This week's This week in the BMJ

	New recombinant vaccine improves protection against hepatitis B [Full text] FREE

	Prophylactic antibiotics for children with measles seem to have little effect on mortality [Full text] FREE

	Respiratory disease persists in survivors of the Bhopal gas leak [Full text] FREE

	Patients with Hodgkin's disease have too many follow up visits [Full text] FREE

	Children susceptible to glue ear have more rather than longer episodes of effusion [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	New guidelines on asthma management
	Duncan Keeley, John Rees
	BMJ  1997;314:315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing measles
	Greg Hussey
	BMJ  1997;314:316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing vitamin A deficiency
	Andrew R Potter
	BMJ  1997;314:317 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgery, drugs, and the male orgasm
	William D Dunsmuir, Mark Emberton
	BMJ  1997;314:319 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cardiac sarcoidosis
	D N Mitchell, R M du Bois, P J Oldershaw
	BMJ  1997;314:320 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Telling patients they have Alzheimer's disease
	Barnett S Meyers
	BMJ  1997;314:321 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Bed shortages
	Peter G M Wallace, Paul G Lawler, J Wardrope
	BMJ  1997;314:369 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Delay in diagnosis of homocystinuria
	Michael P Champion, Charles Turner, Susan Bird, R Neil Dalton, Ian McDowell, Don Bradley
	BMJ  1997;314:369 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Future of the NHS will be one of change
	Kate Mackay
	BMJ  1997;314:370 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Many claims about passive smoking are inadequately justified
	Peter N Lee
	BMJ  1997;314:371 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Congenital anterior abdominal wall defects
	Carole Luck, Jacqui Scrutton, James Chalmers, Joan Forrest, Beatrice Cant, Mark Hollinsworth, E Dillon, M Renwick, J Rankin, Mark D Stringer, Gerald Mason
	BMJ  1997;314:371 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Giving influenza vaccination to all elderly people would raise ethical issues
	Debra King, Rosemary Morgan
	BMJ  1997;314:373 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Helping parents to cope when their preschool children are acutely ill
	Piero Impicciatore, Andrea Violante, Maurizio Bonati, Joy Townsend, Fiona Taylor, Zoe Clapp, Morag McKinnon
	BMJ  1997;314:373 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Many trusts find labour productivity index useful
	Chris Brown
	BMJ  1997;314:374 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Babinski sign
	P H W Rayner, Tom Hughes
	BMJ  1997;314:374 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Associate specialists are included in colleges' scheme for continuing medical education
	Peter Toghill
	BMJ  1997;314:374 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inquiry into homicides by psychiatric patients
	Elaine Murphy, Louis Appleby, Jenny Shaw, Tim Amos
	BMJ  1997;314:375 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stabilisation of the population is necessary for health for all
	John Guillebaud
	BMJ  1997;314:375 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Telling the diagnosis to patients with Alzheimer's disease
	R C Barnes, Karl Rice, Nick Warner, Tracy Tye, Antony Bayer
	BMJ  1997;314:375 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	20% of patients may refuse consent to disclosure of information for Benefits Agency
	Simon J Ellis
	BMJ  1997;314:376 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study about prehospital emergency care was cited incorrectly
	Richard Cree, Mike Weaver
	BMJ  1997;314:376 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women need to be warned about dangers of hormone replacement therapy
	Elizabeth H Price, Helen K Little, Ellen C G Grant, C Michael Steel
	BMJ  1997;314:376 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of psychogeriatric team on depression in frail elderly people at home
	Roger Walters, Hilary Evans, Gillian Pinner, Walter P Bouman, Hazel Johnson, Sube Banerjee, Anthony Mann, Kim Shamash, Alastair MacDonald
	BMJ  1997;314:377 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Plagiarism in the BMJ
	Helen Vecht, Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1997;314:378 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Routine mammograms not recommended for younger women
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	Protein marker linked with poor cancer outcome
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	China bids to improve fitness levels
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	Drug testing kit approved for sale in US
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	Politics comes before health care in Quebec
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch euthanasia procedures relaxed
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	Report criticises French health ministry
	Alexander Doroznynski
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	Rise in legal action hits Britain's GPs
	Martyn Halle
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	Oral cholera vaccine raises hopes
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Glaucoma gene identified
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	France may ban part time work on nuclear sites
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	Medicare hospital fees will be frozen
	Debbie Josefson
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	Mixed sex wards to be phased out
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	US-style health organisations are likely in Britain
	Jackie Cresswell
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Westminster – Labour would freeze funds for NHS
