This week's This week in the BMJ

	Death rates for car occupants in East Germany increased greatly after reunification [Full text] FREE

	Model shows that incidence of HIV infection in children can be reduced [Full text] FREE

	Universal antenatal HIV screening is cost effective in areas of high prevalence [Full text] FREE

	Routine HIV tests in pregnancy are acceptable to women [Full text] FREE

	Persistent back pain can be predicted [Full text] FREE

	Europe must manage the health effects of inevitable climate change [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Environment and health
	Gro Harlem Brundtland
	BMJ  1999;318:1635-1636 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Research priorities in environmental health
	Göran Pershagen
	BMJ  1999;318:1636-1637 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Moving beyond journals: the future arrives with a crash
	Tony Delamothe, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:1637-1639 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Eprint server features][extra: summary of defects in journals]

	Junior doctors: waving or drowning?
	Fiona Moss
	BMJ  1999;318:1639-1640 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New antidepressants for old people?
	Martin G Livingston, Hilary M Livingston
	BMJ  1999;318:1640-1641 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Parkinson's disease genetics comes of age
	Paul Jarman, Nicholas Wood
	BMJ  1999;318:1641-1642 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	World Bank must do more to develop safe and sustainable transportation systems
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1999;318:1694 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The paradoxes of genetically modified foods
	Emma Plugge
	BMJ  1999;318:1694 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing osteoporosis, falls, and fractures among elderly people
	Gene Feder, Yvonne Carter, Sheila Donovan, Colin Cryer, E Seeman, Pekka Kannus
	BMJ  1999;318:1695 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: longer version]

	Current census categories are not a good match for identity
	Judith Rankin, Raj Bhopal
	BMJ  1999;318:1696 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: table w1][extra: table w2]

	Importance of health economics must be recognised when trials are designed
	Alan Haycox, Adrian Bagust, Tom Walley
	BMJ  1999;318:1696 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Audit of use of ACE inhibitors and monitoring in general practice
	Nick Freemantle, James Mason, Martin Eccles, P A Kalra, P MacDowall, M Kumwenda, M O Roland
	BMJ  1999;318:1697 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advice given to patients with fractures
	David J Torgerson, Paul Dolan, Juliet Compston
	BMJ  1999;318:1698 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Strategy to reformulate waiting lists
	Janine Cochrane, Giuliano Mariotti, Rosanna Sommadossi, Tommaso Langiano, Roberto Raggi
	BMJ  1999;318:1698 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Real-time priority scoring system must be used for prioritisation on waiting lists
	B Davis, S R Johnson
	BMJ  1999;318:1699 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eligibility criteria improve children's access to long term ventilation at home
	Sian Snelling
	BMJ  1999;318:1699 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maybe the time has come for the primacy of the patient in the NHS
	Hugh Alberti, George Alberti
	BMJ  1999;318:1700 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Edinburgh college's consensus statements are not purely for UK
	Martin Dennis, Margaret Farquhar, Peter Langhorne, Gordon Lowe, Charles Warlow
	BMJ  1999;318:1700 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	South Africa must admit that HIV/AIDS is its greatest enemy
	Mark A Wainberg
	BMJ  1999;318:1700 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Doctors advised to take special care with human albumin
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;318:1643 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New research demolishes link between MMR vaccine and autism
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1999;318:1643 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch regulate sponsorship of hospitals
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1999;318:1644 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Clinton proposes coverage of prescription drugs by Medicare
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;318:1644 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In Brief
	BMJ  1999;318:1644 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	AMA's scheme to protect JAMA's independence has drawbacks
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;318:1645 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	"Wrong" women taking HRT
	Georgina Kenyon
	BMJ  1999;318:1645 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	HRT raises risk of rare, treatable breast cancer
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:1645 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	England launches campaign on teenage pregnancies
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;318:1646 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Restoring medical services in Kosovo will be a massive task
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1999;318:1646 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	English health ombudsman upholds complaints
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:1646 [Extract] [Full text]

	Cambridge plans new medical course
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;318:1646 [Extract] [Full text]

	One diet fits all
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1999;318:1646 [Extract] [Full text]

