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	A third of children diagnosed with epilepsy before age 16 are free of seizures by age 23 [Full text] FREE

	Use of unlicensed or off label drugs is widespread in children in hospital [Full text] FREE

	Medical students with the most clinical experience do not perform best in final exams [Full text] FREE

	There is little evidence to support common interventions for shoulder disorders [Full text] FREE

	More patients with suspected myocardial infarction now receive aspirin [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Research in support of tobacco control
	Jonathan M Samet, Carl E Taylor, Karen M Becker, Derek Yach
	BMJ  1998;316:321 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: working group report]

	Measuring performance in the NHS
	Martin McKee, Trevor Sheldon
	BMJ  1998;316:322 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Linking education, research, and service in general practice
	Paul Wallace, Stewart Drage, Neil Jackson
	BMJ  1998;316:323 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Research in general practice
	Frede Olesen
	BMJ  1998;316:324 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chinese avian influenza
	E Walker, P Christie
	BMJ  1998;316:325 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trends in facial injury
	Patrick Magennis, Jonathan Shepherd, Iain Hutchison, Andrew Brown
	BMJ  1998;316:325-326 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Racism continues among doctors in Europe
	H K Khan
	BMJ  1998;316:390 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More openness needed in palliative care
	Anthony M Smith, Polly Edmonds, Andrew Davies, Andrew Thorns
	BMJ  1998;316:390 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient's sex does not affect use of thrombolysis
	Rosalind Raine, Tim Crayford, John Chambers
	BMJ  1998;316:391-392 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood insulin dependent diabetes: Oxford may not be representative
	J J Rangasami, D C Greenwood, B McSporran, P J Smail, C C Patterson, N R Waugh
	BMJ  1998;316:392 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Profiting from closure
	M J S Langman, David Price
	BMJ  1998;316:392 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Informed consent in medical research: the ethics committee's view
	E M Barker
	BMJ  1998;316:392 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Two actions are possible for doctors wanting to promote human welfare in Africa
	Guy Johnson
	BMJ  1998;316:393 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Timing of initiation of induction of labour can affect out of hours work
	R Matijevic, T A Johnston, R Maxwell
	BMJ  1998;316:393-394 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Enhancing patients' compliance
	Peter A Meredith, A E Raffle, K Morgan, Antonio Giuffrida, David J Torgerson
	BMJ  1998;316:393-394 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The anguish of teenage mental illness
	Andrew Clark, Asha Bhatt, Anne Gilchrist
	BMJ  1998;316:395 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Agencies need to work together on general practitioner staffing
	Mary Leigh
	BMJ  1998;316:395 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing pain in hospital
	E L Lloyd, Neil Simpson, Fiona Finlay
	BMJ  1998;316:395 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Corticosteroids in acute traumatic brain injury
	David W Newell, Nancy R Temkin, Ross Bullock, Sung Choi, Philip Alderson, Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1998;316:396 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consent for transfusion
	Patricia E Hewitt, Mahes de Silva, Steven H Cray, Robert A Cocks
	BMJ  1998;316:397 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Poor historians" are often found to have cognitive impairment
	Jed Rowe
	BMJ  1998;316:397 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Gro Harlem Brundtland wins WHO election
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:327 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Italy starts trials for controversial cancer treatment
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  1998;316:327 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:327 [Extract] [Full text]

	Lethal injection is medicalising execution
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1998;316:327 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors who default on loans shamed on the internet
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:327 [Extract] [Full text]

	Possible new test for detecting men at risk of prostate cancer
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;316:327 [Extract] [Full text]

	Tobacco company targeted marketing campaign at teenagers
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:327 [Extract] [Full text]

	Aspirin and warfarin best for primary prevention of heart attacks
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1998;316:327 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK peers warn of "genuine threat to academic medicine"
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;316:327 [Extract] [Full text]

	Deaths from heroin overdose are preventable
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1998;316:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Miners win historic battle for compensation
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:327 [Extract] [Full text]

	British government launches performance framework
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:327 [Extract] [Full text]

