This week's This week in the BMJ

	Benefits of corticosteroid treatment in head injury are still uncertain [Full text] FREE

	Switching from cigarettes to cigars or pipes benefits health [Full text] FREE

	Placental weight to birthweight ratio: just a surrogate marker? [Full text] FREE

	Reliability of public oriented healthcare information on the internet is poor [Full text] FREE

	Many diabetics in institutional care are not well managed [Full text] FREE

	Providing continuity of care in primary care doesn't mean being there all the time [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Oestrogen receptors and breast cancer
	Richard M Elledge, C Kent Osborne
	BMJ  1997;314:1843 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reforming the New Zealand health reforms
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  1997;314:1844 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vitamin E and cardiovascular protection in diabetes
	Anastasios Gazis, Simon Page, John Cockcroft
	BMJ  1997;314:1845 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	HIV associated tuberculosis
	Richard Coker, Rob Miller
	BMJ  1997;314:1847 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Devolution and the Scottish NHS
	Colin Currie, Anthony Toft
	BMJ  1997;314:1848 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Rationing health care
	Tom Marshall, Moya Frenz St Leger, Caroline Woodroffe, Ann Bowling
	BMJ  1997;314:1901 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms after bacterial gastroenteritis
	David Gorard, P Maxwell, M Mendall, D M Hambidge, R Barber, A Blakey, K R Neal, J Hebden, R C Spiller
	BMJ  1997;314:1902 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dual publication of surgical abstracts is acceptable
	J J Earnshaw, J R Farndon, P J Guillou, C D Johnson, J A Murie
	BMJ  1997;314:1903 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practitioners prefer to work in cooperatives for out of hours work
	Philip Hughes, Richard D Neal, Neal Maskrey
	BMJ  1997;314:1904 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trial of prescribing strategies in managing sore throat
	M De Meyere, M Bogaert, G Verschraegen, I Mervielde, Warren J McIsaac, Paul Little, Ian Williamson, Clare Gould, Ann-Louise Kinmonth, Madeleine Gantley, Greg Warner
	BMJ  1997;314:1904 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Compliance and concordance with treatment
	Iain Bamforth, H J Milburn, G M Cochrane
	BMJ  1997;314:1905 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Donations of orthopaedic equipment also cause problems
	Alberto Gregori
	BMJ  1997;314:1906 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Overcoming racism in the NHS
	Nigel Turner, Raman Bedi, Una M MacFadyen
	BMJ  1997;314:1906 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment for haemophilia by calendar in Hungary
	Géza Sas
	BMJ  1997;314:1907 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quoting intermediate analyses can only mislead
	J M Bland
	BMJ  1997;314:1907 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Network of "medical buddies" is needed
	Glin Bennet, B A Noble
	BMJ  1997;314:1908 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Court ordered caesarean sections are discouraging women from seeking obstetric care
	Beverley A Lawrence Beech
	BMJ  1997;314:1908 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Conclusions about why doctors change their practice were not supported by the data
	Roy M Poses
	BMJ  1997;314:1908 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	US tobacco firms agree to $369bn deal
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:1849 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health authorities plan legal action against tobacco companies
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1849 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:1849 [Extract] [Full text]

	South African Truth Commission calls doctors to account for their actions during the apartheid era
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1997;314:1849 [Extract] [Full text]

	Russian doctors protest over state of nation's health
	Miranda Ingram
	BMJ  1997;314:1849 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK government to tackle prescription fraud
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1849 [Extract] [Full text]

	Tories to revise health policy
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1849 [Extract] [Full text]

	Norwegian GPs move to a list based system
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1997;314:1849 [Extract] [Full text]

	Colombia is confused over legalisation of euthanasia
	Alan D Ogilvie
	BMJ  1997;314:1849 [Extract] [Full text]

	British GPs debate user charges
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Institute for Medical Ethics faces up to flood of dilemmas
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1997;314:1849 [Extract] [Full text]

