This week's This week in the BMJ

	Survival graphs for preterm infants would help counselling [Full text] FREE

	Two view mammography at subsequent screens is cost effective only with double reading [Full text] FREE

	Body mass index in children varies with height [Full text] FREE

	Maternal mortality among East Germans worsened after reunification [Full text] FREE

	Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors increase risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding [Full text] FREE

	Care of the elderly in the UK needs restructuring [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Antidepressants and upper gastrointestinal bleeding
	Alain Li Wan Po
	BMJ  1999;319:1081-1082 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: table]

	Carbon monoxide poisoning
	Ed Walker, Alastair Hay
	BMJ  1999;319:1082-1083 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hyperbaric oxygen in carbon monoxide poisoning
	Lindell K Weaver
	BMJ  1999;319:1083-1084 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing the cardiotoxicity of anthracyclines by dexrazoxane
	K Hellmann
	BMJ  1999;319:1085-1086 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	HIV and tuberculosis in the Commonwealth
	Angus Nicoll, Peter Godfrey-Faussett
	BMJ  1999;319:1086 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: table]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Effects of drug overdose in television drama on presentations for self poisoning
	Martin J Veysey, Robie Kamanyire, Glyn N Volans, Jill Pell, Robert Murdoch, Simon J C Davies, Mary Atherton, Timothy Williams, Jethro Purkis, Gillian Combe, Andrew J Brindley, Geraldine McCarthy, Roger Denny, Jonathan J Deeks, Keith Hawton, Sue Simkin
	BMJ  1999;319:1131 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical fiction could be misleading
	Roberto Manfredini
	BMJ  1999;319:1132 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Association between type 1 diabetes and Hib vaccine
	J Barthelow Classen, David C Classen, Heidi White
	BMJ  1999;319:1133 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Radioiodine and thyroid eye disease
	James Ahlquist, John P Walsh, Colin M Dayan
	BMJ  1999;319:1133 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Non-attendance at outpatients departments
	Susana Castan-Cameo, Janice Johnston, Sarah McGhee, Debbie Lawlor, Barbara Hanratty, William Hamilton, Alison Round, Deborah Sharp
	BMJ  1999;319:1134 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anaesthetists need consent, but not written consent
	Alan Aitkenhead
	BMJ  1999;319:1135 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risks of medicine and air travel
	Amanda Bisset, Gabor Libertiny
	BMJ  1999;319:1135 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Immunosuppression in renal transplantation
	G Morris-Stiff, A Khan, I Quiroga, R Baboo, W A Jurewicz, Peter A Andrews, Andrew J Krentz, Greg Knoll, Robert Bell
	BMJ  1999;319:1136 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Australia has considerable experience of transporting critically ill patients
	P J Shirley
	BMJ  1999;319:1137 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Paediatricians propose plan to insure every US child
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:1087 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health secretary will target heart disease
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:1087 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Professor tried to get surgery stopped
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:1088 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors not obliged to carry out treatment they think "futile"
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1999;319:1088 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:1088 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Sertraline approved for post-traumatic stress disorder
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:1089 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	WMA to tackle adverse health conditions in prisons
	Nigel Duncan
	BMJ  1999;319:1090 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	WHO celebrates triumph over river blindness
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;319:1090 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Antismoking campaigns should "target 4 year olds"
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  1999;319:1090 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scottish secretary of the BMA resigns
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;319:1090 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Medical abortion still not available in most countries
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;319:1091 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Study into medical errors planned for the UK
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:1091 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Young less tolerant of mentally ill than the old
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:1092 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MRI found suitable for detecting coronary heart disease
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;319:1092 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Lancet editor defends decision to publish GM research paper
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  1999;319:1845 [Extract] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Antismoking campaigns should "target 4 year olds"
	BMJ  1999;319:1092 [Extract] [Full text]

	Cell implants reconstruct myelin sheaths
	BMJ  1999;319:1092 [Extract] [Full text]

	Tougher guidelines needed for research in developing countries
	BMJ  1999;319:1092 [Extract] [Full text]

