Sweetness and sucking have analgesic effect in babies [Full text]

	Caesarean section rates are too high in Latin America [Full text]

	Slower fetal development may protect women from heart disease [Full text]

	Night time nurse telephone consultations reduce general practitioners' workload [Full text]

	New stool immunoassay offers routine diagnostic tool for H pylori infection [Full text]

	GPs want to keep generalist role in genetic testing [Full text]

Editorials

	Why do babies cry?
	Imti Choonara
	BMJ  1999;319:1381 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Meeting the demand for donor organs in the US
	Ronald M Davis
	BMJ  1999;319:1382-1383 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Markets, politicians, and the NHS
	Rudolf Klein
	BMJ  1999;319:1383-1384 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Healthy living centres
	Chris Salisbury
	BMJ  1999;319:1384-1385 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Postnatal dexamethasone in preterm infants
	William Tarnow-Mordi, Andy Mitra
	BMJ  1999;319:1385-1386 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	UN warns that AIDS deaths are set to reach record level
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;319:1387 [Full text] [PDF]

	Whistleblower in Bristol case says funding was put before patients
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:1387 [Full text] [PDF]

	Oocytes matured in vitro achieve high pregnancy rates
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;319:1388 [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug company threatens legal action over Canadian guidelines
	Miriam Shuchman
	BMJ  1999;319:1388 [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:1388 [Full text] [PDF]

	UK community groups reject mental health reforms
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:1389 [Full text] [PDF]

	Publishers to link science journals on line
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;319:1389 [Full text] [PDF]

	EU makes mental illness top priority
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1999;319:1389 [Full text] [PDF]

	UK review finds statins are cost effective in secondary prevention
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1999;319:1390 [Full text] [PDF]

	Japan moves towards legal ban on human cloning
	Joe Lamar
	BMJ  1999;319:1390 [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA welcomes plans to regulate private care
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:1390 [Full text] [PDF]

	Health authority loses cervical smear appeal
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:1391 [Full text] [PDF]

	Studies reveal increased smoking among students in Canada
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;319:1391 [Full text] [PDF]

	EU plans tighter controls on tobacco
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1999;319:1391 [Full text] [PDF]

	England sets standards to reduce hospital acquired infection
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1999;319:1392 [Full text] [PDF]

	MPs call for database of adverse incidents
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:1392 [Full text] [PDF]

	European parliament supports juniors on working hours
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:1392 [Full text] [PDF]

Papers

	Randomised trial of analgesic effects of sucrose, glucose, and pacifiers in term neonates
	R Carbajal, X Chauvet, S Couderc, M Olivier-Martin
	BMJ  1999;319:1393-1397 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rates and implications of caesarean sections in Latin America: ecological study • Commentary: all women should have a choice • Commentary: increase in caesarean sections may reflect medical control not women's choice • Commentary: "health has become secondary to a sexually attractive body"
	José M Belizán, Fernando Althabe, Fernando C Barros, Sophie Alexander, Elaine Showalter, Anne Griffin, Arachu Castro, Hilda Bastian
	BMJ  1999;319:1397-1402 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details of data sources]

