This week's This week in the BMJ

	Risk of gonorrhoea correlates with ethnic and socioeconomic group or area of residence [Full text] FREE

	Debate over collecting ethnic data continues [Full text] FREE

	Poverty, not income inequality, determines mortality [Full text] FREE

	Opiate dependent drug injectors can be treated successfully in general practice [Full text] FREE

	Other staff may be better than doctors in requesting necropsies [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Race, ethnicity, and sexual health
	Kevin Fenton, Anne M Johnson, Angus Nicoll
	BMJ  1997;314:1703 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Disillusioned doctors
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1997;314:1705 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Supporting diversity in primary care
	David Jewell
	BMJ  1997;314:1706 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fighting malaria
	Graham Brown
	BMJ  1997;314:1707 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Iron deficiency anaemia
	W P Goddard, I Murray, R G Long, Brian Scott, Roger Barton, Michael Salman, Rebecca Frewin, Drew Provan, Andrew Henson
	BMJ  1997;314:1759 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More teenagers seem to be seeking contraceptive advice from their general practitioner
	Clare J Seamark
	BMJ  1997;314:1760 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increased parity and risk of trisomy 21
	P O D Pharoah, Arthur I Eidelman, Pnina Zadka
	BMJ  1997;314:1760 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Brain damage in divers
	Peter O Yates, J R Broome, A D Pitkin, Michael Knauth, Stefan Ries
	BMJ  1997;314:1761 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consent procedure for coronary angioplasty is haphazard
	Edward Langford, Adam de Belder
	BMJ  1997;314:1762 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Informed participation in screening is essential
	A E Raffle
	BMJ  1997;314:1762 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Wait for further evidence confirming effect of interferon beta in multiple sclerosis
	Richard Hughes
	BMJ  1997;314:1763 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths related to methadone have doubled in Lothian
	Judy Greenwood, Helen Zealley, Dermot Gorman, Paul Fineron, Tim Squires
	BMJ  1997;314:1763 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increased house dust mite allergen in synthetic pillows may explain increased wheezing
	Julian Crane, Trudi Kemp, Robert Siebers, Natalie Rains, David Fishwick, Penny Fitzharris
	BMJ  1997;314:1763 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thyroxine should be tried in clinically hypothyroid but biochemically euthyroid patients
	Gordon R B Skinner, R Thomas, M Taylor, M Sellarajah, S Bolt, S Krett, A Wright
	BMJ  1997;314:1764 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Large pragmatic randomised studies of new antiepileptic drugs are needed
	Anthony Marson, Zakaria Kadir, David Chadwick
	BMJ  1997;314:1764 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients from coronary care units should be given their electrocardiograms and carry them at all times
	Sandeep Varma, G Adrian Large
	BMJ  1997;314:1764 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Photograph was insensitive
	A J Wilkins
	BMJ  1997;314:1765 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Editors are justified in asking authors to cite equivalent references from same journal
	Eugene Garfield
	BMJ  1997;314:1765 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New Zealand priority criteria project
	Alan Mordue, David W Parkin
	BMJ  1997;314:1765 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	European surveillance network to be set up
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;314:1709 [Extract] [Full text]

	Woman asks court for peaceful death
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1709 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:1709 [Extract] [Full text]

	New French government will try to reduce health costs
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;314:1709 [Extract] [Full text]

	US patients can sue HMOs
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;314:1709 [Extract] [Full text]

	Canadian GPs retire early to save money
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;314:1709 [Extract] [Full text]

	Suicide hotline to be set up for Australian doctors
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1997;314:1709 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israeli plans to sue tobacco companies
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1997;314:1709 [Extract] [Full text]

	Germany to reform GP training
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1997;314:1709 [Extract] [Full text]

	Personal responsibility, not rationing, is the way forward
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch presidency has seen a quiet revolution in public health
	BMJ  1997;314:1709 [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA rules out move to "super hospitals"
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:1709 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Washington – Coincidental politics
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1997;314:1709 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: diagnosis and treatment of early breast cancer
	Melvin J Silverstein
	BMJ  1997;314:1736 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Mental health emergencies
	Zerrin Atakan, Teifion Davies
	BMJ  1997;314:1740 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	General practitioner centred scheme for treatment of opiate dependent drug injectors in Glasgow
	Laurence Gruer, Philip Wilson, Robert Scott, Lawrence Elliott, Jayne Macleod, Kenneth Harden, Ewing Forrester, Stewart Hinshelwood, Howard McNulty, Paul Silk
	BMJ  1997;314:1730 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	The last examiner
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1997;314:1770 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Chasm of care
	Neil Campbell
	BMJ  1997;314:1770 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

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

	Why Michael Couldn't Hit, by Harold Klawans
	Oliver Sacks
	BMJ  1997;314:1772 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sir Thomas Lewis: Pioneer Cardiologist and Clinical Scientist, by Arthur Hollman
	Graham Jackson
	BMJ  1997;314:1773 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Journal Publishing, by Gillian Page, Robert Campbell, Jack Meadows
	Alex Williamson
	BMJ  1997;314:1773 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Sexual health–a Health of the Nation failure
	Michael W Adler
	BMJ  1997;314:1743 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	HIV and AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis in ethnic minorities in United Kingdom: Is surveillance serving its purpose?
	Kevin M De Cock, Nicola Low
	BMJ  1997;314:1747 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is research into ethnicity and health racist, unsound, or important science?
	Raj Bhopal
	BMJ  1997;314:1751 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Save our service
	Peter Richards, Michael Gumpel
	BMJ  1997;314:1756 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1774 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A salutary lesson: Family secrets
	Hilary Aitken
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	My most unfortunate mistake: A memorable viva
	Colin McCartney
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ audit: time to decision and publication:
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Before the internet: Medical advice for the world
	Paul Bemrose
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Nuclear medicine from A career hot spot: nuclear medicine
	Liz Prvulovich
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: About a quarter of all employees are now employed part ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The General Medical Council has confirmed its position on the ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: It's good news that Isobel Allen's work has found little ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Britain: the party's ending
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Street car maims. Desire?
	Sean Spence
	BMJ  1997;314:1771 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Medical academic staff conference • Senior staffs conference
	BMJ  1997;314:1767 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Sir Robert Stevenson Aitken • Abraham Ansell • Peter Llewellyn Blaxter • Alan James Booth • James Stark Greig Burnett • James Brian ("Jim") Clark
	BMJ  1997;314:1766 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Analysis of the sociodemography of gonorrhoea in Leeds, 1989-93
	Charles J N Lacey, David W Merrick, David C Bensley, Ian Fairley
	BMJ  1997;314:1715 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Gonorrhoea in inner London: results of a cross sectional study
	Nicola Low, Gavin Daker-White, David Barlow, Anton L Pozniak
	BMJ  1997;314:1719 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Poverty or income inequality as predictor of mortality: longitudinal cohort study
	Kevin Fiscella, Peter Franks
	BMJ  1997;314:1724 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Income inequality summarises the health burden of individual relative deprivation
	Richard G Wilkinson
	BMJ  1997;314:1727 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Does it matter who requests necropsies? Prospective study of effect of clinical audit on rate of requests
	Imad S Kamal, Duncan R Forsyth, Jeannette R Jones
	BMJ  1997;314:1729 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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