This week's This week in the BMJ

	Mortality is high in treated hypertension [Full text] FREE

	Public and professionals differ in who deserves donor livers [Full text] FREE

	Should patients with anorexia nervosa receive palliative care? [Full text] FREE

	Intrafamilial violence may turn sexually abused boys into abusers [Full text] FREE

	Screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy is feasible in general practice [Full text] FREE

	Sudden infant deaths may be related to retroposition of the maxilla [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Fears over radiotherapy fractionation regimens in breast cancer
	Alan Rodger
	BMJ  1998;317:155-156 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A national target for reducing suicide
	Keith Hawton
	BMJ  1998;317:156-157 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Capital charges: a tax on the NHS
	Allyson M Pollock, Declan Gaffney
	BMJ  1998;317:157-158 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vaccination and its adverse effects: real or perceived
	Tom Jefferson
	BMJ  1998;317:159-160 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chiropractic for low back pain
	E Ernst, W J J Assendelft
	BMJ  1998;317:160 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Unlicensed and off label drug use for paediatric patients
	Richard M Martin, Lynda V Wilton, Ronald D Mann, Paul Steventon, Sean R Hilton, Sharon Conroy
	BMJ  1998;317:204 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood vaccination should have been included in asthma study
	Robert Blomfield
	BMJ  1998;317:205 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interaction between warfarin and oral terbinafine
	Jacques Gantmacher, Jacqueline Mills-Bomford, Tony Williams, J A Warwick, R J M Corrall, M F Clarke, H S Boardman
	BMJ  1998;317:205 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study is needed of visual field defects associated with any long term antiepileptic drug
	G Prasad Rao, Frank Ah Fat, Graham Kyle, John Paul Leach, David W Chadwick, Mark Batterbury
	BMJ  1998;317:206 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Postmortem urinary alcohol is unreliable in diabetes
	William Alexander
	BMJ  1998;317:206 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Test meta-analyses for stability
	C David Naylor, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1998;317:206 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Providing primary care in accident and emergency departments
	Chris A J McLauchlan, A Harris, Jonathan Marrow, John Heyworth, Conor Egleston, B Essex
	BMJ  1998;317:207 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Disclosure of child sexual abuse
	B Harrington, P Cullen
	BMJ  1998;317:208 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Most practices would use open access spirometry in hospitals
	L J Dowson, A Yeung, M B Allen
	BMJ  1998;317:209 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast lumps in young women
	J B Walls, J M Dixon, B Venizelos, L Matheson
	BMJ  1998;317:209 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and patients must decide together whether anticoagulation is appropriate
	A J Howitt
	BMJ  1998;317:210 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mechanisms of fetal origins of health problems in adults need to be investigated
	Jonathan Seckl
	BMJ  1998;317:210 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of capitation formulas for primary care groups could result in chaos
	Yvonne Baker
	BMJ  1998;317:210 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors' perceptions of patients' wishes influence decision to prescribe drugs
	Wolfgang Himmel, Michael M Kochen
	BMJ  1998;317:211 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Experiments in continuing medical education merit wider reporting
	Suzanne Savage, Richard Savage
	BMJ  1998;317:211 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors should have ready access to sites about rare diseases on world wide web
	Martin Briggs, Jennifer Bennett
	BMJ  1998;317:211 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Parents do not see GPs as source of help for emotionally disturbed schoolchildren
	Stephen Turner
	BMJ  1998;317:212 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing road traffic
	G E Gamble, S Basu, A Porter
	BMJ  1998;317:212 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Parrish's chemical food never contained arsenic
	Caroline M Reed
	BMJ  1998;317:212 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Dobson stops reorganisation of services at Trafford hospital
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1998;317:161 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Deal expected over breast implants
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;317:161 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:162 [Extract] [Full text]

	Latest studies fail to show that tamoxifen prevents breast cancer
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1998;317:162 [Extract] [Full text]

	Where now for AIDS vaccines?
	BMJ  1998;317:163 [Extract] [Full text]

	Racial groups respond differently to glaucoma treatment
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;317:164 [Extract] [Full text]

	France launches plan to control health costs
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1998;317:164 [Extract] [Full text]

	MPs want to close loopholes in NHS complaints procedures
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:164 [Extract] [Full text]

	Chief executive of Ashworth steps down
	Louise McKee
	BMJ  1998;317:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA to consult on withdrawing treatment
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;317:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	National guidance is neededfor Viagra
	Richard Harling
	BMJ  1998;317:165 [Extract] [Full text]

