Where should babies sleepalone or with parents? [Full text]

	Inconsistent immunisation policies increase incidence of congenital rubella syndrome [Full text]

	Hospital at home scheme did not increase likelihood of dying at home [Full text]

	SCOFF questionnaire identifies people with eating disorders [Full text]

	Low perceived control contributes substantially to socioeconomic differences in mortality [Full text]

	Adding anticholinergics in acute childhood and adolescent asthma is cost effective [Full text]

Editorials

	Rigorous assessment of palliative care revisited
	Duncan Keeley
	BMJ  1999;319:1447-1448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1447 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Vaccination policies: individual rights v community health
	Susan King
	BMJ  1999;319:1448-1449, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1448 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Learning from the NHS
	Jennifer Dixon, Alex Preker
	BMJ  1999;319:1449-1450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1449 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine must change to serve an ageing society
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  1999;319:1450-1451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1450 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cardiac troponins in chest pain
	Graham S Hillis, Keith A A Fox
	BMJ  1999;319:1451-1452, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1451 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Improving access to medical care
	Mark Reynolds, Morris Doublet-Stewart
	BMJ  1999;319:1496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1496 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	North-South research in developing countries must respond to community's priorities
	David Wilson
	BMJ  1999;319:1496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1496a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing drug misuse in general practice
	Eamon Keenan, Joe Barry, Edwin van Teijlingen, Mandy Ryan, Catriona Matheson, Christine Bond
	BMJ  1999;319:1497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1497 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stillbirth as risk factor for depression and anxiety in subsequent pregnancy
	Michael Perkin, Malcolm Griffiths, Patricia Hughes, Penelope Turton, Chris Evans
	BMJ  1999;319:1497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1497a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical review overstates genetic case for schizophrenia
	Joanna Moncrieff
	BMJ  1999;319:1498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1498 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Folic acid supplementation before pregnancy remains inadequate
	W J Huttly, N J Wald, J C Walters
	BMJ  1999;319:1499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1499 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Legal safeguards for audit process are a bad idea
	Kieran Walshe
	BMJ  1999;319:1499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1499a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obstacles in organisation of service delivery reduce potential of epidural analgesia
	Huw Talfryn Oakley Davies, Graeme McLeod, Jonathan Bannister, William Andrew Macrae
	BMJ  1999;319:1499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1499b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethnic and sex differences in selection for admission to medical school
	Derek Roskell, Bruno Rushforth, James L Chen, Sanjay Kinra, David James, Lisa Driver
	BMJ  1999;319:1500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1500 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study did not mention preregistration year in general practice
	Joe Wilton
	BMJ  1999;319:1502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1502 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increase in staff numbers may reduce doctors' "presenteeism"
	R M Wrate
	BMJ  1999;319:1502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1502a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Study shows growing inequalities in health in Britain
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:1453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1453 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	First human chromosome is sequenced
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1999;319:1453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1453a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Papillomavirus DNA in smear test raises risk of cervical cancer
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:1454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1454 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	England plans measures to cut outpatient waits
	Pat Anderson
	BMJ  1999;319:1454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1454a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In Brief
	BMJ  1999;319:1454, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1454b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Agencies urge end to global trade restrictions on essential medicines
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:1455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1455 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	No redress for failed sterilisations
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:1455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1455a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Israel health minister bans AIDS campaign promoting condoms
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1999;319:1455, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1455b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Family compensated for death after illegible prescription
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1456 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Survey finds that 1 in 10 children has a mental disorder
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1456a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	High coffee intake increasesrisk of miscarriage
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1999;319:1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1456b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	US education board advises against drugs for behavioural problems
	BMJ  1999;319:1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1456c [Extract] [Full text]

	Hungarian insurance companies raise malpractice premiums
	BMJ  1999;319:1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1456d [Extract] [Full text]

	Drug company chairman calls for trial period to evaluate drugs
	BMJ  1999;319:1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1456e [Extract] [Full text]

	Bristol case surgeon claimed to have been on "learning curve"
	BMJ  1999;319:1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1456f [Extract] [Full text]

	Pro-choice group in Northern Ireland calls for legal abortion
	BMJ  1999;319:1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1456g [Extract] [Full text]

