This week's This week in the BMJ

	Risks of extended oral anticoagulation for factor V Leiden mutation exceed benefits [Full text] FREE

	British diabetics show socio- economic gradients in mortality [Full text] FREE

	Whole cell vaccines for typhoid are more effective but more toxic than newer vaccines [Full text] FREE

	Reduction in psychiatric beds diminishes the advantages of community care [Full text] FREE

	Zopiclone may cause withdrawal symptoms [Full text] FREE

	Prevalence of asthma in 12-14 year olds varies little across Britain [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Partnership with patients
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1998;316:85-86 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What makes a good reviewer of manuscripts?
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1998;316:86 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dead sober or dead drunk?
	Derrick Pounder
	BMJ  1998;316:87 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minimally invasive coronary surgery: fad or future?
	Massimo A Mariani, Piet W Boonstra, Jan G Grandjean
	BMJ  1998;316:88 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing diabetes in residential and nursing homes
	Robert Tattersall, Simon Page
	BMJ  1998;316:89 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Changing the law on decision making for mentally incapacitated adults
	Elaine Gadd
	BMJ  1998;316:90 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Screening toddlers for iron deficiency anaemia in general practice
	David Stevens, R J D Moy, A Aukett, Diana Elbourne, Carol Dezateux, Rashmin C Tamhne
	BMJ  1998;316:145 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths from accidental drug poisoning in teenagers
	J M Bland, Jennifer Taylor, Ian Roberts, Emyr Benbow, Alison Cairns
	BMJ  1998;316:146 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MRI is best technique for imaging acute osteomyelitis
	Philip T McAndrew, Caroline Clark
	BMJ  1998;316:147 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cognitive behaviour therapy has role in treatment of medically unexplained physical symptoms
	Steve Williams
	BMJ  1998;316:147-148 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trial of breast cancer screening in younger women is necessary
	M D Lewars
	BMJ  1998;316:148 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Greater attempts must be made to promote positive roles for elderly people
	Shah Ebrahim, Alex Kalache
	BMJ  1998;316:148 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alliance between medical profession and consumers already exists in breast cancer
	Hazel Thornton
	BMJ  1998;316:148-149 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Practice in prescribing emergency contraceptives in A and E departments varies
	B Nathan, G Evans, J McKeever
	BMJ  1998;316:149 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dominant gene probably caused some of defects ascribed to thalidomide
	Dick Smithells
	BMJ  1998;316:149 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Allergic contact dermatitis to oestradiol patches might have been expected
	Kapila Batta, Iain S Foulds
	BMJ  1998;316:149 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Potential biases were not taken into account in study of waiting times
	Nick Black
	BMJ  1998;316:150 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Making the diagnosis of asthma
	Ian D Pavord, G K Crompton, Iolo Doull
	BMJ  1998;316:150 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Compliance is not all
	Marshall Marinker
	BMJ  1998;316:151 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assessing methodological quality of published papers
	Michael Gossop, John Marsden, Peter Daish
	BMJ  1998;316:151 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Home Office addicts index no longer exists
	David Tregoning
	BMJ  1998;316:151 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clostridium botulinum was named because of association with "sausage poisoning"
	James K Torrens
	BMJ  1998;316:151 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Questions remain as Hong Kong's avian flu crisis continues
	Joanne McManus
	BMJ  1998;316:91-94 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch whooping cough epidemic puzzles scientists
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1998;316:91-94 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctor's hunger strike fails to win funds
	Carl Kovac, Agota Hajnal
	BMJ  1998;316:91-94 [Extract] [Full text]

	German doctors face new liabilities
	Helmut L Karcher
	BMJ  1998;316:91-94 [Extract] [Full text]

	Expensive laxatives not neccessarily best
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:91-94 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors to face disciplinary action over Irish hepatitis C scandal
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1998;316:91-94 [Extract] [Full text]

