Breast feeding seems to reduce the risk of obesity in children [Full text]

	Zygosity influences glucose homeostasis and insulin resistance in twins [Full text]

	Spare capacity in beds is essential to accommodate emergencies [Full text]

	Rise in hospital admission may be an artefact [Full text]

	Many randomised trials of traditional Chinese medicine exist but are of poor quality [Full text]

	Health authorities fail to manage quality improvement in general practice [Full text]

Editorials

	Minimally invasive cardiac surgery
	Brian Glenville
	BMJ  1999;319:135-136 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing errors in medicine
	Donald M Berwick, Lucian L Leape
	BMJ  1999;319:136-137 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Chaperones for genital examination
	C J Bignell
	BMJ  1999;319:137-138 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treating behavioural and psychological signs in Alzheimer's disease
	Clive Ballard, John O'Brien
	BMJ  1999;319:138-139 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: table: randomised trials of neuroleptics]

	Saving lives or sustaining the public's health?
	Naomi Fulop, David J Hunter
	BMJ  1999;319:139-140 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	BMA wants presumed consent for organ donors
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:141 [Full text] [PDF]

	German drug agency approves mifepristone
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  1999;319:141 [Full text] [PDF]

	London whistleblower left with career in tatters
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:142 [Full text] [PDF]

	Anaesthetists do not need separate consent before surgery
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;319:142 [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:142 [Full text] [PDF]

	Florida jury finds tobacco companies guilty of fraud
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:143 [Full text] [PDF]

	Tobacco could be used to produce interleukin 10
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;319:143 [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors fear that inequalities are slipping down agenda
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  1999;319:144 [Full text] [PDF]

	Quebec nurses enter third week of strike
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;319:144 [Full text] [PDF]

	Scientists raise possibility of vaccine for Alzheimer's disease
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;319:145 [Full text] [PDF]

	Childhood thyroid cancers rise 10-fold in the Ukraine
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;319:145 [Full text] [PDF]

	Educator with a vision
	BMJ  1999;319:146 [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Coca-Cola health scare may be mass sociogenic illness
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1999;319:146 [Full text]

	London's private doctors protest at "managed care"
	Jenny Sims
	BMJ  1999;319:146 [Full text]

	Council of Europe urges better palliative care
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1999;319:146 [Full text]

Papers

	Breast feeding and obesity: cross sectional study
	Rüdiger von Kries, Berthold Koletzko, Thorsten Sauerwald, Erika von Mutius, Dietmar Barnert, Veit Grunert, Hubertus von Voss
	BMJ  1999;319:147-150 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Does zygosity influence the metabolic profile of twins? A population based cross sectional study
	Pernille Poulsen, Allan Vaag, Henning Beck-Nielsen
	BMJ  1999;319:151-154 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dynamics of bed use in accommodating emergency admissions: stochastic simulation model
	Adrian Bagust, Michael Place, John W Posnett
	BMJ  1999;319:155-158 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The rise in emergency admissionscrisis or artefact? Temporal analysis of health services data
	Kieran Morgan, David Prothero, Stephen Frankel
	BMJ  1999;319:158-159 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Use of chaperones in clinics for genitourinary medicine: survey of consultants
	Caroline J Torrance, Robert Das, Miles C Allison
	BMJ  1999;319:159-160 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of randomised controlled trials of traditional Chinese medicine
	Jin-Ling Tang, Si-Yan Zhan, Edzard Ernst
	BMJ  1999;319:160-161 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Surgeons' and occupational health departments' awareness of guidelines on post-exposure prophylaxis for staff exposed to HIV: telephone survey
	S E Duff, C K M Wong, R E May
	BMJ  1999;319:162 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug points: Possible interaction between clindamycin and cyclosporin
	Robert Thurnheer, Irène Laube, Rudolf Speich
	BMJ  1999;319:163 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Recent advances: Diagnostic radiology
	Jane Hawnaur
	BMJ  1999;319:168-171 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Exacerbating cervical spine injury by applying a hard collar
	Marios C Papadopoulos, Aabir Chakraborty, Georgina Waldron, B Anthony Bell
	BMJ  1999;319:171-172 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based case report: Sore throat: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas
	Anna Graham, Tom Fahey
	BMJ  1999;319:173-174 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of intensive care: Other supportive care
	Sheila Adam, Sally Forrest
	BMJ  1999;319:175-178 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Improving quality in general practice: qualitative case study of barriers faced by health authorities
	Martin N Marshall
	BMJ  1999;319:164-167 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	In England now
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1999;319:201 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The private finance initiative: Planning the "new" NHS: downsizing for the 21st century
	Allyson M Pollock, Matthew G Dunnigan, Declan Gaffney, David Price, Jean Shaoul
	BMJ  1999;319:179-184 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: sources of data in tables] [extra: PFI availability payments]

