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Volume 172(2);  February 2000
Articles
Best Practice
Clinical Evidence: Chronic prostatitis
Jeffrey A Stern and Anthony J Schaeffer
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 98–101.
PMCID: PMC1070766
Medicine Cabinet: How medications affect thyroid function
Betty J Dong
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 102–106.
PMCID: PMC1070767
Topics in Review: Use of opioids to treat chronic, noncancer pain
Barry D Dickinson, Roy D Altman, Nancy H Nielsen, and Michael A Williams
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 107–115.
PMCID: PMC1070769
Topics in Review: Update on Alzheimer's disease: recent findings and treatments
Ruth O'Hara, Martin S Mumenthaler, and Jerome A Yesavage
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 115–120.
PMCID: PMC1070770
Curbside Consult: Chronic back pain: does bed rest help?
Michael S Wilkes
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 121.
PMCID: PMC1070772
Culture and Medicine
Emotional dimensions of chronic disease
Jane Turner and Brian Kelly
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 124–128.
PMCID: PMC1070773
How to deal with medically unknown symptoms
Brenda Sabo, Michel R Joffres, and Timothy Williams
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 128–130.
PMCID: PMC1070774
When AIDS became a chronic disease
Jean Scandlyn
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 130–133.
PMCID: PMC1070775
Individualized stepped care of chronic illness
Michael Von Korff and Bea Tiemens
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 133–137.
PMCID: PMC1070776
Editor's Pick
Editor's Pick
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 73.
PMCID: PMC1070751
In the Public Eye
News and Features: Compensation awarded for death after illegible prescription
Fred Charatan
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 80.
PMCID: PMC1070756
News and Features: US board of education advises against drugs for behavioral problems
Fred Charatan
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 80–81.
PMCID: PMC1070779
News and Features: HMO sues charity over domain name
Douglas Carnall
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 81.
PMCID: PMC1070757
News and Features: Passive smoking is more risky for women with a missing gene
Scott Gottlieb
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 81.
PMCID: PMC1070780
Mail
Ask patients which herbal drugs they smoke as well as eat
Tsung O Cheng
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 82.
PMCID: PMC1070758
Clinicians in private practice give generously in teaching time
Charles M Farr
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 82–83.
PMCID: PMC1070781
Med.Pix
A cutaneous manifestation of a systemic disease
Richard P Usatine
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 84.
PMCID: PMC1070760
Op-Ed
Who pays the bill and who makes the profit in treating chronic disease?
John Roberts
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 76–77.
PMCID: PMC1070752
Who should care for people with chronic diseases?
Barbara P Yawn
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 77–78.
PMCID: PMC1070753
The epidemic of obesity
George A Bray and Jennie Macdiarmid
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 78–79.
PMCID: PMC1070754
Original Research
Case-control study of 10 years of comprehensive diabetes care
Jonathan Betz Brown, Harry S Glauber, and Gregory A Nichols
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 85–90.
PMCID: PMC1070761
Randomized, controlled trial of glucosamine for treating osteoarthritis of the knee
Joseph P Rindone, Debra Hiller, Edward Collacott, Natalie Nordhaugen, and Greg Arriola
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 91–94.
PMCID: PMC1070762
Use of alternative products: where's the beef?
Michael D Katz
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 95.
PMCID: PMC1070763
Other Content
BIBA but LGFTD
George Dunea
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 79.
PMCID: PMC1070755
ATTENTION MEDICAL WRITERS AND EDITORS
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 83.
PMCID: PMC1070759
Scientific Jargon
Dyrk Schingman
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 106.
PMCID: PMC1070768
A Book to Make You Think
Haroon Saloojee
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 120.
PMCID: PMC1070771
Research Digest
Magnesium sulfate is effective for severe acute asthma treated in the emergency department
BH Rowe, JA Bretzlaff, C Bourdon, GW Bota, and CA Camargo, Jr
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 96.
PMCID: PMC1070764
J Mark FitzGerald
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 96.
PMCID: PMC1070782
Ovarian cancer screening was feasible but did not decrease incidence of index cancer or mortality
IJ Jacobs, SJ Skates, and N MacDonald
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 97.
PMCID: PMC1070765
Robert Gluckman
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 97.
PMCID: PMC1070783
West of the Rockies
Speaker's Corner: Living with thalassemia
Laurice M Compagno
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 138–139.
PMCID: PMC1070777
Poetry: Om Tat Sat—Peace in the Oneness of Nature
Angela Lobo-Cobb
West J Med. 2000 February; 172(2): 139.
PMCID: PMC1070778
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