13 February 1999 (Vol 318, Issue 7181)

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Editor's Choice

Early life and adult disease

BMJ 1999;318:0.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

News

Antiabortionists ordered to pay $108m for threats of violence

BMJ 1999;318:415.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

Educated adults have fewer sex problems in the US

BMJ 1999;318:415.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

In brief

BMJ 1999;318:416.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

US medical association reaches agreement with sacked editor

BMJ 1999;318:416.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

NICE to sort clinical “wheat from chaff”

BMJ 1999;318:416.3 (Published 13 February 1999)

Antibiotics may prevent heart attacks

BMJ 1999;318:417.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

Advertising Standards Authority finds against Nestlé

BMJ 1999;318:417.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

Rush for primary care groups

BMJ 1999;318:417.3 (Published 13 February 1999)

US debates treatment of marginally viable babies

BMJ 1999;318:418.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

European court upholds UK ban on Halcion

BMJ 1999;318:418.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

Edinburgh university fined forlack of safety checks

BMJ 1999;318:418.3 (Published 13 February 1999)

Consultant physicians should be appraised annually

BMJ 1999;318:419.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

Former French ministers on trial over blood

BMJ 1999;318:419.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

Spain cuts waiting times for surgery

BMJ 1999;318:419.3 (Published 13 February 1999)

Mild cervical dysplasia often reverts to normal

BMJ 1999;318:420.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

UN study reports Asian economic crisis has hit women's health

BMJ 1999;318:420.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

Testicular cancer increases in Ontario

BMJ 1999;318:420.3 (Published 13 February 1999)

Editorials

Renal transplantation from living donors

BMJ 1999;318:409 (Published 13 February 1999)

Delivering inhaled corticosteroids to patients

BMJ 1999;318:410 (Published 13 February 1999)

Radiosurgery for brain tumours

BMJ 1999;318:411 (Published 13 February 1999)

Points for pain: waiting list priority scoring systems

BMJ 1999;318:412 (Published 13 February 1999)

Breast implants: evidence based patient choice and litigation

BMJ 1999;318:414 (Published 13 February 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Meta-analysis of diabetes care in general practice

BMJ 1999;318:460 (Published 13 February 1999)

Letters - continued

Evidence based patient information

BMJ 1999;318:461 (Published 13 February 1999)

Diagnosing serious child abuse

BMJ 1999;318:462 (Published 13 February 1999)

Vitamin B-6

BMJ 1999;318:463 (Published 13 February 1999)

Albumin controversy continues

BMJ 1999;318:464.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

Beyond conflict of interest

BMJ 1999;318:464.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

Labour's health policy is having paradoxical effect in Iberian countries

BMJ 1999;318:466 (Published 13 February 1999)

Early regrafting after primary liver transplantation carries increased risk of death

BMJ 1999;318:467.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

Community health services must be considered in proposals for integrated records

BMJ 1999;318:467.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;318:474 (Published 13 February 1999)

Fillers

What is research?

BMJ 1999;318:434.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

A half mixed compound?

BMJ 1999;318:435 (Published 13 February 1999)

The inventor of matches

BMJ 1999;318:449.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

High altitude medicine

BMJ 1999;318:455 (Published 13 February 1999)

The plague returns

BMJ 1999;318:456.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Adverse prenatal and perinatal factors are associated with schizophrenia of early onset

BMJ 1999;318:0.3 (Published 13 February 1999)

Early life and adult disease

BMJ 1999;318:0.8 (Published 13 February 1999)

Depression may be missed in patients who “normalise” their symptoms

BMJ 1999;318:0.5 (Published 13 February 1999)

Longstanding depression, but not recovery from depression, predicts mortality in old people

BMJ 1999;318:0.6 (Published 13 February 1999)

Catch-up growth in childhood is linked with increased risk of coronary heart disease

BMJ 1999;318:0.4 (Published 13 February 1999)

Uterotonic drugs have no adverse effects on cognitive function

BMJ 1999;318:0.7 (Published 13 February 1999)

Clinical Reviews

Oncology

BMJ 1999;318:445 (Published 13 February 1999)

Haemochromatosis and exercise related joint pains

BMJ 1999;318:449.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

Homosexual men and women

BMJ 1999;318:452 (Published 13 February 1999)

Editor's Choice [GP]

Early life and adult disease

BMJ 1999;318:0.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

UK beef bone ban to stay

BMJ 1999;318:420.4 (Published 13 February 1999)

Australia to investigate accusation of racism in accreditation of surgeons

BMJ 1999;318:420.5 (Published 13 February 1999)

Papers

PapersPrenatal and perinatal risk factors for schizophrenia, affective psychosis, and reactive psychosis of early onset: case-control studyPrenatal and perinatal risk factors for early onset schizophrenia, affective psychosis, and reactive psychosis

BMJ 1999;318:421 (Published 13 February 1999)

Catch-up growth in childhood and death from coronary heart disease: longitudinal study

BMJ 1999;318:427 (Published 13 February 1999)

Follow up study of longstanding depression as predictor of mortality in elderly people living in the community

BMJ 1999;318:432 (Published 13 February 1999)

Historical cohort study of in utero exposure to uterotonic drugs and cognitive function in young adult life

BMJ 1999;318:433 (Published 13 February 1999)

Giant cell arteritis and thyroid dysfunction: multicentre case-control study

BMJ 1999;318:434.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

General practice

General PracticeCross sectional study of symptom attribution and recognition of depression and anxiety in primary careCommentary: There must be limits to the medicalisation of human distress

BMJ 1999;318:436 (Published 13 February 1999)

Experiences with “rapid appraisal” in primary care: involving the public in assessing health needs, orientating staff, and educating medical students

BMJ 1999;318:440 (Published 13 February 1999)

Education and debate

Perspectives of commissioners and cancer specialists in prioritising new cancer drugs: impact of the evidence threshold

BMJ 1999;318:456.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

MULTIMEDIA

When She Was Bad: How Women Get Away with Murder

BMJ 1999;318:470.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

Epidemiology Kept Simple: An Introduction to Classic and Modern Epidemiology

BMJ 1999;318:470.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

BMJ 1999;318:471.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

Salt, Diet and Health

BMJ 1999;318:471.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

Public Health at the Crossroads: Achievements and Prospects; Making Sense of Public Health Medicine; Progress in Public Health

BMJ 1999;318:472.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

BMJ 1999;318:472.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

Review

Reviews

BMJ 1999;318:472.3 (Published 13 February 1999)

Personal View

The emperor has no clothes on

BMJ 1999;318:473.1 (Published 13 February 1999)

Soundings

Snow in Chicago

BMJ 1999;318:473.2 (Published 13 February 1999)

Career focus

Making friends with RITA

BMJ 1999;318:S2-7181 (Published 13 February 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3-7181 (Published 13 February 1999)

Obituary

This week's Obituary section

ObituariesWilliam James Archibald CraigHugh Graham DaviesRalph Geoffrey MooreDiana Gray ParadiseCharles Rowley Davidson PorterMaureen Preston (née Willmot Evans)Nathaniel (“Nat”) RifkindDonald Bruce ScottJohn David SwanBernard Martyn WatneyStanley R…

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