Pentoxifylline does not significantly improve healing of venous ulcers [Full text]

	Resident children suffer more than refugee children in a non-camp setting [Full text]

	Co-amoxiclav reduces infection after gastrostomy [Full text]

	Injection close to the carpal tunnel should be first line treatment [Full text]

	Benefits from hormone replacement therapy may be an artefact of self selection [Full text]

Editorials

	When are the seeds of postoperative pressure sores sown?
	Mary Bliss, Bruno Simini
	BMJ  1999;319:863-864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.863 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The effects of weapons and the Solferino cycle
	Robin M Coupland
	BMJ  1999;319:864-865, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.864 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Time to register randomised trials
	Richard Horton, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:865-866, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.865 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improving access needs a whole systems approach
	Anne Rogers, Julian Flowers, David Pencheon
	BMJ  1999;319:866-867, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.866 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Junior doctors: the moment of decision
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:868, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.868 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Managing patients with deliberate self harm who refuse treatment in accident and emergency departments
	Alastair Hull, Fabian Haut, Eleanor Feldman, William Bingley, Taj Hassan, Aidan MacNamara, Gautam Bodiwala
	BMJ  1999;319:916, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.916 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Relation between hostility and coronary heart disease
	Mark Petticrew, Simon Gilbody, Trevor A Sheldon, Harry Hemingway, Michael Marmot
	BMJ  1999;319:917, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.917 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Benzodiazepine use in pregnancy and major malformations or oral clefts
	Ester Garne, Ulf Bergman, Christopher Cates, Khalid S Khan, Catherine Wykes, Harry Gee
	BMJ  1999;319:918, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.918 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vascular anomalies must be properly classified
	Patrick Mallucci
	BMJ  1999;319:919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.919 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Choosing the right antibiotic
	David Bihari, Mark H Wilcox, Jon Sandoe
	BMJ  1999;319:919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.919a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Work of mental health review tribunals is increasing faster than detentions
	G E Langley
	BMJ  1999;319:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.920 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prophylaxis against early anaphylactic reactions to snake antivenom
	Douglas E Ball, Klara Tisocki, Hui Wen Fan
	BMJ  1999;319:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.920a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Naturalistic treatment study of depression in general practice
	Peter L Cornwall, Joanna Moncrieff, Ulrik Fredrik Malt
	BMJ  1999;319:921, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.921 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	UK's diagnostic criteria for diabetes are different from US's
	Eric S Kilpatrick
	BMJ  1999;319:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.922 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Money to modernise adult mental health services is insufficient
	Paul Lelliott
	BMJ  1999;319:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.922a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	US government to sue tobacco companies
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.869 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK juniors demand more talks on pay offer
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.869a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Peace process leads to cooperation on health
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1999;319:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.870 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	A sixth of new cases of HIV are drug resistant strains
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.870a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.870b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Professor accused of threatening staff
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.871 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Ovarian transplant raises hope for women facing cancer treatment
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;319:871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.871a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Mental health services are failing children and adolescents
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.872 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch doctors call for all pregnant women to be screened for Down's
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1999;319:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.872a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	CDC study quantifies foodborne illnesses
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;319:873, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.873 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New York outbreak of E coli poisoning affects 1000 and kills two
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:873, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.873a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scottish GPs could save £26m by changes in prescribing
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1999;319:873, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.873b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Missouri passes antiabortion law
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.874 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cancer doctors told to become lobbyists
	Ann Kent
	BMJ  1999;319:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.874a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Public interest in child health not matched by government resources
	BMJ  1999;319:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.874b [Extract] [Full text]

	German government breaks off talks with doctors
	BMJ  1999;319:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.874c [Extract] [Full text]

	US government to sue tobacco companies
	BMJ  1999;319:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.874d [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Controversial aspects of thyroid disease
	F W F Hanna, J H Lazarus, M F Scanlon
	BMJ  1999;319:894-899, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.894 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week Child sexual abuse enquiries and unrecognised vulval lichen sclerosus et atrophicus
	P L Wood, T Bevan
	BMJ  1999;319:899-900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.899 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of complementary medicine: Complementary medicine in conventional practice
	Catherine Zollman, Andrew Vickers
	BMJ  1999;319:901-904, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.901 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Pre-existing risk factor profiles in users and non-users of hormone replacement therapy: prospective cohort study in Gothenburg, Sweden
	Kerstin Rödström, Calle Bengtsson, Lauren Lissner, Cecilia Björkelund
	BMJ  1999;319:890-893, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.890 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

