This week's This week in the BMJ

	Once is enough for neonatal screening [Full text] FREE

	Rivastigmine may improve functioning in mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease [Full text] FREE

	Patients want more information than doctors want to give [Full text] FREE

	Women with learning disability are not being screened for cervical cancer [Full text] FREE

	Children from lower social classes consult more often [Full text] FREE

	Consensus on criteria for evaluating health related web sites is emerging [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimer's disease
	Leon Flicker
	BMJ  1999;318:615-616 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Something borrowed from the blues?
	Kwame McKenzie
	BMJ  1999;318:616-617 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endoscopic treatment of bile duct stones in elderly people
	Tony C K Tham, David L Carr-Locke
	BMJ  1999;318:617-618 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The role of the routine neonatal examination
	D M B Hall
	BMJ  1999;318:619-620 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ introduces a fast track system for papers
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood, Roger Robinson
	BMJ  1999;318:620 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Instructions for fast track articles]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Carriage of meningococci in contacts of patients with meningococcal disease
	Andrew Hayward, Peter Dutton, Robert Winterton, Ewan Wright, Han San Aw Yeang, Ralf Reintjes, Marina A E Conyn-van Spaendonck, Andrew Jenkins, Yngvar Tveten, Bjørn-Erik Kristiansen
	BMJ  1999;318:665 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care arrangements for elderly people in residential and nursing homes
	Shane Kavanagh, Martin Knapp
	BMJ  1999;318:666 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating type 2 diabetes
	K M Venkat Narayan, Gloria L A Beckles, Edward W Gregg, David F Williamson, J Saaddine, Michael M Engelgau, Frank Vinicor, Evald H Christiansen, Stefan M Groetsch, Joseph T LaVan, John W Epling, Jonathan Richards, Robert Turner, Rury Holman
	BMJ  1999;318:666 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long stay care and the NHS
	W R Primrose, B A Hamilton, K T Muir, Gordon Brown, David Burke, Helen Watson, Linda de Caestecker, John Womersley
	BMJ  1999;318:668 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scotland needs a bed inquiry
	Matthew G Dunnigan
	BMJ  1999;318:668 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sildenafil (Viagra) is used as a recreational drug in England
	Judith Aldridge, Fiona Measham
	BMJ  1999;318:669 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Contributors to antibiotic resistance
	M J Cheesbrough, Paul Godwin, Mario Guslandi, Andrew J Smith, Elizabeth Dickson, Kirsty M Roy, Duncan MacKenzie, Margaret S Jackson, Jeremy Bagg
	BMJ  1999;318:669 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Medication concordance" is best helped by improving consultation skills
	Judy Chen
	BMJ  1999;318:670 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meeting health needs of asylum seekers
	Helen Hogan, Philip Matthews
	BMJ  1999;318:671 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Register cannot replace prospective studies in sickle cell disease
	A Yardumian, A Olujohungbe, K Cinkotai
	BMJ  1999;318:671 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Helping airline passengers
	Alan E H Emery, J C Merritt, W Angus Wallace, John Cheng, Patrick Dowling
	BMJ  1999;318:672 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Swedish study questions mammography screening programmes
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1999;318:621 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK introduces "NHS Oscars"
	Mark Pownall
	BMJ  1999;318:621 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:622 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK commission recommends new ways to fund care of elderly people
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:622 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US launches campaign to combat Medicare fraud
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;318:622 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Adding chemotherapy improves survival in cervical cancer
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;318:623 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK class tobacco action nears collapse
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:623 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Hungarian university starts first migration medicine course
	Carl Kovacs
	BMJ  1999;318:624 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Research shows optimal spacing for healthy babies
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:624 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	China cracks down on counterfeit medicines
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1999;318:624 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS to come under Race Relations Act
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:625 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Surgery increases risk ofsporadic CJD
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1999;318:625 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Autoimmune reaction links chlamydia to heart disease
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1999;318:625 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Vancomycin resistant staphylococcus reported in Hong Kong
	Joanne McManus
	BMJ  1999;318:626 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK medical schools should expand to meet staff shortages
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:626 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Irish government to set up tribunal for hearing loss in soldiers
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1999;318:626 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

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This week's News extra

	AIDS vaccines tested in Thailand and Uganda
	BMJ  1999;318:626 [Extract] [Full text]

	Study finds disparity in care after heart attack
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:626 [Extract] [Full text]

