This week's This week in the BMJ

	Adverse prenatal and perinatal factors are associated with schizophrenia of early onset [Full text] FREE

	Catch-up growth in childhood is linked with increased risk of coronary heart disease [Full text] FREE

	Depression may be missed in patients who "normalise" their symptoms [Full text] FREE

	Longstanding depression, but not recovery from depression, predicts mortality in old people [Full text] FREE

	Uterotonic drugs have no adverse effects on cognitive function [Full text] FREE

	Thyroid dysfunction is not more common in people with giant cell ateritis [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Renal transplantation from living donors
	Michael L Nicholson, J Andrew Bradley
	BMJ  1999;318:409-410 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Delivering inhaled corticosteroids to patients
	Christopher O'Callaghan, Peter Barry
	BMJ  1999;318:410-411 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Radiosurgery for brain tumours
	Michael Brada, Garth Cruickshank
	BMJ  1999;318:411-412 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points for pain: waiting list priority scoring systems
	Rhiannon Tudor Edwards
	BMJ  1999;318:412-414 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Breast implants: evidence based patient choice and litigation
	J A Muir Gray
	BMJ  1999;318:414 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Meta-analysis of diabetes care in general practice
	Ian Barlow, Stephen Beer, Nick Summerton, Kamlesh Khunti, Simon Griffin
	BMJ  1999;318:460 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based patient information
	P V Gardiner, Ray Jones, Robert Thomas, Ken Campbell
	BMJ  1999;318:461 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing serious child abuse
	Brian Morgan, David P H Jones, Margaret Lynch, Neil G Snowise
	BMJ  1999;318:462 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vitamin B-6
	J Marks, Arnold Beckett
	BMJ  1999;318:463 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Albumin controversy continues
	Richard Patey, Georgina Wilson, Tony Hulse, Stephen Workman
	BMJ  1999;318:464 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Beyond conflict of interest
	Oliver Dearlove, Robert F Garry, Liz Wager, Ian Roberts, Kristian Wahlbeck, Clive Adams, Richard Edwards, Raj Bhopal, Daniel J Highkin, David F Horrobin
	BMJ  1999;318:464 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Labour's health policy is having paradoxical effect in Iberian countries
	Joan Gené-Badia
	BMJ  1999;318:466 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Early regrafting after primary liver transplantation carries increased risk of death
	Shlokarth Balupuri, Derek Manas, Michael Thick, David Talbot
	BMJ  1999;318:467 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community health services must be considered in proposals for integrated records
	S Hume, P Robinson, RM Wrate, A Gowans, D Manders
	BMJ  1999;318:467 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Antiabortionists ordered to pay $108m for threats of violence
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;318:415 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Educated adults have fewer sex problems in the US
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:415 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:416 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US medical association reaches agreement with sacked editor
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1999;318:416 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NICE to sort clinical "wheat from chaff"
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:416 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Antibiotics may prevent heart attacks
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1999;318:417 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Advertising Standards Authority finds against Nestlé
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;318:417 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Rush for primary care groups
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:417 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US debates treatment of marginally viable babies
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;318:418 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	European court upholds UK ban on Halcion
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:418 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Edinburgh university fined forlack of safety checks
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:418 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Consultant physicians should be appraised annually
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:419 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Former French ministers on trial over blood
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1999;318:419 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Spain cuts waiting times for surgery
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  1999;318:419 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Mild cervical dysplasia often reverts to normal
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;318:420 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UN study reports Asian economic crisis has hit women's health
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;318:420 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Testicular cancer increases in Ontario
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;318:420 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	UK beef bone ban to stay
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:420 [Extract] [Full text]

