This week's This week in the BMJ

	Combination therapies improve prognosis of HIV infection in the community [Full text] FREE

	Low birth weight of offspring associated with high mortality of parents [Full text] FREE

	New study does not support preconception irradiation as cause of childhood leukaemia [Full text] FREE

	H pylori infection probably does not cause ischaemic heart disease [Full text] FREE

	Overuse of antibiotics continues in respiratory infections [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Ion channels
	Marc E Laniado, Paul D Abel, El-Nasir Lalani
	BMJ  1997;315:1171-1172 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The health of gypsies
	Martin McKee
	BMJ  1997;315:1172-1173 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The use or uselessness of annual public health reports
	Gabriel Scally
	BMJ  1997;315:1173-1174 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for fragile X syndrome: a model for genetic disorders?
	Angela Barnicoat
	BMJ  1997;315:1174-1175 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Replacing the NHS market
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  1997;315:1175-1176 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	The real ethics of rationing
	J R E Hamilton, Francis Chinegwundoh, D E B Powell
	BMJ  1997;315:1231 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death rates from childhood leukaemia near nuclear sites
	Heather O Dickinson, Trevor J B Dummer, Mark S Pearce, J A Crofts, G C R Sallit, W D Atkinson, B C Carpenter, G J Draper, T J Vincent, C Barton, Chris Busby, Molly Scott Cato, P G Bolger
	BMJ  1997;315:1232 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In screening for breast cancer, clinical examination is as effective as mammography
	Indraneel Mittra
	BMJ  1997;315:1234-1235 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Not all self help groups discourage sick doctors from being members
	Elizabeth Armstrong
	BMJ  1997;315:1235 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Incidence of gastrointestinal side effects due to alendronate is high in clinical practice
	Rosemary Kelly, H Taggart
	BMJ  1997;315:1235 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Communication between GPs and cooperatives is poor for terminally ill patients
	Stephen Barclay, Margaret Rogers, Chris Todd
	BMJ  1997;315:1235-1236 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Geriatric depression scale can be used in older people in primary care
	Cornelius L E Katona, Philippa M Katona
	BMJ  1997;315:1236 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is the clinical course of HIV infection changing?
	Kholoud Porter, Matthew G Law, John M Kaldor, Alessandro Cozzi Lepri, Andrew N Phillips, Patrizio Pezzotti, Giovanni Rezza, A Sinicco, R Fora, R Raiteri, M Sciandra, G Bechis, M M Calvo, P Gioannini
	BMJ  1997;315:1236 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Home grown asparagus is cheap
	J Heath
	BMJ  1997;315:1237 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	GMC accused of prejudicing doctors' defence
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:1177-1180 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:1177-1180 [Extract] [Full text]

	Court confirms right to palliative treatment for mental distress
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:1177-1180 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK screening programmes to be overhauled
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;315:1177-1180 [Extract] [Full text]

	Alcohol, not drugs, causes most problems at nightclubs
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:1177-1180 [Extract] [Full text]

	Most people should pay for NHS drugs
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;315:1177-1180 [Extract] [Full text]

	Shift to CFC-free inhalers may require change in doses
	Adam Legge
	BMJ  1997;315:1177-1180 [Extract] [Full text]

	South Africa's controversial health bills
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1997;315:1177-1180 [Extract] [Full text]

	Action zones will modernise the NHS
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;315:1177-1180 [Extract] [Full text]

	Norwegian doctors attacked over "élite" trade union
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: care of near term infants with respiratory failure
	Keith J Barrington, Neil N Finer
	BMJ  1997;315:1215-1218 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of palliative care: Anorexia, cachexia, and nutrition
	Eduardo Bruera
	BMJ  1997;315:1219-1222 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Prospective case-control study of role of infection in patients who reconsult after initial antibiotic treatment for lower respiratory tract infection in primary care
	John Macfarlane, Janet Prewett, Donald Rose, Philip Gard, Richard Cunningham, Pekka Saikku, Stephanie Euden, Steven Myint
	BMJ  1997;315:1206-1210 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Influence of patients' expectations on antibiotic management of acute lower respiratory tract illness in general practice: questionnaire study
	John Macfarlane, William Holmes, Rosamund Macfarlane, Nicky Britten
	BMJ  1997;315:1211-1214 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Feast or famine
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1997;315:1241 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Genetic counselling—does the terminology matter?
	Hilary J Harris
	BMJ  1997;315:1241-1242 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

