This week's This week in the BMJ

	Some small for gestational age fetuses have higher risk of late fetal death than others [Full text] FREE

	Case upheld for four layer bandaging for leg ulcers [Full text] FREE

	Women may not be receiving most effective pacemakers [Full text] FREE

	Rates of depression among men in Scotland have risen since 1980 [Full text] FREE

	Danish out of hours service is working well [Full text] FREE

	More diabetics are being reviewed in general practice but without a proportionate decline in secondary care [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Calcium channel blockers
	Alice V Stanton
	BMJ  1998;316:1471-1473 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Toys and games: poorly recognised hearing hazards?
	Linda M Luxon
	BMJ  1998;316:1473-1480 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis
	Fiona Boag, Frank Kelly
	BMJ  1998;316:1474-1480 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	D Robin Taylor
	BMJ  1998;316:1475-1480 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breaking down language barriers
	David Jones, Paramjit Gill
	BMJ  1998;316:1476-1480 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Majority view of climate scientists is that global warming is indeed happening
	Andrew Haines, Anthony J McMichael, Sari Kovats, Mark Saunders
	BMJ  1998;316:1530 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PACT data for dispensed drugs linked to NHS numbers are available now
	T M MacDonald, J Parkinson, P G Davey, A D Morris, D G McDevitt, M M McGilchrist
	BMJ  1998;316:1530 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	There is no such thing as ageing
	D E B Powell, Richard Doll, Richard Peto
	BMJ  1998;316:1531 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Can students learn comparable clinical skills in general practice and hospital settings?
	Sarah Hartley, Anita Berlin, Neil Tolley, Jonathan Hobson, David M Reid, Elizabeth Murray, Michael Modell, Brian Jolly
	BMJ  1998;316:1531 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Compression ultrasonography for diagnosing deep vein thrombosis
	D E FitzGerald, A M O'Shaughnessy, Jonathan H Gillard, Nicholas J Screaton, Laurence H Berman, John H Reid, David J Hardwick, Stephen Wolstenhulme, Simon Richards, Michael Weston, Paul L Harper, Lorna Watson, Roy Bannon, Henri Bounameaux, Arnaud Perrier, Anthonie W A Lensing, Paolo Prandoni
	BMJ  1998;316:1532 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Attitudes to questioning in clinical practice may be changed
	Mary C J Rudolf, Karen Jones
	BMJ  1998;316:1535 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Time to publication of studies was not affected by whether results were positive
	Michael L Callaham, Ellen Weber, Gary Young, Robert Wears, Chris Barton
	BMJ  1998;316:1536 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ has largely met its target for publication time for long papers
	P Badrinath
	BMJ  1998;316:1536 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Passive smoking case reaches High Court
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:1477 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Global life expectancy rises
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:1477 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:1477 [Extract] [Full text] [extra]

	Self regulation of doctors must work locally
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;316:1477 [Extract] [Full text]

	British public wants free health care, whatever the cost
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:1477 [Extract] [Full text]

	Britain launches pilot screening programme for chlamydia
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1998;316:1477 [Extract] [Full text]

	Women lose legal battle over radiotherapy
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:1477 [Extract] [Full text]

	Trusts face damages after forcing women to have caesareans
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:1477 [Extract] [Full text]

	Parasites likely to have plagued Louis XIV
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1998;316:1477 [Extract] [Full text]

	GPs have continuing concern over primary care groups
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;316:i [Extract] [Full text]

	CF gene may protect against typhoid fever
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:1477 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK government backs research on cannabis
	Jack Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:1477 [Extract] [Full text]

