This week's This week in the BMJ

	Some infants develop hypoxaemia when breathing 15% oxygen [Full text] FREE

	Folic acid and vitamin B-12 and B-6 supplements reduce blood homocysteine concentrations [Full text] FREE

	Psychosocial problems continue in homeless families after rehousing [Full text] FREE

	"Collapse" after pertussis vaccination does not recur after subsequent doses [Full text] FREE

	Phantom limb pain is not a sign of grief [Full text] FREE

	Antibiotics are unlikely to alter clinical course of acute cough [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Effects of 15% oxygen on breathing patterns and oxygenation in infants
	Anthony D Milner
	BMJ  1998;316:873-874 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Children in the mountains
	Andrew J Pollard, David R Murdoch, Peter Bärtsch
	BMJ  1998;316:874-875 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why doesn't audit work?
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;316:875-876 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Collapse reactions after whole cell pertussis vaccination
	Elizabeth Miller
	BMJ  1998;316:876-880 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Simian virus 40 and human malignancy
	S C Stenton
	BMJ  1998;316:877-880 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training in advanced trauma life support
	Andrew Price, Geoff Hughes
	BMJ  1998;316:878-880 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tackling violence
	Jonathan P Shepherd
	BMJ  1998;316:879-880 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cancer in parents: telling children
	Leanda Kroll, Jacqueline Barnes, Alison L Jones, Alan Stein
	BMJ  1998;316:880 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Fast track admission for children with sickle cell crises
	Peter Daggett, S D'Sa, N Parker, Mark A Ware, Caroline Fertleman, Angela Gallagher, Mary Rossiter
	BMJ  1998;316:934 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of sickle cell disease
	Yolande M Agble, Neville Clare, Peter Savundra, Rosemary E J Kirkman, Max Elstein, Jennifer M Knight, Sally C Davies, Lola Oni
	BMJ  1998;316:935 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of aseptic meningitis secondary to intravenous immunoglobulin
	Stephen Jolles, Helen Hill
	BMJ  1998;316:936 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coordinated neonatal screening programme for haemoglobin disorders is needed
	Allison Streetly, Krista Maxwell, Beverly Campbell
	BMJ  1998;316:937 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Future of preschool vision screening
	C Williams, R A Harrad, J M Sparrow, I Harvey, J Golding, John Lee, Gillian Adams, John Sloper, Ann McIntyre, Alistair R Fielder, G W Aylward, Jugnoo Rahi, Carol Dezateux
	BMJ  1998;316:937 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors are not pressured into giving prescriptions
	James D Ramsden, F Russell Quinn, Miles Witham
	BMJ  1998;316:938 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Article showed how not to read economic evaluations
	Jane Henderson, Stavros Petrou, Tracy Roberts
	BMJ  1998;316:939 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of lasers can cause visual impairment
	Kevin Hardy
	BMJ  1998;316:939 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Separate R&D budget is needed for monitoring effects of new drugs
	Patrick Vallance
	BMJ  1998;316:939 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Resource allocation to health authorities
	Nigel Moss, Walter Holland
	BMJ  1998;316:939 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New biomolecular assays must be tested by direct study in the developing world
	F A Drobniewski, S M Wilson
	BMJ  1998;316:940 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA cannot bring proceedings arising out of incidents in other countries
	C G Hughes
	BMJ  1998;316:940 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Smoking in public should be restricted
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1998;316:881 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:881 [Extract] [Full text]

	Secrecy still surrounds contraception in Ireland
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1998;316:881 [Extract] [Full text]

	Teen pregnancies rise in England and Wales
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:881 [Extract] [Full text]

	Purchase of Read codes heavily criticised by National Audit Office
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1998;316:881 [Extract] [Full text]

	MRC issues guidelines for clinical trials
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:881 [Extract] [Full text]

	Call for national body to ensure blood transfusion safety
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1998;316:881 [Extract] [Full text]

	Irish face flood of compensation claims
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1998;316:881 [Extract] [Full text]

	Studies reject aspirin for prevention of pre-eclampsia
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1998;316:881 [Extract] [Full text]

	Catalonia tries to tackle growing waiting lists
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  1998;316:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Turnaround in cancer trends seen in the US
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:881 [Extract] [Full text]

	Sponge baths for premature babies may harm
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:881 [Extract] [Full text]

