Paying patients improves compliance with treatment [Full text]

	Growth hormone treatment is not as effective as has been thought [Full text]

	The old risk factors are still best for predicting death and coronary disease [Full text]

	Incidence of insulin dependent diabetes is rising sharply in children aged under 5 [Full text]

	Increase in hay fever and eczema is not explained by changes in perinatal factors [Full text]

	Should we screen for gestational diabetes? [Full text]

Editorials

	Multiple sclerosis, depression, and suicide: Clinicians should pay more attention to psychopathology
	Anthony Feinstein
	BMJ  1997;315:691-692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.691 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Growth hormone: panacea or punishment for short stature?: Learning to live with being short is more important for short normal children
	C G D Brook
	BMJ  1997;315:692-693, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.692 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Occipital plagiocephaly: an epidemic of craniosynostosis?: Craniosynostosis needs to be distinguished from more common postural asymmetry
	Barry M Jones, Richard Hayward, Robert Evans, Jonathan Britto
	BMJ  1997;315:693-694, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.693 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Child health promotion and its challenge to medical education: Doctors need practical preventive skills they can use in clinical settings
	David Stone, Harry Campbell
	BMJ  1997;315:694-695, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.694 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The future of vascular services: the need for a strategy: Which could also be a model for other specialist services
	John H N Wolfe
	BMJ  1997;315:695-696, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.695 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authorship is dying: long live contributorship: The BMJ will publish lists of contributors and guarantors to original articles
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:696, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.696 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Authorship
	Tim Scott, J I Mann, Michael J Wareing, John Crammer, H J McQuay, R A Moore, Paul de Sa, Ties Boerma, A Ezsias, Ji-Dong Jia, Helen M Bichan, Tim Hall, Michael D Fetters, Todd S Elwyn, Robin K S Phillips, Craig Currie, K Chakravarty, Brian W Davies
	BMJ  1997;315:744, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.744 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practice fundholding and health care costs
	Maggie Marum, Nicholas Mays, R V Millard, Duncan Keeley
	BMJ  1997;315:748-749, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.748 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Warfarin use in patients with atrial fibrillation
	David Sulch, Stephen Bridger, Mark Sudlow, Helen Rodgers, Rose Anne Kenny, Richard Thomson
	BMJ  1997;315:750, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.750 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Warfarin use in patients with atrial fibrillation
	David Sulch, Stephen Bridger, Mark Sudlow, Helen Rodgers, Rose Anne Kenny, Richard Thomson
	BMJ  1997;315:750, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.750a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New logo
	Mary Jane Platt, Trish Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:751, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.751 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bitten—by taxonomy
	Tim Wootton-Leeuwenburg
	BMJ  1997;315:751, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.751a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New logo
	Mary Jane Platt, Trish Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:751, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.751b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Speaking out for the right of women to choose
	Benjamin Hope
	BMJ  1997;315:697-702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.697 [Extract] [Full text]

	France to investigate illegal sterilisation of mentally ill patients
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;315:697-702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.697a [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:697-702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.697b [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA calls for 10% pay increase for doctors
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;315:697-702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.697c [Extract] [Full text]

	Group to vet any plans to close psychiatric hospitals in Britain
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:697-702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.697d [Extract] [Full text]

	Thalidomide ban to be lifted in the US
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1997;315:697-702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.697e [Extract] [Full text]

	Information on drug efficacy must be given
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:697-702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.697f [Extract] [Full text]

	Poor sterilisation of instruments leads to infection outbreak in Paris
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;315:697-702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.697g [Extract] [Full text]

	Virus set against virus
	Debbie Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:697-702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.697h [Extract] [Full text]

	Vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus reported
	Debbie Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:i-, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.697i [Extract] [Full text]

	Calcium supplements reduce risk fracture
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1997;315:697-702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.697j [Extract] [Full text]

	Exportability of managed care is limited
	David Woods
	BMJ  1997;315:697-702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.697k [Extract] [Full text]

	Speaking out for the right of women to choose
	Benjamin Hope
	BMJ  1997;315:697-702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.697l [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future : malaria
	Sanjeev Krishna
	BMJ  1997;315:730-732, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.730 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Psychological treatments
	Phil Richardson
	BMJ  1997;315:733-735, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.733 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should we screen for gestational diabetes? "The concept of gestational diabetes was popularised before considerations of evidence based medicine came on the scene"
	R J Jarrett
	BMJ  1997;315:736-737, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.736 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Comparison of the prediction by 27 different factors of coronary heart disease and death in men and women of the Scottish heart health study: cohort study
	Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe, Mark Woodward, Roger Tavendale, Richard A' Brook, Mary K McCluskey
	BMJ  1997;315:722-729, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.722 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

	Breast feeding does not always work
	Jenny Bennison
	BMJ  1997;315:754, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.754 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast feeding does not always work
	Jenny Bennison
	BMJ  1997;315:754, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.754a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

	The Undertaking: Life Studies from a Dismal Trade
	Anthony Clare
	BMJ  1997;315:755, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.755 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Undertaking: Life Studies from a Dismal Trade, by Thomas Lynch
	Anthony Clare
	BMJ  1997;315:755, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.755a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Should we screen for gestational diabetes? The case for screening for gestational diabetes
	Jacqueline de A C Soares, Anne Dornhorstt, Richard W Beard
	BMJ  1997;315:737-739, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.737 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How to read a paper: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)
	Trisha Greenhalgh, Rod Taylor
	BMJ  1997;315:740-743, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.740 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	BMJ  1997;315:756, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.756 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Any questions: Use of a statin for reducing cholesterol levels
	Michael Oliver
	BMJ  1997;315, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.0 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Ward cleaner's clinical observation
	V M Sethukumar
	BMJ  1997;315, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.0g [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Prudent at the end
	John G Murray
	BMJ  1997;315, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.0h [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Dr Johnson doubts the logic of physicians
	BMJ  1997;315, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.0i [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Any questions: Use of a statin for reducing cholesterol levels
	Michael Oliver
	BMJ  1997;315, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.0j [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Recruiting a partner
	Ray Wilcox
	BMJ  1997;315:S2-7110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.S2-7110 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	BMJ  1997;315:S3-7110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.S3-7110 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	BMJ  1997;315:S3a-7110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.S3a-7110 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

	George Andrew Douglas Gordon
	BMJ  1997;315:752, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.752 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Should we pay the patient? Review of financial incentives to enhance patient compliance
	Antonio Giuffrida, David J Torgerson
	BMJ  1997;315:703-707, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.703 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Long term results of growth hormone treatment in France in children of short stature: population, register based study
	Joël Coste, Muriel Letrait, Jean Claude Carel, Jean Pierre Tresca, Pierre Chatelain, Pierre Rochiccioli, Jean Louis Chaussain, Jean Claude Job
	BMJ  1997;315:708-713, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.708 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Rising incidence of insulin dependent diabetes in children aged under 5 years in the Oxford region: time trend analysis
	Stephen G Gardner, Polly J Bingley, Pamela A Sawtell, Suzanne Weeks, Edwin AM Gale
	BMJ  1997;315:713-717, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.713 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Investigation into the increase in hay fever and eczema at age 16 observed between the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts
	Barbara K Butland, David P Strachan, Sarah Lewis, John Bynner, Neville Butler, John Britton
	BMJ  1997;315:717-721, doi: 10.1136/bmj.315.7110.717 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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