This week's This week in the BMJ

	Evidence for antenatal toxoplasmosis screening is poor [Full text] FREE

	Numbers of hospital doctors and GPs affect inpatient mortality [Full text] FREE

	Compulsory admissions have risen as psychiatric beds have fallen [Full text] FREE

	Postal prompts do not improve secondary prevention of coronary events [Full text] FREE

	Why doctors don't always apply effective health care [Full text] FREE

	The way data are presented affects the conclusions drawn [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Reducing the risk of recurrent coronary heart disease
	Fiona Bradley, Margaret E Cupples
	BMJ  1999;318:1499-1500 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Angiogenic revascularisation in ischaemic disease
	Nicholas P J Brindle, Mark J McCarthy, Peter R F Bell
	BMJ  1999;318:1500-1501 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Same information, different decisions: format counts
	Jeremy Wyatt
	BMJ  1999;318:1501-1502 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The coroner service
	Derrick Pounder
	BMJ  1999;318:1502-1503 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing drug misuse in general practice
	Jenny Keen
	BMJ  1999;318:1503-1504 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minimising the impact of visual impairment
	Tom H Margrain
	BMJ  1999;318:1504 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Use of renal transplants from living donors
	A S Daar, Peter J Morris, David Cranston
	BMJ  1999;318:1553 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Call to needle times after acute myocardial infarction
	David A Sandler, P D Thomas, John Rawles
	BMJ  1999;318:1553 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Emerging tobacco hazards in China
	T H Lam, S Y Ho, Yonden Lhatoo, Richard Peto, Zheng-Ming Chen, Jillian Boreham
	BMJ  1999;318:1554 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	I don't want to be invited to invest in the tobacco trade
	Chris Johnstone
	BMJ  1999;318:1555 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women must be given fully informed information about cervical screening
	John Nottingham
	BMJ  1999;318:1555 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cancer patients should be offered semen cryopreservation
	Amir Lass, Naim Abusheikha, Fidelis Akagbosu, Peter Brinsden
	BMJ  1999;318:1556 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Few patients with prostate cancer are willing to be randomised to treatment
	Paddy O'Reilly, Linda Martin, Gerald Collins
	BMJ  1999;318:1556 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trial of prophylactic mastectomy is needed
	C Palmieri
	BMJ  1999;318:1556 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Article on Colombia should have been more objective
	Humberto De la Calle-Lombana
	BMJ  1999;318:1557 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Behaviour described in scenario in paper would be unethical
	Jeremy Wight
	BMJ  1999;318:1557 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Teaching patients with bipolar disorder to identify early symptoms of relapse
	Christopher Cates, Richard Morriss, Nicholas Tarrier
	BMJ  1999;318:1557 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recognition of depression and anxiety in primary care
	Andrés Herrán, José Luis Vázquez-Barquero, Graham Dunn, Tim Johnston, Peter Talbot
	BMJ  1999;318:1558 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' words foster stigmatisation of commercial sex workers in India
	Padmaja Patnaik, Rajesh Gupta, Helen Lambert
	BMJ  1999;318:1559 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Careers article on psychotherapy was not balanced
	Chris Maloney
	BMJ  1999;318:1559 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vulvodynia is important cause of vulval pain
	B Kirby, J A Yell
	BMJ  1999;318:1559 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical examiners employed by health authorities should audit death certificates
	Gordon Pledger
	BMJ  1999;318:1559 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trauma related shin splints
	Robert Ashford, M A Macleod
	BMJ  1999;318:1560 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All GPs have problems when they first start in practice
	James Cave
	BMJ  1999;318:1560 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Sale of prescription data breaches confidentiality
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:1505 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cycle helmets should not be compulsory
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:1505 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:1506 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Moratorium on GM food would perpetuate world hunger
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;318:1506 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Gonads are the key to a long life
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1999;318:1506 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors demand AIDS drugs for women who have been raped
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1999;318:1507 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Canada sends patients with cancer to United States
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;318:1507 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	EU supports delay in reducing doctors' hours
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:1508 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scotland appoints health minister
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1999;318:1508 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scare tactics cut smoking rates in Australia to all time low
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1999;318:1508 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Most deaths related to abortion occur in the developing world
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;318:1509 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Carvedilol seems no better than metoprolol for heart failure
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:1509 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Viagra guidance declared unlawful
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:1509 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Liver cancer toll high in Japan
	Adam Easton
	BMJ  1999;318:1510 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Report finds no evidence of ethnic bias in GMC
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:1510 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GP loses libel action
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:1510 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Smoking bans do not hurt tourism
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:1510 [Extract] [Full text]

