This week's This week in the BMJ

	Low dose aspirin with heparin improves prognosis in women with recurrent miscarriages [Full text] FREE

	Cardiac services are used least by those who need them most [Full text] FREE

	More beds is not the answer to shortage of acute psychiatric beds [Full text] FREE

	Neuroleptic drugs hasten decline in cognitive function in dementia [Full text] FREE

	Methods of determining cause of death in clinical research are unclear and unreliable [Full text] FREE

	Risk of stroke is related to quality of blood pressure control [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Gulf war illness
	Anthony David, Susan Ferry, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  1997;314:239 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outbreaks of E coli
	R L Salmon
	BMJ  1997;314:241 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pig transplants postponed
	Peter J Morris
	BMJ  1997;314:242 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cervical carotid or vertebral artery dissection
	Stavia B Blunt, Clare Galton
	BMJ  1997;314:243 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antiphospholipid (Hughes') syndrome
	Munther A Khamashta, Charles Mackworth-Young
	BMJ  1997;314:245 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Time to look again at sight tests
	Richard Wormald, Scott Fraser, Catey Bunce
	BMJ  1997;314:246 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	London's mental health services in crisis
	Max Marshall
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Suspension of nurse who gave drug on consultant's instructions
	D M D White, Jonathan Hillam, Max Harper, Martin Vernon, Gerry Bennett, Hilary Scott, Anton Valmana, Joan Rutherford, Jonathan Scott, Edwina R L Williams
	BMJ  1997;314:299 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Criticism of study of childhood leukaemia near French nuclear reprocessing plant is unfounded
	Jean-François Viel
	BMJ  1997;314:301 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study design and nature of diabetes may explain findings of Finnish study
	Nish Chaturvedi, John H Fuller
	BMJ  1997;314:301 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Data on eligibility for thrombolytic treatment can indeed be generalised
	John K French, Harvey D White
	BMJ  1997;314:301 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Promoting health in prisons
	J M Hall, Donald Acheson
	BMJ  1997;314:302 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do fetuses feel pain?
	Peter McCullagh, P J Saunders
	BMJ  1997;314:302 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Computerised automatic warnings about drug interactions are now available
	Ivan H Stockley
	BMJ  1997;314:303 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Differences in mortality between African Caribbean and European people with non-insulin dependent diabetes
	Ikechukwu Obialo Azuonye, Veena Soni Raleigh, Paul Roderick, Martin C Gulliford, Nish Chaturvedi, J H Fuller, John Jarrett, Nick Morrish, Harry Keen
	BMJ  1997;314:303 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	IgA content of immunoglobulin preparation was overstated
	Jonathan P Sheard
	BMJ  1997;314:305 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	High voltage power lines and risk of cancer
	M J O'Carroll, Pia Verkasalo, Jaakko Kaprio, Kauko Heikkilä, Eero Pukkala, Markku Koskenvuo
	BMJ  1997;314:305 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors, nurses, and terminal care
	J C Hughes, Paul Siklos, Rosemary Kennedy
	BMJ  1997;314:306 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating shackled patients
	Ilora G Finlay, B S Dwarak Sastry, Gareth A O Thomas, Sarah J Pearce, Vivienne Nathanson
	BMJ  1997;314:306 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	New authority to monitor xenotransplantation experiments
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hay fever drug to be banned by the FDA
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text]

	ECT clinics are below standard
	Jacuqi Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text]

	E coli inquiry calls for stricter laws on selling meat
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text]

	Move to bring back medical officer of health
	Jack Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text]

	French patient contracts AIDS from surgeon
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text]

	Police could bug surgeries
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text]

	Surrogate mother refuses to give up baby
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Proposal to stop bad doctors setting up elsewhere
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text]

	Review proposes more emergency care in the community
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text]

	Communication overcomes junior doctors' concerns
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text]

