22 February 1997 (Vol 314, Issue 7080)

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This Week In the BMJ

High job demands and stress worsen atherosclerosis in men

BMJ 1997;314:0.4 (Published 22 February 1997)

Social class affects coronary event rates and chance of treatment for heart attack

BMJ 1997;314:0.2 (Published 22 February 1997)

Socioeconomic position over lifetime affects mortality

BMJ 1997;314:0.3 (Published 22 February 1997)

Low job control increases risk of heart disease

BMJ 1997;314:0.5 (Published 22 February 1997)

Gastric ulcers are less likely to recur after eradication of H pylori

BMJ 1997;314:0.6 (Published 22 February 1997)

Costs of community thrombolysis are modest compared with other interventions

BMJ 1997;314:0.7 (Published 22 February 1997)

Editorials

Working together to reduce poverty's damage

BMJ 1997;314:529 (Published 22 February 1997)

The endothelin system in cardiovascular disease

BMJ 1997;314:531 (Published 22 February 1997)

The medical health emergency card

BMJ 1997;314:532 (Published 22 February 1997)

Screening could seriously damage your health

BMJ 1997;314:533 (Published 22 February 1997)

Clinical information systems and the year 2000

BMJ 1997;314:534 (Published 22 February 1997)

Letters

Replacement therapy should be offered to adults with severe growth hormone deficiency

BMJ 1997;314:600.1 (Published 22 February 1997)

Interferon beta in multiple sclerosis

BMJ 1997;314:600.2 (Published 22 February 1997)

New antiepileptic drugs

BMJ 1997;314:602 (Published 22 February 1997)

Report of research assessment exercise should have focused on British medical schools

BMJ 1997;314:604.1 (Published 22 February 1997)

Newly licensed drugs

BMJ 1997;314:604.2 (Published 22 February 1997)

Peak expiratory flow is a prognostic indicator in elderly people

BMJ 1997;314:605 (Published 22 February 1997)

Active management of labour

BMJ 1997;314:606 (Published 22 February 1997)

Litigation in obstetrics and gynaecology has increased in Merseyside

BMJ 1997;314:607.1 (Published 22 February 1997)

Pilot trial of integrating pharmacy into primary care in rural areas is needed

BMJ 1997;314:607.2 (Published 22 February 1997)

Those who believe in alternative theories of AIDShave little room for manoeuvre

BMJ 1997;314:607.3 (Published 22 February 1997)

Causality, the menopause, and depression

BMJ 1997;314:608.1 (Published 22 February 1997)

New guidelines on managing back pain are similar to previous ones

BMJ 1997;314:608.2 (Published 22 February 1997)

Letters - continued

General practitioners have always been the A-Team

BMJ 1997;314:608.3 (Published 22 February 1997)

News

Psychiatrists plan network to help asylum seekers

BMJ 1997;314:535.1 (Published 22 February 1997)

In brief

BMJ 1997;314:535.2 (Published 22 February 1997)

Investigation of Nazi anatomy textbook to start

BMJ 1997;314:535.3 (Published 22 February 1997)

British GPs dissatisfied with amendments to primary care bill

BMJ 1997;314:535.4 (Published 22 February 1997)

Poor education linked with teen pregnancies

BMJ 1997;314:535.5 (Published 22 February 1997)

UK doctors breach guidance on persistent vegetative state

BMJ 1997;314:535.6 (Published 22 February 1997)

Dutch set to tighten up in vitro fertilisation regulations

BMJ 1997;314:535.7 (Published 22 February 1997)

Israeli court overturns IVF treatment rules

BMJ 1997;314:535.8 (Published 22 February 1997)

Minority ethnic groups have poor cancer care

BMJ 1997;314:535.9 (Published 22 February 1997)

Israel accused of ignoring psychiatric problems in Palestinian prisoners

BMJ 1997;314:535.10 (Published 22 February 1997)

Canada proposes tough antitobacco laws

BMJ 1997;314:535.11 (Published 22 February 1997)

