H pylori is weakly associated with heart disease [Full text]

	Association between income distribution and health changes with level of economic development [Full text]

	Teaching undergraduates affects general practitioners' morale positively [Full text]

	Patients probably measure their own blood pressure accurately [Full text]

	Making a difference to patient care is the challenge for all methods of recertification [Full text]

Editorials

	Revalidation is the answer
	Graham Buckley
	BMJ  1999;319:1145-1146, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1145 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dangerous people with severe personality disorder
	Paul E Mullen
	BMJ  1999;319:1146-1147, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1146 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Meningococcal disease and healthcare workers
	Andrew J Pollard, Norman Begg
	BMJ  1999;319:1147-1148, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1147 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for osteoporosis
	Ignac Fogelman
	BMJ  1999;319:1148-1149, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1148 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How much to do at the accident scene?
	Matthew W Cooke
	BMJ  1999;319:1150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1150 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	People who condemn eugenics may be in minority now
	Riccardo Baschetti
	BMJ  1999;319:1196, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1196 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of toenail onychomycosis
	Fred Kavalier, Peter Rose, Tim Wilson, Jessica Harris, E G V Evans, Marcus Müllner
	BMJ  1999;319:1196, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1196a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	CT scanning can differentiate between ischaemic attack and haemorrhage
	Lusic Ivo
	BMJ  1999;319:1197, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1197 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Getting letters published in journals is good aim for medical students
	Barbara Hanratty, Debbie Lawlor
	BMJ  1999;319:1198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1198 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In general practice Scottish NHS and English NHS differ considerably
	Stephen Bamber
	BMJ  1999;319:1198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1198a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study confirms tendency towards lower risk of myocardial infarction with second generation oral contraceptives in UK
	Paul O'Brien
	BMJ  1999;319:1199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1199 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Numbers needed to treat derived from meta-analysis
	Bruce G Charlton, Kevork Hopayian, John McGough, Roberto D'Amico, Jonathan J Deeks, Douglas G Altman, Andrew Moore, Henry McQuay
	BMJ  1999;319:1199, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1199a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: References]

	Cholesterol lowering margarine is effective
	Gilbert R Thompson
	BMJ  1999;319:1200, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1200 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trends in emergency admissions
	Andrew Volans, Oliver Blatchford, Simon Capewell, Mary Blatchford
	BMJ  1999;319:1201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1201 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of supplementation with vitamin A or  carotene on mortality related to pregnancy
	K Vijayaraghavan, Kamala Krishnaswamy, H P S Sachdev, Carine Ronsmans, Oona Campbell, Martine Collumbien, Keith P West, Jr, Joanne Katz, Subarna Khatry
	BMJ  1999;319:1201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1201a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human rights are based on consensus
	Diarmid J G Weir
	BMJ  1999;319:1203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1203 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word ...
	Judith C Simpson, L Reinecke
	BMJ  1999;319:1203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1203a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Government orders inquiry as price of generic drugs soars
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  1999;319:1151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1151 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scientists identify enzymes implicated in Alzheimer's
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:1151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1151a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Surgeons were "fall guys" for a wider problem, inquiry told
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:1152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1152 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Audit Commission calls for improvements to critical care
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1999;319:1152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1152a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:1152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1152b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Tobacco chiefs sell shares in their own company
	Phillip Wilbur
	BMJ  1999;319:1153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1153 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Medicines Control Agency takes over GP research database
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:1153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1153a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Nerve gas antidote a possible cause of Gulf war illness
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:1154, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1154 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Euthanasia campaigner to stand in byelection
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:1154, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1154a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	COX 2 inhibitors might be useful in cancer prevention
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:1155, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1155 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Furby not guilty as "charged"
	Greg Basky
	BMJ  1999;319:1155, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1155a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Europe should give Alzheimer's disease higher priority
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1999;319:1155, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1155b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Radiologists accused in "scan scam"
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1999;319:1156, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1156 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US research scientist found guilty of fraud
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;319:1156, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1156a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Clinical review

	Clinical evidence: Urinary tract infection in children
	James Larcombe
	BMJ  1999;319:1173-1175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1173 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of complementary medicine: The manipulative therapies: osteopathy and chiropractic
	Andrew Vickers, Catherine Zollman
	BMJ  1999;319:1176-1179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1176 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Influence on general practitioners of teaching undergraduates: qualitative study of London general practitioner teachers
	Sarah Hartley, Fraser Macfarlane, Madeleine Gantley, Elizabeth Murray
	BMJ  1999;319:1168-1171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1168 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Longer results section] FREE

