This week's This week in the BMJ

	Scottish melanoma epidemic may have peaked [Full text] FREE

	Improved nutrition reduces childhood morbidity in developing countries [Full text] FREE

	Income inequality is not linked to health inequalities in Spain [Full text] FREE

	Competition has not yet affected productivity in the NHS market [Full text] FREE

	Requesting doctors' permission to include patients in studies: how you asks affects the response rate [Full text] FREE

	Patients often don't know why they are discharged from outpatients [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Why some cases of retinopathy worsen when diabetic control improves
	E Chantelau, E M Kohner
	BMJ  1997;315:1105-1106 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Changing incidence and mortality from cutaneous malignant melanoma
	Jane Melia
	BMJ  1997;315:1106-1107 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acute excited states and sudden death
	Frank R Farnham, Henry G Kennedy
	BMJ  1997;315:1107-1108 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Teaching medical students in general practice: respecting patients' rights
	Charlotte Williamson, Patricia Wilkie
	BMJ  1997;315:1108-1109 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine based evidence, a prerequisite for evidence based medicine
	Andre Knottnerus, Geert Jan Dinant
	BMJ  1997;315:1109-1110 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Influence of cholesterol on survival after stroke
	Nicholas Stoy, Andrew Hutchesson, Steven Martin, Hernán Valdés Socin, Carmine Marini, Mario Di Napoli, Antonio Carolei, Alexander G Dyker, Kennedy R Lees
	BMJ  1997;315:1158 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gonorrhoea and ethnicity
	Mark FitzGerald, Helen Maguire, Isabella Smith, Andrew Nayagam
	BMJ  1997;315:1160 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improving ethnic data within surveillance must be priority
	Angus Nicoll, Mike Catchpole, John M Watson
	BMJ  1997;315:1160 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Funding of drug treatment of multiple sclerosis should not be delayed
	D W Paty
	BMJ  1997;315:1160-1161 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heterogeneity of air pollution effects is related to average temperature
	Martin Bobak, Anthony Roberts
	BMJ  1997;315:1161 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mental health assessment
	Heather Goodare, Teifion Davies
	BMJ  1997;315:1161-1162 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aciclovir in herpes simplex gingivostomatitis
	Helen M Goodyear, T A J Dawson
	BMJ  1997;315:1162 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tobacco manufacturers did not orchestrate media interest in possible ban on tobacco sponsorship
	Clive Turner
	BMJ  1997;315:1162 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Approval of SHO posts is rarely withdrawn but is often given for limited time
	D B Lloyd
	BMJ  1997;315:1163 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Steroids should never be given until possible herpes zoster infection has been excluded
	J C Devine
	BMJ  1997;315:1163 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Marfan's syndrome might have been factor in acute dissection of aorta in amphetamine misuser
	Jo Clark, Christopher Milroy, Guy Rutty
	BMJ  1997;315:1163 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Future of international health
	F S Antezana, Andy Haines
	BMJ  1997;315:1163-1164 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	End of life decisions
	K F Gunning, C A Crowther
	BMJ  1997;315:1164 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Many people who disapprove of abortion nevertheless think it should be legal
	Ann Furedi
	BMJ  1997;315:1165 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Royal Medical Benevolent Fund asks for donations for Christmas
	Josephine Barnes
	BMJ  1997;315:1165 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Video surveillance uncovers parental child abuse
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:1111-1116 [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA says that "superhospitals" would be unworkable
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:1111-1116 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:1111-1116 [Extract] [Full text]

	Fetuses cannot feel pain before 26 weeks
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:1111-1116 [Extract] [Full text]

	No fault compensation for medical accidents under consideration
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:1111-1116 [Extract] [Full text]

	Organophosphates do cause long term damage
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:1111-1116 [Extract] [Full text]

	Complementary medicine should be integrated into the NHS
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;315:1111-1116 [Extract] [Full text]

	Regulation has not reduced food poisoning in Britain
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1997;315:1111-1116 [Extract] [Full text]

	Legal aid withdrawn from negligence cases
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:1111-1116 [Extract] [Full text]

	Rotavirus vaccine is effective in developing countries
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

