17 April 1999 (Vol 318, Issue 7190)

Editor's Choice

Learning from history?

BMJ 1999;318:0.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

News

Ireland announces national breast screening programme

BMJ 1999;318:1025.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

US couple files malpractice lawsuit against doctor for embryo mix up

BMJ 1999;318:1025.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

First clinical performance indicators for Wales show wide variation

BMJ 1999;318:1026.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

Department of Health changes advice on third generation pills

BMJ 1999;318:1026.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Tobacco memos reveal efforts to disrupt smoking cessation

BMJ 1999;318:1026.3 (Published 17 April 1999)

Spain launches campaign to stop health professionals smoking

BMJ 1999;318:1027.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

Ovarian cancer screening may increase survival

BMJ 1999;318:1027.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Researchers find genetic basis for susceptibility to mycobacteria

BMJ 1999;318:1027.3 (Published 17 April 1999)

Kosovo refugees spared epidemics so far

BMJ 1999;318:1028.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

NHS “cannot cope,” says Tory

BMJ 1999;318:1028.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Long term displacement raises new health needs

BMJ 1999;318:1029 (Published 17 April 1999)

Free eye tests introduced for people over 60 in England and Wales

BMJ 1999;318:1030.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

Health project targets women and children in Indonesia

BMJ 1999;318:1030.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Endostatin may stop the progression of atherosclerosis

BMJ 1999;318:1030.3 (Published 17 April 1999)

Editorials

Tuberous sclerosis

BMJ 1999;318:1019 (Published 17 April 1999)

Tackling health inequalities in primary care

BMJ 1999;318:1020 (Published 17 April 1999)

Reconstruction of dislocated hips in children with cerebral palsy

BMJ 1999;318:1021 (Published 17 April 1999)

Improving the training of SHOs

BMJ 1999;318:1022 (Published 17 April 1999)

Do dietary lectins cause disease?

BMJ 1999;318:1023 (Published 17 April 1999)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Should women who elect to have caesarean sections pay for them?

BMJ 1999;318:1070.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

Is general practice in need of a career structure?

BMJ 1999;318:1070.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Effects of the Heartbeat Wales programme

BMJ 1999;318:1072 (Published 17 April 1999)

The Di Bella multitherapy trial

BMJ 1999;318:1073 (Published 17 April 1999)

Randomised controlled trials are important

BMJ 1999;318:1074.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

Height and risk of cancer

BMJ 1999;318:1074.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Practical problems in recruiting patients with schizophrenia into randomised controlled trials

BMJ 1999;318:1075.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

Letters - continued

Employing staff on long term contracts is important for RCTs

BMJ 1999;318:1075.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Bullied children are picked on for their vulnerability

BMJ 1999;318:1076.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

More financial resources must be provided for multidrug resistant TB

BMJ 1999;318:1076.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Some growth promoters in animals do confer antimicrobial resistance in humans

BMJ 1999;318:1076.3 (Published 17 April 1999)

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

BMJ 1999;318:1076.4 (Published 17 April 1999)

Many manoeuvres with yo yos can be dangerous to teeth

BMJ 1999;318:1078.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

Ingestion of mouthwash by children

BMJ 1999;318:1078.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1999;318:1086 (Published 17 April 1999)

Fillers

You can but try

BMJ 1999;318:1050 (Published 17 April 1999)

Illegal practice of medicine by an M.D.

BMJ 1999;318:1056.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

This Week In the BMJ

Clinical Reviews

Oral cancer

BMJ 1999;318:1051 (Published 17 April 1999)

Orbital trauma: do not blow your nose

BMJ 1999;318:1054 (Published 17 April 1999)

Use of prostaglandins to induce labour in women with a caesarean section scar

BMJ 1999;318:1056.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

Preterm labour and premature rupture of membranes

BMJ 1999;318:1059 (Published 17 April 1999)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Papers

Papers - continued

General practice

Education and debate

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

MULTIMEDIA

Rationing—Talk and Action in Health Care

BMJ 1999;318:1082.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

American Surgery, An Illustrated History

BMJ 1999;318:1082.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health From Ancient to Modern Times

BMJ 1999;318:1083.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

A prayer from the dying

BMJ 1999;318:1084.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

BMJ 1999;318:1084.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Review

Bookcase

BMJ 1999;318:1083.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Personal View

Will clinical governance make a difference?

BMJ 1999;318:1085.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

Soundings

All change

BMJ 1999;318:1085.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Career focus

Taking a holiday

BMJ 1999;318:S2-7190 (Published 17 April 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3-7190 (Published 17 April 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3a-7190 (Published 17 April 1999)

Briefing

BMJ 1999;318:S3b-7190 (Published 17 April 1999)

Corrections

Only half of GPs in study knew that advance directives carry legal force in UK

BMJ 1999;318:1040.1 (Published 17 April 1999)

When I use a word: Homogenous/homogeneous

BMJ 1999;318:1040.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

Communicating risk reductions

BMJ 1999;318:1040.3 (Published 17 April 1999)

Obituary