19 September 1998 (Vol 317, Issue 7161)

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Editor's Choice

A corker of a journal?

BMJ 1998;317:0.2 (Published 19 September 1998)

A corker of a journal?

BMJ 1998;317:0.1 (Published 19 September 1998)

News

Viagra is licensed in Europe but rationed in Britain

BMJ 1998;317:765 (Published 19 September 1998)

In brief

BMJ 1998;317:766.1 (Published 19 September 1998)

Aricept advertisement breached code

BMJ 1998;317:766.2 (Published 19 September 1998)

Israel adopts tough laws on rabies

BMJ 1998;317:766.3 (Published 19 September 1998)

Life expectancy falls in Europe

BMJ 1998;317:767.1 (Published 19 September 1998)

Obstetrician accused of committing a series of surgical blunders

BMJ 1998;317:767.2 (Published 19 September 1998)

US centre offers choice over sex of baby

BMJ 1998;317:768.1 (Published 19 September 1998)

Canadian doctors angry about lack of action over health funding

BMJ 1998;317:768.2 (Published 19 September 1998)

Poland reforms its health system

BMJ 1998;317:769.1 (Published 19 September 1998)

Miracle cures advertised on the internet

BMJ 1998;317:769.2 (Published 19 September 1998)

Pilot bowel screening scheme to start in Britain

BMJ 1998;317:769.3 (Published 19 September 1998)

University of Vienna apologises for dismissing Jewish doctors

BMJ 1998;317:770.1 (Published 19 September 1998)

BMJ buys Western Journal of Medicine

BMJ 1998;317:770.2 (Published 19 September 1998)

Meningitis B vaccine looks promising

BMJ 1998;317:770.3 (Published 19 September 1998)

Editorials

Viagra: on release

BMJ 1998;317:759 (Published 19 September 1998)

Viagra: on release

BMJ 1998;317:760 (Published 19 September 1998)

Thalassaemia in Britain: a tale of two communities

BMJ 1998;317:761 (Published 19 September 1998)

Implantable defibrillators for life threatening ventricular arrhythmias

BMJ 1998;317:762 (Published 19 September 1998)

An amnesty for unpublished trials

BMJ 1998;317:763 (Published 19 September 1998)

Action on antimicrobial resistance

BMJ 1998;317:764 (Published 19 September 1998)

Letters

This week's Letters section

The aftermath of the Bristol case

BMJ 1998;317:811 (Published 19 September 1998)

Breaking down language barriers

BMJ 1998;317:816 (Published 19 September 1998)

Pressure on doctors to prescribe needs measuring directly

BMJ 1998;317:818.1 (Published 19 September 1998)

Safety of patients participating in drug trials

BMJ 1998;317:818.2 (Published 19 September 1998)

If devolved facilities are used, processes may be streamlined

BMJ 1998;317:818.3 (Published 19 September 1998)

Use of the READER method of critical appraisal in general practice

BMJ 1998;317:819.1 (Published 19 September 1998)

Living wills might make patients at risk of death by starvation and dehydration

BMJ 1998;317:819.2 (Published 19 September 1998)

Deaths outside hospital from acute coronary events

BMJ 1998;317:819.3 (Published 19 September 1998)

Drug treatments for asthma may cause erosive tooth damage

BMJ 1998;317:820 (Published 19 September 1998)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1998;317:826 (Published 19 September 1998)

Fillers

Predictions of hypoxaemia at high altitude in children with cystic fibrosis

BMJ 1998;317:783 (Published 19 September 1998)

The white album

BMJ 1998;317:797 (Published 19 September 1998)

This Week In the BMJ

What to do with a neglectful patient who refuses surgery

BMJ 1998;317:0.8 (Published 19 September 1998)

British television medical dramas realistically depict cardiopulmonary resuscitation

BMJ 1998;317:0.6 (Published 19 September 1998)

Patients with schizophrenia living in the community eat badly

BMJ 1998;317:0.5 (Published 19 September 1998)

Small practices are ready to take on screening for haemoglobin disorders

BMJ 1998;317:0.7 (Published 19 September 1998)

Working hours are associated with acute myocardial infarction in Japan

BMJ 1998;317:0.4 (Published 19 September 1998)

Lung cancer patients vary in their preferences for chemotherapy

BMJ 1998;317:0.3 (Published 19 September 1998)

Clinical Reviews

General medicine

BMJ 1998;317:792 (Published 19 September 1998)

Late onset interstitial nephritis associated with mesalazine treatment

BMJ 1998;317:795 (Published 19 September 1998)

Acute oxygen therapy

BMJ 1998;317:798 (Published 19 September 1998)

Papers

Preferences for chemotherapy in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer: descriptive study based on scripted interviews

BMJ 1998;317:771 (Published 19 September 1998)

Working hours as a risk factor for acute myocardial infarction in Japan: case-control study

BMJ 1998;317:775 (Published 19 September 1998)

Papers - continued

Predictions of hypoxaemia at high altitude in children with cystic fibrosis

BMJ 1998;317:780 (Published 19 September 1998)

Dietary intake of schizophrenic patients in Nithsdale, Scotland: case-control study

BMJ 1998;317:784 (Published 19 September 1998)

Effect of fundholding on removing patients from general practitioners' lists: retrospective study

BMJ 1998;317:785 (Published 19 September 1998)

Purpuric rash with donepezil treatment

BMJ 1998;317:787.1 (Published 19 September 1998)

Withdrawal reaction associated with venlafaxine

BMJ 1998;317:787.2 (Published 19 September 1998)

General practice

A multidisciplinary approach for improving services in primary care: randomised controlled trial of screening for haemoglobin disorders

BMJ 1998;317:788 (Published 19 September 1998)

Education and debate

North of England evidence based guidelines development project: guideline for the primary care management of dementia

BMJ 1998;317:802 (Published 19 September 1998)

Competency, consent, and the duty of careBest of motives, worst of consequencesLet the courts decideThe only failure was the outcome

BMJ 1998;317:809 (Published 19 September 1998)

Soundings

Evaluation and management guidelines

BMJ 1998;317:822.1 (Published 19 September 1998)

Personal View

The discovery of cortisone: a personal memory

BMJ 1998;317:822.2 (Published 19 September 1998)

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

The rise and fall of Viagra

BMJ 1998;317:824 (Published 19 September 1998)

Medicine and books

Before I Say Goodbye; C. Because Cowards Get Cancer Too

BMJ 1998;317:825.1 (Published 19 September 1998)

The Human Rights, Ethical and Moral Dimensions of Health Care: 120 Practical Case Studies

BMJ 1998;317:825.2 (Published 19 September 1998)

Career focus

Genitourinary medicine

BMJ 1998;317:S2-7161 (Published 19 September 1998)

Briefing

BMJ 1998;317:S3-7161 (Published 19 September 1998)

Briefing

BMJ 1998;317:S3a-7161 (Published 19 September 1998)

Briefing

BMJ 1998;317:S3b-7161 (Published 19 September 1998)

Corrections

Correction

BMJ 1998;317:766.4 (Published 19 September 1998)

Correction

BMJ 1998;317:786.1 (Published 19 September 1998)

Excess mortality after human albumin administration in critically ill patients

BMJ 1998;317:786.2 (Published 19 September 1998)

Correction

BMJ 1998;317:786.3 (Published 19 September 1998)

Obituary

Susan Elizabeth Jean (“Sue”) MunbyRachael Mary RosserRobert Spencer (“Bob”) RudlandSankar Das SarkarRoger Sauvan-Smith

BMJ 1998;317:821 (Published 19 September 1998)