This week's This week in the BMJ

	Postnatal health education in Nepal has little impact [Full text] FREE

	Prednisolone can be used for short term intermittent control of rheumatoid arthritis [Full text] FREE

	Doubt remains over effectiveness of community health promotion [Full text] FREE

	Five modifiable risk factors for coronary artery disease exist in type 2 diabetes [Full text] FREE

	Mothers of small babies have high blood pressure [Full text] FREE

	Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 values predict survival in colorectal cancer [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Corticosteroids in rheumatoid arthritis
	Elaine M Dennison, Cyrus Cooper
	BMJ  1998;316:789-790 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Proteases as prognostic markers in cancer
	Hein W Verspaget
	BMJ  1998;316:790-791 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interrupting the sympathetic outflow in causalgia and reflex sympathetic dystrophy
	G D Schott
	BMJ  1998;316:792-793 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Refugee children
	Matthew Hodes
	BMJ  1998;316:793-794 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electronic preprints: what should the BMJ do?
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1998;316:794-795 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Preprint debate]

	Europe's health research: getting the right balance
	Rodolfo Saracci, Jørn Olsen, Anthony McMichael
	BMJ  1998;316:795 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Putting the rest cure to restagain
	Michael Sharpe, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  1998;316:796-800 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of compression bandages should be shown
	Peter J Franks, Christine J Moffatt
	BMJ  1998;316:860 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Claim for major advance in treatment of perforated peptic ulcer seems premature
	Ian L P Beales
	BMJ  1998;316:860 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Debate over screening for gestational diabetes
	Malcolm Griffiths, Francesca Chiaffarino, Fabio Parazzini, Angela Bortolotti, Guido Benzi, Joel Ray
	BMJ  1998;316:861 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health status instruments should satisfy full range of methodological criteria
	Stavros Petrou
	BMJ  1998;316:861 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect on mortality of switching from cigarettes to pipes or cigars
	B Ronan O'Driscoll, Martin J Jarvis, Richard Edwards, Michael Jakubovic, Jay H Lubin, Joseph F Fraumeni, Jr, N J Wald, H C Watt
	BMJ  1998;316:862 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fact that no SHO post was given five years' approval is worrying
	Keith Dave
	BMJ  1998;316:864 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BUPA and the tobacco industry
	Fenton Howell, Martin O'Rourke
	BMJ  1998;316:864 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community based programmes can help to manage tuberculosis more effectively
	Richard de Soldenhoff
	BMJ  1998;316:864 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cognitive dysfunction after concussion
	Mark W J Strachan, Brian M Frier, Ian J Deary, Thomas W Teasdale, Aase Engberg
	BMJ  1998;316:865 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Determining prognosis after acute myocardial infarction in the thrombolytic era
	Pitt Lim, Paul Shiels, George A Beller
	BMJ  1998;316:865 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Number of unexplained symptoms and diseases is decreasing
	Philippe Jehenson
	BMJ  1998;316:866 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The caring doctor is an oxymoron
	Alastair D Short, Carol Blow, John Rawlinson, H Tooby, Tony Pitcairn
	BMJ  1998;316:866 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Infarction risk found with calcium channel blocker
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

	Report fuels confusion over red meat and cancer
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

	Autologous bone marrow transplantation reduces relapse in acute myeloid leukaemia
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

	Appeal overturns link between multiple sclerosis and whiplash
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

	Melanoma vaccines show promise
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

	AIDS drug scandal in South Africa continues
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

	High death rates defended by paediatric cardiologist
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

	Celebrities influence the public
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

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

	Pheromones regulate ovulation
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

	Active management reduces bleeding in third stage of labour
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scottish hospitals fail to follow guidelines on ovarian cancer
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

	Proposed US tobacco deal is not enough
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

	Defence union will not back libel actions
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

	Legal aid to be kept for medical negligence cases
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

