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17 April 1999 (Vol 318, Issue 7190)

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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

Terbinafine is best treatment for fungal nail infection

BMJ 1999;318:0.2 (Published 17 April 1999)

No increase in mortality found among occupations exposed to BSE

BMJ 1999;318:0.5 (Published 17 April 1999)

Chlamydia pneumoniae antibodies may predict fatal heart disease

BMJ 1999;318:0.3 (Published 17 April 1999)

National surveillance misses most infectious intestinal disease

BMJ 1999;318:0.6 (Published 17 April 1999)

Adrenaline prevents acute adverse reactions to antivenom after snake bite

BMJ 1999;318:0.4 (Published 17 April 1999)

Clinical genetics should not impose a younger age limit on testing

BMJ 1999;318:0.7 (Published 17 April 1999)

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]

Research clarifies potential role of oestrogen in brain activity associated with memory

BMJ 1999;318:1030.4 (Published 17 April 1999)

Papers

Double blind, randomised study of continuous terbinafine compared with intermittent itraconazole in treatment of toenail onychomycosis

BMJ 1999;318:1031 (Published 17 April 1999)

PapersRelation of Chlamydia pneumoniae serology to mortality and incidence of ischaemic heart disease over 13 years in the Caerphilly prospective heart disease studyCommentary: Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and ischaemic heart disease

BMJ 1999;318:1035 (Published 17 April 1999)

Low dose subcutaneous adrenaline to prevent acute adverse reactions to antivenom serum in people bitten by snakes: randomised,placebo controlled trial

BMJ 1999;318:1041 (Published 17 April 1999)

Papers - continued

PapersMortality from dementia in occupations at risk of exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy: analysis of death registrationsCommentary: Uncertainty over length of incubation tempers optimism

BMJ 1999;318:1044 (Published 17 April 1999)

General practice

Study of infectious intestinal disease in England: rates in the community, presenting to general practice, and reported to national surveillance

BMJ 1999;318:1046 (Published 17 April 1999)

Education and debate

Education and debateCan children and young people consent to be tested for adult onset genetic disorders?Commentary: Weighing burdens and benefits rather than competence

BMJ 1999;318:1063 (Published 17 April 1999)

Focus on South Asia—I: Bangladesh

BMJ 1999;318:1066 (Published 17 April 1999)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Medicopolitical digestConsultants receive guidance on clinical governanceThe young should be protected from alcohol dangersScottish juniors resume talks on hours of workNHSE will issue circular on working time directiveFamily doctors will now be in the d…

BMJ 1999;318:1081 (Published 17 April 1999)

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

This week's Obituary section

ObituariesRobert Bransby ZacharyThomas AndersonHarold Kennedy (“Dag”) BeardwoodHelen CochraneJoan CooperHarold HandelKenneth John Hinton MallettFrank William NashHenry Gordon SmylieJames Trower SweetnamGerald Hedley Ellis Woodbine

BMJ 1999;318:1079 (Published 17 April 1999)