This week's This week in the BMJ

	Poor intrauterine nutrition is not related to high blood pressure in late adolescence [Full text] FREE

	Shorter questionnaires may produce better response rates than more complex ones [Full text] FREE

	Current management of chronic hepatitis C is often unacceptable to patients [Full text] FREE

	Numbers of cognitively impaired elderly people will rise radically in middle of next century [Full text] FREE

	Withdrawal of long term diuretics in elderly patients often produces heart failure symptoms [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Tobacco marketing: shackling the pied piper
	Gerard Hastings, Lynn MacFadyen, Martine Stead
	BMJ  1997;315:439-440 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The challenge for Beijing: the 10th world conference on tobacco or health
	Robert Beaglehole
	BMJ  1997;315:440-441 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community institutional care for frail elderly people
	David Black, Clive Bowman
	BMJ  1997;315:441-442 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The demographic timebomb
	Veena Soni Raleigh
	BMJ  1997;315:442-443 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children with obsessive compulsive disorder
	Isobel Heyman
	BMJ  1997;315:444 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Intersalt data
	James Le Fanu, Michael Alderman, Alexander Macnair, N E Day, George Davey Smith, Andrew N Phillips, Graham Watt, Julian Tudor Hart, Keith Rennolls, Paul Elliott, Jeremiah Stamler, Alan R Dyer, Rose Stamler, Hugo Kesteloot, Michael Marmot, Richard H Grimm, Bonnie F Liebman, Michael F Jacobson
	BMJ  1997;315:484 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women's autonomy in childbirth
	Anita Holdcroft, Rowan H Harwood
	BMJ  1997;315:488 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General anaesthesia does not usually affect the fetus
	Stephen Raftery
	BMJ  1997;315:488 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prophylactic and empirical antifungal treatment in cancer complicated by neutropenia
	Christopher C Kibbler, Rohini Manuel, H Grant Prentice, Peter C Gøtzsche, Helle Krogh Johansen
	BMJ  1997;315:488-489 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cooperation between pharmacists and general practitioners benefits patients
	Colette McCreedy
	BMJ  1997;315:489-490 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cycling offers important health benefits and should be encouraged
	Mayer Hillman
	BMJ  1997;315:490 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Changes in population distribution of sense of coherence do not explain changes in overall mortality
	George Davey Smith, Matthias Egger
	BMJ  1997;315:490 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating hypothyroidism
	Graham H Beastall, John A Thomson, J Cassar
	BMJ  1997;315:490-491 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Test sales do not have impact on prevalence of smoking by children
	Mark Bagott, Christine Jordan, Charlotte Wright, Steve Jarvis
	BMJ  1997;315:491 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Internet is useful for information on rare conditions
	Oliver R Dearlove, Andrew Sharples, Colin Stone
	BMJ  1997;315:491 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	American Medical Association endorses consumer products
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;315:445-448 [Extract] [Full text]

	Drugs must be tested for use in children
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1997;315:445-448 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:445-448 [Extract] [Full text]

	Molecular basis underlying Huntington's chorea found
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:445-448 [Extract] [Full text]

	Police free to bug surgeries
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:445-448 [Extract] [Full text]

	Sensitivity of mammography depends on menstrual phase
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:445-448 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors in Wales should speak Welsh
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1997;315:445-448 [Extract] [Full text]

	FDA tightens rules on advertising
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:445-448 [Extract] [Full text]

	The campaigner who dreams of a tobacco free world
	BMJ  1997;315:445-448 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: osteoporosis
	Stuart H Ralston
	BMJ  1997;315:469-472 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Mental health in a multiethnic society
	Simon Dein
	BMJ  1997;315:473-476 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Withdrawal of long term diuretic medication in elderly patients: a double blind randomised trial
	Edmond Walma, Colette van Dooren, Ad Prins, Emiel van der Does, Arno Hoes
	BMJ  1997;315:464-468 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Separate development
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1997;315:493 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Hormones, women, and safety
	Margaret Thomas
	BMJ  1997;315:493-494 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	New Ischemic Syndromes: Beyond Angina and Infarction, by Ed Derek M Yellon, Shahbudin H Rahimtoola, Lionel H Opie
	David E Newby
	BMJ  1997;315:495 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of Injuries in Children, by John F T Glasgow, H Kerr Graham
	Rosemary J Morton
	BMJ  1997;315:495 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	An "ecological" approach to the obesity pandemic
	Garry Egger, Boyd Swinburn
	BMJ  1997;315:477-480 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How to read a paper: Papers that report drug trials
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:480-483 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:496 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

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

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Intersalt revisited: further analyses of 24 sodium excretion and blood pressure within and across populations
	BMJ  1997;315:458 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Medical comedy
	Phil Hammond
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The rules that govern the employment of overseas doctors in ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Marketing is all
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	The anguish of teenage mental illness
	John Pearce
	BMJ  1997;315:494 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Bani ("Banidi") Chaudhuri
	BMJ  1997;315:492 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Size at birth, maternal nutritional status in pregnancy, and blood pressure at age 17: population based analysis
	Arie Laor, David K Stevenson, Jeoshua Shemer, Rena Gale, Daniel S Seidman
	BMJ  1997;315:449-453 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra] FREE

	Management of chronic hepatitis C: clinical audit of biopsy based management algorithm
	G R Foster, R D Goldin, J Main, I Murray-Lyon, S Hargreaves, H C Thomas
	BMJ  1997;315:453-458 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Are drug advertisements in Indian edition of BMJ unethical?
	B Gitanjali, C H Shashindran, K D Tripathi, K R Sethuraman
	BMJ  1997;315:459 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Advertising adversities
	GG Christo, R Balasubramaniam
	BMJ  1997;315:460 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A randomised comparison of the EuroQol and Short Form-36 after stroke
	P J Dorman, J Slattery, B Farrell, M S Dennis, P A G Sandercock
	BMJ  1997;315:461 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra] FREE

	Cognitive impairment in elderly people: population based estimate of the future in England, Scotland, and Wales
	David Melzer, Margaret Ely, Carol Brayne
	BMJ  1997;315:462 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Successful breast feeding while mother was taking cyclosporin
	Y Thiru, D N Bateman, M G Coulthard
	BMJ  1997;315:463 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Generalised pruritus associated with amlodipine
	S Orme, D da Costa
	BMJ  1997;315:463 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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