	Award scheme discriminates against ethnic minority doctors
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:797 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Secondary prevention in acute myocardial infarction
	Rajendra H Mehta, Kim A Eagle
	BMJ  1998;316:838-842 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	ABC of allergies: Summer hay fever
	Stephen Durham
	BMJ  1998;316:843 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Contribution of parental blood pressures to association between low birth weight and adult high blood pressure: cross sectional study
	Brian R Walker, Alex McConnachie, Joseph P Noon, David J Webb, Graham C M Watt
	BMJ  1998;316:834-837 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	To change your mind
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1998;316:870 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The seven ages of my BMJ
	William H Isbister
	BMJ  1998;316:870 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Personal paper: Risk of diabetic nephropathy in potential living related kidney donors
	D Simmons, M Searle
	BMJ  1998;316:846-848 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A difficult case: Management of metastatic melanoma during pregnancy • Commentary: Pregnancy should not have affected treatment for melanoma • Commentary: Self interest is not the sole legitimate basis for making decisions • Commentary: Management of the patient
	S R D Johnston, K Broadley, G Henson, C Fisher, M Henk, M E Gore, Robert Hammond, Charles Weijer, S R D Johnston, K Broadley, G Henson, C Fisher, M Henk, M E Gore
	BMJ  1998;316:848 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The new genetics: Genetic testing and public policy
	Neil A Holtzman, David Shapiro
	BMJ  1998;316:852-856 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coping with loss: Bereavement in adult life
	Colin Murray Parkes
	BMJ  1998;316:856-859 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:872 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Wanted: brains
	BMJ  1998;316:832 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable letter: The ethos of drug safety monitoring
	Ronald D Mann
	BMJ  1998;316:837 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Alternative definitions
	BMJ  1998;316:838 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . . : Medical Greek
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1998;316:845 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fifty years ago: The new NHS: Statement by the B.M.A. Council to every member of the medical profession
	BMJ  1998;316:856 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: The man who was too weak to work on Monday
	J W Fletcher
	BMJ  1998;316:871 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	MMR vaccination and autism 1998
	BMJ  1998;316:796 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Case-control study of risk of cerebral sinus thrombosis in oral contraceptive users who are carriers of hereditary prothrombotic conditions
	BMJ  1998;316:822 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	New approaches to selecting medical staff
	Mark Cook
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Education, loss, and diagnostic acumen
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	The profession must work to improve standards • Peers defeat government over student grants • College introduces evaluation programme • Views sought on public health function
	BMJ  1998;316:869 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Hastings Kamuzu Banda • Lambert Ulrich ("Bertie") Camm • Reginald Sydney ("Reggie" ) Murley
	John Lwanda, Peter Camm, Terence English, Rowan Nicks
	BMJ  1998;316:868 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	The effects of postnatal health education for mothers on infant care and family planning practices in Nepal: a randomised controlled trial
	Alison Bolam, Dharma S Manandhar, Purna Shrestha, Matthew Ellis, Anthony M de L Costello
	BMJ  1998;316:805-811 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Meta-analysis of short term low dose prednisolone versus placebo and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in rheumatoid arthritis
	Peter C Gøtzsche, Helle Krogh Johansen
	BMJ  1998;316:811-818 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effects of the Heartbeat Wales programme over five years on behavioural risks for cardiovascular disease: quasi-experimental comparison of results from Wales and a matched reference area
	Chris Tudor-Smith, Don Nutbeam, Laurence Moore, John Catford
	BMJ  1998;316:818-822 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk factors for coronary artery disease in non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus: United Kingdom prospective diabetes study (UKPDS: 23)
	R C Turner, H Millns, H A W Neil, I M Stratton, S E Manley, D R Matthews, R R Holman
	BMJ  1998;316:823-828 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between plasma concentrations of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 and survival in patients with colorectal cancer
	Hans Jørgen Nielsen, Helle Pappot, Ib Jarle Christensen, Nils Brünner, Ole Thorlacius-Ussing, Flemming Moesgaard, Keld Danø, Jan Grøndahl-Hansen
	BMJ  1998;316:829-830 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How much does relapse after one year erode effectiveness of smoking cessation treatments? Long term follow up of randomised trial of nicotine nasal spray
	John A Stapleton, Gay Sutherland, Michael A H Russell
	BMJ  1998;316:830-831 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Management of deliberate self poisoning in adults in four teaching hospitals: descriptive study
	Navneet Kapur, Allan House, Francis Creed, Eleanor Feldman, Trevor Friedman, Elspeth Guthrie
	BMJ  1998;316:831-832 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Survival rates from interval cancer in NHS breast screening programme
	Stuart Collins, Ciaran B J Woodman, Anthony Threlfall, Pat Prior
	BMJ  1998;316:832-833 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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