This week's This week in the BMJ

	Measures to stop the spread of HIV don't stop the spread of hepatitis C infection [Full text] FREE

	Drug misuse and transfusion increase vertical transmission of hepatitis C [Full text] FREE

	Evidence on managing deliberate self harm is limited [Full text] FREE

	Rate of carotid endarterectomy performed is only 60% of estimated need [Full text] FREE

	Proton pump inhibitors are widely prescribed for unlicensed non-specific abdominal symptoms [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Candidate vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus
	D J Moss, A Suhrbier, S L Elliott
	BMJ  1998;317:423-424 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	HIV and hepatitis C among injecting drug users
	R A Coutinho
	BMJ  1998;317:424-425 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cholesterol: how low is low enough?
	A Rosengren
	BMJ  1998;317:425-426 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Disease management in Europe
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1998;317:426-427 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines for clinical guidelines
	Rodney Jackson, Gene Feder
	BMJ  1998;317:427-428 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Risk of connective tissue disease among women with breast implants
	D Radford Shanklin, David L Smalley
	BMJ  1998;317:470 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Genetics consortiums can offer views facilitating best practice in Alzheimer's disease
	Simon Lovestone
	BMJ  1998;317:471 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More collaboration is needed about benefits of new genetic screening tests
	Brendan O'Connor
	BMJ  1998;317:471 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by measurement of S100 protein in serum
	J P McConville, J J Craig
	BMJ  1998;317:472 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Having a practice pharmacist can reduce prescribing costs
	W Denys E Wells
	BMJ  1998;317:473 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of statins
	L E Ramsay, E J Wallis, I U Haq, R Williamson, W W Yeo, P R Jackson
	BMJ  1998;317:473 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Refugee families have psychological strengths
	Sami Timimi
	BMJ  1998;317:475 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	People considered virtually unable to walk can walk further and faster than in 1977
	John Hunter
	BMJ  1998;317:475 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Crude rates, without standardisation for age, are always misleading
	Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
	BMJ  1998;317:475 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Career options available to general practitioner assistants
	BMJ  1998;317:476 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Search for better inotropic drugs should continue
	John A Lee, David G Allen
	BMJ  1998;317:476 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mortality from breast cancer in UK has decreased suddenly
	Richard Peto
	BMJ  1998;317:476 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Postnatal health education in Nepal
	Craig Stangroom, Alistair Appleby
	BMJ  1998;317:477 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trials have shown yohimbine is effective for erectile dysfunction
	M H Pittler, E Ernst
	BMJ  1998;317:478 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Credit cards could be used to indicate availability of cadaver organs for transplantation
	Neil Davidson
	BMJ  1998;317:478 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Consultants' merit award system to be reformed
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:429 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Telephone advice scheme criticised
	Louise McKee
	BMJ  1998;317:429 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:430 [Extract] [Full text]

	Organophosphate pesticides are being tested on students
	Richard Harling
	BMJ  1998;317:430 [Extract] [Full text]

	Number of student nurses is falling
	Alex Brooks
	BMJ  1998;317:430 [Extract] [Full text]

	Heroin use among young people is increasing in England and Wales
	Richard Harling
	BMJ  1998;317:431 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS Executive attacked over Read codes
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:431 [Extract] [Full text]

	China to expand rural healthcare system
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1998;317:431 [Extract] [Full text]

	Regular Chlamydia screening recommended
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1998;317:432 [Extract] [Full text]

	Single hormone is best for emergency pill
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:432 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israel moves to GP gatekeeper system
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1998;317:432 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Hormone replacement therapy
	Elizabeth Barrett-Connor
	BMJ  1998;317:457-461 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Why are patients prescribed proton pump inhibitors? Retrospective analysis of link between morbidity and prescribing in the General Practice Research Database
	James N R Bashford, Jeff Norwood, Stephen R Chapman
	BMJ  1998;317:452-456 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	It's the quality that counts
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1998;317:480 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Stars disappear
	Diana Strange Khursandi
	BMJ  1998;317:480 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Controversies in management: Should doctors perform an elective caesarean section on request? • Yes, as long as the woman is fully informed • Maternal choice alone should not determine method of delivery
	BMJ  1998;317:462-465 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Getting research findings into practice: Closing the gap between research and practice: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions to promote the implementation of research findings
	Lisa A Bero, Roberto Grilli, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Emma Harvey, Andrew D Oxman, Mary Ann Thomson
	BMJ  1998;317:465-468 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics Notes: Time to event (survival) data
	Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  1998;317:468-469 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:482 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Letter from South Africa: Tree bug
	CH Vaughan Williams
	BMJ  1998;317:456 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An interesting encounter: Did I teach him survival skills and healthcare priorities?
	Krisantha Weerasuriya
	BMJ  1998;317:461 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Hopefully, the last word
	BMJ  1998;317:468 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable family: See first ...
	F Stephen Perry
	BMJ  1998;317:481 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Clinical oncology
	Caroline Brammer, Georgina Gerrard, Rosemary Macdonald
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The hottest debate in US psychiatry is whether the speciality ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: From psychiatry to physiatry, better known as rehabilitation medicine on ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Thanks to career-f subscriber Gavin Jamie who's used his HTML ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Harry Variot Langwill Finlay • Peter Reginald French • Austin Wyndham Johnson • Dimbeswar Kalita • Philip John ("Phil") Mawson
	Reginald Britt, Bernard Valman
	BMJ  1998;317:479 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Infection with HIV and hepatitis C virus among injecting drug users in a prevention setting: retrospective cohort study
	Ingrid van Beek, Robyn Dwyer, Gregory J Dore, Kehui Luo, John M Kaldor
	BMJ  1998;317:433-437 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mother to child transmission of hepatitis C virus: prospective study of risk factors and timing of infection in children born to women seronegative for HIV-1
	Massimo Resti, Chiara Azzari, Francesco Mannelli, Maria Moriondo, Elio Novembre, Maurizio de Martino, Alberto Vierucci, Tuscany Study Group on Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Children
	BMJ  1998;317:437-441 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Science commentary: Behaviour of hepatitis C virus
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;317:437 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Deliberate self harm: systematic review of efficacy of psychosocial and pharmacological treatments in preventing repetition
	Keith Hawton, Ella Arensman, Ellen Townsend, Sandy Bremner, Eleanor Feldman, Robert Goldney, David Gunnell, Philip Hazell, Kees van Heeringen, Allan House, David Owens, Isaac Sakinofsky, Lil Träskman-Bendz
	BMJ  1998;317:441-447 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	An epidemiological needs assessment of carotid endarterectomy in an English health region. Is the need being met?
	G Ferris, P Roderick, A Smithies, S George, J Gabbay, N Couper, A Chant
	BMJ  1998;317:447-451 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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