This week's This week in the BMJ

	Treatment for athlete's foot should begin with over the counter drugs [Full text] FREE

	Many diabetic patients do not monitor their blood glucose regularly [Full text] FREE

	Easy access to emergency contraception does not make it the contraceptive of choice [Full text] FREE

	Leukotriene receptor antagonist reduces need for inhaled corticosteroids [Full text] FREE

	Folate supplements have not reduced neural tube defects [Full text] FREE

	Patient factors largely explain variation in GP admission rates [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	What do hospital admission rates say about primary care?
	Raymond Jankowski
	BMJ  1999;319:67-68 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Radioiodine and thyroid eye disease
	John P Walsh, Colin M Dayan, Michael J Potts
	BMJ  1999;319:68-69 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reasons for not seeing drug representatives
	David Griffith
	BMJ  1999;319:69-70 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prescribing medicines for children
	Alastair G Sutcliffe
	BMJ  1999;319:70-71 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Skin and nail fungialmost beaten
	Andrew Y Finlay
	BMJ  1999;319:71-72 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Routine screening of children returning home from the tropics
	Blaise Genton, Mario Gehri, Ebere Okereke, Ruth Gelletlie, Jules J M Tolboom, Marianne L Brouwer, Jaap H J Hardeman
	BMJ  1999;319:121 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In screening for congenital cataract, many false positive referrals will occur
	Stephen Morgan
	BMJ  1999;319:122 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Body mass index standards for children
	Michael Preece, Tim Cole, T Fry
	BMJ  1999;319:122 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: BMI CHARTS]

	Closure of Royal Hospital Haslar is necessary
	J A Baird
	BMJ  1999;319:122 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of myocardial infarction should be audited before heart failure clinics are set up
	Adam D Timmis
	BMJ  1999;319:123 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug and alcohol policies are rare at medical schools in UK
	Dafydd Fon Williams
	BMJ  1999;319:123 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bible is disapproving of homosexual activity but not homosexual orientation
	Christopher Wayte
	BMJ  1999;319:123 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing antibiotic use in children with acute otitis media
	R W Clarke, Christopher Cates
	BMJ  1999;319:124 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Comparison of inhaled beclomethasone and budesonide
	Christopher Cates, Peter Black, Staffan Edsbäcker, Maria Gerhardsson deVerdier, Christer Hultquist, Samy Suissa, Pierre Ernst, B D Pethica
	BMJ  1999;319:124 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	UK public health plan aims to save 300 000 lives in next decade
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1999;319:73 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US National Institutes of Health clarifies E-biomed database
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1999;319:73 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA backs junior doctors' fight against government
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;319:74 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Newly identified gene linked to dementia
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:74 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA calls for independent commissioner on child health
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  1999;319:75 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US government debates Medicare coverage of prescription costs
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:75 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Euthanasia endorsed in Dutch patient with dementia
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1999;319:75 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Philippine plan to cut diarrhoea deaths
	Adam Easton
	BMJ  1999;319:75 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK guidelines aim to improve pain management in children
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1999;319:76 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	First national paediatric formulary is launched in the UK
	Carmen Basu
	BMJ  1999;319:76 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Report calls for GP research in Scotland
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1999;319:76 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Ovarian cancer should be treated by specialist teams
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1999;319:77 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Suboptimal care implicated in many infant deaths in UK
	Mark Pownall
	BMJ  1999;319:77 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US reconsiders use of seclusion and restraints in psychiatric patients
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:77 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scientist, superwoman, and sock drawer sorter
	BMJ  1999;319:78 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Clinical evidence: Glycaemic control in diabetes
	William H Herman
	BMJ  1999;319:104-106 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Managing patients with deliberate self harm who refuse treatment in the accident and emergency department
	T B Hassan, A F MacNamara, A Davy, A Bing, G G Bodiwala
	BMJ  1999;319:107-109 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of intensive care: Neurological support
	Ian S Grant, Peter J D Andrews
	BMJ  1999;319:110-113 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Measuring quality of care with routine data: avoiding confusion between performance indicators and health outcomes
	Antonio Giuffrida, Hugh Gravelle, Martin Roland
	BMJ  1999;319:94-98 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Explaining variation in hospital admission rates between general practices: cross sectional study
	Fiona D A Reid, Derek G Cook, Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  1999;319:98-103 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	St Mark's guideline
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1999;319:133 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Concern, cooperation, and coexistence in healing
	R E S Tanner
	BMJ  1999;319:133 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Are we really dying for a tan?
	Andrew R Ness, Stephen J Frankel, David J Gunnell, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:114-116 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The private finance initiative: PFI in the NHSis there an economic case?
	Declan Gaffney, Allyson M Pollock, David Price, Jean Shaoul
	BMJ  1999;319:116-119 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: references for tables and figures]

