This week's This week in the BMJ

	Postnatal social support doesn't improve women's health [Full text] FREE

	Surgery reduces risk of fracture in primary hyperparathyroidism [Full text] FREE

	Doctors communicate poorly with patients who have heart failure [Full text] FREE

	Regular jogging is not associated with increased mortality in men [Full text] FREE

	Evidence based medicine is not fully implemented in postgraduate exams [Full text] FREE

	NHS patient information should be launched on the internet, not on NHSnet [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	A revolution in drug discovery
	Nigel Beeley, Abi Berger
	BMJ  2000;321:581-582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.581 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How to treat haemorrhoids
	Giuseppe Brisinda
	BMJ  2000;321:582-583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.582 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mental health services for people with learning disabilities
	Angela Hassiotis, Phil Barron, Jean O'Hara
	BMJ  2000;321:583-584, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.583 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Expandable metal stents in malignant colorectal obstruction
	Tariq Ahmad, Anthony S Mee
	BMJ  2000;321:584-585, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.584 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Why we need a broad perspective on meta-analysis
	Peter C Gøtzsche
	BMJ  2000;321:585-586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.585 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Information needs of patients with cancer
	Anne Fleissig, John McKenzie, Sue Lockwood, Rosetta Manaszewicz, Geraldine Leydon, Clare Moynihan, Mary Boulton, Alison Jones, Jean Mossman, Markella Boudioni, Klim McPherson
	BMJ  2000;321:632, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.632 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breaking down barriers for refugee doctors
	Roger Parker, Sheila Cheeroth, Martin Underwood, Yvonne Carter, Edie Friedman
	BMJ  2000;321:633, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.633 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	National service framework for coronary heart disease
	Roger Lloyd-Mostyn, Paul Cracknell, Kate Jolly, Andrew Rouse, Greg Y H Lip
	BMJ  2000;321:634, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.634 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Brain stem death
	Ruth Deroy, Daniel Dalgleish
	BMJ  2000;321:635, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.635 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors are unsympathetic to colleagues who are psychologically vulnerable
	G N Bolsover
	BMJ  2000;321:635, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.635/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assessing aggression in psychiatric inpatients
	David Yeomans, John J Sandford
	BMJ  2000;321:636, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.636 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In China, suicide in young women is a problem too
	Sing Lee
	BMJ  2000;321:636, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.636/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Optimal age for starting lipid lowering treatment
	William G Simpson, Patrick Twomey, Tom Marshall, Peter R Jackson, Erica J Wallis, Lawrence E Ramsay, Patrick Vallance, Aroon D Hingorani, Silvia Ulrich
	BMJ  2000;321:637, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.637 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anticoagulation for patients with atrial fibrillation
	Nigel Dudley, Colin Berry, John McMurray
	BMJ  2000;321:638, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.638 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Action on Cataracts should influence surgical training
	Alistair R Fielder, Martin P Watson, Helen C Seward, Philip I Murray
	BMJ  2000;321:639, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.639 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	US patients may gain access to doctors' disciplinary data
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2000;321:587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.587 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Patients' group to publish names of negligent doctors
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  2000;321:587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.587/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Indian doctors not accountable, says consumer report
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2000;321:588, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.588 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Israeli doctors angry at change to complaints' procedures
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2000;321:588, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.588/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;321:588, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.588/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Parents of Siamese twins appeal against separation
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:589, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.589 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Short, sharp bouts of exercise good for the heart
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2000;321:589, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.589/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Calcium channel blockers inferior to cheaper drugs
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2000;321:590, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.590 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Time expired materials "contributed to 26 deaths"
	Rohit Sharma
	BMJ  2000;321:590, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.590/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Baby food industry lobbies WHO on breast feeding advice
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;321:591, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.591 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	HIV vaccine trials begin in Oxford
	Akil Fazal
	BMJ  2000;321:591, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.591/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	International charity offers health as well as loans
	BMJ  2000;321:592, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.592 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Patients may gain access to doctors' disciplinary data
	BMJ  2000;321:592, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.592/a [Extract] [Full text]

	Israeli doctors angry at change to complaints' procedures
	BMJ  2000;321:592, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.592/b [Extract] [Full text]

	Salaries restored to Romanian junior doctors
	BMJ  2000;321:592, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.592/c [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Using the internet to access confidential patient records: a case study
	D W Chadwick, P J Crook, A J Young, D M McDowell, T L Dornan, J P New
	BMJ  2000;321:612-614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.612 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra encryption details] FREE