	Combined blood and urine testing is more sensitive for HIV
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:1111-1116 [Extract] [Full text]

	Norwegian doctors in row over jobs for foreign doctors
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1997;315:1111-1116 [Extract] [Full text]

	French doctors apologise for wartime antisemitism
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;315:1111-1116 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: A regular review of the long term follow up of depression
	J Angst
	BMJ  1997;315:1143-1146 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Delayed closure of injuries to the hand caused by blasts helps to preserve function
	I Grant
	BMJ  1997;315:1146-1147 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of palliative care: Nausea, vomiting, and intestinal obstruction
	Mary J Baines
	BMJ  1997;315:1148-1150 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Patients' views on their discharge from follow up in outpatient clinics: qualitative study
	Yvonne Burkey, Mary Black, Hugh Reeve
	BMJ  1997;315:1138-1141 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Consent and confidentiality in teaching in general practice: survey of patients' views on presence of students
	Norma O'Flynn, John Spencer, Roger Jones
	BMJ  1997;315:1142 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Public accountability
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1997;315:1167 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Should stroke medicine be a separate subspecialty?
	Philip Bath, Kennedy Lees, Martin Dennis, David Smithard, Ian Bone, Donald Grosset, Jonathon Macdonald, Stephen Pollock
	BMJ  1997;315:1167-1168 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Ante-Natal Screening and Abortion for Fetal Abnormality, by Ed David Paintin
	Stuart W G Derbyshire
	BMJ  1997;315:1169 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	History of the Canadian Medical Association 1954-94, by John S Bennett
	David Woods
	BMJ  1997;315:1169 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Confounding and indication for treatment in evaluation of drug treatment for hypertension
	Diederick E Grobbee, Arno W Hoes
	BMJ  1997;315:1151-1154 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women's health: women's health is a global issue
	Naomi Craft
	BMJ  1997;315:1154-1157 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:1170 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable doctor: "We never met"
	Nick Wilson
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New medical needs: The stay ill card
	Marshall B Kapp
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical work experience—luxury or necessity?:
	Victoria Purser
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	BMJ  1997;315:1129 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effects on birth weight and perinatal mortality of maternal dietary supplements in rural Gambia: 5 year randomised controlled trial
	BMJ  1997;315:1141 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Graded exercise in chronic fatigue syndrome
	BMJ  1997;315:1165 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Appraising doctors and dentists in training
	Jolyon Oxley
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The arbitration and conciliation service ACAS produce a series of ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The nursing profession's GMC equivalent - the UKCC - has ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Patients' voices
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Clark
	BMJ  1997;315:1166 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Cutaneous malignant melanoma in Scotland: incidence, survival, and mortality, 1979-94
	Rona M MacKie, David Hole, John A A Hunter, Rosslyn Rankin, Alan Evans, Kathryn McLaren, Mary Fallowfield, Andrew Hutcheon, Arthur Morris
	BMJ  1997;315:1117-1121 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of nutrition improvement project on morbidity from infectious diseases in preschool children in Vietnam: comparison with control commune
	R M English, J C Badcock, Tu Giay, Tu Ngu, A-M Waters, S A Bennett
	BMJ  1997;315:1122-1125 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of the NHS reforms on English hospital productivity: an analysis of the first three years
	Neil Söderlund, Ivan Csaba, Alastair Gray, Ruairidh Milne, James Raftery
	BMJ  1997;315:1126-1129 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Inequalities in income and long term disability in Spain: analysis of recent hypotheses using cross sectional study based on individual data
	Enrique Regidor, Pedro Navarro, Vicente Dominguez, Carmen Rodriguez
	BMJ  1997;315:1130-1135 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Improving response rates among doctors: randomised trial
	Margaret Sloan, Nancy Kreiger, Bonnie James
	BMJ  1997;315:1136 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Relation between weight and length at birth and body mass index in young adulthood: cohort study
	Henrik Toft Sørensen, Svend Sabroe, Kenneth J Rothman, Matthew Gillman, Peer Fischer, Thorkild I A Sørensen
	BMJ  1997;315:1137 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

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