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	Class differences in mortality in Finland are related to alcohol [Full text] FREE

	Cleansing birth canal with chlorhexidine reduces postpartum infections [Full text] FREE

	Decrease in bone density with age contributes only a little to increased risk of hip fracture with age [Full text] FREE

	Screening for chlamydia may be viable in general practice [Full text] FREE

	Medicine should not rely on the memories of experts [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Preventing perinatal infections
	G Justus Hofmeyr, James McIntyre
	BMJ  1997;315:199-200 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulating the pharmaceutical industry
	Alan Maynard, Karen Bloor
	BMJ  1997;315:200-201 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Misconduct in research: editors respond
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:201-202 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	User fees
	Andrew Creese
	BMJ  1997;315:202-203 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When the next influenza pandemic comes
	R T Mayon White
	BMJ  1997;315:204 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Informed consent
	Naomi Pfeffer, Priscilla Alderson, Harry Campbell, Kenneth M Boyd, Susan A M Surry, Tim Cullinan, S B Squire, R Hawley, S Macfarlane, S Agbaje, N J Beeching, G B Wyatt, K De Koning, N Gray, C Hayward, A Ali, A E Bianco, M Taylor, B Brabin, J B S Coulter, M de Burgh Daly, Diana Elbourne, Claire Snowdon, Jo Garcia, Keith Epstein, Bill Sloat, Kay Mohanna, Tom Woodcock, John Norman, Jim Sikorski, Richard Watson, Philip Wilson, Allan House, Peter Knapp, Charlotte Williamson, Graham C Sutton, Linda Garvican, Robin Wilson, Adam Malin, Diana Lockwood, S W P Mhlongo, G V Mdingi, Richard Ashcroft, Ben Toth, Jonathan Mant, Simon Winner, Judy Carter, Derick T Wade, D J Stott, P Langhorne, H Rodgers, Deborah Rutter, Thurstan Brewin, David Barer
	BMJ  1997;315:247 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	French committee will investigate proposed link between activities of nuclear reprocessing plant and leukaemia
	Charles Souleau
	BMJ  1997;315:254 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Plans are needed on how to cope with demand for ventilation during pandemic influenza
	Michael J Goodman, Paul B Anderson
	BMJ  1997;315:254-255 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scientists should inform public of risks of transgenic experimentation
	R A Chalmers
	BMJ  1997;315:255 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public should know of efficacy of early hospital treatment of paracetamol overdose
	Gary Wannan, Elizabeth Fagan
	BMJ  1997;315:255 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Balance in long term follow up between secondary and primary care is necessary
	P J Watkins
	BMJ  1997;315:255 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Consultant struck off over research fraud
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:205-210 [Extract] [Full text]

	Number of Welsh trusts likely to be cut
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1997;315:205-210 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:205-210 [Extract] [Full text]

	Two doctors confess to helping patients to die
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:205-210 [Extract] [Full text]

	More freedom for doctors to move within EU
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1997;315:205-210 [Extract] [Full text]

	European Commission looking to cut junior doctors' hours
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1997;315:205-210 [Extract] [Full text]

	Patenting of genes moves one stage closer
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1997;315:205-210 [Extract] [Full text]

	Pain is often misdiagnosed
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1997;315:205-210 [Extract] [Full text]

	Half of the world lives in "medieval" squalor
	Benjamin Hope
	BMJ  1997;315:205-210 [Extract] [Full text]

	Screening for fragile X is cost effective and accurate
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

	GP fundholders can no longer jump the queue
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;315:205-210 [Extract] [Full text]

	Romania to change health system
	Tudor Toma
	BMJ  1997;315:205-210 [Extract] [Full text]

	US tobacco firms target Asia
	Claire Wallerstein
	BMJ  1997;315:205-210 [Extract] [Full text]

	Over a third of trusts in England face financial difficulties
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;315:205-210 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	New connections between medical knowledge and patient care
	Lawrence L Weed
	BMJ  1997;315:231-235 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	Mark Pallen
	BMJ  1997;315:235 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
	C D Buckley
	BMJ  1997;315:236-238 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Psychosexual problems
	J P Watson, Teifion Davies
	BMJ  1997;315:239-242 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Comparison of two methods of screening for genital chlamydial infection in women attending in general practice: cross sectional survey
	Lucia Grun, Julia Tassano-Smith, Caroline Carder, Anne M Johnson, Angela Robinson, Elizabeth Murray, Judith Stephenson, Andrew Haines, Andrew Copas, Geoffrey Ridgway
	BMJ  1997;315:226-230 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Hello sailor
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1997;315:259 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	More money for training?
	Christopher Bulstrode, John Lourie
	BMJ  1997;315:259-260 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A very special day
	Frédérique Zwart
	BMJ  1997;315:260 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Practical Anaesthesia and Analgesia for Day Surgery, by J M Millar, G E Rudkin, M Hitchcock
	Maire P Shelly
	BMJ  1997;315:261 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prevention and Control of Pain in Children. A Manual for Health Care Professionals, by Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
	Julie McEniery
	BMJ  1997;315:261 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	How to read a paper : getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about)
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:243-246 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:262 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A person who profoundly affected my life: The eye doctor
	Dr Eric Hainsworth
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word...: Oe no!
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Out of Africa: a rash occurrence
	Richard Dreaper
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Associate general practitioners
	Laura Marshall
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: One consequence of medical schools in the United States tightening ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Perseverance, high ethical standards, and dedication to a ceaseless enlargement ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: It is in the nature of the world wide web ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

FOCUS

This week's FOCUS

	Turmoil at New South Wales Cancer Council
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Unaided minds, science, and euthanasia
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GPs warned about pilot schemes • £1.2bn boost for health will not be enough • Home Office tackles underage drinking
	BMJ  1997;315:258 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Hilda Cantrell
	BMJ  1997;315:256 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Contribution of deaths related to alcohol use to socioeconomic variation in mortality: register based follow up study
	Pia Mäkelä, Tapani Valkonen, Tuija Martelin
	BMJ  1997;315:211-216 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of cleansing the birth canal with antiseptic solution on maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality in malawi: clinical trial
	Taha E Taha, Robert J Biggar, Robin L Broadhead, Laban A R Mtimavalye, Paolo G Miotti, Aafke B Justesen, George N Liomba, John D Chiphangwi
	BMJ  1997;315:216-220 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Sources of bias must be controlled
	Leila Duley
	BMJ  1997;315:220 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Bone density and risk of hip fracture in men and women: cross sectional analysis
	Chris E D H De Laet, Ben A van Hout, Huibert Burger, Albert Hofman, Huibert A P Pols
	BMJ  1997;315:221-225 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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