	Links with leukaemia confirmed for French nuclear plant
	Alexander Dorozynsky
	BMJ  1997;314:1849 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Brussels – The union gets interested in ethics
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1997;314:1849 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Reliability of health information for the public on the world wide web: systematic survey of advice on managing fever in children at home
	Piero Impicciatore, Chiara Pandolfini, Nicola Casella, Maurizio Bonati
	BMJ  1997;314:1875 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra] [extra: Data Supplement] FREE

	Commentary: measuring quality and impact of the world wide web
	Jeremy C Wyatt
	BMJ  1997;314:1879 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	Mark Pallen
	BMJ  1997;314:1881 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Colorectal Cancer
	Malcolm G Dunlop
	BMJ  1997;314:1882 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Anxiety
	Anthony S Hale
	BMJ  1997;314:1886 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	What future for continuity of care in general practice?
	George Freeman, Per Hjortdahl
	BMJ  1997;314:1870 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Statistics Notes: Units of analysis
	Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  1997;314:1874 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Man's best friend
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;314:1914 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Burundi ... an illustration of the problem
	Christina M De Wind
	BMJ  1997;314:1914 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unfamiliar territory
	Charles Swainson
	BMJ  1997;314:1915 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Managing Manic Depressive Disorders, by Ed Ved Varma
	David Ames
	BMJ  1997;314:1916 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health Economics: An Introduction to Economic Evaluation, by Gisela Kobelt • Economic Evaluation in Health Care, by Tom Jefferson, Vittorio Demicheli, Miranda Mugford
	Fiona Bradley
	BMJ  1997;314:1916 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health at the Crossroads: Transport Policy and Urban Health, by Ed T Fletcher, A J McMichael
	Dimitrios Trichopoulos
	BMJ  1997;314:1917 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Gp budget holding in new zealand: lessons for Britain and elsewhere?
	Laurence Malcolm
	BMJ  1997;314:1890 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New Zealand's health reforms: a clash of cultures
	Andrew Hornblow
	BMJ  1997;314:1892 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managed care: Implications of managed care for health systems, clinicians, and patients
	Gillian Fairfield, David J Hunter, David Mechanic, Flemming Rosleff
	BMJ  1997;314:1895 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health in China: Maternal and child health in China
	Therese Hesketh, Wei Xing Zhu
	BMJ  1997;314:1898 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1918 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Two modes of thought
	Isaiah Berlin
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: When all else fails examine the patient
	Charles J Wright
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A shocking recollection
	Albert Rinsler
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Attaining competence in English
	Jackie Cassell, Leslie Goode
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Women have a right to return to work after maternity ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Collecting the BTA diploma (Been to America) has always been ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Thanks to Dr Timothy Barrett, a senior registrar in Birmingham ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	A week for hedgehogs over foxes
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

SELECTION

This week's SELECTION

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

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Local medical commitee conference
	BMJ  1997;314:1911 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	David Wynne Davies • Magdolna ("Magda") Erdohazi • Thomas Evans • Philip Golding-Wood • Charles Hezzy Goodliffe • Dennis Malcolm • Stanley Frederick Marshall • William Edward Smith Marshall • Robert Maxwell • Geoffrey Wilberforce Milledge • John Moss
	BMJ  1997;314:1909 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Corticosteroids in acute traumatic brain injury: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
	Philip Alderson, Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1997;314:1855 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prospective study of effect of switching from cigarettes to pipes or cigars on mortality from three smoking related diseases
	N J Wald, H C Watt
	BMJ  1997;314:1860 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prospective cohort study of factors influencing the relative weights of the placenta and the newborn infant
	Lucy A Williams, Sharon F Evans, John P Newnham
	BMJ  1997;314:1864 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diabetes in institutionalised elderly people: a forgotten population?
	Susan J Benbow, Angela Walsh, Geoffrey V Gill
	BMJ  1997;314:1868 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Drug induced psychosis with doxazosin
	M Evans, P W Perera, J Donoghue
	BMJ  1997;314:1869 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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