Hamster health care
	Ian Morrison, Richard Smith
	BMJ  2000;321:1541-1542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1541 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hebdomadal rhythms of the heart
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2000;321:1542-1543, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1542 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	African women with HIV
	William Rankin, Charles Wilson
	BMJ  2000;321:1543-1544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1543 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing dysphonia caused by misuse and overuse
	Paul Carding, Andrew Wade
	BMJ  2000;321:1544-1545, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1544 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The NHS through American eyes
	Sheila Leatherman, Donald M Berwick
	BMJ  2000;321:1545-1546, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1545 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

History

This week's History

	Civilisation and the colon: constipation as the "disease of diseases"
	James Whorton
	BMJ  2000;321:1586-1589, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1586 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Why are (male) surgeons still addressed as Mr?
	Irvine Loudon
	BMJ  2000;321:1589-1591, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1589 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The discovery of aspirin: a reappraisal
	Walter Sneader
	BMJ  2000;321:1591-1594, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1591 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Serial homicide by doctors: Shipman in perspective
	Herbert G Kinnell
	BMJ  2000;321:1594-1597, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1594 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cover story: O Happy day
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  2000;321:1597-1598, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1597 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice and research

This week's Practice and research

	Non-invasive detection of hypoglycaemia using a novel, fully biocompatible and patient friendly alarm system
	Mimi Chen, Mark Daly, Natt Williams, Susie Williams, Candy Williams, Gareth Williams
	BMJ  2000;321:1565-1566, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1565 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Saving Fred: what family practice means to medicine
	David Loxterkamp
	BMJ  2000;321:1567-1568, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1567 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Comparing apples and oranges: a randomised prospective study
	James E Barone
	BMJ  2000;321:1569-1570, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1569 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How not to give a presentation
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2000;321:1570-1571, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1570 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Never too late . . .
	BMJ  2000;321:1556, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1556 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Christmas present
	Anne Savage
	BMJ  2000;321:1571, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1571 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word: A medical alphabet
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2000;321:1598, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1598 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	A pile of strangeness
	BMJ  2000;321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	A pile of strangeness
	BMJ  2000;321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

COVER NOTE

This week's COVER NOTE

	BMJ  2000;321:1622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1622/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

PERSPECTIVES

This week's PERSPECTIVES

	Autopathography: the patient's tale
	Jeffrey K Aronson
	BMJ  2000;321:1599-1602, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1599 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hostage
	Anne E Tournay
	BMJ  2000;321:1603-1604, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1603 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Near drowning: self therapy in situ
	Graham Ness, Norman Macaskill
	BMJ  2000;321:1604-1606, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1604 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Operations: spinal versus general anaesthetics a patient's view
	Vivien Stern
	BMJ  2000;321:1606-1607, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1606 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hear my song: auditory hallucinations with tramadol hydrochloride
	Paul W Keeley, Gillian Foster, Lesley Whitelaw
	BMJ  2000;321:1608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1608 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

THE QUALITY OF LIFE

This week's THE QUALITY OF LIFE

	Recipes for happiness
	BMJ  2000;321:1572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1572 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Happy hedonists
	Roy Porter
	BMJ  2000;321:1572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1572/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An elusive concept?
	John Ashton
	BMJ  2000;321:1575, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1575 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The obsessive pursuit of health and happiness
	David Greaves
	BMJ  2000;321:1576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1576 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A new definition
	Paul Foot
	BMJ  2000;321:1576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1576/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Music to be born to, music to die to
	Jeremy Anderson, Michael Baum, Lisa A Bero, Iain Chalmers, Simon Chapman, Ian J Deary, Shah Ebrahim, Martyn Evans, Michael Farrell, David Greaves, Irene Higginson, Julia Hippisley-Cox, Barbara James, Hamish McKenzie, Ann C Macaulay, Michael Rabow, Rosalind L Smyth, Gregory Stores, Lewis Wolpert
	BMJ  2000;321:1577-1579, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1577 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How to live forever: lessons of history
	Steven Shapin, Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2000;321:1580-1582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1580 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Three lessons for a better cycling future
	Malcolm J Wardlaw
	BMJ  2000;321:1582-1585, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1582 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Figure]

RECIPES FOR HAPPINESS

This week's RECIPES FOR HAPPINESS

	Recipes for happiness
	BMJ  2000;321:1546, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1546 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Recipes for happiness
	BMJ  2000;321:1579, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1579 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Recipes for happiness
	BMJ  2000;321:1585, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1585 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Recipes for happiness
	BMJ  2000;321:1602, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1602 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Recipes for happiness
	BMJ  2000;321:1607, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1607 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Recipes for happiness
	BMJ  2000;321:1608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1608/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recipes for happiness
	BMJ  2000;321:1612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1612 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Recipes for happiness
	BMJ  2000;321:1618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1618 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

LESSONS FROM EVERYWHERE

This week's LESSONS FROM EVERYWHERE

	The fragile male
	Sebastian Kraemer
	BMJ  2000;321:1609-1612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1609 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Job and his "doctors": bedside wisdom in the book of Job
	Ilan Kutz
	BMJ  2000;321:1613-1615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1613 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Three incidents
	Sundaram V Ramanan
	BMJ  2000;321:1615-1616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1615 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Instinctive sleeping and resting postures: an anthropological and zoological approach to treatment of low back and joint pain
	Michael Tetley
	BMJ  2000;321:1616-1618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1616 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tokelau on Naboo
	Scott A Norton
	BMJ  2000;321:1619-1620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1619 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Garages and hospitals, doctors and nurses
	Frank Leavitt
	BMJ  2000;321:1621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1621 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Polydactyly reported by Raphael
	Daniel Mimouni, Francis B Mimouni, Marc Mimouni
	BMJ  2000;321:1622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1622 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	The Ghost of Christmas Past: health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991
	Danny Dorling, Richard Mitchell, Mary Shaw, Scott Orford, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  2000;321:1547-1551, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1547 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cardiovascular mortality in Dutch men during 1996 European football championship: longitudinal population study
	Daniel R Witte, Michiel L Bots, Arno W Hoes, Diederick E Grobbee
	BMJ  2000;321:1552-1554, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1552 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Streptokinase versus alteplase and other treatments for acute and delayed thrombolysis of blood stains in clothing
	C K Pager
	BMJ  2000;321:1554-1556, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1554 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Manufacture and use of home made ophthalmoscopes: a 150th anniversary tribute to Helmholtz • Commentary: "Here's one I prepared earlier"
	Roger H Armour, Nigel F Hall
	BMJ  2000;321:1557-1559, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1557 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Do animals bite more during a full moon? Retrospective observational analysis
	Chanchal Bhattacharjee, Peter Bradley, Matt Smith, Andrew J Scally, Bradley J Wilson
	BMJ  2000;321:1559-1561, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1559 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Barking mad? Another lunatic hypothesis bites the dust
	Simon Chapman, Stephen Morrell
	BMJ  2000;321:1561-1563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1561 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Arabian nights1001 tales of how pharmaceutical companies cater to the material needs of doctors: case report
	Ioannis A Giannakakis, John P A Ioannidis
	BMJ  2000;321:1563-1564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1563 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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