This week's This week in the BMJ

	Short heavy mothers produce heart disease in their sons [Full text] FREE

	Smoking increases the risk of hip fracture [Full text] FREE

	Health risks linked to drinking beer vary with drinking pattern [Full text] FREE

	Recent pregnancy is a poor prognostic factor for breast cancer [Full text] FREE

	Serial magnetic resonance imaging helps detect prion disease [Full text] FREE

	Inhaled steroids are of little benefit in viral associated wheezing in children [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The relation between fetal malnutrition and chronic disease in later life
	Nevin S Scrimshaw
	BMJ  1997;315:825-826 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The use of statins: a case of misleading priorities?
	Nick Freemantle, Ruth Barbour, Richard Johnson, Mike Marchment, Andrew Kennedy
	BMJ  1997;315:826-828 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Genetic diagnosis before implantation
	Joy D A Delhanty, Dagan Wells, Joyce C Harper
	BMJ  1997;315:828-829 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hunger strikes
	Michael Peel
	BMJ  1997;315:829-830 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Antibiotics as initial treatment for children with acute otitis media
	Helle Krogh Johansen, Peter C Gøtzsche, Jonathan E Osborne, Rhys T Nguyen, Ian Hill-Smith, Chris Del Mar, Paul Glasziou, Mauricio Hayem
	BMJ  1997;315:879 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Relative risks are inflated in published literature
	T H Lam
	BMJ  1997;315:880 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study confirms results of systematic review of care in stroke unit
	Russell Lane, Katie Burrell, Cathy Dennis
	BMJ  1997;315:881 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Modern treatment for internal haemorrhoids
	Emin Carapeti, Robin K S Phillips, P S Stonelake, C W Hendrickse, John L Pfenninger
	BMJ  1997;315:881 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author preferred to cite substantive references rather than meeting abstracts
	Tom Treasure
	BMJ  1997;315:882 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of deprivation on general practitioners' referral rates
	Ted Williams, Antony Jackson, Deborah Turbitt, Glen Scrivener, David Lloyd, Patricia Sturdy, Filomena Pereira, Sally Hull, Yvonne Carter, Jeannette Naish, Charlotte Harvey, Julia Hippisley-Cox, Carolyn Hardy, Mike Pringle, Robin Carlisle, Katherine Fielding, Clair Chilvers
	BMJ  1997;315:882-883 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mental health emergencies
	Evandro Coutinho, Mark Fenton, Colin Campbell, Anthony David, Ed Walker, Robert Orange-Bromehead, Zerrin Atakan, Teifion Davies, Ian B Kerr, David Taylor
	BMJ  1997;315:884 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Data on results of using different antiepileptic drugs do exist
	Martin J Brodie
	BMJ  1997;315:885 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Accident and emergency departments should not be considered places of safety
	John M Ryan, Carlos Perez-Avila
	BMJ  1997;315:886 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neonatal mortality of low birthweight babies is increased in mothers with higher education
	Martin Bobak, Hynek Pikhart, Ilona Koupilova
	BMJ  1997;315:886 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acupuncturists have begun initiative to agree standards to improve safety
	E Ernst, Adrian White
	BMJ  1997;315:886 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Caller's telephone number can be permanently withheld
	Anna Knight
	BMJ  1997;315:886 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Agents of new variant CJD and BSE are identical
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:831-836 [Extract] [Full text]

	New study reports that diet is critical to cancer prevention
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1997;315:831-836 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:831-836 [Extract] [Full text]

	Gynaecologist admonished for removing ovaries without consent
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:831-836 [Extract] [Full text]

	Unsupervised junior surgeons carry out operations
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:831-836 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors volunteer to be guinea pigs for AIDS vaccine
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:831-836 [Extract] [Full text]

	FDA insists on more women in drug trials
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:831-836 [Extract] [Full text]

	When life saving treatment should be withdrawn in children
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:831-836 [Extract] [Full text]

