This week's This week in the BMJ

	Scottish Smokeline campaign reaches targets six years early [Full text] FREE

	Relative birth weight predicts perinatal survival [Full text] FREE

	Day psychiatric care is cheaper and lessens the burden on carers [Full text] FREE

	Diet can affect dosage of phenprocoumon [Full text] FREE

	Women with abnormal smear results need better information [Full text] FREE

	Should egg donors be paid? [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	WHO reform and global health
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  1997;314:1359 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pulmonary rehabilitation
	M K Sridhar
	BMJ  1997;314:1361 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acupuncture: safety first
	E Ernst, A White
	BMJ  1997;314:1362 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gestational trophoblastic disease
	Harold Fox
	BMJ  1997;314:1363 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ice cream headache
	Joseph Hulihan
	BMJ  1997;314:1364 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Do neuroleptic drugs hasten cognitive decline in dementia?
	C Holmes, O Fortenza, J Powell, S Lovestone, Robert Tobiansky, Martin Blanchard, P W Bentham, S E Goh, E M Gregg, P Madeley, A R A Patel, A P Taylor, Rupert McShane, Tony Hope, Robin Jacoby, Janet Keene, Christopher Fairburn
	BMJ  1997;314:1411 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intake of micronutrients in Britain's poorest fifth has declined
	Suzi Leather, Elizabeth Dowler
	BMJ  1997;314:1412 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More women drink at hazardous levels in England than Italy
	Eileen F S Kaner, Catherine A Haighton, Brian R McAvoy, Nick Heather, Eilish Gilvarry
	BMJ  1997;314:1413 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prophylaxis should be considered even for trivial animal bites
	Marina S Morgan
	BMJ  1997;314:1413 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Giving children adults' rights runs risk of making them adults before their time
	Michael Croft
	BMJ  1997;314:1413 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
	W J Brawn, J V De Giovanni, S Hutchinson, B Sethia, E D Silove, O Stumper, J G C Wright, John Simpson, Gurleen Sharland, David Anderson, Ian Murdoch, Michael Tynan, Richard Thwaites
	BMJ  1997;314:1414 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	National system for monitoring all drug use in pregnancy already exists
	D N Bateman, P McElhatton
	BMJ  1997;314:1414 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hormone replacement therapy
	Geoffrey Venning, S Lange
	BMJ  1997;314:1415 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Studies exploring health in relation to intrauterine life should look at birth order
	Michel Odent, Junko Tsufino
	BMJ  1997;314:1416 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dictating clinic letters in front of the patient
	William Hamilton, Alison Round, Phil Taylor, Tony Waterston, Harriet Humfress, Ulrike Schmidt
	BMJ  1997;314:1416 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increasing doctors' confidence would solve low uptake of prehospital thrombolysis
	J A Ellerton
	BMJ  1997;314:1417 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rate of hysterectomy is lower among female doctors and lawyers' wives
	Gianfranco Domenighetti, Antoine Casabianca
	BMJ  1997;314:1417 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health workers need information from countries with better health indicators than Britain and the US
	Akira Sekikawa, Ronald E Laporte, Toshihiko Satoh, Genro Ochi
	BMJ  1997;314:1418 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sentiweb remains efficient tool for nationwide surveillance of disease
	Antoine Flahault, Eric Boussard, J-F Vibert, Alain-Jacques Valleron
	BMJ  1997;314:1418 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Achievements in new deal for junior doctors' hours should be independently audited
	A W Clark
	BMJ  1997;314:1418 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Specialists criticise treatment for heroin addiction
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1997;314:1365 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dobson is new health secretary
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1365 [Extract] [Full text]

	Canadian election focuses on health cuts
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;314:1365 [Extract] [Full text]

	Gwent criticised again over appointment
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1997;314:1365 [Extract] [Full text]

	Diseases of affluence hit developing nations
	Stephanie Swafford
	BMJ  1997;314:1365 [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO leader to step down
	Robert Walgate
	BMJ  1997;314:1365 [Extract] [Full text]

	King's Fund proposes health development bank
	Jackie Cresswell
	BMJ  1997;314:1365 [Extract] [Full text]

	Top French AIDS researcher to move to United States
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;314:1365 [Extract] [Full text]

	MOD settles over Down's syndrome child
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1365 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hopes raised for HIV vaccine
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Vitamin E enhances immune system
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:1365 [Extract] [Full text]

