This week's This week in the BMJ

	Impaired fertility and testicular cancer share common causes [Full text] FREE

	Chinese herbal creams may contain steroids [Full text] FREE

	Gastroenteritis greatly increases risk of irritable bowel syndrome [Full text] FREE

	In consultations male doctors communicate like women [Full text] FREE

	Vitamin A or  carotene reduces mortality related to pregnancy in Nepal [Full text] FREE

	Screening of children returning from living in the tropics is worth while [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The paradoxes of genetically modified foods
	Bernard Dixon
	BMJ  1999;318:547-548 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Infection and preterm delivery
	Peter Brocklehurst
	BMJ  1999;318:548-549 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Public health psychiatry or crime prevention?
	Nigel Eastman
	BMJ  1999;318:549-551 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of vitamin A and  carotene supplementation on women's health
	Sjúrpur F Olsen
	BMJ  1999;318:551-552 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Countering poor training within the NHS
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:552 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Call to needle times after acute myocardial infarction
	June Edhouse, J Wardrope, F P Morris, Matthew Hough, John Knighton, Rajai Ahmad, Margaret Pritchard, Mary Fairfield, John Middleton, John Rawles
	BMJ  1999;318:597 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advertising by pharmaceutical companies in eBMJ
	Sheila McKechnie, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:598 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer
	Hazel Thornton, Meirion Thomas, N Beechey-Newman, I S Fentiman, A E Young, J Michael Dixon
	BMJ  1999;318:599 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women remain confused about breast cancer
	Margaret Spittle, Delyth Morgan
	BMJ  1999;318:600 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Multiple test procedures other than Bonferroni's deserve wider use
	Ralf Bender, Stefan Lange
	BMJ  1999;318:600 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inequalities in health
	John Ashton, George Davey Smith, Jeremy N Morris, Mary Shaw
	BMJ  1999;318:601 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Avoiding the consequences of deep vein thrombosis
	D Gidden, S Kershaw, Ben Essex
	BMJ  1999;318:601 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Communicating risk reductions
	J McMurray, D J Galton, M Seed, Adrian Edwards, Glyn Elwyn, Nigel Stott, Nicholas Steel, John-Arne Skolbekken
	BMJ  1999;318:602 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Portable camping stoves continue to cause burns
	A M Richards, P G Shakespeare, A Rossi
	BMJ  1999;318:604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	White paper on tobacco takes a laudable stance
	Derek Yach, Eric LeGresley
	BMJ  1999;318:604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paying for nicotine replacement therapy is cheaper than smoking 20 cigarettes a day
	Robert Bunney
	BMJ  1999;318:604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Appearance of the hymen in adolescents is not well documented
	Emma Curtis, Camille San Lazaro
	BMJ  1999;318:605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Role of conventional ovarian screening is questioned
	Gordon Narayansingh, Kheng Chew, David Parkin
	BMJ  1999;318:605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Perinatal death associated with planned home birth in Australia
	Peter Sullivan, Sally Katherine Tracy, Hilda Bastian, Marc J N C Keirse, Paul A L Lancaster
	BMJ  1999;318:605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Government sets up inquiry into ventilation trial
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  1999;318:553 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC advises doctors on seeking consent
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:553 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:554 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Sacked editor takes new post
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1999;318:554 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Newborns prescribed drugs only tested in adults
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1999;318:554 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scientists try new strategy to eradicate dengue fever
	Georgina Kenyon
	BMJ  1999;318:555 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New guidelines for mild hypertension published
	Paul Dinsdale
	BMJ  1999;318:555 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Primary care trusts will have wide powers
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:555 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Quebec faces severe pressure on casualty departments
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;318:556 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Price of some drugs in Hungary to rise 30%for patients
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  1999;318:556 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Abuse of OTC drugs rising in South Asia
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1999;318:556 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New malaria vaccine shows promise
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;318:557 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scottish white paper aims to tackle health divide
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1999;318:557 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Staphylococcus resistant to vancomycin emerges
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:557 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	"Unprecedented" row delays second phase of BSE inquiry
	BMJ  1999;318:558 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Genetically modified foods
	Leighton Jones
	BMJ  1999;318:581-584 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Restrictive-constrictive heart failure masquerading as liver disease
	Martin D Lowe, Alun A Harcombe, Andrew A Grace, Michael C Petch
	BMJ  1999;318:585-586 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of sexual health: Sexual problems associated with infertility, pregnancy, and ageing
	Jane Read
