This week's This week in the BMJ

	Behavioural counselling in primary care leads to improvements in health behaviour [Full text] FREE

	Schools smoking prevention programme based on "stages of change" model does not work [Full text] FREE

	Observed association between income inequality and mortality is not a statistical artefact [Full text] FREE

	Tube trains kill fewer people when there's a pit under the rails [Full text] FREE

	Aspirin is best for mild atrial fibrillation in primary care [Full text] FREE

	Steroid injection gives best relief for tennis elbow [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Contrasting views on human population growth
	A J McMichael, J Guillebaud, Maurice King
	BMJ  1999;319:931-932 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Impediments to effective fertility reduction
	Tim Black
	BMJ  1999;319:932-933 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The population policy pendulum
	Malcolm Potts
	BMJ  1999;319:933-934 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Failure of an intervention to stop teenagers smoking
	Donald Reid
	BMJ  1999;319:934-935 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fertility after treatment for cancer
	JA Radford, SM Shalet, BA Lieberman
	BMJ  1999;319:935-936 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Stumbling into rationing
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:936 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Reasons for not seeing drug representatives
	Richard Tiner, Adam Jacobs, P Dodd, T Dexter, A G Benbow
	BMJ  1999;319:1002 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Postcodes don't indicate individuals' social class
	Philip McLoone, Anne Ellaway
	BMJ  1999;319:1003 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coronary artery disease varies seasonably in subtropics
	CM Wong, S Ma, TH Lam, AJ Hedley
	BMJ  1999;319:1004 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acute urinary retention in men
	Jeremy J Elkabir, Anup Patel, Justin A Vale, Ross O'N Witherow, Mark Emberton, Ken Anson
	BMJ  1999;319:1004 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	DEC methods for appraising new drugs
	Bruce Campbell, Robert Peveler, Ken Stein, Claire Packer, Dogan Fidan, Andrew Stevens, Nick Payne, Ron Akehurst, Ruairidh Milne, John Gabbay, Amanda Burls, Nick Freemantle, James Mason
	BMJ  1999;319:1005 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drugs arriving in Kosovo need checking
	Gian Luca Quaglio, Paolo Mezzelani, Claudi Cuchillo
	BMJ  1999;319:1007 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table]

	Rates of anxiety and depression in African-Caribbeans may not reflect reality
	Kwame McKenzie
	BMJ  1999;319:1007 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Data on babies' safety during hospital births are being ignored
	James Drife
	BMJ  1999;319:1008 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Midwives would prefer a vaginal delivery
	Malcolm John Dickson, Mark Willett
	BMJ  1999;319:1008 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	NICE to rule on influenza flu drug zanamivir
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:937 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Japan's worst nuclear accident leaves two fighting for life
	Joe Lamar
	BMJ  1999;319:937 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	London professor struck off for bullying and dishonesty
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:938 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GP faces 15 charges of murder
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:938 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:938 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	CSM takes small step towards openness
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1999;319:939 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scientists who do not publish trial results are "unethical"
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:939 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	England to have more walk-in clinics
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:940 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Mental health services framework welcomed
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;319:940 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Cooperation could provide better hospital care
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:940 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Kosovo to shift emphasis to a primary care system
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1999;319:941 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Eight die in outbreak of virus spread from birds
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:941 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	King in a maverick style
	BMJ  1999;319:942 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	NICE to rule on influenza flu drug zanamivir
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:942 [Extract] [Full text]

	Japan's worst nuclear accident leave two fighting for life
	Joe Lamar
	BMJ  1999;319:942 [Extract] [Full text]

	Study finds that most drug donations to developing countries are appropriate
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;319:942 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scientists discover that old drug is effective in preventing malaria
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;319:942 [Extract] [Full text]

	Antihypertensive drug could be useful for eye disorder
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;319:942 [Extract] [Full text]

