This week's This week in the BMJ

	CJD surveillance data show no new links with BSE [Full text] FREE

	Young people consumed more burgers than older people in 1980s and 1990s [Full text] FREE

	Low birth weight is linked to cardiovascular disease in women [Full text] FREE

	Fetal growth may affect cognitive performance in young adults [Full text] FREE

	Body temperature is related to the severity of mountain sickness [Full text] FREE

	Not all tissue excised by GPs needs laboratory testing [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Hostility and the heart
	Martha C Whiteman, F Gerald R Fowkes, Ian J Deary
	BMJ  1997;315:379-380 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consent for transfusion
	F G Williams
	BMJ  1997;315:380-381 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Developing high quality clinical databases
	Nick Black
	BMJ  1997;315:381-382 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Do professions have a future?
	Julia Abelson, P H Maxwell, R J Maxwell
	BMJ  1997;315:382 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Bovine spongiform encephalopathy threatens drugs in European Union
	Alan Earl-Slater
	BMJ  1997;315:426 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Figures given for bed complement in Edinburgh were wrong
	R J Aitken, P Gabbitas
	BMJ  1997;315:426 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Delays in diagnosing oesophagogastric cancer
	Johannes G Schmidt, W Gillison, R T Spychal, F T Collins, M Hallissey, John Galloway, Peter Evans, Andrew Renehan, David E Tweedle, John Wayman, Simon Raimes, S Michael Griffin, Nick Hayes
	BMJ  1997;315:426-427 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for mannose binding protein gene in routine practice is unnecessary
	Catherine Hawke
	BMJ  1997;315:428-429 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sexual medicine
	M Thomas, Sam Rowlands, Sarah Randall, Philip Kell, Wallace Dinsmore
	BMJ  1997;315:429 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety in acupuncture
	Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, John Hicks, Angela Hicks, Peter Mole, Clare Smith, Jasmine Uddin
	BMJ  1997;315:429-430 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Association between voting patterns and mortality remains
	George Davey Smith, Danny Dorling
	BMJ  1997;315:430-431 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Changes in laws are necessary to allow patients detained under Mental Health Act to vote
	Helen Smith, Martin Humphreys
	BMJ  1997;315:431 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Sequencing of Helicobacter pylori will radically alter research
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1997;315:383-388 [Extract] [Full text]

	Gene mutation offers resistance to AIDS
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:383-388 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:383-388 [Extract] [Full text]

	United States bans smoking on federal property
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1997;315:383-388 [Extract] [Full text]

	Britain has become less equal in death
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:383-388 [Extract] [Full text]

	French scientist resigns in nuclear contamination row
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;315:383-388 [Extract] [Full text]

	Genetic engineering reverses antibiotic resistance
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:383-388 [Extract] [Full text]

	Death rates in Russia rise dramatically
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:383-388 [Extract] [Full text]

	Road injury fees to be enforced in Britain
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:383-388 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health of heroin misusers in Germany drops
	Helmut L Karcher
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

	Ban on pressurising Canadian doctors to work in remote areas
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;315:383-388 [Extract] [Full text]

	Three days needed to recover from head injuries
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:383-388 [Extract] [Full text]

	Is this the end of research as we know it?
	BMJ  1997;315:383-388 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Environmental control systems for people with a disability: an update
	D J Wellings, J Unsworth
	BMJ  1997;315:409-412 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Mental health in old age
	A J D Macdonald
	BMJ  1997;315:413-417 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Is histological examination of tissue removed by general practitioners always necessary? Before and after comparison of detection rates of serious skin lesions
	Adam Lowy, Diane Willis, Keith Abrams
	BMJ  1997;315:406-408 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Diagnosing trees and men
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1997;315:434 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	We should look at complaints again
	Graham Neale
	BMJ  1997;315:434-435 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Enuresis—the cause that dares not speak its name
	John Gosnell
	BMJ  1997;315:435 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Abrams' Angiography: Volume III: Interventional Radiology, by Ed Stanley Baum, Michael Pentecost
	D J Allison
	BMJ  1997;315:436 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health Care Reform: Learning from International Experience, by Ed C Ham
	Martin McKee
	BMJ  1997;315:436-437 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Britain Divided: the Growth of Social Exclusion in the 1980s and 1990s, by Ed Alan Walker, Carol Walker
	Steve Iliffe
	BMJ  1997;315:437 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Classic Teachings in Clinical Cardiology: a Tribute to W Proctor Harvey, by Ed Michael A Chizner
	J F Goodwin
	BMJ  1997;315:437 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Personal paper: Beliefs and evidence in changing clinical practice
	Richard Grol
	BMJ  1997;315:418-421 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How to read a paper: Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:422-425 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:438 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable patient: Death in the Scottish Highlands
	Jim McCracken
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: The patient's best interest?
	Gregor L Campbell-Hewson
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An unfortunate mistake: A heartbeat too many
	M J Weston
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

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

	Briefing: Adequate sanitation prevents more deaths than any doctor can ever ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: American general physicians should demonstrate core competencies in areas of ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Medics take less interest in the milk round-the annual hunt ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	"Calm down, dear, you'll have a heart attack"
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Humphrey John Done
	BMJ  1997;315:432 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United Kingdom: analysis of epidemiological surveillance data for 1970-96
	S N Cousens, M Zeidler, T F Esmonde, R De Silva, J W Wilesmith, P G Smith, R G Will
	BMJ  1997;315:389-395 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Age related exposure of patients to the agent of BSE should not be downplayed
	Sheila M Gore
	BMJ  1997;315:395-396 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Birth weight and risk of cardiovascular disease in a cohort of women followed up since 1976
	Janet W Rich-Edwards, Meir J Stampfer, JoAnn E Manson, Bernard Rosner, Susan E Hankinson, Graham A Colditz, Charles H Hennekens, Walter C Willet
	BMJ  1997;315:396-400 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Birth weight and cognitive function in young adult life: historical cohort study
	Henrik Toft Sørensen, Svend Sabroe, Jørn Olsen, Kenneth J Rothman, Matthew W Gillman, Peer Fischer
	BMJ  1997;315:401-403 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between raised body temperature and acute mountain sickness: cross sectional study
	Marco Maggiorini, Peter Bärtsch, Oswald Oelz
	BMJ  1997;315:403-404 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Age related dietary exposure to meat products from British dietary surveys of teenagers and adults in the 1980s and 1990s
	Sheila M Gore, Sheila Bingham, Nicholas E Day
	BMJ  1997;315:404-405 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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