Lipid lowering for heart attack works best in those at high risk [Full text]

	Atraumatic needles reduce incidence of headaches after lumbar puncture [Full text]

	Snellen acuity is a poor indicator of vision for driving [Full text]

	Many research protocols still have unjustified upper age limits [Full text]

	Home visits do not prevent falls in elderly people in Europe [Full text]

	Rectal bleeding indicates colorectal cancer more accurately after age 60 [Full text]

Editorials

	Statins: underused by those who would benefit
	Stephen B Hulley, Deborah Grady, Warren S Browner
	BMJ  2000;321:971-972, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.971 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Corrected version]

	Another look at visual standards and driving
	William Westlake
	BMJ  2000;321:972-973, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.972 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Headaches after diagnostic dural punctures
	M G Serpell, Narinder Rawal
	BMJ  2000;321:973-974, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.973 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence and belief in ADHD
	Morris Zwi, Paul Ramchandani, Carol Joughin
	BMJ  2000;321:975-976, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.975 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical software's free future
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2000;321:976, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.976 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	UK allows insurers to use gene test for Huntington's disease
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2000;321:977, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.977 [Full text] [PDF]

	Florida jury awards husband damages in wife's smoking death
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2000;321:977, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.977/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Tampons could be used to diagnose STDs
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2000;321:978, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.978 [Full text] [PDF]

	Hepatitis C victims sue NHS in class action
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:978, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.978/a [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;321:978, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.978/b [Full text] [PDF]

	EU centre calls for policies to help female drug users
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2000;321:979, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.979 [Full text] [PDF]

	Marijuana has potential for misuse
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2000;321:979, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.979/a [Full text] [PDF]

	Women's health study signs up millionth woman
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2000;321:981, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.981/b [Full text] [PDF]

	Police investigate deaths of terminally ill patients
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:981, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.981/c [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS still rattling tins for funds
	BMJ  2000;321:982, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.982 [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	GMC to consult on radical structural changes
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2000;321:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.980 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Government asked to withdraw Griffiths report
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.980/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Fears over anthrax vaccination driving away US reservists
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2000;321:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.980/b [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	NICE's appraisal procedures attacked
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2000;321:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.980/c [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	WHO holds hearings on tobacco control treaty
	Tudor Toma
	BMJ  2000;321:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.980/d [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Obesity surgery grows in popularity in the US
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2000;321:980, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.980/e [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	India pledges legislation to improve medical services
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2000;321:981, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.981 [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Alliance pledges new cheap TB drug by 2010
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2000;321:981, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.981/a [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	People with special needs entitled to free education after 18, Irish court rules
	BMJ  2000;321:982, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.982/a [Full text]

Papers

	Use of lipid lowering drugs for primary prevention of coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of randomised trials
	Michael Pignone, Christopher Phillips, Cynthia Mulrow
	BMJ  2000;321:983-986, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.983 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history]

	Randomised controlled trial of atraumatic versus standard needles for diagnostic lumbar puncture
	S Rachel Thomas, D R S Jamieson, Keith W Muir
	BMJ  2000;321:986-990, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.986 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Operator's procedure]

	Reliability of Snellen charts for testing visual acuity for driving: prospective study and postal questionnaire
	Zanna Currie, Archana Bhan, Irene Pepper
	BMJ  2000;321:990-992, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.990 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Unjustified exclusion of elderly people from studies submitted to research ethics committee for approval: descriptive study
	Antony Bayer, Win Tadd
	BMJ  2000;321:992-993, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.992 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history]

Clinical review

	Lesson of the week: Tracheal stenosis after intubation
	Nicholas Spittle, Anthony McCluskey
	BMJ  2000;321:1000-1002, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1000 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Partial seizures presenting as panic attacks
	Siân A Thompson, John S Duncan, Shelagh J M Smith
	BMJ  2000;321:1002-1003, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1002 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of colorectal cancer: Screening
	John H Scholefield
	BMJ  2000;321:1004-1006, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1004 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Effects of a programme of multifactorial home visits on falls and mobility impairments in elderly people at risk: randomised controlled trial
	Jolanda C M van Haastregt, Jos P M Diederiks, Erik van Rossum, Luc P de Witte, Peter M Voorhoeve, Harry F J M Crebolder
	BMJ  2000;321:994-998, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.994 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rectal bleeding and colorectal cancer in general practice: diagnostic study
	Hans Wauters, Viviane Van Casteren, Frank Buntinx
	BMJ  2000;321:998-999, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.998 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Members of network of sentinel practices]