	Older people take too many drugs
	Stephanie Swafford
	BMJ  1997;314:1365 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors accused of refusing transplant on moral grounds
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1365 [Extract] [Full text]

	Philippines clamps down on unscrupulous hospitals
	Adam Easton
	BMJ  1997;314:1365 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: seasonal allergic rhinitis
	Abhi Parikh, Glenis K Scadding
	BMJ  1997;314:1392 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical haematology: The future of haematology, molecular biology, and gene therapy
	Adele K Fielding, Sally Ager, Stephen J Russell
	BMJ  1997;314:1396 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Women's understanding of abnormal cervical smear test results: a qualitative interview study
	Anne M Kavanagh, Dorothy H Broom
	BMJ  1997;314:1388 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Words and music
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1997;314:1421 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Children have rights too
	Rachel Bulford
	BMJ  1997;314:1421 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	April bestsellers: BMJ Bookshop
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fixing Health Budgets: Experience from Europe and North America, by Ed Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz, Howard Glennerster, Richard B Saltman
	Lois Quam
	BMJ  1997;314:1424 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Market Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America's Largest Service Industry, by Regina Herzlinger
	David Woods
	BMJ  1997;314:1424 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and Management in the National Health Service, by Gordon Marnoch • Really Managing Health Care, by Valerie Iles • The Clinical Directorate, ed Noel Austin, Sue Dopson
	Janet A Shirley
	BMJ  1997;314:1425 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Implementing GP Fundholding: Wild Card Or Winning Hand?, by Howard Glennerster, Manon Matsaganis, Patricia Owens, Stephanie Hancock
	Thomas O'Dowd
	BMJ  1997;314:1425 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	An ethical dilemma: Should egg donors be paid?
	Ian Craft
	BMJ  1997;314:1400 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The culture of unpaid and voluntary egg donation should be strengthened
	Martin H Johnson
	BMJ  1997;314:1401 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Exploitation or a woman's right?
	Mark V Sauer
	BMJ  1997;314:1403 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The future of world health: The new world order and international health
	Julio Frenk, Jaime Sepúlveda, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Michael J McGuinness, Felicia Knaul
	BMJ  1997;314:1404 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health care systems for the 21st century
	Seventh Consultative Committee on Primary Health Care Systems for the 21st Century
	BMJ  1997;314:1407 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The world health organisation needs to reconsider its definition of health
	Rodolfo Saracci
	BMJ  1997;314:1409 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1426 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Scientific temperance teaching in schools
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Any questions: Is there a molecular explanation of heart rhyrhm?:
	Denis Noble
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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

	One hundred years ago: Nursing in rural districts
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors of the future: My job in 2020
	Adrian Conner
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Drug delivery from inhaler devices
	BMJ  1997;314:1385 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Medical officer in the Royal Air Force
	David Rainford
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Connoisseurs of the debate on the length of surgical training ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Visiting surgeons in rural Africa not only need to be ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: If your fantasy is escape being a medical officer on ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Lurking treasures
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Science gets sexy
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1997;314:1422 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Media feed on human tragedy
	Stephanie Swafford
	BMJ  1997;314:1423 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Sinclair Calder • Arnold Dyson • Christopher Landale Grandage • David Lloyd Griffiths • Trevor William Guyse Kinnear • Henry Harold Brian Lamb • Wilhemina Mary Grace Macdonald-Smith • Noel Reilly • Harold Frederick Schuknecht • George John van Klaveren • Graham Charles Voss
	BMJ  1997;314:1419 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Effectiveness of antismoking telephone helpline: follow up survey
	Stephen Platt, Andrew Tannahill, Jonathan Watson, Elizabeth Fraser
	BMJ  1997;314:1371 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mothers' birth weight and survival of their offspring: population based study
	Rolv Skjærven, Allen J Wilcox, Nina Øyen, Per Magnus
	BMJ  1997;314:1376 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost effectiveness of day and inpatient psychiatric treatment: results of a randomised controlled trial
	Francis Creed, Patrick Mbaya, Stuart Lancashire, Barbara Tomenson, Bill Williams, Sarah Holme
	BMJ  1997;314:1381 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Concordance of phenprocoumon dosage in married couples
	Timon W van Haeften, Johanna de Vries, Jan J Sixma
	BMJ  1997;314:1386 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Acute angle closure glaucoma associated with paroxetine
	T Eke, A K Bates, S Carr
	BMJ  1997;314:1387 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Paroxetine and hepatotoxicity
	S J Benbow, G Gill
	BMJ  1997;314:1387 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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