	Economics notes: Handling uncertainty in economic evaluation
	Andrew Briggs
	BMJ  1999;319:120 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:134 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable patient: "Thank you for ending 40 years of misery"
	Mayur Lakhani
	BMJ  1999;319:86 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Do texts in English encourage quacks?
	BMJ  1999;319:92 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A typical hazard: Wallabies on the runway
	T H H G Koh
	BMJ  1999;319:93 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: No silent areas
	James Wright
	BMJ  1999;319:103 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Will the NHS pay awards help recruitment?
	BMJ  1999;319:90 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Guidelines for evaluating papers on educational interventions
	BMJ  1999;319:90 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Opposition to the Icelandic database is based on false information
	BMJ  1999;319:90 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:90 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Planning your life and career
	Nick Steel
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The numbers of newly trained general practitioners are at ...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  1999;319:130 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Tropical Medicine in the Twentieth Century
	George Cowan
	BMJ  1999;319:130 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Opium and the People: Opiate Use and Drug Control Policy in Nineteenth Century England
	Martin Plant
	BMJ  1999;319:131 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Evidence-Based Family Medicine
	Tony Dixon
	BMJ  1999;319:131 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

RADIO

This week's RADIO

	Radio: Raging hormones miss the target
	Howard Jacobs
	BMJ  1999;319:132 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Ignoring doctors: often advisable
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Ignoring doctors: often advisable
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Pros and cons of suntans
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:132 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA chairman warns of fight ahead • UK government to review workforce planning • GPC chairman writes to all GPs • BMA warns that more doctors will leave armed services • Primary care groups face challenges • Consultants' advice on revalidation • BMA notices
	BMJ  1999;319:128 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	George Sydney Anderson • David Paul de Bono • John McKee • Michael Seddon
	Griff Owen, Peter J B Hubner, Ian McKee, Bernard Whiteside
	BMJ  1999;319:127 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Systematic review of topical treatments for fungal infections of the skin and nails of the feet
	Rachel Hart, Sally E M Bell-Syer, Fay Crawford, David J Torgerson, Philip Young, Ian Russell
	BMJ  1999;319:79-82 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: tables A - D][extra: reference list] FREE

	Frequency of blood glucose monitoring in relation to glycaemic control: observational study with diabetes database
	Josie M M Evans, Ray W Newton, Danny A Ruta, Thomas M MacDonald, Richard J Stevenson, Andrew D Morris
	BMJ  1999;319:83-86 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised, placebo controlled trial of effect of a leukotriene receptor antagonist, montelukast, on tapering inhaled corticosteroids in asthmatic patients
	Claes-Göran Löfdahl, Theodore F Reiss, Jonathan A Leff, Elliot Israel, Michael J Noonan, Albert F Finn, Beth C Seidenberg, Thomas Capizzi, Sudeep Kundu, Philippe Godard
	BMJ  1999;319:87-90 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: members of study group] FREE

	Science commentary: What are leukotrienes and how do they work in asthma?
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1999;319:90 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Questionnaire study of use of emergency contraception among teenagers
	Elise Kosunen, Andres Vikat, Matti Rimpelä, Arja Rimpelä, Heini Huhtala
	BMJ  1999;319:91 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Neural tube defects and periconceptional folic acid in England and Wales: retrospective study • Commentary: Food should be fortified with folic acid
	Rezan A Kadir, Caroline Sabin, Barry Whitlow, Ely Brockbank, Demetrios Economides, Eva Alberman, Joan M Noble
	BMJ  1999;319:92-93 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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