	Computers in clinical practice: applying experience from child psychiatry
	Andrew Parkin
	BMJ  2000;321:615-618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.615 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra reference list] FREE

	Infopoints: CyberTranscriberthe virtual medical secretary on your desk
	A Depuyt, E Carty, I Mason, C Durcan, Owen Epstein
	BMJ  2000;321:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.618 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Regular review: Improving the care of patients with genital herpes
	Susan Drake, Stephen Taylor, David Brown, Deenan Pillay
	BMJ  2000;321:619-623, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.619 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Management algorithms]

	ABC of breast diseases: Breast cancerepidemiology, risk factors, and genetics
	K McPherson, C M Steel, J M Dixon
	BMJ  2000;321:624-628, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.624 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Knowledge and communication difficulties for patients with chronic heart failure: qualitative study
	A E Rogers, J M Addington-Hall, A J Abery, A S M McCoy, C Bulpitt, A J S Coats, J S R Gibbs
	BMJ  2000;321:605-607, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.605 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Clinical governance in primary care: Accountability for clinical governance: developing collective responsibility for quality in primary care
	Pauline Allen
	BMJ  2000;321:608-611, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.608 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Chekhov's bottle
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2000;321:645, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.645/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	My Addison's disease
	Kathleen Hilditch
	BMJ  2000;321:645, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.645 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Evidence based health policy report: Screening for genital chlamydial infection
	Jeanne Pimenta, Mike Catchpole, Muir Gray, Jenny Hopwood, Sarah Randall
	BMJ  2000;321:629-631, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.629 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;321:646, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.646 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  2000;321:603, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.603/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Advice from an American comedian
	BMJ  2000;321:608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.608/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . .: Say cee
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2000;321:611, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.611 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Marxian philosophy
	BMJ  2000;321:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.618/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Revolutionary delivery and management of information
	BMJ  2000;321:623 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of complementary medicine: Massage therapies
	BMJ  2000;321:623 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of restrictions on smoking at home, at school, and in public places on teenage smoking: cross sectional study
	BMJ  2000;321:623 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obituary
	BMJ  2000;321:623 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Improving the debate on cannabis
	BMJ  2000;321:623 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

ADS

This week's ADS

	Ads: Not another magic bullet
	Anne Kent
	BMJ  2000;321:644, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.644 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: HIV, Health and your Community: A Guide for Action
	Julio Collazos
	BMJ  2000;321:642, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.642 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: International Consensus on the Diabetic Foot
	Paul Newrick
	BMJ  2000;321:642, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.642/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Doctors: the long march to accountability
	BMJ  2000;321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

THEATRE

This week's THEATRE

	Theatre: The Antipodes, or The World Turned Upside Down
	Clare Dover
	BMJ  2000;321:643, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.643 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

This week's NETLINES

	NETLINES
	BMJ  2000;321:643, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.643/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Doctors: the long march to accountability
	BMJ  2000;321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Jogging
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2000;321:644, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.644/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Denis Vernon Carpy • John Henry Coulson • Otho William Strangman FitzGerald • Edward Brodie French • Michael Stewart Rees Hutt • Robert George Milne • Daniel McVicker Morrison • James Eric Rankine • John Barry Sales • Kathleen Mary Vernon (née Henderson)
	James Gallagher, Eleanor Hodgson, Margaret Malcolm, Tim Billington, Benedicta FitzGerald, Michael B Matthews, Sebastian Lucas, Angela Elliott, J L Whitehouse, J N Wattie, David North-Coombes, C G Pantin
	BMJ  2000;321:640, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.640 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Costs and effectiveness of community postnatal support workers: randomised controlled trial
	C Jane Morrell, Helen Spiby, P Stewart, S Walters, A Morgan
	BMJ  2000;321:593-598, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.593 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cohort study of risk of fracture before and after surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism
	Peter Vestergaard, Charlotte L Mollerup, Vibe Gedsø Frøkjær, Peer Christiansen, Mogens Blichert-Toft, Leif Mosekilde
	BMJ  2000;321:598-602, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.598 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mortality in joggers: population based study of 4658 men
	Peter Schnohr, Jan Parner, Peter Lange
	BMJ  2000;321:602-603, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.602 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is evidence based medicine neglected by royal college examinations? A descriptive study of their syllabuses
	Wai-Ching Leung, Paula Whitty
	BMJ  2000;321:603-604, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7261.603 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables] FREE

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