This week's This week in the BMJ

	Increased milk intake increases bone growth in adolescent girls [Full text] FREE

	Intracytoplasmic sperm injection may increase risks of birth defects [Full text] FREE

	Breath tests are better than blood tests for screening for H pylori in general practice [Full text] FREE

	Unacceptable variations exist in treatment of breast cancer [Full text] FREE

	The SF-36 can measure changes in population health [Full text] FREE

	Colour blindness causes difficulty with laboratory slides [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Intracytoplasmic sperm injection: offering hope for a term pregnancy and a healthy child?
	Allen A Mitchell
	BMJ  1997;315:1245-1246 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When lifesaving treatment in children is not the answer
	Jonathan Gillis
	BMJ  1997;315:1246-1247 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The future of preschool vision screening services in Britain
	Jugnoo S Rahi, Carol Dezateux
	BMJ  1997;315:1247-1248 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Too soon to market
	Thomas H S Dent, Simon Hawke
	BMJ  1997;315:1248-1249 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Opiate detoxification under anaesthesia
	John Strang, Jenny Bearn, Michael Gossop
	BMJ  1997;315:1249-1250 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	More widespread public debate on rationing is essential
	Iona Heath, Stephen Amiel
	BMJ  1997;315:1305 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' assessments of disability in multiple sclerosis
	Caroline E Selai, Michael R Trimble, Paul Dorman, Peter Rothwell
	BMJ  1997;315:1305 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening people with a family history of cancer
	Ruth Bell, Mark Petticrew, Peter W Rose, Marc A Suchard
	BMJ  1997;315:1306 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unsupervised surgical training
	Charles Galasko, Colin MacKay, Richard G Notley, Dermot C O'Riordan, Nick Shaper
	BMJ  1997;315:1306-1307 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Discontinuation of cervical spine immobilisation
	A M Collier, David A Lloyd
	BMJ  1997;315:1307-1308 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Resuscitation
	P D Donnelly, D Chamberlain, A J Handley, D Assar, C A Lester, Anthony J Handley
	BMJ  1997;315:1308 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study to predict which elderly patients will fall shows difficulties in deriving and validating a model
	Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1997;315:1309 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Determining precise role of ethnicity in disease will be difficult
	A R P Walker, I Segal
	BMJ  1997;315:1309 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New connections between medical knowledge and patient care
	Austin T Carty, D P Kernick, John Edwards, David J R Hutchon
	BMJ  1997;315:1309-1310 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practitioners want to know whether a treatment works and is safe in practice
	Ueli Bollag
	BMJ  1997;315:1310-1311 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pigeon fancier's lung
	A Milford Ward, P A E White, Daryl Leung
	BMJ  1997;315:1311 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Changing face of ectopic pregnancy
	Mehmet R Gazvani, Ian Aird, Simon J Wood, Angus J M Thomson, Charles R Kingsland, Martin Sowter, Cindy Farquhar
	BMJ  1997;315:1311-1312 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anaesthetists in Poland are on hunger strike
	C R Eatock, R S Sanders, C M Wait, D G Willatts, P S Laurie, B A Thornley, C A Wareham
	BMJ  1997;315:1312 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	If a wound is "neatly incised" it is not a laceration
	C M Milroy, G N Rutty
	BMJ  1997;315:1312 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	UK exempts motor racing from advertising ban
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;315:1251-1254 [Extract] [Full text]

	Canadian doctor calls for more education on abortion
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;315:1251-1254 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:1251-1254 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scientists call for whistleblowers' charter
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1997;315:1251-1254 [Extract] [Full text]

	Welsh patients guaranteed a local hospital bed
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1997;315:1251-1254 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK bans powerful laser pointers
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:1251-1254 [Extract] [Full text]

	Oregon reaffirms assisted suicide
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1997;315:1251-1254 [Extract] [Full text]

	GMC takes racial discrimination seriously
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;315:1251-1254 [Extract] [Full text]

