This week's This week in the BMJ

	Survival benefits of fibrinolysis and early aspirin in acute myocardial infarction are sustained [Full text] FREE

	Father's genes influence risk of pre-eclampsia [Full text] FREE

	Integrated case management reduces functional decline and costs in older patients [Full text] FREE

	Most patients with low back pain have not recovered after a year [Full text] FREE

	Most heavy users of sumatriptan take it inappropriately [Full text] FREE

	Cardiac rehabilitation is performed poorly in the UK [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The health effects of oilseed rape: myth or reality?
	Wolfgang Hemmer
	BMJ  1998;316:1327-1328 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endothelial cell activation
	Beverley J Hunt, Karen M Jurd
	BMJ  1998;316:1328-1329 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Models of cardiac rehabilitation
	D P de Bono
	BMJ  1998;316:1329-1330 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lithium
	James W Jefferson
	BMJ  1998;316:1330-1331 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maintaining privacy and the health of the public
	Jan P Vandenbroucke
	BMJ  1998;316:1331-1332 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Effectiveness of regional trauma systems
	P A Oakley, R M Kirby, A D Redmond, J Templeton, M J A Parr, J P Nolan, John Wright, Jon Nicholl, Janette Turner
	BMJ  1998;316:1383 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	Has the BMJ discovered an end to ageing?
	Eric S Kilpatrick
	BMJ  1998;316:1384 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Elder abuse should have been discussed in issue on ageing
	P Badrinath, Sam Ramaiah
	BMJ  1998;316:1384 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recombinant factor VIII may not abolish risk of new variant CJD from factor VIII
	J P Betts
	BMJ  1998;316:1385 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Who should be liable for funding recombinant factor VIII?
	Richard G Richards
	BMJ  1998;316:1385 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Martian view of the Hardinian taboo
	Gregory Gardner, Maurice King
	BMJ  1998;316:1386 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC must not recommend abolition of United Examining Board's examination
	F B Gibberd
	BMJ  1998;316:1386 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prevalence study of carcinoma in situ of testis in oligozoospermic men
	Ramesh Rajentheran, Joanne Kenworthy, Michael Cunnington, Aleksander Giwercman
	BMJ  1998;316:1387 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Care for the growing number of elderly people in developing countries needs to be addressed
	Debashis Dutt
	BMJ  1998;316:1387 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of dyspepsia in primary care
	Remy Boutet, Martin Buckley, Patrick Hastier, Remy Dumas, Jean-Pierre Delmont, V Stanghellini, G Barbara, B Salvioli, R Corinaldesi, C Tosetti, R D Churchill, P G Hill, G K T Holmes
	BMJ  1998;316:1388 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prion science is not cold fusion
	D R O Morrison
	BMJ  1998;316:1389 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tolerability of alendronate
	Mike Kirby, John H Young, F Mackay, R D Mann, H Taggart, R Kelly
	BMJ  1998;316:1389 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Non-steroidal anti- inflammatories should not be used after orthopaedic surgery
	D Varghese, S Kodakat, H Patel
	BMJ  1998;316:1390 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients in east London seem happy to give GPs consent for training
	Madeleine Gantley, Mark Rickets, Mike Sheldon, Yvonne Carter
	BMJ  1998;316:1391 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	High cost, low volume care in haemophilia
	Jenny Selway
	BMJ  1998;316:1391 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Pregnant women should routinely be offered HIV tests
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1998;316:1333 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:1333 [Extract] [Full text]

	EU will ban tobacco adverts from 2001
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1998;316:1333 [Extract] [Full text]

	Some US doctors would perform euthanasia
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1998;316:1333 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK experts will speed up work on cannabis
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:1333 [Extract] [Full text]

	Nerve growth factor may heal corneal ulcers
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:1333 [Extract] [Full text]

	Plant based vaccines move a step closer
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:1333 [Extract] [Full text]

