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	Recognising prodromes reduces manic relapses [Full text] FREE

	Maternal anxiety is associated with impaired blood flow to the fetus [Full text] FREE

	Medical students should know more about their risks of HIV infection [Full text] FREE

	Indian lorry drivers help to spread HIV infection [Full text] FREE

	Coeliac disease is underdiagnosed in primary care [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Severe mental illness and substance misuse
	Tim Weaver, Adrian Renton, Gerry Stimson, Peter Tyrer
	BMJ  1999;318:137-138 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing smoking cessation
	Tim Coleman, Mayur Lakhani, Andrew Wilson
	BMJ  1999;318:138-139 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical students, their electives, and HIV
	David Wilkinson, Brian Symon
	BMJ  1999;318:139-140 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Consensus in stroke management?
	J Bogousslavsky
	BMJ  1999;318:140-141 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Elementary education and its impact on health
	RK Bansal
	BMJ  1999;318:141 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What is publication?
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:142 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Laparoscopic versus open mesh repair of inguinal hernia
	M J Notaras, Keith Rose, David Wright, Charles McCollum, A E Kark, M N Kurzer, P A Belsham, R S Taylor, A Naseef, E Brandt, S Jacob, Ani Anyanwu, Dermot O'Riordan, D P Kernick, Deborah Reinhold, A G Johnson
	BMJ  1999;318:189 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Identification of patients with atrial fibrillation in general practice
	Eleri Roderick, Jim Cox, D A Fitzmaurice
	BMJ  1999;318:191 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A national target for reducing suicide
	M Abas, M J Crawford, Robert Colgate
	BMJ  1999;318:191 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unexplained haemoglobinuria may have been haematuria
	Svend Mortensen
	BMJ  1999;318:192 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Simvastatin seems unlikely to cause impotence
	Terje R Pedersen, Ole Færgeman
	BMJ  1999;318:192 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practitioners are victims too
	Chris Manning
	BMJ  1999;318:192 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public should be told that vaccines may have long term adverse effects
	John Barthelow Classen, David C Classen
	BMJ  1999;318:193 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Selective evidence was used to support link between immunisation and asthma
	Osman David Mansoor
	BMJ  1999;318:193 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sensitivity and specificity and their confidence intervals cannot exceed 100%
	Jonathan J Deeks, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1999;318:193 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prospects for general practice research are bright despite research assessment exercise
	Tony Kendrick, John Campbell, David Armstrong
	BMJ  1999;318:194 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outcome of neonatal hypoglycaemia
	Marvin Cornblath, Robert Schwartz, Alan Lucas, Ruth Morley
	BMJ  1999;318:194 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality of care before admission to intensive care
	D R Goldhill, L M Worthington, A J Mulcahy, M M Tarling, Anna Lee, Tony O'Connell
	BMJ  1999;318:195 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Research into meningococcal disease is too fragmented
	S Hoare
	BMJ  1999;318:196 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Refugee doctors can do valuable work in European host countries
	Thomas Wenzel
	BMJ  1999;318:196 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Iraqi doctors regret bombing by United States and Britain
	Khalid Alshafi
	BMJ  1999;318:196 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Police investigate "euthanasia" deaths
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:143 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Artery wall thickness useful in detecting heart risk
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;318:143 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:144 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Medical students at risk from needlestick injury
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;318:144 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Fat is a medical issue
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;318:144 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health secretary reports on winter crisis
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:144 [Extract] [Full text]