	A new chairman for the BMA
	BMJ  1998;317:166 [Extract] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Military medical services to be restored
	BMJ  1998;317:166 [Extract] [Full text]

	New medical association starts in South Africa
	BMJ  1998;317:166 [Extract] [Full text]

	The 18 further members of the council of the Academy of Medical Sciences are:
	BMJ  1998;317:166 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Temporomandibular disorders: a clinical update
	George Dimitroulis
	BMJ  1998;317:190-194 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Population based randomised study of uptake and yield of screening by flexible sigmoidoscopy compared with screening by faecal occult blood testing
	Julia E C W Verne, Roger Aubrey, Sharon B Love, Ian C Talbot, John M A Northover
	BMJ  1998;317:182-185 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Primary care: core values Primary care in an imperfect market
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1998;317:186-189 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	A very British congress
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1998;317:220 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The death of a footballer, equality, and medicine
	Stephen Davies
	BMJ  1998;317:220 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Controversies in management: Does palliative care have a role in treatment of anorexia nervosa? • We should strive to keep patients alive • Palliative care does not mean giving up
	Christopher J Williams, Lorenzo Pieri, Andrew Sims, Lynne Russon, Dawn Alison
	BMJ  1998;317:195-197 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal paper: Has health economics lost its way?
	D P Kernick
	BMJ  1998;317:197-199 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Getting research findings into practice: Finding information on clinical effectiveness
	Julie Glanville, Margaret Haines, Ione Auston
	BMJ  1998;317:200-203 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:222 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Special correspondence: Paris
	BMJ  1998;317:180 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A father remembered: Syringomyelia can be treated
	Helen Williams
	BMJ  1998;317:189 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Someone else's problem
	BMJ  1998;317:194 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A paper to change your practice: A simple and effective intervention
	D P Kernick
	BMJ  1998;317:199 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A personal recollection: The wicked do not always prosper
	Otto Fleming
	BMJ  1998;317:203 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Getting evidence into practice
	BMJ  1998;317:160 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by measurement of S100 protein in serum: prospective case-control study
	BMJ  1998;317:171 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effectiveness of treatments for infantile colic: systematic review
	BMJ  1998;317:171 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Depression as a risk factor for ischaemic heart disease in men: population based case-control study
	BMJ  1998;317:185 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Effective Teaching
	Anna Donald
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The grass is not always greener in the private sector: ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: An error: the London Academic Training Scheme for general practice ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The good, the great, and the ugly
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	From paternalism to partnership
	Sue MacGregor
	BMJ  1998;317:221 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	The BMA's annual representative meeting
	BMJ  1998;317:214 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Terence Kay • Charles Frederick Rycroft • John Dunlop Thomson • Brian William Toms • Michael Walton
	H Jordinson, L Haskayne, Jeremy Holmes, R Bain, John D Thomson, Pam Wortley, Bill Cunningham, Richard Walton, Michael Walton
	BMJ  1998;317:213 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Survival in treated hypertension: follow up study after two decades
	Ove K Andersson, Torbjörn Almgren, Bengt Persson, Ola Samuelsson, Thomas Hedner, Lars Wilhelmsen
	BMJ  1998;317:167-171 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Assessing priorities for allocation of donor liver grafts: survey of public and clinicians
	James Neuberger, David Adams, Paul MacMaster, Anita Maidment, Mark Speed
	BMJ  1998;317:172-175 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk factors for development of sexually abusive behaviour in sexually victimised adolescent boys: cross sectional study
	David Skuse, Arnon Bentovim, Jill Hodges, Jim Stevenson, Chriso Andreou, Monica Lanyado, Michelle New, Bryn Williams, Dean McMillan
	BMJ  1998;317:175-179 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Facial structure in the sudden infant death syndrome: case-control study
	Karen Rees, Anne Wright, Jean W Keeling, Neil J Douglas
	BMJ  1998;317:179-180 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Disease activity and risk of lymphoma in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: nested case-control study
	Eva Baecklund, Anders Ekbom, Pär Sparén, Nils Feltelius, Lars Klareskog
	BMJ  1998;317:180-181 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Eosinophilic pneumonia induced by dapsone
	D Jaffuel, B Lebel, D Hillaire-Buys, J Pene, P Godard, F-B Michel, J-P Blayac, J Bousquet, P Demolyi
	BMJ  1998;317:181 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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