05 September 1998 (Vol 317, Issue 7159)

Editor's Choice

Bugs and drugs

BMJ 1998;317:0.2 (Published 5 September 1998)

Bugs and drugs

BMJ 1998;317:0.1 (Published 5 September 1998)

News

Surgical specimens to be tested for new variant CJD

BMJ 1998;317:617.1 (Published 5 September 1998)

Role of nurses to expand in Australia

BMJ 1998;317:617.2 (Published 5 September 1998)

Trials sponsored by drug companies: review ordered

BMJ 1998;317:618.1 (Published 5 September 1998)

Waiting lists respond to cash boost

BMJ 1998;317:618.2 (Published 5 September 1998)

Repeated miscarriages may be explained by deficient T cells

BMJ 1998;317:619.1 (Published 5 September 1998)

New, more virulent strain of HIV found

BMJ 1998;317:619.2 (Published 5 September 1998)

Facing the microbial threat

BMJ 1998;317:620.1 (Published 5 September 1998)

Editorials

Antimicrobial resistance

BMJ 1998;317:609 (Published 5 September 1998)

Antimicrobial resistance: a veterinary perspective

BMJ 1998;317:610 (Published 5 September 1998)

Antimicrobial resistance: bacteria on the defence

BMJ 1998;317:612 (Published 5 September 1998)

Control of antimicrobial resistance: time for action

BMJ 1998;317:613 (Published 5 September 1998)

Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance

BMJ 1998;317:614 (Published 5 September 1998)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Hypoxic responses in infants

BMJ 1998;317:675 (Published 5 September 1998)

Ecological studies are a poor means of testing aetiological hypotheses

BMJ 1998;317:678.1 (Published 5 September 1998)

Studies must establish whether prolonged QTc interval in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes is reversible

BMJ 1998;317:678.2 (Published 5 September 1998)

Helicobacter pylori and surgery

BMJ 1998;317:679 (Published 5 September 1998)

Relation between birth weight and blood pressure is independent of maternal blood pressure

BMJ 1998;317:680.1 (Published 5 September 1998)

Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis

BMJ 1998;317:680.2 (Published 5 September 1998)

Other amputees are the greatest help in dealing with limb loss

BMJ 1998;317:682.1 (Published 5 September 1998)

Long term follow up of children with recurrent abdominal pain

BMJ 1998;317:682.2 (Published 5 September 1998)

Letters - continued

Central venous catheters and infection

BMJ 1998;317:683 (Published 5 September 1998)

Effects of ambulance response times are being evaluated

BMJ 1998;317:684.1 (Published 5 September 1998)

Clinical Review

Science, medicine, and the future

BMJ 1998;317:643 (Published 5 September 1998)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1998;317:690 (Published 5 September 1998)

This Week In the BMJ

Editorial

Lessons from New York's tuberculosis epidemic

BMJ 1998;317:616 (Published 5 September 1998)

This week is in BMJ

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Precise cause of Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome found

BMJ 1998;317:620.2 (Published 5 September 1998)

Vaccine delivery system using safe bacteria invented

BMJ 1998;317:620.3 (Published 5 September 1998)

Papers

General Practice

Education and debate

What can be done about resistance to antibiotics?

BMJ 1998;317:645 (Published 5 September 1998)

Antimicrobial resistance in developing countries

BMJ 1998;317:647 (Published 5 September 1998)

Surveillance of antimicrobial resistancean international perspective

BMJ 1998;317:651 (Published 5 September 1998)

Education and debate - continued

Soundings

Some experience necessary

BMJ 1998;317:687.1 (Published 5 September 1998)

Personal View

The government's initiative may be stillborn

BMJ 1998;317:687.2 (Published 5 September 1998)

Filler

Grapes

BMJ 1998;317:688 (Published 5 September 1998)

Medicine and books

Emerging Infections

BMJ 1998;317:689.1 (Published 5 September 1998)

Effective Commissioning: Lessons from Purchasing in American Managed Care

BMJ 1998;317:689.2 (Published 5 September 1998)

Career focus

Developing the medical mind

BMJ 1998;317:S2-7159 (Published 5 September 1998)

Briefing

BMJ 1998;317:S3-7159 (Published 5 September 1998)

Briefing

BMJ 1998;317:S3a-7159 (Published 5 September 1998)

Briefing

BMJ 1998;317:S3b-7159 (Published 5 September 1998)

Correction

Confidential inquiry into quality of care before admission to intensive care

BMJ 1998;317:631 (Published 5 September 1998)

The hot air on passive smoking

BMJ 1998;317:684.2 (Published 5 September 1998)

Obituary