H pylori eradication is cost effective for non-ulcer dyspepsia [Full text]

	Fall in mortality from breast cancer is partly due to screening [Full text]

	Global warming could reduce European mortality [Full text]

	Onset of forearm pain can be predicted [Full text]

	ATLS guidelines overestimate systolic blood pressure [Full text]

	Management of pregnant women with epilepsy remains poor [Full text]

Editorials

	How effective is screening for breast cancer?
	Lennarth Nyström
	BMJ  2000;321:647-648, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.647 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treating non-ulcer dyspepsia and H pylori
	Sander J O Veldhuyzen van Zanten
	BMJ  2000;321:648-649, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.648 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical ethics committees
	Anne-Marie Slowther, Tony Hope
	BMJ  2000;321:649-650, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.649 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Saving lives during extreme weather in summer
	Laurence S Kalkstein
	BMJ  2000;321:650-651, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.650 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Can islet cell transplantation treat diabetes?
	Steven A White, Michael L Nicholson, Bernhard J Hering
	BMJ  2000;321:651-652, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.651 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	US hospitals to ask patients for right to sell their tissue
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2000;321:653, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.653 [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctrine of necessity could allow separation of twins
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:653, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.653/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Offspring from artificial insemination demand fathers' details
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:654, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.654 [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA secretary to be Scottish CMO
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2000;321:654, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.654/a [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;321:654, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.654/b [Full text] [PDF]

	Scooters cause 9500 injuries in US in 8 months
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  2000;321:655, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.655 [Full text] [PDF]

	Cannabis use falls among Dutch youth
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2000;321:655, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.655/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Move to ban private practice may be illegal
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2000;321:655, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.655/b [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug company pays for campaign for chicken pox vaccination
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2000;321:656, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.656 [Full text] [PDF]

	Sri Lanka accuses drug company of flouting advertising rules
	Dinali Goonewardene
	BMJ  2000;321:656, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.656/a [Full text] [PDF]

	US doctor may have killed 60
	David Woods
	BMJ  2000;321:657, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.657 [Full text] [PDF]

	Private finance initiative condemned
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2000;321:657, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.657/a [Full text] [PDF]

	EU institutions divided on therapeutic cloning
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2000;321:658, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.658 [Full text] [PDF]

	Relatives underestimate patients' desire for truth
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  2000;321:658, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.658/a [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Funding boost for prostate cancer research
	BMJ  2000;321:658, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.658/b [Full text]

	UK government changes yellow card scheme
	BMJ  2000;321:658, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.658/c [Full text]

	More GPs will have new contract option
	BMJ  2000;321:658, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.658/d [Full text]

	US hospitals to ask patients for right to sell their tissue
	BMJ  2000;321:658, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.658/e [Full text]

Papers

	Systematic review and economic evaluation of Helicobacter pylori eradication treatment for non-ulcer dyspepsia
	Paul Moayyedi, Shelly Soo, Jonathan Deeks, David Forman, James Mason, Michael Innes, Brendan Delaney
	BMJ  2000;321:659-664, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.659 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Search strategy details and identified trials]

	Effect of NHS breast screening programme on mortality from breast cancer in England and Wales, 1990-8: comparison of observed with predicted mortality
	R G Blanks, S M Moss, C E McGahan, M J Quinn, P J Babb
	BMJ  2000;321:665-669, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.665 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Heat related mortality in warm and cold regions of Europe: observational study
	W R Keatinge, G C Donaldson, Elvira Cordioli, M Martinelli, A E Kunst, J P Mackenbach, S Nayha, I Vuori
	BMJ  2000;321:670-673, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.670 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Accuracy of the advanced trauma life support guidelines for predicting systolic blood pressure using carotid, femoral, and radial pulses: observational study
	Charles D Deakin, J Lorraine Low
	BMJ  2000;321:673-674, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.673 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history]