	Community care is failing elderly people
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:327 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	General practitioners' perceptions of the route to evidence based medicine: a questionnaire survey
	Alastair McColl, Helen Smith, Peter White, Jenny Field
	BMJ  1998;316:361-365 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: EBM questionnaire] FREE

	Physicians' attitudes toward evidence based obstetric practice: a questionnaire survey
	Olufemi A Olatunbosun, Lindsay Edouard, Roger A Pierson
	BMJ  1998;316:365-366 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	Mark Pallen
	BMJ  1998;316:367 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Diagnosis and treatment of Ménière's disease
	Shakeel R Saeed
	BMJ  1998;316:368-372 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of palliative care: Care in the community
	Bill O'Neill, Ann Rodway
	BMJ  1998;316:373-377 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of interventions for painful shoulder: selection criteria, outcome assessment, and efficacy
	Sally Green, Rachelle Buchbinder, Richard Glazier, Andrew Forbes
	BMJ  1998;316:354-360 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Understanding controlled trials: What is a patient preference trial?
	David Torgerson, Bonnie Sibbald
	BMJ  1998;316:360 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Everything must go
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1998;316:400 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	I lost my breast but is anyone to blame?
	Jacky Reed
	BMJ  1998;316:400-401 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	The new NHS: commentaries on the white paper: From specialist services to special groups (Challenging times for specialist services)
	Christopher Bunch
	BMJ  1998;316:378-379 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Involving clinical professionals in managing and planning services
	S T Atherton
	BMJ  1998;316:379 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meeting the needs of black and minority ethnic groups
	Caroline Free, Martin McKee
	BMJ  1998;316:380 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Staff in the NHS
	Anne Cockcroft, Siân Williams
	BMJ  1998;316:381 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How much of the relation between population mortality and unequal distribution of income is a statistical artefact?
	Hugh Gravelle
	BMJ  1998;316:382-385 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Continuing medical education: Global health, global learning
	Dave Davis
	BMJ  1998;316:385-389 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:402 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

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

	A memorable patient: How to lose credibility
	Harold Jacobs
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Medical duty with the army
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Edinburgh royal infirmary: kitchen concert
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Special correspondence: Paris
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my practice: Out of hours
	Antonio Munno
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Flexible training is possible as a senior house officer
	Nancy Redfern, Patsy Scriven
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Undermining some beliefs, confirming others
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Most complaints are resolved locally • GPs' leader advises on pilot schemes • Should health professions have one regulatory body? • Dismantling of fundholding must preserve services • Nursing homes to be open to scrutiny
	BMJ  1998;316:399 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Stanley Esmond Ellison
	BMJ  1998;316:398 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Quantitive systematic review of topically applied non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
	R A Moore, M R Tramèr, D Carroll, P J Wiffen, H J McQuay
	BMJ  1998;316:333-338 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Epilepsy in young people: 23 year follow up of the british national child development study
	Zarrina Kurtz, Pat Tookey, Euan Ross
	BMJ  1998;316:339-342 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Unlicensed and off label drug use in paediatric wards: prospective study
	Sean Turner, Alexandra Longworth, Anthony J Nunn, Imti Choonara
	BMJ  1998;316:343-345 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Clinical experience, performance in final examinations, and learning style in medical students: prospective study
	I C McManus, P Richards, B C Winder, K A Sproston
	BMJ  1998;316:345-350 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Home sampling versus conventional contact tracing for detecting Chlamydia trachomatis infection in male partners of infected women: randomised study
	Berit Andersen, Lars Østergaard, Jens K Møller, Frede Olesen
	BMJ  1998;316:350-351 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Opportunistic screening for chlamydial infection at time of cervical smear testing in general practice: prevalence study
	Pippa Oakeshott, Sally Kerry, Sima Hay, Phillip Hay
	BMJ  1998;316:351-352 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Management of suspected myocardial infarction before admission: updated audit
	N Prasad, V S Srikanthan, A Wright, F G Dunn
	BMJ  1998;316:353 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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