This week's This week in the BMJ

	Aspirin use does not contribute to intracerebral haemorrhage [Full text] FREE

	Dieting is linked to adolescent eating disorder [Full text] FREE

	Primary care group budgets will require better information systems and collaboration [Full text] FREE

	Activities to foster quality and accountability in primary care need to be coordinated [Full text] FREE

	Congenital rubella has fallen dramatically since vaccination started [Full text] FREE

	Urinary tract abnormalities are most associated with infections other than E coli [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Reforming British primary care (again)
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  1999;318:747-748 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Independence days
	John Oldham, Ian Rutter
	BMJ  1999;318:748-749 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Community development, user involvement, and primary health care
	Brian Fisher, Hilary Neve, Zoe Heritage
	BMJ  1999;318:749-750 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bone marrow transplantation for autoimmune diseases
	Michael Potter, Carol Black, Abi Berger
	BMJ  1999;318:750-751 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Aspirin for preventing and treating pre-eclampsia
	Lelia Duley
	BMJ  1999;318:751-752 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Performance indicators for primary care groups
	Paul Myers, Suresh Shah, Adrian Cook, Thomas Scanlon, Polly Tarrant, Mike Cranney, Stuart Barton, Alastair McColl, Paul Roderick, John Gabbay, Helen Smith, Michael Moore
	BMJ  1999;318:803 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antenatal screening
	Catherine Baillie, Jenny Hewison, Elizabeth Dormandy, T Fitzgerald
	BMJ  1999;318:805 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Icelandic gene database will uphold patients' rights
	Ragnheidr Haraldsdóttir
	BMJ  1999;318:806 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Modernising mental health services
	John Sharkey, Paul Johnstone, Chrissy Allot, Victoria Hawkins, Joanna Moncrieff, Philip Thomas, Mike Crawford, Claire Henderson, Tim Johnston
	BMJ  1999;318:806 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maggots are useful in treating infected or necrotic wounds
	S Thomas, Andrea Andrews, Mary Jones, John Church
	BMJ  1999;318:807 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescribing of nutritional supplements is increasing in general practice
	J Norwood, D Short, N Dakhill
	BMJ  1999;318:808 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ introduces a fast track system for papers
	John McConnell, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:808 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trends in deaths from malignant neoplasia of liver are poor indicator of hepatitis C infection
	Helen E Harris, Mary E Ramsay, Koye Balogun, Graeme J M Alexander
	BMJ  1999;318:808 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More studies are needed before giving magnesium sulphate for pre-eclampsia
	Lelia Duley, James Neilson, Karen Watkins
	BMJ  1999;318:809 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast screening
	Måns Rosén, Nina Rehnqvist, Michael Baum
	BMJ  1999;318:809 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Postmarketing surveillance study of a non-chlorofluorocarbon inhaler
	M G Bamber, Charlotte Paterson, J G Ayres, C D Frost, W F Holmes, D R R Williams, S M Ward
	BMJ  1999;318:810 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maintenance programmes are denied to addicted prisoners in Victoria
	Steve Simpson
	BMJ  1999;318:811 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Crisis in cremation
	Clare Hawley, M C Bateson, R N Arber
	BMJ  1999;318:811 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Publication time for letters
	Phil Taylor, Richard Smith, Marcus Müllner
	BMJ  1999;318:812 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Women with heart disease cautioned about HRT
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;318:753 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors take kidney from patient incapable of giving consent
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1999;318:753 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:754 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NIH's plans for online publishing could threaten journals
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1999;318:754 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bristol inquiry opens
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;318:754 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US passes bill protecting low income nursing home patients
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;318:755 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US reports increase in liver cancer
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:755 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Colleges issue guidelines to reduce deaths of babies
	Pat Anderson
	BMJ  1999;318:755 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Congo polio immunisation campaign gets go ahead
	Adrea Mach
	BMJ  1999;318:756 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Link between pollution and asthma uncovered
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1999;318:756 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Walk-in health care
	BMJ  1999;318:756 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Vinegar and visual inspection used to detect cervical cancer
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1999;318:757 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Brazil challenges doctors accused of torture
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;318:757 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	South African public sceptical about new AIDS "cure"
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1999;318:757 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Quality street
	BMJ  1999;318:758 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Four out of five Welsh health authorities in deficit
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;318:758 [Extract] [Full text]