	What caused the winter crisis in the NHS?
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;318:145 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Holocaust victims are discharged into the community
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1999;318:145 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Antenatal clinics fail HIV mothers
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;318:145 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Researchers discover new mutant gene
	Uy Hoang
	BMJ  1999;318:146 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Some "cot deaths" are child abuse
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1999;318:147 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs loth to report child abuse
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1999;318:147 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US effort to cut caesarean section rate may be harmful
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:147 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors cleared of manslaughter
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:148 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US doctors' earnings up, surveys show
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;318:148 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	British GP wins libel case against partners
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:148 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Pulmonary medicine
	Nicolas Roche
	BMJ  1999;318:171-176 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Incompatible plasma transfusions and haemolysis in children
	J K M Duguid, J Minards, P H B Bolton-Maggs
	BMJ  1999;318:176-177 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of sexual health: A woman's sexual life after an operation
	Asun de Marquiegui, Margot Huish
	BMJ  1999;318:178-181 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Coeliac disease in primary care: case finding study
	Harold Hin, Graham Bird, Peter Fisher, Nick Mahy, Derek Jewell
	BMJ  1999;318:164-167 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Meeting the information and budgetary requirements of primary care groups • Commentary: Accurate information may be difficult to produce
	Judy Gilley, Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  1999;318:168-170 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Egosurfing
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1999;318:203 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Cancer services are suffering in Iraq
	Karol Sikora
	BMJ  1999;318:203 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Smoking cessation: evidence based recommendations for the healthcare system
	Martin Raw, Ann McNeill, Robert West
	BMJ  1999;318:182-185 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Narrative based medicine: Stories we hear and stories we tell: analysing talk in clinical practice
	Glyn Elwyn, Richard Gwyn
	BMJ  1999;318:186-188 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:204 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Alternative definitions
	BMJ  1999;318:157 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tales of crack: Some quotes from patients and their doctors
	Stefan Cembrowicz
	BMJ  1999;318:163 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A salutary lesson: Learning from our mistakes
	Kathy Ryan
	BMJ  1999;318:177 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The spitting nuisance
	BMJ  1999;318:178 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: He was going to die anyway
	Jon Goldin
	BMJ  1999;318:185 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Obituary
	BMJ  1999;318:170 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Safer non-cardiac surgery for patients with coronary artery disease
	BMJ  1999;318:170 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Community survey of factors associated with consultation for low back pain
	BMJ  1999;318:170 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of sexual health: Management of sexual problems
	BMJ  1999;318:178 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Psychotherapy
	Adrienne Key, Christopher Dare
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Quality of training is at the heart of health care, ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: It is pleasing to receive requests for back issues of ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Education, teaching, and learning: all good for health
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOKCASE

This week's BOOKCASE

	Bookcase
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  1999;318:201 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Education, teaching, and learning: all good for health
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Book: Coping With Loss
	Mari Lloyd-Williams
	BMJ  1999;318:200 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Refugee Health: An Approach to Emergency Situations
	C Ronald, D Southall
	BMJ  1999;318:200 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Books: Evidence-Based Medicine • Evidence-Based Health Care: How to Make Health Policy and Management Decisions
	Calum R Paton
	BMJ  1999;318:201 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Fighting Fat, Fighting Fit
	Phil Hammond
	BMJ  1999;318:202 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the Week: http://sids-network.org/
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:202 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA hopes for at least 10% pay rise • Interpretation of working time directive differs • Help offered for PCG board members • BMA will prepare ideas on revalidation
	BMJ  1999;318:199 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Emmanuel Andrew Danino • Alexander Stuart Douglas • Patrick Thomas Doyle • Ajay Gautama • Graham Douglas Alexander Gordon • Frank James • Robert Johnson • Leslie Ely ("Peter") Lucas • Archibald ("Archie") Adam Martin • George May • Cecil Ashby Mays • Robert ("Bob") Richard Weir Mirrey
	Charles Danino, Charles Forbes, Ashley Mowat, G R Park, Annabel Wheatley, Fiona Murdoch, John James, James R Loudon, Leslie Klenerman, John Oldroyd, John R Theobalds, Margaret May, John May, C F H Vickers, Geoff Taylor, Robert M L Weir
	BMJ  1999;318:197 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Randomised controlled trial of efficacy of teaching patients with bipolar disorder to identify early symptoms of relapse and obtain treatment
	Alison Perry, Nicholas Tarrier, Richard Morriss, Eilis McCarthy, Kate Limb
	BMJ  1999;318:149-153 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between maternal anxiety in pregnancy and increased uterine artery resistance index: cohort based study
	Jerónima M A Teixeira, Nicholas M Fisk, Vivette Glover
	BMJ  1999;318:153-157 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Notice of inadvertent duplicate publication
	BMJ  1999;318:157 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Medical students' risk of infection with bloodborne viruses at home and abroad: questionnaire survey
	Claire F Gamester, Anthea J Tilzey, Jangu E Banatvala
	BMJ  1999;318:158-160 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Elective questionnaire][extra: Data Supplement] FREE

	Provision of health advice for UK medical students planning to travel overseas for their elective study period: questionnaire survey
	Peter J Moss, Nick J Beeching
	BMJ  1999;318:161-162 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra] [extra: Data Supplement] FREE

	Sexual lifestyle of long distance lorry drivers in India: questionnaire survey
	Kootikuppala Surya Rao, R D Pilli, A S Rao, P S Chalam
	BMJ  1999;318:162-163 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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