This week's This week in the BMJ

	Vitamin K and leukaemia: one study finds no link, but others don't completely exclude a risk [Full text] FREE

	White consultants are three times more likely to get a distinction award than non-white ones [Full text] FREE

	Quilts are associated with sudden infant death only in infants who do not sleep prone [Full text] FREE

	Exposure to measles in utero does not lead to Crohn's disease [Full text] FREE

	Severe childhood sexual abuse is associated with adult depression [Full text] FREE

	Effective purchasing needs big powerful purchasers [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Neonatal vitamin K prophylaxis: the Gordian knot still awaits untying
	Rüdiger von Kries
	BMJ  1998;316:161-162 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The management of H pylori infection
	E A J Rauws, R W M van der Hulst
	BMJ  1998;316:162-163 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health action zones
	Bobbie Jacobson, Laurann Yen
	BMJ  1998;316:164 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Distinction awards and racial discrimination
	Peter Rubin
	BMJ  1998;316:165 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is measles infection associated with Crohn's disease?
	Jane Metcalf
	BMJ  1998;316:166 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Regulating the pharmaceutical industry
	Jim Furniss, Joe Zammit-Lucia, Neil Johnson, Peter Read, Adrian Towse, Penelope Rowlatt, P R Clear, Mendel Grobler, Sean P Lance, Alan Maynard, Karen Bloor
	BMJ  1998;316:226 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Too soon to market
	Stephen Senn, Wendy Clark, Mike Fisher, Judith Misson, David H Sochart, Hywel C Williams, Frederick Wolff
	BMJ  1998;316:228 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing late bleeding in infants with vitamin K deficiency
	Win Tin, Unni Wariyar, Edmund Hey
	BMJ  1998;316:230 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Water fluoridation and tooth decay in 5 year olds
	Tiemo Vemmer, Sheila L M Gibson, Robin G Gibson, Colwyn Jones, Geoff Taylor, David Evans, Gary Whittle, David Trotter
	BMJ  1998;316:230-231 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Litigation over organophosphates
	John Melville Williams, Daniel Brennan, Andrew Watterson, Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:231-232 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Severe persistent visual field constriction associated with vigabatrin
	G F A Harding, Rod Mackenzie, Alexander Klistorner
	BMJ  1998;316:232-233 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ECT should be treatment option in all cases of refractory depression
	Niall Gormley
	BMJ  1998;316:233 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Steroids in facial palsy due to herpes zoster
	C P Fielder, S A Raza, Jarrod J Homer, R James England, Stephen R Ell
	BMJ  1998;316:233-234 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of calcium supplementation during pregnancy on blood pressure of offspring
	Imogen F D Stephens, José Villar, José Béliz
	BMJ  1998;316:234 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	US scientist plans human cloning clinic
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:167-172 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	FDA approves genetic test for women with breast cancer
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:167-172 [Extract] [Full text]

	Warning about contraceptive device given
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1998;316:167-172 [Extract] [Full text]

	Urine may be better than milk for 'biopharming'
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;316:167-172 [Extract] [Full text]

	BMJ to act on media abuse
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1998;316:167-172 [Extract] [Full text]

	Addict died after rapid opiate detoxification
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:167-172 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK aims to deter prescription fraud
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:167-172 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK health departments to lead on food safety
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:167-172 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scottish cooperatives to be investigated
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1998;316:167-172 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scandal unfolds over blood donation in French prisons
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1998;316:i- [Extract] [Full text]

	Ban on payment to donors causes blood shortage in India
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1998;316:167-172 [Extract] [Full text]

	Medicare to be extended
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:167-172 [Extract] [Full text]