	Placebo surgery provokes controversy
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:942 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Contraception
	David T Baird, Anna F Glasier
	BMJ  1999;319:969-972 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of complementary medicine: Acupuncture
	Andrew Vickers, Catherine Zollman
	BMJ  1999;319:973-976 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Primary prevention of arterial thromboembolism in non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation in primary care: randomised controlled trial comparing two intensities of coumarin with aspirin
	B S P Hellemons, M Langenberg, J Lodder, F Vermeer, H J A Schouten, Th Lemmens, J W van Ree, J A Knottnerus
	BMJ  1999;319:958-964 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Pragmatic randomised controlled trial of local corticosteroid injection and naproxen for treatment of lateral epicondylitis of elbow in primary care
	Elaine M Hay, Susan M Paterson, Martyn Lewis, Gillian Hosie, Peter Croft
	BMJ  1999;319:964-968 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table, Musculoskeletal Research Group] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Oracles
	Ricardo Silva
	BMJ  1999;319:1013 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Both sides
	Belinda Brewer
	BMJ  1999;319:1013 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Human numbers, environment, sustainability, and health
	A J McMichael, J W Powles
	BMJ  1999;319:977-980 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table]

	World population and health in transition
	Veena Soni Raleigh
	BMJ  1999;319:981-984 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Paths to lower fertility
	John Caldwell
	BMJ  1999;319:985-987 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prospects for feeding the world • Commentary: Bread for the worldanother view
	Tim Dyson, Maurice King
	BMJ  1999;319:988-991 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	China's one child family policy
	Penny Kane, Ching Y Choi
	BMJ  1999;319:992-994 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	India: looking ahead to one and a half billion people
	Robert Cassen, Pravin Visaria
	BMJ  1999;319:995-997 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The US Department of State is policing the population policy lockstep
	Maurice King
	BMJ  1999;319:998-1001 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:1014 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	When I use a word ...: That's show business
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1999;319:972 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An unusual treatment: Intractable hiccups
	John Macdonald
	BMJ  1999;319:976 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: The need to know
	Robert W Stout
	BMJ  1999;319:1001 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The plague
	BMJ  1999;319:1001 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Forensic psychiatry
	John J Sandford
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Transcribing five different perspectives on continuing medical education...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

TV

This week's TV

	TV: Curing the incurable
	Chris Martyn
	BMJ  1999;319:1012 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: The Baby Makers
	Khaldoun Sharif
	BMJ  1999;319:1011 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: How the Idea of Profession Changed the Writing of Medical History
	Richard Westcott
	BMJ  1999;319:1011 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Benign uproar
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Benign uproar
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Demographic entrapment
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:1012 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Doctors need 5% pay rise just to stand still • Average cost of college exam is £452 • Threat of industrial action has not gone away • BMA Notice
	BMJ  1999;319:1010 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	James Bruce-Smith • Austin Braybrooke Kettle • Reginald Passmore • David Michael Stern • John Watson-Farrar
	Llewellyn Lloyd, Alasdair Geddes, A B Kettle, Raymond Mills, Colin Stern, Hugh Phillips, J K Tucker
	BMJ  1999;319:1009 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Behavioural counselling in general practice for the promotion of healthy behaviour among adults at increased risk of coronary heart disease: randomised trial • Commentary: Treatment allocation by the method of minimisation
	Andrew Steptoe, Sheelagh Doherty, Elizabeth Rink, Sally Kerry, Tony Kendrick, Sean Hilton, Simon Day
	BMJ  1999;319:943-948 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: flow of participants] FREE

	Cluster randomised controlled trial of expert system based on the transtheoretical ("stages of change") model for smoking prevention and cessation in schools
	Paul Aveyard, K K Cheng, Joanne Almond, Emma Sherratt, Robert Lancashire, Terry Lawrence, Carl Griffin, Olga Evans
	BMJ  1999;319:948-953 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: process assessment, flow participants] FREE

	Relation between income inequality and mortality: empirical demonstration • Diminishing returns to aggregate level studies • Two pathways, but how much do they diverge?
	Michael Wolfson, George Kaplan, John Lynch, Nancy Ross, Eric Backlund, Hugh Gravelle, Richard G Wilkinson
	BMJ  1999;319:953-957 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: detailed version] FREE

	Effect of station design on death in the London Underground: observational study
	T J Coats, D P Walter
	BMJ  1999;319:957 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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