This week's This week in the BMJ

	Early selegiline treatment in Parkinson's disease may not be advantageous [Full text] FREE

	Abdominal pain in childhood is linked with psychiatric disorders in adulthood [Full text] FREE

	Aminosidine is more effective than sodium stibogluconate in visceral leishmaniasis [Full text] FREE

	Suicide risk is increased in stroke [Full text] FREE

	Postal risk appraisal questionnaire slightly increases cholesterol testing in high risk patients [Full text] FREE

	Individual dietary advice has modest effects on cholesterol [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Routine episiotomy in developing countries
	A Maduma-Butshe, Adele Dyall, Paul Garner
	BMJ  1998;316:1179-1180 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Long term pharmacotherapy of depression
	J Guy Edwards
	BMJ  1998;316:1180-1181 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tamoxifen for the prevention of breast cancer
	Paolo Bruzzi
	BMJ  1998;316:1181-1182 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Selegiline, or the problem of early termination of clinical trials
	Monique M B Breteler
	BMJ  1998;316:1182-1183 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Monitoring randomised controlled trials
	Keith R Abrams
	BMJ  1998;316:1183-1184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Economic benefit analysis of primary prevention with pravastatin
	Paul Pharoah, Nick Freemantle, James Mason, J Jaime Caro
	BMJ  1998;316:1241 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Day case surgery has benefited patients with cataract in North Gwent
	Elizabeth Evans
	BMJ  1998;316:1242 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Article about mental health law gave practical guidance
	Teifion Davies
	BMJ  1998;316:1242 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk language and dialects
	D M Campbell, Philip Barclay, Steven Costigan, Mark Davies, Judy Murty
	BMJ  1998;316:1242 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fate of special hospitals in England has not yet been decided
	John V Basson
	BMJ  1998;316:1243 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sexual abuse is not the only childhood adversity that may lead to later depression
	Paul A Cotter
	BMJ  1998;316:1244 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training in plastic surgery is being set up in The Gambia
	Ian F Stanley, Paul Mohammed
	BMJ  1998;316:1244 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of Helicobacter pylori infection
	Robbie Foy, Jayne Parry, Ciaran Woodman, Erik A J Rauws, René W M van der Hulst
	BMJ  1998;316:1244 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients with implants should be given implant cards
	T Eke, E Rom, A A Castillo, A M Collier
	BMJ  1998;316:1245 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practice must decide on its own education system
	Jamie Bahrami
	BMJ  1998;316:1246 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation of body weight is social skill
	J S Garrow
	BMJ  1998;316:1246 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mouth care and skin care in palliative medicine
	Victoria S Lucas, Graham J Roberts, J Michael Dixon, J Hockley, Mike Pemberton, M H Thornhill, Andrew Davies
	BMJ  1998;316:1246 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Possible association between low birth weight and later heart disease needs to be investigated further
	Mai Stafford, Alan Lucas
	BMJ  1998;316:1247 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA must voice its opposition to Cuban embargo
	Paul Redgrave, John Waller
	BMJ  1998;316:1248 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Punishment of doctors must fit their crime
	John F Goodwin, Walter Somerville
	BMJ  1998;316:1248 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	US tobacco companies pull out of deal
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1998;316:1185 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Chief of England's blood service dismissed
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:1185 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:1185 [Extract] [Full text]

	Confidential tobacco documents enter public domain
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:1185 [Extract] [Full text]

	Breast cancer trial stopped early
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:1185 [Extract] [Full text]

	British researchers say that American trial was stopped prematurely
	BMJ  1998;316:1185 [Extract] [Full text]

	Private GP clinics criticised
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1998;316:1185 [Extract] [Full text]

	Fewer law firms to handle NHS negligence cases
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:1185 [Extract] [Full text]

	Private sector funds more hospitals
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:1185 [Extract] [Full text]

	Left hemisphere of the brain is underactive in dyslexic people
	Sara Abdulla
	BMJ  1998;316:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Denmark takes a lead on research ethics
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1998;316:1185 [Extract] [Full text]

	Vietnam's rush to industrialisation is affecting workers' health
	Claire Wallerstein
	BMJ  1998;316:1185 [Extract] [Full text]

