This week's This week in the BMJ

	Multiple brain lesions associated with presence of patent foramen ovale in scuba divers [Full text] FREE

	Differences in mortality of immigrants in England and Wales are widening [Full text] FREE

	Children's deaths in road traffic accidents are declining [Full text] FREE

	Psychological distress is inversely linked to senior house officers' confidence [Full text] FREE

	Senior house officers value training from consultants [Full text] FREE

	Antibiotics medicalise sore throat without reducing symptoms [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Brain damage in divers
	Peter Wilmshurst
	BMJ  1997;314:689 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dopamine in oliguria
	Brian H Cuthbertson, David W Noble
	BMJ  1997;314:690 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Compliance becomes concordance
	Patricia Dolan Mullen
	BMJ  1997;314:691 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training senior house officers
	Evan Harris, Paula Ferreira
	BMJ  1997;314:692 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug treatments for Alzheimer's disease
	Cornelius A Kelly, Richard J Harvey, Harry Cayton
	BMJ  1997;314:693 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Treatment for haemophilia by postcode
	Christopher A Ludlam, Charles R M Hay, Gerard Dolan
	BMJ  1997;314:749 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Whose data are they anyway?
	Ian Oswald, A J M Slovak, C Kalman, N F Davies, G Mayho, R Wood, J T Winkler
	BMJ  1997;314:749 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Funding of contraceptive implants is crucial
	Lawrence Mascarenhas, Yakoub Khalaf, Sammy Lee
	BMJ  1997;314:750 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing paracetamol overdoses
	Simon J Taylor, Shaun O'Connell, Derrick J Pounder, Patricia McAllister, Quentin Spender
	BMJ  1997;314:750 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical royal colleges should have reduced rates for doctors working flexibly
	Alison J Gray
	BMJ  1997;314:751 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients go hungry in British hospitals
	C R Pennington, Janet P McWhirter, Andrew Tarbuck
	BMJ  1997;314:752 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thyrotoxicosis in multiple trauma
	T D Wardle, P A Driscoll, M Woodford, Michael Staunton, Niall Hughes, Jo Fitz-Henry, Bernard Riley
	BMJ  1997;314:752 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Writing in English for an international readership
	Tim Hall, A J Davis, Leslie Collier, Wayne Lewis, Andrew Rouse, Tim Albert, Felicity Reynolds
	BMJ  1997;314:753 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Positive findings of mammography may lead to suicide
	J G Weil, J I Hawker
	BMJ  1997;314:754 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors as well as patients need education to ensure adherence to treatment regimens
	R J Postlethwaite, M A Lewis, N J A Webb, D M Eminson
	BMJ  1997;314:755 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of breast cancer before surgery will present pathologists with challenges
	P A Trott, N Nasiri
	BMJ  1997;314:755 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Legal challenge to rationing of haemophilia treatment is lost
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:695 [Extract] [Full text]

	Military medical services are at crisis point
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:695 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:695 [Extract] [Full text]

	US to encourage more black people to join research trials
	Norra Macready
	BMJ  1997;314:695 [Extract] [Full text]

	Heroin users wanted for Dutch medical experiment
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;314:695 [Extract] [Full text]

	Genetics body reviews cloning law
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:695 [Extract] [Full text]

	Inhaled steroids increase risk of glaucoma
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;314:695 [Extract] [Full text]

	Communication increases donor transplant rate
	Naomi Craft
	BMJ  1997;314:695 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors can reduce the harmful effects of poverty
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:695 [Extract] [Full text]

	Loophole exposed in testing of child medicines
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Red Cross ensures health of hostages in Peru
	Josh Hamilton
	BMJ  1997;314:695 [Extract] [Full text]

	Turkish doctors collude in torture
	Paul Mansour
	BMJ  1997;314:695 [Extract] [Full text]

	HIV trial stopped early after good results
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1997;314:695 [Extract] [Full text]