	More coffee, fewer gallstones
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:1646 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Paediatric surgery
	Paul D Losty
	BMJ  1999;318:1668-1672 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Importance of distinguishing between cellulitis and varicose eczema of the leg
	C M Quartey-Papafio
	BMJ  1999;318:1672-1673 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of intensive care: Respiratory support
	Maire P Shelly, Peter Nightingale
	BMJ  1999;318:1674-1677 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Predicting who develops chronic low back pain in primary care: a prospective study
	Elaine Thomas, Alan J Silman, Peter R Croft, Ann C Papageorgiou, Malcolm I V Jayson, Gary J Macfarlane
	BMJ  1999;318:1662-1667 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Statistics notes Variables and parameters
	Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  1999;318:1667 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Postcard from Sussex
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1999;318:1707 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	These people are like you and me
	Celia Duff
	BMJ  1999;318:1707 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Water and health in Europe: an overview
	Tim Lack
	BMJ  1999;318:1678-1682 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Climate change and human health in Europe
	R Sari Kovats, Andrew Haines, Rosalind Stanwell-Smith, Pim Martens, Bettina Menne, Roberto Bertollini
	BMJ  1999;318:1682-1685 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A different route to health: implications of transport policies
	Carlos Dora
	BMJ  1999;318:1686-1689 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Food production and food safety
	T A B Sanders
	BMJ  1999;318:1689-1693 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	Bookcase
	BMJ  1999;318:1706 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:1708 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Unimpressed
	BMJ  1999;318:1660 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson learnt: Pride before a fall
	Desmond Farley
	BMJ  1999;318:1685 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson learnt: The virus and the hookworm
	Sundaram V Ramanan
	BMJ  1999;318:1693 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	ABC of labour care: Physiology and management of normal labour
	BMJ  1999;318:1673 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fertility patterns after appendicectomy: historical cohort study
	BMJ  1999;318:1673 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Recent advances in haematology
	BMJ  1999;318:1673 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	More on the Bristol affair: What went wrong and how can we move forward?
	BMJ  1999;318:1673 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evidence based case report: Use of prostaglandins to induce labour in women with a caesarean section scar
	BMJ  1999;318:1673 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Victorian medicine: Our grandfather's patient
	BMJ  1999;318:1673 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Influence of hospital and clinician workload on survival from colorectal cancer: cohort study
	BMJ  1999;318:1673 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Medical Selection
	Naomi Craft
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: As more and more healthcare organisations come on line ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: One explanation for the GMC's review of the PLAB ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis
	Muiris Houston
	BMJ  1999;318:1705 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea
	Patrick Trevor-Roper
	BMJ  1999;318:1705 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Evidence Based Practice in Primary Care
	Norbert Donner-Banzhoff
	BMJ  1999;318:1706 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The environment: everybody's business
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	The environment: everybody's business
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: http://www.cehn.org
	Marcus Müllner
	BMJ  1999;318:1706 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Public health conference
	BMJ  1999;318:1703 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Arthur Levin • Brian Robert Blakemore Lumb • John Callender ("Jack") Nicholson • John Lawrence Pearce • Allan Thomas Marsh Roberts • David Anthony Slessor • Gordon Cunningham Taylor • Arthur Leslie Tulk • David Wilson Wallace • John Michael Wilson
	Gloria Levin, M R Lumb, Frank Assinder, Geoffrey Seddon, Max White, Alan B Otlet, Gary Atkin, Martin Whittet, W E Brooke, Richard G H Wallace, Anthony Bird
	BMJ  1999;318:1701 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	The carnage wrought by major economic change: ecological study of traffic related mortality and the reunification of Germany • Commentary: Road deaths in European countries
	Flaura K Winston, Craig Rineer, Rajiv Menon, Susan P Baker, Mark McCarthy
	BMJ  1999;318:1647-1650 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV: analysis of cost effectiveness of options available in South Africa
	Neil Söderlund, Karen Zwi, Anthony Kinghorn, Glenda Gray
	BMJ  1999;318:1650-1656 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Universal HIV screening of pregnant women in England: cost effectiveness analysis
	M J Postma, E J Beck, S Mandalia, L Sherr, M D S Walters, H Houweling, J C Jager
	BMJ  1999;318:1656-1660 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antenatal HIV testing: assessment of a routine voluntary approach
	Wendy M Simpson, Frank D Johnstone, David J Goldberg, Siobhan M Gormley, Graham J Hart
	BMJ  1999;318:1660-1661 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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