This week's This week in the BMJ

	Changed criteria for diabetes need further research [Full text] FREE

	Two more screens per woman would improve effectiveness of UK breast cancer screening [Full text] FREE

	Older women do come for breast cancer screening [Full text] FREE

	Use of lipid in amphotericin B infusion has no benefit [Full text] FREE

	Home births for high risk women result in high death rates [Full text] FREE

	Diabetes can be managed as well in primary care as in hospital [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The changing classification and diagnosis of diabetes
	Nicholas J Wareham, Stephen O'Rahilly
	BMJ  1998;317:359-360 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Extending the benefits of breast cancer screening
	Ursula Werneke, Klim McPherson
	BMJ  1998;317:360-361 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The genetics of Alzheimer's disease
	Jim Edwardson, Chris Morris
	BMJ  1998;317:361-362 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minimisation: the platinum standard for trials?
	Tom Treasure, Kenneth D MacRae
	BMJ  1998;317:362-363 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Staring into the abyss: walking the nuclear tightrope in south Asia
	Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
	BMJ  1998;317:363 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Neonatal screening for cystic fibrosis
	J A Dodge, Beverley Lane, Rodney Harris, Hilary Harris, Rodney Pollitt
	BMJ  1998;317:411 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Many patients with psoriasis use sunbeds
	R J Turner, P M Farr, D Walshaw
	BMJ  1998;317:412 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health beliefs among British Bangladeshis
	Jim Hardy, June Gray, Anna Eleri Livingstone, Trisha Greenhalgh, Cecil Helman, Mu'min Chowdhury
	BMJ  1998;317:412 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long term effects of deprivation increase health's sensitivity to current policies
	Richard G Wilkinson
	BMJ  1998;317:413 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Partnership with patients
	Alison Blenkinsopp, James Bashford, David Dickinson, Sarah Sims, Peter W Golightly
	BMJ  1998;317:413 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The hymen is not necessarily torn after sexual intercourse
	Deborah J Rogers, Margaret Stark
	BMJ  1998;317:414 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood energy intake and adult mortality from cancer
	Charlotte Wright, Stephen J Frankel, David J Gunnell, Tim J Peters, Maria Maynard, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1998;317:414 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author overestimated need in community population with faecal incontinence
	Sarah Perry, R Philip Assassa, Kate Williams, Nigel K G Smith, C Mark Castleden
	BMJ  1998;317:415 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of deliberate self poisoning
	Edwina Williams, Carole Mitchell, Joanie Preston, Kate Augarde, Rachelle Barber, Jose Catalán, Barbara Jones, Rob Brogan, Kim Ullyatt, Anthony Pelosi
	BMJ  1998;317:415 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anticoagulation may be beneficial in high risk factor V Leiden carriers
	Trevor Baglin, Caroline Baglin, Karen Brown, Roger Luddington, East Anglian Thrombophilia Study Group
	BMJ  1998;317:416 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment and prognosis after myocardial infarction
	Andrew Sutton, Pitt O Lim, Paul Shiels
	BMJ  1998;317:417 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effectiveness of genetic testing in certain diseases must be evaluated
	Linda Garvican
	BMJ  1998;317:417 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Title did not reflect author's views
	Alan Lucas
	BMJ  1998;317:417 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Xenotransplantation moves ahead in UK
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:365 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Mental health law to be tightened
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:365 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:366 [Extract] [Full text]

	Di Bella's cure declared ineffective
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1998;317:366 [Extract] [Full text]

	Teenage girls start smoking to lose weight
	Alex Brooks
	BMJ  1998;317:366 [Extract] [Full text]

	Action on human albumin not swift enough
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1998;317:367 [Extract] [Full text]

	Internal inquiry clears surgeon
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:367 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health authority admits mistakes over smear tests
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1998;317:368 [Extract] [Full text]

	Test for breast cancer shows promise
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:368 [Extract] [Full text]

	Nuchal test detects 80% of Down's syndrome pregnancies
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:368 [Extract] [Full text]

	Zinc supplements improve children's health
	Norra Macready
	BMJ  1998;317:369 [Extract] [Full text]

	Aid agencies pull out of Kabul
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1998;317:369 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors urge India and Pakistan not to launch nuclear attack
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:369 [Extract] [Full text]

	Vitamin B-6 reprieved in UK
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:370 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors banned from drug company trip
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1998;317:370 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch to examine testing boxers for brain damage
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1998;317:370 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Plastic surgery
	Rajiv Grover, Roy Sanders
	BMJ  1998;317:397-400 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Diabetes care in general practice: meta-analysis of randomised control trials • Commentary: Meta-analysis is a blunt and potentially misleading instrument for analysing models of service delivery
	Simon Griffin, Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1998;317:390-396 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Seize the day
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1998;317:419 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	When should a specialist retire?
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  1998;317:419 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	A Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease Epidemiology
	John Fox
	BMJ  1998;317:421 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Body Horror: Photojournalism, Catastrophe and War
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;317:421 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Kabul diary
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1998;317:401-405 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	Getting research findings into practice: Decision analysis and the implementation of research findings
	R J Lilford, S G Pauker, D A Braunholtz, Jiri Chard
	BMJ  1998;317:405-409 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics Notes: Generalisation and extrapolation
	Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  1998;317:409-410 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:422 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Nostalgia: In praise of on call?
	Chris Gunstone
	BMJ  1998;317:375 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Uranus attacks! Herschel's legacy
	Mark Petticrew
	BMJ  1998;317:389 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: The dead fairy sign
	Graham Lewis
	BMJ  1998;317:396 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson learnt: Anaemia with a twist
	Claus A Pierach
	BMJ  1998;317:400 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable meeting: A view from the man in the seat opposite
	Robert Boyd
	BMJ  1998;317:410 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Racial discrimination in distinction awards
	BMJ  1998;317:417 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of surgery for stress incontinence on morbidity
	BMJ  1998;317:417 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Senior house officer exchange to Belgium
	Katie Darling
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: A survey in IRS Employment Review (1998:660;5-10) finds that almost ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Of 88 surgical residents in the last 15 years at ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Extending the boundaries
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Extending the boundaries
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Failed publications: the medical model
	Tim Albert
	BMJ  1998;317:420 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	James Conway • William Wright ("Willie") Fulton • Brian Gaunt • Abraham George • Frank Longden Ingram
	Peter Sleight, Alistair Riddell, Michael Drury, M W Duffield, David Ingram
	BMJ  1998;317:418 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Will new diagnostic criteria for diabetes mellitus change phenotype of patients with diabetes? Reanalysis of European epidemiological data
	DECODE Study Group
	BMJ  1998;317:371-375 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost effectiveness of shortening screening interval or extending age range of NHS breast screening programme: computer simulation study
	Rob Boer, Harry de Koning, Anthony Threlfall, Peter Warmerdam, Andrew Street, Ellis Friedman, Ciaran Woodman
	BMJ  1998;317:376-379 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Safety and toxicity of amphotericin B in glucose 5% or intralipid 20% in neutropenic patients with pneumonia or fever of unknown origin: randomised study
	Patrick Schöffski, Mathias Freund, R Wunder, D Petersen, C H Köhne, H Hecker, U Schubert, A Ganser
	BMJ  1998;317:379-384 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Perinatal death associated with planned home birth in Australia: population based study
	Hilda Bastian, Marc J N C Keirse, Paul A L Lancaster
	BMJ  1998;317:384-388 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Routine invitation of women aged 65-69 for breast cancer screening: results of first year of pilot study
	Gary Rubin, Linda Garvican, Sue Moss
	BMJ  1998;317:388-389 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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