This week's This week in the BMJ

	Multiple pregnancies in older women have increased [Full text] FREE

	Bacterial gastroenteritis is linked to the irritable bowel syndrome [Full text] FREE

	Modifiable risk factors predict nephropathy in diabetic patients [Full text] FREE

	Good outcome for coronary heart disease increases mortality from other cardiovascular diseases [Full text] FREE

	Adult onset wheeze is common and undertreated [Full text] FREE

	Higher risk of thromboembolism occurs in first year of HRT use [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Antidepressants and chronic pain
	Henry J McQuay, R Andrew Moore
	BMJ  1997;314:763 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast cancer screening in women aged under 50
	Suzanne Fletcher
	BMJ  1997;314:764 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interdepartmental peer review
	R L Page, B D W Harrison
	BMJ  1997;314:765 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Disease modifying drugs in rheumatoid arthritis
	Frank A Wollheim
	BMJ  1997;314:766 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Setting the agenda for health after the election
	A W Macara
	BMJ  1997;314:767 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Prescribing antidepressants in general practice
	David Fish, M V Moore, David Gill, Robert S Tan, Imad M Ali, K Milligan, Ann F Bisset, J P Reid, Tim Johnson, Richard Martin, Jonathan Morrell, Simon Gilbody, Trevor Sheldon, Fujian Song, Allan House, Valerie Murray, Helen Walker, Caroline Mitchell, Anthony J Pelosi, D B Double
	BMJ  1997;314:826 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Afghanistan: a biased report
	A O Gebreel
	BMJ  1997;314:829 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ratio of abdominal sagittal diameter to height is strong indicator of coronary risk
	Lars Kumlin, Lennart Dimberg, Per Mårin
	BMJ  1997;314:830 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Baby milk companies accused of breaching code
	C M A Campbell, Alan Lucas
	BMJ  1997;314:830 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Strategies to reduce dosing errors
	J A Nelder
	BMJ  1997;314:831 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence to be given to the public must be presented accurately and fairly
	Henry C Irving
	BMJ  1997;314:831 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Skin scraping is a useful investigation in meningococcal disease
	M R H Taylor, C T Keane, M Periappuram
	BMJ  1997;314:831 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mental health should be measured by same instrument in different ethnic populations
	Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  1997;314:832 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Opinions given by medical experts in court are honest and objective
	Guy A Norfolk
	BMJ  1997;314:832 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Making the most of self citation
	Patrick J Morrison
	BMJ  1997;314:832 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Inquiry calls for doctors to be tested regularly for alcohol
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1997;314:769 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS "good news unit" to be wound up
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  1997;314:769 [Extract] [Full text]

	Insurance scheme planned for elderly care
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:769 [Extract] [Full text]

	Red faces over red meat
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:769 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK Labour party plans health changes by evolution
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:769 [Extract] [Full text]

	Norwegian GPs move to list based system
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1997;314:769 [Extract] [Full text]

	South African research into AIDS "cure" severely criticised
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1997;314:769 [Extract] [Full text]

	China bans smoking on trains and buses
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1997;314:769 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch move to end consultants' freedom
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;314:769 [Extract] [Full text]

	Citizens juries vote to extend nurse roles
	Jenny Bryan
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Care of schizophrenic man strongly criticised
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:769 [Extract] [Full text]