	Anaesthesiologists in battle against nurse anaesthetists in the US
	Catherine Clabby
	BMJ  1998;316:881 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Cardiology
	Koon K Teo
	BMJ  1998;316:911-915 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Haemochromatosis as an endocrine cause of subfertility
	Michael J Tweed, Jonathan M Roland
	BMJ  1998;316:915-916 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of allergies: Perennial rhinitis
	I S Mackay, S R Durham
	BMJ  1998;316:917 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Quantitative systematic review of randomised controlled trials comparing antibiotic with placebo for acute cough in adults
	Tom Fahey, Nigel Stocks, Toby Thomas
	BMJ  1998;316:906-910 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Selling out
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1998;316:944 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Just another Sunday
	Timothy J Stannard
	BMJ  1998;316:944 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Developing Professional Judgement in Health Care
	Richard L Cruess
	BMJ  1998;316:947 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mass Listeria: The Meaning of Health Scares
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;316:947 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Ethical debate: Sex, drugs, and the invasion of privacy • Respect for privacy and the case of Mr K • Commentary: Hospital can never be home • Commentary: Silence may be the best advocacy • Commentary: Nurses should recognise patients' rights to autonomy • Commentary: Patients should have privacy as long as they do not harm themselves or others
	Julian Savulescu, Rachel Marsden, Tony Hope, Michael Saunders, Ruth Carlyle, Pippa Gough, George J Annas
	BMJ  1998;316:921-924 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Urgency and priority for cardiac surgery: a clinical judgment analysis
	F Kee, P McDonald, J R Kirwan, C C Patterson, A H G Love
	BMJ  1998;316:925-929 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Supermarket cigarettes: the brands that dare not speak their name
	Martin J Jarvis
	BMJ  1998;316:929-931 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coping with loss: Bereavement in childhood
	Dora Black
	BMJ  1998;316:931-933 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:948 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: What's a network?
	BMJ  1998;316:904 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A shaggy dog story: Caffeine and canine
	Stephanie E Baldeweg
	BMJ  1998;316:916 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An initiation: Unequal encounter
	Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
	BMJ  1998;316:920 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Mother knows best
	BMJ  1998;316:933 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Career development centres for doctors
	Steve Kisely
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Doctors who wish to train flexibly in general practice should ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Participation in active adult centred learning is a key factor ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Punitive rates for on call duties are an interesting feature ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Timing anaesthetic subspecialisation EDITOR, I wish to compliment Steven Cray ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3c [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Medical journals and the media
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	The hot air on passive smoking
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1998;316:945 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC under the cosh
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1998;316:945 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Health secretary wants to work with clinicians • Scotland needs different models of health care • BUPA sets up "doctors' scheme" • BMA spouse membership widened
	BMJ  1998;316:943 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Isidor ("Okkie") Gordon • John Simpson Noble • Harry Pandov • Stanley Rivlin • Judith Sarah Thomas (née Avery) • Clifford Grant Tulloh • Richard George ("Dickie") Vine • William Walker • Arthur Watts
	Y K Seedat, John Walton, Alan Bold, Anne Rivlin, Hugh de la Haye Davies, Ian F Wall, C I Phillips, R J Vine, John Walker, Margaret F Williams
	BMJ  1998;316:941 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Effect of exposure to 15% oxygen on breathing patterns and oxygen saturation in infants: interventional study • Commentary: Safety of participants in non-therapeutic research must be ensured • Commentary: Ethical approval of study was warranted • Authors' reply
	K J Parkins, C F Poets, L M O'Brien, V A Stebbens, D P Southall, Julian Savulescu, Vivian Hughes, K J Parkins, C F Poets, L M O'Brien, V A Stebbens, D P Southall
	BMJ  1998;316:887-894 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lowering blood homocysteine with folic acid based supplements: meta-analysis of randomised trials
	Homocysteine Lowering Trialists' Collaboration
	BMJ  1998;316:894-898 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mental health problems of homeless children and families: longitudinal study
	Panos Vostanis, Eleanor Grattan, Stuart Cumella
	BMJ  1998;316:899-902 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Rate of recurrent collapse after vaccination with whole cell pertussis vaccine: follow up study
	Patricia E Vermeer-de Bondt, Jerry Labadie, Hans C Rümke
	BMJ  1998;316:902-903 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Phantom pain, anxiety, depression, and their relation in consecutive patients with amputated limbs: case reports
	K Fisher, R S Hanspal
	BMJ  1998;316:903-904 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Influence of travel patterns on mortality from injury among teenagers in England and Wales, 1985-95: trend analysis
	Carolyn DiGuiseppi, Leah Li, Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1998;316:904-905 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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