This week's This week in the BMJ

	Migraine increases the risk of ischaemic but not haemorrhagic stroke in young women [Full text] FREE

	Psychological attributes may explain how social origins affect adult health [Full text] FREE

	Open peer review is feasible and does not reduce quality of reviews [Full text] FREE

	Breast feeding is best learnt by example [Full text] FREE

	Asian children in the UK may need vitamin D [Full text] FREE

	Medicines regulation should be more transparent [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Being strategic about smoking
	Jacky Chambers
	BMJ  1999;318:1-2 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Low plasma vitamin D in Asian toddlers in Britain
	B A Wharton
	BMJ  1999;318:2-3 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Modernising mental health services
	Max Marshall
	BMJ  1999;318:3-4 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Opening up BMJ peer review
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:4-5 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treating thyrotoxicosis in pregnant or potentially pregnant women
	M J O'Doherty, P R McElhatton, S H L Thomas
	BMJ  1999;318:5-6 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Suboptimal ward care of critically ill patients
	David Gorard, Kieran Walshe, Jeremy Wood, Andrew Smith, Paul J Youngs, Tim Ringrose, Christopher Garrard, C McAllister, S J McGovern, Peter W Duncan, Peter Nightingale, Ian Macartney, Johanna Ryan, Maire P Shelly, Carl Pritchard, Iain D Anderson, Brian J Rowlands, Michael Mercer, Stephen J Fletcher, Gillian F Bishop, Peter McQuillan, Sally Pilkington, Alison Allan, Bruce Taylor, Gary Smith, Mick Nielson, Alasdair Short, Giles Morgan, Charles Collins
	BMJ  1999;318:51 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Complaints of pain after use of handcuffs should not be dismissed
	F S Haddad, N J Goddard, R N Kanvinde, F Burke
	BMJ  1999;318:55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electronic preprints can be categorised
	Mahesh Choolani
	BMJ  1999;318:55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meta-analyses of observational data should be done with due care
	George Davey Smith, Matthias Egger
	BMJ  1999;318:56 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Infantile spasms and vigabatrin
	John P Osborne, Stuart W Edwards, Eleanor Hancock, Andrew L Lux, Finbar O'Callaghan, Tony Johnson, Colin R Kennedy, Richard W Newton, Christopher M Verity, S D Lhatoo, J W A S Sander
	BMJ  1999;318:56 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sex education should begin in primary school
	Oluwatoyin Ejidokun, Diane McNulty, John Linnane, Sam Ramaiah
	BMJ  1999;318:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improved command of English may explain why non-English speaking countries get more published
	Sanjay Kinra
	BMJ  1999;318:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is it time for an Illich Collaboration to make available information on the harms of medical care?
	Richard H T Edwards
	BMJ  1999;318:58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical outcome in relation to care in centres specialising in cystic fibrosis
	David Spencer, D Bilton
	BMJ  1999;318:58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in adults
	O Chassany, J F Bergmann, C Caulin, Alan Haycox, Stuart Barton, T Walley, Jean Paul Galmiche, Carmelo Scarpignato
	BMJ  1999;318:59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Communicating with patients
	Nicholas Steel, Roger E Taylor
	BMJ  1999;318:60 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author was never appointed to Bristol inquiry
	Richard Green
	BMJ  1999;318:60 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Prisoner wants to donate his second kidney
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;318:7 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Risks of surgery on unruptured brain aneurysms can outweigh benefits
	Benjamin Hope
	BMJ  1999;318:7 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:8 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Smoking ban improves health of bartenders
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:8 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	WHO plans to halve child asthma deaths
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1999;318:8 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK treads softly on smoking
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:9 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shane Warne takes money to give up smoking
	BMJ  1999;318:9 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government plans shake up in NHS pay
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:10 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	First doctor suspended under GMC performance procedures
	Simon Kirwin
	BMJ  1999;318:10 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Private company wins rights to Icelandic gene database
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1999;318:11 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	North Korean children ravaged by poor nutrition
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:12 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Death rates higher in Wales
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;318:12 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Airline passenger dies after being sedated by doctor
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  1999;318:12 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Neurosurgery
	Michael Powell
	BMJ  1999;318:35-38 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Florid rickets associated with prolonged breast feeding without vitamin D supplementation
	M Z Mughal, H Salama, T Greenaway, I Laing, E B Mawer
	BMJ  1999;318:39-40 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of sexual health: Female sexual problems I: Loss of desirewhat about the fun?
	Josie Butcher
	BMJ  1999;318:41-43 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Qualitative study of decisions about infant feeding among women in east end of London
	Pat Hoddinott, Roisin Pill
	BMJ  1999;318:30-34 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	My route to a steroid psychosis
	Simon Jenkins
	BMJ  1999;318:67 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Evidence on peer reviewscientific quality control or smokescreen?
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1999;318:44-45 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rethinking transparency and accountability in medicines regulation in the United Kingdom
	John Abraham, Julie Sheppard, Tim Reed
	BMJ  1999;318:46-47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Narrative based medicine: Why study narrative?
	Trisha Greenhalgh, Brian Hurwitz
	BMJ  1999;318:48-50 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:68 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Gide's solution
	Alice Heim
	BMJ  1999;318:29 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The health administration of London
	BMJ  1999;318:29 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Observing patients: The knock on the door
	John Ward
	BMJ  1999;318:40 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Special correspondence: Paris
	BMJ  1999;318:41 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: A military doctor
	BMJ  1999;318:48 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Useful remedy
	BMJ  1999;318:48 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Miscellaneous
	BMJ  1999;318:29 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Working in Australia
	Steve Kisely, Judy Jones
	BMJ  1999;318:2a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing
	BMJ  1999;318:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Ethics and narrative
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOKCASE

