This week's This week in the BMJ

	Asthma mortality is declining in the under 75s [Full text] FREE

	Salmeterol is associated with reduction in inhaled steroid dose [Full text] FREE

	Molecular techniques show transmission of HIV in prison [Full text] FREE

	Sunlight does not increase the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma [Full text] FREE

	Deprivation accounts for a third of variation in GPs' medical referral rates [Full text] FREE

	Chlamydial infection is associated with adverse serum lipid profile [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Learning from asthma deaths
	Ann J Woolcock
	BMJ  1997;314:1427 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Valvular heart disease: putting guidelines into practice
	Gerard T Wilkins
	BMJ  1997;314:1428 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antenatal Hiv testing: what now?
	Ahilya Noone, David Goldberg
	BMJ  1997;314:1429 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Helicobacter gastroduodenitis: a serious infectious disease
	Anthony Axon, David Forman
	BMJ  1997;314:1430 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sexual medicine
	Jona Lewin, Michael King
	BMJ  1997;314:1432 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Informed consent in medical research
	David E Bratt, Pat Soutter, Martin Bland, Paul Little, Ian Williamson, Dennis O Chanter, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Hazel Thornton, Wendy Holmes, Joseph N E Ana, Colin Morley, Moli Paul, A Hassiotis, Mark F G Hulbert, Carl E Counsell, Peter A G Sandercock, Peter Wilmshurst, Michael Baum, Charles Montgomery, Anna Lydon, Keith Lloyd, Christopher Wiltshire, A C Frosh, J Hanif
	BMJ  1997;314:1477 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reintroduction of medical officers of health would solve many problems
	J F Soothill
	BMJ  1997;314:1483 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Many children remain unrestrained in cars
	Harry Campbell, Sheena MacDonald
	BMJ  1997;314:1483 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Solar ultraviolet radiation is not a major cause of primary cutaneous non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
	Robert Newton
	BMJ  1997;314:1483 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What is it acceptable to die of?
	Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  1997;314:1484 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Redback spider is now established in Japan: bites can be recognised by a unique sign
	Peter Horton
	BMJ  1997;314:1484 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Segregated health statistics perpetuate racial stereotypes
	George T H Ellison, Thea de Wet, Carel B IJsselmuiden, Linda M Richter
	BMJ  1997;314:1485 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Incidence of myocardial infarction is affected by deprivation in Buckinghamshire too
	John N Newton, Shirley Holton
	BMJ  1997;314:1485 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Project will assess effects of patients writing about their terminal illness on self perceived quality of life
	Gillie Bolton, Sam Ahmedzai
	BMJ  1997;314:1485 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	South Asian diabetic patients need more education about their illness
	Kamila Hawthorne
	BMJ  1997;314:1486 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shorter preoperative fluid fasts reduce postoperative emesis
	A F Smith, H Vallance, R M Slater
	BMJ  1997;314:1486 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pharmacists are key members of primary health care teams
	W Denys E Wells
	BMJ  1997;314:1486 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Health department admits to NHS funding crisis
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1433 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK food standards agency aims to rebuild trust in food
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1433 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:1433 [Extract] [Full text]

	Ending "two tierism" is top priority for new health secretary
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1433 [Extract] [Full text]

	Obstetrician accused of changing notes
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1433 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israel condemned for torture of Palestinian detainees
	Josh Hamilton
	BMJ  1997;314:1433 [Extract] [Full text]

	Preimplantation diagnosis is likely to increase in the Netherlands
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;314:1433 [Extract] [Full text]

	HIV may be eliminated from reservoirs of infection in the body
	BMJ  1997;314:1433 [Extract] [Full text]

	Direct HIV testing of donated blood is inevitable
	Adam Legge
	BMJ  1997;314:1433 [Extract] [Full text]

	Cockroaches blamed for high asthma rates
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Consultants snub BUPA's partnership plan
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:1433 [Extract] [Full text]

