This week's This week in the BMJ

	Social class affects coronary event rates and chance of treatment for heart attack [Full text] FREE

	Socioeconomic position over lifetime affects mortality [Full text] FREE

	High job demands and stress worsen atherosclerosis in men [Full text] FREE

	Low job control increases risk of heart disease [Full text] FREE

	Gastric ulcers are less likely to recur after eradication of H pylori [Full text] FREE

	Costs of community thrombolysis are modest compared with other interventions [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Working together to reduce poverty's damage
	Andrew Haines, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:529 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The endothelin system in cardiovascular disease
	David E Newby, David J Webb
	BMJ  1997;314:531 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The medical health emergency card
	L P Weston, L A Lawson
	BMJ  1997;314:532 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening could seriously damage your health
	Sarah Stewart-Brown, Andrew Farmer
	BMJ  1997;314:533 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical information systems and the year 2000
	M F Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:534 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Replacement therapy should be offered to adults with severe growth hormone deficiency
	Stephen Shalet
	BMJ  1997;314:600 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interferon beta in multiple sclerosis
	Alexander Burnfield, C Price, Jacqueline C Napier, Jeremy Holmes, Graham Winyard, Peter Cardy, Jukka Peltola, Tapani Keranen
	BMJ  1997;314:600 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New antiepileptic drugs
	Martin J Brodie, A J A Elferink, B J Van Zwieten-Boot, John J Craig, James I Morrow, Ian C Wong
	BMJ  1997;314:602 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Report of research assessment exercise should have focused on British medical schools
	Keith Peters
	BMJ  1997;314:604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Newly licensed drugs
	Liam Smeeth, Julia Hippisley-Cox, Jim A G Paris, Richard Tiner
	BMJ  1997;314:604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Peak expiratory flow is a prognostic indicator in elderly people
	Reijo Tilvis, Jaakko Valvanne, Sirpa Sairanen, Anssi Sovijärvi
	BMJ  1997;314:605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Active management of labour
	Peter Boylan, Robert Buist
	BMJ  1997;314:606 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Litigation in obstetrics and gynaecology has increased in Merseyside
	Brian Alderman
	BMJ  1997;314:607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pilot trial of integrating pharmacy into primary care in rural areas is needed
	Steven Ford
	BMJ  1997;314:607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Those who believe in alternative theories of AIDShave little room for manoeuvre
	Stuart W G Derbyshire
	BMJ  1997;314:607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Causality, the menopause, and depression
	Mark Petticrew, Louise Nicol-Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:608 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New guidelines on managing back pain are similar to previous ones
	James Campbell
	BMJ  1997;314:608 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practitioners have always been the A-Team
	Alaister Nimmo
	BMJ  1997;314:608 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Psychiatrists plan network to help asylum seekers
	Christina Bunce
	BMJ  1997;314:535 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:535 [Extract] [Full text]

	Investigation of Nazi anatomy textbook to start
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;314:535 [Extract] [Full text]

	British GPs dissatisfied with amendments to primary care bill
	John Warden, Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:535 [Extract] [Full text]

	Poor education linked with teen pregnancies
	Jessica Westall
	BMJ  1997;314:535 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK doctors breach guidance on persistent vegetative state
	Kathryn Godfrey
	BMJ  1997;314:535 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch set to tighten up in vitro fertilisation regulations
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;314:535 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israeli court overturns IVF treatment rules
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1997;314:535 [Extract] [Full text]

	Minority ethnic groups have poor cancer care
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1997;314:535 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israel accused of ignoring psychiatric problems in Palestinian prisoners
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Canada proposes tough antitobacco laws
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;314:535 [Extract] [Full text]

	Car phones can cause accidents
	Jessica Westall
	BMJ  1997;314:535 [Extract] [Full text]