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:323 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: The future of the management of ischaemic heart disease
	David Crossman
	BMJ  1997;314:356 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Clinical haematology: Iron deficiency anaemia
	Rebecca Frewin, Andrew Henson, Drew Provan
	BMJ  1997;314:360 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: cyclosporin treatment for ulcerative colitis complicated by fatal pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
	Virginia A Quan, Brian P Saunders, Brendan H Hicks, Gordon E Sladen
	BMJ  1997;314:363 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Duration and recurrence of otitis media with effusion in children from birth to 3 years: prospective study using monthly otoscopy and tympanometry
	Sarah C Hogan, Kenneth J Stratford, David R Moore
	BMJ  1997;314:350 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Reduced confusion over ear effusion?
	M P Haggard
	BMJ  1997;314:354 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Markov models of medical prognosis
	Andrew Briggs, Mark Sculpher
	BMJ  1997;314:354 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Our brilliant careers
	BMJ  1997;314:382 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing gastric cancer in Britain: a Japanese experience
	Takeshi Sano
	BMJ  1997;314:382 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Impure Science. AIDS, Activism and the Politics of Knowledge, by
	Roy Porter
	BMJ  1997;314:385 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Midwife Through the Dying Process, by
	Brendan Kelly
	BMJ  1997;314:385 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Regulating the price of the uk's drugs: second thoughts after the government's first report
	Alan Earl-Slater
	BMJ  1997;314:365 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:386 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A Basic Lesson Relearnt: The singing histopathologist
	Ian Neale
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Most Unfortunate Needlestick Injury: Why the doctor paid a taxi for the nurse
	Michael A Van Agtmael
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Paper That Changed My Thinking: Are patients a myth?
	David Misselbrook
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Baby milk companies accused of breaching marketing code
	BMJ  1997;314:326 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Flexible training in cardiothoracic surgery
	Anna Merrick
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: If you are asked to hand over your camera, do ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Aimed at students of both medicine and nursing (many nursing ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Skilled motivators the Home Office: to disencourage employers who might ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Editors try to be creative
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	A very public death
	Naomi Craft
	BMJ  1997;314:383 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical issues in genetics ignored
	Pritpal S Tamber
	BMJ  1997;314:384 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Government survives attack on NHS • BMA prepares for devolution • Charter launched for adult mental health patients • Non-principals launch association • Work begins on osteopaths statutory body
	BMJ  1997;314:381 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Basil Rennie • George William Albert Neill • Bernard Cashman • Ronald Horn • Thomas Geraint Illtyd James • Eibhlin Kelly • Derek Lorimer Pryer • Kenneth Rostron • Malcolm Thompson • John Charles Turner • Audrey Phyllis Ward • Thomas Murray Welsh
	BMJ  1997;314:379 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Immune response to a new hepatitis B vaccine in healthcare workers who had not responded to standard vaccine: randomised double blind dose-response study
	Jane N Zuckerman, Caroline Sabin, Fiona M Craig, A Williams, Arie J Zuckerman
	BMJ  1997;314:329 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Meta-analysis of trials of prophylactic antibiotics for children with measles: inadequate evidence
	Frank Shann
	BMJ  1997;314:334 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Summary statistics of poor quality studies must be treated cautiously
	Jesse A Berlin
	BMJ  1997;314:337 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Respiratory morbidity 10 years after the Union Carbide gas leak at Bhopal: a cross sectional survey
	P Cullinan, S Acquilla, V Ramana Dhara
	BMJ  1997;314:338 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Industry can damage your health
	Paul Garner
	BMJ  1997;314:342 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Assessing the effects of environmental pollution when people know that they have been exposed
	R T Mayon-White
	BMJ  1997;314:343 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Follow up policy after treatment for Hodgkin's disease: too many clinic visits and routine tests? A review of hospital records
	J A Radford, A Eardley, C Woodman, D Crowther
	BMJ  1997;314:343 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Duplication of surgical research presentations
	I C Cameron, J D Beard, M W R Reed
	BMJ  1997;314:346 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A randomised controlled trial of dictating the clinic letter in front of the patient
	B W Lloyd
	BMJ  1997;314:347 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Interesting idea, but case not proved
	Mike Pringle
	BMJ  1997;314:348 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Acute eosinophilic pneumonia associated with tenidap
	B M Martinez, P Domingo
	BMJ  1997;314:349 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Potentiation of warfarin anticoagulant activity by miconazole oral gel
	S Ariyaratnam, N S Thakker, P Sloan, MH Thornhill
	BMJ  1997;314:349 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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