New antipsychotics are not more effective than conventional drugs [Full text]

	Cancer patients and doctors might collude in false optimism [Full text]

	Ethnographic studies can help make sense of patients' and clinicians' worlds [Full text]

	Rate of change in Barthel score can be used to predict survival in terminally ill patients with cancer [Full text]

	Brief psychotherapy in general practice leads to speedier recovery for depressed patients [Full text]

Editorials

	Personal medical services: a barometer for the NHS?
	Jonathan Shapiro
	BMJ  2000;321:1359-1360, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1359 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Atypical antipsychotics
	Shitij Kapur, Gary Remington
	BMJ  2000;321:1360-1361, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1360 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The People's Health Assembly
	Zafrullah Chowdhury, Michael Rowson
	BMJ  2000;321:1361-1362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1361 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Economic evaluation and clinical trials: size matters
	Andrew Briggs
	BMJ  2000;321:1362-1363, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1362 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The failings of NICE
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2000;321:1363-1364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1363 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	A practice that changed my patience
	Ian G Jefferson
	BMJ  2000;321:1406, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1406 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health effects of prisons
	Bobby P Smyth, Herbert Langkamp, Matthias L Schmid, Stephen T Green, Michael W McKendrick, Noel McCarthy
	BMJ  2000;321:1406, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1406/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Studies in meta-analysis of treatment of stable angina had methodological flaws
	S C Eccleshall, G J Laarman, J Nolan
	BMJ  2000;321:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1408 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of women with early breast cancer
	Janine Bell, David Robinson, Henrik Møller, Roy Williams, Hilary Fielder, R T D Oliver, Una M Macleod, Sue Ross, Graham C M Watt, Chris Twelves, W D George, Charles Gillis
	BMJ  2000;321:1408, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1408/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women's attitudes to false positive mammography results
	Carol Jean Godby, Anne Peticolas, Joyce M Carter, Samuel Ghebrehewet, Steven Woloshin, Lisa Schwartz, H Gilbert Welch, Harold C Sox
	BMJ  2000;321:1409, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1409 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Baby food industry lobbies WHO
	Nancy-Jo Peck, Patti Rundall, Elisabeth Sterken, Andree Bronner
	BMJ  2000;321:1411, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1411 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Distinguishing mental illness in primary care
	David Goldberg, Geoff Earnshaw, Mark Winston, G H Hall, Hugh C Middleton, Ian Shaw
	BMJ  2000;321:1412, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1412 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	US has placed tobacco imports to China high on priority list for liberalisation
	James A Dickinson
	BMJ  2000;321:1413, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1413 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs should take hold of mental health agenda
	Jace Clarke, Mike Giles, Edward Peck
	BMJ  2000;321:1414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1414 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital ethics committees may discourage staff from making own decisions
	Frank Leavitt
	BMJ  2000;321:1414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1414/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Can heart failure be diagnosed in primary care?
	Chris Davidson, Richard Hobbs
	BMJ  2000;321:1414, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1414/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shouldn't people be responsible for their own actions?
	John I Levitt
	BMJ  2000;321:1415, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1415 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Lords call for regulation of complementary medicine
	Jason O' Neale Roach
	BMJ  2000;321:1365, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1365 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MPs recommend tightening the law on female circumcision
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2000;321:1365, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1365/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;321:1366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1366 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	English GP suspended for misleading drug companies
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:1366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1366/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors question new test for Down's syndrome
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2000;321:1366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1366/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Talks on climate change collapse in acrimony
	Polly Ghazi
	BMJ  2000;321:1367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1367 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Reducing greenhouse gases will have good short term effect
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2000;321:1367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1367/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US calls for research into research integrity
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2000;321:1369, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1369/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Data collection system needed for gun injuries
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2000;321:1370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1370 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Hospital acquired infections kill 5000 patients a year in England
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2000;321:1370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1370/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	EU to test cattle aged over 30 months "at risk" of BSE
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2000;321:1368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1368 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Drug resistant cholera in India attributed to antibiotic misuse
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2000;321:1368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1368/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	South Africa draws up new rules for foreign doctors
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2000;321:1368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1368/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Irish committee backs genetically modified crops
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2000;321:1368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1368/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US strengthens rights of insured patients
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2000;321:1368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1368/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	"Buffer zone" law for abortion clinics declared unconstitutional
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2000;321:1368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1368/e [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US bill on pain relief bars doctor assisted suicide
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2000;321:1369, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1369 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Regulations not keeping up with developments in genetics, says poll
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  2000;321:1369, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1369/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Hungarian GPs to be taught about depression
	BMJ  2000;321:1370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1370/b [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