	Do you believe in God?
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  1999;319:929, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.929a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The machismo of medicine
	Stephen Dinniss
	BMJ  1999;319:929, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.929 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The law on managing patients who deliberately harm themselves and refuse treatment
	Barbara Hewson
	BMJ  1999;319:905-907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.905 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The medical service increment for teaching (SIFT): a £400m anachronism for the English NHS?
	Gwyn Bevan
	BMJ  1999;319:908-911, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.908 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The hospital of the future: Hospital provision, activity, and productivity in England since the 1980s
	Martin Hensher, Nigel Edwards
	BMJ  1999;319:911-914, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.911 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Economics notes: Discounting
	David J Torgerson, James Raftery
	BMJ  1999;319:914-915, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.914 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:930, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.930 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Street noises
	BMJ  1999;319:888, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.888a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson learnt: An inspirational teacher
	Alison Douglas
	BMJ  1999;319:889, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.889 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  1999;319:890, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.890a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Alcohol and life assurance
	BMJ  1999;319:901, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.901a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The gifts needed to be prime minister
	BMJ  1999;319:914, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.914a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Taking a lodger19th century style
	BMJ  1999;319:914, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.914b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.926b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A patient's eye view of quality
	BMJ  1999;319:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.926c [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	Medical ethics
	Trisha Macnair
	BMJ  1999;319:2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Up to one fifth of medical students may be influenced...
	BMJ  1999;319:3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The thirteen year delay in implementing the EU...
	BMJ  1999;319:3a, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: As the number of employment sites on the web...
	BMJ  1999;319:3b, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

	Book: The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character
	Stephen Lock
	BMJ  1999;319:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.926 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Intensive Care Medicine
	Ian Barker
	BMJ  1999;319:927, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.927 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Breast Cancer
	J Michael Dixon
	BMJ  1999;319:927, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.927a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

PRESS

	Press: The problem with medical advice columns
	Ann McPherson
	BMJ  1999;319:928, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.928 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	The straightforward and the not so straightforward
	BMJ  1999;319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	The straightforward and the not so straightforward
	BMJ  1999;319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.0a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

HIT PARADE

	Hit parade
	BMJ  1999;319:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.926a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Complementary medicine
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:928, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.928a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Working lives of doctors must be improved • Public health must not be sidelined • NI GPs must have primary role in decision making • BMA amends guidance on abortion
	BMJ  1999;319:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.925 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	John David Baum • Queenie Muriel Francis Adams • Sinnadorai Bala • Ian Hamilton Barclay • Samuel Lovell Davidson • Kenneth Hollinrake • Peter Anthony Layard Horsfall • Henry Lach • William Tennant McClatchey • John Charlton Moor
	Timothy Chambers, M C S Cannell, Kumutha Bala, Sally Barclay, Robert W Logan, A W Bullen, E R Williams, Edith Waldman, Francis Sorrell, Thomas Freeman, Barbara Evans
	BMJ  1999;319:923, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.923 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Randomised, double blind placebo controlled trial of pentoxifylline in the treatment of venous leg ulcers
	J J Dale, C V Ruckley, D R Harper, B Gibson, E A Nelson, R J Prescott
	BMJ  1999;319:875-878, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.875 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: sample size, participant flow] FREE

	Nutritional status and mortality of refugee and resident children in a non-camp setting during conflict: follow up study in Guinea-Bissau
	Peter Aaby, Joaquim Gomes, Manuel Fernandes, Queba Djana, Ida Lisse, Henrik Jensen
	BMJ  1999;319:878, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.878 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prospective, randomised, double blind trial of prophylaxis with single dose of co-amoxiclav before percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
	G Preclik, S Grüne, H G Leser, J Lebherz, W Heldwein, K Machka, A Holstege, W V Kern
	BMJ  1999;319:881, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.881 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Injection with methylprednisolone proximal to the carpal tunnel: randomised double blind trial
	J W H H Dammers, M M Veering, M Vermeulen
	BMJ  1999;319:884-886, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.884 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Seasonality of birth in children with diabetes in Europe: multicentre cohort study
	P M Rothwell, S A Gutnikov, P A McKinney, E Schober, C Ionescu-Tirgoviste, A Neu
	BMJ  1999;319:887-888, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.887 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Testicular neoplasia in cryptorchid boys at primary surgery: case series
	Dina Cortes, Jakob Visfeldt, Henrik Møller, Jørgen Thorup
	BMJ  1999;319:888-889, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7214.888 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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