This week's This week in the BMJ

	Cognitive behaviour therapy is promising in childhood depressive disorder [Full text] FREE

	Avoidance of cows' milk is effective in infantile colic [Full text] FREE

	Conjugate Hib vaccines given in infancy without booster doses may produce long term protection [Full text] FREE

	District-wide initiatives to improve immunisation uptake don't work [Full text] FREE

	Children of single parents have more accidents, more home visits, and less immunisation [Full text] FREE

	GPs giving advice on child safety is effective [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The importance of parenting in child health
	Masud Hoghughi
	BMJ  1998;316:1545-1550 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing and treating chesty infants
	Dominic Cochran
	BMJ  1998;316:1546-1547 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Provision of intensive care for children
	Jane Ratcliffe
	BMJ  1998;316:1547-1548 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast feeding: the baby friendly initiative
	Aeesha N J Malik, William A M Cutting
	BMJ  1998;316:1548-1549 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Protecting children from armed conflict
	David Southall, Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1998;316:1549-1550 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Violence begins at home
	David Hall, Margaret A Lynch
	BMJ  1998;316:1551-1560 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pain relief in children
	Mathew Zacharias, Duncan Watts
	BMJ  1998;316:1552-1560 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Smoking should be mentioned as cause of death on death certificates
	Louise Robinson, John Spencer, Rosie Stacy, Raj Bhopal
	BMJ  1998;316:1606 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intermittent low dose prednisolone is safe in rheumatoid arthritis
	Peter C Gøtzsche, Helle Krogh Johansen
	BMJ  1998;316:1606 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Octreotide for cirrhosis after variceal bleeding
	D Patch, AK Burroughs, Robert Sutton
	BMJ  1998;316:1607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are the media manipulating the GMC?
	Alan Kerr
	BMJ  1998;316:1607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consent may be hard to obtain for incompetent patients when relatives object
	Edward P Morris
	BMJ  1998;316:1608 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Foot morbidity and exposure to chiropody
	Quentin D Sandifer, Jan Davies, Suan Goh, Brian Tom, Ian Harvey, Stephen Frankel, Ronald Marks, David Shalom, Maria Morgan
	BMJ  1998;316:1608 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practitioners' self assessment of knowledge
	Adrian Edwards, Michael Robling Matthews, Sarah Matthews, Helen Houston, Clare Wilkinson, Mike Crilly, Phil Taylor, Jocelyn Tracey
	BMJ  1998;316:1609 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing RhD haemolytic disease of the newborn
	Douglas Lee, J S Craig, B G McClure, T R J Tubman
	BMJ  1998;316:1611 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mortality and distribution of income
	Stephen Senn, Richard G Wilkinson, Graham C Sutton, Hugh Gravelle
	BMJ  1998;316:1611 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Brundtland says she means business
	Adrea Mach
	BMJ  1998;316:1553 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:1553 [Extract] [Full text]

	Links to tobacco industry influences review conclusions
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:1553 [Extract] [Full text]

	Mattress link to cot death ruled out
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1998;316:1553 [Extract] [Full text]

	Tobacco company set up network of sympathetic scientists
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:1553 [Extract] [Full text]

	Skrabanek revelled in debunking conventional thinking
	Petr Skrabanek
	BMJ  1998;316:1553 [Extract] [Full text]

	Inquiry found surgeon had high death rate for operation
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:1553 [Extract] [Full text]

	GMC approves new ethical guidance
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;316:1553 [Extract] [Full text]

	Study backs tamoxifen for young women
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1998;316:1553 [Extract] [Full text]

	Radon may account for one in 20 cases of lung cancer
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;316:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Europe approves patenting of biotechnological inventions
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1998;316:1553 [Extract] [Full text]

	Private company to sequence human genome
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1998;316:1553 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors join human chain at G8 summit
	BMJ  1998;316:1553 [Extract] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Toronto doctor convicted of assisting suicide
	BMJ  1998;316:1558 [Extract] [Full text]

	Indian doctors call for protection against patients' complaints
	BMJ  1998;316:1558 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israeli doctors call for police protection
	BMJ  1998;316:1558 [Extract] [Full text]

