This week's This week in the BMJ

	Fetoplacental factors may explain relation of low birth weight with high blood pressure [Full text] FREE

	Twins confirm importance of fetal programming on adult blood pressure [Full text] FREE

	Likelihood of osteoporotic fracture is not strongly genetically influenced [Full text] FREE

	Glucocorticoid receptor variant confers a likelihood of being overweight [Full text] FREE

	Time spent in hospital increases only slightly with age at death [Full text] FREE

	New Zealand offers model of clinical governance in primary care [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Twins and fetal programming of blood pressure
	David A Leon
	BMJ  1999;319:1313-1314 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing the clinical performance of doctors
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:1314-1315 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sexual and reproductive health: what about boys and men?
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:1315-1316 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The future of clinical forensic medicine
	Guy A Norfolk, Margaret M Stark
	BMJ  1999;319:1316-1317 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for ovarian cancer
	Nicole Urban
	BMJ  1999;319:1317-1318 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Consequences for research if use of anonymised patient data breaches confidentiality
	John Walton, Richard Doll, William Asscher, Rosalinde Hurley, Michael Langman, Raanan Gillon, David Strachan, Nicholas Wald, Peter Fletcher
	BMJ  1999;319:1366 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Discontinuation of ventilation after brain stem death
	R Khanna, M A Chaudhry, Dan Michaeli
	BMJ  1999;319:1366 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Criticisms of Swedish mammography trials were wrong
	Laszlo Tabar, Stephen W Duffy
	BMJ  1999;319:1367 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sexual health of teenagers
	Ahilya Noone, Jim Chalmers, Mark Hollinsworth, Kenny McIntyre, Beatrice Cant, Clare J Seamark, Herbert E Reiss, Angus Nicoll, Mike Catchpole
	BMJ  1999;319:1367 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Royal Medical Benevolent Fund reminds readers of its Christmas appeal
	Rodney Sweetnam
	BMJ  1999;319:1369 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing the risk of major elective surgery
	S Sudhindran, Imogen Mitchell, David Bihari, R O Feneck, P E Hersch, A S Kong, R Howard-Griffi, Jonathan Wilson, Ian Woods
	BMJ  1999;319:1369 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Changing perceptions in osteoporosis
	C W McGrother, M M K Donaldson, David J Torgerson, Nelson B Watts, Paul D Miller, Terence J Wilkin
	BMJ  1999;319:1371 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why transition from alternation to randomisation in clinical trials was made
	Iain Chalmers
	BMJ  1999;319:1372 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	NHS doctors in England face audit and annual appraisals
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:1319 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC wants a tougher restoration procedure
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:1319 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Controversy erupts over reuse of "single use" medical devices
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:1320 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Quality of surgery was not the only problem at Bristol
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:1320 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:1320 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Medical societies accused of being beholden to the drugs industry
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:1321 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors feel pressurised by direct to consumer advertising
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;319:1321 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Government launches green paper on mental health
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:1322 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Tobacco tax to be ringfenced for NHS
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:1322 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK's yellow card scheme to be extended
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:1322 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Big US health insurer gives doctors final say in treatment
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:1323 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Japan widens its investigation after nuclear accident
	Joe Lamar
	BMJ  1999;319:1323 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors arrested and beaten up in Turkey
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  1999;319:1323 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Health situation in former communist bloc is dire, says Unicef
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;319:1324 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Royal college launches new effectiveness unit
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:1324 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Call for greater care of elderly people in surgery
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1999;319:1324 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Israeli health insurer curbs activities of drug representatives
	BMJ  1999;319:1324 [Extract] [Full text]

	GMC wants a tougher restoration procedure
	BMJ  1999;319:1324 [Extract] [Full text]

	Red Cross and Red Crescent draw up action plan
	BMJ  1999;319:1324 [Extract] [Full text]

	International report reassesses ways to cut maternal mortality
	BMJ  1999;319:1324 [Extract] [Full text]