	US call for mandatory skiing helmets
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:167-172 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Aggressive behaviour in childhood
	Stephen Scott
	BMJ  1998;316:202-206 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Emergence of classic enteropathy after longstanding gluten sensitive oral ulceration
	Usha Srinivasan, Donald G Weir, Conleth Feighery, Cliona O'Farrelly
	BMJ  1998;316:206-207 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of palliative care: The carers
	Amanda Ramirez, Julia Addington-Hall, Michael Richards
	BMJ  1998;316:208-211 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Relation between sexual abuse in childhood and adult depression: case-control study
	Marese Cheasty, Anthony W Clare, Claire Collins
	BMJ  1998;316:198-201 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Understanding controlled trials: Why are randomised controlled trials important?
	Bonnie Sibbald, Martin Roland
	BMJ  1998;316:201 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Looking back on 1997
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1998;316:237 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Lassa fever: 10 years on
	David Cummins
	BMJ  1998;316:237-238 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Therapeutic Uses of Cannabis, by British Medical Association • Marijuana Myths and Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence, by Lynn Zimmer, John P Morgan
	Michael Farrell
	BMJ  1998;316:239 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When Doctors Join Unions, by Grace Budrys
	Norman Ellis
	BMJ  1998;316:239 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	The New NHS: commentaries on the white paper: From command economy to demand management (Financing the NHS)
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  1998;316:212-213 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A third way? England—yes; Scotland—maybe
	Greg Parston, Laurie McMahon
	BMJ  1998;316:213 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How will primary care groups work?
	Tom Butler, Martin Roland
	BMJ  1998;316:214 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The new health authorites: moving forward, moving back?
	Jonathan Boyce, Tara Lamont
	BMJ  1998;316:215 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS Direct: managing demand
	David Pencheon
	BMJ  1998;316:215-216 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is NHS purchasing serious? An American perspective
	Donald W Light
	BMJ  1998;316:217-220 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meta-analysis: Unresolved issues and future developments
	George Davey Smith, Matthias Egger
	BMJ  1998;316:221-225 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:240 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable patiend: Another paper lost
	Nicholas Mayne
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: The wrong glasses
	Hillary Don
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The Queen's visit to the Riviera:
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fifty years ago, The new NHS: Are we convinced?:
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A hospital admission that changed my life:
	Tiz North
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Alternative definitions:
	Ambrose Bierce
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Cookery as a branch of medical study:
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The "routine" patients : Not always what they seem
	John D C Bennett
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Comparison of blood or urine testing by patients with newly diagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes: patient survey after randomised crossover trial
	BMJ  1998;316:195 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	General management of end stage renal disease
	BMJ  1998;316:207 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests
	BMJ  1998;316:225 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Factors influencing relative weights of placenta and newborn infant
	BMJ  1998;316:234 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Epidural anaesthesia does not cause long term backache
	BMJ  1998;316:234 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	BMJ  1998;316:235 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	What hospital work is really like
	Joe West, Jill Straw
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: GP Registrars - a medico-legal guide is aimed at helping ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The Senate of Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland has ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The Liberal Democrats has issued a press release showing that ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Beware individual issues of journals
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Public health will have priority under UK presidency • The NHS has massive staff shortages, say Liberal Democrats • Juniors are concerned at new training proposals
	BMJ  1998;316:236 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Joan Chouler
	BMJ  1998;316:235 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Case-control study of childhood leukaemia and cancer in Scotland: findings for neonatal intramuscular vitamin K
	Patricia A McKinney, Edmund Juszczak, Elizabeth Findlay, Katrina Smith
	BMJ  1998;316:173-177 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Case-control studies of relation between childhood cancer and neonatal vitamin K administration
	S Jane Passmore, Gerald Draper, Pat Brownbill, Mary Kroll
	BMJ  1998;316:178-184 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ecological studies of relation between hospital policies on neonatal vitamin K administration and subsequent occurrence of childhood cancer
	S Jane Passmore, Gerald Draper, Pat Brownbill, Mary Kroll
	BMJ  1998;316:184-189 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Neonatal vitamin K administration and childhood cancer in the north of England: retrospective case-control study
	L Parker, M Cole, A W Craft, E N Hey
	BMJ  1998;316:189-193 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Racial discrimination in the allocation of distinction awards? Analysis of list of award holders by type of award, specialty and region
	Aneez Esmail, Sam Everington, Helen Doyle
	BMJ  1998;316:193-195 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between use of a quilt and sudden infant death syndrome: case-control study
	Anne-Louise Ponsonby, Terence Dwyer, David Couper, Jennifer Cochrane
	BMJ  1998;316:195-196 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Exposure to measles in utero and Crohn's disease: Danish register study
	Lise Lotte W Nielsen, Nete Munk Nielsen, Mads Melbye, Morten Sodermann, Marianne Jacobsen, Peter Aaby
	BMJ  1998;316:196-197 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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