This week's This week in the BMJ

	Previous back trouble predicts new back pain in nurses [Full text] FREE

	Mutation in mannose binding protein gene leads to more infections in children [Full text] FREE

	Evidence of secular changes in HIV infection [Full text] FREE

	Only proved fungal infections should be treated in cancer [Full text] FREE

	GPs change services through locality commissioning [Full text] FREE

	GPs believe that Health of the Nation targets cannot be met [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Modern treatments for internal haemorrhoids
	John L Pfenninger
	BMJ  1997;314:1211 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The future of locality commissioning
	Nicholas Mays
	BMJ  1997;314:1212 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is one arterial graft enough?
	Malcolm Underwood, Graham Cooper, Bruce Keogh
	BMJ  1997;314:1213 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The private finance initiative
	Seán Boyle
	BMJ  1997;314:1214 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia
	Andrew Farmer, Jeremy Noble
	BMJ  1997;314:1215 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Bureaucracy of purchaser-provider split delays treatment
	Iain Hutchison, Peter Hardee, Catherine Barns
	BMJ  1997;314:1275 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Counting the cost of social disadvantage in primary care
	D P Kernick, Charles A West, Adrian Worrall, Nicolas Rea, Yoav Ben-Shlomo
	BMJ  1997;314:1275 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community mental health teams in London are being increasingly stretched
	Ben Hannigan, Richard Laugharne, Anna Stafford
	BMJ  1997;314:1276 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cervical screening
	Sophia Williamson, Viney Wadehra, C Mary Anderson, Amanda Herbert
	BMJ  1997;314:1277 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Home medical students account for less than half the full registrants Britain requires
	E W L Fletcher
	BMJ  1997;314:1278 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recommendations for improving national data on congenital anomalies are being implemented
	Eva Alberman, Beverley Botting
	BMJ  1997;314:1278 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Crisis in London's mental health services
	Scott Weich, Nick Bouras, Geraldine Holt, Alan Beadsmoore, Pollyanna Hardy, David Goldberg, Graham Thornicroft, Richard Duffett, John Cookson, Lena Lessof, Stephen Hatch
	BMJ  1997;314:1278 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bodybuilders find it easy to obtain insulin to help them in training
	S L Elkin, S Brady, I P Williams
	BMJ  1997;314:1280 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dangers of sunbeds are greater in the commercial sector
	Andrew Wright, Graham Hart, Liz Kernohan
	BMJ  1997;314:1280 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Junior surgeons are becoming deskilled as result of Calman proposals
	F David Skidmore
	BMJ  1997;314:1281 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New government must reassess its criminal justice policy
	Tom McClintock
	BMJ  1997;314:1281 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism
	Thomas H S Dent, Monica A Dent, T M Cook, R J H Baylis, R Marjot, M Verstraete
	BMJ  1997;314:1281 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Not all those who died after Hillsborough did so by 3 15 pm
	Ed Walker
	BMJ  1997;314:1283 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Concussive convulsions
	John Stephenson, David Chadwick
	BMJ  1997;314:1283 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Tobacco companies seek to pay $300bn as lawsuit settlement
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1997;314:1217 [Extract] [Full text]

	The BMJ's Question Time
	BMJ  1997;314:1217 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:1217 [Extract] [Full text]

	PFI condemned as a failure
	Jackie Cresswell
	BMJ  1997;314:1217 [Extract] [Full text]

	Canada retreats over tobacco laws
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;314:1217 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health authority pays out £2m over radiation blunder
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1217 [Extract] [Full text]

	Young doctors feel isolated
	Stephanie Swafford
	BMJ  1997;314:1217 [Extract] [Full text]

	General Medical Council attacks medical training
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:1217 [Extract] [Full text]

	Family accuses doctors of failing to warn of risk
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1217 [Extract] [Full text]

	AIDS drug trials attacked
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	US doctors rush to join unions
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;314:1217 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Evaluation of a decision support system for initiation and control of oral anticoagulation in a randomised trial
	B Vadher, D L H Patterson, M Leaning
	BMJ  1997;314:1252 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	Mark Pallen
	BMJ  1997;314:1257 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future : Hypertension
	Morris J Brown
	BMJ  1997;314:1258 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical haematology: Haematological disorders at the extremes of life
	Adrian C Newland, Tyrrell G J R Evans
	BMJ  1997;314:1262 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	What does locality commissioning in Avon offer? Retrospective descriptive evaluation
	Christine E Hine, Max O Bachmann
	BMJ  1997;314:1246 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Are the Health of the Nation's targets attainable? Postal survey of general practitioners' views
	Philip Cheung, A Pali S Hungin, Jo Verrill, Andrew J Russell, Helen Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:1250 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	A-wake?
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1997;314:1286 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The system must change
	Helen Gibson
	BMJ  1997;314:1286 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electronic nagging
	Geoffrey Bunch
	BMJ  1997;314:1287 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

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

	Multiple Sclerosis (Clinical and Pathogenetic Basis), by Ed C S Raine, H F McFarland, W W Tourtellotte
	P K Newman
	BMJ  1997;314:1288 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mould's Medical Anecdotes, Omnibus Edition, by R F Mould
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1997;314:1288 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing Heart Failure in Primary Care, by Henry Dargie
	Peter J Herbert
	BMJ  1997;314:1289 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	What happens when the private sector plans hospital services for the NHS: three case studies under the private finance initiative
	Allyson M Pollock, Matthew Dunnigan, Declan Gaffney, Alison Macfarlane, F Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  1997;314:1266 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Life expectancy, economic inequality, homicide, and reproductive timing in Chicago neighbourhoods
	Margo Wilson, Martin Daly
	BMJ  1997;314:1271 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1290 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: The General Medical Council election
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Any questions: Is eczema more common in vegetarians?
	A C Chu
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Cremation at the hairdresser's
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Clinical Surgery
	BMJ  1997;314:1289 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Developing skills for the broadcast media
	Paul Stillman
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The current law on maternity rights has been summarised in ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Long working hours and job insecurity are leading to stress ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Although doctors are generally exempt from jury service, they may ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Vote, vote, vote for ...
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Doctors will call for review body to return to original remit • Staff grade doctors will have new contract • BUPA plans to set up partnerships with consultants • NHS Executive issues guide on GP pilots • BMA Notices
	BMJ  1997;314:1285 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Harold William Charles Fuller • Percival Maclean Andrew Harnarayan • Ronald Wallace Knowlton • Peter Grey Loton Parry • Sydney Carver Woodhouse
	BMJ  1997;314:1284 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Prospective cohort study of predictors of incident low back pain in nurses
	Julia Smedley, Peter Egger, Cyrus Cooper, David Coggon
	BMJ  1997;314:1225 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association of mutations in mannose binding protein gene with childhood infection in consecutive hospital series
	John A Summerfield, Michiko Sumiya, Michael Levin, Malcolm W Turner
	BMJ  1997;314:1229 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is the clinical course of HIV-1 changing? Cohort study
	A Sinicco, R Fora, R Raiteri, M Sciandra, G Bechis, M M Calvo, P Gioannini
	BMJ  1997;314:1232 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Meta-analysis of prophylactic or empirical antifungal treatment versus placebo or no treatment in patients with cancer complicated by neutropenia
	Peter C Gøtzsche, Helle Krogh Johansen
	BMJ  1997;314:1238 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of a dedicated service for male mentally disordered remand prisoners in north west London: retrospective study
	Tim Weaver, Fiona Taylor, Barbara Cunningham, Shane Kavanagh, Anthony Maden, Sian Rees, Adrian Renton
	BMJ  1997;314:1244 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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