This week's This week in the BMJ

	Neuraxial blockade reduces major postoperative complications [Full text] FREE

	Screening relatives for familial hypercholesterolaemia can detect new patients [Full text] FREE

	Health funding policies affect Chilean caesarean section rates [Full text] FREE

	Having relatives present at brain stem testing may be helpful to them [Full text] FREE

	Patients, GPs, and nurses dislike self management plans for asthma [Full text] FREE

	Quality of web based information on depression is poor [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Using injury data for violence prevention
	Jonathan P Shepherd, Vaseekaran Sivarajasingam, Frederick P Rivara
	BMJ  2000;321:1481-1482, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1481 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Self management in asthma care
	Bart Thoonen, Chris van Weel
	BMJ  2000;321:1482-1483, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1482 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia
	J J P Kastelein
	BMJ  2000;321:1483-1484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1483 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Emerging arboviral encephalitis
	Tom Solomon, Mary Jane Cardosa
	BMJ  2000;321:1484-1485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1484 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Research misconduct: Britain's failure to act
	Michael Farthing, Richard Horton, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2000;321:1485-1486, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1485 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing chronic diseaseround 2
	BMJ  2000;321:1486, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1486 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Referral and diagnostic process in suspected colorectal cancer needs to be improved to achieve two week target
	Coliette Riesewyk, Chris Hayward, Veda Enser, John Northover
	BMJ  2000;321:1527, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1527 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of screening programme on mortality from breast cancer
	Anthony B Miller, Serge Rozenberg, Birgit Carly, Fabienne Liebens, Hamphrey Ham, Michael Baum, J S Tobias
	BMJ  2000;321:1527, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1527/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pitfalls of pharmacoepidemiology
	James A Kaye, Catherine Vasilakis-Scaramozza, Susan S Jick, Hershel Jick
	BMJ  2000;321:1528, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1528 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care is natural place for clinical research and practice
	Maurizio Bonati
	BMJ  2000;321:1529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1529 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Giving medicine a fair trial
	Laurie Allan, Lance Tooke, Jammi N Rao, Paolo Bruzzi, Massimo Costantini, Imre Szebik, Sean Bydder, Terry Slevin, Paul Katris
	BMJ  2000;321:1529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1529/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increased high risk sexual behaviour in homosexual men
	Neil Macdonald, Barry Evans, Ranjana Rani, Paul D Woolley, Swatantrata Chandiok, Gavin Fairburn, Kevin McDonald, Julie Dodds, Anthony Nardone, Danielle Mercey, Anne Johnson
	BMJ  2000;321:1531, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1531 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Income inequality and mortality in Canada and the United States
	Tony Blakely, Alistair Woodward, Oliver Razum, Nancy A Ross, Michael Wolfson, Jean-Marie Berthelot, James Dunn, George Kaplan, John Lynch
	BMJ  2000;321:1532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1532 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Could fewer islet cells be transplanted in type 1 diabetes?
	Norman Waugh
	BMJ  2000;321:1534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1534 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In praise of mercury sphygmomanometers
	E G Lawes
	BMJ  2000;321:1534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1534/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Plans for tackling research fraud may not go far enough
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2000;321:1487, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1487 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	University must tell patients that they were research "guinea pigs"
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2000;321:1487, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1487/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;321:1488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1488 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Public's satisfaction with the NHS declines
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2000;321:1488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1488/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Gut cells engineered to produce insulin
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2000;321:1488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1488/b [Extract] [Full text]

	Trusts must use, not just collect, clinical data
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2000;321:1489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1489 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Early x ray for low back pain confers little benefit
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2000;321:1489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1489/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US doctors consider access to health care for all
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2000;321:1491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1491/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Untying the strings
	BMJ  2000;321:1492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1492 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

This week's News roundup

	Sanctions against Iraq "double" child mortality
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2000;321:1490, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1490 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Patients will consult doctors through a TV screen in 2020
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2000;321:1490, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1490/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Calcium antagonists not best for first line therapy for hypertension
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2000;321:1490, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1490/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctor who revealed patient details cleared by GMC
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:1490, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1490/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Unicef report calls for children to move to the top of the health agenda
	BMJ  2000;321:1490, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1490/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Guide to ethics of treating children published
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:1491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1491 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Cloned chickens to help fight cancer
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2000;321:1491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1491/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Patient dies of alternative cancer remedy
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2000;321:1491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1491/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	University must tell patients that they were research "guinea pigs"
	BMJ  2000;321:1492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1492/a [Extract] [Full text]