	BMJ  1999;318:587-589 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Double blind, cluster randomised trial of low dose supplementation with vitamin A or  carotene on mortality related to pregnancy in Nepal
	Keith P West, Jr, Joanne Katz, Subarna K Khatry, Steven C LeClerq, Elizabeth K Pradhan, Sharada R Shrestha, Paul B Connor, Sanu M Dali, Parul Christian, Ram P Pokhrel, Alfred Sommer
	BMJ  1999;318:570-575 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Descriptive study of cooperative language in primary care consultations by male and female doctors
	J R Skelton, F D R Hobbs
	BMJ  1999;318:576-579 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Influence of symptoms of anxiety on treatment of depression in later life in primary care: questionnaire survey
	Michael Kirby, Aisling Denihan, Irene Bruce, Alicja Radic, Davis Coakley, Brian A Lawlor
	BMJ  1999;318:579-580 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Smug
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1999;318:613 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	A sacrificial lamb
	Jamie Bahrami
	BMJ  1999;318:612 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Conferences should be held where the problems are
	Andrew R Potter
	BMJ  1999;318:613 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Health, health promotion, and homelessness
	Robert Power, Rebecca French, James Connelly, Steve George, Derek Hawes, Teresa Hinton, Hilary Klee, David Robinson, Jeanette Senior, Philip Timms, David Warner
	BMJ  1999;318:590-592 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical guidelines: Developing guidelines
	Paul G Shekelle, Steven H Woolf, Martin Eccles, Jeremy Grimshaw
	BMJ  1999;318:593-596 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:614 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: The bicycle and diseases of women
	BMJ  1999;318:568 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A fairy story that I now understand: There's nothing really new
	Tom Treasure
	BMJ  1999;318:580 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A happy coincidence
	Richard Grainger
	BMJ  1999;318:584 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Our own way
	Loa Tsu
	BMJ  1999;318:584 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Unerring trust
	David A Black
	BMJ  1999;318:592 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my practice: Patients not protocols
	Elizabeth A McClure
	BMJ  1999;318:596 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMA NOTICES
	BMJ  1999;318:609 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Recent advances: Neurosurgery
	BMJ  1999;318:562 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obituary
	BMJ  1999;318:562 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Smoking cessation: evidence based recommendations for the healthcare system
	BMJ  1999;318:562 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Choosing a house job
	Jessica Westall
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Is competence comparable to pornography? An editorial in the Journal ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Doctors often express the wish to develop their medicolegal skills. ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Among many modernisations, New Labour has the consultant contract firmly ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	If in doubt, start an inquiry
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	If in doubt, start an inquiry
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Book: Publishing Your Medical Research Paper: What They Don't Teach You in Medical School
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1999;318:610 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	CD Rom: Electronic DTB, eBNF/eMeReC
	Colin P Bradley
	BMJ  1999;318:610 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Media: Hot potato
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1999;318:611 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the Week: http://www.netlink.de/gen/home.html
	Richard Harling
	BMJ  1999;318:611 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Netlines
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  1999;318:612 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Consultants object to government's action • BMA seeks amendments to Health Bill • Casualty departments to get facelift • Campaign will raise awareness about suicide
	BMJ  1999;318:609 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Charles Nathaniel ("Natty") Armstrong • Charles Richard Berkin • George Duncan Campbell • John William Carter • David Alfred Davies • Humphrey William Elcock • Christopher Rupert Bailey Hole • Edward Brian Lewis • William Weir Marshall • John Ross Milne • Colin George Mitchell • Joseph Dunbar Paterson
	H A Dewar, K E Berkin, G Hoyle, Y K Seedat, Sarah Marshall, J G Wingfield, John Topham, Joan Bryson, Jeremy Warwick, Lucinda Davison, James Appleyard, W Gordon Semple, George Dale, David Grieve, T M Paterson
	BMJ  1999;318:607 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Risk of testicular cancer in subfertile men: case-control study
	Henrik Møller, Niels E Skakkebæk
	BMJ  1999;318:559-562 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Analysis of Chinese herbal creams prescribed for dermatological conditions
	F M Keane, S E Munn, A W P du Vivier, N F Taylor, E M Higgins
	BMJ  1999;318:563-564 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Increased risk of irritable bowel syndrome after bacterial gastroenteritis: cohort study
	Luis A García Rodríguez, Ana Ruigómez
	BMJ  1999;318:565-566 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cross sectional study of social variation in use of an out of hours patient transport service
	Catherine A O'Donnell, Alex McConnachie, Katrina Moffat, Neil Drummond, Philip Wilson, Sue Ross
	BMJ  1999;318:566-567 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Trend analysis of socioeconomic differentials in deaths from injury in childhood in Scotland, 1981-95
	Anita Morrison, David H Stone, Adam Redpath, Harry Campbell, John Norrie
	BMJ  1999;318:567-568 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Routine screening of children returning home from the tropics: retrospective study
	Marianne L Brouwer, Jules J M Tolboom, Jaap H J Hardeman
	BMJ  1999;318:568 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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