This week's This week in the BMJ

	Screening for colorectal cancer with faecal occult blood test is effective [Full text] FREE

	White coat hypertension is associated with risk of left ventricular hypertrophy [Full text] FREE

	Health visitors can manage failure to thrive [Full text] FREE

	GPs can provide thrombolysis faster than hospitals [Full text] FREE

	Revolutionary implications of the 1848 Public Health Act [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The Public Health Act of 1848
	Richard Alderslade
	BMJ  1998;317:549-550 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From public health to the health of the public
	Stephen Palmer
	BMJ  1998;317:550-551 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Providing spectacles in developing countries
	Andrew R Potter
	BMJ  1998;317:551-552 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community care for elderly people
	Brendan McCormack
	BMJ  1998;317:552-553 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The end of triglycerides in cardiovascular risk assessment?
	Naveed Sattar, Chris J Packard, John R Petrie
	BMJ  1998;317:553-554 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Breast cancer screening: false positive rate is lower in older women
	G Rubin, Linda Garvican
	BMJ  1998;317:599 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating chronic fatigue with exercise
	Ellen Goudsmit
	BMJ  1998;317:599 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adult onset idiopathic hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism may be overdiagnosed
	Richard Quinton, Gerard S Conway, Howard S Jacobs, Pierre-Marc G Bouloux, Mark P J Vanderpump
	BMJ  1998;317:600 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ultrasound treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome
	Louis Deliss
	BMJ  1998;317:601 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Variations in population health status
	Ann Bowling
	BMJ  1998;317:601 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improving pay and working conditions is better than merely rewarding healthcare teams
	K G M M Alberti
	BMJ  1998;317:602 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Extra cost of subcutaneous apomorphine would pay for personal nurses
	Ian Hill-Smith
	BMJ  1998;317:602 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pain is not the only feature of heart attack
	Tom Treasure
	BMJ  1998;317:602 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training in advanced trauma life support is unnecessary for all senior house officers in accident and emergency
	J William S Tice
	BMJ  1998;317:603 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Survey of medical students' overdrafts
	Ewan Wilkinson, J Ford
	BMJ  1998;317:603 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Under half of psychiatrists tell patients their diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
	R A Clafferty, K W Brown, E McCabe
	BMJ  1998;317:603 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Discrepancies exist between general practitioners' clinical work and a guidelines implementation programme
	Toby Lipman
	BMJ  1998;317:604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Repeat whole cell vaccinations should be avoided after hypotonic-hyporesponsive episodes
	Alberto E Tozzi, Marta L Ciofi degli Atti, Stefania Salmaso, Alessandra Anemona
	BMJ  1998;317:604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Carcinogen in tobacco smoke can be passed to fetus
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:555 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	"Millennium bug" is threat to patients
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:555 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:556 [Extract] [Full text]

	HRT may not protect against further heart attacks
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;317:556 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israel appoints supreme committee on drugs
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1998;317:556 [Extract] [Full text]

	Tuberculosis controls in Philippines have failed so far
	Adam Easton
	BMJ  1998;317:557 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors protest against South Africa's registration system
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1998;317:557 [Extract] [Full text]

	ß Blockers should be used more widely after myocardial infarction
	Alex Brooks
	BMJ  1998;317:558 [Extract] [Full text]

	Moves to end cervical screening failures in England
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:558 [Extract] [Full text]

	Stress disorder is common among prostitutes
	Norra Macready
	BMJ  1998;317:558 [Extract] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Records mix up causes unnecessary sterilisation
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  1998;317:558 [Extract] [Full text]

	Medicine may become "domain of the privileged"
	Alex Brooks
	BMJ  1998;317:558 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Integrated record keeping as an essential aspect of a primary care led health service
	Michael Rigby, Ruth Roberts, John Williams, June Clark, Adrian Savill, Bruce Lervy, Gail Mooney
	BMJ  1998;317:579-582 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	BMJ  1998;317:583 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Public health
	Gabriel Scally
	BMJ  1998;317:584-586 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Call to needle times after acute myocardial infarction in urban and rural areas in northeast Scotland: prospective observational study
	John Rawles, Catherine Sinclair, Kevin Jennings, Lewis Ritchie, Norman Waugh
	BMJ  1998;317:576-578 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	On staying calm
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1998;317:606 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	When is medical evacuation justified?
	Andrew R Potter
	BMJ  1998;317:606 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Revolutions in public health: 1848, and 1998?
	Christopher Hamlin, Sally Sheard
	BMJ  1998;317:587-591 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Millennium report to Sir Edwin Chadwick
	Iqbal Sram, John Ashton
	BMJ  1998;317:592-596 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personal paper: The 1848 Public Health Act and its relevance to improving public health in England now
	Kenneth Calman
	BMJ  1998;317:596-598 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:608 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Alternative definitions
	BMJ  1998;317:583 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Dragooning a medical congress
	BMJ  1998;317:584 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Powerful partnerships
	Merry Graham, Judy Carney
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The backlash against the stress management industry has begun, according ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: ER may be the most popular televisual depiction of American ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The BMA is not the only organisation to be running ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	All this sewering and watering
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

ARTICLE

This week's ARTICLE

	BMA Notice
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	All this sewering and watering
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Banking on interest
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1998;317:607 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Richard Bernard • John David Creer • Harry Jacobs • Morus Wyn Lloyd-Owen • Paul Preston Lock •    Robert Douglas McIntyre
	S C Illingworth
	BMJ  1998;317:605 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	A systematic review of the effects of screening for colorectal cancer using the faecal occult blood test, Hemoccult
	Bernie Towler, Les Irwig, Paul Glasziou, Jan Kewenter, David Weller, Chris Silagy
	BMJ  1998;317:559-565 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Changes in left ventricular structure and function in patients with white coat hypertension: cross sectional survey
	Michael W Muscholl, Hans-W Hense, Ulrich Bröckel, Angela Döring, Günter A J Riegger, Heribert Schunkert
	BMJ  1998;317:565-570 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of community based management in failure to thrive: randomised controlled trial
	Charlotte M Wright, Jane Callum, Eileen Birks, Stephen Jarvis
	BMJ  1998;317:571-574 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reasons for and outcome of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in patients aged 85 years or more: retrospective study
	L Seinelä, J Ahvenainen, J Rönneikkö, M Haavisto
	BMJ  1998;317:575-580 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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