	Welsh children�s commissioner will have powers over hospitals
	BMJ  2000;321:1492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1492/b [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Quality of web based information on treatment of depression: cross sectional survey
	Kathleen M Griffiths, Helen Christensen
	BMJ  2000;321:1511-1515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1511 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Extracts from "Clinical Evidence": Menopausal symptoms
	Janice Rymer, Edward P Morris
	BMJ  2000;321:1516-1519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1516 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Qualitative study of views of health professionals and patients on guided self management plans for asthma
	Alan Jones, Roisin Pill, Stephanie Adams
	BMJ  2000;321:1507-1510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1507 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	The empty chair
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2000;321:1539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1539/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Christmas Day in London: darling, I'm pregnant
	Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza
	BMJ  2000;321:1539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1539 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	For and against: Doctors should advise adolescents to abstain from sex • For • Against
	Trevor Stammers, Roger Ingham
	BMJ  2000;321:1520-1522, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1520 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An integrated national pharmaceutical policy for the United Kingdom?
	Tom Walley, Alan Earl-Slater, Alan Haycox, Adrian Bagust
	BMJ  2000;321:1523-1526, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1523 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;321:1540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1540 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Choosing a collaborator
	Stephen M Shalet
	BMJ  2000;321:1506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1506 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece
	BMJ  2000;321:1506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1506/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	My most unfortunate mistake: Always double check
	Lloyd Bradley
	BMJ  2000;321:1510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1510 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Much ado about a monument
	BMJ  2000;321:1519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1519/c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Use of lipid lowering drugs for primary prevention of coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of randomised trials
	BMJ  2000;321:1519 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Another look at visual standards and driving
	BMJ  2000;321:1519 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Identifying patients with ischaemic heart disease in general practice: cross sectional study of paper and computerised medical records
	BMJ  2000;321:1519 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CD

This week's CD

	CD: StatsDirectStatistical Software for Medical Research in the 21st Century
	Nick Freemantle
	BMJ  2000;321:1536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1536 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: From Chaos to Coercion: Detention and the Control of Tuberculosis
	David Wilkinson
	BMJ  2000;321:1536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1536/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Agenda: Ecstasy • Agenda: Heroin • Agenda: Cocaine
	Ian Sutherland
	BMJ  2000;321:1537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1537 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal Hallucinations
	David Ames
	BMJ  2000;321:1537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1537/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: Meningitis: the making of a "scandal"
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2000;321:1538, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1538 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Getting closer to patients and their families
	BMJ  2000;321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Getting closer to patients and their families
	BMJ  2000;321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Abstinence
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;321:1538, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1538/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	David Dangerfield • Francis Russell Dickson • Trevor Charles Gipson • Anne Ethel McCandless
	Peter Dangerfield, Robert Hall, Nicholas C Thompson, Robert McLaren Todd, Catherine M Durkin
	BMJ  2000;321:1535, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1535 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Reduction of postoperative mortality and morbidity with epidural or spinal anaesthesia: results from overview of randomised trials
	Anthony Rodgers, Natalie Walker, S Schug, A McKee, H Kehlet, A van Zundert, D Sage, M Futter, G Saville, T Clark, S MacMahon
	BMJ  2000;321:1493, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1493 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Outcome of case finding among relatives of patients with known heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia
	D Bhatnagar, J Morgan, S Siddiq, M I Mackness, J P Miller, P N Durrington
	BMJ  2000;321:1497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1497 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history] FREE

	Relation between private health insurance and high rates of caesarean section in Chile: qualitative and quantitative study
	Susan F Murray
	BMJ  2000;321:1501-1505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1501 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables] FREE

	Presence of relatives during testing for brain stem death: questionnaire study
	Janet Pugh, Linda Clarke, Janine Gray, Jolien Haveman, Paul Lawler, Stephen Bonner
	BMJ  2000;321:1505-1506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7275.1505 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Questionnaires] FREE

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Website extra

bmj.com wins publishing award [Full text]

The ethics of the cash register: taking tobacco research dollars [Full text]

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