	Genetics "shop" to open in Manchester airport
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Washington – US medicine marches slowly toward UK solution
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1997;314:247 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Information needed to decide about cardiovascular treatment in primary care
	John Robson
	BMJ  1997;314:277 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Women's need for information before attending genetic counselling for familial breast or ovarian cancer: a questionnaire, interview, and observational study
	N Hallowell, F Murton, H Statham, J M Green, M P M Richards
	BMJ  1997;314:281 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	Mark Pallen
	BMJ  1997;314:284 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: screening for asymptomatic colorectal cancer
	Hugh E Mulcahy, Michael J G Farthing, Diarmuid P O'Donoghue
	BMJ  1997;314:285 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Carotid dissection causing stroke in a child with migraine
	V Ganesan, F J Kirkham
	BMJ  1997;314:291 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Grand Rounds--Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Birmingham: Systemic lupus erythematosus
	P Cockwell
	BMJ  1997;314:292 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Case-control study of stroke and the quality of hypertension control in north west England
	Xianglin Du, Kennedy Cruickshank, Roseanne McNamee, Mohamad Saraee, Joan Sourbutts, Alison Summers, Nick Roberts, Elizabeth Walton, Stephen Holmes
	BMJ  1997;314:272 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Burns Night dos and don'ts
	James Drife
	BMJ  1997;314:311 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A sense of belonging
	Krishna Kumar
	BMJ  1997;314:311 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Managing Scarcity: Priority Setting and Rationing in the National Health Service, by Rudolf Klein, Patricia Day, Sharon Redmayne
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  1997;314:313 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health Effects of Exposure to Low Level Ionising Radiation, by Ed William R Hendee, F Marc Edwards
	Cameron Bowie
	BMJ  1997;314:313 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Funding the NHS: Is the NHS sustainable?
	Anthony Harrison, Jennifer Dixon, Bill New, Ken Judge
	BMJ  1997;314:296 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

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

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: The bicycle and the appendix
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my practice: The question that made all the difference
	Sarah Beesley
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One Hundred Years Ago: The condition of the miner today
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Metabolic effects of antihypertensive treatment should not be overstated
	BMJ  1997;314:307 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Responding to change
	John Bennett
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The NHS Executive's Women's Unit has produced a number of ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: There has been some concern that shorter specialist training which ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Medical gap years in Australia aren't as easy to arrange ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Finding and citing articles on this page is now easier ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3c [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Do no harm and do more good for those who need it most
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Di braves minefield
	Vivienne Nathanson
	BMJ  1997;314:312 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	The NHS should not rely on overseas doctors • BMA stress counselling service to continue • Mature medical students are disadvantaged • GPs to get guidance on primary care bill
	BMJ  1997;314:310 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Saeed Ahmad Khan • Bernard Hugh Pentney • Harry Munro Archibald • Roger Cooper • Francis Thomas ("Frank") Doleman • Malvina ("Malca") Harris • Muwaffak Abdul Hussain • Andrew Waring Jowett • Richard Baillie ("Dick") Laidlaw • Frances Elizabeth O'Connor-Wilson (née O'Connor) • Thomas Richardson • Alfred Sands ("Alf") Rogen • Thomas Edward Tasker • Pauline Jane Watson
	BMJ  1997;314:308 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Randomised controlled trial of aspirin and aspirin plus heparin in pregnant women with recurrent miscarriage associated with phospholipid antibodies (or antiphospholipid antibodies)
	R Rai, H Cohen, M Dave, L Regan
	BMJ  1997;314:253 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Variations in use of cardiology services in a health authority: comparison of coronary artery revascularisation rates with prevalence of angina and coronary mortality
	Nick Payne, Carol Saul
	BMJ  1997;314:257 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Relation between bed use, social deprivation, and overall bed availability in acute adult psychiatric units, and alternative residential options: a cross sectional survey, one day census data, and staff interviews
	G Shepherd, A Beadsmoore, C Moore, P Hardy, M Muijen
	BMJ  1997;314:262 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Do neuroleptic drugs hasten cognitive decline in dementia? Prospective study with necropsy follow up
	Rupert McShane, Janet Keene, Kathy Gedling, Christopher Fairburn, Robin Jacoby, Tony Hope
	BMJ  1997;314:266 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evaluating the reliability of causes of death in published clinical research
	R D Start, J P Bury, A G Strachan, S S Cross, J C E Underwood
	BMJ  1997;314:271 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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