This week's This week in the BMJ

	Diabetes during pregnancy is still a high risk state [Full text] FREE

	Calcium in pregnancy lowers risk of hypertension in offspring [Full text] FREE

	People in suicide pacts differ from solitary suicides [Full text] FREE

	Fundholding reduces waiting times [Full text] FREE

	Deaths from drug poisoning in teenagers have risen dramatically in past 10 years [Full text] FREE

	Matrix patches of oestradiol irritate the skin less than reservoir patches [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Persistently poor pregnancy outcomes in women with insulin dependent diabetes
	David Simmons
	BMJ  1997;315:263-264 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Refugee doctors in Britain: a wasted resource
	Anita Berlin, Paramjit Gill, John Eversley
	BMJ  1997;315:264-265 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Young adults with arthritic hips
	M D Northmore-Ball
	BMJ  1997;315:265-266 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fungal infections in critically ill patients
	Jeffrey Lipman, Roger Saadia
	BMJ  1997;315:266-267 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicines information—leaving blind people behind?
	D K Raynor, N Yerassimou
	BMJ  1997;315:268 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Death rates from leukaemia are higher than expected in areas around nuclear sites in Berkshire and Oxfordshire
	Chris Busby, Molly Scott Cato
	BMJ  1997;315:309 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MRI scanning to diagnose osteomyelitis in United States and Glasgow
	A G Wilkinson, George C Bennet, N I L Wilson, R D D Duncan, Ruth McKenzie
	BMJ  1997;315:309-310 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Funding is important for randomised trials of surgery
	Stephen Bridgman, James Elder, Richard Gray, Richard Lilford
	BMJ  1997;315:310 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Who is responsible for child mental health?
	Rashmin C Tamhne, Sonya Leff, Jocelyn Tewson, Derek Summerfield, Anne McFadyen, Jane Roberts, David Sloan
	BMJ  1997;315:310-311 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Responsibility for services for runaway children must be shared
	Mary MacLeod
	BMJ  1997;315:312 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing morbidity from insertion of chest drains
	Marcia Hall, Alison Jones, Giles J Peek, Richard K Firmin
	BMJ  1997;315:313 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Setting target rates for breast feeding would probably be a waste of resources
	Pat Hoddinott
	BMJ  1997;315:313 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Slutsky effect does not seem to explain circaseptennial rhythm in ear growth
	Patrick Onghena, Jos Verhulst, Dean McKenzie
	BMJ  1997;315:313-314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anaesthetists are younger than other doctors
	Chris McManus
	BMJ  1997;315:314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Audit of diagnosis and management of hypertension in primary care
	Kevin Allan, Paul Murphy, Stephen Singleton, Richard Edwards, Stuart Barton, Mike Cranney, Mahendra Mashru, Ariel Lant
	BMJ  1997;315:314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical practice is more complicated in remote locations
	David Arathoon
	BMJ  1997;315:315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Biggest shake up in higher education for 35 years
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:269-274 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:269-274 [Extract] [Full text]

	Public health agency needed for Britain
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:269-274 [Extract] [Full text]

	Inequality is here to stay
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:269-274 [Extract] [Full text]

	ME researcher accused of cooking the books
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:269-274 [Extract] [Full text]

	Indian research doesn't reflect country's needs
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1997;315:269-274 [Extract] [Full text]

	Zambia leads the way over international aid
	Daloni Carlisle
	BMJ  1997;315:269-274 [Extract] [Full text]

	Row over planned closure of leprosarium in the Philippines
	Adam Easton
	BMJ  1997;315:269-274 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS devolved to Scotland and Wales
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:269-274 [Extract] [Full text]

	Crack down on drug inducements
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

	Jet fuel may cause nerve damage
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:269-274 [Extract] [Full text]

	Many chronic pain control treatments are ineffective
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1997;315:269-274 [Extract] [Full text]

	Refugee doctors forced to do menial jobs
	Benjamin Hope
	BMJ  1997;315:269-274 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS faces economy squeeze
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:269-274 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Managing congenital lacrimal obstruction in general practice
	James D H Young, Caroline J MacEwen
	BMJ  1997;315:293-296 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	ABC of mental health: Addiction and dependence—I: Illicit drugs
	Claire Gerada, Mark Ashworth
	BMJ  1997;315:297-300 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Effect of fundholding on waiting times: database study
	Bernard Dowling
	BMJ  1997;315:290-292 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Work experience
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Helping people to say goodbye
	Malcolm Williams
	BMJ  1997;315:317-318 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A surfeit of screening?
	Philip G Griffiths
	BMJ  1997;315:318 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Care in the Community: Illusion or Reality?, by Ed Julian Leff
	Leila Lessof
	BMJ  1997;315:319 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Accidents in History, by Ed Roger Cooter, Bill Luckin
	Leonard Evans
	BMJ  1997;315:319 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Controversies in management: Should methionine be added to every paracetamol tablet? (No: The risks are not well enough known)
	A L Jones, P C Hayes, A T Proudfoot, J A Vale, L F Prescott
	BMJ  1997;315:301-303 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Controversies in management: Should methionine be added to every paracetamol tablet? (Yes: but perhaps only in developing countries)
	Edward P Krenzelok
	BMJ  1997;315:303-304 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How to read a paper: Assessing the methodological quality of published papers
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:305-308 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:320 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Hume's bonfire
	David Hume
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Getting away with it
	W H Auden
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Is it time to stop searching for MRSA?
	BMJ  1997;315:315 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Walter Bedrich Petana
	BMJ  1997;315:316 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Working in Australia
	Steven Kisely
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Intelligence tests which underlie many common assumptions about ability divide ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The size and diversity of the NHS means that it ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: As always, this article is available in full text on ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

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

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Noel Browne
	BMJ  1997;315:316 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Outcomes of pregnancy in insulin dependent diabetic women: results of a five year population cohort study
	I F Casson, C A Clarke, C V Howard, O McKendrick, S Pennycook, P O D Pharoah, M J Platt, M Stanisstreet, D van Velszen, S Walkinshaw
	BMJ  1997;315:275-278 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prospective population based survey of outcome of pregnancy in diabetic women: results of the Northern Diabetic Pregnancy Audit, 1994
	Gillian Hawthorne, S Robson, E A Ryall, D Sen, S H Roberts, M P Ward Platt
	BMJ  1997;315:279-281 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Long term effect of calcium supplementation during pregnancy on the blood pressure of offspring: follow up of a randomised controlled trial
	José M Belizán, José Villar, Eduardo Bergel, Alicia del Pino, Susana Di Fulvio, Silvia V Galliano, Cristina Kattan
	BMJ  1997;315:281-285 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Epidemiology of suicide pacts in England and Wales, 1988-92
	Martin Brown, Brian Barraclough
	BMJ  1997;315:286-287 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised crossover comparison of skin irritation with two transdermal oestradiol patches
	David Ross, Margaret Rees, Val Godfree, Alison Cooper, David Hart, Charles Kingsland, Malcolm Whitehead
	BMJ  1997;315:288 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Analysis of trends in deaths from accidental drug poisoning in teenagers, 1985-95
	Ian Roberts, Maggie Barker, Leah Li
	BMJ  1997;315:289 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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