This week's This week in the BMJ

	Leg symptoms do not correlate with varicose veins [Full text] FREE

	Modelling is useful in evaluating early withdrawal of women from smear test programmes [Full text] FREE

	UK screening for congenital cataracts needs improving [Full text] FREE

	Left ventricular dysfunction is common but difficult to detect [Full text] FREE

	Patients with somatisation disorders need considered explanations [Full text] FREE

	Community Care Act has targeted care better [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The genomic challenge
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1999;318:341-342 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Emergency contraception: is it time to change method?
	Anne Webb
	BMJ  1999;318:342-343 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Benign prostatic hyperplasia
	Roger Kirby
	BMJ  1999;318:343-344 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Changing practice in growth monitoring
	Linda D Voss
	BMJ  1999;318:344-345 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based mergers?
	Pam Garside
	BMJ  1999;318:345-346 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The impact of new technologies in medicine
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1999;318:346 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	JAMA's editor sacked
	Magne Nylenna, Simon Chapman, Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:394 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Teachers should aim to be stimulating rather than entertaining
	M E Preston-Whyte, R C Fraser
	BMJ  1999;318:394 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinicians and epidemiologists view crude death rates differently
	Takeo Nakayama, Nobuo Yoshiike, Tetsuji Yokoyama
	BMJ  1999;318:395 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Misusers may receive methadone from drug centres and GPs simultaneously
	E Day, A Kahn, G Georgiou
	BMJ  1999;318:395 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA's gold medal award to the president of the South African Medical Association
	Simon Lewin, Jeanelle de Gruchy, Mac Armstrong
	BMJ  1999;318:396 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More extensive analysis is needed when assessing facial structure in SIDS
	P Mossey, G D Singh, M E Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:396 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alcohol consumption is not related to fertility in Italian women
	Fabio Parazzini, Liliane Chatenoud, Elisabetta Di Cintio, Carlo La Vecchia, Guido Benzi, Luigi Fedele
	BMJ  1999;318:397 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS breast screening programme
	Heather Goodare, Margaret King, Michael Baum, Ann Johnson, Jane Shekhdar, N E Day, Rob Boer, Harry de Koning, Anthony Threlfall, Ciaran Woodman, Andrew Street, Ellis Friedman
	BMJ  1999;318:397 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Some American driving licences double as organ donor cards
	Claus A Pierach
	BMJ  1999;318:399 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Opt out registers for organ donation have existed in Belgium since 1987
	L Roels
	BMJ  1999;318:399 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rate of carotid endarterectomy in Wessex might already be higher than necessary
	Jeremy M T Perkins, Jack Collin
	BMJ  1999;318:399 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Link between breast cancer and ATM gene is strong
	Michael Swift, Yun Su
	BMJ  1999;318:400 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva should not review retrospective audits
	Mark Hill
	BMJ  1999;318:400 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Bill paves way for new round of NHS changes
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:347 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK nurses awarded large pay rise
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:347 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bristol doctor refused accessto confidential GMC notes
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:347 [Extract] [Full text]