	US blood banks to use genetic testing to reduce viral transmission
	BMJ  1999;318:758 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Hereditary ovarian carcinoma
	Lidia Kasprzak, William D Foulkes, Andrew N Shelling
	BMJ  1999;318:786-789 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based case report: Chlamydia infection in general practice
	N R Hicks, M Dawes, M Fleminger, D Goldman, J Hamling, L J Hicks
	BMJ  1999;318:790-792 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of labour care: Physiology and management of normal labour
	Philip Steer, Caroline Flint
	BMJ  1999;318:793-796 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Unified budgets for primary care groups
	Azeem Majeed, Laurence Malcolm
	BMJ  1999;318:772-776 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Setting budgets for general practice in the new NHS
	Peter C Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:776-779 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A model for clinical governance in primary care groups
	Richard Baker, Mayur Lakhani, Robin Fraser, Francine Cheater
	BMJ  1999;318:779-783 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Towards primary care groups Managing the future in Bradford
	S R Proctor, J L Campbell
	BMJ  1999;318:783-785 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Erratum
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1999;318:819 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	A role for advocacy in general medicine
	S M Hopkins
	BMJ  1999;318:819 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	For and against: Should we fight to preserve the independent status of general practitioners? • For • Against
	Roger Chapman, Helen Groom
	BMJ  1999;318:797-798 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Controversies in management: Should general practitioners perform diagnostic tests on patients before prescribing antibiotics? • For • Against
	Hans Jørn Kolmos, Paul Little
	BMJ  1999;318:799-802 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:820 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: The piano as a cause of neuroses
	BMJ  1999;318:771 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Observing patients: Deaf wife
	Edwin Besterman
	BMJ  1999;318:798 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A communication headache
	Nick Fox
	BMJ  1999;318:802 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Nicotine nasal spray with nicotine patch for smoking cessation: randomised trial with six year follow up
	BMJ  1999;318:764 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Assessment of competence to complete advance directives: validation of a patient centred approach
	BMJ  1999;318:764 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Disability assessment medicine
	Mansel Aylward, Philip Sawney
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Health service morale is at a low ebb according to ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Permanent revolution in primary care
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

This week's NETLINES

	Netlines
	BMJ  1999;318:817 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Exhibition: Jackson Pollock
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  1999;318:816 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Management of Acute and Chronic Pain
	Mathew Zacharias
	BMJ  1999;318:816 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Film: Patch Adams
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1999;318:817 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: www.nacgp.ork.uk/
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:817 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking and women: beauty before age?
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1999;318:818 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA calls for renewed action on debt relief • Medical schools must not be overcrowded • Scottish GPs reach some agreement on LHCCs • Refugee doctors in United Kingdom need help • BMA secures equal pay victory
	BMJ  1999;318:815 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Kamal Al-Samarraie • Behjat Mukhtar Ansari • Thomas Leary Kelly • John Charles Knox • Liselotte (Lilo) Lennhoff • Margaret Mary Crawford Louden • John Alexander McKinnon • Swapna Majumdar • Brian Thomas O'Connor • Nawal Kishore Prasad Singh • Frederick Robert Store • William Stanley Sutton • David Peter Winder
	A S M Jawad, D P Davies, Robin Kelly, Bob Corfield, John Knox, Tony Clark, Pam Grasty, Josephine Barnes, C H Yarwood Smith, Baishali Majumdar, G A Evans, Brian Livesley, Frederick Robert Store, Colin Ogilvie, Barry C Hovell, I Williams
	BMJ  1999;318:813 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Risk of primary intracerebral haemorrhage associated with aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: case-control study
	Amanda G Thrift, John J McNeil, Andrew Forbes, Geoffrey A Donnan
	BMJ  1999;318:759-764 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Onset of adolescent eating disorders: population based cohort study over 3 years
	G C Patton, R Selzer, C Coffey, J B Carlin, R Wolfe
	BMJ  1999;318:765-768 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Surveillance of congenital rubella in Great Britain, 1971-96
	Pat A Tookey, Catherine S Peckham
	BMJ  1999;318:769-770 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cohort study of bacterial species causing urinary tract infection and urinary tract abnormalities in children
	Olli Honkinen, Olli-Pekka Lehtonen, Olli Ruuskanen, Pentti Huovinen, Jussi Mertsola
	BMJ  1999;318:770-771 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Severe ergotism associated with interaction between ritonavir and ergotamine
	Lucas Liaudet
	BMJ  1999;318:771 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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eBMJ -- Primary care groups [Full text]

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