This week's This week in the BMJ

	Necropsy data confirm increasing problems with spermatogenesis [Full text] FREE

	Moderate consumption of alcohol reduces mortality in Chinese men [Full text] FREE

	Pain is underestimated in HIV disease [Full text] FREE

	Ad lib, low fat, high carbohydrate diet is best for long term maintenance of body weight [Full text] FREE

	Deprivation payments to GPs cover only about half of extra workload costs [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Does the world need the BMJ?
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:1 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hangovers
	Ian Calder
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Monitoring blood glucose in gestational diabetes
	A Bargiota, R J M Corrall
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Controlling chickenpox in hospitals
	E M Jones, D S Reeves
	BMJ  1997;314:4 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Polymerase chain reaction
	D A J Tyrrell
	BMJ  1997;314:5 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Cyclists should wear helmets
	Adrian Davis, Tony Waterston, Dorothy L Robinson, Richard Keatinge, Mayer Hillman, G H Hall
	BMJ  1997;314:69 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Looking after elderly sick people is core work in general practice
	David B Goss
	BMJ  1997;314:71 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Midwives can help increase uptake of antenatal screening for HIV
	Stephen R Killick, John Craske, Elizabeth Miller
	BMJ  1997;314:71 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When is referral of Heaf test positive schoolchildren worth while?
	David Elliman, Geoffrey E Packe, Helen Booth, Andrew J Cant
	BMJ  1997;314:71 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistical basis of public policy
	Paul Brennan, D R Cox, V T Farewell, Stephen Senn, Ian H Langford, N F Durrant
	BMJ  1997;314:72 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bowel preparation at home in elderly people
	M Lewis, F Rugg-Gunn, C Don, W Woods, C D Hanning
	BMJ  1997;314:74 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What is the prior probability of a proposed new treatment being superior to established treatments?
	Iain Chalmers
	BMJ  1997;314:74 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Oral contraceptives are drug of choice for menorrhagia in the Netherlands
	Sjoerd Zwart, Loes J Meijer
	BMJ  1997;314:75 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgery for mental illness has been proved effective
	R P Snaith
	BMJ  1997;314:75 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors' retainer scheme
	Helen E Macleod, Judith M Chapman
	BMJ  1997;314:75 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Results of American and European studies of thrombolysis in acute stroke are not conflicting
	Askiel Bruno
	BMJ  1997;314:76 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charity has published information booklet about clinical trials in cancer
	Maurice Slevin
	BMJ  1997;314:76 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assuming that developing countries could not afford xenotransplantation is patronising
	C R V Tomson
	BMJ  1997;314:76 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA asks for 53% pay increase
	A E A Joseph, Simon Fordham, E M Armstrong
	BMJ  1997;314:77 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Prospecting for gold in the human genome
	John Savill
	BMJ  1997;314:43 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The future of asthma
	Ian P Hall
	BMJ  1997;314:45 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Penetrating intra-oral trauma in children
	Robert C Law, Claire A Fouque, Angus Waddell, Eleri Cusick
	BMJ  1997;314:50 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Counting the cost of social disadvantage in primary care: retrospective analysis of patient data
	Adrian Worrall, J Nicolas Rea, Yoav Ben-Shlomo
	BMJ  1997;314:38 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	"I need you to sign this, doctor"
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;314:80 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The caring profession
	Andrew Gregan
	BMJ  1997;314:80 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Nagasaki Symposium: Radiation and Human Health Proposal from Nagasaki, by Ed Shigenobu Nagataki, Shunichi Yamashita
	Keith F Baverstock
	BMJ  1997;314:82 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guide to Postgraduate Medical Education, by Brian Keighley, Stuart Murray
	Jill Thistlethwaite
	BMJ  1997;314:82 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health Care Policies and Europe: The Implications for Practice, by Carol Ludvigsen, Kathleen Roberts
	Sallie Nicholas
	BMJ  1997;314:83 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	BMJ creates an editorial board
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:52 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Series: Funding the NHS. Is the NHS underfunded?
	Jennifer Dixon, Anthony Harrison, Bill New
	BMJ  1997;314:58 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A difficult case: Childhood onset insulin dependent diabetes presenting with severe hyperlipidaemia
	Godfrey Nyamugunduru, Helen Roper
	BMJ  1997;314:62 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	First priority is to decrease the severity of hyperchylomicronaemia
	Gilbert R Thompson
	BMJ  1997;314:62 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Late diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis and underlying disease influence response to treatment
	P J Manning, W Sutherland, J I Mann
	BMJ  1997;314:63 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Actual management: partial separation of excess lipid from plasma
	Godfrey Nyamugunduru, Helen Roper
	BMJ  1997;314:64 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Traitement héroique?
	Gilbert R Thompson
	BMJ  1997;314:65 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hyperchylomicronaemia might have resolved anyway
	P J Manning, W Sutherland, J I Mann
	BMJ  1997;314:65 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Getting published in the BMJ: advice to authors
	BMJ  1997;314:66 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:84 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	When I Use A Word . . .: Got an ology?
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Patient Who Changed My Practice: The innocuous statement
	Eric Hainsworth
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Words To The Wise: Learning from the past
	W M Dixon
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I Use A Word . . .: Shalom Salmonella
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A paper that changed my practice: Making sense
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Should breast reduction surgery be rationed?
	BMJ  1997;314:77 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Non-principal or partner?
	Naomi Craft
	BMJ  1997;314:2a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The BMJ: crisper, cleaner, larger type, and with more science
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

SELECTION

This week's SELECTION

	Selection
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Keeping the bad news from journalists
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:81 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA starts sanctions against Benefits Agency Medical Services • Consultants continue to criticise underfunding • Efficiency savings affect Ulster's health service • Consultants will review 10% limit on private practice
	BMJ  1997;314:79 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Idris Jones • J R Borg • Bernard Stringfellow Carter • Robert Fisher ("Bob") Coggins • Ian McBride • Stephen Reginald James McNamara
	BMJ  1997;314:78 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Incidence of disorders of spermatogenesis in middle aged Finnish men, 1981-91: two necropsy series
	Jarkko Pajarinen, Pekka Laippala, Antti Penttila, Pekka J Karhunen
	BMJ  1997;314:13 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Follow up study of moderate alcohol intake and mortality among middle aged men in Shanghai, China
	Jian-Min Yuan, Ronald K Ross, Yu-Tang Gao, Brian E Henderson, Mimi C Yu
	BMJ  1997;314:18 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Underestimation and undertreatment of pain in HIV disease: multicentre study
	François Larue, Alain Fontaine, Sophie M Colleau
	BMJ  1997;314:23 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised comparison of diets for maintaining obese subjects' weight after major weight loss: ad lib, low fat, high carbohydrate dietv fixed energy intake
	Søren Toubro, Arne Astrup
	BMJ  1997;314:29 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Longitudinal study of the effect of apolipoprotein e4 allele on the association between education and cognitive decline in elderly men
	Sandra Kalmijn, Edith J M Feskens, Lenore J Launer, Daan Kromhout
	BMJ  1997;314:34 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Coma induced by abuse of -hydroxybutyrate (GBH or liquid ecstasy): a case report
	Gareth Thomas, Stephen Bonner, Alastair Gascoigne
	BMJ  1997;314:35 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Why don't cancer patients get entered into clinical trials? Experience of the Sheffield Lymphoma Group's collaboration in British National Lymphoma Investigation studies
	B W Hancock, M Aitken, C Radstone, G Vaughan Hudson
	BMJ  1997;314:36 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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