Young women with diabetes have raised risk of eating disorders [Full text]

	Cost of medical negligence in NHS rose by 7% a year in 1990s [Full text]

	Patients' suicides stress psychiatrists [Full text]

	Half of meta-analyses may contain publication bias [Full text]

	Increase in back pain in Britain is real [Full text]

	Increase in prescribing of statins in 1996-8 was greatest in practices in deprived areas [Full text]

Editorials

	Cheaper antiretrovirals to treat AIDS in South Africa
	Karen Zwi, Neil Söderlund, Helen Schneider
	BMJ  2000;320:1551-1552, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1551 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is life becoming more of a pain?
	Peter Croft
	BMJ  2000;320:1552-1553, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1552 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Consulting the public about the NHS
	Will Anderson, Dominique Florin
	BMJ  2000;320:1553-1554, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1553 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diabetes care needs evidence based interventions to reduce risk of vascular disease
	Christopher D Byrne, Sarah H Wild
	BMJ  2000;320:1554-1555, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1554 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The future of gambling in the United Kingdom
	Rachel A Volberg
	BMJ  2000;320:1556, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1556 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Management blamed over consultant's malpractice
	Jason O'Neale Roach
	BMJ  2000;320:1557, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1557 [Full text] [PDF]

	Consultants attack "arrogant" GMC
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2000;320:1557, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1557/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Californian doctors' leaders sue health insurers
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2000;320:1558, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1558 [Full text] [PDF]

	Mosquitoes prefer pregnant women
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2000;320:1558, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1558/a [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;320:1558, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1558/b [Full text] [PDF]

	UK heroin deaths prompt international alert
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2000;320:1559, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1559 [Full text] [PDF]

	Surgeons work evenings to cut Spanish waiting lists
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  2000;320:1559, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1559/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Ireland might relax fluoride rules
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2000;320:1560, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1560 [Full text] [PDF]

	Japan plans improved monitoring of new drugs
	Joe Lamar
	BMJ  2000;320:1560, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1560/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors' strike in Israel may be good for health
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2000;320:1561, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1561 [Full text] [PDF]

	Waiting time limits proposed for specialist referral
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  2000;320:1561, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1561/a [Full text] [PDF]

	FDA censures NEJM editor
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2000;320:1562, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1562 [Full text] [PDF]

	Blair chairs UK health summit to tackle NHS reform
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  2000;320:1562, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1562/a [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Patients will challenge doctors more, says study
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2000;320:1562, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1562/b [Full text]

	Israel acts on drug imports to cut healthcare bills
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2000;320:1562, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1562/c [Full text]

	Management blamed over consultant’s malpractice
	BMJ  2000;320:1562, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1562/d [Full text]

	Malaria epidemics seize Venezuela
	Claire Wallerstein
	BMJ  2000;320:1562, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1562/e [Full text]

Papers

	Eating disorders in adolescent females with and without type 1 diabetes: cross sectional study
	Jennifer M Jones, Margaret L Lawson, Denis Daneman, Marion P Olmsted, Gary Rodin
	BMJ  2000;320:1563-1566, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1563 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Diagnostic criteria]

	Current cost of medical negligence in NHS hospitals: analysis of claims database
	Paul Fenn, Stephen Diacon, Alastair Gray, Ron Hodges, Neil Rickman
	BMJ  2000;320:1567-1571, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1567 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Suicide by patients: questionnaire study of its effect on consultant psychiatrists
	David A Alexander, Susan Klein, Nicola M Gray, Ian G Dewar, John M Eagles
	BMJ  2000;320:1571-1574, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1571 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Study questionnaire]

	Empirical assessment of effect of publication bias on meta-analyses
	A J Sutton, S J Duval, R L Tweedie, K R Abrams, D R Jones
	BMJ  2000;320:1574-1577, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1574 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table and figures]

