This week's This week in the BMJ

	Tobacco will kill a third of the young men in China [Full text] FREE

	Loss of doctors from NHS remains stable [Full text] FREE

	Confidential inquiry helps to minimise maternal risks [Full text] FREE

	Acute bronchitis may predict future lung disease [Full text] FREE

	Women use more oral steroids for asthma than men [Full text] FREE

	Planning and resources are needed to help refugees [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Counting the dead in China
	Alan D Lopez
	BMJ  1998;317:1399-1400 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Safer non-cardiac surgery for patients with coronary artery disease
	Julian Sonksen, Richard Gray, Peter Hutton Hickman
	BMJ  1998;317:1400-1401 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Body mass index standards for children
	Andrew M Prentice
	BMJ  1998;317:1401-1402 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prophylactic mastectomy: deliverance or delusion?
	Ian S Fentiman
	BMJ  1998;317:1402-1403 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The "professional cleansing" of nurses
	Hugh McKenna
	BMJ  1998;317:1403-1404 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Magnetic resonance imaging may be alternative to necropsy
	Rob Bisset
	BMJ  1998;317:1450 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Depression as a risk factor for ischaemic heart disease in men
	Tony Kendrick, Geoff Earnshaw, Julia Hippisley-Cox, Mike Pringle
	BMJ  1998;317:1450 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effectiveness of treatments for infantile colic
	Christopher Cates, Natasha Crowcroft, Phyll Buchanan, P L B J Lucassen, W J J Assendelft, J T M van Eijk, J W Gubbels, W J van Geldrop, A Knuistingh Neven
	BMJ  1998;317:1451 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Embryonic abnormalities at medical termination of pregnancy
	Michael Jarmulowicz, Siobhan Quenby, Geraldine Blanch, James Neilson
	BMJ  1998;317:1452 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Detection of changes in mortality after heart surgery
	Steve Gallivan, Jocelyn Lovegrove, Christopher Sherlaw-Johnson, J D Poloniecki
	BMJ  1998;317:1453 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Son's reaction to his circumcision was predictable
	George Hill
	BMJ  1998;317:1453 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Professional and practice development plans for primary care teams
	John Eggleton, Steve Field, Martin McCloskey, Frank Akerman, Jamie Bahrami
	BMJ  1998;317:1454 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing radon levels
	Michael Peter Le Geyt, Antony Denman, Paul Phillips
	BMJ  1998;317:1455 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mentioning smoking as a cause of death on death certificates
	T H Lam, S Y Ho, A J Hedley, K H Mak, Paula Johnson
	BMJ  1998;317:1456 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Royal Medical Benevolent Fund reminds readers of its Christmas appeal
	Rodney Sweetnam
	BMJ  1998;317:1456 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Decline in altruism threatens blood supplies
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1998;317:1405 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Smoking rises sharply among US university students
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1998;317:1405 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:1406 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC sets up steering group on revalidation
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;317:1406 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Spanish doctors criticised for high tech births
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  1998;317:1406 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Few cancer patients benefit from palliative chemotherapy
	BMJ  1998;317:1407 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dental council aims to cut anaesthetic rate
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1998;317:1407 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	"Let them drink milk," says UN
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1998;317:1407 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Medical students face uncertain future
	Jessica Westall
	BMJ  1998;317:1408 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US spends more than £16bn on alternative remedies
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1998;317:1408 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Epidemics predicted for hurricane zone
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1998;317:1409 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Delay in plasma replacement
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:1409 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors demand centres for injury prevention
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1998;317:1410 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	King's Fund calls for support for carers
	Hugh Matthews
	BMJ  1998;317:1410 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Abortion row erupts again
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1998;317:1410 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Control of chronic pain
	T J Nurmikko, T P Nash, J R Wiles
	BMJ  1998;317:1438-1441 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Fractures of the thoracolumbar spine in major trauma patients
	Steve Meek
	BMJ  1998;317:1442-1443 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Sex differences in the use of asthma drugs: cross sectional study
	Mary Sexton, Michelle D Althuis, Nancy Santanello, Sophie Hyndman, Rhys Williams, David Schmeidler
	BMJ  1998;317:1434-1437 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	The people vote; the doctor calls
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1998;317:1460 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Some NHS care is unacceptable
	Clare Hamon
	BMJ  1998;317:1460 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Refugees and primary care: tackling the inequalities
	David Jones, Paramjit S Gill
	BMJ  1998;317:1444-1446 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Theories in health care and research: Theories of disability in health practice and research
	Michael Oliver
	BMJ  1998;317:1446-1449 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:1464 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: How to avoid contagious diseases
	Umberto Eco
	BMJ  1998;317:1433 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: A little bit of luck
	BMJ  1998;317:1433 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A very rare bleeding disorder
	Sundaram V Ramanan
	BMJ  1998;317:1437 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Basis of Zen practice
	Robert Pirsig
	BMJ  1998;317:1442 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A book that changed me: Many patients are struggling too
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  1998;317:1449 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Odds ratios should be avoided when events are common
	BMJ  1998;317:1456 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Appraising appraisal
	Wendy Riley
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Empirical evidence about doctors' careers is in short supply, though ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Detailed guidance about compliance with the EU working time directive ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Consultants will be able to nominate themselves for a distinction ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Big, "little," and medium sized problems
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Big, "little," and medium sized problems
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Extra GPs needed for primary care gap • Government amends review body's remit • GMC to consult on guidance for medical managers • NHS 1999 cash allocations • BMA Notices
	BMJ  1998;317:1459 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND MULTIMEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND MULTIMEDIA

