This week's This week in the BMJ

	Violations of code of marketing breast milk substitutes are common [Full text] FREE

	Intrauterine systems with levonorgestrel may decrease hysterectomy rate [Full text] FREE

	Baseline serum cholestanol can predict recurrent coronary events [Full text] FREE

	Helicobacter pylori infection is not related to coronary risk factors [Full text] FREE

	Structured method of critical appraisal is better than unstructured method [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Protecting breast feeding from breast milk substitutes
	Anthony Costello, Harshpal S Sachdev
	BMJ  1998;316:1103-1104 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Neurological channelopathies
	Michael R Rose
	BMJ  1998;316:1104-105 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antidepressant discontinuation reactions
	Peter Haddad, Michel Lejoyeux, Allan Young
	BMJ  1998;316:1105-1106 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors in training: wasteful and inefficient?
	Terrill K Rosborough
	BMJ  1998;316:1107-1108 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rehabilitation for older people
	John Young, Janice Robinson, Edward Dickinson
	BMJ  1998;316:1108-1109 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The BMJ's website scales up
	Tony Delamothe, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1998;316:1109-1110 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Many climate change scientists do not agree that global warming is happening
	Gregory Gardner
	BMJ  1998;316:1164 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ is second most popular journal among surgeons
	D A D Macleod
	BMJ  1998;316:1164 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing RhD haemolytic disease of the newborn
	Robert Fox, Iain R McFadyen, Vanessa J Martlew, Helen L Howard, Cyril A Clarke, Arabinda Saha, Christopher Everett, Julie Wray
	BMJ  1998;316:1164 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medline and Embase complement each other in literature searches
	David Woods, Kate Trewheellar
	BMJ  1998;316:1166 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What investigations and procedures do patients in hospices want
	Rosemary Morgan, Debra King, Kevin Stewart, Mike Bacon, Lesley Bowker, Valerie O' Donnell, Annie Mitchell, Charles Daniels, Craig Gannon, Chantal Meystre, Neil M J Burley, Sam Ahmedzai
	BMJ  1998;316:1166 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Culyer reforms will create new opportunities for research
	Clark Lewis
	BMJ  1998;316:1168 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinician scientists face difficult future
	Pankaj Sharma
	BMJ  1998;316:1168 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Early discharge after stroke
	Torgeir Bruun Wyller, Anthony Rudd, Charles Wolfe, Kate Tilling, Roger Beech
	BMJ  1998;316:1168 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Basing resource allocation formulas on standardised mortality ratios would be wrong
	Roy A Carr-Hill, James Q Jamison
	BMJ  1998;316:1169 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are part time doctors better doctors?
	Ilfra Goldberg, Ri Hornung, Anna Lipp, Cynthia Sahleen-Veasey, Lesley Morrison, Chris Manning
	BMJ  1998;316:1169 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More patients should be excluded from being tissue donors
	Martin Zeidler, Paul Brown
	BMJ  1998;316:1170 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acute excited states and sudden death
	Derrick Pounder, Steven B Karch, Boyd G Stephens
	BMJ  1998;316:1171 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Many third molar teeth are probably removed unnecessarily in Sandwell
	Victor Lopes
	BMJ  1998;316:1171 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Trial supports earlier screening for Down's syndrome
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1998;316:1111 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MPs seek more research funding
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:1111 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:1111 [Extract] [Full text]

	First pill for male impotence approved in US
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1998;316:1111 [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO reaffirms commitment to women's health
	Simon Kirwin
	BMJ  1998;316:1111 [Extract] [Full text]

	Australian government launches inquiry into healthcare system
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1998;316:1111 [Extract] [Full text]

	Surgeon blamed beginner's bad luck for cardiac deaths
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:1111 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health action zones set up
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:1111 [Extract] [Full text]

	Sackings and strikes paralyse Nicaraguan health care
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1998;316:i [Extract] [Full text]

	US eases sanctions on Cuba
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1998;316:1111 [Extract] [Full text]

	Companies still breaking milk marketing code
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:1111 [Extract] [Full text]