Soundings

	The big man
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2000;321:1029, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1029/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Is this the right way?
	D R Rimmer
	BMJ  2000;321:1029, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1029 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Guidelines for the prevention of falls in people over 65
	Gene Feder, Colin Cryer, Sheila Donovan, Yvonne Carter
	BMJ  2000;321:1007-1011, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1007 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Development group members]

	Managed care of chronically ill older people: the US experience
	Chad Boult, Robert L Kane, Randall Brown
	BMJ  2000;321:1011-1014, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1011 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	The NHS plan
	Kambiz Boomla, Susan Tyler, Eric Crouch
	BMJ  2000;321:1015, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1015 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Private finance scheme for Worcester
	B McCloskey, Richard T Taylor
	BMJ  2000;321:1016, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1016 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meta-analysis of increased inhaled steroid or addition of salmeterol in asthma
	Stephen Senn, A D Greig, Felix S F Ram, Stephen Shrewsbury, Stephen Pyke, Mark Britton
	BMJ  2000;321:1016, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1016/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Arterial and venous disease and deep vein thrombosis
	David Crossley, Z Zych, S E Baldeweg
	BMJ  2000;321:1018, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1018 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Babies sleeping with parents and sudden infant death syndrome
	N Carter, G N Rutty, Cory A Mermer, Amara Ezeonyeji, Steph Jewitt, Leigh Poyser, Tom Stadward, Peter Blair, Peter Fleming, Martin Ward Platt
	BMJ  2000;321:1019, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1019 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Global medical knowledge database
	Paul Davison, Adrian Midgley
	BMJ  2000;321:1020, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1020 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Second editorial on GMC is ironic
	Brian D Keighley
	BMJ  2000;321:1020, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1020/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Isolated systolic hypertension
	Alexander J N I F Jablánczy, Geoffrey H Robb
	BMJ  2000;321:1021, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1021 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Disability one year after head injury
	E B Ritson, Sharon Thornhill, Graham M Teasdale, Gordon D Murray, James McEwen, Christopher W Roy, Kay I Penny
	BMJ  2000;321:1021, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1021/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Upward trend in acute anaphylaxis continued in 1998-9
	Richard Wilson
	BMJ  2000;321:1021, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1021/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Provision of age appropriate health services for young people has been ignored
	Russell Viner, Aidan Macfarlane
	BMJ  2000;321:1022, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1022 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Emergence of multidrug resistant pneumococci in India
	Vipin M Vashishtha
	BMJ  2000;321:1022, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1022/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When people would choose treatment has wide implications
	Tom Marshall
	BMJ  2000;321:1022, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1022/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anaesthesia is also risky in patients with porphyria
	Susan deC Baker, Bruce Taylor
	BMJ  2000;321:1023, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1023 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Presumed consent further undermines medical ethics
	Roger M Goss
	BMJ  2000;321:1023, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1023/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eating disorders are becoming more common in the East too
	Sing Lee
	BMJ  2000;321:1023, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1023/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Margaret Pollak • David Quentin Borsey • Edward James Horgan • Annabel Joyce-Jenkins • Robert Knox • Elizabeth Susan Lear (née Allen) • Eric Samuel Machell • Donald Watt MacLean • Donald Cameron Watson
	Eric Stroud, Jeff Green, S Horgan, R Willoughby, Guan Lim, E A Richardson, Alistair Howitt, David Lear, Douglas Pearce, John Howie, Richard B McConnell, G Jackson Rees
	BMJ  2000;321:1024, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1024 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;321:1030, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1030 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	A memorable patient: Never has a three hour flight seemed so long
	Thomas C Martin
	BMJ  2000;321:993, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.993 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Untied
	Jeremy Holmes
	BMJ  2000;321:999, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.999 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Only one publication!
	BMJ  2000;321:1002, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1002/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	The management of anal warts
	BMJ  2000;321:974 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Letters
	BMJ  2000;321:1014 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal view
	BMJ  2000;321:1014 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	News
	BMJ  2000;321:1014 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Handbook of Diseases of the Hair and Scalp
	Michael Binder
	BMJ  2000;321:1026, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1026 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Risk Communication and Public Health
	John C Licciardone
	BMJ  2000;321:1026, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1026/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Timechart History of Medicine
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  2000;321:1027, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1027 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Killers in the Brain: Essays in Science and Technology from the Royal Institution
	Saty Satya-Murti
	BMJ  2000;321:1027, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1027/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

FILM

	Film: Two minutes to change minds
	Jason Roach, Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2000;321:1028, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1028 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Innovation
	BMJ  2000;321, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2000;321:1027, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1027/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Innovation
	BMJ  2000;321, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.0/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Drivers' visual acuity
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  2000;321:1028, doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1028/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

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PSST!! Know any good topics for theme issues? [Full text]

Results of website and BMA members' vote on shortlist of 20 suggestions [Full text]

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