	Book: Prevention of Micronutrient Deficiencies: Tools for Policy Makers and Public Health Workers
	Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
	BMJ  1998;317:1460 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: What to do in a general practice emergency
	Tim Usherwood
	BMJ  1998;317:1460 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: An Evidence-Based Resource for Pain
	Janet Hardy
	BMJ  1998;317:1460 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Exhibition: Mirror image
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  1998;317:1460 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Media: Science, sense, and substance
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  1998;317:1460 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: http://www.rospa.co.uk/
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1998;317:1460 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Alan Usher • David Walter Hugh Barnes • Henry Herbert Evans Batten • Thomas Roy Farrimond • John Ferrington • Donald Kellock • Thomas William Aitken McKay • Basil Elystan Miles • Amiya Pada Mukherjee • Arpan Mukherjee
	Alan Usher, Miles Weatherall, Stanley H Gould, Betty C Zoob, Andrew Bartlam, Sylvia Milner, S Cronin, A W Craft, John Ross, Simon C O Taggart, Hafeez Ahmad
	BMJ  1998;317:1457 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Emerging tobacco hazards in China: 1. Retrospective proportional mortality study of one million deaths
	Bo-Qi Liu, Richard Peto, Zheng-Ming Chen, Jillian Boreham, Ya-Ping Wu, Jun-Yao Li, T Colin Campbell, Jun-Shi Chen
	BMJ  1998;317:1411-1422 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Emerging tobacco hazards in China: 2. Early mortality results from a prospective study
	Shi-Ru Niu, Gong-Huang Yang, Zheng-Ming Chen, Jun-Ling Wang, Gong-Hao Wang, Xing-Zhou He, Helen Schoepff, Jillian Boreham, Hong-Chao Pan, Richard Peto
	BMJ  1998;317:1423-1424 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Career pathways and destinations 18 years on among doctors who qualified in the United Kingdom in 1977: postal questionnaire survey
	Jean M Davidson, Trevor W Lambert, Michael J Goldacre
	BMJ  1998;317:1425-1428 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Career destinations seven years on among doctors who qualified in the United Kingdom in 1988: postal questionnaire survey
	Trevor W Lambert, Michael J Goldacre
	BMJ  1998;317:1429-1431 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reducing maternal mortality: reaudit of recommendations in reports of confidential inquiries into maternal deaths
	Angie Benbow, Michael Maresh
	BMJ  1998;317:1431-1432 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Acute bronchitis and clinical outcome three years later: prospective cohort study
	Jón Steinar Jónsson, Thorarinn Gíslason, Davíd Gíslason, Jóhann A Sigurdsson
	BMJ  1998;317:1433-1440 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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