This week's This week in the BMJ

	HRT offers women no protection against cardiovascular disease [Full text] FREE

	ß Blockers and diuretics should still be first for hypertension [Full text] FREE

	Inpatient mortality from heart attack has not changed in 10 years [Full text] FREE

	Brain serotonin concentrations are increased in chronic fatigue syndrome [Full text] FREE

	Fundholding improves cost containment [Full text] FREE

	Plantar fasciitis is one cause of heel pain [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, or withdrawal of treatment
	Larry R Churchill, Nancy M P King
	BMJ  1997;315:137-138 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practice fundholding and health care costs
	Duncan Keeley
	BMJ  1997;315:139 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	London's healthcare services—again
	Elaine Murphy
	BMJ  1997;315:140 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The changing face of ectopic pregnancy
	Lawrence Mascarenhas, John Williamson, Steve Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:141 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Indicators of clinical performance
	Martin McKee
	BMJ  1997;315:142 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Self monitoring of glucose by people with diabetes
	Nigel J Crossland, Maria de Alva, Jak Jervell, Mark W J Strachan, Kay Malloch, Brian M Frier, Ernst Chantelau, Stefan Nowicki, Marilyn Gallichan
	BMJ  1997;315:184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Multiple myeloma
	S J Krikler, Charles S B Galasko
	BMJ  1997;315:186 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Catheters smaller than 24 French gauge can be used for chest drains
	P M Taylor
	BMJ  1997;315:186 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for prostate cancer
	Rowan H Harwood, William J Catalona
	BMJ  1997;315:186-187 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trials of streptokinase in stroke depend on early, accurate diagnosis
	Keith W Muir
	BMJ  1997;315:187 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tuberculosis treatment is expensive for patients in developing countries
	Elizabeth Bevan
	BMJ  1997;315:187-188 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alcohol consumption may influence onset of the menopause
	David J Torgerson, Marion K Campbell, Ruth E Thomas, David M Reid
	BMJ  1997;315:188 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic venous ulcer
	R P Cole, Andrew W McEwen, Mark B Smith, C V Ruckley, A W Bradbury, W Stuart, John J Bergan, Niren Angle
	BMJ  1997;315:188 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Counselling should be provided before parents are told of presence of ultrasonographic "soft markers" of fetal abnormality
	Gerald Mason, Catherine Baillie
	BMJ  1997;315:189-190 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Harm resulting from screening is likely to be high where prevalence of breast cancer is low
	Peymane Adab
	BMJ  1997;315:190 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minimising factitious hyperkalaemia
	P W Masters, A A A Ismail, N J Gourlay, C McArthur
	BMJ  1997;315:190 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	HIV positive doctors deserve support
	Roger Drew, Geoff Foster
	BMJ  1997;315:190-191 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Support and treatment of serious comorbidity also improve survival in breast cancer
	H W Nab, J W W Coebergh
	BMJ  1997;315:191 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How widespread is prejudice against sick doctors by self help groups?
	N J Stafford
	BMJ  1997;315:191 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Man's fractured sternum was probably due to snake's weight when it fell
	Brian W Davies
	BMJ  1997;315:191 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	US clinical research under threat
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1997;315:143-148 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:143-148 [Extract] [Full text]

	Smoking crackdown by UK government
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:143-148 [Extract] [Full text]

	Half the deaths of young infants may be avoidable
	Benjamin Hope
	BMJ  1997;315:143-148 [Extract] [Full text]

	Shake up of emergency surgery needed
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:143-148 [Extract] [Full text]

	Goodbye to the "hello nurse" in casualty departments
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:143-148 [Extract] [Full text]

	"Smart" rationing is possible
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1997;315:143-148 [Extract] [Full text]

	Ruling on interferon beta will hit all health authorities
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:143-148 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dear Mr Dobson ...
	Ian Kennedy, George Levvy, Sandy Macara, Robert Maxwell, Alan Maynard, Richard Smith, Ron Zimmern
	BMJ  1997;315:143-148 [Extract] [Full text]

	Cerebral palsy linked to maternal fever
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

	US doctors lie to help patients
	Norra Macready
	BMJ  1997;315:143-148 [Extract] [Full text]

	Canada cuts drug evaluation procedures
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;315:143-148 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Plantar fasciitis
	Dishan Singh, John Angel, George Bentley, Saul G Trevino
	BMJ  1997;315:172-175 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Disorders of personality
	Martin Marlowe, Philip Sugarman
	BMJ  1997;315:176-179 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	How has fundholding in Northern Ireland affected prescribing patterns? A longitudinal study
	Thérèse Rafferty, Keith Wilson-Davis, Hugh McGavock
	BMJ  1997;315:166-170 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What is to be done about fundholding?
	Toby Gosden, David Torgerson, Alan Maynard
	BMJ  1997;315:170-171 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Professional highs
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1997;315:195 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The danger of honest admission
	BMJ  1997;315:195-196 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Understanding Cancer: From Basic Science to Clinical Practice, by Malcolm Alison, Catherine Sarraf
	Peter Selby
	BMJ  1997;315:197 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women and Alcohol: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, by Moira Plant
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1997;315:197 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	How to read a paper: The Medline database
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:180-183 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:198 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable patient: Early treatment of H pylori
	Trefor Roscoe
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word...: Quacks
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Any questions: The benefits of influenza immunisation
	Anne Cockcroft
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advice that changed my practice: Have a heart attack
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	The independent medical practitioner
	Richard Colman
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Doctors are one of the groups specifically exempt from the ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Appointing new partners is something that many general practices have ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	BMJ yin issue
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	The traumas of casualty departments
	Christopher Bulstrode
	BMJ  1997;315:196 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BUPA replies to BMA's criticism • Salaried GPs to be focus for primary care pilot schemes • Doctors criticise airline's sickness policy • Pathology and radiology will be excluded from PFI projects • Two doctors join Commons health committee
	BMJ  1997;315:194 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	David Wilson Bain
	BMJ  1997;315:192 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Impact of postmenopausal hormone therapy on cardiovascular events and cancer: pooled data from clinical trials
	Elina Hemminki, Klim McPherson
	BMJ  1997;315:149-153 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised, double blind, multicentre comparison of hydrochlorothiazide, atenolol, nitrendipine, and enalapril in antihypertensive treatment: results of the HANE study
	Thomas Philipp, Manfred Anlauf, Armin Distler, Heinrich Holzgreve, Joerg Michaelis, Stefan Wellek
	BMJ  1997;315:154-159 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Inpatient deaths from acute myocardial infarction, 1982-92: analysis of data in the Nottingham heart attack register
	Nigel Brown, Tracey Young, David Gray, Allan M Skene, John R Hampton
	BMJ  1997;315:159-164 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Increased brain serotonin function in men with chronic fatigue syndrome
	M Sharpe, K Hawton, A Clements, PJ Cowen
	BMJ  1997;315:164-165 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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