This week's This week in the BMJ

	Eradicating Helicobacter pylori does not relieve dyspepsia [Full text] FREE

	Day hospitals are no better than other comprehensive elderly care [Full text] FREE

	Poliomyelitis may occur in children with HIV after poliomyelitis vaccination [Full text] FREE

	Postcodes can be useful indicators of social class [Full text] FREE

	Almost 3% of men report non-consensual sexual experiences as adults [Full text] FREE

	Should prophylaxis against osteoporotic fractures ignore bone mineral density? [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Artificial corneas
	Bruce Allan
	BMJ  1999;318:821-822 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The World Bank
	Robin Stott
	BMJ  1999;318:822-823 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	NICE: a panacea for the NHS?
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:823-824 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The evidence for  blockers in heart failure
	John GF Cleland, J McGowan, Andrew Clark, Nick Freemantle
	BMJ  1999;318:824-825 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The physical consequences of depressive illness
	Timothy G Dinan
	BMJ  1999;318:826 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Control of house dust mite in managing asthma
	Sonja G M Cloosterman, Onno C P van Schayck, David S Morrison, Thomas A E Platts-Mills, Martin D Chapman, Lisa M Wheatley, S J Muncer, Peter C Gøtzsche, Cecilia Hammarquist, Michael Burr
	BMJ  1999;318:870 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More thoughts prompted by the Bristol case
	C Thomson, Russell Hopkins
	BMJ  1999;318:871 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fear of hypercapnia is leading to inadequate oxygen treatment
	G G Lavery
	BMJ  1999;318:872 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Having practice pharmacists is not only way of reducing prescribing costs
	Darryl Tant
	BMJ  1999;318:872 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thalassaemia among Asians in Britain
	N Lakhani, Paramjit S Gill, Bernadette Modell
	BMJ  1999;318:873 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Costs incurred by one severely ill Jehovah's Witness could run one unit in Africa for one year
	Nicholas Wooding
	BMJ  1999;318:873 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How do two meta-analyses of similar data reach opposite conclusions?
	Morten Lindbaek, Per Hjortdahl
	BMJ  1999;318:873 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of drug budgets
	John P Ballantyne, Peter O Behan, Ian Bone, William F Durward, Donal Grosset, Peter G E Kennedy, Richard A Metcalfe, Colin P O'Leary, Richard H K Petty, Myfanwy Thomas, Hugh J Willison, Roderick Duncan, Alan G Wade
	BMJ  1999;318:874 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients who are eligible but not randomised should be included as additional comparative arm in study
	L Peter Fielding, Roger Grace, Rosemary Hittinger
	BMJ  1999;318:874 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' understanding of randomised controlled trials depends on their education
	E Pucci, N Belardinelli, M Signorino, F Angeleri
	BMJ  1999;318:875 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review on bladder cancer
	Jeremy Millar, A P M van der Meijden
	BMJ  1999;318:875 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of health services by children
	Fiona Reid, Patricia Sturdy, A Rogers, S Karlsen, M A Bruijnzeels, Wai-Ching Leung, Reg Bragonier, S Arber, H Cooper, C Smaje
	BMJ  1999;318:876 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Reflux "increases risk of adenocarcinoma of oesophagus"
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:827 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Statins being prescribed for those "least in need"
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1999;318:827 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:828 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US women asked to pay for epidurals in advance
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;318:828 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	"Thrifty gene" identified in Manitoba Indians
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;318:828 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Deaths from nvCJD rise sharply
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  1999;318:829 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	FDA proposes measuring antibiotics in feed
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;318:829 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	American trade union aims to recruit more doctors
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;318:829 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Japan tackles dioxin levels
	Claire Wallerstein
	BMJ  1999;318:830 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	All GPs to be required to have defence cover
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:830 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs face escalating litigation
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:830 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug trial investigators asked to declare financial interests
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;318:831 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK juniors to be surveyed over action on pay
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:831 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Upper age limit should be raised for cancer screening
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1999;318:831 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government sets out vision for clinical governance
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:832 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Germany: doctors' training to change
	Déirdre Cooper-Mahkorn
	BMJ  1999;318:832 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New curriculum at the Charite/ Virchow medical school in Berlin
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  1999;318:832 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Survival alone is not adequate measure of success, Bristol inquiry told
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;318:832 [Extract] [Full text]

