This week's This week in the BMJ

	High dose vitamin A gives no benefit in childhood pneumonia [Full text] FREE

	Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage is linked to deprivation [Full text] FREE

	Deprived areas benefit most from water fluoridation [Full text] FREE

	GPs' beliefs about their patients' expectations determine whether patients get drugs [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Improving the health of the world's poor
	Davidson R Gwatkin, Patrick Heuveline
	BMJ  1997;315:497-498 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The trouble with bone allograft
	Fabian H Norman-Taylor, Nicola Santori, Richard N Villar
	BMJ  1997;315:498 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consumer participation in research and health care
	Alessandro Liberati
	BMJ  1997;315:499 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adverse drug reactions: finding the needle in the haystack
	I Ralph Edwards
	BMJ  1997;315:500 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Intensive insulin treatment after acute myocardial infarction in diabetes mellitus
	Rhys Williams, B Miles Fisher, Kevin McLaughlin
	BMJ  1997;315:544 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast cancer risk with cyst type in cystic disease of the breast
	Stephen Ebbs, Tom Bates, J M Dixon, C McDonald, R A Elton, W R Miller
	BMJ  1997;315:545 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practitioners' workload in primary care led NHS
	C D Helliwell, T A Carney, Julian Tudor Hart, Iain Sidford
	BMJ  1997;315:546 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Data on health economics of pulmonary rehabilitation programmes are needed
	R J White, S T Rudkin
	BMJ  1997;315:547 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs' perceptions of tolerability of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and tricyclic antidepressants
	Jan Grace, Naureen Bhatti, Jonathan Graffy, Imad M Ali, Richard M Martin, Sean R Hilton, Sally M Kerry, Nicky M Richards
	BMJ  1997;315:547 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anonymity for unrelated bone marrow donors should remain
	Ruth Warwick
	BMJ  1997;315:548-549 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing and managing polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis
	Cathie Sudlow, Robin Finlay, Anthony G Freeman, Paul Roome, Peter Hodgkins, Richard Hull
	BMJ  1997;315:549 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors should be trained in lifting patients
	Chaan Ng, Virash Phongsathorn, Sheena Mitchell
	BMJ  1997;315:550-551 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cognitive dysfunction may complicate assessment of pain in elderly patients
	A M Severn, C Dodds
	BMJ  1997;315:551 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	EU directive on bovine spongiform encephalopathy will not affect drugs
	David R B Bowser
	BMJ  1997;315:551 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obstructive sleep apnoea
	John Wright, Trevor Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;315:551 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Hospital waiting lists grow by 13% in England
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:501-504 [Extract] [Full text]

	Psychologist wins damages over theft of research
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;315:501-504 [Extract] [Full text]

	China's smoking epidemic grows
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1997;315:501-504 [Extract] [Full text]

	American Medical Association apologises for commercial deal
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;315:501-504 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israel places restrictions on health funds
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1997;315:501-504 [Extract] [Full text]

	French doctors miss out on postmortem examinations
	Alexander Dorzynski
	BMJ  1997;315:501-504 [Extract] [Full text]

	Crackdown on locum doctors announced
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:501-504 [Extract] [Full text]

	Tuberculosis infection process pinpointed
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:501-504 [Extract] [Full text]

	Colombia struggles with health reform
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1997;315:501-504 [Extract] [Full text]

	Medicinal marijuana provided at cost price
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	The diabetes audit and research in Tayside Scotland (darts) study: electronic record linkage to create a diabetes register
	Andrew D Morris, Douglas IR Boyle, Ritchie MacAlpine, Alistair Emslie-Smith, Roland T Jung, Ray W Newton, Thomas M MacDonald
	BMJ  1997;315:524-528 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	Mark Pallen
	BMJ  1997;315:529 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Stress, the brain, and mental illness
	J Herbert
	BMJ  1997;315:530-535 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Mental health on the margins
	Philip Timms, John Balázs
	BMJ  1997;315:536-539 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Prescribing behaviour in clinical practice: patients' expectations and doctors' perceptions of patients' expectations—a questionnaire study
	Jill Cockburn, Sabrina Pit
	BMJ  1997;315:520-523 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	A longer view
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1997;315:553 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	A doctor's dilemma
	Margot Nelson-Owen
	BMJ  1997;315:553-554 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Injured Brains of Medical Minds. Views from Within, by Ed Narinder Kapur
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  1997;315:555 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Questioning the Solution: The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival, by David Werner, David Saunders
	Martin Schweiger
	BMJ  1997;315:555 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	How to read a paper: Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:540-543 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:556 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Problems of adolescence
	William Shakespeare
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Any questions: Why does HIV infection progress to AIDS?
	Brian Gazzard
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	ABC of mental health: Mental health emergencies
	BMJ  1997;315:539 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of mental health: Addiction and dependence—I: Illicit drugs
	BMJ  1997;315:539 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Setting up and running a stress management service for doctors
	Karen Appleby
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Only 3% of all surgical consultants (and only 1% of ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Using ethnicity as a selection factor has always been controversial, ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The BMA estimates that the recent proposals to introduce university ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The world's health transition still leaves some behind
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Publish and be damned?
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1997;315:554 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Margaret Gwendoline Roberts
	BMJ  1997;315:552 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial of efficacy of vitamin A treatment in non-measles childhood pneumonia
	Luis C Nacul, Betty R Kirkwood, Paul Arthur, Saul S Morris, Marcelo Magalhães, Maria C D S Fink
	BMJ  1997;315:505-510 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in west of Scotland: case ascertainment study
	Oliver Blatchford, Lindsay A Davidson, William R Murray, Mary Blatchford, Jill Pell
	BMJ  1997;315:510-514 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Water fluoridation, tooth decay in 5 year olds, and social deprivation measured by the Jarman score: analysis of data from British dental surveys
	C M Jones, G O Taylor, J G Whittle, D Evans, D P Trotter
	BMJ  1997;315:514-517 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Electronic monitoring of vaccine cold chain in a metropolitan area
	Andrew Wawryk, Chris Mavromatis, Michael Gold
	BMJ  1997;315:518 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reporting of adverse drug reactions by hospital pharmacists: pilot scheme
	Anne Lee, D Nicholas Bateman, Clive Edwards, James M Smith, Michael D Rawlins
	BMJ  1997;315:519 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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