This week's This week in the BMJ

	Antenatal screening for syphilis should not be abandoned [Full text] FREE

	One third of children in road traffic accidents develop post-traumatic stress disorder [Full text] FREE

	Intranasal corticosteroids should be used for allergic rhinitis [Full text] FREE

	Unrecognised infection hinders STD control in Africa [Full text] FREE

	Insurers discriminate unfairly on basis of genetic information [Full text] FREE

	Diabetes screening should address the risk of complications [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Antenatal screening for syphilis
	Jan Welch
	BMJ  1998;317:1605-1606 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Proton pump inhibitors may mask early gastric cancer
	S M Griffin, S A Raimes
	BMJ  1998;317:1606-1607 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Uncoupling proteins: the unravelling of obesity?
	Abi Berger, Martin Brand, Stephen O'Rahilly
	BMJ  1998;317:1607-1608 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Emotional wellbeing and its relation to health
	Sarah Stewart-Brown
	BMJ  1998;317:1608-1609 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Paracetamol (acetaminophen) poisoning
	BMJ  1998;317:1609-1610 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Hospital at home
	Jane Sims, Elizabeth Rink, Marie Cleary, Chris Pearson, Keith Lloyd, R J Lilford, Howard Shaw, Joanna Coast, Suzanne H Richards, Tim J Peters, David J Gunnell, Mary-Anne Darlow, John Pounsford
	BMJ  1998;317:1651 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acceptability of early discharge, hospital at home schemes
	M Montalto, M L Grayson, David A Seamark, Clare J Seamark, Sasha Shepperd, Crispin Jenkinson, Diana Harwood, Alastair Gray, Martin Vessey, Patrick Morgan
	BMJ  1998;317:1652 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Role of hospitals in NHS must not be undervalued
	Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  1998;317:1653 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Combination treatment is rare in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
	Badal Pal, Hussein Amlesh
	BMJ  1998;317:1653 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Research is needed to determine how to integrate complementary medicine into the NHS
	E Ernst, N C Armstrong, A R White, M H Pittler
	BMJ  1998;317:1654 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths from low dose paracetamol poisoning
	John Barnes, Margaret Abban, Paul Howarth, Geoffrey Brandon, D P McAliskey, K S Aujla, V M Maclean, J R Richardson, E M Docherty, S H L Thomas, D F D'Costa, M G Cameron, Ben Wright, Michael Crowe, S Bridger, K Henderson, A J Ellis, E Glucksman, Roger Williams, John Henry
	BMJ  1998;317:1654 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Limitation of over the counter sales of paracetamol
	Mike Cranney, Julie Cranney, Helen Stubbs, Nigel I Jowett
	BMJ  1998;317:1657 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	National patient groups are a resource underutilised by GPs
	Peter Lapsley
	BMJ  1998;317:1658 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Postnatal depression
	J P Richards, Peter Talbot
	BMJ  1998;317:1658 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	National registry is also needed for neurological implants
	John Miles
	BMJ  1998;317:1658 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inequalities in health
	Donald Acheson, Deborah Baker, Raymond Illsley
	BMJ  1998;317:1659 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Bristol affair
	Peter M Dunn, Finlay Scott
	BMJ  1998;317:1659 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Undergraduate education must include improving health of minority ethnic communities
	Rhian Loudon, Sheila Greenfield
	BMJ  1998;317:1660 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	New cervical smear test could improve screening accuracy
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1998;317:1611 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	England abandons care in the community for the mentally ill
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:1611 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:1612 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Iraq blames Gulf war bombing for increase in child cancers
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1998;317:1612 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Family planning clinic opens in UK pharmacy
	Simon Kirwin
	BMJ  1998;317:1612 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK authorities recommend human cloning for therapeutic research
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1998;317:1613 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Better palliative care could cut euthanasia
	Hugh Matthews
	BMJ  1998;317:1613 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	British public opposes human cloning
	Hugh Matthews
	BMJ  1998;317:1613 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK hearing sets number of cancer patients to sue tobacco companies
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:1614 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Emergency admissions plan for Scotland
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1998;317:1614 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Women at double risk of small cell lung cancer
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1998;317:1614 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Warnings about plastic surgery in Florida
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1998;317:1615 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK changes law for medical regulation
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:1615 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	British surgeon faces compensation claims for patient deaths
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:1615 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Free radical damage pinpointed in Alzheimer's disease
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1998;317:1616 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Spanish doctors on trial for drug fraud
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  1998;317:1616 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US has epidemic of sexually transmitted disease
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1998;317:1616 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Diet and the prevention of cancer
	John H Cummings, Sheila A Bingham
	BMJ  1998;317:1636-1640 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of sexual health: Examination of patients with sexual problems
	John Dean
	BMJ  1998;317:1641-1643 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Genetic discrimination in life insurance: empirical evidence from a cross sectional survey of genetic support groups in the United Kingdom
	Lawrence Low, Suzanne King, Tom Wilkie
	BMJ  1998;317:1632-1635 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	If you want a job doing...
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1998;317:1667 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Quality and the invisible man
	Martin Wildman
	BMJ  1998;317:1667 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Screening for diabetes: what are we really doing?
	Elizabeth Goyder, Les Irwig
	BMJ  1998;317:1644-1646 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How to get a grant funded
	David Goldblatt
	BMJ  1998;317:1647-1648 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Colombia: the winner takes all
	Hans Veeken
	BMJ  1998;317:1649-1650 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	BMJ  1998;317:1665 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:1668 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Fifty years ago: The new NHS: Moscow calling
	BMJ  1998;317:1631 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Not born to be idle
	BMJ  1998;317:1632 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable mistake: Please come backthe patient won't take her cotton wool
	Andrew Bacon
	BMJ  1998;317:1646 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Effect of government recommendations on methadone prescribing in south east England: comparison of 1995 and 1997 surveys
	BMJ  1998;317:1629 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of oxygen: diving and oxygen
	BMJ  1998;317:1640 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Medical informatics
	Jeremy Sims
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The everyday and the soon to be everyday
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	The everyday and the soon to be everyday
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Book: Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women
	H P S Sachdev
	BMJ  1998;317:1664 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics
	Paul Crichton
	BMJ  1998;317:1664 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Conflict in General Practice
	Richard Neal
	BMJ  1998;317:1665 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Injury Prevention: An International Perspective
	Barry Pless
	BMJ  1998;317:1665 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Books: La Maladie de Sachs
	Iain Bamforth
	BMJ  1998;317:1666 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: http://www.cdc.gov/
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1998;317:1666 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

