This week's This week in the BMJ

	Hyperglycaemia independently predicts poor survival after stroke [Full text] FREE

	Heat probe helps in managing gastric ulcers with spurting haemorrhage [Full text] FREE

	What is a healthy body weight? [Full text] FREE

	Relation between H pylori and cardiovascular disease remains puzzling [Full text] FREE

	Steroid injection or manipulation is better for shoulder complaints than physiotherapy [Full text] FREE

	Social factors influence colic [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Contour control, survival, and quality of life
	Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
	BMJ  1997;314:1291 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The future of Britain's high security hospitals
	Elaine Murphy
	BMJ  1997;314:1292 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New challenge for palliative care
	Nick Bosanquet
	BMJ  1997;314:1294 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Domestic violence and pregnancy
	Gillian C Mezey, Susan Bewley
	BMJ  1997;314:1295 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patently confused
	David Taylor
	BMJ  1997;314:1296 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Introducing the postoperative care team
	Michael J Boscoe, Michael Rosen, R C G Russell, William Notcutt
	BMJ  1997;314:1346 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why people stay healthy
	Frada Eskin
	BMJ  1997;314:1347 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Exploitative collaborative research must be discouraged
	Babatunde A Gbolade
	BMJ  1997;314:1347 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Persistent fever in pulmonary tuberculosis
	John Crofton, P D O Davies
	BMJ  1997;314:1347 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public scare has not deterred Finnish teenagers from using oral contraceptives
	Elise Kosunen, Heini Huhtala, Arja Rimpelä, Matti Rimpelä, Arja Liinamo
	BMJ  1997;314:1348 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sight tests to detect glaucoma
	Philip G Griffiths, Mick Cole
	BMJ  1997;314:1348 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Systemic lupus erythematosus complicated by antiphospholipid antibody syndrome
	Robert Llewelyn, Elizabeth M McDermott, Michael Duddridge, Richard J Powell, P Cockwell, D Adu, C Gordon, C O S Savage
	BMJ  1997;314:1349 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The tobacco industry and scientific publications
	A J Hedley, Phillip Whidden
	BMJ  1997;314:1350 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More intensive care unit beds are needed
	Pamela A Cupples, Andrew P Makin, Susan S McKinnon, Neil D Storey
	BMJ  1997;314:1351 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Submucosal haemorrhage—or ruptured nodule in a multinodular goitre?
	B G Issa, M F Scanlon, R Walsh
	BMJ  1997;314:1351 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Journals and the internet
	M Palat, Bruce Allan, Nigel Morlet, Richard Wormald, Jean G Shaw
	BMJ  1997;314:1351 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulations on registration of a fetus papyraceus need to be revised
	Robert F Heys
	BMJ  1997;314:1352 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of lung cancer needs to be studied in younger patients who keep pet birds
	Peter Holst
	BMJ  1997;314:1353 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	CS gas is not a chemical means of restraining a person
	Peter J Gray
	BMJ  1997;314:1353 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Talk works—if the patient is willing
	Andrew F Blakey
	BMJ  1997;314:1353 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Cuban refugees injured themselves to get into the United States
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1997;314:1297 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:1297 [Extract] [Full text]

	Japan to allow organ transplants
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:1297 [Extract] [Full text]

	Heart transplant pioneer cleared
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1297 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hay fever drug to become prescription only
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:1297 [Extract] [Full text]

	US endorses testing for cystic fibrosis in pregnant women
	Norra Macready
	BMJ  1997;314:1297 [Extract] [Full text]

	Call for European cooperation in research
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;314:1297 [Extract] [Full text]

	GP reveals patients' secrets in pub
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1297 [Extract] [Full text]

	HIV transmitted by bone graft
	Helmut L Karcher
	BMJ  1997;314:1297 [Extract] [Full text]

	Understanding customers' needs is the key to improvement
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Quality can be raised and costs reduced in hospital care
	BMJ  1997;314:1297 [Extract] [Full text]

