This week's This week in the BMJ

	Graded exercise helps patients with chronic fatigue syndrome [Full text] FREE

	Clearing the cervical spine in unconscious patients with trauma is done inconsistently [Full text] FREE

	Lifelong drinking is not associated with poor cognitive function in old age [Full text] FREE

	Short term rises in air pollution seem to increase mortality [Full text] FREE

	Health promotion for coronary heart disease is of limited value [Full text] FREE

	Influenza vaccine and pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine should be given together [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Managing chronic fatigue syndrome in children
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  1997;314:1635 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why healthcare systems need medical managers
	Jenny Simpson, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:1636 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health priorities for the European intergovernmental conference
	Paul Belcher, Elias Mossialos
	BMJ  1997;314:1637 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating anal fissure
	Anjan K Banerjee
	BMJ  1997;314:1638 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why does acute back pain become chronic?
	Malcolm I V Jayson
	BMJ  1997;314:1639 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	The WHO wants governments to encourage people to stop smoking
	Jo E Asvall
	BMJ  1997;314:1688 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Validation of a rapid whole blood test for diagnosing Helicobacter pylori infection
	Anne Duggan, Richard Logan, R J Robinson, M A Stone, J F Mayberry, Brendan Delaney, F D R Hobbs, S Wilson, Brian T Johnston, Martin Dawes, Jonathan Mant, John Fletcher, Catherine Hawke, M C Bateson, Paul Moayyedi, Anthony T R Axon
	BMJ  1997;314:1688 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interruption of methadone treatment by imprisonment
	Laurence Gruer, Jayne Macleod
	BMJ  1997;314:1691 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Major journals should peer review trials at protocol stage
	Alexander Foss, Mark Westcott
	BMJ  1997;314:1691 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing measles
	D C Morley, P Aaby, Ian Kennedy, Wouter H Havinga, Greg Hussey
	BMJ  1997;314:1692 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Elimination of firearms would do little to reduce premature deaths
	Paula Baillie-Hamilton
	BMJ  1997;314:1693 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Severe persistent visual field constriction associated with vigabatrin
	Elaine A Wilson, Martin J Brodie, I C K Wong, G E Mawer, J W A S Sander, Nikki Blackwell, Jeremy Hayllar, Graeme Kelly, G F A Harding, Jat T Backstrom, Randy L Hinkle, Michele R Flicker
	BMJ  1997;314:1693 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Swiss experience of managed care
	Thomas V Perneger, Jean-François Etter
	BMJ  1997;314:1695 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO is producing a reproductive health library for developing countries
	A Metin Gülmezoglu, José viller, Guillermo Carroli, Justus Hofmeyr, Ana Langer, Ken Schulz, Richard Guidotti
	BMJ  1997;314:1695 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Psychiatrist resigns after second patient is charged with murder
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

	European complementary medicine proposals watered down
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

	Junior doctors attack Royal College
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK doctors urged to whistleblow
	Colleen Shannon
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

	Drugs for obesity are last resort treatment
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

	Europe urged to tackle rise in allergies
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

	Vietnam tops world smoking league for men
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

	Jewish paper forgoes tobacco advertising
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

	Philippines considers euthanasia bill
	Claire Wallerstein
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Canada plans new regulations on hepatitis B
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

	Global food markets increase risk of infectious disease
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

	Canadian doctor charged with murder
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

	Aspirin benefits patients with stroke–but only just
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Syndey – Tilting at the immunisation windmill
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1997;314:1641 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: The thalassaemias
	D J Weatherall
	BMJ  1997;314:1675 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Common mental health problems in hospital
	Amanda Ramirez, Allan House
	BMJ  1997;314:1679 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of multiple risk factor interventions for preventing coronary heart disease
	Shah Ebrahim, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:1666 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Noise at Rhinoceros General
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1997;314:1699 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Medical school reunions
	Eileen McGinley
	BMJ  1997;314:1699 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	OTOROM: Interactive Middle Ear Pathology and Surgical Procedures, by Robert Vincent
	Iain R C Swan
	BMJ  1997;314:1701 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	James Scott
	BMJ  1997;314:1701 [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Fraction of normal remaining life span: a new method for expressing survival in cancer
	Jayant S Vaidya, Indraneel Mittra
	BMJ  1997;314:1682 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health in China: The one child family policy: the good, the bad, and the ugly
	Therese Hesketh, Wei Xing Zhu
	BMJ  1997;314:1685 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1702 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	When I use a word . . .: Fortysomething
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nomenclature: What is your name?
	Geoffrey Chamberlain
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable case: A not so common case
	Anthony Ferris
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Labour acts to cut NHS costs
	BMJ  1997;314:1646 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Rehabilitating troubled doctors
	Elizabeth Armstrong
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Traditionally, graduates of British medical schools have been more interested ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The second meeting of the National Association of Non-principals met ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The electronic version of Career Focus, published with its paper ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	ME: less hype and more understanding
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Plague or pure hype?
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  1997;314:1700 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	The junior doctors conference • There is little hard evidence of a medical exodus • Juniors criticise private practice • The conference ... • Government wants revised approach to NHS pay
	BMJ  1997;314:1697 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	James Malcolm Graham • Thomas Hastings Macdonald • Mamdouh Nadeem ("Toni") Nasri • James Rochester ("Jimmy") Nelson • Yvonne Maria Teresa Pawulski • John William Patrick ("Dr Pat") Salt
	BMJ  1997;314:1696 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Randomised controlled trial of graded exercise in patients with the chronic fatigue syndrome
	Kathy Y Fulcher, Peter D White
	BMJ  1997;314:1647 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Discontinuation of cervical spine immobilisation in unconscious patients with trauma in intensive care units–telephone survey of practice in South and West region
	K J Gupta, M Clancy
	BMJ  1997;314:1652 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Alcohol consumption and cognitive performance in a random sample of Australian soldiers who served in the second world war
	O F Dent, M R Sulway, G A Broe, H Creasey, S C Kos, A F Jorm, C Tennant, M J Fairley
	BMJ  1997;314:1655 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Short term effects of ambient sulphur dioxide and particulate matter on mortality in 12 European cities: results from time series data from the APHEA project
	K Katsouyanni, G Touloumi, C Spix, J Schwartz, F Balducci, S Medina, G Rossi, B Wojtyniak, J Sunyer, L Bacharova, J P Schouten, A Ponka, H R Anderson
	BMJ  1997;314:1658 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Simultaneous immunisation with influenza vaccine and pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in patients with chronic respiratory disease
	T J Fletcher, W S Tunnicliffe, K Hammond, K Roberts, J G Ayres
	BMJ  1997;314:1663 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Acute dissection of the aorta with amphetamine misuse
	W C Dihmis, P Ridley, J P Dhasmana, J D Wisheart
	BMJ  1997;314:1665 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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