This week's This week in the BMJ

	Community exercise classes help people with back pain [Full text] FREE

	Coxiella burnetii infection may be linked to cardiovascular disease [Full text] FREE

	Unexpected late stillbirths are more common than sudden infant deaths [Full text] FREE

	Near patient test for respiratory syncytial virus identifies positive cases [Full text] FREE

	Mass media campaign on folic acid did not alter socioeconomic differences [Full text] FREE

	GPs need models for managing bereavement [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Fluoridation of water supplies
	David Coggon, Cyrus Cooper
	BMJ  1999;319:269-270 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Writing as therapy
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1999;319:270-271 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Intensive care medicine comes of age
	Neil Soni, Duncan Wyncoll
	BMJ  1999;319:271-272 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Another editor bites the dust
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:272 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Low dose aspirin for preventing and treating pre-eclampsia
	J Emeagi, S Patni, H M Tikum, A M Mander, Lelia Duley, Mark Sullivan, Michael de Swiet, Murdoch Elder
	BMJ  1999;319:316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training in large bowel cancer surgery
	William H Isbister, R James Aitken
	BMJ  1999;319:317 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What is publication?
	Samuel Erny, Hilal Maradit-Kremers
	BMJ  1999;319:317 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Laterality of lower limb amputation in diabetic patients
	P M S Evans, C Williams, M D Page, J C Alcolado, Caroline A Abbott, Ernest R E van Ross, Jai Kulkarni, Jonathan E Shaw, Anne L Carrington, Andrew J M Boulton
	BMJ  1999;319:318 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inequalities in health
	Pekka Martikainen, Tapani Valkonen, J Fraser Mustard
	BMJ  1999;319:319 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safer non-cardiac surgery for patients with coronary artery disease
	M S Avidan, B J Hunt, Jasmeet Soar, Simon J Howell, Julian Sonksen, Richard Gray, Peter Hutton
	BMJ  1999;319:320 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health care is not a human right
	Philip Barlow
	BMJ  1999;319:321 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Opiate detoxification under anaesthesia
	John Strang, Jenny Bearn, Michael Gossop, Colin Brewer
	BMJ  1999;319:321 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Policy of "hands poised" care by attendant in normal birth is not recommended
	Jo Garcia
	BMJ  1999;319:322 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Delays experienced by doctors suspended by GMC
	Steve Cox, D Irvine
	BMJ  1999;319:322 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Editor of New England Journal of Medicine departs
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:273 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Fears that a rise in genetic testing will rule out insurance are "paranoia"
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  1999;319:273 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Max-Planck Society investigates misconduct
	Annette Tuffs Heidelberg
	BMJ  1999;319:274 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Viagra makes flowers stand up straight
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1999;319:274 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:274 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dobson defends use of the PFI for hospital building
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;319:275 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scottish doctors call for a moratorium on PFI
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1999;319:275 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug cuts deaths from heart failure by a third
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:276 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MPs call for tighter regulation of private sector
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;319:276 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Netherlands will "lead the way in cooperation with the private sector"
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1999;319:276 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cardiac surgery audit raises concern over equity of access
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;319:277 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Wimps can blame their genes
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;319:277 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK introduces new meningitis C vaccine
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1999;319:278 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Mother fails to win right to control treatment for son
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:278 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Goals of UK white paper could be achieved without helping worst off
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1999;319:278 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hungary's plan to privatise family practice founders for lack of funds
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  1999;319:278 [Extract] [Full text]

	Man who supplied cannabis for medicinal purposes acquitted
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:278 [Extract] [Full text]

	Welsh heart surgeons demand expansion in services
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;319:278 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Near patient microbiological tests
	S P Borriello
	BMJ  1999;319:298-301 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based case report: Sciatica: which intervention?
	Ash Samanta, Jo Beardsley
	BMJ  1999;319:302-303 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: addendum]

