This week's This week in the BMJ

	Dietary patterns are associated with all cause mortality [Full text] FREE

	Drugs misuse by prisoners goes undetected and untreated [Full text] FREE

	No evidence for effectiveness of shoulder physiotherapy [Full text] FREE

	Miscarriage statistics miss about a third of cases [Full text] FREE

	Highly self critical medical students become stressed doctors [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Guidelines for managing HIV infection
	Kevin M De Cock
	BMJ  1997;315:1-2 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bringing epilepsy out of the shadows
	Rajendra Kale
	BMJ  1997;315:2-3 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Five years down the road from Rio
	Michael McCally
	BMJ  1997;315:3-4 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Making the diagnosis of asthma
	D Robin Taylor
	BMJ  1997;315:4-5 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Career guidance for doctors
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1997;315:6 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Britain's first minister of public health
	John Powles, Nick Day, Klim McPherson, Martin McKee, Tony McMichael, Iain Chalmers, George Davey Smith, John Gabbay, David Marks, Imogen Sharp, Richard Wilkinson, Michael Marmot, June Crown, Michael Clarke, Sian Griffiths
	BMJ  1997;315:54 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	No consensus seems to exist about when caesarean section is medically indicated
	Marion H Hall
	BMJ  1997;315:55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fatal methadone overdose
	Tom Carnwath, M Gabbay, M Perry, Emyr W Benbow, Ian S D Roberts, Alison Cairns
	BMJ  1997;315:55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients receive an inadequate dose of antidepressants for an inadequate period
	T M MacDonald, I C Reid, A D McMahon
	BMJ  1997;315:56 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advice on long term corticosteroid treatment may be misleading
	G J Gibson, K Prowse
	BMJ  1997;315:56-57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is it time to stop searching for MRSA?
	R Philp, R McCann, P Rowland, J K Torrens, R D Jefferson, J Harrison, Giles Cattermole, R K Peel, I Stolarek, A T Elder, Peter Wilson, L J Dunn, Karen Loudon, James P Burnie, R P D Cooke, R S Umasankar, S V Goddard, D A B Dance, R Cunningham, P N Gaunt, V J Stewart, J Swales
	BMJ  1997;315:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should oral contraceptive users be screened for factor V Leiden?
	Tim Ward, J P Vandenbroucke
	BMJ  1997;315:60 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Benefit of using polymerase chain reaction to test blood donations will be considerable
	John Barbara
	BMJ  1997;315:60 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Local research ethics committees
	P V Scott, C A Pinnock, Peter G Stone, Colin E Blogg
	BMJ  1997;315:60 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Three quarters of one French prison population needed immunisation against hepatitis B
	Michel Rotily, Chantal Vernay-Vaisse, Marc Bourlière
	BMJ  1997;315:61 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mistake in report: hepatitis B vaccination for drug misusers is recommended
	John Polkinghorne, John Strang, Michael Farrell
	BMJ  1997;315:61 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs need training in care programme approach more than in supervised discharge
	Jonathan Bindman, Andrew Beck, Graham Thornicroft
	BMJ  1997;315:61-62 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book reviewers reviewed
	Alison Bond, D F Levine
	BMJ  1997;315:62 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children have rights to medicines
	Charles Essex, George Rylance
	BMJ  1997;315:62 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	UK government proposes health action zones
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Liver cancer in Taiwan falls after universal hepatitis B vaccination
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hong Kong bans tobacco advertising
	Judith Mackay, Anthony Hedley
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS trusts to be more open
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	US Supreme Court decides physician assisted suicide is unconstitutional
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Identifying sentinel node could reduce surgery in breast cancer
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scottish inquiry vindicates decision not to resuscitate baby
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Internet images attract GP trainees to west Wales
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Registrar found guilty of serious professional misconduct for anonymous criticism
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA urges coordinated national strategy for care of drug misusers
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Mother sues health authority after murder by discharged patient
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Germany passes new transplant law
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	American Diabetes Association calls for testing all those over 45
	Norra Macready