	"Mr Rationing" is unafraid to speak out
	Jo Waters
	BMJ  1998;316:91-94 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Gastroenterology
	G O Barbezat
	BMJ  1998;316:125-128 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of palliative care: Communication with patients, families, and other professionals
	Ann Faulkner
	BMJ  1998;316:130-132 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Prevalence of asthma symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment in 12-14 year old children across Great Britain (international study of asthma and allergies in childhood, ISAAC UK)
	Balvinder Kaur, H Ross Anderson, Jane Austin, Michael Burr, Leigh S Harkins, David P Strachan, John O Warner
	BMJ  1998;316:118-124 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	The Devil's bargain
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1998;316:155 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Editorial ethics
	Solomon R Benatar
	BMJ  1998;316:155-156 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kenya eye safari
	David Orr, Ingrid Cox
	BMJ  1998;316:156-157 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The poster session: is the writing on the wall?
	John Paul Leach
	BMJ  1998;316:157 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	December bestsellers: BMJ Bookshop
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guide to Medical Informatics, the Internet and Telemedicine, by Enrico Coiera • Cybermedicine, by Warner Slack
	Paul Taylor
	BMJ  1998;316:158 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	For the Record, by P D Clayton, W E Boebbert, G H DeFriese, S P Howell, M L Fennell, K A Frawley, J Glaser, R A Kemmerer, C E Landwehr, T C Rindfleisch, S A Ryan, B J Sams, P Szolovitz, R G Trussel, E Ward, P M Schwartz • Privacy and Health Research, by William W Lowrance
	Ross Anderson
	BMJ  1998;316:158-159 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Arcus Quickstat, by Iain Buchan
	Nick Freemantle
	BMJ  1998;316:159 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Weighted comparison of means
	J Martin Bland, Sally M Kerry
	BMJ  1998;316:129 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Integrated care pathways
	Harry Campbell, Rona Hotchkiss, Nicola Bradshaw, Mary Porteous
	BMJ  1998;316:133-137 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Russia: sex, drugs, and AIDS and MSF
	Hans Veeken
	BMJ  1998;316:138-139 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meta-analysis Spurious precision? Meta-analysis of observational studies
	Matthias Egger, Martin Schneider, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1998;316:140-144 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:160 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	BMA Notices: Merger of BMA divisions
	E M Armstrong
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Déjà vu
	Timothy Beringer
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: A marriage examining board
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Compromises: A light anecdote
	Wai Chung Lee
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fifty years ago: The new NHS
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A patient that changed my practice: Mother knows best
	Rahul Kacker
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	First myocardial infarction in patients of Indian and European origin: comparison of risk factors, management, and long term outcome
	BMJ  1998;316:116 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Household survey of locomotor disability caused by poliomyelitis and landmines in Afghanistan
	BMJ  1998;316:116 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Systematic overview of co-proxamol to assess analgesic effects of addition of dextropropoxyphene to paracetamol
	BMJ  1998;316:116 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Paediatric anaesthesia
	Steven Cray
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The national trainees committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The BMA's Junior Doctors Committee has taken exception to the ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: In Anaesthesia under examination the Audit Commission says that better ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Beyond informing patients to involving them
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Minister announces 94 primary care pilots • Hard pressed authorities given extra cash • MPs criticise supplies authority • About 20% of junior posts do not comply with deal
	BMJ  1998;316:154 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	William ("Bill") Alcock
	BMJ  1998;316:152 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Decision analysis model of prolonged oral anticoagulant treatment in factor V Leiden carriers with first episode of deep vein thrombosis
	François P Sarasin, Henri Bounameaux
	BMJ  1998;316:95-99 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Socioeconomic gradient in morbidity and mortality in people with diabetes: cohort study findings from the Whitehall study and the WHO multinational study of vascular disease in diabetes
	Nish Chaturvedi, John Jarrett, Martin J Shipley, John H Fuller
	BMJ  1998;316:100-105 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: problems in Finnish or British data—or a true difference?
	Seppo V P Koskinen
	BMJ  1998;316:105-106 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial of two models of care for discharged psychiatric patients
	Peter Tyrer, Kathryn Evans, Naresh Gandhi, Alwyn Lamont, Phil Harrison-Read, Tony Johnson
	BMJ  1998;316:106-109 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Typhoid fever vaccines: a meta-analysis of studies on efficacy and toxicity
	Eric A Engels, Matthew E Falagas, Joseph Lau, Michael L Bennish
	BMJ  1998;316:110-116 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Physical dependence on zopiclone: case reports
	Ian R Jones, Gary Sullivan
	BMJ  1998;316:117 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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