	Lesson of the week: Physiological effects of starvation interpreted as food allergy
	C A Bethune, M M Gompels, G P Spickett
	BMJ  1999;319:304-305 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of intensive care: Withdrawal of treatment
	Bob Winter, Simon Cohen
	BMJ  1999;319:306-308 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	General practitioners' beliefs and attitudes about how to respond to death and bereavement: qualitative study • Commentary: Use of personal experience should be legitimised
	Eric M Saunderson, Leone Ridsdale, David Jewell
	BMJ  1999;319:293-296 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Improving aspirin prophylaxis after myocardial infarction in primary care: collaboration in multipractice audit between primary care audit group and health authority
	Kamlesh Khunti, Ross Sorrie, Siobhan Jennings, Azaar Farooqi
	BMJ  1999;319:297 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Hello and goodbye
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1999;319:327 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	A peaceful death
	J O'Neill
	BMJ  1999;319:327 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Cancer in old ageis it inadequately investigated and treated?
	N J Turner, R A Haward, G P Mulley, P J Selby
	BMJ  1999;319:309-312 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Methods in health services research: Interpreting the evidence: choosing between randomised and non-randomised studies
	Martin McKee, Annie Britton, Nick Black, Klim McPherson, Colin Sanderson, Chris Bain
	BMJ  1999;319:312-315 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: further references]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:328 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Forever in his debt
	Anthony Storr
	BMJ  1999;319:291 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Medical statisticians
	Stephen Senn
	BMJ  1999;319:291 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable consultation: STD outreach by taxi
	Michael Adler
	BMJ  1999;319:296 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson learnt: Patient controlled hallucinations
	Colin E Blogg
	BMJ  1999;319:301 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A course that changed my curriculum vitae: The pen is mightier than the sword
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1999;319:305 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . .: Allergy and immunity
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1999;319:308 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  1999;319:312 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Doctoring doctors
	Walter Anderson
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Doctors move around more than most as they develop ...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The newsletter of the National Association of Non-Principals reaches ...
	BMJ  1999;319:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: One of the groups eligible to join the NANP ...
	BMJ  1999;319:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Women and Health Services: An Agenda for Change
	Ann McPherson
	BMJ  1999;319:325 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Hypertension in Pregnancy
	Marc J N C Keirse
	BMJ  1999;319:325 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: Presumed dangerous
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  1999;319:326 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Legitimising personal experience
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Legitimising personal experience
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Genes and insurance
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:326 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Junior doctors rebut government claims • BMA sets up audit committee • GPs must get involved in walk-in health centres • Consultant bodies should have strong voice in trusts
	BMJ  1999;319:324 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Keith Hodgkin • David Lintott • Philippa Mary Ludlam • Michael Patrick Quinlan • Roy Kenneth Rowley
	Paul Hodgkin, Bob Bury, Ursula Lutwyche, Adrian While, Simon Rowley
	BMJ  1999;319:323 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Randomised controlled trial of exercise for low back pain: clinical outcomes, costs, and preferences
	Jennifer Klaber Moffett, David Torgerson, Sally Bell-Syer, David Jackson, Hugh Llewlyn-Phillips, Amanda Farrin, Julie Barber
	BMJ  1999;319:279-283 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Long term vascular complications of Coxiella burnetii infection in Switzerland: cohort study
	Pierre-Yves Lovey, Alfredo Morabia, D Bleed, O Péter, G Dupuis, J Petite
	BMJ  1999;319:284-286 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prospective risk of unexplained stillbirth in singleton pregnancies at term: population based analysis
	Christina S Cotzias, Sara Paterson-Brown, Nicholas M Fisk
	BMJ  1999;319:287-288 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Predicted impact of intravenous thrombolysis on prognosis of general population of stroke patients: simulation model
	Henrik Stig Jørgensen, Hirofumi Nakayama, Lars Peter Kammersgaard, Hans Otto Raaschou, Tom Skyhøj Olsen
	BMJ  1999;319:288-289 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Near patient testing for respiratory syncytial virus in paediatric accident and emergency: prospective pilot study
	Audrey Mackenzie, Nick Hallam, Elaine Mitchell, Tom Beattie
	BMJ  1999;319:289-290 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Accuracy of perceptions of hepatitis B and C status: cross sectional investigation of opiate addicts in treatment
	David Best, Alison Noble, Emily Finch, Michael Gossop, Clare Sidwell, John Strang
	BMJ  1999;319:290-291 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of mass media campaign to reduce socioeconomic differences in women's awareness and behaviour concerning use of folic acid: cross sectional study
	H E K de Walle, K M van der Pal, L T W de Jong-van den Berg, W Jeeninga, J S A G Schouten, C M de Rover, S E Buitendijk, M C Cornel
	BMJ  1999;319:291-292 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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