This week's This week in the BMJ

	Community care of long stay psychiatric patients presents few problems [Full text] FREE

	Over half of cases of transfusion error involve giving the wrong blood [Full text] FREE

	Provision of oxygen at home in Northern Ireland is not cost effective [Full text] FREE

	Antiretroviral therapy does not prevent HIV related non-Hodgkin's lymphoma [Full text] FREE

	Social class affects old people's use of general practice [Full text] FREE

	Computer program may help in assessing genetic risk of cancer in primary care [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Managing acute anaphylaxis
	Geoff Hughes, Penny Fitzharris
	BMJ  1999;319:1-2 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	PFI: perfidious financial idiocy
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:2-3 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Magnesium sulphate and pre-eclampsia
	Lelia Duley, James P Neilson
	BMJ  1999;319:3-4 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A little bit of measles does you good
	Frank Shann
	BMJ  1999;319:4-5 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluating NHS Direct
	Dominique Florin, Rebecca Rosen
	BMJ  1999;319:5-6 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Children born after intracytoplasmic sperm injection
	J M Bland, Alastair G Sutcliffe, Brent Taylor, Jun Li, Simon Thornton, Gedis Grudzinskas, Brian Lieberman
	BMJ  1999;319:52 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK inquiry should establish why contaminated blood products were given to people with haemophilia
	Karin Pappenheim
	BMJ  1999;319:52 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Proposed appraisal system and political correctness
	Andrew Whitehouse, K G M M Alberti, John R Bennett
	BMJ  1999;319:53 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Combining the two neonatal examinations
	Chris Harnden, T H H G Koh, Cathryn M A Glazener
	BMJ  1999;319:53 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GMC's current proposals for revalidation are flawed
	Ian W B Grant
	BMJ  1999;319:53 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cyclosporin neurotoxicity after chemotherapy
	Guy Pratt, Ben Kennedy, Graeme Smith, M B Lewis, Deborah A Tweddle, Kevin P Windebank
	BMJ  1999;319:54 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Devolution in Latin America has had poor effects on health care
	Peter Sandiford
	BMJ  1999;319:55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scientific foundation of mammographic screening is based on inconclusive research in Sweden
	Göran Sjönell, Lars Ståhle
	BMJ  1999;319:55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Funding long term care for older people: Heirs will have to forgo their inheritance
	Emily Grundy, David Jolley, Iona Heath
	BMJ  1999;319:55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Magnetic resonance necropsy is offered routinely in University College London Hospitals
	J A S Brookes, M Hall-Craggs, W R Lees
	BMJ  1999;319:56 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Arguments in editorial were not "biologically implausible"
	Klim McPherson
	BMJ  1999;319:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surely doctors should follow the spirit, rather than the letter, of the law
	R Hugh James
	BMJ  1999;319:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients were more satisfied with chiropractic than other treatments for low back pain
	T W Meade
	BMJ  1999;319:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surveillance of congenital rubella in Great Britain
	A J L Turner, Pat A Tookey, Catherine S Peckham
	BMJ  1999;319:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Withdrawing low risk women from cervical screening programmes
	M E van den Akker-van Marle, M van Ballegooijen, R Boer, G J van Oortmarssen, J D F Habbema, Chris Sherlaw-Johnson, Steve Gallivan, David Jenkins
	BMJ  1999;319:58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Frequent changes in policy risk confusion among health workers
	P Brettle, L Guinness, L Lim, S Robb
	BMJ  1999;319:58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	High security facilities must not be closed until viable alternatives are in place
	Kapil Sayal, Anthony Maden
	BMJ  1999;319:59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Annual general meeting of the BMA
	David Gullick, E M Armstrong
	BMJ  1999;319:59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Iceland's medical database is insecure
	Ross Anderson
	BMJ  1999;319:59 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	UK introduces far reaching law to protect whistleblowers
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:7 [Extract] [Full text]

	Antihistamine drug withdrawn by manufacturer
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:7 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK government confirms ban on human reproductive cloning
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1999;319:8 [Extract] [Full text]

	United States clears silicone breast implants
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;319:8 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:8 [Extract] [Full text]

	Surgeons develop composite bone transplants
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;319:9 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scanning shows structural abnormality in headache
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1999;319:9 [Extract] [Full text]

	BUPA moves towards managed care
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;319:9 [Extract] [Full text]

	Link between magnetic fields and leukaemia is weak
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;319:10 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS librarians cannot access the internet
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:10 [Extract] [Full text]