This week's BOOKCASE

	Bookcase
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  1999;318:67 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Ethics and narrative
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Book: Desperately Seeking Solutions: Rationing Health Care
	David Price
	BMJ  1999;318:64 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Gout: The Patrician Malady
	J Dequeker
	BMJ  1999;318:64 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Books: Step by Step Guide to Epidemiological Health Needs Assessment for Ethnic Minority Groups • Dying, Death and Bereavement in a British Hindu Community
	Paramjit S Gill
	BMJ  1999;318:65 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	CD Rom: Minor Surgery and Skin Lesions: Diagnosis and Management on CD-ROM
	M A Casson
	BMJ  1999;318:65 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Shock to stop?
	John Worden and Brian Flynn
	BMJ  1999;318:66 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the Week: http://www.database.is/
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:66 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA calls for guidelines on new and expensive drugs • Juniors to be surveyed on 48 hour directive • Junior doctors want higher rates for 1999-2000 new year • GPs submit proposals on the £60m job weight award • Young people's health surveyed
	BMJ  1999;318:63 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Nilima Choudhury, née Kundu • Philip Ross Harben • Monica Cynthia Lewin • Rosemarie Dorothy Lincoln • Merlin Marshall • George Leonard Plester • John Albert Rich • Douglas William Cumming Smith • Geoffrey Harvey Martin Stanley-Jones • Valentine Andrew James Swain • Szeming Sze • William Waugh
	Pamela Choudhury, B W Maitland, Lorna Chippindale, William Jeffcoate, R M Kalbag, W F Hendry, Alan J Rich, Ian M Duguid, J Thorley, A N Chakraborty, James Lister, Diane Sze Wei, Nicholas J Barton, W Angus Wallace
	BMJ  1999;318:61 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Migraine and stroke in young women: case-control study
	C L Chang, Michael Donaghy, Neil Poulter
	BMJ  1999;318:13-18 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Social class in childhood and general health in adulthood: questionnaire study of contribution of psychological attributes
	Hans Bosma, H Dike van de Mheen, Johan P Mackenbach
	BMJ  1999;318:18-22 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of open peer review on quality of reviews and on reviewers' recommendations: a randomised trial
	Susan van Rooyen, Fiona Godlee, Stephen Evans, Nick Black, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:23-27 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Vitamin D concentrations in Asian children aged 2 years living in England: population survey
	Margaret Lawson, Margaret Thomas
	BMJ  1999;318:28 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Incidence of trauma related stress fractures and shin splints in male and female army recruits: retrospective case study
	M A Macleod, A S Houston, L Sanders, C Anagnostopoulos
	BMJ  1999;318:29 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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