	CJD no worse in Britain than elsewhere
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:1333 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Molecular assessment of cancer
	Carlos Caldas
	BMJ  1998;316:1360-1363 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Two cases of retention of wooden foreign bodies in orbit of eye
	M D Tsaloumas, T Potamitis, E E Kritzinger
	BMJ  1998;316:1363-1364 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of allergies: Venom allergy
	Pamela W Ewan
	BMJ  1998;316:1365-1368 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Outcome of low back pain in general practice: a prospective study
	Peter R Croft, Gary J Macfarlane, Ann C Papageorgiou, Elaine Thomas, Alan J Silman
	BMJ  1998;316:1356-1359 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Death by injection
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1998;316:1394 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The politics of alcoholism in India
	Vikram Patel
	BMJ  1998;316:1394 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Textbook of Travel Medicine and Health
	C J Ellis
	BMJ  1998;316:1396 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Current Issues in Cardiology: Management Strategies
	Ron J G Peters
	BMJ  1998;316:1396 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Powerful Placebo: From Ancient Priest to Modern Physician
	Vernon Oh
	BMJ  1998;316:1396 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	North of England evidence based development project: guideline for angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in primary care management of adults with symptomatic heart failure
	Martin Eccles, Nick Freemantle, James Mason
	BMJ  1998;316:1369-1375 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Coping with loss: The dying child
	Dora Black
	BMJ  1998;316:1376-1378 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health needs assessment: Epidemiological issues in health needs assessment
	Rhys Williams, John Wright
	BMJ  1998;316:1379-1382 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:1398 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Fifty years ago: Why I went to Oxford, not Cambridge
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  1998;316:1354 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Alternative definitions
	BMJ  1998;316:1354 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Ether drinking in east Prussia
	BMJ  1998;316:1354 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Do I say anything?
	Gordon Barclay
	BMJ  1998;316:1368 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fifty years ago: The new NHS: Propaganda
	BMJ  1998;316:1379 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Innovations: An unusual use of a stethoscope
	Bela Vadodaria
	BMJ  1998;316:1382 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson learnt: A view from the other side
	Kate Walters
	BMJ  1998;316:1395 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Hypopituitarism after coronary artery bypass grafting
	BMJ  1998;316:1364 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patients offered treatment for CHD need full information to make decision
	BMJ  1998;316:1391 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Returning to work after maternity leave
	Jackie Cassell
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The £12m expansion in the medical and dental education levy ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Applying psychology to training is more like using a schoolboy ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The subtleties of medicine
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Beasley • William Arthur Llewellyn Bowen • Stefan Janikiewicz • Robert John Rhys Lewis • James Gareth Longhurst • Asif Omar Qureshi • Joseph Cecil Turton Roberts • Jonathan Harold Rosenberg • Robert Henry Stewart Thompson • Charles Henry Townsend Wade • Margaret Jean Wharton • Desmond Gilbert Cromie Whyte
	I F Brockington, David Bowen, S Janikiewicz, Joan Jenkins, Karim Raza, James Rowe, John Laszlo, Dorothy W Roberts, Steve Thomas, Andy Cohen, Peter Williams, J R Lisle, P T W Cohen, Peter Mcwilliam, Robert Forster, D A J Keegan
	BMJ  1998;316:1392 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	ISIS-2: 10 year survival among patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction in randomised comparison of intravenous streptokinase, oral aspirin, both, or neither
	Colin Baigent, Rory Collins, Paul Appleby, Sarah Parish, Peter Sleight, Richard Peto
	BMJ  1998;316:1337-1343 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fetal and maternal contributions to risk of pre-eclampsia: population based study
	Rolv Terje Lie, Svein Rasmussen, Helge Brunborg, Håkon K Gjessing, Erik Lie-Nielsen, Lorentz M Irgens
	BMJ  1998;316:1343-1347 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised trial of impact of model of integrated care and case management for older people living in the community
	Roberto Bernabei, Francesco Landi, Giovanni Gambassi, Antonio Sgadari, Giuseppe Zuccala, Vincent Mor, Laurence Z Rubenstein, PierUgo Carbonin
	BMJ  1998;316:1348-1351 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Inappropriate use of sumatriptan: population based register and interview study
	David Gaist, Ioannis Tsiropoulos, Søren H Sindrup, Jesper Hallas, Birthe K Rasmussen, Jakob Kragstrup, Lars F Gram
	BMJ  1998;316:1352-1353 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is cardiothoracic ratio in healthy middle aged men an independent predictor of coronary heart disease mortality? Whitehall study 25 year follow up
	Harry Hemingway, Martin Shipley, David Christie, Michael Marmot
	BMJ  1998;316:1353-1354 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Adherence to cardiac rehabilitation guidelines: a survey of rehabilitation programmes in the United Kingdom
	Robert J P Lewin, Rosie Ingleton, Andrew J Newens, David R Thompson
	BMJ  1998;316:1354-1355 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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