This week's This week in the BMJ

	Ultrasound treatment relieves pain in carpal tunnel syndrome [Full text] FREE

	EuroQoL EQ-5D is a practical measure of population health [Full text] FREE

	Calcium channel blockers may increase risk of suicide [Full text] FREE

	Formulas for general practice prescribing budgets need to be piloted [Full text] FREE

	Better data should be available when drugs are introduced into practice [Full text] FREE

	Patients who had surgery for their peptic ulcers may still have H pylori infection [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	MMR vaccination and autism 1998
	Angus Nicoll, David Elliman, Euan Ross
	BMJ  1998;316:715-716 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hydroxychloroquine retinopathy: is screening necessary?
	Chris Blyth, Carol Lane
	BMJ  1998;316:716-717 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Blood transfusion risk: protecting against the unknown
	John Barbara, Peter Flanagan
	BMJ  1998;316:717-718 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient data, confidentiality, and electronics
	Grant Kelly
	BMJ  1998;316:718-719 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Immunosuppressive drugs after lung transplantation
	Norman Briffa, Randall E Morris
	BMJ  1998;316:719-720 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Continuing medical education: where next?
	Peter Toghill
	BMJ  1998;316:721-722 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poverty in rural areas
	Jim Cox
	BMJ  1998;316:722-730 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Three quarters of delegates drove to conference on impact of environment on health
	Barbara Hanratty, Will Patterson
	BMJ  1998;316:775 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Audit of child protection procedures in an A&E department
	P O Brennan, M J Bannon, Y H Carter, J E Porter
	BMJ  1998;316:775 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Testing of PRODIGY continues
	Ian Purves, Gary Nestor, Katherine Williams
	BMJ  1998;316:776 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Survey of French prison found that injecting drug use and tattooing occurred
	M Rotily, C Delorme, Y Obadia, N Escaffre, A Galinier-Pujol
	BMJ  1998;316:777 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children with enuresis
	Fiona C M Forbes, L Light
	BMJ  1998;316:777 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maybe general surgery no longer exists as a specialty
	Allan D Spigelman
	BMJ  1998;316:778 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is histological examination of tissue removed by GPs always necessary?
	P Cross, Richard Parslew, Lesley Rhodes, S K Suvarna, J R Shortland, J H F Smith, Adam Lowy, Keith Abrams, Diane Willis, Brian Kirby, Philip V Harrison, Robert Blewitt
	BMJ  1998;316:778 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Responsibility for decision to give transfusion remains with doctor, not patient
	Nigel G B Richardson, Patricia M Jones
	BMJ  1998;316:779 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Incidence of epilepsy is now higher in elderly people than children
	Alex D Everitt, Josemir W Sander
	BMJ  1998;316:780 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community institutional care for frail elderly people
	William R Primrose, D Mukherjee, Helen Newton, David Howard
	BMJ  1998;316:780 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rapid tranquillisation protocol had been published
	Teifion Davies, Zerrin Atakan
	BMJ  1998;316:781 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Article about Mental Health Act was misleading
	T H Leigh
	BMJ  1998;316:781 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Self help groups and professionally conducted group interventions are different
	Andrew Bottomley, Ronald Thomas
	BMJ  1998;316:781 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Unpalatable results force cleft surgeons to rethink
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Acne drug is linked to severe depression
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Link with bowel disease fuels controversy over vaccine
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Cholesterol screening is not worth while
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israel's patent law criticised
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Two arrested in US for selling organs for transplantation
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK blood products are banned
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Police surgeon service needs modernising
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Researchers create designer antibody
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;316:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Bans on smoking in public become more commonplace
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Britain
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	United States
	Norra Macready
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	China
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Australia
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Italy
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	France
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Poland
	Scott Thompson
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Canada
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	India
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1998;316:s723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hungary
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

