This week's This week in the BMJ

	Short children are not necessarily at a psychosocial disadvantage [Full text] FREE

	Environmental contamination with radiation is associated with childhood leukaemia clusters [Full text] FREE

	When does the fetus become a viable baby? [Full text] FREE

	Replacing dietary saturated fat with other fats significantly reduces blood cholesterol [Full text] FREE

	Validation of a near patient test for H pylori [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Advising patients with genital herpes
	Raj Patel, Frances M Cowan, Simon E Barton
	BMJ  1997;314:85 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Setting priorities New Zealand-style
	Jennifer Dixon, Bill New
	BMJ  1997;314:86 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
	Sean W O'Kelly, Edward L Bove
	BMJ  1997;314:87 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"I've just been bitten by a dog"
	Fionna Moore
	BMJ  1997;314:88 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meeting the information needs of health workers in developing countries
	Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Carol Priestley, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:90 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Widow's attempt to use her dead husband's sperm
	Kamal K Ahuja, Geraldine Emerson, Angela Seaton, Julian Mamiso, Eric G Simons, Douglas Black
	BMJ  1997;314:143 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Serum cholesterol concentration and postpartum depression
	Murray Luckas, William Buckett, Ian Aird, Charles Kingsland, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:143 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fifth of e antigen negative carriers of hepatitis B virus should not perform exposure prone procedures
	E H Boxall, A Ballard
	BMJ  1997;314:144 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Resuscitation witnessed by relatives
	A Goldstein, K Berry, A Callaghan, Kevin Stewart, Lesley Bowker
	BMJ  1997;314:144 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Insulin infusion in diabetic patients with acute myocardial infarction
	B Miles Fisher, John S Yudkin, Gail Davey, Paul McKeigue
	BMJ  1997;314:145 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Disagreements still exist over the chronic fatigue syndrome
	Charles Shepherd
	BMJ  1997;314:146 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating dysentery with metronidazole in Pakistan
	Tariq Iqbal Bhutta, Agnes Vitry
	BMJ  1997;314:146 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Measurement error
	Jacques Massé, J M Bland, J R Doyle, J M Doyle
	BMJ  1997;314:147 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dietary habits and mortality in vegetarians and health conscious people
	A R Ness, J W Powles, John Farnill Morgan, Timothy J A Key, Paul N Appleby, Margaret Thorogood, Michael L Burr
	BMJ  1997;314:148 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safeguards are needed for new proposals for primary care
	Iona Heath, Stephen Amiel
	BMJ  1997;314:149 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Information shared in mentoring must remain confidential
	Rosslynne Freeman
	BMJ  1997;314:149 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism
	M Verstraete
	BMJ  1997;314:123 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Science, medicine, and the future: Molecular genetic approaches to understanding disease
	John Savill
	BMJ  1997;314:126 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Man's best friend: life threatening sepsis after minor dog bite
	D J Mellor, Sunil Bhandari, K Kerr, A R Bodenham
	BMJ  1997;314:129 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Feasibility and effects of nurse run clinics for patients with epilepsy in general practice: randomised controlled trial
	L Ridsdale, D Robins, C Cryer, H Williams
	BMJ  1997;314:120 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of arm movements in patients with coronary heart disease: case-control study
	Alan N Rennie
	BMJ  1997;314:122 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	One born every minute
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1997;314:152 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eroding the trust
	Justine Foster
	BMJ  1997;314:152 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	December bestsellers: BMJ Bookshop
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Social Factors in the Personality Disorders: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Etiology and Treatment, by Joel Paris
	Kwame McKenzie
	BMJ  1997;314:154 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Developing Primary Care–The Academic Contribution: The Conference of Academic Organizations in General Practice, by Ed D J Pereira Gray
	Chris van Wee
	BMJ  1997;314:154 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health and Social Organization–Toward a Health Policy for the 21st Century, by Ed Blane, Brunner, Wilkinson
	George A Kaplan
	BMJ  1997;314:155 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	The New Zealand priority criteria project. Part 1: Overview
	David C Hadorn, Andrew C Holmes
	BMJ  1997;314:131 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: NZ priority criteria][extra: Data Supplement]

	The new zealand priority criteria project. part 2: coronary artery bypass graft surgery
	David C Hadorn, Andrew C Holmes
	BMJ  1997;314:135 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Funding the NHS Can the NHS cope in future?
	Anthony Harrison, Jennifer Dixon, Bill New, Ken Judge
	BMJ  1997;314:139 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:156 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Riotous students
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable interview: None of his business
	Denis Sugrue
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Serious disease saves life:
	G Boss
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Comparing treatments:
	David Duthie
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Insulin resistance
	BMJ  1997;314:134 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Locum Doctors
	Philip Morgan
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Given the potentially career crunching decisions that the Specialist Training ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Commentators in the United States are predicting that there will ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Aesthetically pleasing advertisements (and comfortable locum jobs) can be hard ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Learning about cancer from France and rationing from New Zealand
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Mental illness as metaphor, yet again
	Simon Wessely
	BMJ  1997;314:153 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Bert Geoffrey Achong • Lawrence ("Laurie") Gordon Brock • Gervais Joly Dixon • Ronald Vincent Harris • Henry Vernon Jones • Anne Carmel Marley (née O'Hanlon) • William Gordon Millar • Gavin William Milroy • Jean Pasmore (née Calman) • Bernard Butts Reiss • Kshitindra Nath Sengupta • Andrew Charles Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;314:150 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Are short normal children at a disadvantage? The Wessex growth study
	A Bruce Downie, Jean Mulligan, Robert J Stratford, Peter R Betts, Linda D Voss
	BMJ  1997;314:97 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Case-control study of leukaemia among young people near La Hague nuclear reprocessing plant: the environmental hypothesis revisited
	Dominique Pobel, Jean-Francois Viel
	BMJ  1997;314:101 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Changing prognosis for babies of less than 28 weeks' gestation in the north of England between 1983 and 1994
	Win Tin, Unni Wariyar, Edmund Hey
	BMJ  1997;314:107 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Dietary lipids and blood cholesterol: quantitative meta-analysis of metabolic ward studies
	Robert Clarke, Chris Frost, Rory Collins, Paul Appleby, Richard Peto
	BMJ  1997;314:112 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Thermographic changes in keyboard operators with chronic forearm pain
	S D Sharma, E M Smith, B L Hazleman, J R Jenner
	BMJ  1997;314:118 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Validation of a rapid whole blood test for diagnosing Helicobacter pylori infection
	P Moayyedi, A M Carter, A Catto, R M Heppell, P J Grant, A T R Axon
	BMJ  1997;314:119 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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