Information in practice

	National electronic Library for Health (NeLH)
	J A Muir Gray, Simon de Lusignan
	BMJ  1999;319:1476-1479, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1476 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Regular review: Management of Crohn's disease
	David S Rampton
	BMJ  1999;319:1480-1485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1480 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of complementary medicine: Complementary medicine and the patient
	Catherine Zollman, Andrew Vickers
	BMJ  1999;319:1486-1489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1486 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Does hospital at home for palliative care facilitate death at home? Randomised controlled trial
	Gunn E Grande, Chris J Todd, Stephen I G Barclay, Morag C Farquhar
	BMJ  1999;319:1472-1475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1472 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

	The lords medical
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1999;319:1509, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1509a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Time for a sinister practice
	T A Roper
	BMJ  1999;319:1509, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1509 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Improving NHS performance: human behaviour and health policy
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  1999;319:1490-1492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1490 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Calculating the number needed to treat for trials where the outcome is time to an event
	Douglas G Altman, Per Kragh Andersen
	BMJ  1999;319:1492-1495, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1492 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:1510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1510 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	A memorable period: A small United Nations
	Om P Sharma
	BMJ  1999;319:1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1468 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Unforeseen consequences
	Garrett Igoe
	BMJ  1999;319:1471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1471 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Instant wisdom
	Owen L Wade
	BMJ  1999;319:1479, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1479 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Dangers for surgeons
	Emily Dickinson
	BMJ  1999;319:1480, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1480a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: It's all in the definition
	Charles Campion-Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:1489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1489 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable dream: Plagiarism
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  1999;319:1495, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1495 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Having babies as a surgical trainee
	Scarlett McNally
	BMJ  1999;319:2, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Doctors order a lot of investigations, mainly of...
	BMJ  1999;319:3, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The Human Rights Act will have far reaching...
	BMJ  1999;319:3a, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: It is small organisations that have the most...
	BMJ  1999;319:3b, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

	Book: Dictionary of Health Economics
	Anna Donald
	BMJ  1999;319:1506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1506 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Pocket PDR: Medical Book System
	Peter R Mills
	BMJ  1999;319:1506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1506a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Whole Brain Atlas
	David Sutton
	BMJ  1999;319:1507, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1507 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

FILM

	Film: Hollywood hails a tobacco whistleblower
	Clifford Douglas
	BMJ  1999;319:1508, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1508 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Places to die and sleep, and "the forces of conservatism"
	BMJ  1999;319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

NETLINES

	NETLINES
	BMJ  1999;319:1507, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1507a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Places to die and sleep, and "the forces of conservatism"
	BMJ  1999;319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.0a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Eating disorders
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:1508, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1508a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GMC agrees a change in culture is needed • NHS must change, says minister • Health care for asylum seekers criticised • Most medical directors do some clinical work
	BMJ  1999;319:1505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1505 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Sir Melville Arnott • Douglas Arthur Longmore Ashworth • Francis Henry Doyle • Norman Peter Henry Gibbs • Aaron Lask • Albert Keith Pittman • Elizabeth Ann Ryan • Dudley James Toomey • Norman Victor Wilkinson • Enid Young
	Alasdair Geddes, Ian Brown, Michael Mynott, Robert Steiner, Phil Gibbs, Bryan Lask, Susan Mitchell, D J D Perrins, Dudley Evans, A L G Smith, P Anderson
	BMJ  1999;319:1503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1503 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Babies sleeping with parents: case-control study of factors influencing the risk of the sudden infant death syndrome • Commentary: Cot deaththe story so far
	Peter S Blair, Peter J Fleming, Iain J Smith, Martin Ward Platt, Jeanine Young, Pam Nadin, P J Berry, Jean Golding, the CESDI SUDI research group, Ed Mitchell
	BMJ  1999;319:1457-1462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1457 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Increase in congenital rubella occurrence after immunisation in Greece: retrospective survey and systematic review • How does herd immunity work?
	Takis Panagiotopoulos, Ioanna Antoniadou, Eleni Valassi-Adam, Abi Berger
	BMJ  1999;319:1462-1467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1462 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details and references] FREE

	The SCOFF questionnaire: assessment of a new screening tool for eating disorders
	John F Morgan, Fiona Reid, J Hubert Lacey
	BMJ  1999;319:1467-1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1467 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and importance of perceived control: cohort study
	Hans Bosma, Carola Schrijvers, Johan P Mackenbach
	BMJ  1999;319:1469-1470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1469 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cost effectiveness analysis of inhaled anticholinergics for acute childhood and adolescent asthma
	Joanne Lord, Francine M Ducharme, Ronald J Stamp, Peter Littlejohns, Rachel Churchill
	BMJ  1999;319:1470-1471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7223.1470 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

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