This week's This week in the BMJ

	Autoimmunity in insulin dependent diabetes may be due to early environmental exposure [Full text] FREE

	Patients care more than doctors about non-physical manifestations of disease [Full text] FREE

	Ethics committees should follow up 10% of approved studies [Full text] FREE

	Higher blood cholesterol concentrations linked with improved survival after stroke [Full text] FREE

	GPs are enthusiastic about an out of hours cooperative, patients less so [Full text] FREE

	Medical causes account for only a few fatal air accidents [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation
	Tim Lancaster, Jonathan Mant, Daniel E Singer
	BMJ  1997;314:1563 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical associations: guilds or leaders?
	Donald M Berwick
	BMJ  1997;314:1564 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should trusts be allowed to fail?
	C Chantler, A Maynard
	BMJ  1997;314:1566 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	British doctors are not disappearing
	Peter Richards, Chris McManus, Isobel Allen
	BMJ  1997;314:1567 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tackling deficient doctors
	Gabriel Scally
	BMJ  1997;314:1568 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Asian doctors are still being discriminated against
	Aneez Esmail, Sam Everington
	BMJ  1997;314:1619 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What happens when the private sector plans hospital services for the NHS
	John J Owens, Cairns Aitken, M D Rees, Peter A West, Ronnie Pollock, Michael Rosen, Allyson M Pollock, Matthew Dunnigan, Alison Macfarlane
	BMJ  1997;314:1619 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consensus statement on criteria for the persistent vegetative state is being developed
	Bryan Jennett, Ronald Cranford, Nathan Zasler
	BMJ  1997;314:1621 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The future of Britain's high security hospitals
	Raymond F Travers, Brian Caton
	BMJ  1997;314:1622 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Young people, alcohol, and designer drinks
	Paul Catterson, Sarah Hilton, Martin White, Anne Marie MacKintosh, Gerard Hastings, Kirsty Hughes, Colin Wheeler, Jonathan Watson, James Inglis
	BMJ  1997;314:1622 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Legal abortions save women's lives
	Wendy Savage, John McGarry, Marcus Filshie, Barbara Clayton, Peter Diggory, Ian McGillivray, Kathleen Frith, Malcolm Macnaughton, Peter Huntingford, Fleur Fisher, David Paintin
	BMJ  1997;314:1623 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Abortion must not be advocated as preventive solution to unwanted pregnancy
	Sarah Ross
	BMJ  1997;314:1623 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neonatal risk factors for cerebral palsy in very preterm babies
	Elizabeth N Allred, Olaf Dammann, Karl Kuban, Alan Leviton, Marcello Pagano, Deirdre J Murphy
	BMJ  1997;314:1624 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	United States has recommended screening for colon cancer
	A H Chapman, A Blakeborough, Michael H Stolar
	BMJ  1997;314:1624 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Oropharyngeal blood blisters are known as angina bullosa haemorrhagica
	John Gibson
	BMJ  1997;314:1625 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vasospasm of the nipple was described in 1970
	Edmund Hey
	BMJ  1997;314:1625 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Tobacco industry memo reveals passive smoking strategy
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1997;314:1569 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:1569 [Extract] [Full text]

	Glass ceiling confirmed in biomedical research
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  1997;314:1569 [Extract] [Full text]

	Medical Research Councils to abolish project grants
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:1569 [Extract] [Full text]

	Passive smoking doubles risk of heart disease
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;314:1569 [Extract] [Full text]

	American Medical Association backs amended abortion bill
	Norra Macready
	BMJ  1997;314:1569 [Extract] [Full text]

	Plan to control gifts given to Romanian doctors
	Tudor Toma
	BMJ  1997;314:1569 [Extract] [Full text]

	Panel defends India's traditional doctors
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1997;314:1569 [Extract] [Full text]

