This week's This week in the BMJ

	Out of hours: GPs, deputising services, and GP cooperatives handle patients differently [Full text] FREE

	Concussive convulsions after sports injury are not serious [Full text] FREE

	Less frequent follow up in breast cancer is not associated with deterioration in health [Full text] FREE

	Vigabatrin may cause visual field constriction [Full text] FREE

	Demand for renal services will rise as ethnic minorities age [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Out of hours primary care
	Lesley Hallam
	BMJ  1997;314:157 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Epilepsy: getting the diagnosis right
	J W A S Sander, M F O'Donoghue
	BMJ  1997;314:158 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lack of oats toxicity in coeliac disease
	Jacques Schmitz
	BMJ  1997;314:159 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hysterectomy: will it pay the bills in 2007?
	R J Lilford
	BMJ  1997;314:160 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drinking before sedation
	S M Greenfield, G J M Webster, F R Vicary
	BMJ  1997;314:162 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Non-invasive ventilation for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	David R Baldwin, Martin B Allen
	BMJ  1997;314:163 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Don't treat shackled patients
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:164 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Data are not now collected by ethnic group in South Africa
	Alexander R P Walker
	BMJ  1997;314:220 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dealing with patients with HIV infection
	Hilary Curtis, Paul P Walker, Emma F Fox, Nicola A Smith, Caroline S Bradbeer, Peter Daggett
	BMJ  1997;314:220 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Activists in India are promoting good health of babies through breast feeding
	N B Kumta
	BMJ  1997;314:221 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Having some lifesaving skills must be better than having none
	Andrea Wills
	BMJ  1997;314:222 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical effects of anticoagulants in suspected acute myocardial infarction
	Michael A James, Stuart Hood, David Birnie, Rory Collins, Colin Baigent, Richard Peto, D Ketley, K L Woods
	BMJ  1997;314:222 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Metabolic effects of antihypertensive treatment should not be overstated
	Peter H Winocour
	BMJ  1997;314:223 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' arguments about infertility services were based on a misunderstanding
	Suzanne McCarthy
	BMJ  1997;314:224 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Investigations to diagnose cause of dizziness in elderly people
	Sarah Caine, Margaret MacMahon, Philip Evans, Denis Pereira Gray, Russell Steele, Kieran Sweeney, Nicki Colledge, Janet Wilson
	BMJ  1997;314:224 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Implementing guidance on hepatitis B for applicants to medical school is time consuming
	Siân Williams, Catherine Ellinghouse, Brenda Griffiths, Anne Cockcroft
	BMJ  1997;314:225 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Predicting adverse cardiac events after myocardial infarction and thrombolysis
	Andrew Archbold, Adam D Timmis, Simon Grant, Rick Steeds, Kevin Channer, Sumit Basu, R Senior, A Lahiri, C Dore
	BMJ  1997;314:225 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Varicella vaccine in pregnancy
	Peter V Coyle, Conall McCaughey, Dorothy E Wyatt, Hugh J O'Neill, William L Irving
	BMJ  1997;314:226 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Methods of surveying patients' satisfaction
	Katherine T Gavin, Michael J Turner, Richard Fielding, Anthony Hedley, Jeannie Cheang, Anita Lee
	BMJ  1997;314:227 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deprivation payments to general practitioners
	Madhavi Bajekal, Ronan Lyons, Martin Heaven, Stephen Monaghan, Peter Donnelly, Mark Ashworth, John Shanks, John Sandhu, Brian Jarman, Max Oliver
	BMJ  1997;314:227 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Microbiologists are available 24 hours a day to give advice
	David S Reeves
	BMJ  1997;314:229 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Decision to resect an adrenal mass depends on size of mass and age of patient
	Anup K Sharma, Malcolm H Wheeler
	BMJ  1997;314:229 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pessimistic views of the NHS
	Neil Watson, Kath Checkland
	BMJ  1997;314:230 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	First patient was airlifted from highlands of Scotland in 1933, not 1953
	A M Campbell
	BMJ  1997;314:230 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	India to control foreign research involving Indian patients
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1997;314:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	Court hears assisted suicide debate
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1997;314:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors involved in human rights' abuses in Kenya
	Christina Bunce
	BMJ  1997;314:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hormone scandal hits France
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;314:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	Baby milk companies accused of breaching marketing code
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	Gulf war syndrome linked to chemical exposure
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;314:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	End to state regulation of health costs in New York
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;314:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hong Kong University turns down tobacco money
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1997;314:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	No risk of breast cancer with abortions
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Belgium bans tobacco advertising
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1997;314:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	Fetal bone marrow transplants spark hope for genetic diseases
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;314:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	Tonsil test hope for CJD
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	Blood tests urged for CJD carriers