	Reliability of patients measuring blood pressure at home: prospective observational study
	Alain Nordmann, Beate Frach, Tobias Walker, Benedict Martina, Edouard Battegay
	BMJ  1999;319:1172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1172 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

	Have you heard who's on Ward 3?
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1999;319:1209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1209a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The blues and pellagra: a public health detective story
	John Middleton
	BMJ  1999;319:1209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1209 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Revalidation: Revalidation in the United Kingdom: general principles based on experience in general practice
	Lesley Southgate, Mike Pringle
	BMJ  1999;319:1180-1183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1180 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Recertification in the United States
	John J Norcini
	BMJ  1999;319:1183-1185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1183 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further information]

	Revalidation in Australia and New Zealand: approach of Royal Australasian College of Physicians
	David Newble, Neil Paget, Belinda McLaren
	BMJ  1999;319:1185-1188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1185 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Revalidation of doctors in Canada
	W Dale Dauphinee
	BMJ  1999;319:1188-1190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1188 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reregistration of medical specialists in the Netherlands
	J A Swinkels
	BMJ  1999;319:1191-1192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1191 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The hospital of the future: Staffing of hospitals: future needs, future provision
	Robin Dowie, Michael Langman
	BMJ  1999;319:1193-1195, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1193 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:1210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1210 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  1999;319:1166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1166a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Overcoming the problem: Take a lodger
	Evelyn O Parbrook
	BMJ  1999;319:1179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1179 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: What is health?
	BMJ  1999;319:1193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1193a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Treatment of shock
	BMJ  1999;319:1193, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1193b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Going on strike
	Mark Pugh
	BMJ  1999;319:2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: When it comes to employment practice, the NHS...
	BMJ  1999;319:3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: "Incivility spirals" caused by rudeness, disrespect, and insensitivity...
	BMJ  1999;319:3a, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

ADS

	Ads: Selling drugs to consumers
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;319:1208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1208 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Infections and Human Cancer: Cancer Surveys, Volume 33 • Microbes and Malignancy: Infection as a cause of human cancers
	Dimitrios Trichopoulos
	BMJ  1999;319:1207, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1207 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

POEMS

	Poems: Body Parts
	Brian McCabe
	BMJ  1999;319:1207, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1207a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Revalidating and rethinking
	BMJ  1999;319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Revalidating and rethinking
	BMJ  1999;319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.0a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Drug advertising
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:1208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1208a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Sixty one PCTs could be in place in 2000 • GPs' patients want more flexible services • Minister wants to cooperate with GPs • Academic staff should be covered by EU directive
	BMJ  1999;319:1206, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1206 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Desmond Bardon • Ronald Alwyne Bowen • Gordon Dutton • Ernest Hunt • Cynthia Mary Illingworth (née Redhead) • Gerald Francis ("Joe") Murnaghan • William Phillips • Edward Platts • Alexander Slessor • Kota Seetharama Urala
	Mario Marrone, David Wilkinson, B Dutton, Karen Beadle, Corinee Rees, Robin Illingworth, Joe Hampson, Gordon Cameron, Rosalind Platts, T J Thomson, P H R Setty
	BMJ  1999;319:1204, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1204 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Helicobacter pylori infection and early onset myocardial infarction: case-control and sibling pairs study
	John Danesh, Linda Youngman, Sarah Clark, Sarah Parish, Richard Peto, Rory Collins
	BMJ  1999;319:1157-1162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1157 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Collaborators] FREE

	Economic transition and changing relation between income inequality and mortality in Taiwan: regression analysis
	Tung-liang Chiang
	BMJ  1999;319:1162-1165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1162 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Visual field defect associated with vigabatrin: observational cohort study
	L V Wilton, M D B Stephens, R D Mann
	BMJ  1999;319:1165-1166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1165 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association of variant alleles of mannose binding lectin with severity of pulmonary disease in cystic fibrosis: cohort study
	M Gabolde, M Guilloud-Bataille, J Feingold, C Besmond
	BMJ  1999;319:1166-1167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7218.1166 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

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