	GMC issues guidelines on circumcision
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:1569 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health authority stops buying homoeopathy
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Labour acts to cut NHS costs
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1569 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Using the technology of the world wide web to manage clinical information
	Hamish S F Fraser, Isaac S Kohane, William J Long
	BMJ  1997;314:1600 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	Mark Pallen
	BMJ  1997;314:1604 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Substance use disorders
	Marc A Schuckit
	BMJ  1997;314:1605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Common mental health problems in primary care
	T K J Craig, A P Boardman
	BMJ  1997;314:1609 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Postal survey of patients' satisfaction with a general practice out of hours cooperative
	Chris Salisbury
	BMJ  1997;314:1594 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evaluation of a general practice out of hours cooperative: a questionnaire survey of general practitioners
	Chris Salisbury
	BMJ  1997;314:1598 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Be yourself
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1997;314:1629 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	And the band played on...
	Andrew D Weeks
	BMJ  1997;314:1629 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	A Decent Proposal: Ethical Review of Clinical Research, by D Evans, M Evans
	Susan Bewley
	BMJ  1997;314:1632 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dying Well: A Holistic Guide for the Dying and Their Carers, by Richard Reoch
	Elizabeth Murray
	BMJ  1997;314:1632 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulating Medical Work, by Judith Alsop, Linda Mulcahy
	Marilynn M Rosenthal
	BMJ  1997;314:1633 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	The performance of doctors. II: Maintaining good practice, protecting patients from poor performance
	Donald Irvine
	BMJ  1997;314:1613 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health in China: The healthcare market
	Therese Hesketh, Wei Xing Zhu
	BMJ  1997;314:1616 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1634 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Unqualified practice and the Medical Acts
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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

	Any questions: The usefulness of electrostimulation in treating incontinence:
	Patrick Doyle
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Bringing it back to blighty
	Nicholas Banatvala, Annie Macklow-Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Non - consultant grade doctors have been facing uncertainty over ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: And while the i's and t's of Calman are dotted ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Medicine's need for leadership
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Media focus on failures of screening programme
	Jane Johnson
	BMJ  1997;314:1630 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anatomy of a media backlash
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1997;314:1631 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GP trainee numbers continue to decline • GMC gives advice on recording patients • Research assessment is having damaging effects
	BMJ  1997;314:1628 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Frederick Grimshaw Bolton • Harry Richard ("Chips") Chapman • David Bernard Evans • Christopher Henry Neaves • Reginald Platt • Faith Cecily Poles • Hugh ("Bill") Stott • Michael ("Mike") Anthony Edward Symonds • Eleanor Walker • Guy Simpson Wigley • Humphrey James Oakley White
	BMJ  1997;314:1626 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Population based study of prevalence of islet cell autoantibodies in monozygotic and dizygotic Danish twin pairs with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
	Jacob S Petersen, Kirsten O Kyvik, Polly J Bingley, Edwin A M Gale, Anders Green, Thomas Dyrberg, Henning Beck-Nielsen
	BMJ  1997;314:1575 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctors and patients don't agree: cross sectional study of patients' and doctors' perceptions and assessments of disability in multiple sclerosis
	P M Rothwell, Z McDowell, C K Wong, P J Dorman
	BMJ  1997;314:1580 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Influence of cholesterol on survival after stroke: retrospective study
	Alexander G Dyker, Christopher J Weir, Kennedy R Lees
	BMJ  1997;314:1584 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Review by a local medical research ethics committee of the conduct of approved research projects, by examination of patients' case notes, consent forms, and research records and by interview
	Trevor Smith, Edward J H Moore, Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
	BMJ  1997;314:1588 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Intentions of newly qualified doctors to practise in the United Kingdom
	Trevor W Lambert, Michael J Goldacre, James Parkhouse
	BMJ  1997;314:1591 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Role of medical factors in 1000 fatal aviation accidents: case note study
	S A Cullen, H C Drysdale, R W Mayes
	BMJ  1997;314:1592 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Interaction of thyroxine sodium with antimalarial drugs
	Y Munera, F C Hugues, C Le Jeunne, J F Pays
	BMJ  1997;314:1593 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Acute renal failure due to rhabdomyolysis in presence of concurrent ciprofibrate and ibuprofen treatment
	S Ramachandran, P D Giles
	BMJ  1997;314:1593 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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