	No sign of slowing down
	BMJ  1997;314:695 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: tinnitus–investigation and management
	V Vesterager
	BMJ  1997;314:728 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: hypokalaemia and hypertension associated with use of liquorice flavoured chewing gum
	Gerty J de Klerk, Marietje G Nieuwenhuis, Jaap J Beutler
	BMJ  1997;314:731 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical haematology: The acute leukaemias
	R J Liesner, A H Goldstone
	BMJ  1997;314:733 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Open randomised trial of prescribing strategies in managing sore throat
	P Little, I Williamson, G Warner, C Gould, M Gantley, A L Kinmonth
	BMJ  1997;314:722 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Wrong number
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;314:759 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	There's nothing I can do, I'm only a doctor
	BMJ  1997;314:759 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	February bestsellers: BMJ Bookshop
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients, and the Dutch Cure, by Herbert Hendin
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;314:761 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin., by Stephen Jay Gould
	Charles Weijer
	BMJ  1997;314:761 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Guidelines for drug donations
	H V Hogerzeil, M R Couper, R Gray
	BMJ  1997;314:737 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Senior house officers in medicine: postal survey of training and work experience
	Pamela J Baldwin, Ray W Newton, Graham Buckley, Margaret A Roberts, Marjory Dodd
	BMJ  1997;314:740 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care–opportunities and threats: developing prescribing in primary care
	Colin P Bradley, Ross J Taylor, Alison Blenkinsopp
	BMJ  1997;314:744 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal paper: writing prescriptions is easy
	Marshall Marinker
	BMJ  1997;314:747 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:762 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Surgeons in the pulpit
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Letting the job get to you:
	Tom Burns
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	My biggest financial coup:
	Anthony Abrahams
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Words to the wise: Poison arrows
	Grant Hutchinson
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Retrospective study of reasons for improved survival in patients with breast cancer in East Anglia: earlier diagnosis or better treatment?
	BMJ  1997;314:721 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Job sharing
	Rosamund Jones, Helen Crawley
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The new NHS changeover date for all training posts which ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Doctors thinking of emigrating to Canada, Australia, or New Zealand ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Do prospective medical students have unrealistic expectations of the life ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Compliance a broken concept
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	The fight for the mouths of babes
	Heather Welford
	BMJ  1997;314:760 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Medical teachers give evidence to task force • Doctors' health needs greater safeguards • Practice based budgets should stay • GMC advertises for performance assessors
	BMJ  1997;314:758 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Lionel Maurice Clayden • Harvey Stephen Besterman • Denis Charles Bodenham • Leonard Capper • Margaret Joan Cash • James Rankin ("Jim") Davison • Nevill Gibson • Pieter Robert Geoffrey Graham • Byron Griffiths • William Hanks • Henry Frederick Hiscocks • John Medwyn Hughes
	BMJ  1997;314:756 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Cohort study of multiple brain lesions in sport divers: role of a patent foramen ovale
	Michael Knauth, Stefan Ries, Stefan Pohimann, Tina Kerby, Michael Forsting, Michael Daffertshofer, Michael Hennerici, Klaus Sartor
	BMJ  1997;314:701 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cross sectional analysis of mortality by country of birth in england and wales, 1970-92
	Sarah Wild, Paul Mckeigue
	BMJ  1997;314:705 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Influence of changing travel patterns on child death rates from injury: trend analysis
	Carolyn DiGuiseppi, Ian Roberts, Leah Li
	BMJ  1997;314:710 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Senior house officers' work related stressors, psychological distress, and confidence in performing clinical tasks in accident and emergency: a questionnaire study
	Susan Williams, Jeremy Dale, Edward Glucksman, Amanda Wellesley
	BMJ  1997;314:713 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Senior house officer training: is it getting better? A questionnaire survey
	Elisabeth Paice, Georgina West, Ruth Cooper, Victor Orton, Alastair Scotland
	BMJ  1997;314:719 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Increased parity and risk of trisomy 21: review of 37 110 live births
	MS Schimmel, AI Eidelman, C Hammerman, E Kornbluth, P Zadka
	BMJ  1997;314:720 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Down's syndrome and parity
	R J Lilford
	BMJ  1997;314:721 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

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