This week's This week in the BMJ

	No clustering of anophthalmia occurs in England, but prevalence is higher in rural areas [Full text] FREE

	Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation can be cost effective [Full text] FREE

	Health is poorer in US states with larger income inequalities [Full text] FREE

	Increased parity does not increase the risk of Down's syndrome [Full text] FREE

	Bullied children are more anxious than their peers [Full text] FREE

	Inhalers are just as safe without chlorofluorocarbons [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Clustering of anophthalmia and microphthalmia
	E C M Mariman
	BMJ  1998;317:895-896 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ageing costs
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1998;317:896-900 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Paediatric transplantation comes of age
	Deirdre Kelly, AD Mayer
	BMJ  1998;317:897-900 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The European Medicines Evaluation Agency: open to criticism
	Kamran Abbasi, Andrew Herxheimer
	BMJ  1998;317:898-900 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is the FDA approving drugs too fast?
	J D Kleinke, Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1998;317:899-900 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The NHS's new information strategy
	Jeremy Wyatt, Justin Keen
	BMJ  1998;317:900 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	New drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease
	Tom Dening, Claire Lawton, Raymond Levy, M Evans, Paul Johnstone, A C Zamar, M E J Wise, J P Watson, Tony Baxter, David Black, Henry Prempeh
	BMJ  1998;317:945 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Age is not only criterion for flu vaccine
	Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam, Moe H Kyaw, James C G Pearson
	BMJ  1998;317:946 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Discrepancy remains in pharmaceutical prescriptions in four European countries
	Silvio Garattini, Livio Garattini
	BMJ  1998;317:947 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Informed consent
	Michael Baum, I G Kestin, S E Josse, David H Brewster, Marion R S Bain, James W T Chalmers, Ann Gould, John A Dewar, W David George, John Nottingham, Andrew J Winter, David Mullis, Keith W Radcliffe, D T Wilcox, F Wilcock, L Spitz, A Pierro
	BMJ  1998;317:947 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO haemoglobin colour scale is modern version of what was used previously
	S M Lewis
	BMJ  1998;317:949 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Protecting breast feeding from breast milk substitutes
	Harvey Marcovitch, Margaret Lynch, Keith Dodd, Anthony Costello, Harshpal S Sachdev, Mary Broadfoot, Jane Britten, Phyll Buchanan, Karen Hogg, Carolanne Lamont, Magda Sachs, James Rothman
	BMJ  1998;317:949 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and patients should sign prescriptions
	Joe Collier, Sean Hilton
	BMJ  1998;317:951 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Planning the United Kingdom's medical workforce
	A Pickersgill
	BMJ  1998;317:951 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New Labour's new maths is hype
	John Appleby
	BMJ  1998;317:951 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Standardisation for age certainly changes proportions of doctors holding merit awards
	John S Patterson
	BMJ  1998;317:951 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	NHS information strategy launched
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1998;317:901 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:902 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS trusts must tackle violence against staff
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:902 [Extract] [Full text]

	Meningitis becomes resistant to drugs
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1998;317:902 [Extract] [Full text]

	Mentally ill patients need protection from inappropriate genetic testing
	Alex Brooks
	BMJ  1998;317:903 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Passive smoking may harm babies in utero
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;317:903 [Extract] [Full text]

	Lifting of UK quarantine recommended
	Alex Brooks
	BMJ  1998;317:903 [Extract] [Full text]

	Private doctors in India prescribe wrong tuberculosis drugs
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1998;317:904 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Guidelines on assisted deaths criticised
	Deirdre Cooper-Mahkorn
	BMJ  1998;317:904 [Extract] [Full text]