	Recent advances: Urology
	Paul Abrams, Alan Wein
	BMJ  2000;321:1393-1396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1393 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of colorectal cancer: Innovative treatment for colon cancer
	G A Chung-Faye, D J Kerr
	BMJ  2000;321:1397-1399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1397 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-behaviour therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with depression. I: Clinical effectiveness
	Elaine Ward, Michael King, Margaret Lloyd, Peter Bower, Bonnie Sibbald, Sharon Farrelly, Mark Gabbay, Nicholas Tarrier, Julia Addington-Hall
	BMJ  2000;321:1383-1388, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1383 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-behaviour therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with depression. II: Cost effectiveness
	Peter Bower, Sarah Byford, Bonnie Sibbald, Elaine Ward, Michael King, Margaret Lloyd, Mark Gabbay
	BMJ  2000;321:1389-1392, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1389 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

	Behind every great woman
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2000;321:1421, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1421/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	A grief deferred
	Anonymous
	BMJ  2000;321:1420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1420 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is general practice losing its way?
	Oliver Samuel
	BMJ  2000;321:1421, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1421 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Ethnography and health care
	Jan Savage
	BMJ  2000;321:1400-1402, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1400 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical debate: Doctoring malaria, badly: the global campaign to ban DDT • DDT for malaria control should not be banned • Commentary: Reduction and elimination of DDT should proceed slowly
	Amir Attaran, Rajendra Maharaj, Richard Liroff
	BMJ  2000;321:1403-1405, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1403 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;321:1422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1422 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Medical Interests in the General Election
	BMJ  2000;321:1393, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1393/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: From the auditor
	BMJ  2000;321:1403, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1403/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	ABC of breast diseases: Breast cancer
	BMJ  2000;321:1388 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Letters
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	Drug use has declined among teenagers in United Kingdom
	BMJ  2000;321:1413 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lung cancer and passive smoking
	BMJ  2000;321:1415 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sentinel node biopsy for malignant melanoma
	BMJ  2000;321:1415 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

TV

	TV: No news is bad news
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2000;321:1419, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1419 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: 24-Hour Primary Care
	Morten Bondo Christensen, Frede Olesen
	BMJ  2000;321:1417, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1417 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Millennium
	David Brewster
	BMJ  2000;321:1417, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1417/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: `Race' and Childbirth
	Kathryn Ehrich
	BMJ  2000;321:1418, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1418 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Apocalypse soon: doctors needed
	BMJ  2000;321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2000;321:1420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1420/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Apocalypse soon: doctors needed
	BMJ  2000;321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BESTSELLERS

	Bestsellers
	BMJ  2000;321:1418, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1418/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Dealing with depression
	Jason O'Neale Roach
	BMJ  2000;321:1419, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1419/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

A BOOK THAT CHANGED ME

	A book that changed me: The Discovery of Insulin
	Robert Matz
	BMJ  2000;321:1418, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1418/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Frank Basil Grossmark • Ambrose John King • Ivan MacIntyre • James Kevin Sarsfield • Douglas LangtonWoolf
	Karen Grossmark, Beng Goh, Ted Smith, Hugh Heggarty, Rodney Grahame
	BMJ  2000;321:1416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1416 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia: systematic overview and meta-regression analysis
	John Geddes, Nick Freemantle, Paul Harrison, Paul Bebbington
	BMJ  2000;321:1371-1376, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1371 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further data and members list] FREE

	Collusion in doctor-patient communication about imminent death: an ethnographic study
	Anne-Mei The, Tony Hak, Gerard Koëter, Gerrit van der Wal
	BMJ  2000;321:1376-1381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1376 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional box] FREE

	Using the modified Barthel index to estimate survival in cancer patients in hospice: observational study
	Mike Bennett, Nicola Ryall
	BMJ  2000;321:1381-1382, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1381 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Drug points: Apparent interaction between warfarin and levonorgestrel used for emergency contraception
	J Ellison, A J Thomson, I A Greer, I D Walker
	BMJ  2000;321:1382, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7273.1382 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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