	The man who dared to foretell the future
	BMJ  1998;316:1185 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Diabetes
	Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen
	BMJ  1998;316:1221-1225 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of allergies: Allergy and the skin. IIContact and atopic eczema
	P S Friedmann
	BMJ  1998;316:1226 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Screening for hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: randomised controlled trial of postal questionnaire appraising risk of coronary heart disease
	Brian Hutchison, Stephen Birch, C Edward Evans, Laurie J Goldsmith, Barbara A Markham, John Frank, Michael Paterson
	BMJ  1998;316:1208-1213 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Systematic review of dietary intervention trials to lower blood total cholesterol in free-living subjects • Commentary: Dietary change, cholesterol reduction, and the public healthwhat does meta-analysis add?
	J L Tang, J M Armitage, T Lancaster, C A Silagy, G H Fowler, H A W Neil, George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  1998;316:1213-1220 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Patients not paper?
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1998;316:1251 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Is rationing down under upside down?
	Benjamin Bridgewater
	BMJ  1998;316:1251 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Genetics of Common Diseases
	Andrew Read
	BMJ  1998;316:1253 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rationing: Talk and Action in Health Care
	Stephen Leeder
	BMJ  1998;316:1253 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Qualitative research and evidence based medicine
	Judith Green, Nicky Britten
	BMJ  1998;316:1230-1232 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	North of England evidence based guidelines development project: methods of developing guidelines for efficient drug use in primary care
	Martin Eccles, Nick Freemantle, James Mason
	BMJ  1998;316:1232-1235 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What's wrong with Bonferroni adjustments
	Thomas V Perneger
	BMJ  1998;316:1236-1238 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coping with loss: The doctor's losses: ideals versus realities
	Glin Bennet
	BMJ  1998;316:1238-1240 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:1254 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Asherisms
	BMJ  1998;316:1207 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Who's out there?
	BMJ  1998;316:1207 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fifty years ago: The new NHS: Medical students say no
	BMJ  1998;316:1213 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: A Victorian polymath
	M C Petch
	BMJ  1998;316:1221 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A rare opportunity: I saved my father's life
	M Vetpillai
	BMJ  1998;316:1235 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Old remedy effective
	Bill Yule
	BMJ  1998;316:1240 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A lasting influence: Listen to the patient
	R Macbeth Pitkin
	BMJ  1998;316:1252 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Medical homoeopathy
	Kathy Ryan
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Doctors' stated reasons for deciding upon a particular specialty have ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Whistleblowing has been important in bringing to light abuses in ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The Royal College of General Practitioners has set up a ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The morbidity of rich and poor
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA's counselling service takes over 6000 calls • Fundholders offered fast track exit • Scottish health minister ready to work with BMA • Juniors' pay changes from 1 April • Consulants' workload to be surveyed
	BMJ  1998;316:1250 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	William Louis Murray Bigby • James Aeneas Mackenzie Broadfoot • Dorothy Frances Egan • Kamel ("Kam") Hamadah • Norman Dennis Woodrow
	John Mackeith, John Broadfoot, Brian Neville, Thomas Bewley, Jonathan Woodrow
	BMJ  1998;316:1249 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Investigation by Parkinson's Disease Research Group of United Kingdom into excess mortality seen with combined levodopa and selegiline treatment in patients with early, mild Parkinson's disease: further results of randomised trial and confidential inquiry
	Y Ben-Shlomo, A Churchyard, J Head, B Hurwitz, P Overstall, J Ockelford, A J Lees
	BMJ  1998;316:1191-1196 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Why do children have chronic abdominal pain, and what happens to them when they grow up? Population based cohort study
	Matthew Hotopf, Siobhán Carr, Richard Mayou, Michael Wadsworth, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  1998;316:1196-1200 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial of aminosidine (paromomycin) v sodium stibogluconate for treating visceral leishmaniasis in North Bihar, India • Commentary: Some good news for treatment of visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar
	T K Jha, P Olliaro, C P N Thakur, T P Kanyok, B L Singhania, I J Singh, N K P Singh, S Akhoury, S Jha, Diana N J Lockwood
	BMJ  1998;316:1200-1205 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Suicide in patients with stroke: epidemiological study
	Elsebeth Nylev Stenager, Claus Madsen, Egon Stenager, Jesper Boldsen
	BMJ  1998;316:1206-1210 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of electrical cardioversion on myocardial cells in patients in intensive care
	G Neumayr, P Schratzberger, G Friedrich, H Gänzer, C J Wiedermann
	BMJ  1998;316:1207-1210 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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