	Understanding controlled trials: Baseline imbalance in randomised controlled trials
	Chris Roberts, David J Torgerson
	BMJ  1999;319:185 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Cholesterol lowering margarine may not be useful in healthy fat modified diet
	Charles van Heyningen
	BMJ  1999;319:186 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diet and the prevention of cancer
	Ulrike Gonder, A Stewart Truswell, Matthew D Barber, M I Gurr, John H Cummings, Sheila A Bingham
	BMJ  1999;319:186 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anomalies occur in registrations of fetal deaths in multiple pregnancies
	P O D Pharoah
	BMJ  1999;319:188 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should immunisation against hepatitis B take priority over provision of clean drinking water?
	Jacob M Puliyel
	BMJ  1999;319:188 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chlamydia screening can have high take-up rates if right methodology is used
	John Macleod, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:188 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of discussion and deliberation on public's views of priority setting
	Barbara Hanratty, Debbie Lawlor, Paul Dolan, Richard Cookson, Brian Ferguson
	BMJ  1999;319:189 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Probiotics used in trials should be independently checked microbiologically
	J M T Hamilton-Miller
	BMJ  1999;319:189 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient education is way to influence maternal requests for caesarean section
	Laurie Montgomery Irvine
	BMJ  1999;319:190 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of mini-mental state examination by GPs to diagnose dementia may be unnecessary
	Hein van Hout, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Willibrord Hoefnagels, Richard Grol
	BMJ  1999;319:190 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Conservative management of genuine stress incontinence in women
	Vik Khullar, Stefano Salvatore, John Bidmead, Kate Anders, Linda Cardozo, Kari Bø, Ingar Holme, Trygve Talseth
	BMJ  1999;319:190 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Private medical care surely benefits NHS indirectly
	C O Lister
	BMJ  1999;319:191 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Economics of PFI in the NHS
	Colin Reeves
	BMJ  1999;319:191 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	William Alexander Dawson • Willoughby Hugh Greany • Kenneth Esslemont McIver • John ("Jack") Bruce Ritchie • Bruce Ernest Richard Symonds
	Kenneth Dawson, Michael J Greany, A G Findlay, James R Wallace, D W Eyre-Walker
	BMJ  1999;319:192 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:202 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	One hundred years ago: The future of the woman physician
	BMJ  1999;319:163 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The ideal
	W H Auden
	BMJ  1999;319:163 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Alternative definitions
	BMJ  1999;319:173 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Magic and medicine
	BMJ  1999;319:185 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The BMA in Belfast
	BMJ  1999;319:193 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Reducing the risk of major elective surgery: randomised controlled trial of preoperative optimisation of oxygen delivery
	BMJ  1999;319:163 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Not playing with a full DEC: why development and evaluation committee methods for appraising new drugs may be inadequate
	BMJ  1999;319:185 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
	Jon Goldin
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Hospital induction training programmes are important and valued by ...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Fictional anaesthetic trainee Colin Victor's curriculum is now in ...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Thanks to everyone who wrote in to suggest future ...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Over our dead bodies: Port Arthur and Australia's fight for gun control
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  1999;319:199 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: In the grip of spin
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1999;319:200 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	The wisdoms of other disciplines
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	The wisdoms of other disciplines
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

	Making a mark
	Andrew Hodges
	BMJ  1999;319:201 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PERFORMING ARTS

	Performing Arts: The Consulting Room
	Siân Knight
	BMJ  1999;319:199 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Digital imaging
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:200 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	The BMA's annual representative meeting • GMC asked to re-examine 1999 election
	BMJ  1999;319:193 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

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