	Senegal outlaws female genital mutilation
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;318:348 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Netherlands sets up euthanasia advisory body
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1999;318:348 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Heart attack patients do better in America's "best" hospitals
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:349 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK doctors' revalidation should be linked to registration
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:349 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Inquiry says surgeons should stop operating if patient dies
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1999;318:349 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UN assesses aid needed for Colombian earthquake zone
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;318:350 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	More doctors and donors needed for transplantation in the UK
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1999;318:350 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Researchers implant tissue engineered bladders
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1999;318:350 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Waiting times in British casualty departments remain too long
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1999;318:351 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK plan for Food Standards Agency
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:351 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Toronto research funding dispute
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;318:351 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	European observatory will promote better health policy 165
	BMJ  1999;318:352 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	NHSnetlearning from academia
	T J Roscoe, M Wells
	BMJ  1999;318:377-379 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Modern drug treatment of chronic asthma
	Brian J Lipworth
	BMJ  1999;318:380-384 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based case report: Treatment for head lice
	M Dawes, N R Hicks, M Fleminger, D Goldman, J Hamling, L J Hicks
	BMJ  1999;318:385-386 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of sexual health: Erectile dysfunction
	Wallace Dinsmore, Christine Evans
	BMJ  1999;318:387 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Prevalence and clinical characteristics of left ventricular dysfunction among elderly patients in general practice setting: cross sectional survey
	S Morgan, H Smith, I Simpson, G S Liddiard, H Raphael, R M Pickering, D Mant
	BMJ  1999;318:368-372 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patients' perceptions of medical explanations for somatisation disorders: qualitative analysis
	Peter Salmon, Sarah Peters, Ian Stanley
	BMJ  1999;318:372-376 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	In which we served
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1999;318:407 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Should we accept all comers?
	Malcolm Lewis, Glyn J Elwyn
	BMJ  1999;318:407 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Clinical guidelinesthe hidden costs
	Alan Haycox, Adrian Bagust, Tom Walley
	BMJ  1999;318:391-393 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:408 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	An annoying sound
	Junella McKay
	BMJ  1999;318:361 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Mind over matter
	BMJ  1999;318:367 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word...: Homogenous/homogeneous
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1999;318:376 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Conference problems: Spoken words losing their identity
	Povl Riis
	BMJ  1999;318:386 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Edward Jenner's Inquiry after 200 years
	Derrick Baxby
	BMJ  1999;318:390 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Postmortem movements
	John Parry
	BMJ  1999;318:393 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Resistance to antibiotics
	BMJ  1999;318:400 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Elective caesarean on request
	BMJ  1999;318:400 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	"Longlisting" from application forms
	Laurence Wood
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: More correspondence on the recent article on Working in Australia, ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Knowing when not to operate
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Knowing when not to operate
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Book: Addicted
	Michael Farrell
	BMJ  1999;318:404 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Evaluating Health Promotion
	Don Nutbeam
	BMJ  1999;318:404 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Spine and Medical Negligence
	Patrick Hoyte
	BMJ  1999;318:405 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: On-the-Job Training for Physicians
	Richard Harling
	BMJ  1999;318:405 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Elsie Inglis
	Melinda Tenant-Flowers
	BMJ  1999;318:405 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: George falls for Bill
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1999;318:406 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: http://www.maff.gov.uk/food/novel/acnfp.htm
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:406 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA ends link with Healthcall • NHS staff planning to be integrated • Scottish GPs will be consulted on NHS white paper • BMA gives evidence on private health care
	BMJ  1999;318:403 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	John Norman Agate • Henry Dundas Cockburn • Edgar Colin Colin-Jones • Wilfrid Henry Russell Cook • Kenneth Hazell • Frank Marr Milne • James Joseph Murray • John Richard Rose • Derek Seymour-Jones • John Emerson ("Jack") Simpson • Alice Eleanora Townsley • Catrin Williams
	Bryan Moore-Smith, Alasdair Fraser, D G Colin-Jones, Michael Cook, Vera M Hazell, John S G Blair, Michael Murray, Michael Rose, John Billinghurst, Hugh Dinwoodie, N Alan Green, Z Hammad
	BMJ  1999;318:401 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	What are the symptoms of varicose veins? Edinburgh vein study cross sectional population survey
	Andrew Bradbury, Christine Evans, Paul Allan, Amanda Lee, C Vaughan Ruckley, F G R Fowkes
	BMJ  1999;318:353-356 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Withdrawing low risk women from cervical screening programmes: mathematical modelling study • Commentary: trials versus models in appraising screening programmes
	C Sherlaw-Johnson, S Gallivan, D Jenkins, Geoff Royston
	BMJ  1999;318:356-361 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	National cross sectional study of detection of congenital and infantile cataract in the United Kingdom: role of childhood screening and surveillance
	Jugnoo S Rahi, Carol Dezateux
	BMJ  1999;318:362-365 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparison of residential and nursing home care before and after the 1993 community care policy
	Vivienne L S Crawford, T R O Beringer, R W Stout
	BMJ  1999;318:366 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Laterality of lower limb amputation in diabetic patients: retrospective audit
	Jonathan P Coxon, Ian W Gallen
	BMJ  1999;318:367 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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