This week's This week in the BMJ

	Several strategies can help patients adhere to TB treatment [Full text] FREE

	Directly observed treatment for TB is cheaper than conventional treatment [Full text] FREE

	Review of trials confirms toxicity of mefloquine prophylaxis [Full text] FREE

	Weapons injuries remain high after conflict has ended [Full text] FREE

	Health care in prisons needs more integration with NHS [Full text] FREE

	GPs' self assessment of knowledge is inaccurate [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Humanitarian action: the duty of all doctors
	Vivienne Nathanson
	BMJ  1997;315:1389-1390 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human rights and medical education
	Jennifer Leaning
	BMJ  1997;315:1390-1391 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Blinding laser weapons
	John Marshall
	BMJ  1997;315:1392 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	South Africa: does a truth commission promote social reconciliation?
	Derek Summerfield
	BMJ  1997;315:1393 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Embargoes that endanger health
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1997;315:1393-1394 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prison health services
	Michael Levy
	BMJ  1997;315:1394-1395 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Strengthening "DOTS" through community care for tuberculosis
	S Bertel Squire, David Wilkinson
	BMJ  1997;315:1395-1396 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Progress in reducing inpatient mortality from acute myocardial infarction is slow
	C David Naylor, Jack V Tu
	BMJ  1997;315:1462 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of testicular cancer in boys with cryptorchidism
	Mark Davenport, A J Swerdlow, C D Higgins, M C Pike
	BMJ  1997;315:1462 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trial of thyroxine treatment for biochemically euthyroid patients has been approved
	E H McLaren, C J G Kelly, M A Pollock
	BMJ  1997;315:1463 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors have moral imperative to call for end to embargo on Cuba
	Delia Parnham-Cope
	BMJ  1997;315:1463 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reduction in use of temazepam is factor in deaths related to overdose
	T C Gilhooly
	BMJ  1997;315:1463-1464 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Local research ethics committees
	D Talbot, D J M Reynolds, Peter G Stone, Colin E Blogg, Richard Rawlins, Andrew Barton
	BMJ  1997;315:1464 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Total ban on landmines is unnecessary
	Eddie Chaloner, Steve Mannion
	BMJ  1997;315:1465 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating alcohol dependence
	David M Keeling, C C H Cook, A D Thomson, Andrés Herrán, José Luis Vázquez-Barquero, Peter Haddad, Christopher Daly, Mark Ashworth, Claire Gerada
	BMJ  1997;315:1465 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lactic acidosis induced by phenformin is still a public health problem in Italy
	G Enia, M Garozzo, C Zoccali
	BMJ  1997;315:1466-1467 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
	Edwina R L Williams, Jean Meadows, Jose Catal, Mark Shevlin, Viv Brunsden, Stephanie Walker, Mark Davies, Tina Ramkalawan
	BMJ  1997;315:1467 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of interventions to prevent heart disease
	David Batty, Shah Ebrahim, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:1468 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Academia: the view from below
	Sonia Saxena, Elspeth Webb
	BMJ  1997;315:1468-1469 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public health information on world wide web is hard to find
	David A Agbamu, Ewen Sim
	BMJ  1997;315:1469 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	UK adheres to Formula One exemption
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402 [Extract] [Full text]

	Yves Montand to be exhumed to test paternity
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402 [Extract] [Full text]

	British court allows terminally ill baby to die
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402 [Extract] [Full text]

	Clinton proposes patients' bill of rights
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402 [Extract] [Full text]

	JAMA wants campaign on clinical alerts
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402 [Extract] [Full text]

	British public wants more money for NHS
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402 [Extract] [Full text]

	Canada re-examines its AIDS and HIV programmes
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402 [Extract] [Full text]

	Death rate from HIV infection rises in Bombay
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402 [Extract] [Full text]

	Children living away from home need safeguards
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1997;315:i- [Extract] [Full text]

	British families win compensation over CJD deaths
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402 [Extract] [Full text]

	EU takes action over food safety
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402 [Extract] [Full text]

	SmithKline Beecham fined in Hungary
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402 [Extract] [Full text]

