This week's This week in the BMJ

	No link exists between exposure to benzodiazepines in pregnancy and cleft palate [Full text] FREE

	Beer and spirits, but not wine, raise the risk of upper digestive tract cancer [Full text] FREE

	Women later diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism take more sick leave [Full text] FREE

	Men and octogenarians do well after surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysms [Full text] FREE

	Effective guidelines take implementation into account [Full text] FREE

	Asthma gets worse in women pregnant with girls [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Alcohol and cancer
	Svend Sabroe
	BMJ  1998;317:827-830 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cyclo-oxygenase 2 and breast cancer prevention
	Harri Vainio, Gareth Morgan
	BMJ  1998;317:828-830 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Albumin: don't confuse us with the facts
	Brian McClelland
	BMJ  1998;317:829-830 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Flushing away the fat
	John Garrow
	BMJ  1998;317:830-831 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	US managed care: has the UK anything to learn?
	Julian Le Grand
	BMJ  1998;317:831-832 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Where's the chief knowledge officer?
	J A Muir Gray
	BMJ  1998;317:832-840 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Human albumin administration in critically ill patients
	Andy Petros, Margrid Schindler, Christine Pierce, Steven Jacobe, Quen Mok, Mark R Nel, Simon Nadel, Steven Marriage, Claudine De Munter, Joseph Britto, Parviz Habibi, Michael Levin, M Kaag, F A N Zoetmulder, F Andrew I Riordan, Andrew Williams, Alistair P J Thomson, Neil Soni, Neville W Goodman, R J Beale, D L A Wyncoll, A McLuckie, J D Frame, N Moiemem, Iain Chalmers, P G Lawler, G A Morgan, K H Shwe, M Bhavnani, Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1998;317:882 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effects of the Heartbeat Wales programme
	Shah Ebrahim, George Davey Smith, Julian Tudor Hart, Ken Harvey
	BMJ  1998;317:886 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antiretroviral combination therapy and HIV infection
	Jim McMenamin, Gwen Allardice, David Goldberg, Tamiza Parpira, Gillian Raab, Rodolphe Thiébaut, Frantz Thiessard, Laurence Dequac Merchadou, Catherine Marimoutou, François Dabis
	BMJ  1998;317:887 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Technical ability to treat male factor infertility must not overtake academic knowledge
	M Rafet Gazvani, David H Richmond, Peter J Howard, Charles R Kingsland, D Iwan Lewis-Jones
	BMJ  1998;317:888 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Forty eight hour working week becomes law
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;317:833 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors urge more regulation for herbal treatments
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1998;317:833 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:834 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Human genome project to complete ahead of schedule
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;317:834 [Extract] [Full text]

	Obesity drug is licensed in the UK
	Alex Brooks
	BMJ  1998;317:835 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Virtual institute for informatics launched
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1998;317:835 [Extract] [Full text]

	Chemotherapy benefits all women with breast cancer
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1998;317:835 [Extract] [Full text]

	Viagra special report
	BMJ  1998;317:836 [Extract] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Canada approves ethical policy for research involving people
	BMJ  1998;317:838 [Extract] [Full text]

	Ambulances should tailor response to situation
	BMJ  1998;317:838 [Extract] [Full text]