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Flying doctor sees hope for health in Africa
	BMJ  1997;315:7-12 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Management of abnormal bleeding in women receiving hormone replacement therapy
	C P Spencer, A J Cooper, M I Whitehead
	BMJ  1997;315:37-42 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Depression
	Anthony S Hale
	BMJ  1997;315:43-46 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Incidence and outcome of bleeding before the 20th week of pregnancy: prospective study from general practice
	Christopher Everett
	BMJ  1997;315:32-34 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Predicting stress in general practitioners: 10 year follow up postal survey
	Jenny Firth-Cozens
	BMJ  1997;315:34-35 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A randomised controlled trial of feedback to general practitioners of their prophylactic aspirin prescribing
	Peter McCartney, Wendy Macdowall, Margaret Thorogood
	BMJ  1997;315:35-36 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Unlikely scenarios of 1997
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1997;315:65 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Should prisoners have a say in prison health care ?
	Luke Birmingham
	BMJ  1997;315:65-66 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dealing with loss of fertility
	Dani Singer, Myra S Hunter
	BMJ  1997;315:66 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Sexually Transmitted Infections: Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment, by Michael Adler, Susan Foster, John Richens, Hazel Slavin
	Charles F Gilks
	BMJ  1997;315:67 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heart Disease in Pregnancy, by Ed Celia Oakley
	Kassam Mahomed
	BMJ  1997;315:67 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Personal paper: how to get the best health outcome for a given amount of money
	Matthew Sutton
	BMJ  1997;315:47-49 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managed care: Disease management
	David J Hunter, Gillian Fairfield
	BMJ  1997;315:50-53 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:68 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: A very short report admired by Dr Johnson
	James Boswell
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Cyril Connolly on obesity
	Cyril Connolly
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Any questions: How long is it safe to take tamoxifen?
	Patrick Neven
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The music makers: Harmonisation in South Africa
	C H Vaughan Williams
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: It's the community that counts
	Samuel Ghebrehewet
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Any questions: How quickly can hypnotics be withdrawn?
	T Donaldson, D N Bateman
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Fortnightly review: Seasonal allergic rhinitis
	BMJ  1997;315:42 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Immunology and allergy
	Gavin Spickett, Anthony Frew
	BMJ  1997;315:2Sa, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7099.S2a-7099 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Prisoners' health: a test for civilisation
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA chairman calls for national strategy for health • BMA advises consultants against BUPA partnership • London's health care faces another review • New task force should take over PFI
	BMJ  1997;315:64 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Angus Gordon MacIver
	BMJ  1997;315:63 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Dietary pattern and 20 year mortality in elderly men in Finland, Italy, and the Netherlands: longitudinal cohort study
	Patricia Huijbregts, Edith Feskens, Leena Räsänen, Flaminio Fidanza, Aulikki Nissinen, Alessandro Menotti, Daan Kromhout
	BMJ  1997;315:13-17 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Substance use in remand prisoners: a consecutive case study
	Debbie Mason, Luke Birmingham, Don Grubin
	BMJ  1997;315:18-21 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Harm reduction measures and injecting inside prison versus mandatory drugs testing: results of a cross sectional anonymous questionnaire survey
	A Graham Bird, Sheila M Gore, Sharon J Hutchinson, Stephanie C Lewis, Sheila Cameron, Sheila Burns
	BMJ  1997;315:21-24 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Physiotherapy for patients with soft tissue shoulder disorders: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials
	Geert J M G van der Heijden, Daniëlle A W M van der Windt, Andrea F de Winter
	BMJ  1997;315:25-30 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of HIV and injecting drug use in men entering Liverpool prison
	Mark A Bellis, Andrew R Weild, Nick J Beeching, Ken J Mutton, Qutub Syed
	BMJ  1997;315:30-31 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Severe hypotension associated with netilmicin treatment
	T Rygnestad
	BMJ  1997;315:31 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Simvastatin and impotence
	G Jackson
	BMJ  1997;315:31 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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