	Parents demand names of children given faulty vaccine
	BMJ  1999;318:626 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK launches study to follow childhood cancer survivors
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;318:626 [Extract] [Full text]

	US considers routine childhood hepatitis A vaccination in high risk states
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;318:626 [Extract] [Full text]

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

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Published criteria for evaluating health related web sites: review
	Paul Kim, Thomas R Eng, Mary Jo Deering, Andrew Maxfield
	BMJ  1999;318:647-649 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extended methods section] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Intracoronary stents
	Manish M Gandhi, Keith D Dawkins
	BMJ  1999;318:650-653 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extended version]

	ABC of sexual health: Sexual variations
	W P de Silva
	BMJ  1999;318:654-656 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Socioeconomic differences in childhood consultation rates in general practice in England and Wales: prospective cohort study
	Sonia Saxena, Azeem Majeed, Michael Jones
	BMJ  1999;318:642-646 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Making them squirm
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1999;318:679 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Tackling institutional racism
	Joe Collier
	BMJ  1999;318:679 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Roles and responsibilities of the problem based learning tutor in the undergraduate medical curriculum
	Gillian Maudsley
	BMJ  1999;318:657-661 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical guidelines: Legal and political considerations of clinical practice guidelines
	Brian Hurwitz
	BMJ  1999;318:661-664 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	BMJ  1999;318:680 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A patient who changed my practice: Footsteps and faces
	Michelle White
	BMJ  1999;318:632 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Child labour
	BMJ  1999;318:642 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: How to start
	Blaise Pascal
	BMJ  1999;318:647 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Medical aid associations
	BMJ  1999;318:657 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1999;318:622 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Equity in study leave
	Rosemary Macdonald
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The new NHS information strategy recognised the skill deficit that ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Error and institutionalised racism
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOKCASE

This week's BOOKCASE

	Bookcase
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  1999;318:677 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Exhibition: Duchenne and Gachet
	Arpan K Banerjee
	BMJ  1999;318:676 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Blood and Bone
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1999;318:676 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Journal: Nature Medicine
	Peter J M Openshaw
	BMJ  1999;318:677 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Media: Down and loud
	Raj Persaud
	BMJ  1999;318:678 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: www.cre.gov.uk
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:678 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GPs will set up an English committee • Defence medical services have been cut too steeply • Helping to learn about medicine • Consultants' leader meets health minister • New owner takes over BMA's taxation service
	BMJ  1999;318:675 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Anthony Dominic Abdullah • Shaukat Hussain Ansari • Roland Barnes • Jonathan Joseph Bolger • Douglas Victor Vaughan Bowen-Jones • Mary Forbes Brownlie • Edgar Austin Peter Croydon • John Lewis Francis • Herbert Frood • William Stevenson Hamilton • Alexander Fordyce Johnstone • John Wingrave Landells
	Keith Ball, M T Hyder, David L Hamblen, David Radstone, Ian Manifold, Ann Bowen-Jones, M E Moore, Patrick Robinson, J A Gibson, G B White, D J Lane, Martin Whittet, J F Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:673 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Neonatal examination and screening trial (NEST): a randomised, controlled, switchback trial of alternative policies for low risk infants • Commentary: "Switchback" allocationdangerous bends ahead!
	Cathryn M A Glazener, Craig R Ramsay, Marion K Campbell, Philip Booth, Paul Duffty, David J Lloyd, Alison McDonald, J Anne Reid, Jonathan J Deeks
	BMJ  1999;318:627-632 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Efficacy and safety of rivastigmine in patients with Alzheimer's disease: international randomised controlled trial • Commentary: Another piece of the Alzheimer's jigsaw
	Michael Rösler, Ravi Anand, Ana Cicin-Sain, Serge Gauthier, Yves Agid, Peter Dal-Bianco, Hannes B Stähelin, Richard Hartman, Marguirguis Gharabawi, Tony Bayer
	BMJ  1999;318:633-640 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Members of groups] FREE

	Science commentary: Rational drug design for Alzheimer's disease
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1999;318:633 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patients' and doctors' attitudes to amount of information given after unintended injury during treatment: cross sectional, questionnaire survey
	Melanie Hingorani, Tina Wong, Gilli Vafidis
	BMJ  1999;318:640-641 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cross sectional survey of cervical cancer screening in women with learning disability
	Ken Stein, Nick Allen
	BMJ  1999;318:641 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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