02 January 1999 (Vol 318, Issue 7175)

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This Week In the BMJ

Psychological attributes may explain how social origins affect adult health

BMJ 1999;318:0.4 (Published 2 January 1999)

Medicines regulation should be more transparent

BMJ 1999;318:0.8 (Published 2 January 1999)

Open peer review is feasible and does not reduce quality of reviews

BMJ 1999;318:0.5 (Published 2 January 1999)

Migraine increases the risk of ischaemic but not haemorrhagic stroke in young women

BMJ 1999;318:0.3 (Published 2 January 1999)

Breast feeding is best learnt by example

BMJ 1999;318:0.6 (Published 2 January 1999)

Asian children in the UK may need vitamin D

BMJ 1999;318:0.7 (Published 2 January 1999)

Editorials

Being strategic about smoking

BMJ 1999;318:1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Low plasma vitamin D in Asian toddlers in Britain

BMJ 1999;318:2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Modernising mental health services

BMJ 1999;318:3 (Published 2 January 1999)

Opening up BMJ peer review

BMJ 1999;318:4 (Published 2 January 1999)

Treating thyrotoxicosis in pregnant or potentially pregnant women

BMJ 1999;318:5 (Published 2 January 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Suboptimal ward care of critically ill patients

BMJ 1999;318:51 (Published 2 January 1999)

Complaints of pain after use of handcuffs should not be dismissed

BMJ 1999;318:55.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Electronic preprints can be categorised

BMJ 1999;318:55.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Meta-analyses of observational data should be done with due care

BMJ 1999;318:56.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Infantile spasms and vigabatrin

BMJ 1999;318:56.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Sex education should begin in primary school

BMJ 1999;318:57.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Improved command of English may explain why non-English speaking countries get more published

BMJ 1999;318:57.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Is it time for an Illich Collaboration to make available information on the harms of medical care?

BMJ 1999;318:58.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Clinical outcome in relation to care in centres specialising in cystic fibrosis

BMJ 1999;318:58.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in adults

BMJ 1999;318:59 (Published 2 January 1999)

Communicating with patients

BMJ 1999;318:60.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Author was never appointed to Bristol inquiry

BMJ 1999;318:60.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

News

Prisoner wants to donate his second kidney

BMJ 1999;318:7.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Risks of surgery on unruptured brain aneurysms can outweigh benefits

BMJ 1999;318:7.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;318:8.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Smoking ban improves health of bartenders

BMJ 1999;318:8.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

WHO plans to halve child asthma deaths

BMJ 1999;318:8.3 (Published 2 January 1999)

UK treads softly on smoking

BMJ 1999;318:9.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Shane Warne takes money to give up smoking

BMJ 1999;318:9.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Government plans shake up in NHS pay

BMJ 1999;318:10.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

First doctor suspended under GMC performance procedures

BMJ 1999;318:10.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Private company wins rights to Icelandic gene database

BMJ 1999;318:11 (Published 2 January 1999)

North Korean children ravaged by poor nutrition

BMJ 1999;318:12.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Death rates higher in Wales

BMJ 1999;318:12.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Airline passenger dies afterbeing sedated by doctor

BMJ 1999;318:12.3 (Published 2 January 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Neurosurgery

BMJ 1999;318:35 (Published 2 January 1999)

Florid rickets associated with prolonged breast feeding without vitamin D supplementation

BMJ 1999;318:39 (Published 2 January 1999)

Female sexual problems I: Loss of desirewhat about the fun?

BMJ 1999;318:41.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;318:68 (Published 2 January 1999)

Editor's Choice

Ethics and narrative

BMJ 1999;318:0.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Editor's Choice [GP]

Ethics and narrative

BMJ 1999;318:0.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Papers

Migraine and stroke in young women: case-control study

BMJ 1999;318:13 (Published 2 January 1999)

Social class in childhood and general health in adulthood: questionnaire study of contribution of psychological attributes

BMJ 1999;318:18 (Published 2 January 1999)

Effect of open peer review on quality of reviews and on reviewers'recommendations: a randomised trial

BMJ 1999;318:23 (Published 2 January 1999)

Vitamin D concentrations in Asian children aged 2years living in England: population survey

BMJ 1999;318:28 (Published 2 January 1999)

Incidence of trauma related stress fractures and shin splints in male and female army recruits: retrospective case study

BMJ 1999;318:29.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

General Practice

Qualitative study of decisions about infant feeding among women in east end of London

BMJ 1999;318:30 (Published 2 January 1999)

Education and debate

Evidence on peer review—scientific quality control or smokescreen?

BMJ 1999;318:44 (Published 2 January 1999)

Rethinking transparency and accountability in medicines regulation in the United Kingdom

BMJ 1999;318:46 (Published 2 January 1999)

Why study narrative?

BMJ 1999;318:48.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Medicopolitical digestBMA calls for guidelines on new and expensive drugsJuniors to be surveyed on 48 hour directiveJunior doctors want higher rates for 1999-2000 new yearGPs submit proposals on the $60m job weight awardYoung people's health surveyed

BMJ 1999;318:63 (Published 2 January 1999)

MULTIMEDIA

Desperately Seeking Solutions: Rationing Health Care

BMJ 1999;318:64.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Gout: The Patrician Malady

BMJ 1999;318:64.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Step by Step Guide to Epidemiological Health Needs Assessment for Ethnic Minority Groups; Dying, Death and Bereavement in a British Hindu Community

BMJ 1999;318:65.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

Minor Surgery and Skin Lesions: Diagnosis and Management on CD-ROM

BMJ 1999;318:65.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Shock to stop?

BMJ 1999;318:66.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

BMJ 1999;318:66.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Personal View

My route to a steroid psychosis

BMJ 1999;318:67.1 (Published 2 January 1999)

BOOKCASE

Bookcase

BMJ 1999;318:67.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Career focus

Working in Australia

BMJ 1999;318:S2a-7175 (Published 2 January 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3a-7175 (Published 2 January 1999)

Fillers

Gide's solution

BMJ 1999;318:29.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

The health administration of London

BMJ 1999;318:29.3 (Published 2 January 1999)

The knock on the door

BMJ 1999;318:40 (Published 2 January 1999)

Special correspondence: Paris

BMJ 1999;318:41.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

A military doctor

BMJ 1999;318:48.2 (Published 2 January 1999)

Useful remedy

BMJ 1999;318:48.3 (Published 2 January 1999)

Correction

Corrections

BMJ 1999;318:29.4 (Published 2 January 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

ObituariesNilima Choudhury, née KunduPhilip Ross HarbenMonica Cynthia LewinRosemarie Dorothy LincolnMerlin MarshallGeorge Leonard PlesterJohn Albert RichDouglas William Cumming SmithGeoffrey Harvey Martin Stanley-JonesValentine Andrew James SwainSzeming…

BMJ 1999;318:61 (Published 2 January 1999)