	The internet and the developing world
	BMJ  1998;316:1111 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: The role of nuclear medicine in clinical investigation
	E M Prvulovich, J B Bomanji
	BMJ  1998;316:1140-1146 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of allergies: Allergy and the skin. IUrticaria
	Malcolm W Greaves, Ruth A Sabroe
	BMJ  1998;316:1147 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Randomised controlled trial of the READER method of critical appraisal in general practice
	Domhnall MacAuley, Evelyn McCrum, Conor Brown
	BMJ  1998;316:1134-1137 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised comparison of cost effectiveness of guided self management and traditional treatment of asthma in Finland
	Aarne Lahdensuo, Tari Haahtela, Jaakko Herrala, Tuomo Kava, Kirsti Kiviranta, Paula Kuusisto, Markku Pekurinen, Erkki Perämäki, Seppo Saarelainen, Thore Svahn, Bengt Liljas
	BMJ  1998;316:1138-1139 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Is this your first time too?
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1998;316:1174 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Grandma's been in prison
	Janet Jenkins
	BMJ  1998;316:1174 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Health care for older people
	David Griffith
	BMJ  1998;316:1176 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The National Health Service: A Political History
	JP Bunker
	BMJ  1998;316:1176 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Personal paper: Ethics and evidence based medicine
	Ian Kerridge, Michael Lowe, David Henry
	BMJ  1998;316:1151-1153 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Framework for analysing risk and safety in clinical medicine
	Charles Vincent, Sally Taylor-Adams, Nicola Stanhope
	BMJ  1998;316:1154-1157 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing the risk of nosocomial HIV infection in British health workers working overseas: role of post-exposure prophylaxis
	Charles F Gilks, David Wilkinson
	BMJ  1998;316:1158-1160 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coping with loss: Blindness and loss of other sensory and cognitive functions
	Roy G Fitzgerald, Colin Murray Parkes
	BMJ  1998;316:1160-1163 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:1178 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: A problem often confronting editors
	BMJ  1998;316:1132 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson learnt: Common things are common
	Richard Seigne
	BMJ  1998;316:1139 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: The gentleman crook
	John Horder
	BMJ  1998;316:1150 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Puffin Island biological station
	BMJ  1998;316:1160 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: The guiding hand
	CL Davidson
	BMJ  1998;316:1163 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1998;316:1111 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	First myocardial infarction in patients of Indian subcontinent and European origin: comparison of risk factors, management, and long term outcome
	BMJ  1998;316:1137 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obituaries
	BMJ  1998;316:1137 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Communication among health professionals
	BMJ  1998;316:1137 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Obstetrics and gynaecology
	Andrew Pickersgill
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Doctors need many skills in addition to the purely clinical. ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Holders of qualifications from Irish colleges, long regarded as interchangeable ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The Career-f list hit 102 subscribers last week, and a ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Electronic, international, and ready for anything
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Medicine Now RIP
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  1998;316:1175 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Ernest Colin-Russ • Nina Lettice Dix Dulake (née Robertson) • Margaret Elizabeth Evans • Arthur Blair Griffiths • Gladys Hill • William Pierce ("Tim") Kelly • Ian Wilson Kerr • Michael McCahey • James Wallace Mann • Sidney Mottershead • Alistair Ian Macintosh Neill • Maurice O'Donnell • Michael Colin Shannon
	Lionel J Stoll, Michael Dulake, J E Crane, J L Herbert, C P Juniper, N P Woodgate-Jones, Ewen C Bramwell, John Kerr, J C Charlton, David Mann, Sidney Mottershead, M J V Bull, M Croft, David Parrott
	BMJ  1998;316:1172 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Violations of the international code of marketing of breast milk substitutes: prevalence in four countries
	Anna Taylor
	BMJ  1998;316:1117-1122 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra] FREE

	Open randomised study of use of levonorgestrel releasing intrauterine system as alternative to hysterectomy • Commentary: Promising results but wider recruitment needed
	Pekka Lähteenmäki, Maija Haukkamaa, Jukka Puolakka, Ulla Riikonen, Susanna Sainio, Janne Suvisaari, Carl Gustaf Nilsson, Andrew Prentice
	BMJ  1998;316:1122-1126 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Baseline serum cholestanol as predictor of recurrent coronary events in subgroup of Scandinavian simvastatin survival study
	Tatu A Miettinen, Helena Gylling, Timo Strandberg, Seppo Sarna
	BMJ  1998;316:1127-1130 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk factors for coronary heart disease and infection with Helicobacter pylori: meta-analysis of 18 studies
	John Danesh, Richard Peto
	BMJ  1998;316:1130-1132 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Growth hormone as a risk for premature mortality in healthy subjects: data from the Paris prospective study
	Patrick Maison, Beverley Balkau, Dominique Simon, Philippe Chanson, Gabriel Rosselin, Eveline Eschwège
	BMJ  1998;316:1132-1133 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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