This week's This week in the BMJ

	Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine is not linked to diabetes [Full text] FREE

	No link exists between pertussis vaccination and wheezing illnesses in young children [Full text] FREE

	Autoinflation may help in glue ear, but the evidence is poor [Full text] FREE

	Drugs and emotional support are effective against depression in primary care [Full text] FREE

	Drugs are a mainstay of efficient treatment for depression [Full text] FREE

	Devolution poses challenges for tackling health inequalities [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The NHS after devolution
	Colin Leys
	BMJ  1999;318:1155-1156 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Devolution in Swedish health care
	Finn Diderichsen
	BMJ  1999;318:1156-1157 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cross border health care in Europe
	Panos Kanavos, Martin McKee, Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1999;318:1157-1158 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Avoiding becoming the English Medical Journal
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:1158-1159 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Vaccination and type 1 diabetes mellitus
	David Elliman
	BMJ  1999;318:1159-1160 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing gun deaths in the United States
	Stephen P Teret, Daniel W Webster
	BMJ  1999;318:1160-1161 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Chemotherapy and radiotherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer
	Chris Williams
	BMJ  1999;318:1161-1162 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Early discharge after surgery for breast cancer
	D W England, Liz Hopkins, Allan D Spigelman, Roger Ackroyd, Malcolm W R Reed, Nigel J Bundred, Andrew D Baildam, Lester Barr, Peter Maguire, Jill Reynolds, Lesley Thomson, Jill Grimshaw, Julie Morris
	BMJ  1999;318:1210 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Association between obstetric care and risk of suicide
	D J Gunnell, Andy Ness, Elise Whitley, Bertil Jacobson, Marc Bygdeman
	BMJ  1999;318:1211 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines in general practice
	Rudolf Hanka, Ian Hill-Smith, Michael G McCullagh, David S Meldrum
	BMJ  1999;318:1212 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Female breast surgeons might be preferred but may not be better
	C W Martin
	BMJ  1999;318:1213 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More than third of world's population has been infected with hepatitis B virus
	A J Zuckerman
	BMJ  1999;318:1213 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The last armed service hospital
	Philip Fulford
	BMJ  1999;318:1213 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anaemia in blood donors is not being properly investigated
	R Harvey, R J Lock, D J Unsworth
	BMJ  1999;318:1214 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Laparoscopic versus open mesh repair of inguinal hernia
	James Wellwood, Mark Sculpher, David Stoker
	BMJ  1999;318:1214 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More on albumin
	Ian Roberts, Philip Edwards, Brian McLelland, Brendan J Fogarty, Khalid Khan
	BMJ  1999;318:1214 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ should cover health policies of all parties in Scottish election
	Malcolm Kerr
	BMJ  1999;318:1215 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Study demonstrates link between cancer survival and wealth
	Pat Anderson
	BMJ  1999;318:1163 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US cancer rate declines
	Debbie Josefson
	BMJ  1999;318:1163 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:1164 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Antihypertensives reduce left ventricular hypertrophy
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:1164 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Falsifying data is main problem in US research fraud review
	Mark Pownall
	BMJ  1999;318:1164 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	England and Wales introduce new system for medical negligence claims
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:1165 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Computer system boosts accuracy of cervical testing
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1999;318:1165 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NIH outlines strategy for electronic database
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1999;318:1165 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Measures to improve underfunding are central to Scottish election health policies
	BMJ  1999;318:1166 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Welsh Assembly candidates target inequalities in health
	BMJ  1999;318:1167 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Mother loses bid to clarify rights of parents in treatment decisions
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:1167 [Extract] [Full text]

	GMC clears doctors on accidental morphine overdose
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:1167 [Extract] [Full text]

