This week's This week in the BMJ

	A graphical test detects bias in meta-analysis [Full text] FREE

	Covert duplicate publication leads to overestimation of drug efficacy [Full text] FREE

	Delayed publication of negative results may bias reviews [Full text] FREE

	Total purchasing is not yet total [Full text] FREE

	Genital cancers are linked to human papillomavirus infection [Full text] FREE

	Fast track admission in sickle cell crises produces faster pain relief [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Meta-analysis and the meta-epidemiology of clinical research
	C David Naylor
	BMJ  1997;315:617-619 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Food safety: from plough to plate
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  1997;315:619-620 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is human papillomavirus an infectious cause of non-cervical anogenital tract cancers?
	Howard D Strickler, Mark H Schiffman
	BMJ  1997;315:620-621 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An amnesty for unpublished trials
	Richard Smith, Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1997;315:622 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Impact of postmenopausal hormone therapy on cardiovascular events and cancer
	Stephen Singleton, Kathryn Bailey, Sunil Shah, Leonaura Rhodes, Valerie Seagroatt, Torbjorn Sundkvist, Farook Al-Azzawi, John Thompson, Aidan Halligan, Nananda F Col, John B Wong, Stephen G Pauker, Richard Karas, Elina Hemminki
	BMJ  1997;315:676 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	It is right to publicise recent advances in the media
	G D Angelini, P Wilde
	BMJ  1997;315:679 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Finding of relation between epidural anaesthesia and long term backache remains valid
	Christine MacArthur, Margo Lewis, George Knox
	BMJ  1997;315:679 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lowered risk of dying of heart attack with third generation pill may offset risk of dying of thromboembolism
	Michael A Lewis, Walter O Spitzer, Lothar A J Heinemann, Kenneth D MacRae, Rudolf Bruppacher
	BMJ  1997;315:679-680 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating shoulder complaints in general practice
	Gabriel Symonds, C A Speed, Bill Orr, Jan C Winters
	BMJ  1997;315:680-681 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs and health authority believe that locality commissioning will improve services
	Raymond F Jankowski, Ramesh Bhatt, Adam Jenkins
	BMJ  1997;315:681-682 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rapid opiate detoxification
	Daphne Rumball, Justin Williams, M Meurer Laban, R S Laishley, C M Schmulian
	BMJ  1997;315:682 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ecchymoses may have been due to extracapsular haemorrhage from parathyroid adenoma
	W P L Hellier, A McCombe
	BMJ  1997;315:683 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inaccuracies in obituaries should not be ignored
	Elizabeth Wilson
	BMJ  1997;315:683 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pharmaceutical industry is invited to respond to amnesty for unreported trials
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1997;315:683 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Plague case shows signs of multidrug resistance
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:623-628 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:623-628 [Extract] [Full text]

	Manual workers more likely to be chronically ill
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:623-628 [Extract] [Full text]

	The beginning of the end of the internal market
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:623-628 [Extract] [Full text]

	"Quackery" outlawed in registered pharmacy
	Duncan Campbell
	BMJ  1997;315:623-628 [Extract] [Full text]

	FDA to have greater food regulation powers
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:623-628 [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO criticised for ignoring drug dumping
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:623-628 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israel to set up genetic database after adoption scandal
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1997;315:623-628 [Extract] [Full text]

	US to ban sale of many laxatives over the counter
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:623-628 [Extract] [Full text]

	HIV home test kit banned in Germany
	Helmut L Karcher
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

	Chemotherapy better tolerated when matched to body's rhythm
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;315:623-628 [Extract] [Full text]

	Meet Ms Managed Care
	David Woods
	BMJ  1997;315:623-628 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Management of patients with sickle cell disease
	Sally C Davies, Lola Oni
	BMJ  1997;315:656-660 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Psychotropic drug treatment
	Soumitra R Pathare, Carol Paton
	BMJ  1997;315:661-664 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	What is total purchasing?
	Nicholas Mays, Nick Goodwin, Gwyn Bevan, Sally Wyke
	BMJ  1997;315:652-655 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	An encounter with Reynard
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1997;315:686 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The private life of systematic reviews
	Ian Roberts, Gill Schierhout
	BMJ  1997;315:686-687 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The caring doctor is an oxymoron
	Graeme M Mackenzie
	BMJ  1997;315:687-688 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	August bestsellers: BMJ Bookshop
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluation Methods in Medical Informatics, by Charles P Friedman, Jeremy C Wyatt
	John Faughnan
	BMJ  1997;315:689 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine, by M R Gold, J E Siegel, L B Russell, M C Weinstein
	Nick Freemantle
	BMJ  1997;315:689 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Detecting the effects of thromboprophylaxis: the case of the rogue reviews
	Mark Petticrew, Susan C Kennedy
	BMJ  1997;315:665-668 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluating healthcare policies: the case of clinical audit
	Joanne Lord, Peter Littlejohns
	BMJ  1997;315:668-671 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How to read a paper: Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:672-675 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:690 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Truth, reason, and error
	Thomas Henry Huxley
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consultants who changed my practice: Learning from my mistakes
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different tests
	BMJ  1997;315:675 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Mature entrants to medicine
	Alan Woodall, Mark Pickard
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The government's failure to implement the EU working time directive ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Overseas doctors who wish to work in Britain have a ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: If the weight of information begins to pall while you're ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Doctors' information: excessive, crummy, and bent
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Who can we blame?
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1997;315:688 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Ian Severn Bailey • Palecanda Ponappa Belliappa ("Belli") • Richard Thomas Bevan • David Roger Dadge • Lakshmi Manchapura Krishna • William John ("Willie") Patterson • Chelliah ("Rabi") Rabindran • Leslie Joseph Samuels • Villiers Owen Greville ("Butch") Smyth • Frederick William Alexander Turnbull • Derek Rawlins Wood • Ian Lloyd Woolf
	BMJ  1997;315:684 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
	Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith, Martin Schneider, Christoph Minder
	BMJ  1997;315:629-634 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of covert duplicate publication on meta-analysis: a case study
	Martin R Tramèr, D John M Reynolds, R Andrew Moore, Henry J McQuay
	BMJ  1997;315:635-640 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Publication bias: evidence of delayed publication in a cohort study of clinical research projects
	Jerome M Stern, R John Simes
	BMJ  1997;315:640-645 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prospective seroepidemiological study of role of human papillomavirus in non-cervical anogenital cancers
	Tone Bjørge, Joakim Dillner, Tarja Anttila, Anders Engeland, Timo Hakulinen, Egil Jellum, Matti Lehtinen, Tapio Luostarinen, Jorma Paavonen, Eero Pukkala, Martin Sapp, John Schiller, Linda Youngman, Steinar Thoresen
	BMJ  1997;315:646-649 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evaluation of fast track admission policy for children with sickle cell crises: questionnaire survey of parents' preferences
	Caroline R Fertleman, Angela Gallagher, Mary A Rossiter
	BMJ  1997;315:650 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Usefulness of screening large numbers of contacts for tuberculosis: questionnaire based review
	Helen Stoddart, Norman Noah
	BMJ  1997;315:651 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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