	All policies should be assessed for effect on health
	BMJ  1998;316:1558 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scientists debate whether sperm counts are really falling
	BMJ  1998;316:1558 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Fetal medicine
	David James
	BMJ  1998;316:1580-1583 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of allergies: Allergy in general practice
	Sue Cross, Sallie Buck, Jane Hubbard
	BMJ  1998;316:1584-1587 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Morbidity and healthcare utilisation of children in households with one adult: comparative observational study
	D M Fleming, J R H Charlton
	BMJ  1998;316:1572-1576 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A randomised controlled trial of general practitioner safety advice for families with children under 5 years
	Margaret Clamp, Denise Kendrick
	BMJ  1998;316:1576-1579 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	The other side
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1998;316:1616 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Children have feelings too
	Anne McFadyen
	BMJ  1998;316:1616 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Children and the inverse care law
	Elspeth Webb
	BMJ  1998;316:1588-1591 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Administration of medicines in school: who is responsible?
	M J Bannon, E M Ross
	BMJ  1998;316:1591-1593 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal paper: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is underdiagnosed and undertreated in Britain • Commentary: Diagnosis needs tightening
	Geoffrey D Kewley, Eileen Orford
	BMJ  1998;316:1594-1596 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Street children in Latin America
	Thomas J Scanlon, Andrew Tomkins, Margaret A Lynch, Francesca Scanlon
	BMJ  1998;316:1596-1600 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children as consumers
	Cleone Hart, Rosemary Chesson
	BMJ  1998;316:1600-1603 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Concerns about using and interpreting covert video surveillance • Commentary: Covert video surveillance is acceptablebut only with a rigorous protocol
	Colin Morley, Neela Shabde, Alan W Craft
	BMJ  1998;316:1603-1605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:1618 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Effect of doctors' ethnicity and country of qualification on prescribing patterns in single handed general practices: linkage of information collected by questionnaire and from routine data
	BMJ  1998;316:1576 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of allergies
	BMJ  1998;316:1584 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Miscellaneous
	BMJ  1998;316:1603 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Flexible training? What are the opportunities?
	Barbara Clay
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: As the article opposite makes plain, the potential demand ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Generic career services are still provided by local education ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: An MBA (Masters of Business Administration) is not currently ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Children's health starts at home
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Di Bella's miracle method
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1998;316:1617 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA council agrees structure for devolution • Doctors welcome public health green paper • NHS needs occupational health service • NHS complaints must be speeded up • BMA annual report
	BMJ  1998;316:1615 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	William Lees Price • Sir Douglas Ranger • Keith William Reynolds • Alastair Irvine Gordon Robertson • Basil Roebuck • Nigel Richard Saunders • Harold Schnieden • Edward Theodore Shennan • Alan Sopwith Simpson • Kenneth Swire Southam • James Maryons ("Jim") Stansfeld • Edmund Louis Ward • Henry Robin Watson-Baker • Anthony John White
	Jane Cochrane, L P Le Quesne, John Pendower, Leon Kaufman, John Walton, Martin Muers, John Stewart, Vivienne Schnieden, D W K Evans, Alan S Simpson, Derek Wilkins, Liz Stansfeld, A W Craft, A E Ward, C B Willey, Graham White
	BMJ  1998;316:1613 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Systematic review of efficacy of cognitive behaviour therapies in childhood and adolescent depressive disorder
	Richard Harrington, Jane Whittaker, Philip Shoebridge, Fiona Campbell
	BMJ  1998;316:1559-1563 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effectiveness of treatments for infantile colic: systematic review
	P L B J Lucassen, W J J Assendelft, J W Gubbels, J T M van Eijk, W J van Geldrop, A Knuistingh Neven
	BMJ  1998;316:1563-1569 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra] FREE

	Immunological response to conjugate vaccines in infants: follow up study
	D Goldblatt, E Miller, N McCloskey, K Cartwright
	BMJ  1998;316:1569-1570 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Initiatives to improve childhood immunisation uptake: a randomised controlled trial
	Maria Z Morgan, Meirion R Evans
	BMJ  1998;316:1570-1571 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Science commentary: Why conjugate vaccines protect longer
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;316:1571 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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