20 September 1997 (Vol 315, Issue 7110)

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This Week In the BMJ

Growth hormone treatment is not as effective as has been thought

BMJ 1997;315:0.3 (Published 20 September 1997)

Should we screen for gestational diabetes?

BMJ 1997;315:0.7 (Published 20 September 1997)

Paying patients improves compliance with treatment

BMJ 1997;315:0.2 (Published 20 September 1997)

Incidence of insulin dependent diabetes is rising sharply in children aged under 5

BMJ 1997;315:0.5 (Published 20 September 1997)

Increase in hay fever and eczema is not explained by changes in perinatal factors

BMJ 1997;315:0.6 (Published 20 September 1997)

The old risk factors are still best for predicting death and coronary disease

BMJ 1997;315:0.4 (Published 20 September 1997)

Editorials

Multiple sclerosis, depression, and suicide

BMJ 1997;315:691 (Published 20 September 1997)

Growth hormone: panacea or punishment for short stature?

BMJ 1997;315:692 (Published 20 September 1997)

Occipital plagiocephaly: an epidemic of craniosynostosis?

BMJ 1997;315:693 (Published 20 September 1997)

Child health promotion and its challenge to medical education

BMJ 1997;315:694 (Published 20 September 1997)

The future of vascular services: the need for a strategy

BMJ 1997;315:695 (Published 20 September 1997)

Authorship is dying: long live contributorship

BMJ 1997;315:696 (Published 20 September 1997)

Letters

Authorship

BMJ 1997;315:744 (Published 20 September 1997)

General practice fundholding and health care costs

BMJ 1997;315:748 (Published 20 September 1997)

Guidelines on circumcision

BMJ 1997;315:750.1 (Published 20 September 1997)

Warfarin use in patients with atrial fibrillation

BMJ 1997;315:750.2 (Published 20 September 1997)

Title of news item on stillbirths was inaccurate

BMJ 1997;315:751.1 (Published 20 September 1997)

Bitten—by taxonomy

BMJ 1997;315:751.2 (Published 20 September 1997)

New logo

BMJ 1997;315:751.3 (Published 20 September 1997)

News

Health will be key responsibility of new Scottish parliament

BMJ 1997;315:697.1 (Published 20 September 1997)

France to investigate illegal sterilisation of mentally ill patients

BMJ 1997;315:697.2 (Published 20 September 1997)

In brief

BMJ 1997;315:697.3 (Published 20 September 1997)

BMA calls for 10% pay increase for doctors

BMJ 1997;315:697.4 (Published 20 September 1997)

Group to vet any plans to close psychiatric hospitals in Britain

BMJ 1997;315:697.5 (Published 20 September 1997)

Thalidomide ban to be lifted in the US

BMJ 1997;315:697.6 (Published 20 September 1997)

Information on drug efficacy must be given

BMJ 1997;315:697.7 (Published 20 September 1997)

Poor sterilisation of instruments leads to infection outbreak in Paris

BMJ 1997;315:697.8 (Published 20 September 1997)

Virus set against virus

BMJ 1997;315:697.9 (Published 20 September 1997)

Vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus reported

BMJ 1997;315:697.10 (Published 20 September 1997)

Calcium supplements reduce risk fracture

BMJ 1997;315:697.11 (Published 20 September 1997)

Exportability of managed care is limited

BMJ 1997;315:697.12 (Published 20 September 1997)

Speaking out for the right of women to choose

BMJ 1997;315:697.13 (Published 20 September 1997)

Clinical Reviews

Science, medicine, and the future : malaria

BMJ 1997;315:730 (Published 20 September 1997)

ABC of mental health: Psychological treatments

BMJ 1997;315:733 (Published 20 September 1997)

Should we screen for gestational diabetes? “The concept of gestational diabetes was popularised before considerations of evidence based medicine came on the scene”

BMJ 1997;315:736 (Published 20 September 1997)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1997;315:756 (Published 20 September 1997)

Editor's Choice

Different kinds of truth

BMJ 1997;315:0.1 (Published 20 September 1997)

Papers

Should we pay the patient? Review of financial incentives to enhance patient compliance

BMJ 1997;315:703 (Published 20 September 1997)

Long term results of growth hormone treatment in France in children of short stature: population, register based study

BMJ 1997;315:708 (Published 20 September 1997)

Rising incidence of insulin dependent diabetes in children aged under 5 years in the Oxford region: time trend analysis

BMJ 1997;315:713 (Published 20 September 1997)

Investigation into the increase in hay fever and eczema at age 16 observed between the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts

BMJ 1997;315:717 (Published 20 September 1997)

General practice

Comparison of the prediction by 27 different factors of coronary heart disease and death in men and women of the Scottish heart health study: cohort study

BMJ 1997;315:722 (Published 20 September 1997)

Education and debate

Should we screen for gestational diabetes? The case for screening for gestational diabetes

BMJ 1997;315:737 (Published 20 September 1997)

How to read a paper: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)

BMJ 1997;315:740 (Published 20 September 1997)

Soundings

Better ads for healthier people

BMJ 1997;315:754.1 (Published 20 September 1997)

Personal View

Breast feeding does not always work

BMJ 1997;315:754.2 (Published 20 September 1997)

Medicine and books

The Lost Art of Healing

BMJ 1997;315:755.1 (Published 20 September 1997)

The Undertaking: Life Studies from a Dismal Trade

BMJ 1997;315:755.2 (Published 20 September 1997)

Career focus

Recruiting a partner

BMJ 1997;315:S2-7110 (Published 20 September 1997)

Briefing

BMJ 1997;315:S3-7110 (Published 20 September 1997)

Briefing

BMJ 1997;315:S3a-7110 (Published 20 September 1997)

Fillers

Endpiece: Dr Johnson doubts the logic of physicians

BMJ 1997;315:0.10 (Published 20 September 1997)

Endpiece: Prudent at the end

BMJ 1997;315:0.9 (Published 20 September 1997)

A memorable patient: Ward cleaner's clinical observation

BMJ 1997;315:0.8 (Published 20 September 1997)

Any questions: Use of a statin for reducing cholesterol levels

BMJ 1997;315:0.11 (Published 20 September 1997)

Obituary

George Andrew Douglas GordonBasil Sydney GrantJohn Alexander Holden HendersonSadrudin Kassam Mohamed JivaniAndrew Edward Bertie MatthewsStanley Septimus PavillardAlastair Ian RossHelen Mary Slack (née Taylor)Tamirisa Venkateswarlu (“Tom Venkat”)Jame…

BMJ 1997;315:752 (Published 20 September 1997)