Cardioprotective value of aspirin in primary prevention is greater the lower the blood pressure [Full text]

	No link exists between blood transfusion and sporadic CJD [Full text]

	Taking blood from the ear lobe is less painful than from the thumb [Full text]

	Doing research in primary care is preferable to applying the results from secondary care [Full text]

	Computer support helps GPs interpret family histories of cancer [Full text]

Editorials

	Treatment of early Parkinson's disease
	Laura Marsh, Ted M Dawson
	BMJ  2000;321:1-2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.1 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The research needs of primary care
	Paul Thomas
	BMJ  2000;321:2-3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.2 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The argument against sentinel node biopsy for malignant melanoma
	J Meirion Thomas, Erica J Patocskai
	BMJ  2000;321:3-4, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.3 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The health risks of the UK's new asylum act
	Jim Connelly, Martin Schweiger
	BMJ  2000;321:5-6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.5 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A new European health strategy
	Elias Mossialos, Martin McKee
	BMJ  2000;321:6, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.6 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Is CS spray dangerous?
	Kari Blaho, Margaret M Stark, Peter J Gray, G Robert N Jones
	BMJ  2000;321:46, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.46 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effects of multiple courses of antenatal steroids are uncertain
	Peter Brocklehurst, Simon Gates, Ann Johnson, Zarko Alfirevic, Geoffrey Chamberlain
	BMJ  2000;321:47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient information on cancer
	Michelle Gillies, Lynne Gatherer
	BMJ  2000;321:47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.47/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Radiosensitive tissues can be shielded during CT scanning
	R Price, C Wood
	BMJ  2000;321:49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.49 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Changing face of refractive surgery
	Simon Hill
	BMJ  2000;321:49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.49/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Behavioural counselling in general practice about risk of CHD
	F D Richard Hobbs, Gary Frost, Caroline Doré, George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim, Rachel Bennett, Andrew Steptoe, Elizabeth Rink, Sally Kerry, Tony Kendrick, Sean Hilton
	BMJ  2000;321:49, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.49/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Brave new technologies issue
	James A S Dickson, Keith J Russell, Theo Fenton, Peter Herbert, Derek Roskell, Roger A Fisken, Andrei Morgan, Marc A Swerdloff, Susan Lightman, Richard Bailey, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2000;321:51, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.51 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acute medicine needs to be available 365 days a year
	Colin Semple
	BMJ  2000;321:52, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.52 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Optimum treatment for young women with breast cancer needs to be determined
	Richard Sainsbury, Bob Haward
	BMJ  2000;321:53, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.53 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Burns after photodynamic therapy: manufacturer's response to second authors' reply
	Robert J Dow
	BMJ  2000;321:53, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.53/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Scientists unveil first draft of human genome
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;321:7, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.7 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	High Court overrules coroner over patient's death
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.8 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Nestlé violates international marketing code, says audit
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;321:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.8/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;321:8, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.8/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Plan for Amazonian jungle medicines is threatened
	Claire Wallerstein
	BMJ  2000;321:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.9 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Ministers must redefine scope of NHS, urges think tank
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  2000;321:9, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.9/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Spain to charge elderly for drugs
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  2000;321:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.10 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Australia moves to boost private health cover
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  2000;321:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.10/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Norwegian doctors protest at rising charges for patients
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  2000;321:10, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.10/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC mishandled father's complaint
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:11, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.11 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Canadians launch class action over E coli outbreak
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2000;321:11, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.11/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Acupuncture wins BMA approval
	Mark Silvert
	BMJ  2000;321:11, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.11/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Agent provocateur pursues happiness
	BMJ  2000;321:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.12 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Belgium orders cancer tests after herbal remedy alert
	BMJ  2000;321:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.12/a [Extract] [Full text]

	General Medical Council unveils its reform package
	BMJ  2000;321:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.12/b [Extract] [Full text]

	Ireland's junior doctors urged to accept pay deal
	BMJ  2000;321:12, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.12/c [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

	Computer support for interpreting family histories of breast and ovarian cancer in primary care: comparative study with simulated cases
	Jon Emery, Robert Walton, Michael Murphy, Joan Austoker, Pat Yudkin, Cyril Chapman, Andrew Coulson, David Glasspool, John Fox
	BMJ  2000;321:28-32, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.28 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra table] FREE