	Spanish patients with rare diseases demand a better deal
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  1999;318:1510 [Extract] [Full text]

	Wales sets up cervical screening body
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;318:1510 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Influence of data display formats on physician investigators' decisions to stop clinical trials: prospective trial with repeated measures
	Linda S Elting, Charles G Martin, Scott B Cantor, Edward B Rubenstein
	BMJ  1999;318:1527-1531 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	General practitioners' perceptions of effective health care
	Zelda Tomlin, Charlotte Humphrey, Stephen Rogers
	BMJ  1999;318:1532-1535 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Therapeutic angiogenesis
	Timothy D Henry
	BMJ  1999;318:1536-1539 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based cardiology: Prevention of ischaemic stroke
	Henry J M Barnett, Michael Eliasziw, Heather E Meldrum
	BMJ  1999;318:1539-1543 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of intensive care: Criteria for admission
	Gary Smith, Mick Nielsen
	BMJ  1999;318:1544-1547 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Effect of postal prompts to patients and general practitioners on the quality of primary care after a coronary event (POST): randomised controlled trial
	Gene Feder, Chris Griffiths, Sandra Eldridge, Matthew Spence
	BMJ  1999;318:1522-1526 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: profiles of the trial] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	New England journal
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1999;318:1565 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Iceland's database is ethically questionable
	Bogi Andersen, Einar Arnason
	BMJ  1999;318:1565 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Numbers needed to treat derived from meta-analysessometimes informative, usually misleading
	Liam Smeeth, Andy Haines, Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  1999;318:1548-1551 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Economics notes: Opportunity cost
	Stephen Palmer, James Raftery
	BMJ  1999;318:1551-1552 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:1566 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Medical practitioners and the plague duty in India
	BMJ  1999;318:1521 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A neglected but prevalent tragedy
	Fadel Diadhiou, Nathalie Goyaux, Ousseynou Faye, Patrick Thonneau
	BMJ  1999;318:1526 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Ideas must be comforting
	Richard Asher
	BMJ  1999;318:1532 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . .: X marks the spot
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1999;318:1543 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: What a rotten job you've got
	Elizabeth Davies
	BMJ  1999;318:1547 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: The one neither of us saw
	Anne Seymour
	BMJ  1999;318:1552 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Where now for Career focus?
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The National Association of Non-principals' Yellow Book - already ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The Standing Committee on Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education may ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Article too sanguine on prisoners' health EDITOR If Keavney's article ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The mysterious and the prosaic
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	The mysterious and the prosaic
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Exhibition: Artists for Médecins du Monde
	Richard Harling
	BMJ  1999;318:1562 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer: Clinical, Predictive and Ethical Perspectives
	Feyruz Rassool
	BMJ  1999;318:1563 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A book that changed me: Our NHS: A celebration of 50 years
	Nick Bosanquet
	BMJ  1999;318:1563 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Media: Skin cancer: in your face
	June K Robinson, Darrell S Rigel
	BMJ  1999;318:1564 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: www.nuffield.org.bioethics/index.html
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:1564 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Saadi Hussain Al-Roumani • Edward Ambrose Cresswell • Charles Hardinge Going • Nicholas Jaswon • Derek Clifford Lamb • John Taylor Smith
	Riad Roomi, Duncan Hallam, J J Going, Mervyn Jaswon, Abdul Jaleel, Joyce M Watson
	BMJ  1999;318:1561 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Congenital toxoplasmosis: systematic review of evidence of efficacy of treatment in pregnancy
	Martine Wallon, Christiane Liou, Paul Garner, François Peyron
	BMJ  1999;318:1511-1514 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Explaining differences in English hospital death rates using routinely collected data
	Brian Jarman, Simon Gault, Bernadette Alves, Amy Hider, Susan Dolan, Adrian Cook, Brian Hurwitz, Lisa I Iezzoni
	BMJ  1999;318:1515-1520 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Trends in the use of the Mental Health Act: England, 1984-96
	Sharon Wall, Matthew Hotopf, Simon Wessely, Rachel Churchill
	BMJ  1999;318:1520-1521 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug points: Aseptic meningitis after treatment with amoxicillin
	W Czerwenka, C Gruenwald, D Conen
	BMJ  1999;318:1521 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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