	Leaders need to be able to manage change
	BMJ  1997;314:1297 [Extract] [Full text]

	Protest over sale of national mental hospital in the Philippines
	Adam Easton
	BMJ  1997;314:1297 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Sydney — Confusion over radiation risk from phone towers
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1997;314:1297 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis: diagnosis and management
	A J Swannell
	BMJ  1997;314:1329 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical haematology: Haematological emergencies
	Rebecca Frewin, Andrew Henson, Drew Provan
	BMJ  1997;314:1333 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Comparison of physiotherapy, manipulation, and corticosteroid injection for treating shoulder complaints in general practice: randomised, single blind study
	Jan C Winters, Jan S Sobel, Klaas H Groenier, Hans J Arendzen, Betty Meyboom-de Jong
	BMJ  1997;314:1320 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The social origins of infantile colic: questionnaire study covering 76 747 infants
	N S Crowcroft, D P Strachan
	BMJ  1997;314:1325 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Night of the gatekeeper
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1997;314:1355 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Don't shoot me—I'm only the pharmacist
	David Kernick
	BMJ  1997;314:1355 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Breaking Bad News, by G Walker, J Bradburn, J Maher
	Martin Tattersall
	BMJ  1997;314:1357 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neurological Investigations, by RAC Hughes
	Julien Bogousslavsky
	BMJ  1997;314:1357 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	What will a primary care led NHS mean for GP workload? the problem of the lack of an evidence base
	Lone Lund Pedersen, Brenda Leese
	BMJ  1997;314:1337 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Socioeconomic determinants of health: Community marginalisation and the diffusion of disease and disorder in the United States
	Rodrick Wallace, Deborah Wallace
	BMJ  1997;314:1341 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1358 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable book: From magic to science
	Jan Pollert
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Any questions: Why does rebound abdominal pain occur after anti-ulcer drugs are stopped?:
	R G Long
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Getting on in and off on medical politics ...
	Carl Gray
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The contracts of many staff grade doctors do not currently ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Several readers have kindly written to say how much they ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: New Zealand has had an affirmative action programme which increases ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Are you normal?
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Bone marrow transplant raises issues of privacy
	Sally Davies
	BMJ  1997;314:1356 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Birch • Clifford James Cobbe • Ralph John Chevallier Cobbold • Richard Butler Dobson • Andrew Atholl Duncan • Anup Kumar Dutt • Ralph Emery
	BMJ  1997;314:1354 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Is hyperglycaemia an independent predictor of poor outcome after acute stroke? Results of a long term follow up study
	Christopher J Weir, Gordon D Murray, Alexander G Dyker, Kennedy R Lees
	BMJ  1997;314:1303 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised comparison between adrenaline injection alone and adrenaline injection plus heat probe treatment for actively bleeding ulcers
	Sydney S C Chung, James Y W Lau, Joseph J Y Sung, Angus C W Chan, C W Lai, Enders K W Ng, Francis K L Chan, M Y Yung, Arthur K C Li
	BMJ  1997;314:1307 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Body weight: implications for the prevention of coronary heart disease, stroke, and diabetes mellitus in a cohort study of middle aged men
	A Gerald Shaper, S Goya Wannamethee, Mary Walker
	BMJ  1997;314:1311 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prospective study of Helicobacter pylori seropositivity and cardiovascular diseases in a general elderly population
	Timo E Strandberg, Reijo S Tilvis, Matti Vuoristo, Magnus Lindroos, Timo U Kosunen
	BMJ  1997;314:1317 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Helicobacter pylori infection and coagulation in healthy people
	Fabrizio Parente, Giovanni Maconi, Venerina Imbesi, Ornella Sangaletti, Marina Poggio, Edoardo Rossi, Piergiorgio Duca, Gabriele Bianchi Porro
	BMJ  1997;314:1318 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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