This week's This week in the BMJ

	HIV lowers life expectancy in Uganda [Full text] FREE

	Lumbar puncture should be used only with caution in suspected meningococcal disease [Full text] FREE

	Antenatal detection of haemoglobin disorders falls short of need [Full text] FREE

	Two tests for HIV should be considered if there's a clinical suspicion [Full text] FREE

	Dietary supplements in Gambian mothers lead to fewer low birthweight babies [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Optimising the investigation of meningococcal disease
	Keith Cartwright, Simon Kroll
	BMJ  1997;315:757-758 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Climate change—thinking widely, working locally, acting personally
	Cathy Read, Robin Stott
	BMJ  1997;315:758-759 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	Peer review: reform or revolution?
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:759-760 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnostics in developing countries
	Paul Garner, Ayyaz Kiani, Anuwat Supachutikul
	BMJ  1997;315:760-761 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Determining prognosis after acute myocardial infarction in the thrombolytic era
	George A Beller
	BMJ  1997;315:761-762 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Hyperglycaemia after acute stroke
	Carl Counsell, Mike McDowall, Martin Dennis, Alex Mitchell, Peter Kirckpatrick, Jonathan Scott, Janice O'Connell, Christopher Gray, Christopher Weir, Alexander Dyker, Kennedy Lees, Gordon Murray
	BMJ  1997;315:810 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More money is needed to care for patients with cancer
	R C F Leonard, I E Smith, R E Coleman, J S Malpas, M Nicolson, J Cassidy, A Jones, M B McIllmurray, N S A Stuart, P J Woll, J M A Whitehouse
	BMJ  1997;315:811-812 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cancer self help groups are underused
	E J Watts
	BMJ  1997;315:812 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case-control study of sudden infant death syndrome in Scotland
	Peter Blair, Peter Fleming, Iain Smith, Gerald Draper, Walter Holland, Cindie Carroll-Pankhurst, Edward A Mortimer Jr, Hazel Brooke, Angus Gibson, David Tappin, Helen Brown
	BMJ  1997;315:812 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Giving thyroid hormones to clinically hypothyroid but biochemically euthyroid patients
	G J Beckett, A D Toft, Gareth Williams, Charles Shepherd
	BMJ  1997;315:813-814 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing pulmonary embolism
	A G Fennerty
	BMJ  1997;315:814-815 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pneumococcal vaccine campaign based in general practice
	Neal Maskrey, Martin Parkinson, A N Siriwardena, Antony Walters, Nigel C Weightman, Paula McDonald, Ellis Friedman, Alan Banks, Ros Anderson, Val Carman, M J Doherty, M A Greenstone, R Meigh
	BMJ  1997;315:815 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing eye conditions in general practice
	T Manners
	BMJ  1997;315:816-817 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical managers
	Mike Williams, Christopher Bayliss
	BMJ  1997;315:817 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	US president announces own tobacco deal
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1997;315:763-766 [Extract] [Full text]

	French plan to bail out social security system
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;315:763-766 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:763-766 [Extract] [Full text]

	Transatlantic collaboration on ethnic minority health announced
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:763-766 [Extract] [Full text]

	Computers beat doctors in interpreting ECGs
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:763-766 [Extract] [Full text]

	US journal attacks unethical HIV trials
	Debbie Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:763-766 [Extract] [Full text]

	Thirty NHS trusts to merge
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:763-766 [Extract] [Full text]

	Progesterone's role in cardiac protection revealed
	Janice Hopkins-Tanne
	BMJ  1997;315:763-766 [Extract] [Full text]

	Blinding reviewers to authors' identity does not improve quality
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1997;315:763-766 [Extract] [Full text]

	Gender bias exists in research
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

	Citing of research shows national bias
	BMJ  1997;315:763-766 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Evaluation of computer support for prescribing (CAPSULE) using simulated cases
	R T Walton, C Gierl, P Yudkin, H Mistry, M P Vessey, J Fox
	BMJ  1997;315:791-795 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra] FREE

	Netlines
	Mark Pallen
	BMJ  1997;315:795 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Social phobia: epidemiology, recognition, and treatment
	J A:den Boer
	BMJ  1997;315:796-800 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of palliative care: Principles of palliative care and pain control
	Bill O'Neill, Marie Fallon
	BMJ  1997;315:801-804 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Effects on birth weight and perinatal mortality of maternal dietary supplements in rural gambia: 5 year randomised controlled trial
	Sana M Ceesay, Andrew M Prentice, Timothy J Cole, Frances Foord, Elizabeth M E Poskitt, Lawrence T Weaver, Roger G Whitehead
	BMJ  1997;315:786-790 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	This month's new journals
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1997;315:821 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The wrong job at the wrong time
	Pippa Keech
	BMJ  1997;315:821-822 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ban the bottle
	Joanne Nelson
	BMJ  1997;315:822 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Clinical Applications of the Interferons, by R Stuart-Harris, R Penny
	David Isaacs
	BMJ  1997;315:823 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Culture of Fear: Risk Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation, by Frank Furedi
	Stuart W G Derbyshire
	BMJ  1997;315:823 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Global climate change: the potential effects on health
	Anthony J McMichael, Andrew Haines
	BMJ  1997;315:805-809 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:824 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Any questions: Physical activity is best for back pain
	Malcolm I V Jayson
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my practice: The importance of touch
	B Ramamurthi
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Impact of postmenopausal hormone therapy on cardiovascular events and cancer
	BMJ  1997;315:817 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Planning to work in Canada?
	Stephan Larsson
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice has ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: If you feel you are at a career crossroads, if ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: A new national framework for assessing preregistration house officers (PRHOs) ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The stories behind the headlines
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Scottish doctors' input to NHS white paper • GMSC will continue to represent all GPs • Labour wants low pay rise for doctors
	BMJ  1997;315:820 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Cormie
	BMJ  1997;315:818 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Mortality associated with HIV-1 infection over five years in a rural Ugandan population: cohort study
	Andrew J Nunn, Daan W Mulder, Anatoli Kamali, Anthony Ruberantwari, Jane-Frances Kengeya-Kayondo, Jimmy Whitworth
	BMJ  1997;315:767-771 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	HIV antibody assay that gave false negative results: multicentre collaborative study
	Barry G Evans, John V Parry, Philip P Mortimer
	BMJ  1997;315:772-774 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Epidemiology and clinical management of meningococcal disease in west gloucestershire: retrospective, population based study
	Philip AL Wylie, David Stevens, William Drake III, James Stuart, Keith Cartwright
	BMJ  1997;315:774-779 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Audit of prenatal diagnosis for haemoglobin disorders in the United Kingdom: the first 20 years
	B Modell, M Petrou, M Layton, C Slater, R H T Ward, C Rodeck, Lysandros Varnavides, K Nicolaides, S Gibbons, Alison Fitches, John Old
	BMJ  1997;315:779-784 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Audit of process of antenatal screening for sickle cell disorders at a north London hospital
	Helen Neuenschwander, Bernadette Modell
	BMJ  1997;315:784-785 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Intranasal chlorhexidine resulting in anaphylactic circulatory arrest
	D G Chisholm, I Calder, D Peterson, M Powell
	BMJ  1997;315:785 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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