	Diagnostic equipment misused in India
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1998;317:904 [Extract] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	One in 10 Irish GPs work every weekend
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1998;317:904 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Xenotransplantation
	Robin A Weiss
	BMJ  1998;317:931-934 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of oxygen: Provision of oxygen at home
	P J Rees, F Dudley
	BMJ  1998;317:935-938 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Postmarketing surveillance study of a non-chlorofluorocarbon inhaler according to the safety assessment of marketed medicines guidelines
	J G Ayres, C D Frost, W F Holmes, D R R Williams, S M Ward
	BMJ  1998;317:926-930 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Going slowly
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1998;317:955 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	A bump on the head
	Peter J Shirley
	BMJ  1998;317:955 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1998;317:957 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Chemical Sensitivity: the Truth About Environmental Illness
	Ann Dally
	BMJ  1998;317:957 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Ethical debate: Certifying fitness for corporal punishment • White lies • Innocents abroad • Deception demands compelling arguments • Individuals need clear policy guidance • Response
	Andrew Thorns, Geoffrey Lloyd, George Szmukler, James Welsh, Andrew Thorns
	BMJ  1998;317:939-941 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Long stay care and the NHS: discontinuities between policy and practice
	A R Turrell, C M Castleden, B Freestone
	BMJ  1998;317:942-944 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:958 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	An important lesson: The hazards of self management
	Jon Baker
	BMJ  1998;317:910 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Diagnostic trends
	BMJ  1998;317:910 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Serendipidity
	BMJ  1998;317:910 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: An effective reproof
	Andrew Elkington
	BMJ  1998;317:930 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnostic dilemma: Car health
	Pauline Bryant
	BMJ  1998;317:934 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Another Titanic myth: Harvard's swimming test
	Lars H Breimer
	BMJ  1998;317:938 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fifty years ago: The new NHS: A medical reply to the minister
	BMJ  1998;317:942 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Sending the right message
	Rebecca Ball
	BMJ  1998;317:944 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A book that changed my practice: School can be hell
	David Hartman
	BMJ  1998;317:956 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Short stature and Helicobacter pylori infection in Italian children: prospective multicentre hospital based case-control study
	BMJ  1998;317:909 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The hot air on passive smoking
	BMJ  1998;317:951 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Harassment at work
	Elizabeth Gillow
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Although almost all trusts in the NHS pay lip service ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: A survey of 420 of the 425 trusts in England ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Most trusts subsume responsibility to an individual within the human ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Ageing populations and the environment
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Caring for ageing populations
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA and health minister will discuss review body remit • Junior doctors criticise workforce planning • Fringe meeting supports "full time" NHS consultants
	BMJ  1998;317:954 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	David James Mearns Anderson • John Malcolm Barnes • Deb Kumar Bose • William ("Bill") Kerr Noble Brown • Bidhan Chandra Chatterjee • Marion Angela Crawford • Margaret Anne Dickinson • Sir John Rogers Ellis • David Idris Harries • James Henderson Levack • John Sumner Stead • David Stephen Peck
	D J Poll, W O Roberts, Arup Chaudhuri, Craig K Brown, L R Payne, E O Lundholm, David Slater, Kenneth Dickinson, Christopher Ellis, Gillian Harries, Ian Drever, Matthew Stead, Roger Nunn
	BMJ  1998;317:952 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Geographical variation in anophthalmia and microphthalmia in England, 1988-94 • Commentary: Clustering of anophthalmia and microphthalmia is not supported by the data
	H Dolk, A Busby, B G Armstrong, P H Walls, Jack Cuzick
	BMJ  1998;317:905-910 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Economic evaluation and randomised controlled trial of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: UK collaborative trial • Commentary: Concurrent economic evaluations are rare but should be standard practice
	Tracy E Roberts, the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Economics Working Group on behalf of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Trial Steering Group, Tom Jefferson
	BMJ  1998;317:911-916 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Science commentary: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;317:916 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Income distribution, socioeconomic status, and self rated health in the United States: multilevel analysis
	Bruce P Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi, Roberta Glass, Deborah Prothrow-Stith
	BMJ  1998;317:917-921 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Trends in prenatal screening for and diagnosis of Down's syndrome: England and Wales, 1989-97
	David Mutton, Roy G Ide, Eva Alberman
	BMJ  1998;317:922-923 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of parity, gravidity, previous miscarriage, and age on risk of Down's syndrome: population based study
	Annabelle Chan, Kieran A McCaul, Rosemary J Keane, Eric A Haan
	BMJ  1998;317:923-924 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Bullying in schools: self reported anxiety, depression, and self esteem in secondary school children
	G Salmon, A James, D M Smith
	BMJ  1998;317:924-925 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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