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1997;314:165 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Paediatric anaesthesia
	S C S Russell, E Doyle
	BMJ  1997;314:201 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Science, medicine, and the future: Role of molecular cell biology in understanding disease
	John Savill
	BMJ  1997;314:203 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: prevalence of concomitant disease in patients with iron deficiency anaemia
	Simon H Till, Michael J Grundman
	BMJ  1997;314:206 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Observational study of a general practice out of hours cooperative: measures of activity
	Chris Salisbury
	BMJ  1997;314:182 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of out of hours care provided by patients' own general practitioners and commercial deputising services: a randomised controlled trial. I: The process of care
	D K Cragg, R K McKinley, M O Roland, S M Campbell, F Van, A M Hastings, D P French, T K Manku-Scott, C Roberts
	BMJ  1997;314:187 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of out of hours care provided by patients' own general practitioners and commercial deputising services: a randomised controlled trial. II: the outcome of care
	R K McKinley, D K Cragg, A M Hastings, D P French, T K Manku-Scott, S M Campbell, F Van, M O Roland, C Roberts
	BMJ  1997;314:190 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reliability and validity of a new measure of patient satisfaction with out of hours primary medical care in the united kingdom: development of a patient questionnaire
	Robert K McKinley, Terjinder Manku-Scott, Adrian M Hastings, David P French, Richard Baker
	BMJ  1997;314:193 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Nurse telephone triage in out of hours primary care: a pilot study
	BMJ  1997;314:198 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Changing the pattern out of hours: a survey of general practice cooperatives
	Lynda Jessopp, Imogen Beck, Lisa Hollins, Cathy Shipman, Mark Reynolds, Jeremy Dale
	BMJ  1997;314:199 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Mangia meno (eat less)
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1997;314:234 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From catamaran to Cantabrigia
	P Badrinath
	BMJ  1997;314:234 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Helping Children with Ill or Disabled Parents, by Julia Segal, John Simkins
	Anna Sharma
	BMJ  1997;314:237 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minefields in their Hearts, by Ed Roberta J Apfel, Bennet Simon
	Manuel Carballo
	BMJ  1997;314:237 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Diabetes and hypertension in britain's ethnic minorities: implications for the future of renal services
	Veena Soni Raleigh
	BMJ  1997;314:209 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Association of use of a log book and experience as a preregistration house officer: interview survey
	Elisabeth Paice, Fiona Moss, Georgina West, Janet Grant
	BMJ  1997;314:213 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: educational initiatives deserve randomised controlled trials
	David Machin
	BMJ  1997;314:216 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Funding the NHS: A little local difficulty?
	Jennifer Dixon, Anthony Harrison
	BMJ  1997;314:216 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:238 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Opening my mind:
	Chandrakala Malpani
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mistakes avoided: On life and death certificates
	D Ashley R Watson
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Child B: a personal view:
	J A Dowey
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Deceived by appearances
	Jacqueline Napier
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Audiological medicine
	Cliodna O Mahoney
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: LATS (the London Academic Training Scheme) used to stand for ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: I have a dream: that one day every medical school ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Television can help medicine
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	French angst over nuclear power
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;314:235 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital closures: for good or for ill?
	Liam J Donaldson
	BMJ  1997;314:236 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Doctors continue to report funding problems • BMA wants to meet health secretary on white papers • GPs seek amendments to primary care bill
	BMJ  1997;314:233 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Harry Angelman • Shevan AbdulKarim Ayoub • Walter Calvert • Sheila Mary Ross Dronfield (née Williams) • Jean Lilian Hallum • Edward Harford-Rees • Frank Edward Hobbs • Air Vice Marshall Thomas ("Tom") Conchar Macdonald • Thomas Goronwy Owen • Alex Norman Barron Stott • Basil Strickland • Jennifer Ann Thomson (née Chown)
	BMJ  1997;314:231 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Retrospective study of concussive convulsions in elite Australian rules and rugby league footballers: phenomenology, aetiology, and outcome
	Paul R McCrory, Peter F Bladin, Samuel F Berkovic
	BMJ  1997;314:171 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Popularity of less frequent follow up for breast cancer in randomised study: initial findings from the hotline study
	Tim Gulliford, Magi Opomu, Elena Wilson, Iain Hanham, Richard Epstein
	BMJ  1997;314:174 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Weight loss in people with Alzheimer's disease: a prospective population based analysis
	Diane Cronin-Stubbs, Laurel A Beckett, Paul A Scherr, Terry S Field, Marilyn J Chown, David M Pilgrim, David A Bennett, Denis A Evans
	BMJ  1997;314:178 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of hepatitis C antibodies among healthcare workers of two teaching hospitals. Who is at risk?
	Keith R Neal, John Dornan, Will L Irving
	BMJ  1997;314:179 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Severe persistent visual field constriction associated with vigabatrin
	T Eke, J F Talbot, M C Lawden
	BMJ  1997;314:180 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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