12 September 1998 (Vol 317, Issue 7160)

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Editor's Choice

Diabetes and death

BMJ 1998;317:0.1 (Published 12 September 1998)

News

Drug to prevent breast cancer near approval

BMJ 1998;317:697.1 (Published 12 September 1998)

Emergency contraception approved in the US

BMJ 1998;317:697.2 (Published 12 September 1998)

In brief

BMJ 1998;317:698.1 (Published 12 September 1998)

BMA calls for 10% pay increase

BMJ 1998;317:698.2 (Published 12 September 1998)

South African health minister wins first round of tobacco battle

BMJ 1998;317:698.3 (Published 12 September 1998)

UK strategy to cut antibiotic use outlined

BMJ 1998;317:699.1 (Published 12 September 1998)

Liberals propose new health forum

BMJ 1998;317:699.2 (Published 12 September 1998)

Psychiatrist is investigated by GMC

BMJ 1998;317:699.3 (Published 12 September 1998)

Possibility of BSE in sheep causes alarm

BMJ 1998;317:700.1 (Published 12 September 1998)

Many junior doctors misuse drugs and drink excessively

BMJ 1998;317:700.2 (Published 12 September 1998)

Doctor demands payment for helping airline passenger

BMJ 1998;317:701.1 (Published 12 September 1998)

Novel protein may identify more aggressive prostate cancers

BMJ 1998;317:701.2 (Published 12 September 1998)

Concern raised about performance enhancing drugs in the US

BMJ 1998;317:702.1 (Published 12 September 1998)

US doctors want no part in executions

BMJ 1998;317:702.2 (Published 12 September 1998)

Editorials

Diabetes: a time for excitementand concern—and concern

BMJ 1998;317:691 (Published 12 September 1998)

Combined high blood pressure and glucose in type 2 diabetes: double jeopardy

BMJ 1998;317:693 (Published 12 September 1998)

First trimester ultrasound screening

BMJ 1998;317:694 (Published 12 September 1998)

Avoiding the consequences of deep vein thrombosis

BMJ 1998;317:696 (Published 12 September 1998)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Screening for nuchal translucency

BMJ 1998;317:748 (Published 12 September 1998)

Association between plasma plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 and survival in colorectal cancer

BMJ 1998;317:750 (Published 12 September 1998)

Public concern about complaints against doctors is widespread

BMJ 1998;317:751.1 (Published 12 September 1998)

Trial is needed of ACE inhibitors plus β blockers in survivors of myocardial infarction

BMJ 1998;317:751.2 (Published 12 September 1998)

Doctors must be trained to deal with adolescents

BMJ 1998;317:751.3 (Published 12 September 1998)

Interrupting the sympathetic outflow in causalgia and reflex sympathetic dystrophy

BMJ 1998;317:752 (Published 12 September 1998)

Elements of decentralisation in plans to reform NHS may prevail

BMJ 1998;317:753 (Published 12 September 1998)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1998;317:758 (Published 12 September 1998)

Fillers

The cycle and its medical foes

BMJ 1998;317:730.2 (Published 12 September 1998)

The golden mean

BMJ 1998;317:739.2 (Published 12 September 1998)

This Week In the BMJ

British women persist in smoking during pregnancy

BMJ 1998;317:0.5 (Published 12 September 1998)

Danish data do not suggest greatly increased risk of testicular cancer in biopsied testes

BMJ 1998;317:0.6 (Published 12 September 1998)

Training for general practice should be more like that for specialties

BMJ 1998;317:0.7 (Published 12 September 1998)

Tight blood pressure control reduces risks of type 2 diabetes and is cost effective

BMJ 1998;317:0.3 (Published 12 September 1998)

High iron stores may predict development of type 2 diabetes

BMJ 1998;317:0.4 (Published 12 September 1998)

Clinical Reviews

Ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast

BMJ 1998;317:734 (Published 12 September 1998)

Childhood Cushing's syndrome induced by betamethasone nose drops, and repeat prescriptions

BMJ 1998;317:739.1 (Published 12 September 1998)

Editor's Choice [GP]

Good news on diabetes, bad news on nose drops

BMJ 1998;317:0.2 (Published 12 September 1998)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Future of Guy's hospital finalised

BMJ 1998;317:702.3 (Published 12 September 1998)

Papers

Tight blood pressure control and risk of macrovascular and microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes: UKPDS 38

BMJ 1998;317:703 (Published 12 September 1998)

Efficacy of atenolol and captopril in reducing risk of macrovascular and microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes: UKPDS 39

BMJ 1998;317:713 (Published 12 September 1998)

Cost effectiveness analysis of improved blood pressure control in hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes: UKPDS 40

BMJ 1998;317:720 (Published 12 September 1998)

Relation between iron stores and non-insulin dependent diabetes in men: case-control study

BMJ 1998;317:727 (Published 12 September 1998)

Trends in smoking during pregnancy in England, 1992-7: quota sampling surveys

BMJ 1998;317:728 (Published 12 September 1998)

Risk of testicular cancer with cryptorchidism and with testicular biopsy: cohort study

BMJ 1998;317:729 (Published 12 September 1998)

General practice

Is general practice in need of a career structure?

BMJ 1998;317:730.1 (Published 12 September 1998)

Education and debate

Reforming the Russian health serviceOtherwise it might be convenientUrgent aid, chronic penaltiesProfessional law breakersTraining general practitioners in St PetersburgTraining general practitioners in Gatchina

BMJ 1998;317:741 (Published 12 September 1998)

Late onset genetic disease: where ignorance is bliss, is it folly to inform relatives?

BMJ 1998;317:744.1 (Published 12 September 1998)

Soundings

The value of life

BMJ 1998;317:756.1 (Published 12 September 1998)

Personal View

Anna: too much, too young

BMJ 1998;317:756.2 (Published 12 September 1998)

Filler

Prison to the community in one, totally unprepared, step

BMJ 1998;317:757 (Published 12 September 1998)

Career focus

Development of generic skills

BMJ 1998;317:S2-7160 (Published 12 September 1998)

Briefing

BMJ 1998;317:S3-7160 (Published 12 September 1998)

Briefing

BMJ 1998;317:S3a-7160 (Published 12 September 1998)

Briefing

BMJ 1998;317:S3b-7160 (Published 12 September 1998)

Correction

Correction

BMJ 1998;317:744.3 (Published 12 September 1998)

The anatomy of a clinical information system

BMJ 1998;317:744.2 (Published 12 September 1998)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Jonathan MannEdward James Barrington-WardNellie Eirwen DaviesJames Watson FarquharAlexander Bruce Junor GilbertKandiah MahadevaStephen Lane Henderson SmithDorothy Mary Yoxall

BMJ 1998;317:754 (Published 12 September 1998)