	Size of moles linked to melanoma risk
	Norra Macready
	BMJ  1997;314:1433 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Westminster – Labour finds power is heaven on earth
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1433 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
	Kenneth A Ballew
	BMJ  1997;314:1462 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Persistent itching due to etherified starch plasma expander
	E Lucy Speight, Ruth M MacSween, Alan Stevens
	BMJ  1997;314:1466 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	The effect of deprivation on variations in general practitioners' referral rates: a cross sectional study of computerised data on new medical and surgical outpatient referrals in Nottinghamshire
	Julia Hippisley-Cox, Carolyn Hardy, Mike Pringle, Katherine Fielding, Robin Carlisle, Clair Chilvers
	BMJ  1997;314:1458 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Feeding the five thousand
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1997;314:1490 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Memoirs of a service reduction survivor
	Virginia Royston
	BMJ  1997;314:1490 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	The Right to Refuse Mental Health Treatment, by Bruce J Winick
	Elaine Murphy
	BMJ  1997;314:1492 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Essential Medical Procedures, by Ed Peter J Toghill
	Suzanne Docherty
	BMJ  1997;314:1492 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Our Stolen Future, by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers
	Tim Key
	BMJ  1997;314:1493 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	How to do it: Run a preparation course for postgraduate examinations
	Richard D Neal, Neal Maskrey, Mark Williams
	BMJ  1997;314:1468 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Socioeconomic determinants of health: Stress and the biology of inequality
	Eric Brunner
	BMJ  1997;314:1472 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1494 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	An unforgettable patient: Never give up trying
	J A Kuzemko
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Keeping in touch: A paper reunion
	Helen Sapper
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Getting help for sick doctors
	Jolyon Oxley, Sydney Brandon
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The BMA has updated its advice for associate specialists' job ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Accident and emergency is a new specialty: the first consultant ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: One of the ways in which the New Deal was ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Informed consent: one standard for research, another for clinical practice
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

SELECTION

This week's SELECTION

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

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	The Surgery—an insider's view
	Mark Gabbay
	BMJ  1997;314:1491 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Many NHS trusts face financial pressures • Poorer students cannot afford medical school • Rationing debate: BMA's update • BMA supports international criminal court • "Don't delay, immunise today"
	BMJ  1997;314:1489 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Andrew Baxter • Samuel Carden • Anne Davies • Frederick Justus Swinton Esher • Eoin Stewart Hodgson • Michael John Lynch • Mervyn McIlvenna • Gladys Cotsworth ("Margaret") Pappworth (née Curtis) • William Murray Porteous • Gian Sagar • Edward John Somerset
	BMJ  1997;314:1487 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Age specific trends in asthma mortality in England and Wales, 1983-95: results of an observational study
	M J Campbell, G R Cogman, S T Holgate, S L Johnston
	BMJ  1997;314:1439 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of long term treatment with salmeterol on asthma control: a double blind, randomised crossover study
	Paul Wilding, Miranda Clark, Joanna Thompson Coon, Sarah Lewis, Lesley Rushton, Jon Bennett, Janet Oborne, Susan Cooper, Anne E Tattersfield
	BMJ  1997;314:1441 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Molecular investigation into outbreak of HIV in a Scottish prison
	D L Yirrell, P Robertson, D J Goldberg, J McMenamin, S Cameron, A J Leigh Brown
	BMJ  1997;314:1446 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Residential and occupational exposure to sunlight and mortality from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: composite (threefold) case-control study
	D Michal Freedman, Shelia Hoar Zahm, Mustafa Dosemeci
	BMJ  1997;314:1451 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Transfer of adults between intensive care units in the United Kingdom: postal survey
	Peter A Mackenzie, Elizabeth A Smith, Peter G M Wallace
	BMJ  1997;314:1455 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Chlamydia pneumoniae antibodies and serum lipids in Finnish men: cross sectional study
	Aino Laurila, Aini Bloigu, Simo Näyhä, Juhani Hassi, Maija Leinonen, Pekka Saikku
	BMJ  1997;314:1456 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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