	Welsh Office criticised over Morriston affair
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1997;314:769 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Paediatrics–I: Infancy and early childhood
	John Pearn
	BMJ  1997;314:801 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Grand Rounds--University Hospital of Wales: Focal myositis mimicking acute psoas abscess
	T M Lawson
	BMJ  1997;314:805 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical haematology: Platelet disorders
	R J Liesner, S J Machin
	BMJ  1997;314:809 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Hormone replacement therapy and risk of venous thromboembolism: population based case-control study
	Susanne Pérez Gutthann, Luis A Garcia Rodriguez, Jordi Castellsague, Alberto Duque Oliart
	BMJ  1997;314:796 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Auchendreich declares
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1997;314:835 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Protease inhibitors–pros and cons
	John Nicholson
	BMJ  1997;314:835 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	A Very Greedy Drug: Cocaine in Context, by Jason Ditton, Richard Hammersley, Samuel Philips, Alasdair Forsyth, Furzana Khan for the
	Carmen L Masson, Amy L Copeland, James L Sorensen
	BMJ  1997;314:837 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan, by Carl Mosk
	John Garrow
	BMJ  1997;314:837 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Child mental health: who is responsible? An overextended remit
	Robert Goodman
	BMJ  1997;314:813 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: child mental health services are not medical empires
	Alyson Hall
	BMJ  1997;314:814 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: the medical model is unhelpful
	Bob Daines
	BMJ  1997;314:815 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: ordinary misery should not be mistaken for pathology
	Sue White
	BMJ  1997;314:816 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care–opportunities and threats Developing professional knowledge: Making primary care education and research more relevant
	Pauline Pearson, Kevin Jones
	BMJ  1997;314:817 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The rationing debate: Rationing health care by age: The case for
	Alan Williams
	BMJ  1997;314:820 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The rationing debate: Rationing health care by age: The case against
	J Grimley Evans
	BMJ  1997;314:822 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:838 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: A medical saint
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: A remarkable patient
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed our lives: It all began with a small lump
	Valerie Graves
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Two patients who changed my practice: Mothers always know best
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Dietary treatment of active Crohn's disease
	BMJ  1997;314:768 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of clinical haematology
	BMJ  1997;314:812 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Specialty manpower targets in trouble
	Rajesh Jain, Stephen Atherton
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Women, black people, disabled people, lesbians and gay men, ex-offenders, ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Whistleblowers often face years of recrimination and ostracism; that such ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Career Focus is indexed and archived on the BMJ 's ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Arguing over antidepressents
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

FOCUS: WASHINGTON

This week's FOCUS: WASHINGTON

	Focus: Washington – Political allies and enemies take on junior doctor surplus
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1997;314:769 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Milk scare hits New Zealand
	Sarah Catherall
	BMJ  1997;314:836 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Overseas doctors will have help with GP training • Review body answers criticisms • Timetable published for GP pilot schemes • Difficulties remain over access to specialist register • Helping patients to use the health service
	BMJ  1997;314:834 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	David Richard Bromham • Robert de Mowbray • John Lysaght Griffin • Cecil Glancy
	BMJ  1997;314:833 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Population based study of rates of multiple pregnancies in denmark, 1980-94
	Tine Westergaard, Jan Wohlfahrt, Peter Aaby, Mads Melbye
	BMJ  1997;314:775 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms six months after bacterial gastroenteritis and risk factors for development of the irritable bowel syndrome: postal survey of patients
	Keith R Neal, John Hebden, Robin Spiller
	BMJ  1997;314:779 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk factors for development of incipient and overt diabetic nephropathy in patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus: prospective, observational study
	Mari-Anne Gall, Philip Hougaard, Knut Borch-Johnsen, Hans-Henrik Parving
	BMJ  1997;314:783 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Regression analysis of recent changes in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the netherlands
	Luc Bonneux, Caspar W N Looman, Jan J Barendregt, Paul J Van der Maas
	BMJ  1997;314:789 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The prevalence of adult onset wheeze: longitudinal study
	Coreen Bodner, Sue Ross, Graham Douglas, Julian Little, Joseph Legge, James Friend, David Godden
	BMJ  1997;314:792 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cohort study of relation between donating blood and risk of myocardial infarction in 2682 men in eastern finland
	Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, Riitta Salonen, Kristiina Nyyssönen, Jukka T Salonen
	BMJ  1997;314:793 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Social deprivation and bacterial meningitis in north east thames region: three year study using small area statistics
	Ian Rees Jones, Gillian Urwin, Roger A Feldman, Nicholas Banatvala
	BMJ  1997;314:794 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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