Car phones can cause accidents

BMJ 1997;314:535.12 (Published 22 February 1997)

Medical supplies airlifted to Afghanistan

BMJ 1997;314:535.13 (Published 22 February 1997)

Focus: Brussels — Producers v consumers: redressing the balance on food

BMJ 1997;314:535.14 (Published 22 February 1997)

Clinical Reviews

Recent advances: HIV infection-II

BMJ 1997;314:579 (Published 22 February 1997)

Grand Rounds—University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff: Pyrexia of unknown origin

BMJ 1997;314:583 (Published 22 February 1997)

ABC of clinical haematology: Polycythaemia, primary (essential) thrombocythaemia and myelofibrosis

BMJ 1997;314:587 (Published 22 February 1997)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1997;314:616 (Published 22 February 1997)

Editor's Choice

Poverty and equity matter

BMJ 1997;314:0.1 (Published 22 February 1997)

Papers

Effect of socioeconomic group on incidence of, management of, and survival after myocardial infarction and coronary death: analysis of community coronary event register

BMJ 1997;314:541 (Published 22 February 1997)

Lifetime socioeconomic position and mortality: prospective observational study

BMJ 1997;314:547 (Published 22 February 1997)

Interaction of workplace demands and cardiovascular reactivity in progression of carotid atherosclerosis: population based study

BMJ 1997;314:553 (Published 22 February 1997)

Papers - continued

Low job control and risk of coronary heart disease in whitehall ii (prospective cohort) study

BMJ 1997;314:558 (Published 22 February 1997)

Randomised double blind controlled study of recurrence of gastric ulcer after treatment for eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection

BMJ 1997;314:565 (Published 22 February 1997)

Controlled trial of weight bearing exercise in older women in relation to bone density and falls

BMJ 1997;314:569 (Published 22 February 1997)

General practice

An economic evaluation of thrombolysis in a remote rural community

BMJ 1997;314:570 (Published 22 February 1997)

Statistics notes: Cronbach's alpha

BMJ 1997;314:572 (Published 22 February 1997)

Smart cards—the key to trustworthy health information systems

BMJ 1997;314:573 (Published 22 February 1997)

Netlines

BMJ 1997;314:578 (Published 22 February 1997)

Education and debate

Socioeconomic determinants of health: Health inequalities: relative or absolute material standards?

BMJ 1997;314:591 (Published 22 February 1997)

Primary care: opportunities and threats: Distributing primary care fairly

BMJ 1997;314:595 (Published 22 February 1997)

Threat to social justice

BMJ 1997;314:598 (Published 22 February 1997)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Bugging of surgeries will be limitedPostgraduate body consults on multiprofessional workingNurse prescribing scheme to be extendedGovernment admits to shortages in defence medical servicesPrescribing and supply of medicines to be reviewed

BMJ 1997;314:611 (Published 22 February 1997)

Personal Views

Alternative options

BMJ 1997;314:612.1 (Published 22 February 1997)

A retiring sort of chap

BMJ 1997;314:612.2 (Published 22 February 1997)

A transatlantic brush with the law

BMJ 1997;314:613 (Published 22 February 1997)

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

R & D for LSD?

BMJ 1997;314:614 (Published 22 February 1997)

Medicine and books

Sustainability, the Environment and Urbanization

BMJ 1997;314:615.1 (Published 22 February 1997)

Evidence-based health care

BMJ 1997;314:615.2 (Published 22 February 1997)

Career focus

Moving into management

BMJ 1997;314:S2-7080 (Published 22 February 1997)

Briefing

BMJ 1997;314:S3-7080 (Published 22 February 1997)

Briefing

BMJ 1997;314:S3a-7080 (Published 22 February 1997)

Obituary

Edward HareDonald McLartyPhilip Edmund Clinton Manson-BahrMichael O'SullivanRobert William Trainer MasonDesmond Richard Levinge NewtonIan Rea SmithKenneth Arthur TomlinsonJune Rosalind Wilkie (neé Hill)

BMJ 1997;314:609 (Published 22 February 1997)