This week's This week in the BMJ

	Women who smoke have a greater risk of myocardial infarction than men who smoke [Full text] FREE

	Fall in coronary deaths in Poland may be linked to lower meat and butter intake [Full text] FREE

	Point of care testing improves process but not outcome in patients in A and E [Full text] FREE

	People need to recognise cardiac symptoms to reduce delay in receiving thrombolysis [Full text] FREE

	Death rates from heart attacks continue to be high outside hospital [Full text] FREE

	Prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease is rising in Britain [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Cardiac arrests outside hospital
	Tom Evans
	BMJ  1998;316:1031-1032 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Shifts in opportunities for doctors in training
	D M Roberton
	BMJ  1998;316:1032-1033 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Protecting the public from risk of harm
	Lorraine E Ferris
	BMJ  1998;316:1033-1034 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cannabis as medicine: time for the phoenix to rise?
	Philip Robson
	BMJ  1998;316:1034-1035 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Equity on both the scientific and the policy agendas
	Louise J Gunning-Schepers
	BMJ  1998;316:1035-1036 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unscientific practice flourishes in science
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1998;316:1036-1040 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Reserve may be just another word for cowardice
	R G Choa
	BMJ  1998;316:1089 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intravascular volume optimisation during repair of proximal femoral fracture
	KW Toh, W J Fawcett, Martyn J Parker, Donal Buggy, Gerard Fitzpatrick, Mervyn Singer, Sue Sinclair
	BMJ  1998;316:1089 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Oral contraception was not associated with venous thromboembolic disease in recent study
	R D T Farmer, J-C Todd, K D MacRae, T J Williams, M A Lewis
	BMJ  1998;316:1090 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Working in management
	Dianne M Jeffrey, Stephen Hunter, Tom Scanlon
	BMJ  1998;316:1091 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New method of expressing survival in cancer is popular
	Jayant S Vaidya, Indraneel Mittra
	BMJ  1998;316:1092 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin defends its stance over donepezil
	Joe Collier
	BMJ  1998;316:1092 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rationing health care
	Brian Davis, Steve Johnson, C Worth
	BMJ  1998;316:1092 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast feeding does not always work
	Janet Mair, Cara Flanagan, Rhona J McInnes, C M A Campbell, Richard Vautrey, Laura Jones
	BMJ  1998;316:1093 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human Fertility and Embryology Act 1990 discriminates against children
	Martin Hewitt, David Walker, Michael Sokal, Ruth Deech
	BMJ  1998;316:1094 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Refugee doctors face enormous difficulty
	A Ezsias
	BMJ  1998;316:1095 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	US sees first legal case of physician assisted suicide
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA calls for smoking to be banned in public places
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text]

	German doctors vote to prescribe heroin to misusers
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text]

	Abortion stirs up controversy in Hungary
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text]

	Rapid HIV testing urged in the US
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text]

	Canada's hepatitis C compensation package greeted with anger
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text]

	Bid to ban silicone implants in Europe
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hospital trusts in Wales halved
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text]

	Britain's new welfare system emphasises self reliance
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctor owed no duty of care to job applicant
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text]

	Florida doctor is investigated over experimental treatment
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text]

	French doctors agitated over cash "bonus"
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text]

	South Africa's drug regulatory body attacked
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text]

	Therapeutic touch fails test
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1998;316:1037 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Accident and emergency medicine
	Sarah A Stahmer
	BMJ  1998;316:1071-1074 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of allergies: Avoiding exposure to indoor allergens
	Ashley Woodcock, Adnan Custovic
	BMJ  1998;316:1075 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Patients' action during their cardiac event: qualitative study exploring differences and modifiable factors • Commentary: Grounded theory and the constant comparative method
	Annmarie Ruston, Julie Clayton, Michael Calnan, Judith Green
	BMJ  1998;316:1060-1065 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fatality outside hospital from acute coronary events in three British health districts, 1994-5
	R M Norris on behalf of the United Kingdom Heart Attack Study Collaborative Group
	BMJ  1998;316:1065-1070 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Pray silence
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1998;316:1099 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Painful decisions
	Alice Bullen
	BMJ  1998;316:1099 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Principles and Practice of Critical Care
	D W Ryan
	BMJ  1998;316:1101 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Progress of Experiment: Science and Therapeutic Reform in the United States, 1900-1990
	Robert A Crouch
	BMJ  1998;316:1101 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Misleading, unscientific, and unjust: the United Kingdom's research assessment exercise
	Gareth Williams
	BMJ  1998;316:1079-1082 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cambodiaafter the killing fields
	Vivienne Nathanson
	BMJ  1998;316:1082-1086 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coping with loss: Surgery and loss of body parts
	Peter Maguire, Colin Murray Parkes
	BMJ  1998;316:1086-1088 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:1102 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Alternative definitions
	BMJ  1998;316:1059 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The Nobel prizes
	BMJ  1998;316:1065 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Quantitative systematic review of topically applied non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
	BMJ  1998;316:1059 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of allergies
	BMJ  1998;316:1075 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Community based heart health promotion project in England
	BMJ  1998;316:1095 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Time management
	Carl Gray
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Discrimination against lesbian and gay doctors may perhaps be commoner ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The new medical education is all very well, but does ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: One of the concerns at the introduction of the specialist ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

WORDS

This week's WORDS

	Words: The accurate use of language
	M D Middleton
	BMJ  1998;316:1078 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Heart attack issue
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Death on camera
	Julia Neuberger
	BMJ  1998;316:1100 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Doctors should have more input into merit award system • Minister supports "doctor patient" campaign • Juniors criticise study leave proposals • Safeguards sought for winding up fundholding
	BMJ  1998;316:1098 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	James Seeds Naunton Briggs • Ivy Eunice Bryant (née Tanner) • Richard Henry Lionel Cohen • Neville Lionel Gilburn • Frank Ogle Graham • Rachel Charlotte Anne MacNaughtan Hawes • Keith Emile Jolles • Albert Vivian ("Bing") Stevens • Sydney Alexander Swanson • Robert Stuart ("Charles") Wells • Hugh Wilson • Colin Charles Wise
	C J C Cox, Jenny Robinson, Gillian Ford, George Godber, J R Gilburn, C M Graham, P R R Clarke, Derek Harborne, John Hodgson, R S Rowntree, T R Wilson, R J Hay, R H Bolton, Tom Austin, Peter Scott, Ralph Vaughan
	BMJ  1998;316:1096 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Smoking and risk of myocardial infarction in women and men: longitudinal population study
	Eva Prescott, Merete Hippe, Peter Schnohr, Hans Ole Hein, Jørgen Vestbo
	BMJ  1998;316:1043-1047 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ecological study of reasons for sharp decline in mortality from ischaemic heart disease in Poland since 1991
	Witold A Zatonski, Anthony J McMichael, John W Powles
	BMJ  1998;316:1047-1051 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Point of care testing: randomised controlled trial of clinical outcome
	Jason Kendall, Barnaby Reeves, Michael Clancy
	BMJ  1998;316:1052-1057 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Aspirin for prophylaxis against headache at high altitudes: randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial
	Martin Burtscher, Rudolf Likar, Werner Nachbauer, Michael Philadelphy
	BMJ  1998;316:1057-1058 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in British 26 year olds: national longitudinal birth cohort
	S M Montgomery, D L Morris, N P Thompson, J Subhani, R E Pounder, A J Wakefield
	BMJ  1998;316:1058-1059 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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