	Researchers discover novel way to get proteins into tumours
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;316:1477 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scientists uncover how anthrax works
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:1477 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Helicobacter pylori and gastric diseases
	Martin J Blaser
	BMJ  1998;316:1507-1510 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of allergies: Adverse reactions to drugs
	Daniel Vervloet, Stephen Durham
	BMJ  1998;316:1511-1514 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Out of hours service in Denmark: evaluation five years after reform
	Morten Bondo Christensen, Frede Olesen
	BMJ  1998;316:1502-1505 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Shifting of care for diabetes from secondary to primary care, 1990-5: review of general practices
	Elizabeth C Goyder, Paul G McNally, Michael Drucquer, Nicola Spiers, Johannes L Botha
	BMJ  1998;316:1505-1506 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Join the club
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1998;316:1541 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Outpatients: a ringside view
	Robin Ward
	BMJ  1998;316:1541 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Non-random Reflections on Health Services Research
	Michael Clarke
	BMJ  1998;316:1543 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Physician-assisted suicide
	Johannes JM van Delden
	BMJ  1998;316:1543 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Ethical debate: Too drunk to care? • Ethanol, emergencies, and ethical dilemmas • Commentary: Guidelines could never be developed • Commentary: Balance the risk as best you can • Commentary: Doctors can never have a moral holiday
	David M Cressey, Henk Rigter, Inez de Beaufort, Gareth Rees, Pat Walsh
	BMJ  1998;316:1515-1517 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Adjuvant tamoxifen: how long before we know how long?
	Daniel Rea, Christopher Poole, Richard Gray
	BMJ  1998;316:1518-1519 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ data
	BMJ  1998;316:1519 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coping with loss: Facing loss
	Colin Murray Parkes
	BMJ  1998;316:1521-1524 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health needs assessment: Assessment in primary care: practical issues and possible approaches
	John R Wilkinson, Scott A Murray
	BMJ  1998;316:1524-1528 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Economics notes: Perspectives in economic evaluation
	Sarah Byford, James Raftery
	BMJ  1998;316:1529-1530 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:1544 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Fifty years ago: The new NHS: Yes and no
	BMJ  1998;316:1500 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Deathbed scenes
	BMJ  1998;316:1500 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Psychiatric problem dismissed
	Hillel Davis
	BMJ  1998;316:1506 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Piano player, pathologist, postmortem, postscript
	James Hendry
	BMJ  1998;316:1510 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The depopulation of France
	BMJ  1998;316:1529 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Working in the Netherlands
	William Sellar
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Doctors who are sick are a special group for ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Consumerism may be an empty philosophy, but it has ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The rise of the GP co-op had left out ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Helicobacter, audit, and ageing
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	What makes a healthy website?
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1998;316:1542 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Royal college proposes solutions for medical SRs • Changes in NHS will be "historic" • BMA calls for rethink on no fault compensation • Medical students face average overdraft of £1000
	BMJ  1998;316:1540 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Patrick ("Paddy") Francis Ahern •    William Maurice Ankers • Arthur Eliot Barr • Hugh Kenneth Childs • Harry Lloyd Fairbridge Currey • James Matheson Fleming • Elizabeth Rothwell ("Liz") Germany • George Lees Gibson • John Ludovic ("Jack") Grant • Andrew Grierson • Brian Edyvean Heard • Nicholas Barrick Ingledew • Hamid Ali Khan • Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Mary Lenman • Alexander Macdonald • Henry Martyn ("Harry") McGladdery • John Miller Hunter Mitchell • Mohammad Nadeem • Hugh Noel O'Donoghue • David Lewis Parry • Richard Edgar Alfred ("Dickie") Price
	Jennie Treleaven, Jon Danks, Gordon Brill, Harry Rooke, Adel Resouly, John A Mathews, Robert Fleming, Elizabeth R Germany, R N Peel, John Fletcher, M E Blacklee, Bryan Corrin, Nigel Tai, William Mitchell, Nazneen M Quadri, Carolyn Robertshaw, Wayne Jaffe, K B Fraser, J A McGladdery, A P Davidson, J Berth-Jones, A Ilchyshyn, Michael O'Riordan, Martyn Mackrill, Richard W H Price
	BMJ  1998;316:1537 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Differences in late fetal death rates in association with determinants of small for gestational age fetuses: population based cohort study
	Sven Cnattingius, Bengt Haglund, Michael S Kramer
	BMJ  1998;316:1483-1487 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost effectiveness of community leg ulcer clinics: randomised controlled trial
	C Jane Morrell, Stephen J Walters, Simon Dixon, Karen A Collins, Louise M L Brereton, Jean Peters, Charles G D Brooker
	BMJ  1998;316:1487-1491 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sex differences in selection of pacemakers: retrospective observational study
	Reinhart Schüppel, Gisela Büchele, Lothar Batz, Wolfgang Koenig
	BMJ  1998;316:1492-1495 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Science commentary: Pacemakers
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;316:1492 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Rapid resolution of symptoms and signs of intracerebral haemorrhage: case reports
	Saman B Gunatilake
	BMJ  1998;316:1495-1496 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Admission for depression among men in Scotland, 1980-95: retrospective study
	Polash M Shajahan, Jonathan T O Cavanagh
	BMJ  1998;316:1496-1497 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Changing proximal femoral geometry in north east Scotland: an osteometric study
	R A Duthie, M F Bruce, J D Hutchison
	BMJ  1998;316:1498-1500 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Management of hyperlipidaemia after coronary revascularisation: follow up study
	Etienne Delacrétaz, Petros G Michalopoulos, Juan Ruiz, Hugo Saner, Bernhard Meier
	BMJ  1998;316:1499-1500 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Detection of a variant protein in hair: new diagnostic method in Portuguese type familial amyloid polyneuropathy • Commentary: A new hair test for rare antigens
	Yukio Ando, Intissar Anan, Ole Suhr, Gösta Holmgren, Paulo M P Costa, R S Pereira
	BMJ  1998;316:1500-1501 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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