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

	Doctor Chekhov: a Study in Literature & Medicine, by John Coope
	Julian Tudor Hart
	BMJ  1997;315:1243 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Leaky Bodies and Boundaries. Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)ethics, by Margrit Shildrick
	Christopher Dowrick
	BMJ  1997;315:1243 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Case finding for the fragile X syndrome and its consequences
	Gillian Turner, Hazel Robinson, Samantha Wake, Susan Laing, Michael Partington
	BMJ  1997;315:1223-1226 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women's health : Life span: conception to adolescence
	Naomi Craft
	BMJ  1997;315:1227-1230 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:1244 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Learning from patients: A suggestion
	Kumud Chaddah
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Urine examination required
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Overheard at a BMJ editorial meeting
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical school: The Middlesex gnomes
	D W Smith
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A paper that changed my practice: A lesson in time management
	Elaine Ristinen
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: "There is nothing wrong with me"
	Michael Oliver
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cautionary tales: Blessed is he who cometh last to the case
	J J Earnshaw
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Life as an omnipraticien in France
	Iain Bamforth
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The transitionary period for access to the GMC's specialist register ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Revelling in the negative
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	More openness needed in palliative care
	Jessica Corner
	BMJ  1997;315:1242 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Health minister writes to all GPs • English health authorities get cash boost • NHS appoints "fraudbuster" • Minister admits defence medicine is a sorry mess • Antibiotics are not a miracle cure
	BMJ  1997;315:1240 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Syed Manzararuddin Ahsan
	BMJ  1997;315:1238 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Cancer in the offspring of radiation workers: a record linkage study
	G J Draper, M P Little, T Sorahan, L J Kinlen, K J Bunch, A J Conquest, G M Kendall, G W Kneale, R J Lancashire, C R Muirhead, C M O'Connor, T J Vincent
	BMJ  1997;315:1181-1188 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Birth weight of offspring and mortality in the Renfrew and Paisley study: prospective observational study
	George Davey Smith, Carole Hart, Catherine Ferrell, Mark Upton, David Hole, Victor Hawthorne, Graham Watt
	BMJ  1997;315:1189-1193 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of new antiretroviral combination therapies in HIV infected patients in Switzerland: prospective multicentre study
	Matthias Egger, Bernard Hirschel, Patrick Francioli, Philippe Sudre, Marc Wirz, Markus Flepp, Martin Rickenbach, Raffaele Malinverni, Pietro Vernazza, Manuel Battegay
	BMJ  1997;315:1194-1199 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Helicobacter pylori infection and mortality from ischaemic heart disease: negative result from a large, prospective study
	N J Wald, M R Law, J K Morris, A M Bagnall
	BMJ  1997;315:1199-1201 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What investigations and procedures do patients in hospices want? Interview based survey of patients and their nurses
	Chantal J N Meystre, Neil M J Burley, Sam Ahmedzai
	BMJ  1997;315:1202-1203 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Aseptic meningitis associated with high dose immunoglobulin: case report
	Paul Picton, Morag Chisholm
	BMJ  1997;315:1203-1204 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Dentists' agreement on treatment of asymptomatic impacted third molar teeth: interview study
	Colwyn M Jones, Kevin O'Brien, A S Blinkhorn, J P Rood
	BMJ  1997;315:1204 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Why are babies getting heavier? Comparison of Scottish births from 1980 to 1992
	S R Bonellie, G M Raab
	BMJ  1997;315:1205 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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