This week's This week in the BMJ

	Single screening test for neonatal cholestasis is not yet feasible from blood spots [Full text] FREE

	Social activities lengthen life in elderly Americans [Full text] FREE

	Babies delivered in water: perinatal mortality is no higher [Full text] FREE

	A single genetic polymorphism may account for a fifth of infarctions [Full text] FREE

	Weight control measures help women stop smoking [Full text] FREE

	What should the developing world do about cancer? [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Cancer survival in Britain
	Karol Sikora
	BMJ  1999;319:461-462 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based palliative care
	Irene J Higginson
	BMJ  1999;319:462-463 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and nurses: changing family values?
	Celia Davies, Jane Salvage, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:463-464 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What the millennium bug tells us about ourselves
	Jeremy Anderson
	BMJ  1999;319:464-465 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The joy of being electronic
	Tony Delamothe, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:465-466 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Contacting GP surgeries over Christmas
	Bob Tanner, Martin McShane, P G Houghton, George Young, Andrew Rouse
	BMJ  1999;319:513 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hyponatraemia after orthopaedic surgery
	Andrew M Severn, Chris Dodds, P Harrington, Anthony Marino, Stephen Krikler, Martin Blakemore, Olusegun A Mojiminiyi, Barry Hoffbrand, Nick Lane, Kathryn Allen
	BMJ  1999;319:514 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intensive care is not expensive compared with other treatments
	Martin Stockwell
	BMJ  1999;319:516 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Orbital trauma
	Carrie Newlands, Peter Ramsay Baggs, Richard Kendrick, G N Shuttleworth, D B David, M J Potts, C N Bell, P G Guest
	BMJ  1999;319:516 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Twins and the fetal origins hypothesis
	D I W Phillips, C Osmond, Pat Doyle, David Leon, Noreen Maconochie, Susan Morton, Bianca de Stavola, Calum N Ross, Sheila Williams, Richie Poulton
	BMJ  1999;319:517 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hand washing
	Andrew Weeks, Rachel Sen, Maeve Keaney, Ann Trail, Carol Howard, Paul Chadwick, S Kesavan, C Richard B Welbourn, Steve M Jones, Paul M Hateley, P A Jurnaa, Robert MacDermott, D Varghese, H Patel, A Majid Katme
	BMJ  1999;319:518 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Black boxing:" response by editor of Hospital Doctor
	Phil Johnson
	BMJ  1999;319:520 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Referral to intensive care units should not be limited to consultants
	C M Danbury
	BMJ  1999;319:520 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shakespeare knew the layered clothing sign of schizophrenia
	Eric Altschuler
	BMJ  1999;319:520 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluation of NHS direct
	Kevin McKenna, Mark Reynolds
	BMJ  1999;319:521 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Utrecht
	BMJ  1999;319:467 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Immunotherapy produces long term clinical remission
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1999;319:467 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Irish doctors protest over pay and conditions
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1999;319:468 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Life expectancy of Russian men falls to 58
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;319:468 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:468 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK hospitals assess eye damage after solar eclipse
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;319:469 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Earlier discharge for newborns may increase health risks
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;319:469 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Global health gap widens says World Bank
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;319:470 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug treatment beats prison for cutting crime and addiction rates
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  1999;319:470 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Raloxifene can cut fracture risk
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:470 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Clinical evidence: Stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	Huib A M Kerstjens
	BMJ  1999;319:495-500 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of intensive care: Cutting edge
	Mervyn Singer, Rod Little
	BMJ  1999;319:501-504 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Open randomised trial of intermittent very low energy diet together with nicotine gum for stopping smoking in women who gained weight in previous attempts to quit • Commentary: results are unlikely to be as good in routine practice
	Tobias Danielsson, Stephan Rössner, Åke Westin, Kevin Jones
	BMJ  1999;319:490-494 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Fancy drugs for worried folks
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1999;319:525 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	A patient's eye view of quality
	Claire Rayner
	BMJ  1999;319:525 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Cancer in the developing world: a call to action
	Sinéad B Jones
	BMJ  1999;319:505-508 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Methods in health service research: An introduction to bayesian methods in health technology assessment
	David J Spiegelhalter, Jonathan P Myles, David R Jones, Keith R Abrams
	BMJ  1999;319:508-512 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:526 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A memorable patient: The screaming man
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  1999;319:489 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . .: Now concentrate
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1999;319:494 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable experience: The qat party
	D N Baron
	BMJ  1999;319:500 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Comparative efficacy of three mumps vaccines during disease outbreak in eastern Switzerland: cohort study
	BMJ  1999;319:477 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	What do directors of postgraduate education in general practice do?
	Jamie Bahrami
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Employers giving references must 'exercise care and skill'...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: According to the Equal Opportunities Commission, the statutory body...
	BMJ  1999;319:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Professionals of all kinds are usually recruited through...
	BMJ  1999;319:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

ADS

This week's ADS

	Ads: "Unselling" the cigarette
	Melanie Wakefield
	BMJ  1999;319:524 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	A global look at cancer
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOKS CDS

This week's BOOKS CDS

	Books CDs: QBase: Anaesthesia: 1-3
	Ian Barker
	BMJ  1999;319:523 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	A global look at cancer
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BESTSELLERS

This week's BESTSELLERS

	July Bestsellers
	BMJ  1999;319:523 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Water births
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:524 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Charles Peter Broad • Kenneth Playfair Duncan • Howard Larmour English • Dorothy Younie
	John Hoyle, Colin Rowe-Jones, William M Dixon, Howard English, Elaine English, Graham Watt, Joan Burrell
	BMJ  1999;319:522 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Screening of newborn infants for cholestatic hepatobiliary disease with tandem mass spectrometry • Commentary: What is tandem mass spectrometry?
	Imran Mushtaq, Stuart Logan, Michael Morris, Andrew W Johnson, Angie M Wade, Deirdre Kelly, Peter T Clayton
	BMJ  1999;319:471-477 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Population based study of social and productive activities as predictors of survival among elderly Americans
	Thomas A Glass, Carlos Mendes de Leon, Richard A Marottoli, Lisa F Berkman
	BMJ  1999;319:478-483 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Perinatal mortality and morbidity among babies delivered in water: surveillance study and postal survey
	Ruth E Gilbert, Pat A Tookey
	BMJ  1999;319:483-487 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Polymorphism in high density lipoprotein paraoxonase gene and risk of acute myocardial infarction in men: prospective nested case-control study • Commentary: Causalitythe Achilles' heel of observational studies • Commentary: How high density lipoprotein protects against heart disease
	Jukka T Salonen, Riikka Malin, Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, Kristiina Nyyssönen, Timo A Lakka, Terho Lehtimäki, Marcus D Flather
	BMJ  1999;319:487-489 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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