This week's This week in the BMJ

	Effect of lifetime socioeconomic position on mortality varies with cause of death [Full text] FREE

	Socioeconomic inequalities for specific diseases show north-south gradient in Europe [Full text] FREE

	Untreated visual impairment is common in elderly people [Full text] FREE

	Cost effectiveness should count in choosing a strategy for eradicating Helicobacter pylori [Full text] FREE

	Clinical information system based on the individual patient [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Professional and practice development plans for primary care teams
	Glyn Jones Elwyn
	BMJ  1998;316:1619-1620 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The health of adult Europe
	Stuart Donnan
	BMJ  1998;316:1620-1621 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Applying research evidence to individual patients
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  1998;316:1621-1622 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Renegotiating medicine's contract with patients
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1998;316:1622-1623 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical ethics and law as a core subject in medical education
	Len Doyal, Raanan Gillon
	BMJ  1998;316:1623-1624 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Data support extended use of levonorgestrel intrauterine systems
	Diana Mansour, John Guillebaud
	BMJ  1998;316:1671 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are sex and death related?
	David Batty, Agnes Ayton, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1998;316:1671 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cancer in the offspring of radiation workers
	Freda Alexander, Cris Busby, Molly Scott Cato, Alice Stewart, G J Draper, M P Little, T Sorahan, L J Kinlen
	BMJ  1998;316:1672 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cognitive impairment and survival in very elderly people
	Pete Forster, Emma Heckford, Claire Huckler, Nicole Keong, Ahmed Al-Khabaz, Renzo Rozzini, Simone Franzoni, Giovanni B Frisoni, Marco Trabucchi, J Gussekloo, E J Remarque, A M Lagaay, D L Knook, R G J Westendorp, T J Heeren
	BMJ  1998;316:1673 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical students may not like statistics, but as doctors they will
	J Martin Bland
	BMJ  1998;316:1674 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of moderate alcohol consumption on Lp(a) lipoprotein concentrations
	Peter C Sharpe, Ian S Young, Alun E Evans, Leon A Simons, Judith Simons, Shizukiyo Ishikawa, Tadao Goto, Naoki Nago
	BMJ  1998;316:1675 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Information "Nuggets" are not easy to find quickly
	Nimmi Naidoo
	BMJ  1998;316:1676 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interventions to treat shoulder pain
	Bela Szebenyi, Paul Dieppe, Andrew Bamji, Rachelle Buchbinder, Sally Green, Andrew Forbes, Richard Glazier
	BMJ  1998;316:1676 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Suspension of consultant raises serious issues
	Gerald Graham, Tony Robinson
	BMJ  1998;316:1677 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Israel bans import of sildenafil citrate after six deaths in the US
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1998;316:1625 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Sildenafil citrate contraindicated with organic nitrates
	BMJ  1998;316:1625 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:1625 [Extract] [Full text]

	Prostate cancer screening reduces deaths
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1998;316:1625 [Extract] [Full text]

	Spanish anaesthetist infects patients with hepatitis C
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  1998;316:1625 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK waiting lists grow longer
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:1625 [Extract] [Full text]

	GPs may be balloted over NHS reforms
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;316:1625 [Extract] [Full text]

	MRC cleared of unethical research practices
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1998;316:1625 [Extract] [Full text]

	Gene variation linked to cervical cancer
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1998;316:1625 [Extract] [Full text]

	Families win right to compensation over CJD
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:i [Extract] [Full text]

	British nurse loses passive smoking case
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:1625 [Extract] [Full text]

	New York's junior doctors work illegally long hours
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:1625 [Extract] [Full text]

