This week's This week in the BMJ

	Cancer risk is greater in adults who had high energy intake as children [Full text] FREE

	Protein:creatinine ratio in spot morning urine samples predicts progression of renal disease [Full text] FREE

	Vagotomy may increase smokers' risk of lung cancer [Full text] FREE

	Winter increase in mortality in western Europe may be preventable [Full text] FREE

	Deprivation is main factor affecting demand out of hours [Full text] FREE

	Only half of out of hours contacts are with GPs [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Our healthier nation
	John Gabbay
	BMJ  1998;316:487-488 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse
	Harrison G Pope Jr
	BMJ  1998;316:488-489 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Achieving self sufficiency in blood across Europe
	Juhani Leikola
	BMJ  1998;316:489-490 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Imaging pulmonary embolism
	David M Hansell, Christopher D R Flower
	BMJ  1998;316:490-491 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Many NSAID users who bleed don't know when to stop
	Andrew Herxheimer
	BMJ  1998;316:492 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Outcome of pregnancy in women with insulin dependent diabetes
	David Hadden, Anthony Traub, Clara Lowy, Gunnar Lauge Nielsen, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Jørn Olsen, Per Hostrup Nielsen, Svend Sabroe, Lynne Rogerson, Karen Bancroft, I F Casson, C A Clarke, M Stanisstreet, C V Howard, O McKendrick, S Pennycook, D van Velzen, P O D Pharoah, M J Platt, S Walkinshaw
	BMJ  1998;316:550 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Measures are needed to allow elderly inpatients to vote in general elections
	V Aylett, G Cook, O J Corrado
	BMJ  1998;316:552 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Integration of hepatitis B vaccination into national immunisation programmes
	W J Edmunds, M Kane, P Van Damme, A Meheus
	BMJ  1998;316:552 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Covers of BMJ need to be strengthened
	Jarle Norstein
	BMJ  1998;316:553-554 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Polymerase chain reaction as marker of infectivity in people with hepatitis C
	Sara Thomas, Andrew Hall, Marie-Louise Newell, Gregory J Dore, John M Kaldor, Geoffrey W McCaughan
	BMJ  1998;316:553-554 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Committee said that midwives and GPs should work in partnership
	Gavin Young
	BMJ  1998;316:554 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inhaled corticosteroids in wheezing associated with viral infection in schoolchildren
	P Ehrhardt, Iolo Doull
	BMJ  1998;316:554 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Physiotherapy for soft tissue shoulder disorders
	Thomas Brockow, Annegret Franke, Karl L Resch, Liz Saunders, Geert J M G van der Heijden, Danielle A W M van der Windt, Andrea F de Winter
	BMJ  1998;316:555 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Survival is better indicator than mortality in geographic comparisons of health
	P A West
	BMJ  1998;316:556-557 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sexually transmitted infections in women who have sex with women
	Chris Ford, Kim Clarke, Gwenda Hughes, Theresa Lamagni, Neil Macdonald, Mike Catchpole
	BMJ  1998;316:556-557 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Southern Africa is good place to research role of fetal malnutrition in chronic diseases
	A R P Walker, K E Charlton
	BMJ  1998;316:557 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Occurrence of orf in humans was reported by Grant Peterkin in 1937
	C W G Peterkin
	BMJ  1998;316:558 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	FDA rules that researchers will have to disclose financial interest
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:493 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

	China recognises AIDS problem
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1998;316:493 [Abstract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:493 [Extract] [Full text]

	Drug company merger should benefit research
	George Labreque
	BMJ  1998;316:493 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Britain's new health policy recognises poverty as major cause of illness
	Jack Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:493 [Abstract] [Full text]

	St Bartholomew's saved in London plan
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:493 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Philippines passes antismoking laws
	Claire Wallerstein
	BMJ  1998;316:493 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Germany rejects ban on smoking in public
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1998;316:493 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Thousands of patients may be being detained illegally
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:493 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Cuba shows health gains despite embargo
	Cesar Chelala
	BMJ  1998;316:i [Abstract] [Full text]

	Foreign doctors face increasing racism in Ireland
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1998;316:493 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Vitamin B may reduce risk of heart disease
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:493 [Abstract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review : Faecal incontinence
	Michael A Kamm
	BMJ  1998;316:528-532 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week : Unusual case of choriocarcinoma occurring 12 months after delivery
	Anthony Todd, Edward Newlands, Mark Palazzo
	BMJ  1998;316:532-534 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of allergies: Good allergy practice
	A B Kay
	BMJ  1998;316:535-537 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Relation of out of hours activity by general practice and accident and emergency services with deprivation in Nottingham: longitudinal survey
	Robin Carlisle, Lindsay M Groom, Anthony J Avery, Daphne Boot, Stephen Earwicker
	BMJ  1998;316:520-523 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The use of out of hours health services: a cross sectional survey
	Catherine Brogan, Diane Pickard, Alastair Gray, Steve Fairman, Alison Hill
	BMJ  1998;316:524-527 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Those were the days
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1998;316:560 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Around every tumour there's a person
	Surinder Singh
	BMJ  1998;316:560-561 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Stress and peptic ulcer: life beyond helicobacter
	Susan Levenstein
	BMJ  1998;316:538-541 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What are quality of life measurements measuring?
	Matthew F Muldoon, Steven D Barger, Janine D Flory, Stephen B Manuck
	BMJ  1998;316:542-545 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Continuing medical education: Recertification and the maintenance of competence
	Philip G Bashook, John Parboosingh
	BMJ  1998;316:545-548 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics notes: Sample size in cluster randomisation
	Sally M Kerry, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  1998;316:549 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:562 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Mr Gladstone and the medical profession:
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A Lapland lavage
	Pekka Niemelä
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . .: Spurious words
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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

	BMA NOTICE: Mental health officer status: part time doctors:
	BMJ  1998;316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Working as a ship's doctor
	Shafiq Shafi
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Lessons from a cold climate
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Media dents confidence in MMR vaccine
	Norman Begg, Mary Ramsay, Joanne White, Zoltan Bozoky
	BMJ  1998;316:561 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Anthony Robert Allardice
	BMJ  1998;316:558 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Childhood energy intake and adult mortality from cancer: the boyd orr cohort study
	Stephen Frankel, David J Gunnell, Tim J Peters, Maria Maynard, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1998;316:499-504 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cross sectional longitudinal study of spot morning urine protein:creatinine ratio, 24 hour urine protein excretion rate, glomerular filtration rate, and end stage renal failure in chronic renal disease in patients without diabetes
	Piero Ruggenenti, Flavio Gaspari, Annalisa Perna, Giuseppe Remuzzi
	BMJ  1998;316:504-509 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Guidelines on anticoagulant treatment in atrial fibrillation in Great Britain: variation in content and implications for treatment
	Richard Thomson, Helen McElroy, Mark Sudlow
	BMJ  1998;316:509-513 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Winter mortality and cold stress in Yekaterinburg, Russia: interview survey
	G C Donaldson, V E Tchernjavskii, S P Ermakov, K Bucher, W R Keatinge
	BMJ  1998;316:514-518 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Relation of vagotomy to subsequent risk of lung cancer: population based cohort study
	Anders Ekbom, Göran Lundegårdh, Joseph K McLaughlin, Olof Nyrén
	BMJ  1998;316:518-519 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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