	Methadone treatment increases in EU
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1997;315:1251-1254 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK does not have distinct drug culture
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future : Gene therapy
	Stephen J Russell
	BMJ  1997;315:1289-1292 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of palliative care: Constipation and diarrhoea
	Marie Fallon, Bill O'Neill
	BMJ  1997;315:1293-1296 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Challenges in managing dyspepsia in general practice
	Lars Agréus, Nicholas Talley
	BMJ  1997;315:1284-1288 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	The conker tree
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:1315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Infection control in hospitals—sink or swim?
	Keith F Barker
	BMJ  1997;315:1315-1316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Less of a craft, more of a science
	Paul Berry
	BMJ  1997;315:1316-1317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Multidrug resistant tuberculosis and HIV: a personal experience
	Paul Mayho
	BMJ  1997;315:1317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the Genetics of Cancer, by Joan H Fujimura • Between Bench and Bedside: Science, Healing, and Interleukin-2 in a Cancer Ward, by Ilana Löwy
	Steven Shapin
	BMJ  1997;315:1318-1319 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policy, by Richard M Titmuss • Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss—My Parents' Early Years, by Ann Oakley
	Roy Porter
	BMJ  1997;315:1319 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Ethical debate : why are doctors ambivalent about patients who misuse alcohol? (The case history and survey of doctors' attitudes)
	Ruth Dale, Roger Barton
	BMJ  1997;315:1297-1298 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors have a community responsibility
	Jonathan Shepherd
	BMJ  1997;315:1298 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The legal position
	Andrew Burrows
	BMJ  1997;315:1299 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors neglect their own alcohol problems as well as those of their patients
	Deborah Brooke
	BMJ  1997;315:1299 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Whose secret is it anyway?
	Gwen Adshead
	BMJ  1997;315:1300 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women's health : The childbearing years and after
	Naomi Craft
	BMJ  1997;315:1301-1304 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:1320 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable patient: Mental illness became real and personal
	Jonathan Hare
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Escaping the future
	P J O'Rourke
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A stitch in time
	Wayne X Shandera
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Memorable patients: The social admission and the considerate consultant
	Stuart Parker
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my practice: A unique free lunch
	B N Nayak
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
	BMJ  1997;315:1250 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Freelance writing
	Lynne Low
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: A recent industrial tribunal has confirmed the English and the ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The GMC requires doctors to act quickly to prevent risk ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The 48% of the NHS's workforce which has no professional ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	A national health index and ministerial conflicts of interest
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

SELECTION

This week's SELECTION

	Selection
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Health of the nhs workforce to be reviewed • Out of hours fund disappoints gps' leaders • Doctors advised on advertising • Gps' staff can continue to hand over medicines • Trust board members must back nhs
	BMJ  1997;315:1314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Shedden Alexander
	BMJ  1997;315:1313 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Milk intake and bone mineral acquisition in adolescent girls: randomised, controlled intervention trial
	Joanna Cadogan, Richard Eastell, Nicola Jones, Margo E Barker
	BMJ  1997;315:1255-1260 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Birth defects in infants conceived by intracytoplasmic sperm injection: an alternative interpretation
	Jennifer J Kurinczuk, Carol Bower
	BMJ  1997;315:1260-1265 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: major defects are overestimated
	M Bonduelle, P Devroey, I Liebaers, A Van Steirteghem
	BMJ  1997;315:1265-1266 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Variation in management of small invasive breast cancers detected on screening in the former South East Thames region: observational study
	S Moritz, T Bates, S M Henderson, S Humphreys, M J Michell
	BMJ  1997;315:1266-1272 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is the SF-36 a valid measure of change in population health? Results from the Whitehall II study
	Harry Hemingway, Mai Stafford, Stephen Stansfeld, Martin Shipley, Michael Marmot
	BMJ  1997;315:1273-1279 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Deficient colour vision and interpretation of histopathology slides: cross sectional study
	C J M Poole, D J Hill, J L Christie, J Birch
	BMJ  1997;315:1279-1281 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of HIV-1 infection among heterosexual men and women attending genitourinary clinics in Scotland: unlinked anonymous testing
	G Scott, D Goldberg, M Weir, S Cameron, J Peutherer, D Carrington, E Follett, G Leadbetter, A Scoular
	BMJ  1997;315:1281-1282 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Omeprazole, H2 blockers, and polyarthralgia: case-control study
	Christoph R Meier, Hershel Jick
	BMJ  1997;315:1283 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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