SOUNDBITES

This week's SOUNDBITES

	Soundbites:
	Sir Cyril Chantler
	BMJ  1998;317:1666 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Consultants issue guidance on professional advisory panels • Lords criticise government's response to cannabis report • All GPs must have full insurance • NHS in Wales being reshaped
	BMJ  1998;317:1663 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Charles David Marsden • Headley Boardman • John Leslie Boldero • William Howard Kenneth Carpenter • Edward Gordon Crookes • Jack Neville Phillips Davies • John Clifford Denmark • Ivan Joffe • Iain Kerr • Alistair Donald MacKenzie
	Niall Quinn, J B Vergano, John Leslie Boldero, P K Carpenter, R P Slatcher, Michael Hutt, Brendan T Monteiro, Darius Boomla, Derek Brown Kelly, John Mackie, Piloo H Setna
	BMJ  1998;317:1661 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Syphilis in pregnant women and their children in the United Kingdom: results from national clinician reporting surveys 1994-7
	A-K Hurtig, A Nicoll, C Carne, T Lissauer, N Connor, J P Webster, L Ratcliffe
	BMJ  1998;317:1617-1619 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prospective study of post-traumatic stress disorder in children involved in road traffic accidents
	Paul Stallard, Richard Velleman, Sarah Baldwin
	BMJ  1998;317:1619-1623 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Intranasal corticosteroids versus oral H1 receptor antagonists in allergic rhinitis: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
	John M Weiner, Michael J Abramson, Robert M Puy
	BMJ  1998;317:1624-1629 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Community based study of treatment seeking among subjects with symptoms of sexually transmitted disease in rural Uganda
	L A Paxton, N Kiwanuka, F Nalugoda, R Gray, M J Wawer, Rakai Project Study Group
	BMJ  1998;317:1630-1631 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Prolonged urticaria with 17-1A antibody
	N Sizmann, H C Korting
	BMJ  1998;317:1631 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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