This week's This week in the BMJ

	Women with breast cysts of type I have increased risk of breast cancer [Full text] FREE

	Financial incentives seem to influence retirement on grounds of ill health [Full text] FREE

	Echocardiography may not be essential in patients with acute dyspnoea [Full text] FREE

	Free care for children in rural South Africa has increased clinic attendance for minor illnesses [Full text] FREE

	Guidelines do not improve blood pressure control in primary care [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The promise of cloning for human medicine
	Robert Winston
	BMJ  1997;314:913 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing morbidity from chest drains
	Jonathan Hyde, Timothy Sykes, Timothy Graham
	BMJ  1997;314:914 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Discrimination, informed consent, and the HIV infected clinician
	Ronald Bayer
	BMJ  1997;314:915 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Removing bias in surgical trials
	A G Johnson, J Michael Dixon
	BMJ  1997;314:916 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ultrasonographic "soft markers" of fetal chromosomal defects
	Martin Whittle
	BMJ  1997;314:918 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Trends in NHS expenditure
	Matthew G Dunnigan
	BMJ  1997;314:974 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poor recruitment to lung cancer trials
	Richard T Penson, Robin M Rudd
	BMJ  1997;314:974 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fatal methadone overdose
	Emyr W Benbow, Ian S D Roberts, Alison Cairns
	BMJ  1997;314:975 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GP cooperatives
	Jim York, John Rawlinson, Nick Lattey, D A G C Robertson, Kevin McKenna, Patrick Holmes
	BMJ  1997;314:975 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Catching glaucoma
	Fiona M Chapman, Peter S Phelan
	BMJ  1997;314:976 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cyclists should wear helmets
	Barry Pless, Ron Davis
	BMJ  1997;314:977 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Depression and the menopause
	John Studd, Myra Hunter
	BMJ  1997;314:977 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Circaseptennial rhythm is an artefact
	M J Campbell
	BMJ  1997;314:978 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Comorbidity increases benefit of anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation
	Stephen Morgan
	BMJ  1997;314:978 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychological rehabilitation after myocardial infarction
	Charles Pither, Amanda CdeC Williams, J Mitchell Noon, Dee A Jones, Robert West
	BMJ  1997;314:978 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rehabilitation after heart attack
	Christine Bundy
	BMJ  1997;314:979 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A framework for priority setting
	Anthony Scott, Cam Donaldson, Sarah Wordsworth
	BMJ  1997;314:980 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Internet server with targeted access would cure information deficiency in developing countries
	Ronald E LaPorte
	BMJ  1997;314:980 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Empowering doctors in the developing world
	Roderick Macrorie
	BMJ  1997;314:980 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	US tobacco company admits smoking is addictive
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

	PVS criteria put under spotlight
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

	Consultant surgeon advised to stop operating
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

	Contraceptive use increases in developing countries
	Josh Hamilton
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

	AMA launches institute for ethics
	David Woods
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

	Healthier eating will help combat heart disease
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

	Tuberculosis levelling off worldwide
	Jessica Westall
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

	"Spanish flu" virus identified
	Jenny Bryan
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

	Data protection registrar calls for culture of privacy
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

	Gulf war records were wrongly withheld
	Jack Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	GPs declare no confidence in review body chairman
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

	Campaigner released from jail after becoming anorexic
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

	Red Cross begins relief effort in Albania
	Josh Hamilton
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

	Ontario attacked over hospital closures
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

	Uniting medical students worldwide
	BMJ  1997;314:919 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Obtaining useful information from expert based sources
	David C Slawson, Allen F Shaughnessy
	BMJ  1997;314:947 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Information retrieval for patient care
	Martin Gardner
	BMJ  1997;314:950 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	Mark Pallen
	BMJ  1997;314:954 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus: the gathering storm
	Stephen O'Rahilly, John Savill
	BMJ  1997;314:955 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical haematology: Multiple myeloma and related conditions
	Charles R J Singer
	BMJ  1997;314:960 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Interpractice audit of diagnosis and management of hypertension in primary care: educational intervention and review of medical records
	Mahendra Mashru, Ariel Lant
	BMJ  1997;314:942 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Breakthroughs and wars
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1997;314:983 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Education or training: medicine's learning agenda
	Zoë-Jane Playdon, Danë Goodsman
	BMJ  1997;314:983 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	When the Air Hits Your Brain. Tales of Neurosurgery., by Frank Vertosick Jr
	M P Powell
	BMJ  1997;314:985 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Who Has Seen a Blood Sugar? Reflections on Medical Education, by Frank Davidoff
	Julian Tudor Hart
	BMJ  1997;314:985 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Self monitoring of glucose by people with diabetes: evidence based practice
	Marilyn Gallichan
	BMJ  1997;314:964 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The rationing debate: Central government should have a greater role in rationing decisions – The case for
	Jo Lenaghan
	BMJ  1997;314:967 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The case against
	Stephen Harrison
	BMJ  1997;314:970 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:986 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Women as veterinary surgeons
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . .: A time to be born . . .
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Charles Harold Edwards
	BMJ  1997;314:981 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	On the early career choices of medical graduates
	Jon Ford
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Overseas doctors who cannot hold a work permit but who ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Non-consultant career grade staff are being advised to delay their ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: A report that evaluates the impact of the new deal ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Exciting challenges: Dolly and POEMS
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Pain, pus, and blood
	James Drife
	BMJ  1997;314:984 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Primary care bill receives royal assent • Patients and GPs advised how to enjoy Easter • Mental health services need more resources
	BMJ  1997;314:982 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Alan Graham Apley • Victor Bowers • Scott Brown • John Borland Cadas • Denis Lloyd Rees
	BMJ  1997;314:981 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Cohort study of association of risk of breast cancer with cyst type in women with gross cystic disease of the breast
	Paolo Bruzzi, Luigi Dogliotti, Carlo Naldoni, Lauro Bucchi, Massimo Costantini, Alessandra Cicognani, Mirella Torta, Gian Franco Buzzi, Alberto Angeli
	BMJ  1997;314:925 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Retirement on grounds of ill health: cross sectional survey in six organisations in united kingdom
	C J M Poole
	BMJ  1997;314:929 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A controlled study of fluoxetine and cognitive-behavioural counselling in the treatment of postnatal depression
	Louis Appleby, Rachel Warner, Anna Whitton, Brian Faragher
	BMJ  1997;314:932 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cross sectional study of contribution of clinical assessment and simple cardiac investigations to diagnosis of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in patients admitted with acute dyspnoea
	Neil D Gillespie, Graeme McNeill, Terence Pringle, Simon Ogston, Allan D Struthers, Stuart D Pringle
	BMJ  1997;314:936 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Examination of attendance patterns before and after introduction of south africa's policy of free health care for children aged under 6 years and pregnant women
	David Wilkinson, Marlene E Sach, Salim S Abdool Karim
	BMJ  1997;314:940 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: should mother and child health services in developing countries be free?
	Anthony Costello
	BMJ  1997;314:941 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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