	Consumer group criticises surgeon general on ECT
	BMJ  1999;319:1092 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Otolaryngology
	Aurelia Richards, Michael Gleeson
	BMJ  1999;319:1110-1113 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Digital examination for oral cancer
	Ritu Gupta, Michael Perry
	BMJ  1999;319:1113-1114 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of complementary medicine: Homoeopathy
	Andrew Vickers, Catherine Zollman
	BMJ  1999;319:1115-1118 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Association between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and upper gastrointestinal bleeding: population based case-control study
	Francisco José de Abajo, Luis Alberto García Rodríguez, Dolores Montero
	BMJ  1999;319:1106-1109 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Words failed me
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1999;319:1143 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	In praise of hunch backing
	Richard Lehman
	BMJ  1999;319:1143 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Geriatric care in the United Kingdom: aligning services to needs • Commentary: current system could be made to work
	Clive Bowman, Malcolm Johnson, David Venables, Chris Foote, Robert L Kane, Gerry Bennett
	BMJ  1999;319:1119-1122 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The NHS in Dumfries and Galloway: straining but optimistic
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:1123-1127 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: longer version, 1980 & 1999 papers]

	The hospital of the future: Better out than in? Alternatives to acute hospital care
	Martin Hensher, Naomi Fulop, Joanna Coast, Emma Jefferys
	BMJ  1999;319:1127-1130 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:1144 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Knowledge
	Albert Einstein
	BMJ  1999;319:1104 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson to be learnt: A word out of place
	Solomon Almond
	BMJ  1999;319:1105 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Women in the operating theatre
	BMJ  1999;319:1106 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my practice: The baby and the bathwater
	Mary E Black
	BMJ  1999;319:1114 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: London operating theatres
	BMJ  1999;319:1115 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: A doctor's reputation
	Sir George Bernard Shaw
	BMJ  1999;319:1130 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Morphine induced allodynia in a child with brain tumour
	BMJ  1999;319:1114 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Population based study of social and productive activities as predictors of survival among elderly Americans
	BMJ  1999;319:1130 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Psychiatric disorder among children at time of entering local authority care: questionnaire study
	BMJ  1999;319:1130 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Recent advances: neurology
	BMJ  1999;319:1130 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Basic surgical training
	Sian Falder
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Actuaries are a group to which doctors are often...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Recruitment in the NHS is firmly rooted in...
	BMJ  1999;319:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The US labour market has a reputation for...
	BMJ  1999;319:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

TV

This week's TV

	TV: Learning to be you
	Ann Furedi
	BMJ  1999;319:1142 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Parkinson's Disease: The Treatment Options
	Hervé Allain
	BMJ  1999;319:1141 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Difficult Asthma
	Tim Usherwood
	BMJ  1999;319:1141 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	The everyday
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Carbon monoxide
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:1142 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Juniors' pay offer will not mean a pay cut • Consultants endorse system of revalidation • Helping non-consultant career grade doctors • Charity calls for better service for minority ethnic groups
	BMJ  1999;319:1140 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Cecil Thompson Buchanan Adams • Elisabeth Bride Carnegie Dickson • John Robert Pelham Gibbons • David Stoakley Hinson • George Downes McDowell • Frederic ("Eric") Guy Neild • Louis Falconer Smith • John Turner Spare • Jessie Vivien Mary Walls (née Robb) • John Whyte • Rodney Finlayson
	Betty Nicholl, Doris A Craigmile, Jim McGuigan, Roger Nunn, Bryan Dale, G H Neild, James Falconer Smith, Tim Spare, E W Walls, T L Turner, J P McClure
	BMJ  1999;319:1138 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Prediction of survival for preterm births by weight and gestational age: retrospective population based study
	Elizabeth S Draper, Bradley Manktelow, David J Field, David James
	BMJ  1999;319:1093-1097 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables] FREE

	Two view mammography at incident screens: cost effectiveness analysis of policy options
	Katharine Johnston, Jackie Brown
	BMJ  1999;319:1097-1102 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Identifying very fat and very thin children: test of criterion standards for screening test
	J Mulligan, L D Voss
	BMJ  1999;319:1103-1104 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Maternal mortality in the former East Germany before and after reunification: changes in risk by marital status
	Oliver Razum, Albrecht Jahn, Rachel Snow
	BMJ  1999;319:1104-1105 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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