	Some operating theatres used only half time
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1999;319:10 [Extract] [Full text]

	Donations of useless medicines to Kosovo contributes to chaos
	Philippa Saunders
	BMJ  1999;319:11 [Extract] [Full text]

	EU adopts tougher safeguards on genetic modification
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1999;319:11 [Extract] [Full text]

	Spain aims to slow the rise in spending on drugs
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  1999;319:11 [Extract] [Full text]

	Royal college demands 2000 more NHS consultant physicians
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;319:12 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK GPs will produce blueprint for the future
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Task force for junior doctors' hours in Wales
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;319:12 [Extract] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	German scientists want dialogue with the public
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  1999;319:12 [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Health information and interaction on the internet: a survey of female urinary incontinence
	Hogne Sandvik
	BMJ  1999;319:29-32 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Computer support for recording and interpreting family histories of breast and ovarian cancer in primary care (RAGs): qualitative evaluation with simulated patients
	Jon Emery, Robert Walton, Andrew Coulson, David Glasspool, Sue Ziebland, John Fox
	BMJ  1999;319:32-36 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Behaviour and genes
	Peter McGuffin, Neilson Martin
	BMJ  1999;319:37-40 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of intensive care: Renal support
	Alasdair Short, Allan Cumming
	BMJ  1999;319:41-44 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Socioeconomic differences in general practice consultation rates in patients aged 65 and over: prospective cohort study
	Rosie McNiece, Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  1999;319:26-28 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Beastly handwriting
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1999;319:65 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Starting back at the bottom
	Judith Lindeck
	BMJ  1999;319:65 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Diurnal variabilitytime to change asthma guidelines?
	Helen Reddel, Christine Jenkins, Ann Woolcock
	BMJ  1999;319:45-47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The private finance initiative: NHS capital expenditure and the private finance initiativeexpansion or contraction?
	Declan Gaffney, Allyson M Pollock, David Price, Jean Shaoul
	BMJ  1999;319:48-51 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: references for tables]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:66 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable patient: From cerebral malaria to preventive medicine
	Andy Tembon
	BMJ  1999;319:36 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Trains, worry, and disease
	BMJ  1999;319:37 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A spirit of adventure prevails
	Emmet Andrews
	BMJ  1999;319:44 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Ingestion of mouthwash by children
	BMJ  1999;319:25 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book reviews
	BMJ  1999;319:25 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Website of the week
	BMJ  1999;319:25 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Obituaries
	BMJ  1999;319:25 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Environment and health: BMJ theme issue
	BMJ  1999;319:25 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Constructing a learning portfolio
	David Brigden
	BMJ  1999;319:2a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing
	BMJ  1999;319:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Demanding Medical Excellence
	David Woods
	BMJ  1999;319:63 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: On the History of Lunacy: The 19th Century and After
	David Healy
	BMJ  1999;319:63 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: Doctors as gods
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:64 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Getting things wrong
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Getting things wrong
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: www.treasury-projects-taskforce.gov.uk/intro/main.htm
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:64 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Local medical committee conference
	BMJ  1999;319:61 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Sir Ian Fraser • Anna Isabella Davison • Roger Courtenay Beckwith Pugh
	Peter Froggatt, Ian Fawcett, F D Thompson
	BMJ  1999;319:60 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Outcome of long stay psychiatric patients resettled in the community: prospective cohort study
	Noam Trieman, Julian Leff, Gyles Glover
	BMJ  1999;319:13-16 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Serious hazards of transfusion (SHOT) initiative: analysis of the first two annual reports
	L M Williamson, S Lowe, E M Love, H Cohen, K Soldan, D B L McClelland, P Skacel, J A J Barbara
	BMJ  1999;319:16-19 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost minimisation analysis of provision of oxygen at home: are the Drug Tariff guidelines cost effective?
	Liam G Heaney, Denise McAllister, Joseph MacMahon
	BMJ  1999;319:19-23 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of HIV related Kaposi's sarcoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with potent antiretroviral therapy: prospective cohort study
	Bruno Ledergerber, Amalio Telenti, Matthias Egger
	BMJ  1999;319:23-24 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: list of study group] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial of long term efficacy of captopril on preservation of kidney function in normotensive patients with insulin dependent diabetes and microalbuminuria
	Elisabeth R Mathiesen, Eva Hommel, Henrik P Hansen, Ulla M Smidt, Hans-Henrik Parving
	BMJ  1999;319:24-25 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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