This week's This week in the BMJ

	Cognitive behaviour therapy reduces psychotic symptoms [Full text] FREE

	Number needed to screen reveals worthwhile screening programmes [Full text] FREE

	Obesity from childhood to adulthood may lead to the metabolic syndrome [Full text] FREE

	Socioeconomic upheaval has increased mortality in Russia [Full text] FREE

	Deaths from dementia may hide cases of new variant CJD [Full text] FREE

	Decline in NHS beds increases pressure on GPs [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Beyond conflict of interest
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1998;317:291-292 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Declaring competing interests] FREE

	Older people with schizophrenia: providing services for a neglected group
	Silvia Rodriguez-Ferrera, Christopher A Vassilas
	BMJ  1998;317:293-294 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How can treatment of systemic sclerosis be improved?
	UK Scleroderma Study Group
	BMJ  1998;317:294-295 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer
	Michael Dixon
	BMJ  1998;317:295-296 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Change at last at WHO
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  1998;317:296 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Consider validity, clinical relevance, and applicability of albumin for critically ill patients
	Martin Offringa
	BMJ  1998;317:343 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tobacco link with insurance
	Charles Siderfin, John Winn
	BMJ  1998;317:343 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Passive smoking and heart disease
	Maurice E LeVois, Maxwell W Layard, Peter Lee, Ruth Dempsey, K W E Denson, M R Law, J K Morris, N J Wald
	BMJ  1998;317:344 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Passive smoking and lung cancer
	Peter Lee, Gerhard Scherer, Wolf-Dieter Heller, Fredrik Nyberg, Göran Pershagen, A K Hackshaw, M R Law, N J Wald
	BMJ  1998;317:346 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The hot air on passive smoking
	Benoit Nemery, Danielle Piette, James Le Fanu, Christopher J Proctor
	BMJ  1998;317:348 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Influenza vaccination policy and high risk subjects
	E Willis, John Watkins
	BMJ  1998;317:349 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Marketing of breast milk substitutes
	Sarah Jacobs, Andrée Bronner, Susanna Centuori, Adriano Cattaneo, Riccardo Davanzo, Tea Burmaz, Menuela Del Santo, Maxwell Asante, Kathleen Asante
	BMJ  1998;317:350 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All scientific content of the BMJ should declare authors' conflicts of interest
	David F Marshall
	BMJ  1998;317:351 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Skrabanek dedicated his life to generating scepticism
	Simon Mills
	BMJ  1998;317:351 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Di Bella's method of curing cancer is becoming popular in Italy
	Rinaldo Pellegrini
	BMJ  1998;317:352 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is more common in Britain than elsewhere
	J W Ironside, R S G Knight, R G Will, P G Smith, S N Cousens
	BMJ  1998;317:352 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health authority was never influenced by party political pressure
	Sonia D Alexander
	BMJ  1998;317:352 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Independent inquiry ordered into thoracic surgeon
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:297 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UN amends policy on breast feeding
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1998;317:297 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:298 [Extract] [Full text]

	Fifty mice cloned by new technique
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1998;317:298 [Extract] [Full text]

	New gene associated with Alzheimer's disease
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;317:299 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hereditary cancer link supported
	Richard Harling
	BMJ  1998;317:299 [Extract] [Full text]

	Mystery of "7000 extra doctors" explained
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1998;317:300 [Extract] [Full text]

	Extra 1000 medical school places by 2005
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:300 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK doctors may face revalidation
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;317:300 [Extract] [Full text]

	Operating the smokescreen
	BMJ  1998;317:301 [Extract] [Full text]

	The "new WHO" commits to making a difference
	BMJ  1998;317:302 [Extract] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Some encouragement given for research into cannabis
	BMJ  1998;317:302 [Extract] [Full text]

	Medical negligence awards set to rise
	BMJ  1998;317:302 [Extract] [Full text]

	Catalonia plans new policy on frozen embryos
	BMJ  1998;317:302 [Extract] [Full text]

