This week's This week in the BMJ

	Fruit and vegetables raise plasma carotenes and vitamin C but not vitamin E [Full text] FREE

	Weight gain and weight loss in old age are both associated with increased coronary heart disease [Full text] FREE

	Increased reporting of asthma may be due to information bias [Full text] FREE

	Oral aciclovir is effective for herpetic gingivostomatitis [Full text] FREE

	Using only net changes in the GP workforce masks the true picture [Full text] FREE

	Victims of medical accidents should not have first claim on NHS funds [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Risk, safety, and the dark side of quality
	Charles Vincent
	BMJ  1997;314:1775 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating diarrhoea
	Sherwood L Gorbach
	BMJ  1997;314:1776 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chlamydia pneumoniae and coronary heart disease
	Sandeep Gupta, A John Camm
	BMJ  1997;314:1778 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for people with a family history of colorectal cancer
	Malcolm Dunlop, Harry Campbell
	BMJ  1997;314:1779 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Nicotine replacement therapy should be prescribable on NHS
	Godfrey Fowler
	BMJ  1997;314:1827 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dietary treatment of active Crohn's disease
	J A Walker-Smith, T S King, J T Woolner, J O Hunter, Nick Wight, Brian B Scott
	BMJ  1997;314:1827 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypothesis that people with coronary heart disease are living longer is supported
	P S Watson, D C Bensley
	BMJ  1997;314:1828 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cyclosporin can be used in early rheumatoid arthritis
	J K Dawson, B Roychowdhury, E J Tunn
	BMJ  1997;314:1828 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Senior house officer training
	G A Bunch, J Bahrami, R Macdonald, Navneet Kapur, Mark Rickenbach, Joan Dunleavey, Paul Little, Mark Mullee, Bruce Ramsay
	BMJ  1997;314:1828 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Blood donation, body iron stores, and risk of myocardial infarction
	Harri Hemilä, Mikko Paunio, Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, Riitta Salonen, Kristiina Nyyssönen, Jukka T Salonen
	BMJ  1997;314:1830 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Most British research and development in primary care arises outside rural areas
	Woody Caan
	BMJ  1997;314:1831 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chaplains on transplant teams facilitate permission being given for organ donation
	Grant Williams
	BMJ  1997;314:1831 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Amiodarone pulmonary toxicity
	Andrew Leonard, Paul Corris, Dinah Parums, L Donaldson, I S Grant, M R Naysmith, J St J Thomas, Gillian A J Jessurun
	BMJ  1997;314:1831 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Systematic reviews provide information not contained in traditional narrative reviews
	David Henry
	BMJ  1997;314:1832 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Does setting good practice standards for research ethics committees increase their legal liability?
	Julian Savulescu, Iain Chalmers, Jennifer Blunt
	BMJ  1997;314:1833 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mechanism of accountability needs to be developed for changing role of healthcare professionals
	Martin Lombard, James Brown, Gillian Hall, Richard Sturgess
	BMJ  1997;314:1833 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alcohol misuse among doctors
	G M Cunningham, Nigel I Jowett
	BMJ  1997;314:1833 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast cancer screening for younger women is not an efficient use of resources
	Michael Baum
	BMJ  1997;314:1834 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vegetarians and vegans may be most at risk from low selenium intakes
	Patricia A Judd, A Long, M Butcher, Christine P Caygill, A T Diplock
	BMJ  1997;314:1834 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Review of NHS spending begins
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	Poverty to have priority in NHS
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	Surrogacy to be reviewed in United Kingdom
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	US attempts to keep Medicare solvent
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	Russia fears rapid increase in HIV infection
	Miranda Ingram
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	Australian orphans were used as guinea pigs
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	New Filipino law may harm inner city care
	Adam Easton
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	The Maasai move to eliminate trachoma
	Sam Crowe
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	European Union to send medical aid to Guatemala
	Josh Hamilton
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Romania adopts new transplant law
	Tudor P Toma
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	Near patient tests are poorly evaluated
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	Wales is set 20 health targets
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health authority tries to reclaim £700 000 settlement
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors must be chosen with care
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Westminster – New doctors in the house
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Cognitive behaviour therapy–clinical applications
	Simon J Enright
	BMJ  1997;314:1811 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Community mental health services
	Karen White, David Roy, Ian Hamilton
	BMJ  1997;314:1817 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Recruitment, retention, and time commitment change of general practitioners in England and wales, 1990-4: a retrospective study
	Donald H Taylor Jr, Brenda Leese
	BMJ  1997;314:1806 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: there is urgent need to raise recruitment–even to stand still
	James Parkhouse
	BMJ  1997;314:1810 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Cheers
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1997;314:1838 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The Child B case–reflections of a chief executive
	Stephen Thornton
	BMJ  1997;314:1838 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	The injustice of compensation for victims of medical accidents
	John Harris
	BMJ  1997;314:1821 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managed care: origins, principles, and evolution
	Gillian Fairfield, David J Hunter, David Mechanic, Flemming Rosleff
	BMJ  1997;314:1823 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1842 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Dr Johnson on overinterpretation of the mini mental state examination
	James Boswell
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Paradigms and "normal science"
	Thomas S Kuhn
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Administrators are never popular
	Richard Hooker
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson learnt: My brother's keeper?
	Mansoor Ahmed
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Will you blossom in public health medicine?
	David Pencheon
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The latest edition of the Guide to house jobs in ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Questions in job interviews about marital status, children or personal ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Although the concepts that underlie performance related pay seem simple ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Lessons on childhood diseases and managed care
	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 death of childhood
	Dr Charles Essex
	BMJ  1997;314:1839 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Public health conference
	BMJ  1997;314:1836 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND MULTIMEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND MULTIMEDIA

	Stroke: A Practical Guide to Management, by
	Martin M Brown
	BMJ  1997;314:1840 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Abortion: Between Freedom and Necessity, by
	Stuart WG Derbyshire
	BMJ  1997;314:1840 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safe Practice in Endoscopic Surgery, by
	F Penninckx
	BMJ  1997;314:1840 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Henry Harper Clough • Florence Ruth Dingley (ne Clulow) • Ronald Wilfred Lewis Hall • Eric Alister Knappett • Enid Sylvia LeGrange
	BMJ  1997;314:1835 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Randomised controlled trial of effect of fruit and vegetable consumption on plasma concentrations of lipids and antioxidants
	Sarah Zino, Murray Skeaff, Sheila Williams, Jim Mann
	BMJ  1997;314:1787 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cohort study of effect of being overweight and change in weight on risk of coronary heart disease in old age
	Tamara B Harris, Lenore J Launer, Jennifer Madans, Jacob J Feldman
	BMJ  1997;314:1791 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Secular trend in the occurrence of asthma among children and young adults: critical appraisal of repeated cross sectional surveys
	Per Magnus, Jouni J K Jaakkola
	BMJ  1997;314:1795 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Treatment of herpes simplex gingivostomatitis with aciclovir in children: a randomised double blind placebo controlled study
	Jacob Amir, Liora Harel, Zehava Smetana, Itzhak Varsano
	BMJ  1997;314:1800 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Unsupervised surgical training: questionnaire study
	Janet A Wilson
	BMJ  1997;314:1803 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Ocular damage associated with proton pump inhibitors
	P S Schönhöfer, B Werner, U Tröger
	BMJ  1997;314:1805 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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