	London to have single NHS region
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:1625 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hospital used to house healthy children
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1998;316:1625 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	The anatomy of a clinical information system
	Keith Simpson, Mike Gordon
	BMJ  1998;316:1655-1658 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	BMJ  1998;316:1659 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Evidence based case report: Twenty year cough in a non-smoker
	Paul Glasziou
	BMJ  1998;316:1660-1661 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Scurvy in patients with cancer
	Olivier Fain, Emmanuel Mathieu, Michel Thomas
	BMJ  1998;316:1661-1662 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Varying efficacy of Helicobacter pylori eradication regimens: cost effectiveness study using a decision analysis model • Commentary: Helicobacter pylori eradication in primary care
	A E Duggan, K Tolley, C J Hawkey, R F A Logan, Brendan C Delaney, F D Richard Hobbs
	BMJ  1998;316:1648-1654 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	What kind of memory?
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1998;316:1681 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Papa, Nicole, and the guideline industry
	Paul Hodgkin
	BMJ  1998;316:1681 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Dispelling the Myths About Addiction: Strategies to Increase Understanding and Strengthen Research • Care of Drug Users in General Practice: a Harm Minimisation Approach
	Roy Robertson
	BMJ  1998;316:1683 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Shell-Shock: A History of the Changing Attitude to War Neurosis
	Richard Earlam
	BMJ  1998;316:1683 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Economic evaluation in health: a thumb nail sketch
	D P Kernick
	BMJ  1998;316:1663-1665 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing demand: Matching demand and supply fairly and efficiently
	David Pencheon
	BMJ  1998;316:1665-1667 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health needs assessment: Whose priorities? Listening to users and the public
	Joanne Jordan, Therese Dowswell, Stephen Harrison, Richard J Lilford, Maggie Mort
	BMJ  1998;316:1668-1670 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:1684 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Alternative definitions
	BMJ  1998;316:1648 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Memorable patients: Doing as they are told
	Otto Fleming
	BMJ  1998;316:1658 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fifty years ago: The new NHS: Safeguards secured
	BMJ  1998;316:1661 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Fear of tuberculosis
	Bill Yule
	BMJ  1998;316:1682 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Evaluation of reagent strips in detecting asymptomatic bacteriuria in early pregnancy: prospective case series
	BMJ  1998;316:1642 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Punishment of doctors must fit their crime
	BMJ  1998;316:1677 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Working in Spain
	Elaine Duncan
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Dropout rates from medical schools vary from school to ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The regulations that bring the EU Working Time Directive ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: GP registrars should be exposed to between 1 and ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Betraying clinicians?
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GMC starts consultation on SHO training • Improvements agreed in GP retainer scheme • New moves on mental health • BMA council supports Scottish action on PFI hospital • BMA council election 1998-2000
	BMJ  1998;316:1680 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Sir Francis Avery Jones • Arthur Milton Bowler • Arthur Moreland Brown • Richard Morris Butler • Alistair Hugh Cameron • Peter Bruno D'Souza • James William Fawcett • Lionel Travers ("Leo") Martin • Elspeth Marguerita Whittaker Stokes • Verna Wright • Philip Metcalfe Yeoman
	J H Baron, Jean M Bowler, Graham M Brown, W M Dixon, R H R White, J R Mann, David D'Souza, Ithel Francis, Joy Edelman, Donald Woodgate, H P L Martin, D Stokes, M Anne Chamberlain, David Dunkerley
	BMJ  1998;316:1678 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Adverse socioeconomic conditions in childhood and cause specific adult mortality: prospective observational study
	George Davey Smith, Carole Hart, David Blane, David Hole
	BMJ  1998;316:1631-1635 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Occupational class and cause specific mortality in middle aged men in 11 European countries: comparison of population based studies • Commentary: Unequal inequalities across Europe
	Anton E Kunst, Feikje Groenhof, Johan P Mackenbach, EU Working Group on Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health, David A Leon
	BMJ  1998;316:1636-1642 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of serious eye disease and visual impairment in a north London population: population based, cross sectional study
	A Reidy, D C Minassian, G Vafidis, J Joseph, S Farrow, J Wu, P Desai, A Connolly
	BMJ  1998;316:1643-1646 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra] FREE

	Following up outpatients by telephone: pilot study
	Badal Pal
	BMJ  1998;316:1647-1650 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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