	Ex-ministers to face trial in French "blood scandal"
	BMJ  1998;317:302 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly Review: Polycystic ovarian syndrome: the metabolic syndrome comes to gynaecology
	Zoe E C Hopkinson, Naveed Sattar, Richard Fleming, Ian A Greer
	BMJ  1998;317:329-332 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	The impact on general practitioners of the changing balance of care for elderly people living in institutions
	Shane Kavanagh, Martin Knapp
	BMJ  1998;317:322-327 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra] FREE

	Identification of patients with atrial fibrillation in general practice: a study of screening methods
	Mark Sudlow, Helen Rodgers, Rose Anne Kenny, Richard Thomson
	BMJ  1998;317:327-328 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Is this anyone's brolly?
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1998;317:355 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Doctors fighting, fleeing, or facing up to death
	Janet Goodall
	BMJ  1998;317:355 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	A Damn Bad Business: The NHS Deformed
	Brian Salter
	BMJ  1998;317:357 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	General Practice Under the National Health Service, 1948-1997
	Roland Petchey
	BMJ  1998;317:357 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Ethical debate: Should industry sponsor research? • Tobacco industry research: collaboration, not confrontation, is the best approach • Tobacco company sponsorship discredits medical but not all research • Condemning the drinks industry rules out potentially useful research • If the drinks industry does not clean up its act, pariah status is inevitable • Collaborative research with infant formula companies should not always be censored • How much research in infant feeding comes from unethical marketing?
	Christopher J Proctor, Tom Sorell, Hurst Hannum, Griffith Edwards, Alan Lucas, Patti Rundall
	BMJ  1998;317:333-339 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Getting research findings into practice: Using research findings in clinical practice
	S E Straus, D L Sackett
	BMJ  1998;317:339-342 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:358 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Conflict of interest: Equanimity upset
	Joseph Herman
	BMJ  1998;317:318 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Heredity and environment
	BMJ  1998;317:327 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Hogarth's paintings at St. Bartholomew's Hospital
	BMJ  1998;317:329 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Happy ending
	Patricia Mortimer
	BMJ  1998;317:342 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1998;317:298 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Career development for doctors with a disability
	Stewart Mercer
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Nurses, midwives and health visitors are to have their own ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The first Oxford conference on medical careers will bring together ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Two unlike people
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Signposting for general practitioners
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	A transient frenzy?
	Gwen Adshead
	BMJ  1998;317:356 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Prime minister reaffirms review body's independence • Quality document is too centralist • GMC consults on consent
	BMJ  1998;317:354 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Mohammed Iftikar Akhter • Maurice Berger • Lindsay Steven Carstairs • Desmond Plunkett Dunphy • David Grime • David Brian Shaw
	M N Arhi, C K Batt, Brian M Berger, Stanley Davis, Kilian Dunphy, Patricia Grime, G Dean
	BMJ  1998;317:353 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Randomised controlled trial of intensive cognitive behaviour therapy for patients with chronic schizophrenia
	Nicholas Tarrier, Lawrence Yusupoff, Caroline Kinney, Eilis McCarthy, Ann Gledhill, Gillian Haddock, Julie Morris
	BMJ  1998;317:303-307 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Number needed to screen: development of a statistic for disease screening
	Christopher M Rembold
	BMJ  1998;317:307-312 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Economic change, crime, and mortality crisis in Russia: regional analysis
	Peder Walberg, Martin McKee, Vladimir Shkolnikov, Laurent Chenet, David A Leon
	BMJ  1998;317:312-318 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Relation between obesity from childhood to adulthood and the metabolic syndrome: population based study
	Mauno Vanhala, Pasi Vanhala, Esko Kumpusalo, Pirjo Halonen, Jorma Takala
	BMJ  1998;317:319-320 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mortality from dementias and neurodegenerative disorders in people aged 15-64 in England and Wales in 1979-96
	Azeem Majeed, Petra Lehmann, Liz Kirby, Michel P Coleman
	BMJ  1998;317:320-321 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra] FREE

	Diagnosing fever by touch: observational study
	Katherine Whybrew, Matthew Murray, Colin Morley
	BMJ  1998;317:321-330 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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