	Missouri fines internet pharmacy
	BMJ  1999;319:1324 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Medical management of menorrhagia
	Andrew Prentice
	BMJ  1999;319:1343-1345 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of complementary medicine: Hypnosis and relaxation therapies
	Andrew Vickers, Catherine Zollman
	BMJ  1999;319:1346-1349 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	New Zealand's independent practitioner associations: a working model of clinical governance in primary care?
	Laurence Malcolm, Nicholas Mays
	BMJ  1999;319:1340-1342 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Quackery, flummery, and fleas
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  1999;319:1379 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Should age based rationing of health care be illegal?
	Michael Rivlin
	BMJ  1999;319:1379 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	How many, how old, how soon?
	Kay-Tee Khaw
	BMJ  1999;319:1350-1352 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ageism in cardiology
	Ann Bowling
	BMJ  1999;319:1353-1355 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Children in an ageing society
	D M B Hall
	BMJ  1999;319:1356-1358 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Demographic shifts and medical training
	Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  1999;319:1358-1360 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The hospital of the future: Planning hospitals with limited evidence: a research and policy problem
	Nigel Edwards, Anthony Harrison
	BMJ  1999;319:1361-1363 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New members of BMJ editorial board
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:1364-1365 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

This week's Reviews

	BMJ  1999;319:1378 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:1380 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  1999;319:1338 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The most precious thing
	BMJ  1999;319:1338 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: The young woman with a wart on her nose
	Donald W MacCorquodale
	BMJ  1999;319:1349 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	On the word of the physician
	Peter Carpenter
	BMJ  1999;319:1355 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The coal-smoke nuisance
	BMJ  1999;319:1355 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: A surgical mishap
	D N Baron
	BMJ  1999;319:1360 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Neurology
	Martin Sadler, Trevor Pickersgill
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Changes in the recruitment of GP registrars will...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The sixth edition of the BMA's Guide to...
	BMJ  1999;319:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: A culture of openness is one of the...
	BMJ  1999;319:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Diabetes: Emergency and Hospital Management
	Robert Matz
	BMJ  1999;319:1378 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDIA

This week's MEDIA

	Media: Diagnose and be damned
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  1999;319:1376 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Falling from grace
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Falling from grace
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: The ageing population
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:1378 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GMC advises doctors as teachers • BMA calls for alternative medicine to be regulated • Tories want doctors to have more training in general practice • Defence medical services are declining
	BMJ  1999;319:1375 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Shameem Ahmed • Arthur Frank Bryson • George Harold Ellis • Peter Stuart Arthur Heyworth • Thomas Alun Lloyd-James • Ronald Alexander McFadden • Ma'ad Mahmoud Salman • Patrick Montrose Smythe • William Horrocks Tattersall • Peter Moor Vicary
	Anthony Costello, Kishwar Azad, Derek Richard, David Wilkinson, J R Dickson, Margaret Lloyd-James, Alistair Thomson, M I Aldoori, Tim Ashworth, M E Poole-Wilson, Arthur T Hendry, John R Mikhail, Patricia Vicary, Robin Vicary, David Vicary
	BMJ  1999;319:1373 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Within pair association between birth weight and blood pressure at age 8 in twins from a cohort study
	Terence Dwyer, Leigh Blizzard, Ruth Morley, Anne-Louise Ponsonby
	BMJ  1999;319:1325-1329 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between birth weight and adult blood pressure in twins: historical cohort study
	N R Poulter, C L Chang, A J MacGregor, H Snieder, T D Spector
	BMJ  1999;319:1330-1333 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extended versions of tables] FREE

	Genetic factors and osteoporotic fractures in elderly people: prospective 25 year follow up of a nationwide cohort of elderly Finnish twins
	Pekka Kannus, Mika Palvanen, Jaakko Kaprio, Jari Parkkari, Markku Koskenvuo
	BMJ  1999;319:1334-1337 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further results] FREE

	High penetrance, overweight, and glucocorticoid receptor variant: case-control study
	Ruby C Y Lin, William Y S Wang, Brian J Morris
	BMJ  1999;319:1337-1338 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Does time spent in hospital in the final 15 years of life increase with age at death? A population based study
	R L Himsworth, M J Goldacre
	BMJ  1999;319:1338-1339 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional figure] FREE

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