	Back pain in Britain: comparison of two prevalence surveys at an interval of 10 years
	Keith T Palmer, Kevin Walsh, Holly Bendall, Cyrus Cooper, David Coggon
	BMJ  2000;320:1577-1578, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1577 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Socioeconomic variation in hysterectomy up to age 52: national, population based, prospective cohort study
	Sarah F Marshall, Rebecca J Hardy, Diana Kuh
	BMJ  2000;320:1579, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1579 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Treating joint damage in young people
	George Bentley, Tom Minas
	BMJ  2000;320:1585-1588, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1585 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of arterial and venous disease: Ulcerated lower limb
	Nick J M London, Richard Donnelly
	BMJ  2000;320:1589-1591, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1589 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Designing trials of interventions to change professional practice in primary care: lessons from an exploratory study of two change strategies
	Stephen Rogers, Charlotte Humphrey, Irwin Nazareth, Sue Lister, Zelda Tomlin, Andy Haines
	BMJ  2000;320:1580-1583, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1580 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Use of statins in general practices, 1996-8: cross sectional study
	C Packham, J Pearson, J Robinson, D Gray
	BMJ  2000;320:1583-1584, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1583 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Meetings
	Ricardo S Silva
	BMJ  2000;320:1613, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1613/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Politically correct references
	Peter V Scott
	BMJ  2000;320:1613, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1613 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	How does male circumcision protect against HIV infection?
	Robert Szabo, Roger V Short
	BMJ  2000;320:1592-1594, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1592 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Modernising the NHS: Patient care: access
	Mark Murray
	BMJ  2000;320:1594-1596, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1594 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Economics notes: Costing in economic evaluation
	James Raftery
	BMJ  2000;320:1597, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1597 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Asymptomatic haematuria
	John Reynard, James A D Finlayson, Peter A Andrews, John G G Ledingham, David A Warrell, David Weatherall, Juliane Hentschel, Chris Del Mar
	BMJ  2000;320:1598, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1598 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long term benefits need to be taken into account when evaluating family support projects
	Clare Goodhart, Jonathan Graffy
	BMJ  2000;320:1600, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1600 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Organ transplantation and discrimination
	Peter Byrne, George Webster, Eleanor Barnes, Andrew Burroughs, Geoffrey Dusheiko
	BMJ  2000;320:1600, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1600/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Midline episiotomy and anal incontinence
	Charlotte Chaliha, Abdul H Sultan, Kees Boer, M S Mills, Deirdre J Murphy, K Olayinka Oyelese, Amy Porter, Clifford Wai
	BMJ  2000;320:1601, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1601 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing and treating depression
	Ward Tolbert Smith, Graham Worrall, John Angel, Michael McCullagh, Sally Gardner, S Llewellyn-Jones, P Donnelly, Helen Johnson, Tony Kendrick
	BMJ  2000;320:1602, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1602 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Voluntary organisations already help set policy in Scotland
	Ian Pullen
	BMJ  2000;320:1604, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1604 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing patients with lung cancer
	Fergus Macbeth, Mary E R O'Brien, Michael Cullen
	BMJ  2000;320:1604, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1604/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is norethisterone a lifestyle drug?
	Gerry Bryant, Ian Scott, Anne Worrall, William Hamilton, David Lloyd
	BMJ  2000;320:1605, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1605 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Angus Graham Bird • James Gillan • George Kenneth Graham • Donald Sinclair Lyon • Charles Trent
	Sara Marshall, Matthew Helbert, R K Banerjee, N B Graham, Alison Lyon, Catriona Main, Michael Roberts, Michael Salzmann
	BMJ  2000;320:1606, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1606 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;320:1614, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1614 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  2000;320:1583, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1583/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Physicians: an 18th century view: The death of Captain Blifil
	John Black
	BMJ  2000;320:1588, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1588 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A doctor's dilemma: Do you admit to working within the system?
	Bruce Richard
	BMJ  2000;320:1596, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1596 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: On ageing: oh dear!
	BMJ  2000;320:1596, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1596/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Menorrhagia
	M A Lumsden
	BMJ  2000;320:1609, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1609 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Sex, Gender and Health
	Kate Hunt
	BMJ  2000;320:1610, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1610 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Second OpinionsStories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine
	David Woods
	BMJ  2000;320:1610, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1610/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture and Identity
	John Harris
	BMJ  2000;320:1611, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1611 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

FILM

	Film: The Virgin Suicides
	Russell Viner
	BMJ  2000;320:1611, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1611/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: Class war
	Jason O'Neale Roach
	BMJ  2000;320:1612, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1612 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	How we spend our money
	BMJ  2000;320, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	How we spend our money
	BMJ  2000;320, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Back pain
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2000;320:1612, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1612/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Senior medical staffs conference • CCSC chairman issues challenges to the government • GMC spells out proposed reforms • Medicine needs doctors from all walks of life • Public confidence in doctors remains high
	BMJ  2000;320:1607, doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7249.1607 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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