	Germany
	Helmut L Karcher
	BMJ  1998;316:723 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: New techniques in laser therapy
	Stephen G Bown
	BMJ  1998;316:754-757 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of allergies: Pathogenic mechanisms: a rational basis for treatment
	Peter H Howarth
	BMJ  1998;316:758 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Controversies in primary care Setting prescribing budgets in general practice • Capitation based prescribing budgets will not work
	Azeem Majeed, Stephen Head
	BMJ  1998;316:748-750 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effective prescribing at practice level should be identified and rewarded
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1998;316:750 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Problem kids
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1998;316:785 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Who cares
	David Shiers
	BMJ  1998;316:785 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Life in the Balance: Emergency Medicine and the Quest for Survival
	Tim Ashworth
	BMJ  1998;316:787 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification
	Lois Quam
	BMJ  1998;316:787 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Personal paper: New drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease: lessons for healthcare policy
	David Melzer
	BMJ  1998;316:762-764 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Should measles be eradicated?
	F T Cutts, R Steinglass
	BMJ  1998;316:765-767 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The new genetics: Implications for clinical services in Britain and the United States
	Ann Louise Kinmonth, John Reinhard, Martin Bobrow, Susan Pauker
	BMJ  1998;316:767-770 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Continuing medical education: Interprofessional working and continuing medical education
	Linda A Headrick, Peter M Wilcock, Paul B Batalden
	BMJ  1998;316:771-774 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:788 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	New medical words: Motherese
	Derek Fair
	BMJ  1998;316:753 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lessons from children: Wiser beyond their years
	Olive M McKendrick
	BMJ  1998;316:774 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An unusual occurrence: "I can't turn my car to the left"
	Michael Oliver
	BMJ  1998;316:786 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Birth weight and cognitive function in young adult life: historical cohort study
	BMJ  1998;316:747 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Childhood energy intake and adult mortality from cancer: the Boyd Orr cohort study
	BMJ  1998;316:747 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Traditional ways of selecting medical staff
	Mark Cook
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Ways of learning
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA will seek GMC advice over BUPA scheme • Timetable set out for The New NHS • Government should take action over sanctions • Parliament has new group on primary care
	BMJ  1998;316:784 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Robert David Alexander ("Sandy") Coxon • William Erik Norman Cummings • Nigel John Hunter • James MacMaster Macfie • Frank McDowell • James Barr McWhinnie • David Rice • John Cornelius Blair Serjeant • Joseph Taylor • Maurice Lionel Walt • Robert James Alan Webb • John Frederick ("Jock") Wilkinson
	John Rawlinson, T M Richards, David Stevens, J M Macfie, Ian McDowell, Pamela D Macdougall, Hugh M Rice, John Mason, G G Bisley, Frank Walt, John Rimington, E Tibbetts
	BMJ  1998;316:782 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Ultrasound treatment for treating the carpal tunnel syndrome: randomised "sham" controlled trial
	Gerold R Ebenbichler, Karl L Resch, Peter Nicolakis, Günther F Wiesinger, Frank Uhl, Abdel-Halim Ghanem, Veronika Fialka
	BMJ  1998;316:731-735 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Variations in population health status: results from a United Kingdom national questionnaire survey
	Paul Kind, Paul Dolan, Claire Gudex, Alan Williams
	BMJ  1998;316:736-741 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of calcium channel blockers and risk of suicide: ecological findings confirmed in population based cohort study
	Gunnar Lindberg, Kerstin Bingefors, Jonas Ranstam, Lennart Råstam, Arne Melander
	BMJ  1998;316:741-745 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	QT and QTc dispersion are accurate predictors of cardiac death in newly diagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes: cohort study
	Abdul A O Naas, Neil C Davidson, Chris Thompson, Fraser Cummings, Simon A Ogston, Roland T Jung, Ray W Newton, Allan D Struthers
	BMJ  1998;316:745-746 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How often does surgery for peptic ulceration eradicate Helicobacter pylori? Systematic review of 36 studies
	John Danesh, Paul Appleby, Richard Peto
	BMJ  1998;316:746-747 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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