	Medical supplies airlifted to Afghanistan
	Robert Ivker
	BMJ  1997;314:535 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Brussels – Producers v consumers: redressing the balance on food
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1997;314:535 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: HIV infection–II
	Claire Beiser
	BMJ  1997;314:579 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Grand Rounds--University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff: Pyrexia of unknown origin
	Richard H Evans
	BMJ  1997;314:583 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical haematology: Polycythaemia, primary (essential) thrombocythaemia and myelofibrosis
	Maria Messinezy, T C Pearson
	BMJ  1997;314:587 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	An economic evaluation of thrombolysis in a remote rural community
	Luke Vale, Jonathan Silcock, John Rawles
	BMJ  1997;314:570 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Statistics notes: Cronbach's alpha
	J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1997;314:572 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Smart cards–the key to trustworthy health information systems
	Roderick Neame
	BMJ  1997;314:573 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	Mark Pallen
	BMJ  1997;314:578 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Alternative options
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1997;314:612 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A retiring sort of chap
	Ron Mulroy
	BMJ  1997;314:612 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A transatlantic brush with the law
	Karen Cranfield
	BMJ  1997;314:613 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Sustainability, the Environment and Urbanization, by Ed Cedric Pugh
	Paul Garner
	BMJ  1997;314:615 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence-based health care, by J A Muir Gray
	Liam J Donaldson
	BMJ  1997;314:615 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Socioeconomic determinants of health: Health inequalities: relative or absolute material standards?
	Richard G Wilkinson
	BMJ  1997;314:591 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care: opportunities and threats: Distributing primary care fairly
	Mike Pringle
	BMJ  1997;314:595 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Threat to social justice
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  1997;314:598 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:616 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Moving into management
	Jenny Simpson
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The National Association of Non-Principals now has its own web ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: According to the Careers Service Unit, the Manchester publishing house ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Poverty and equity matter
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	R & D for LSD?
	Michael Farrell
	BMJ  1997;314:614 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Bugging of surgeries will be limited • Postgraduate body consults on multiprofessional working • Nurse prescribing scheme to be extended • Government admits to shortages in defence medical services • Prescribing and supply of medicines to be reviewed
	BMJ  1997;314:611 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Edward Hare • Donald McLarty • Philip Edmund Clinton Manson-Bahr • Michael O'Sullivan • Robert William Trainer Mason • Desmond Richard Levinge Newton • Ian Rea Smith • Kenneth Arthur Tomlinson • June Rosalind Wilkie (neé Hill)
	BMJ  1997;314:609 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Effect of socioeconomic group on incidence of, management of, and survival after myocardial infarction and coronary death: analysis of community coronary event register
	Caroline Morrison, Mark Woodward, Wilma Leslie, Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
	BMJ  1997;314:541 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lifetime socioeconomic position and mortality: prospective observational study
	George Davey Smith, Carole Hart, David Blane, Charles Gillis, Victor Hawthorne
	BMJ  1997;314:547 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Interaction of workplace demands and cardiovascular reactivity in progression of carotid atherosclerosis: population based study
	Susan A Everson, John W Lynch, Margaret A Chesney, George A Kaplan, Debbie E Goldberg, Starley B Shade, Richard D Cohen, Riitta Salonen, Jukka T Salonen
	BMJ  1997;314:553 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Low job control and risk of coronary heart disease in whitehall ii (prospective cohort) study
	Hans Bosma, Michael G Marmot, Harry Hemingway, Amanda C Nicholson, Eric Brunner, Stephen A Stansfeld
	BMJ  1997;314:558 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised double blind controlled study of recurrence of gastric ulcer after treatment for eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection
	A T R Axon, C A Ó'Moráin, K D Bardhan, J P Crowe, M F Dixon, A D Beattie, R P H Thompson, P M Smith, F D Hollanders, J H Baron, D A F Lynch, D S Tompkins, H Birrell, K R W Gillon
	BMJ  1997;314:565 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Controlled trial of weight bearing exercise in older women in relation to bone density and falls
	Marion E T McMurdo, Patricia A Mole, Colin R Paterson
	BMJ  1997;314:569 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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