This week's This week in the BMJ

	Formula milk reduces psychomotor decline in infants from inner city areas [Full text] FREE

	Islet cell autoimmunity is genetically determined [Full text] FREE

	Secondary prevention of heart disease needs to be systematic [Full text] FREE

	Intracytoplasmic sperm injection does not slow cognitive development [Full text] FREE

	Avoiding antibiotics for acute otitis media reduces community load [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	With respect to old age
	Elaine Murphy
	BMJ  1999;318:681-682 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Surgical training, supervision, and service
	Charles Collins
	BMJ  1999;318:682-683 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Specialist liaison nurses
	Richard Hobbs, Ellen T Murray
	BMJ  1999;318:683-684 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Haemolytic uraemic syndrome and E coli 0157
	Margaret Fitzpatrick
	BMJ  1999;318:684-685 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hand washing
	Handwashing Liaison Group
	BMJ  1999;318:686 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Guideline for primary care management of dementia
	Tom Marshall, Rebecca Eastley, Judy Haworth, Gordon Wilcock, Deborah Sharp, William G Tapsfield, Diana M Jelley, H Matthews, D Wilkinson, C Holmes, Martin Eccles, Julie Clarke, Moira Livingstone, Nick Freemantle, James Mason
	BMJ  1999;318:731 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MONICA did not deliver on task it set out to accomplish
	Jeremy Laurance
	BMJ  1999;318:732 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Congenital abdominal wall defects in the United Kingdom
	Simon Clarke, Evelyn Dykes, Jean Chapple, Lenore Abramsky, Mark Kilby, Anthony Lander, Ann Tonks, Mike Wyldes
	BMJ  1999;318:733 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bruising associated with paediatric fractures
	Colin Paterson
	BMJ  1999;318:734 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Arterial blood gases and acid-base balance
	Peter C Matthews, Adrian Steele
	BMJ  1999;318:734 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Professional self respect
	S K Goolamali, J M Gumpel
	BMJ  1999;318:734 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More laboratories should test for Dientamoeba fragilis infection
	J J Windsor, E H Johnson
	BMJ  1999;318:735 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Compensation for needlestick injury is profoundly mistaken
	Stephen F Hayes
	BMJ  1999;318:735 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Most doctors see consent from functionalist perspective
	Eleanor Peters, Maggie Challis
	BMJ  1999;318:735 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consent of relatives is neither necessary nor sufficient for treating incompetent adults
	Peter Allmark
	BMJ  1999;318:736 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Full information about trials might be given retrospectively to participants
	Sarah Clement
	BMJ  1999;318:736 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Control of multidrug resistant tuberculosis
	Jaime E Ollé-Goig
	BMJ  1999;318:736 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	National cancer centre is good idea
	Karol Sikora
	BMJ  1999;318:736 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dermatology opinions via intranet could reduce waiting times
	Michael D'Souza, Dhiren Shah, Klaus Misch, Lucy Ostlere
	BMJ  1999;318:737 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors defend methods used in their paper
	Bertil Jacobson, Marc Bygdeman
	BMJ  1999;318:737 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Severe deep white matter lesions and outcome in major depressive disorder
	Michael Schirmer, Sandra Fels, Robert C Baldwin, Scott Walker, Alan Jackson, Stephen W Simpson, Alistair Burns
	BMJ  1999;318:737 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ipratropium does indeed reduce admissions to hospital with severe asthma
	Arno Zaritsky, Faiqa Qureshi
	BMJ  1999;318:738 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK trial of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation gave biased estimate of efficacy
	Frank Shann
	BMJ  1999;318:738 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Not enough evidence to justify ovarian cancer screening
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;318:687 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Parents of people with Down's syndrome report suboptimal care
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1999;318:687 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:688 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK obstetricians face redundancy
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:688 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Israel restricts fertility treatment
	By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1999;318:688 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Philippines tackles air pollution
	Claire Wallerstein
	BMJ  1999;318:689 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scientists discover a gene involved in diabetes and obesity
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;318:689 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	AMA issues guidelines on end of life care
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;318:690 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Audit Commission recommends home nursing shake up
	Pat Anderson
	BMJ  1999;318:690 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors may lose sole authority to prescribe
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:690 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Short course zidovudine cuts vertical transmission of HIV
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1999;318:691 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors to be advised on organ removal at necropsy
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:691 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Review calls for improved patient identification systems for blood
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1999;318:692 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Tissue damage is commonest cause of surgical negligence suits
	Mark Pownall
	BMJ  1999;318:692 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	South Korea cracks down on medical corruption
	Joanne McManus
	BMJ  1999;318:692 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	UK report calls for cooperation on population genotyping
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1999;318:692 [Extract] [Full text]