	Population based, prospective study of the care of women with epilepsy in pregnancy
	Susan D Fairgrieve, Margaret Jackson, Patricia Jonas, David Walshaw, Kathleen White, Tara L Montgomery, John Burn, Sally A Lynch
	BMJ  2000;321:674-675, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.674 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Recent advances: Complementary medicine
	Andrew Vickers
	BMJ  2000;321:683-686, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.683 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Right sided aortic arch in children with persistent respiratory symptoms
	Donald N R Payne, Christopher Lincoln, Andrew Bush
	BMJ  2000;321:687-688, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.687 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of breast diseases: Screening for breast cancer
	R W Blamey, A R M Wilson, J Patnick
	BMJ  2000;321:689-693, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.689 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Role of mechanical and psychosocial factors in the onset of forearm pain: prospective population based study
	Gary J Macfarlane, Isabelle M Hunt, Alan J Silman
	BMJ  2000;321:676, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.676 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical governance in primary care: Organisational development for clinical governance
	June Huntington, Stephen Gillam, Rebecca Rosen
	BMJ  2000;321:679-682, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.679 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Source
	Ricardo S Silva
	BMJ  2000;321:713, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.713/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Hospital games
	Diane Harvey
	BMJ  2000;321:713, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.713 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Framework for design and evaluation of complex interventions to improve health
	Michelle Campbell, Ray Fitzpatrick, Andrew Haines, Ann Louise Kinmonth, Peter Sandercock, David Spiegelhalter, Peter Tyrer
	BMJ  2000;321:694-696, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.694 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Economics notes: Cost effectiveness calculations and sample size
	David J Torgerson, Marion K Campbell
	BMJ  2000;321:697, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.697 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Doctors and nurses
	Patrick White, Derek Roskell, Dave Anderson, Jayne Lunn, Francine M Cheater, Norman Vetter, Anne Price, Peter Brindle, Peter Leman, Jane Terris, Chau Shum, Elaine Gill, Nina Bunce, Gill Cunningham, Alison Davies, Cynthia Nemeth, Mary Styles, Arun Kundu, Melanie Munn, Angela Scrase, Rowena Vincent, David C A Candy
	BMJ  2000;321:698, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.698 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Implications of CJD data need to be clear before release
	Andrew Thornett
	BMJ  2000;321:701, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.701 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of on-site mental health professionals
	Mark Ashworth, Peter Bower, Bonnie Sibbald
	BMJ  2000;321:701, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.701/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating hyperhidrosis
	J L Atkins, P E M Butler, R Murphy, C I Harrington, Michael Klaber, Michael Catterall, David de Berker, Jack Collin
	BMJ  2000;321:702, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.702 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality of randomised controlled trials in head injury
	Chantal W P M Hukkelhoven, Ewout W Steyerberg, Andrew I R Maas, Joel Desmond
	BMJ  2000;321:704, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.704 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Transfusion transmitted infection
	Gregor Caspari, Fiona Regan, Pat Hewitt, John Barbara
	BMJ  2000;321:704, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.704/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	National service framework's financial implications are huge
	Anthony S Wierzbicki, Timothy M Reynolds
	BMJ  2000;321:705, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.705 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advance directives
	Roger Hole, Michael Irwin, Michael Wilks, Michael Jarmulowicz, Robert Hardie, James Flood, Susan Frankland
	BMJ  2000;321:705, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.705/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Role of spironolactone in heart failure should be emphasised
	James Mapstone, Brian Houston, Mike Gogarty
	BMJ  2000;321:706, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.706 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient of gynaecologist who was struck off has been denied justice
	A R Crawfurd
	BMJ  2000;321:707, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.707 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK and German media differ over complementary medicine
	E Ernst, T Weihmayr
	BMJ  2000;321:707, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.707/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	David Harry Smith • Francis John Hallinan • Richard Haskell • Alfred Gordon Henderson • Mark Mehta • John Sarkies • Isabel Gertrude Smith • Maureen Anne Tudor (Mrs Dulake) • David Wolfson • Kenneth William Woolhead
	H M Gilles, P E Hallinan, Mark McGurk, Ifti Lone, Michael Handley Ashken, John Morgan Hughes, Nick Sarkies, Ruth Charlton, Michael Dulake, John Tudor, Martin Wolfson, Christopher J W Woolhead
	BMJ  2000;321:708, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.708 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva •
	BMJ  2000;321:714, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.714 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	A paper that changed our practice: Which postcoital contraceptive?
	Christopher Cates
	BMJ  2000;321:664, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.664 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . .: Chickenpox
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2000;321:682, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.682 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Knowledge
	BMJ  2000;321:687, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.687/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Misery versus pleasure
	Claus A Pierach
	BMJ  2000;321:693, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.693 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Birth characteristics of women who develop gestational diabetes: population based study
	BMJ  2000;321:669 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increase in high risk sexual behaviour among homosexual men, London 1996-8: cross sectional, questionnaire study
	BMJ  2000;321:675 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fillers
	BMJ  2000;321:675 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Death in England: An Illustrated History
	Paul Keeley
	BMJ  2000;321:710, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.710/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Medical Millennium: 1000 Pioneers Who Have Contributed to the Development of Medicine Over the Last 1000 Years • Dates in Medicine. A chronological record of medical progress over three millennia
	Irvine Loudon
	BMJ  2000;321:711, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.711 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

FILM

	Film: Nurse Betty
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  2000;321:710, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.710 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: Dutch doctors supported by media
	Godelieve van Heteren
	BMJ  2000;321:712, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.712 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	In love with the Lancet
	BMJ  2000;321, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	In love with the Lancet
	BMJ  2000;321, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Evaluating complex interventions
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2000;321:711, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7262.711/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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