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Volume 172(1);  January 2000
Articles
Best Practice
Topics in Review: Cost-effective evaluation of acute viral hepatitis
Aijaz Ahmed and Emmet B Keeffe
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 29–32.
PMCID: PMC1070718
All patients with acute hepatitis must be observed until the acute liver injury resolves.
David E Johnston
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 32–33.
PMCID: PMC1070719
Topics in Review: Lessons learned from and future expectations of complex emergencies
Frederick M Burkle, Jr
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 33–38.
PMCID: PMC1070720
Topics in Review: Anti-vascular therapy: a new approach to cancer treatment
A J Hayes, L Y Li, and M E Lippman
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 39–42.
PMCID: PMC1070721
Medicine Cabinet: Use of methadone
Ilene B Anderson and Thomas E Kearney
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 43–46.
PMCID: PMC1070723
Curbside Consult: Does “white coat hypertension” increase the risk for any adverse outcome from hypertension?
Joel A Simon
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 47–48.
PMCID: PMC1070724
Toolbox: Assessing and managing male sexual problems
Alain Gregoire
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 49–50.
PMCID: PMC1070726
Culture and Medicine
Screening patients for alcohol, tobacco, and other drug misuse: the role of brief interventions
Cesar A Aristeiguieta
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 53–57.
PMCID: PMC1070728
Editor's Pick
Editor's Pick
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 1.
PMCID: PMC1070702
In the Public Eye
News and Features: Controversy erupts over reuse of “single use” medical devices
Fred Charatan
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 58–59.
PMCID: PMC1070731
News and Features: International report reassesses ways to cut maternal mortality
James Ciment
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 59.
PMCID: PMC1070732
News and Features: Furby not guilty as “charged”
Greg Basky
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 59.
PMCID: PMC1070748
News and Features: Missouri fines Internet pharmacy
Douglas Carnall
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 60.
PMCID: PMC1070733
News and Features: Doctors feel the pressure from direct to consumer advertising
David Spurgeon
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 60.
PMCID: PMC1070749
News and Features: Health situation in former communist bloc is dire, says Unicef
James Ciment
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 61.
PMCID: PMC1070734
News and Features: Big health insurer gives physicians final say in treatment
Fred Charatan
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 61.
PMCID: PMC1070750
Mail
More on herpes zoster lesions
Jerome Litvinoff
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 10.
PMCID: PMC1070707
Should doctors disclose mistakes?
Kenneth K Renwick, Jr
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 10.
PMCID: PMC1070741
Med.Pix
An elderly woman with a warm, painful finger
Joel M Geiderman and Richard P Usatine
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 51–52.
PMCID: PMC1070727
Op-Ed
Treatment of substance misuse in the new century
Sheila B Blume
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 4–5.
PMCID: PMC1070703
Congress and the Pain Relief Promotion Act
Jack P Freer
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 5–6.
PMCID: PMC1070704
Conflict, what conflict?
Michael S Wilkes
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 6–8.
PMCID: PMC1070705
Functional foods: health boon or quackery?
Michael F Jacobson, Bruce Silverglade, and Ilene R Heller
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 8–9.
PMCID: PMC1070706
Original Research
Toxicology and pathology of deaths related to methadone: retrospective review
Steven B Karch and Boyd G Stephens
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 11–14.
PMCID: PMC1070708
Is methadone a miracle cure or an alternative evil?
Robert S Hoffman
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 15–16.
PMCID: PMC1070709
Risk of hepatitis B infection among young injection drug users in San Francisco: opportunities for intervention
Karen H Seal, Brian R Edlin, Kristen C Ochoa, Jacqueline P Tulsky, Andrew R Moss, and Judith A Hahn
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 16–20.
PMCID: PMC1070710
Vaccination could improve overall health in a high risk population.
Holly Hagan
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 21.
PMCID: PMC1070712
Relation between income inequality and mortality: empirical demonstration
Michael C Wolfson, George Kaplan, John Lynch, Nancy Ross, and Eric Backlund
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 22–24.
PMCID: PMC1070713
Income inequalities and health disparities
E Richard Brown
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 25.
PMCID: PMC1070714
Other Content
Capsule: Nostrils smell differently
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 20.
PMCID: PMC1070711
Netphiles: Babies in pain
Douglas Carnall
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 25.
PMCID: PMC1070742
Capsule: Women suffer more motion sickness
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 42.
PMCID: PMC1070722
Capsule: Doctors prefer oral contraceptives
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 42.
PMCID: PMC1070746
The power of the prune
Abraham Broudy
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 48.
PMCID: PMC1070725
Case Study and Discussion
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 56.
PMCID: PMC1070729
Capsule: Why widowers drink more
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 57.
PMCID: PMC1070730
Capsule: Placebos for pin-pricks
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 57.
PMCID: PMC1070747
100 YEARS AGO
E Briggs
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 65.
PMCID: PMC1070738
Research Digest
Slow-release morphine was not more effective than methadone in reducing neonatal abstinence syndrome
G Fischer, R Jagsch, and H Eder
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 26.
PMCID: PMC1070715
Dominic T S Lee
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 26.
PMCID: PMC1070743
Brief physician advice reduced drinking in older adults
MF Fleming, LB Manwell, and KL Barry
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 27.
PMCID: PMC1070716
Pete Sudbury
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 27.
PMCID: PMC1070744
Exercise training for patients with chronic heart failure reduced mortality and cardiac events and improved quality of life
R Belardinelli, D Georgiou, G Cianci, and A Purcaro
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 28.
PMCID: PMC1070717
Catherine Demers and Robert S McKelvie
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 28.
PMCID: PMC1070745
Visual Commentary
A drug culture different than our own
David Heiden
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 72.
PMCID: PMC1070740
West of the Rockies
Speaker's Corner: Angel's stigma
Paula Lozano
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 62.
PMCID: PMC1070735
Addiction is a treatable disease, not a moral failing.
Robert A Matano and Stanley F Wanat
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 63.
PMCID: PMC1070736
Speaker's Corner: Wrestling with the covenant
Ross DeHovitz
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 64–65.
PMCID: PMC1070737
Letter from the Southwest: A declaration of interdependence
Mark Carroll
West J Med. 2000 January; 172(1): 66.
PMCID: PMC1070739
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