	Growth in utero and during childhood among women who develop coronary heart disease: longitudinal study
	T Forsén, J G Eriksson, J Tuomilehto, C Osmond, D J P Barker
	BMJ  1999;319:1403-1407 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Overnight calls in primary care: randomised controlled trial of management using nurse telephone consultation
	Felicity Thompson, Steve George, Val Lattimer, Helen Smith, Michael Moore, Joanne Turnbull, Mark Mullee, Eileen Thomas, Hugh Bond, Alan Glasper
	BMJ  1999;319:1408 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Comparison of stool immunoassay with standard methods for detecting Helicobacter pylori infection
	Frank Lehmann, Jürgen Drewe, Luigi Terracciano, Robert Stuber, Reno Frei, Christoph Beglinger
	BMJ  1999;319:1409 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Recent advances: Management of self poisoning
	Alison L Jones, Glyn Volans
	BMJ  1999;319:1414-1417 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Insulin as a substance of misuse in a patient with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
	Eugene M Cassidy, D J O'Halloran, Siobhán Barry
	BMJ  1999;319:1417-1418 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of complementary medicine: Unconventional approaches to nutritional medicine
	Andrew Vickers, Catherine Zollman
	BMJ  1999;319:1419-1422 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Tensions between policy makers and general practitioners in implementing new genetics: grounded theory interview study
	Satinder Kumar, Madeleine Gantley
	BMJ  1999;319:1410-1413 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	BIBA but LGFTD
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1999;319:1445 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Organ donation: Can the US do better?
	Phil H Berry, Jr
	BMJ  1999;319:1445 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The value of DALY life: problems with ethics and validity of disability adjusted life years
	Trude Arnesen, Erik Nord
	BMJ  1999;319:1423-1425 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Healthcare rationingare additional criteria needed for assessing evidence based clinical practice guidelines?
	Ole Frithjof Norheim
	BMJ  1999;319:1426-1429 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Public sponsors must follow ethical rules too
	Ivar Sønbø Kristiansen
	BMJ  1999;319:1430 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines on HIV prophylaxis must be implemented
	Rachel U Sidwell, James S A Green, Vas Novelli
	BMJ  1999;319:1430 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV in South Africa
	Christian Gunneberg, K Rotchford, S S Abdool Karim, N Rollins, Karen Zwi, Neil Söderlund
	BMJ  1999;319:1431 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children were guaranteed regular check ups in dental study
	Vuokko Anttonen, Markku Larmas, Maarit Raitio
	BMJ  1999;319:1432 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of iron pots in South Africa led to haemosiderosis
	C F van der Merwe
	BMJ  1999;319:1432 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Better evidence must be collected on childhood injuries
	T T Ohn, M G Miller, G Sparks
	BMJ  1999;319:1432 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Japanese government should also ban tobacco advertising
	Hiroshi Kawane
	BMJ  1999;319:1433 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Automatic replies can be sent to unsolicited email from general public
	Christopher Oliver
	BMJ  1999;319:1433 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Suicide within 12 months of contact with mental health services
	Alison Lowe, Emma Heap, Stirling Moorey, George Tadros, Emad Salib, M D Beary, Louis Appleby, Jenny Shaw
	BMJ  1999;319:1433 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cochrane reviews will be in Medline
	Mike Clarke, Andy Oxman
	BMJ  1999;319:1435 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Searching for reliable research evidence need not be difficult
	Trevor A Sheldon, Julie Glanville
	BMJ  1999;319:1435 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening of newborn infants for cholestatic hepatobiliary disease
	Eithne Linnane, Ashish Paul, Ruth Parry, Peter T Clayton, Stuart Logan
	BMJ  1999;319:1435 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Earlier discharge for newborns may increase health risks
	Terence Stephenson
	BMJ  1999;319:1436 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do we need a new word for patients?
	Richard Thode, William Bain, Roger Stevens, David Kernick, Murat Acar
	BMJ  1999;319:1436 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC should just continue its role as policeman and not try to improve clinical standards
	Tony Walsh
	BMJ  1999;319:1437 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	John ("Jack") Parsons Shillingford • Robert Michael Badminton • Terry Coates • Christopher Charles Crampton • Richard Michael Dean • Desmond Stopford Mulock Enraght-Moony • Eric Glyn Hughes • Alfred Cecil Victor Maltby • Gisela ("Gilli") Oppenheim • Fredrick Shepherd • Eleanor Mary Singer • Barry Leonard Stone • Brian Ponsford Webber • Henry John ("Jack") Weldon • Giles Martin James Woolley
	Michael Shillingford, Michael N Badminton, J S Brown, David Zuck, Simon Dean, Anthony Enraght-Moony, David G Hughes, Tom Wilmot, Klaus Heymann, C W Shepherd, Kay Reid, S Lieberman, Barbara Webber, Bob Beale, Derek Sage
	BMJ  1999;319:1438 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:1446 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Endpieces: Alternative therapies
	BMJ  1999;319:1409 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: On ageing: oh dear!
	BMJ  1999;319:1409 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Of parents and children
	Francis Bacon
	BMJ  1999;319:1410 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Honey poisoning
	BMJ  1999;319:1419 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What's really important: Parental review
	Sonia Saxena
	BMJ  1999;319:1425 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	ABC of complementary medicine: Herbal medicine
	BMJ  1999;319:1422 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Benzodiazepine use in pregnancy and major malformations or oral clefts
	BMJ  1999;319:1429 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicopolitical digest
	BMJ  1999;319:1429 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pre-existing risk factor profiles in users and non-users of hormone replacement therapy: prospective cohort study in Gothenburg, Sweden
	BMJ  1999;319:1429 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:1429 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Get a distinction award
	Sundara Lingam
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Junior doctors are currently excluded from the EU working...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Glance down the opportunities in International Health Exchange...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: A production error resulted in the truncation of...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: www.docjob.com is a large US site with lots...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CD

	CD: The Virtual Surgeon: ACL Reconstruction
	Stuart Brooks
	BMJ  1999;319:1442 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

TV

	TV: Dogma in retreat
	Simon Wessely
	BMJ  1999;319:1444 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

ART

	Art: Only Human
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:1443 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: The Government's Annual Report 98/99
	Rudolf Klein
	BMJ  1999;319:1442 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Politically incorrect surgery
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Politically incorrect surgery
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

HIT PARADE

	Hit parade
	BMJ  1999;319:1443 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Babies in pain
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:1444 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Guidance needed on the use of the internet • Reducing smoking is an uphill battle • BMA urges government to cancel unpayable debt • Juniors will not get millennium pay in England • Medical workforce has grown by 2.8%
	BMJ  1999;319:1441 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

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