This week's This week in the BMJ

	Not all childhood seizures develop into progressive disease [Full text] FREE

	Neonatal complications increase the risk of cerebral palsy in very preterm babies [Full text] FREE

	Short term survival after diagnosis of AIDS has improved [Full text] FREE

	Designer drinks are associated with loss of control in teenagers [Full text] FREE

	Simple self administered test detects hazardous drinking [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Dietary selenium: time to act
	Margaret P Rayman
	BMJ  1997;314:387 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Introducing the postoperative care team
	David R Goldhill
	BMJ  1997;314:389 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Erasing the global divide in health research
	Jair de Jesus Mari, Juan Manuel Lozano, Lelia Duley
	BMJ  1997;314:390 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Epilepsy: a progressive disease?
	Bernard Sadzot
	BMJ  1997;314:391 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children in cars
	Ian Roberts, Carolyn DiGuiseppi
	BMJ  1997;314:392 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	The BMJ's Nuremberg issue
	E Ernst, Hugh J Thomson, Geoffrey Nicholson, K Osborne, John Pemberton, J H Baron, Margaret Hannah, Harry Preston
	BMJ  1997;314:439 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Access to computed tomography in British accident and emergency departments
	Paul Dorman, Peter Sandercock
	BMJ  1997;314:440 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Who should talk to patients with cancer about genetics?
	Wendy Chorley, Kay MacDermot
	BMJ  1997;314:441 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Registering a fetus papyraceus
	P O D Pharoah, R W I Cooke, Malcolm Griffiths
	BMJ  1997;314:441 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Purchasers should require providers to set standards for pain relief
	William G Notcutt
	BMJ  1997;314:442 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing death
	Simon Mardel, Colin Thomas, Gregor Campbell-Hewson, Conor V Egleston, Susan M Robinson, Terence English, Rodger Charlton
	BMJ  1997;314:442 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Office for National Statistics neither conceals nor puts spin on statistics
	John Fox
	BMJ  1997;314:443 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Moderate alcohol consumption has been shown previously to improve insulin sensitivity in men
	George Razay, K W Heaton
	BMJ  1997;314:443 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	CS gas has been used as chemical restraint in mentally ill person
	Peter Trigwell
	BMJ  1997;314:444 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paramedic skills
	S Goodacre, A Gray, A McGowan, Simon Carley, Polly Terry
	BMJ  1997;314:444 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meta-analysis of risk of gastrointestinal complications with NSAIDs
	David Henry, David W Kaufman, Samuel Shapiro
	BMJ  1997;314:445 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Self administered tampons can be used to diagnose sexually transmitted diseases
	Francis J Bowden, Barbara A Paterson, Suzanne M Garland, Sepehr Tabrizi, Christopher K Fairley
	BMJ  1997;314:446 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sailing makes use of tobacco sponsorship
	H M White
	BMJ  1997;314:446 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Doctors complain about treatment of asylum seekers in Britain
	Christina Bunce
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	Shackling of prisoners denounced
	Jessica Westall
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	Changes to mental health care proposed
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	FDA claims legal basis for tobacco control
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	Confusion reigns over official health statistics
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	Government proposes food safety adviser
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	South African court rules against rationing decision
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	US recommends screening for colon cancer
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	Sickle cell disease is poorly managed
	Jessica Westall
	BMJ  1997;314:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Italians ban Hib vaccine in BSE scare
	Kwame McKenzie
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	Evidence supports earlier use of intravenous salbutamol
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	France to investigate leukaemia near nuclear plant
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	Care of Dutch mentally ill prisoners criticised
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	France plans compulsory treatment of sex offenders
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	PHLS will not be privatised
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	US doctors urged to treat stroke fast
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	Patients go hungry in British hospitals
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	The need for independent statistics
	BMJ  1997;314:393 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Sydney – Aboriginal housing: abandon hope all ye who enter
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1997;314:s393 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review : the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism
	Tony Fennerty
	BMJ  1997;314:425 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical haematology: Macrocytic anaemias
	Victor Hoffbrand, Drew Provan
	BMJ  1997;314:430 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: microbial keratitis in intensive care
	J F Kirwan, T Potamitis, H El-Kasaby, M W Hope-Ross, G A Sutton
	BMJ  1997;314:433 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Efficacy of the alcohol use disorders identification test as a screening tool for hazardous alcohol intake and related disorders in primary care: a validity study
	Marco Piccinelli, Elisabetta Tessari, Marco Bortolomasi, Orazio Piasere, Massimo Semenzin, Nicola Garzotto, Michele Tansella
	BMJ  1997;314:420 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	First blood and second thoughts
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1997;314:449 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	I don't have prizes or publications
	BMJ  1997;314:449 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	January bestsellers: BMJ Bookshop
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Handbook of Stress, Medicine and Health, by Ed Cary L Cooper
	Joe Herbert
	BMJ  1997;314:451 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	If You Came this Way, by Peter Davis
	Barbara J Genovese
	BMJ  1997;314:451 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Personal paper: the scapegoating of a consultant orthopaedic surgeon
	Dorothy H Crawford
	BMJ  1997;314:435 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care: opportunities and threats: what the changes mean
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  1997;314:436 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:452 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Found drunk
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Hospitals at Christmas time
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A trip to Halkyn Mountain:
	Brian McGuinness
	BMJ  1997;314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Retiring with ease
	David Wells
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: In systems where multiple applications for posts are permissible and ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Learning about alcohol and from Nuremberg
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Miracle AIDS cure hits the South African press
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1997;314:450 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GPs' leaders have "constructive" talks on primary care bill • Taking forward the new deal on junior doctors' hours • Government launches £32m nursing campaign • Trusts consulted on new NHS organisation • Taxpayers will not pay for doctors' remedial training
	BMJ  1997;314:448 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Ian Munro • Geoffrey Matthews • Peter William Price • Constance Dix ("Dixie") Roberts • Peter James Roylance
	BMJ  1997;314:447 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Clinical course of untreated tonic-clonic seizures in childhood: prospective, hospital based study
	C A van Donselaar, O F Brouwer, A T Geerts, W F M Arts, H Stroink, A C B Peters
	BMJ  1997;314:401 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Neonatal risk factors for cerebral palsy in very preterm babies: case-control study
	Deirdre J Murphy, Peter L Hope, Ann Johnson
	BMJ  1997;314:404 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Survival after diagnosis of AIDS: a prospective observational study of 2625 patients
	Amanda Mocroft, Michael Youle, Julian Morcinek, Caroline A Sabin, Brian Gazzard, Andrew N Phillips, Margaret Johnson
	BMJ  1997;314:409 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Young people, alcohol, and designer drinks: quantitative and qualitative study
	Kirsty Hughes, Anne Marie MacKintosh, Gerard Hastings, Colin Wheeler, Jonathan Watson, James Inglis
	BMJ  1997;314:414 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impotence after sclerotherapy of haemorrhoids: case reports
	Nigel Bullock
	BMJ  1997;314:419 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

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