	Médecins Sans Frontières faces new challenges
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances :General management of end stage renal disease
	Robert Walker
	BMJ  1997;315:1429-1432 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of palliative care: HIV infection and AIDS
	Chris G A Wood, Sally Whittet, Caroline S Bradbeer
	BMJ  1997;315:1433-1436 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	The validity of general practitioners' self assessment of knowledge: cross sectional study
	Jocelyn Tracey, Bruce Arroll, Philip Barham, David Richmond
	BMJ  1997;315:1426-1428 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Downsizing at Rhinoceros General
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1997;315:1472 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Taking treatment to the people in Ethiopia
	Peter J Watkins, Val Watkins
	BMJ  1997;315:1472-1473 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ketamine and Kalashnikovs
	James Rogers
	BMJ  1997;315:1473-1474 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical care in Iraq after six years of sanctions
	Richard Garfield, Sarah Zaidi, Jean Lennock
	BMJ  1997;315:1474-1475 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security, by Jacob S Hacker
	Donald Light
	BMJ  1997;315:1476 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Hidden Epidemic: Confronting Sexually Transmitted Diseases, by Institute of Medicine
	Michael Adler
	BMJ  1997;315:1477 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	They were cheap and available: prisoners as research subjects in twentieth century America
	Allen M Hornblum
	BMJ  1997;315:1437-1441 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	To the point of farce: a martian view of the hardinian taboo—the silence that surrounds population control
	Maurice King, Charles Elliott
	BMJ  1997;315:1441-1443 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal paper Africa in the 21st century: can despair be turned to hope?
	Dorothy E Logie, Solomon R Benatar
	BMJ  1997;315:1444-1446 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pitfalls of tuberculosis programmes in prisons
	Hernán Reyes, Rudi Coninx
	BMJ  1997;315:1447-1450 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Abhorrent weapons and "superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering": from field surgery to law
	Robin M Coupland
	BMJ  1997;315:1450-1452 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antipersonnel landmines: facts, fictions, and priorities
	Chris Giannou
	BMJ  1997;315:1453-1454 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Universal declaration of human rights
	BMJ  1997;315:1455-1456 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Walk in peace: banish landmines from our globe
	Eoin O'Brien
	BMJ  1997;315:1456-1458 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sudan: eating dust and returning to dust
	Hans Veeken
	BMJ  1997;315:1458-1460 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tajikistan: no pay, no care
	Hans Veeken
	BMJ  1997;315:1460-1461 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:1478 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable patient: Effective analgesia
	David S H Bell
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Alternative definitions
	Ambrose Bierce
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Medical care in the Raj
	Brahm Dev
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Badly needed
	John Shaw Billings
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ahead of the times: The changing face of political correctness
	Jeannette Naish
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Abortion: Between Freedom and Necessity
	BMJ  1997;315:1476 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Thinking of taking a staff grade post?
	Graham Buckley
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The government has proposed changes to the transitional arrangements for ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Rose-tinted view of Canada? Editor - Stephen Larssen has done ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Human rights begin at home
	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

	Consultants' leaders repeat warning about BUPA partnership • NHS appoints charter advisers • Access to GPs' records must have patients' consent • Supporting GPs who are underperforming • WMA support for refusal to take part in torture
	BMJ  1997;315:1471 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Sir Anthony Michael ("Tony") Dawson
	BMJ  1997;315:1470 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of strategies to promote adherence to tuberculosis treatment
	Jimmy Volmink, Paul Garner
	BMJ  1997;315:1403-1406 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of cost effectiveness of directly observed treatment (DOT) and conventionally delivered treatment for tuberculosis: experience from rural South Africa
	Katherine Floyd, David Wilkinson, Charles Gilks
	BMJ  1997;315:1407-1411 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mefloquine to prevent malaria: a systematic review of trials
	Ashley Croft, Paul Garner
	BMJ  1997;315:1412-1416 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Weapons injuries during and after periods of conflict: retrospective analysis
	David R Meddings
	BMJ  1997;315:1417-1420 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The quality of health care in prison: results of a year's programme of semistructured inspections
	John Reed, Maggi Lyne
	BMJ  1997;315:1420-1424 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Household survey of locomotor disability caused by poliomyelitis and landmines in Afghanistan
	Marie-Laurence Lambert, Isabelle François, Cécile Salort, Vincent Slypen, Françoise Bertrand, René Tonglet
	BMJ  1997;315:1424-1425 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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