This week's This week in the BMJ

	Organised stroke unit care reduces death and disability [Full text] FREE

	Two drinks daily, five days a week cuts heart attack risk by 60% [Full text] FREE

	Prevalence of heavy drinking is linked to average consumption among light to moderate drinkers [Full text] FREE

	Zinc turbidity test may help detect hepatitis C carriers [Full text] FREE

	GPs' performance varies when presented with the same problem twice [Full text] FREE

	GPs have positive attitudes towards opiate users but want more training [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Endovascular aneurysm repair
	M M Thompson, R D Sayers, R F Bell
	BMJ  1997;314:1139 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Allocating donor livers
	James Neuberger, John Lake
	BMJ  1997;314:1140 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safe tissue grafts
	D Fehily, R M Warwick
	BMJ  1997;314:1141 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alcohol policy in the Nordic countries
	Laurent Chenet, Martin McKee, Merete Osler, Allan Krasnik
	BMJ  1997;314:1142 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women's autonomy in childbirth
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1997;314:1143 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Out of hours primary care
	William R Roff, Ian Hill-Smith, E M R Reynolds, Mar Soler, R B Jones, Melvyn Jones, Yvonne Carter, Sam Everington, Oliver Sharpley
	BMJ  1997;314:1197 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Exhibition of doctors' photographs
	Mary Loudon, Carol Dezateux
	BMJ  1997;314:1199 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing a fish induced injury
	Philip D Henman, David F Finlayson
	BMJ  1997;314:1199 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood leukaemia in US may have risen due to fallout from Chernobyl
	Joseph J Mangano
	BMJ  1997;314:1200 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How to minimise factitious hyperkalaemia in blood samples from general practice
	J D Johnston, S W Hawthorne
	BMJ  1997;314:1200 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do fetuses feel pain?
	Wendy Savage, Patrick D Wall, Stuart WG Derbyshire
	BMJ  1997;314:1201 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Some patients may want to retain ownership of tissue removed from them
	A R W Forrest
	BMJ  1997;314:1201 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Social deprivation increases workload in palliative care of terminally ill patients
	C R Clark
	BMJ  1997;314:1202 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bayesian statistics may inform public policy better than significant odds ratios
	David Braunholtz, Richard Lilford
	BMJ  1997;314:1202 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Benefits Agency always holds consent before approaching healthcare professionals for information
	Mansel Aylward
	BMJ  1997;314:1202 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interpersonal skills are being taught better, but more work is needed
	John Spencer, Rosie Stacy
	BMJ  1997;314:1203 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MeSH terms must be used in Medline searches
	Mike Clarke, Liz Greaves, Sam James
	BMJ  1997;314:1203 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Caution is required when using new analgesics by the spinal route in children
	J A W Wildsmith
	BMJ  1997;314:1203 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Research suppressed for seven years by drug company
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors fight US company patent on umbilical cord blood
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

	Sweden is healthiest place to live in world
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

	E coli report calls for better food safety
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

	Malnutrition grips North Korea
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

	On call rota system best for doctors' health
	Martyn Halle
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

	UN condemns female circumcision
	Josh Hamilton
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch GP in euthanasia case will not go to prison
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginals widening
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Leading scientists call for action against malaria
	Stephanie Swafford
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

	Gene therapy hope for motor neurone disease
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

	Chemokines show potential against HIV
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

	Boycott threat forces French company to abandon RU486
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Westminster – NHS on election back burner
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1145 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Hypothyroidism: screening and subclinical disease
	A P Weetman
	BMJ  1997;314:1175 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical haematology: Bone marrow and stem cell transplantation
	Andrew Duncombe
	BMJ  1997;314:1179 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Do general practitioners act consistently in real practice when they meet the same patient twice? examination of intradoctor variation using standardised (simulated) patients
	Jan-Joost Rethans, Lars Saebu
	BMJ  1997;314:1170 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Survey of general practitioners' opinions on treatment of opiate users
	Ann Davies, Peter Huxley
	BMJ  1997;314:1173 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Let's learn more in lectures
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;314:1207 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	American domestic violence: will a helpline reduce it?
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1997;314:1207 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	The Aftermath of Road Accidents, by Mitchell
	Ian Higginson
	BMJ  1997;314:1209 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bayesian Methods and Ethics in a Clinical Trial Design, by Ed Joseph B Kadane
	Robert A Crouch
	BMJ  1997;314:1209 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Caesarean section: a treatment for mental disorder? Tameside&Glossop Acute Services Unit v CH (a patient) [1996] 1 FLR 762
	Bridget Dolan, Camilla Parker
	BMJ  1997;314:1183 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Bad medicine and bad law
	Susan Bewley
	BMJ  1997;314:1184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: A decision that stretches the law too far
	Adrian Whitfield
	BMJ  1997;314:1185 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Is caesarean section a treatment for medical paranoia?
	Hilda Bastian, Cathy Conroy
	BMJ  1997;314:1187 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Equity, poverty and health for all
	Kenneth C Calman
	BMJ  1997;314:1187 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are placebo run ins justified?
	Stephen Senn
	BMJ  1997;314:1191 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Placebo run ins have some value
	Lawrence E Ramsay
	BMJ  1997;314:1193 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Socioeconomic determinants of health: Health and the life course: why safety nets matter
	Mel Bartley, David Blane, Scott Montgomery
	BMJ  1997;314:1194 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1210 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Poisonous ices and sweets
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Personal financial hygiene for junior doctors
	Catherine Hayden, Jeremy Hayden
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Mentoring is one way of providing a fresh impetus to ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The BMA's General Medical Services Committee has updated and revised ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Members of the National Association of Non-Principals met in London ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Tweaking the BMJ redesign and fretting about alcohol
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Doctors portrayed as heroes
	Paul Neary
	BMJ  1997;314:1208 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Juniors will have role in new GMC procedures • NHS cuts are threatening medical education • Trust chief executives' salaries rise by 6.2% • Hippocratic Oath updated
	BMJ  1997;314:1206 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Frederick Brown ("Freddie") Coates • Donald John Brooksbank • Patricia Anne Crichton ("Paddy" Russell) • Joan Elizabeth ("Liz") Duncan (née Glassey) • George Harrison • Girlie Chilkah Reddy (née Naidoo) • Alison Ballenden Semple (née Cruickshank) • Sydney Nathaniel Swirsky • Lindsay Wilkie • Michael Roger Williams • Harold Thomas Heneage Wilson
	BMJ  1997;314:1204 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Collaborative systematic review of the randomised trials of organised inpatient (stroke unit) care after stroke
	BMJ  1997;314:1151 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How much alcohol and how often? Population based case-control study of alcohol consumption and risk of a major coronary event
	Patrick McElduff, Annette J Dobson
	BMJ  1997;314:1159 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ecological analysis of collectivity of alcohol consumption in England: importance of average drinker
	Helen Colhoun, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Wei Dong, Lulu Bost, Michael Marmot
	BMJ  1997;314:1164 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Assessment of the zinc turbidity test and the use of risk factors in detecting asymptomatic hepatitis C virus carriers: population based study
	Kazue Nakajima, Kozo Tatara, Noriyuki Nakanishi
	BMJ  1997;314:1169 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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