	Tories trip up on health policy
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:1167 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Drug treatment of depression
	Olav Spigset, Björn Mårtensson
	BMJ  1999;318:1188-1191 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of labour care: Unusual presentations and positions and multiple pregnancy
	Geoffrey Chamberlain, Philip Steer
	BMJ  1999;318:1192-1194 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	The Norwegian naturalistic treatment study of depression in general practice (NORDEP)I: randomised double blind study
	Ulrik F Malt, Ole Herman Robak, H-P Madsbu, O Bakke, M Loeb
	BMJ  1999;318:1180-1184 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Towards primary care groups The development of local healthcare cooperatives in Scotland
	Jane Hopton, David Heaney
	BMJ  1999;318:1185-1187 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Arise, Sir Lancelot
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1999;318:1221 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	BMJ should stop confusing its readers over national differences
	Arthur Morris
	BMJ  1999;318:1221 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Devolution and health: challenges for Scotland and Wales
	Allyson M Pollock
	BMJ  1999;318:1195-1198 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Decentralisation and equity of healthcare provision in Finland
	Meri Koivusalo
	BMJ  1999;318:1198-1200 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Decentralised health care in Canada
	Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong
	BMJ  1999;318:1201-1204 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Devolving health services to Spain's autonomous regions
	Diego Reverte-Cejudo, Marciano Sánchez-Bayle
	BMJ  1999;318:1204-1205 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The World Bank and world health: Interview with Richard Feachem
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1999;318:1206-1208 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics notes: Treatment allocation in controlled trials: why randomise?
	Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  1999;318:1209 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:1222 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	When I use a word . . .: Hepatojugular reflux
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1999;318:1172 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpieces: The hours that doctors work
	BMJ  1999;318:1172 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Motor cars for medical men
	BMJ  1999;318:1172 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  1999;318:1185 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Little change
	BMJ  1999;318:1209 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Refugee doctors can do valuable work in European host countries
	BMJ  1999;318:1215 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Strategies to prevent burnout
	Chris Johnstone
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Recruitment is moving on-line with dizzying speed in the US ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: One thing that I didn't know about the US employment ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The excitement of devolution
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	The excitement of devolution
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Book: Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: the Narrative Structure of Experience
	F Lortie
	BMJ  1999;318:1219 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Brave New NHS?
	J A Raeburn
	BMJ  1999;318:1219 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Media: Scottish fears over PFI
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1999;318:1220 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the Week: www.scottish-devolution.org.uk/
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:1220 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Juniors predict chaos at the millennium • BMA chairman questions comprehensiveness of NHS • Suspension of doctors should be as short as possible • GMC plans revalidation model within two years
	BMJ  1999;318:1218 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Sir Ian William James McAdam • John Randall Archibald • Joan ("Judy") Britton (née Kelly) • Margaret Yvonne ("Peggy") Currie • Donald Andrew Ewing • William Ian Leslie Fraser • Ian Goodhall Meiklejohn • Maurice James Dewar Noble • George Ronald Crompton Peatfield • Robert Pollock • Ruth Margaret Taylor (née Howitt)
	David Carter, Nanette Lye, Fiona Maggy, Thelma Bates, James I Currie, J Hefferman, Peter W Thornton, Doreen Mitchell, J M Stuart, Jack Valentine, Richard Peatfield, Elizabeth M Pollock, Selwyn Taylor
	BMJ  1999;318:1216 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Association between type 1 diabetes and Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccination: birth cohort study
	Marjatta Karvonen, Zygimantas Cepaitis, Jaakko Tuomilehto
	BMJ  1999;318:1169-1172 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Pertussis vaccination and wheezing illnesses in young children: prospective cohort study
	John Henderson, Kate North, Mancell Griffiths, Ian Harvey, Jean Golding, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood Team
	BMJ  1999;318:1173-1176 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Systematic review of autoinflation for treatment of glue ear in children • Commentary: Plausible candidates for treatment of glue earis one issue really three?
	Daniel D Reidpath, Paul P Glasziou, Christopher Del Mar, Mark Haggard
	BMJ  1999;318:1177-1178 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table: details of the trails] FREE

	Drug points: Hepatotoxicity associated with zolpidem treatment
	David Karsenti, Pascal Blanc, Yannick Bacq, Etienne-Henry Metman
	BMJ  1999;318:1179 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Agranulocytosis associated with lamotrigine
	Olaf A Kraus de Camargo, Harald Bode
	BMJ  1999;318:1179 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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