	Australia to investigate accusation of racism in accreditation of surgeons
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1999;318:420 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Oncology
	Martin H N Tattersall, Hilary Thomas
	BMJ  1999;318:445-448 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Haemochromatosis and exercise related joint pains
	Ian McCurdie, J David Perry
	BMJ  1999;318:449-451 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of sexual health: Homosexual men and women
	Robin Bell
	BMJ  1999;318:452-455 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Cross sectional study of symptom attribution and recognition of depression and anxiety in primary care • Commentary: There must be limits to the medicalisation of human distress
	David Kessler, Keith Lloyd, Glyn Lewis, Dennis Pereira Gray, Iona Heath
	BMJ  1999;318:436-440 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Experiences with "rapid appraisal" in primary care: involving the public in assessing health needs, orientating staff, and educating medical students
	Scott A Murray
	BMJ  1999;318:440-444 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Snow in Chicago
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1999;318:473 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The emperor has no clothes on
	Jonathan Easterbrooke
	BMJ  1999;318:473 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Perspectives of commissioners and cancer specialists in prioritising new cancer drugs: impact of the evidence threshold
	Robbie Foy, June So, Elizabeth Rous, J Howard Scarffe
	BMJ  1999;318:456-459 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	BMJ  1999;318:472 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:474 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: What is research?
	P B Medawar
	BMJ  1999;318:434 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A dilemma: A half mixed compound?
	David Dean
	BMJ  1999;318:435 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The inventor of matches
	BMJ  1999;318:449 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Memorable patients: High altitude medicine
	Solomon Almond
	BMJ  1999;318:455 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The plague returns
	Daniel Defoe
	BMJ  1999;318:456 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Making friends with RITA
	John Bache
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: If seeing patients is the easy bit,(1) it is uncontroversial ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Early life and adult disease
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Early life and adult disease
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Book: When She Was Bad: How Women Get Away with Murder
	Raj Persaud
	BMJ  1999;318:470 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Epidemiology Kept Simple: An Introduction to Classic and Modern Epidemiology
	David Batty
	BMJ  1999;318:470 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  1999;318:471 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Salt, Diet and Health
	Marcus Müllner
	BMJ  1999;318:471 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Books: Public Health at the Crossroads: Achievements and Prospects • Making Sense of Public Health Medicine • Progress in Public Health
	Max O Bachmann
	BMJ  1999;318:472 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: www.christiangallery.com/atrocity
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:472 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	William James Archibald Craig • Hugh Graham Davies • Ralph Geoffrey Moore • Diana Gray Paradise • Charles Rowley Davidson Porter • Maureen Preston (née Willmot Evans) • Nathaniel ("Nat") Rifkind • Donald Bruce Scott • John David Swan • Bernard Martyn Watney • Stanley Robert Williams • Morton Barnett Wilson
	B G Forrest, Robin Lambert, Matt Hoghton, Dolf Polak, Ronald Hyde, C A Porter, Michael P Lewis, E Sheville, John H McClure, John D O Loudon, Margaret Swan, T R E Pilkington, N Laurence, B R P Murray, Christopher Everett, Hugh Bethell
	BMJ  1999;318:468 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Prenatal and perinatal risk factors for schizophrenia, affective psychosis, and reactive psychosis of early onset: case-control study • Prenatal and perinatal risk factors for early onset schizophrenia, affective psychosis, and reactive psychosis
	Christina M Hultman, Pär Sparén, Noriyoshi Takei, Robin M Murray, Sven Cnattingius, John Geddes
	BMJ  1999;318:421-426 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Catch-up growth in childhood and death from coronary heart disease: longitudinal study
	J G Eriksson, T Forsén, J Tuomilehto, P D Winter, C Osmond, D J P Barker
	BMJ  1999;318:427-431 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Follow up study of longstanding depression as predictor of mortality in elderly people living in the community
	Tuula Pulska, Kimmo Pahkala, Pekka Laippala, Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä
	BMJ  1999;318:432-433 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Historical cohort study of in utero exposure to uterotonic drugs and cognitive function in young adult life
	Henrik Toft Sørensen, Kenneth J Rothman, Matthew W Gillman, Flemming Hald Steffensen, Peer Fischer, Svend Sabroe
	BMJ  1999;318:433-434 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Giant cell arteritis and thyroid dysfunction: multicentre case-control study
	Pierre Duhaut, Hubert Bornet, Laurent Pinède, Sylvie Demolombe-Ragué, Robert Loire, Dominique Seydoux, Jacques Ninet, Jean Pasquier
	BMJ  1999;318:434-435 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table A: Giant cell arteritis and thyroid dysfunction][extra: Data Supplement] FREE

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