	Romanian doctors get pay rise
	Tudor Toma
	BMJ  1999;318:832 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hungary behind in tackling millennium bug
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  1999;318:832 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Antivascular therapy: a new approach to cancer treatment
	A J Hayes, L Y Li, M E Lippman
	BMJ  1999;318:853-856 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Turner's syndrome mosaicism in patients with a normal blood lymphocyte karyotype
	Cristina Azcona, Philippe Bareille, Richard Stanhope
	BMJ  1999;318:856-857 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of labour care: Assessment of mother and fetus in labour
	Philip Steer
	BMJ  1999;318:858-861 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Lifetime prevalence, characteristics, and associated problems of non-consensual sex in men: cross sectional survey
	Adrian Coxell, Michael King, Gillian Mezey, Dawn Gordon
	BMJ  1999;318:846-850 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Towards primary care groups Joining up care in Londonestablishing the North Southwark Primary Care Group
	J L Campbell, S R Proctor
	BMJ  1999;318:850-852 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Spin doctor
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1999;318:883 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Where there's will, there's a way
	Roberto Lede
	BMJ  1999;318:883 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Changing perceptions in osteoporosis • Commentary: Bone density can be used to assess fracture risk
	Terence J Wilkin, Richard Eastell
	BMJ  1999;318:862-865 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The World Bank and world health: Changing sides
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1999;318:865-869 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:884 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: The dawn of medical science in Russia
	BMJ  1999;318:858 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Coeliac disease in primary care: case finding study
	BMJ  1999;318:857 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The genomic challenge
	BMJ  1999;318:857 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Low plasma vitamin D in Asian toddlers in Britain
	BMJ  1999;318:857 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Elder abuse
	BMJ  1999;318:s857 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of oxygen: Diving and oxygen
	BMJ  1999;318:857 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of sexual health (28 November 1998 to 6 March 1999)
	BMJ  1999;318:857 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Anaesthesia
	David J Wilkinson
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Another compelling episode of the BMA's cohort study of junior ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The Junior Doctors' Committee of the BMA made a ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	More things not to do
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Book: Medicine in the English Middle Ages
	Christopher Lawrence
	BMJ  1999;318:880 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Dementia Reconsidered: the Person Comes First
	Leon Flicker
	BMJ  1999;318:880 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	CD Rom: The Cochrane Library 1998 Issue 4
	Albert G Mulley
	BMJ  1999;318:881 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Clinical Governance: Making it Happen
	Pam Garside
	BMJ  1999;318:881 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Media: Screening stories
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1999;318:882 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: www.worldbank.org
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:882 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	LMCs should be recognised in Health Bill • GPC concludes negotiations on £60m fund • More doctors want to work flexibly • Police forces offer contract to private company
	BMJ  1999;318:879 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Robert Harvard Davis • Noel James Pratt • John Fraser Percy Quinton • Richard John William Rees
	Derek Llewellyn, Nigel Stott, Michael Mowbray, N Alan Green, A W McKenzie, G C Cook
	BMJ  1999;318:878 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Eradication of Helicobacter pylori in functional dyspepsia: randomised double blind placebo controlled trial with 12 months' follow up
	Nicholas J Talley, Jef Janssens, Karsten Lauritsen, István Rácz, Elisabeth Bolling-Sternevald
	BMJ  1999;318:833-837 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: longer version] FREE

	Systematic review of day hospital care for elderly people
	Anne Forster, John Young, Peter Langhorne
	BMJ  1999;318:837-841 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table 1] FREE

	Paralytic poliomyelitis associated with live oral poliomyelitis vaccine in child with HIV infection in Zimbabwe: case report
	Inam Chitsike, Ralph van Furth
	BMJ  1999;318:841-843 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Postcodes as useful markers of social class: population based study in 26 000 British households • Commentary: Socioeconomic position should be measured accurately
	John Danesh, Simon Gault, Jo Semmence, Paul Appleby, Richard Peto, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:843-845 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Transient hemiparesis with topiramate
	Linda J Stephen, Jan E Maxwell, Martin J Brodie
	BMJ  1999;318:845 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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