This week's This week in the BMJ

	Malaria incidence is increased around irrigation projects [Full text] FREE

	Cirrhosis mortality is linked with consumption of spirits [Full text] FREE

	Intention to treat analysis is often inadequate [Full text] FREE

	Children entering care have serious psychiatric disorders [Full text] FREE

	Multifaceted shared care improves outcomes for elderly depressed people [Full text] FREE

	Education of general practitioners improves the health of their elderly patients [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Environmental management for vector control
	David Brewster
	BMJ  1999;319:651-652 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Can it work? Does it work? Is it worth it?
	Brian Haynes
	BMJ  1999;319:652-653 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Accepting commercial sponsorship
	Lisa A Bero
	BMJ  1999;319:653-654 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Legal safeguards for the audit process
	Nigel W Beresford, Timothy W Evans
	BMJ  1999;319:654-655 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Zanamivir for influenza: a public health perspective
	Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam
	BMJ  1999;319:655-656 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Guidelines dismay disabled people unable to speak for themselves
	Alison Davis
	BMJ  1999;319:705 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring outcomes in economic evaluations
	Simon Dixon, Colin Green, David J Torgerson
	BMJ  1999;319:705 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of oral cancer
	Ian Kunkler, G Cox, C Alcock, R Corbridge
	BMJ  1999;319:706 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Concerns about privacy in research may be exaggerated
	Martin Tondel, Olav Axelson
	BMJ  1999;319:706 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minimising the impact of visual impairment
	Joyce M Carter, Natalie Markham, Wayne Birchall, A C Burden, Mary L Burden, Leanne Hayward
	BMJ  1999;319:707 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antithrombotic treatment for atrial fibrillation
	Gregory Peterson, Alistair Howitt, David Armstrong
	BMJ  1999;319:708 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: information given to patients]

	Rationing health care in New Zealand
	Mary Seddon, Colin Feek
	BMJ  1999;319:708 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Greenwich asthma study
	Helen Parnell, NT Cooke
	BMJ  1999;319:709 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychotherapy for severe personality disorder
	Rex Haigh, Anthony W Bateman, Peter Fonagy, S Pearce, C Dare, Glenys Parry, Stephen Kisely
	BMJ  1999;319:709 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are postal prompts really ineffective?
	Richard Edwards, Paul Murphy
	BMJ  1999;319:711 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Factors that might have eased principals' entry into practice
	George Taylor
	BMJ  1999;319:711 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effectiveness of planned short hospital stays for mental health care
	Spencer Eth, Paul Johnstone, Gabriella Zolese
	BMJ  1999;319:711 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Moving beyond journals
	Alex Bienkowski, Leonard Finegold
	BMJ  1999;319:712 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	AMA backs health reform legislation
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;319:657 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NIH website of original research to start in January
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1999;319:657 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Baby to be tested for HIV against parents' wishes
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:658 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Medical advice in press is often unsuitable, sometimes dangerous
	Greg Basky
	BMJ  1999;319:658 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:658 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Anti-flu drug may not reduce death rate
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:659 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	China moves to tackle iodine deficiency
	Ted Plafker
	BMJ  1999;319:659 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK watchdog issues guidelines to combat medical research fraud
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  1999;319:660 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Storm rages over revisions to Helsinki Declaration
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;319:660 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	ACE inhibitor reduces cardiovascular events by 22
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1999;319:661 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Project makes emergency pill more available
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1999;319:661 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New EU health commissioner airs his priorities
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1999;319:662 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Commons committee criticises Guy's fiasco
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;319:662 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Apo E4 gene linked to breast cancer
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1999;319:662 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	New editor takes charge at New England Journal of Medicine
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1999;319:662 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Gynaecology
	Con Kelleher, Peter Braude
	BMJ  1999;319:689-692 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of complementary medicine: What is complementary medicine?
	Catherine Zollman, Andrew Vickers
	BMJ  1999;319:693-696 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Multifaceted shared care intervention for late life depression in residential care: randomised controlled trial • Commentary: Beyond the boundary for a randomised controlled trial?
	Robert H Llewellyn-Jones, Karen A Baikie, Heather Smithers, Jasmine Cohen, John Snowdon, Chris C Tennant, Jonathan J Deeks, Edmund Juszczak
	BMJ  1999;319:676-682 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of participant flow] FREE