	Government reviews law on "posthumous conceptions"
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:831-836 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health care in China is highly inequitable
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch and Swiss support heroin on prescription
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;315:831-836 [Extract] [Full text]

	Liberal Democrats want coalition to run NHS
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:831-836 [Extract] [Full text]

	Gagging clauses outlawed
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:831-836 [Extract] [Full text]

	Government waives proposed fees for final year medical students
	Jessica Westall
	BMJ  1997;315:831-836 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances in endocrine therapy of breast cancer
	Anthony Howell, Mitchell Dowsett
	BMJ  1997;315:863-866 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of palliative care: Difficult pain problems
	J Sykes, R Johnson, G W Hanks
	BMJ  1997;315:867-869 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Effect of inhaled corticosteroids on episodes of wheezing associated with viral infection in school age children: randomised double blind placebo controlled trial
	Iolo J M Doull, Fiona C Lampe, Sandra Smith, Jaqueline Schreiber, Nicholas J Freezer, Stephen T Holgate
	BMJ  1997;315:858-862 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Auchendreich says well, yes, maybe
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1997;315:889 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Vitiligo: an underestimated problem in general practice?
	Gina Agarwal
	BMJ  1997;315:889-890 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	I stopped asking doctors for help
	Isobel Nunneley
	BMJ  1997;315:890 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence Based Medicine, by Trisha Greenhalgh
	David C Slawson
	BMJ  1997;315:891 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision-Support Techniques and Medical Practices, by Marc Berg
	Paul Taylor
	BMJ  1997;315:891 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Climate change and health: implications for research, monitoring, and policy
	Andrew Haines, Anthony J McMichael
	BMJ  1997;315:870-874 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Resource allocation to health authorities: the quest for an equitable formula in Britain and Sweden
	Finn Diderichsen, Eva Varde, Margaret Whitehead
	BMJ  1997;315:875-878 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:892 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

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

	Endpiece: Hopefully, the last word
	Robert Burchfield
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Misleading appearances
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Young adults with arthritic hips
	BMJ  1997;315:830 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Age related dietary exposure to meat products from British dietary surveys of teenagers and adults in the 1980s and 1990s
	BMJ  1997;315:857 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Working as a deputy in general practice
	Melvyn Jones
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The National Association of Non-Principals is worried that some practices ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The government has announced that from September 1998 the Department ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: If you'd like to participate in CAREER-F, the electronic discussion ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	An explanation for the epidemic of coronary artery disease?
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Quality of training must be paramount • Devolution must not damage Scottish health service • GPs' out of hours funding must continue • JDC group will look at new deal
	BMJ  1997;315:888 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Knowelden
	BMJ  1997;315:887 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Mother's weight in pregnancy and coronary heart disease in a cohort of finnish men: follow up study
	T Forsén, J G Eriksson, J Tuomilehto, K Teramo, C Osmond, D J P Barker
	BMJ  1997;315:837-840 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A meta-analysis of cigarette smoking, bone mineral density and risk of hip fracture: recognition of a major effect
	M R Law, A K Hackshaw
	BMJ  1997;315:841-846 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Beer binging and mortality: results from the kuopio ischaemic heart disease risk factor study, a prospective population based study
	Jussi Kauhanen, George A Kaplan, Debbie E Goldberg, Jukka T Salonen
	BMJ  1997;315:846-851 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Time since childbirth and prognosis in primary breast cancer: population based study
	Niels Kroman, Jan Wohlfahrt, Knud West Andersen, Henning T Mouridsen, Tine Westergaard, Mads Melbye
	BMJ  1997;315:851-855 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Audit of child protection procedures in accident and emergency department to identify children at risk of abuse
	Peter D Sidebotham, Alison V Pearce
	BMJ  1997;315:855-856 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cerebral and cerebellar atrophy on serial magnetic resonance imaging in an initially symptom free subject at risk of familial prion disease
	N C Fox, P A Freeborough, K F Mekkaoui, J M Stevens, M N Rossor
	BMJ  1997;315:856-857 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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