	Infopoints: NHS Economic Evaluation Database for healthcare decision makers
	John Nixon, Boyka Stoykova, Jimmy Christie, Julie Glanville, Jos Kleijnen, Mike Drummond
	BMJ  2000;321:32, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.32 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Example of EED abstract] FREE

Clinical review

	Recent advances: Obstetrics
	James M Roberts
	BMJ  2000;321:33-35, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.33 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of oral health: Periodontal disease
	John Coventry, Gareth Griffiths, Crispian Scully, Maurizio Tonetti
	BMJ  2000;321:36-39, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.36 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Randomised controlled trials in primary care: case study
	Sue Wilson, Brendan C Delaney, Andrea Roalfe, Lesley Roberts, Val Redman, Andy M Wearn, F D Richard Hobbs
	BMJ  2000;321:24-27, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.24 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

	Student feedback
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2000;321:59, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.59/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Looking after the health of refugees
	Yohannes Fassil
	BMJ  2000;321:59, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.59 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The limits to demand for health care • Commentary: An open debate is not an admission of failure
	Stephen Frankel, Shah Ebrahim, George Davey Smith, Bill New
	BMJ  2000;321:40-45, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.40 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;321:60, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.60 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  2000;321:24, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.24/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Iron supplemented formula milk related to reduction in psychomotor decline in infants from inner city areas: randomised study
	BMJ  2000;321:23 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What is the optimal age for starting lipid lowering treatment? A mathematical model
	BMJ  2000;321:44 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patients' unvoiced agendas in general practice consultations: qualitative study
	BMJ  2000;321:44 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Letter
	BMJ  2000;321:44 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

TV

	TV: Dishing the dirt
	Martyn R Partridge
	BMJ  2000;321:58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.58 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

ART

	Art: The embodiment of art
	Joan Beadle
	BMJ  2000;321:57, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.57 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Celebration and shame
	BMJ  2000;321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Celebration and shame
	BMJ  2000;321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BESTSELLERS

	Bestsellers
	BMJ  2000;321:57, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.57/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Asylum seekers
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2000;321:58, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.58/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Doctors will meet PM's challenges, Dr Bogle declares • BMA warns of stress suffered by senior doctors • One million doctors appeal for action on tobacco
	BMJ  2000;321:56, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.56 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Marjorie Olive Bennett (née Dunster) • Leonard Roy Griffiths • Eric Bernard Grogono • Dorothy Grace Hervey • Frank Charles Naldrett ("Pat") Holden • Howard Lloyd-Thomas • Catherine Logan (née Aicken) • James Henry Miller • Hartwin Siegfried Sadowski • David Alexander Sime
	John Crossley, D Telford, A T Macheta, Alan James, Andrew Grogono, Dennis Bowman, Emyr Wyn Jones, Joyce Lloyd-Thomas, R Logan, Alan Conner, Alan Stein, Richard Graham, Philip E Harris
	BMJ  2000;321:54, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.54 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Determination of who may derive most benefit from aspirin in primary prevention: subgroup results from a randomised controlled trial
	T W Meade, P J Brennan
	BMJ  2000;321:13-17, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.13 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of acquiring Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from blood transfusions: systematic review of case-control studies
	Kumanan Wilson, Catherine Code, Maura N Ricketts
	BMJ  2000;321:17-19, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.17 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further methods material] FREE

	An open prospective randomised trial to reduce the pain of blood glucose testing: ear versus thumb
	Simon D Carley, Carole Libetta, Brian Flavin, John Butler, Nam Tong, Ian Sammy
	BMJ  2000;321:20, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.20 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details, extra figure and table] FREE

	Cross sectional prevalence survey of idiopathic Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism in London
	A Schrag, Y Ben-Shlomo, N P Quinn
	BMJ  2000;321:21-22, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.21 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references] FREE

	Ten year audit of secondary prevention in coronary bypass patients
	R John Irving, S Helen Oram, John Boyd, Philip Rutledge, Fergus McRae, Peter Bloomfield
	BMJ  2000;321:22-23, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7252.22 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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