	Improving the health behaviours of elderly people: randomised controlled trial of a general practice education programme
	Ngaire M Kerse, Leon Flicker, Damien Jolley, Bruce Arroll, Doris Young
	BMJ  1999;319:683-687 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: details on sample size] FREE

	Five year follow up of patients at high cardiovascular risk who took part in randomised controlled trial of health promotion
	M E Cupples, A McKnight
	BMJ  1999;319:687-688 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Spaced out
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1999;319:717 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	More doctors would aid communication
	H Parsons
	BMJ  1999;319:717 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	For debate • Time to put "cot death" to bed? • Not time to put cot death to bed
	M A Green, Sylvia Limerick
	BMJ  1999;319:697-700 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New global Health for All targets
	Loes M van Herten, Harry P A van de Water
	BMJ  1999;319:700-703 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics notes: How to randomise
	Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  1999;319:703-704 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:718 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: The doctor's fault
	BMJ  1999;319:687 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Our most unforgettable error: Always take a proper drug history
	P B Sabapathy, A K Sharma
	BMJ  1999;319:696 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Generalisation of salt infusions
	BMJ  1999;319:703 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Locum appointments in the specialist registrar grade
	Fiona McKevitt
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A step up in experience
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:2a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Taking royal college exams is an expensive business...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Not everyone wants to become an employment law specialist...
	BMJ  1999;319:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Harassment and bullying at work is one such topic
	BMJ  1999;319:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Human Brain
	Patrick Morrison
	BMJ  1999;319:715 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: HIV and AIDS: Testing, Screening, and Confidentiality
	D Sicard
	BMJ  1999;319:715 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

This week's PRESS

	Press: An end to health scares?
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;319:716 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	An ABC of complementary medicine: a new dawn
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	An ABC of complementary medicine: a new dawn
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Sudden infant death syndrome
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:716 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Patrick Forsyth Aitken Crawshaw • Stephen Bernard Davies • Edward Millar Dimock • Hugh Lewis Ellis • Muriel Frances Mary Evans • Michael Feiwel • Ian Charles Fraser • Luigi Gonsaga • Wilfred Brian Gough • Peter Michael King • Wilfred Oakley Nowlan
	Roland Aubrey, Peter Davies, Angela Owen-Smith, Brian Bower, Jackie Evans, Anthony du Vivier, Colin Fraser, Joseph Lewis, Edward T Mathews, Peter King, Huw Owen-Reece, R M Aitken
	BMJ  1999;319:713 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Incidence of malaria among children living near dams in northern Ethiopia: community based incidence survey
	Tedros A Ghebreyesus, Mitiku Haile, Karen H Witten, Asefaw Getachew, Ambachew M Yohannes, Mekonnen Yohannes, Hailay D Teklehaimanot, Steven W Lindsay, Peter Byass
	BMJ  1999;319:663-666 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cirrhosis mortality and per capita consumption of distilled spirits, United States, 1949-94: trend analysis
	Ron Roizen, William C Kerr, Kaye M Fillmore
	BMJ  1999;319:666-670 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Cirrhosis mortality data] FREE

	What is meant by intention to treat analysis? Survey of published randomised controlled trials
	Sally Hollis, Fiona Campbell
	BMJ  1999;319:670-674 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Psychiatric disorder among children at time of entering local authority care: questionnaire survey
	G Dimigen, C Del Priore, S Butler, S Evans, L Ferguson, M Swan
	BMJ  1999;319:675 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

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Website extra

BMJ Lancet softball match [Full text]

PubMed Central questionnaire results [Full text]

PubMed Central: authors' attitudes (October 1999) [Full text]

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