versions and perversions of UKPDS data
	James McCormack, Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2000;320:1720-1723, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1720 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Modernising the NHS: Practical partnerships for health and local authorities
	Diane Plamping, Pat Gordon, Julian Pratt
	BMJ  2000;320:1723-1725, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1723 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;320:1740, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1740 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A book that changed my practice: New insights into mental illness
	E J Ben-Eliezer
	BMJ  2000;320:1701, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1701 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Amusing the patient
	BMJ  2000;320:1706, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1706/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my life: "You heard all wrong"
	Gita Mathai
	BMJ  2000;320:1707, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1707 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	To whom it concerns
	J Bernard Walsh
	BMJ  2000;320:1712, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1712 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Benefits of a cooperative
	Alexander Williams
	BMJ  2000;320:1725, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1725 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	BMJ  2000;320:1692 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: The BMJ, spin, and the stockmarket
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2000;320:1737, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1737 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Press: A register of blunders or botchers?
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  2000;320:1738, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1738 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Answers to big questions
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Answers to big questions
	BMJ  2000;320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Older parents
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2000;320:1738, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1738/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Local medical committee conference • Shipman was a criminal and not a poorly performing doctor • The conference . . . • Medical academic staffs conference • Agreement reached on influenza vaccination • BMA wins victory over pensions challenge
	BMJ  2000;320:1734, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1734 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Peter John Andrew • Basil Ivor Eames • Duncan Macaulay • Edmund Robinson • Robert George Troup • David Weiner
	Glynne Andrew, Richard Eames, Anthony Robinson, Martin Barratt, David Robinson, David F Troup, Jon Weiner, Judy Burns
	BMJ  2000;320:1733, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1733 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Management guidelines for women with normal colposcopy after low grade cervical abnormalities: population study
	Glyn R Teale, Deborah D Moffitt, Christopher H Mann, David M Luesley
	BMJ  2000;320:1693-1696, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1693 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effects of treatment for intestinal helminth infection on growth and cognitive performance in children: systematic review of randomised trials
	Rumona Dickson, Shally Awasthi, Paula Williamson, Colin Demellweek, Paul Garner
	BMJ  2000;320:1697-1701, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1697 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables] FREE

	Prospective audit of incidence of prognostically important myocardial damage in patients discharged from emergency department • Commentary: Time for improved diagnosis and management of patients presenting with acute chest pain
	P O Collinson, S Premachandram, K Hashemi, R Lee Kennedy
	BMJ  2000;320:1702-1705, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1702 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Infant mortality, stomach cancer, stroke, and coronary heart disease: ecological analysis
	David A Leon, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  2000;320:1705-1706, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1705 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Role of C282Y mutation in haemochromatosis gene in development of type 2 diabetes in healthy men: prospective cohort study
	Jukka T Salonen, Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, Kimmo Kontula
	BMJ  2000;320:1706-1707, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7251.1706 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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