	Canadian government boosts health research
	Greg Basky
	BMJ  1999;318:692 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Ophthalmology
	Alistair R Fielder, Christopher Bentley, Merrick J Moseley
	BMJ  1999;318:717-720 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of labour care: Place of birth
	Luke Zander, Geoffrey Chamberlain
	BMJ  1999;318:721-723 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Randomised controlled trial of follow up care in general practice of patients with myocardial infarction and angina: final results of the Southampton heart integrated care project (SHIP)
	Kate Jolly, Fiona Bradley, Stephen Sharp, Helen Smith, Simon Thompson, Ann-Louise Kinmonth, David Mant
	BMJ  1999;318:706-711 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Development and evaluation of complex interventions in health services research: case study of the Southampton heart integrated care project (SHIP)
	Fiona Bradley, Rose Wiles, Ann-Louise Kinmonth, David Mant, Madeleine Gantley
	BMJ  1999;318:711-715 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	An evidence based approach to reducing antibiotic use in children with acute otitis media: controlled before and after study
	Christopher Cates
	BMJ  1999;318:715-716 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Updated handout] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Church parade
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1999;318:745 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	In memory of Annie
	Graz , Paul , Clare
	BMJ  1999;318:745 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Better benefits for health: plan to implement the central recommendation of the Acheson report
	Douglas Black, J N Morris, Cyril Smith, Peter Townsend
	BMJ  1999;318:724-727 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical guidelines: Using clinical guidelines
	Gene Feder, Martin Eccles, Richard Grol, Chris Griffiths, Jeremy Grimshaw
	BMJ  1999;318:728-730 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:746 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Cabbage
	Ambrose Bierce
	BMJ  1999;318:705 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . .: Please, please me
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1999;318:716 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Attitudes to flexible training
	Gail Norcliffe, Christine Finlan
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Presenteeism is the human resources jargon for a work culture ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: International aid situations might seem an unlikely place to crusade ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Staff: the major asset of a health service
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Staff: the major asset of a health service
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Book: Life Without Disease: The Pursuit of Medical Utopia
	Stephen Birch
	BMJ  1999;318:742 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Sports Medicine: Practical Guidelines for General Practice
	Malcolm B Bottomley
	BMJ  1999;318:742 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Extract: Mount Misery
	BMJ  1999;318:743 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	CD Rom: Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 1998
	Frank Sullivan
	BMJ  1999;318:743 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Media: Emergency soaps
	Ed Walker
	BMJ  1999;318:744 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: www.open.gov.uk/royal-commission-elderly/index.htm
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:744 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BESTSELLERS

This week's BESTSELLERS

	February Bestsellers
	BMJ  1999;318:743 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Debate on Viagra must extend to rationing • Inspecting private hospitals • BMA wants a London health strategy • Most flexible trainees are women
	BMJ  1999;318:741 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	GPC regional representatives 1999-2002
	BMJ  1999;318:741 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Martin Kwame Kari Kari Frimpong • Alfred Jonathan Levi • Edward Claude Lewis • Ernest Donald Page • Martin Roberts • William Frederick Russell • Raoul Peter Gauvain Sandon • Thomas Smith Scott • William Inglis Dunn Scott • John Laing Stevenson • Stanley Howard Taylor
	P Farooque, E Barthes-Wilson, Ashley Price, Judy Levi, Kevin Kelly, Stuart Sanders, Glan Phillips, W F Paveley, T C B Dehn, W R Lee, William Inglis Dunn Scott, Mark Vincent, B Silke
	BMJ  1999;318:739 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Iron supplemented formula milk related to reduction in psychomotor decline in infants from inner city areas: randomised study • Commentary: Iron deficiency and developmental deficitthe jury is still out
	J Williams, A Wolff, A Daly, A MacDonald, A Aukett, I W Booth, Stuart Logan
	BMJ  1999;318:693-698 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Genetic determination of islet cell autoimmunity in monozygotic twin, dizygotic twin, and non-twin siblings of patients with type 1 diabetes: prospective twin study
	Maria J Redondo, Marian Rewers, Liping Yu, Satish Garg, Colleen C Pilcher, Robert B Elliott, George S Eisenbarth
	BMJ  1999;318:698-702 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Training in large bowel cancer surgery: observations from three prospective regional United Kingdom audits
	R J Aitken, M R Thompson, J A E Smith, A G Radcliffe, J D Stamatakis, R J C Steele
	BMJ  1999;318:702-703 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Children born after intracytoplasmic sperm injection: population control study
	Alastair G Sutcliffe, Brent Taylor, Jun Li, Simon Thornton, J Gedis Grudzinskas, Brian A Lieberman
	BMJ  1999;318:704-705 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Science commentary: What is involved in intracytoplasmic sperm injection?
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1999;318:705 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

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