This week's This week in the BMJ

	Antioxidant state may be linked to high heart disease mortality [Full text] FREE

	Vitamin C deficiency increases risk of myocardial infarction [Full text] FREE

	Structures are needed when nurses take on doctors' work [Full text] FREE

	Further coronary events more likely in patients from the Indian subcontinent [Full text] FREE

	Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are tolerated better than tricyclic antidepressants [Full text] FREE

	Should we be identifying carriers of MRSA? [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Bringing nurses and doctors closer together
	Norah Casey, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:617 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tackling racism in the NHS
	Aneez Esmail, Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1997;314:618 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Amiodarone pulmonary toxicity
	Gillian A J Jessurun, Harry J G M Crijns
	BMJ  1997;314:619 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The coming of age of sports medicine
	Mark E Batt, Donald A D Macleod
	BMJ  1997;314:621 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood matters
	C J Hobbs, P L Heywood
	BMJ  1997;314:622 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Are research ethics committees behaving unethically?
	E Pierce, John Tomlinson, Neville W Goodman, Alaisdair MacGowan
	BMJ  1997;314:676 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Corporal punishment must not be reintroduced into schools
	Jane M Wynne
	BMJ  1997;314:677 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cancer units are implementing changes from generic to specialist practice
	R A Haward, Ziv Amir
	BMJ  1997;314:677 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Home births
	Susan C Thomas, Jacqueline A Bethel, Pat Hoddinott, Martin Underwood, Irvine Loudon, Prakashbhan S Persad, Edmund Hey
	BMJ  1997;314:678 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coffee drinking and risk of coronary heart disease
	M I Gurr, Rob Urgert, Martijn B Katan
	BMJ  1997;314:680 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ratio of inhaled corticosteroid to bronchodilator as indicator of quality of asthma prescribing
	Sarah J Roberts, J H Baumer, Craig J Currie, Mark Evans, Christopher L Morgan, Chris Griffiths, Patricia Sturdy, Jeanette Naish, Gene Feder, Rumana Omar, Susan Dolan, Filomena Pereira, Michael Shelley, Peter Croft, Charles Pantin, Stephen Chapman
	BMJ  1997;314:680 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increasing empathy between medical students and nurses
	Hiten G Sheth, Rajeev Mallipedi
	BMJ  1997;314:682 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Pig virus transfer threatens xenotransplantation
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:623 [Extract] [Full text]

	Sheep cloned from mammary gland cells
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:623 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:623 [Extract] [Full text]

	Court case may clarify law on caesarean sections
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:623 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health put at risk by insurers' demands for gene test results
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;314:623 [Extract] [Full text]

	New York hospitals are to be paid to train fewer doctors
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;314:623 [Extract] [Full text]

	GPs demand a major review of their contracts and pay
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:623 [Extract] [Full text]

	Call for more research on cannabis
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;314:623 [Extract] [Full text]

	"Never again," says NHS whistleblower
	Hannah Spencer
	BMJ  1997;314:623 [Extract] [Full text]

	British public supports legal abortion for all
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Obesity increases risk of pulmonary embolism
	Jessica Westall
	BMJ  1997;314:623 [Extract] [Full text]

	US asthma guidelines stress early steroid use
	Jenny Bryan
	BMJ  1997;314:623 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health gains in Canadian budget
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;314:623 [Extract] [Full text]

	Antibody shows promise in Crohn's disease
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:623 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Lung cancer
	Tariq Sethi
	BMJ  1997;314:652 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Mediterranean spotted fever mimicking Kawasaki disease
	David R Jenkins, Jon C Rees, Christine Pollitt, Andrew Cant, A W Craft
	BMJ  1997;314:655 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical haematology: Chronic myeloid leukaemia
	John Goldman
	BMJ  1997;314:657 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	General practitioners' perceptions of the tolerability of antidepressant drugs: a comparison of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and tricyclic antidepressants
	Richard M Martin, Sean R Hilton, Sally M Kerry, Nicky M Richards
	BMJ  1997;314:646 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The gynaecologist in winter
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1997;314:685 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	We need strong public health leadership
	Sian Griffiths, Klim McPherson
	BMJ  1997;314:685 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	The Environment for Children: Understanding and Acting on the Environmental Hazards that Threaten Children and Their Parents, by David Satterthwaite, Roger Hart, Caren Levy, Diana Mitlin, David Ross, Jac Smit, Carolyn Stephens
	Manuel Carballo
	BMJ  1997;314:687 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Personal paper: medicine in the 1990s needs a team approach
	Terence English
	BMJ  1997;314:661 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Controversies: Is it time to stop searching for MRSA? (Screening is still important)
	Barry Cookson
	BMJ  1997;314:664 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Controversies: Is it time to stop searching for MRSA? (Stop the ritual of tracing colonised people)
	E L Teare, S P Barrett
	BMJ  1997;314:665 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The rationing debate: Maximising the health of the whole community. The case for
	A J Culyer
	BMJ  1997;314:667 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The rationing debate: Maximising the health of the whole community. The case against: what the principal objective of the NHS should really be
	John Harris
	BMJ  1997;314:669 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care: opportunities and threats Broader teamwork in primary care
	Tony Kendrick, Sean Hilton
	BMJ  1997;314:672 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:688 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Doctors and fishermen
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Hampstead Heath in the jubilee year
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A father's death:
	Richard Williams
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Veterinary Counter Practice: A dog's life
	Alex M Campbell
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Circumventing racism in the NHS
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The Department of Health will spend an extra £4.5 m ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: High staff turnover is a problem for NHS trusts, says ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Unravelling heart disease and keeping gynaecologists active
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

SELECTION

This week's SELECTION

	Selection
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Sex sells, and under age sex sells even more
	Ann Furedi
	BMJ  1997;314:686 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Non-core services will not be negotiated nationally • Some European doctors face discrimination • Profession secures changes to primary care bill • More patients wait longer for hospital admission
	BMJ  1997;314:684 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Charles Harold Edwards • Alexander Clarkson Forrester • John Arnott MacDougall • Leila Mary Wainman
	BMJ  1997;314:683 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Antioxidant state and mortality from coronary heart disease in lithuanian and swedish men: concomitant cross sectional study of men aged 50
	Margareta Kristenson, Bo Ziedén, Zita Kucinskienë, Algis Abaravicius, Laima Razinkovienë, Liselotte Schäfer Elinder, Björn Bergdahl, Birgitta Elwing, Henrikas Calkauskas, Anders G Olsson
	BMJ  1997;314:629 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Vitamin C deficiency and risk of myocardial infarction: prospective population study of men from eastern Finland
	Kristiina Nyyssönen, Markku T Parviainen, Riitta Salonen, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Jukka T Salonen
	BMJ  1997;314:634 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	First myocardial infarction in patients of Indian subcontinent and European origin: comparison of risk factors, management, and long term outcome
	N Shaukat, J Lear, A Lowy, S Fletcher, D P de Bono, K L Woods
	BMJ  1997;314:639 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	No sex differences in immunisation rates of British south Asian children: the effect of migration?
	Adrian Martineau, Martin White, Raj Bhopal
	BMJ  1997;314:642 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of calcium antagonists and need for perioperative transfusion in older patients with hip fracture: observational study
	Giuseppe Zuccalà, Marco Pahor, Francesco Landi, Giorgio Gasparini, Francesco Pagano, PierUgo Carbonin, Alberto Cocchi
	BMJ  1997;314:643 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Vasospasm of the nipple–a manifestation of Raynaud's phenomenon: case reports
	Laureen Lawlor-Smith, Carolyn Lawlor-Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:644 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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