	Women consume far more of health budget than expected
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1998;317:838 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health and social services to work more closely in England
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:838 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Guidelines in general practice: the new Tower of Babel?
	Arthur Hibble, David Kanka, David Pencheon, Fiona Pooles
	BMJ  1998;317:862-863 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Legibility of doctors' handwriting: quantitative comparative study
	Ronan Lyons, Christopher Payne, Michael McCabe, Colin Fielder
	BMJ  1998;317:863-864 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Netlines
	BMJ  1998;317:864 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Male pattern androgenetic alopecia
	Rodney Sinclair
	BMJ  1998;317:865-869 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Treatment resistant epilepsy or convulsive syncope?
	Amir Zaidi, Peter Clough, Bruce Scheepers, Adam Fitzpatrick
	BMJ  1998;317:869-870 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of oxygen: Oxygen therapy in chronic lung disease
	P J Rees, F Dudley
	BMJ  1998;317:871-874 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Attributes of clinical guidelines that influence use of guidelines in general practice: observational study
	Richard Grol, Johannes Dalhuijsen, Siep Thomas, Cees in 't Veld, Guy Rutten, Henk Mokkink
	BMJ  1998;317:858-861 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Letter from America
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1998;317:892 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	GPs and junkies
	Andrew Dicker
	BMJ  1998;317:892 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	When placebo controlled trials are essential and equivalence trials are inadequate
	Martin R Tramèr, D John M Reynolds, R Andrew Moore, Henry J McQuay
	BMJ  1998;317:875-880 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Action on clinical audit: progress report 2
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;317:880-881 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:894 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: A dangerous custom at funerals
	BMJ  1998;317:856 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Surgical epidemic
	JH Curtis
	BMJ  1998;317:856 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fifty years ago: World Health Organisation
	BMJ  1998;317:856 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A compliment: Having your research ideas stolen
	Laura C Rodrigues
	BMJ  1998;317:857 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Fashion and medicine
	BMJ  1998;317:858 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Life long frustration: Tea for two and two for tea
	Lee-Suan Teh
	BMJ  1998;317:874 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A workshop that has changed my practice: Selling cheesea beginner's guide
	Siân A Evans
	BMJ  1998;317:893 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Preregistration house jobs in general practice
	Nigel Oswald
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Doctors and dentists from outside the European Economic Area are ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The health service circular which gives details of terms and ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Occupational physicians seem to be a contented bunch. A recent ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Data, data, data. Give me peace and knowledge
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Data, data, data. Give me peace and knowledge
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Question marks remain over PCGs • Waiting lists cannot be abolished but can be improved • GMC's 1999 election
	BMJ  1998;317:891 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Mainuddin Ahmed • Archibald Cabbourn ("Bill") Boyle • Alexander McCorkindale Campbell • Peter Seymour Virgil Cox • James Gray Denholm • Eric Charles ("Buster") Glover • Robert Emil Albert Saabye Hansen • Jonathan ("John") James Mercer Kew • Samuel Reid Campbell Ritchie • William Michael Brian Strangeways • Alistair James Thomson • Thomas James ("Johnny") Walker
	M Shahidullah, Douglas L Woolf, A G M Campbell, Stephen Cox, Jane Hockings and Neil Hockings, John Lister, Richard Packard, Jack Kanski, Allan Withnell, Harri Jenkins, Diana Playford, Angus Kennedy, N D Wright, Peter Strangeways, Armond Gwynne, P G Kernohan
	BMJ  1998;317:889 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Benzodiazepine use in pregnancy and major malformations or oral cleft: meta-analysis of cohort and case-control studies
	Lisa R Dolovich, Antonio Addis, J M Régis Vaillancourt, J D Barry Power, Gideon Koren, Thomas R Einarson
	BMJ  1998;317:839-843 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Population based cohort study of the association between alcohol intake and cancer of the upper digestive tract
	Morten Grønbæk, Ulrik Becker, Ditte Johansen, Hanne Tønnesen, Gorm Jensen, Thorkild I A Sørensen
	BMJ  1998;317:844-848 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Science commentary: Why wine might be less harmful than beer and spirits
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;317:844 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Population based case-control study of sick leave in postmenopausal women before diagnosis of hyperparathyroidism
	Ewa Lundgren, Eva Szabo, Sverker Ljunghall, Reinhold Bergström, Lars Holmberg, Jonas Rastad
	BMJ  1998;317:848-851 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Long term relative survival after surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm in Western Australia: population based study
	Paul E Norman, James B Semmens, Michael M D Lawrence-Brown, C D'Arcy J Holman
	BMJ  1998;317:852-856 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of sex of fetus on asthma during pregnancy: blind prospective study
	N Beecroft, G M Cochrane, Heather J Milburn
	BMJ  1998;317:856-857 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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