This week's This week in the BMJ

	New cases of hepatitis C are rare in repeat blood donors [Full text] FREE

	Screening blood for human T cell leukaemia/lymphoma virus is not cost effective in Sweden [Full text] FREE

	Multidrug resistant tuberculosis is common in Azerbaijani prisons [Full text] FREE

	Distance to school and car ownership are greatest determinants of car travel to school [Full text] FREE

	Increased secondary prevention of coronary heart disease benefits general practice patients [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Britain's new strategy for tackling drugs misuse
	Michael Farrell, John Strang
	BMJ  1998;316:1399-1400 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Preventing recurrent coronary heart disease
	Trudy van der Weijden, Richard Grol
	BMJ  1998;316:1400-1401 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Economic globalisation and its effect on health
	Nigel Unwin, George Alberti, Terry Aspray, Richard Edwards, Jean-Claude Mbanya, Eugene Sobngwi, Ferdinand Mugusi, Seif Rashid, Philip Setel, David Whiting
	BMJ  1998;316:1401-1402 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Does the WHO have a role in Europe?
	Martin McKee
	BMJ  1998;316:1402-1403 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Allocating the WHO's resources rationally
	Gwyn Bevan
	BMJ  1998;316:1403-1404 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Knowing when to say "no" on the student elective
	Nicholas Banatvala, Len Doyal
	BMJ  1998;316:1404-1405 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Male subfertility: is pregnancy the only issue?
	L Glover, P D Abel, K Gannon
	BMJ  1998;316:1405-1406 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Letters to the editor: the new order
	Liz Crossan, Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1998;316:1406-1410 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	How the cycle of poverty and ill health can be broken
	Rodrigo Guerrero, Michel Jancloes, John D Martin, Andrew Haines, Dan Kaseje, Martin P Wasserman
	BMJ  1998;316:1456 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctors can do something about poverty
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  1998;316:1456 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Developed countries could pay for hepatitis B vaccination in developing countries
	N J Gay, W J Edmunds
	BMJ  1998;316:1457 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Africa needs leadership by Africans of high calibre
	John Lwanda
	BMJ  1998;316:1457 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Improved bacteriological data are needed to give uniform reporting of tuberculosis in Europe
	Valerie Schwoebel, Anne Perrocheau, Jaap Veen, Hans L Rieder, Mario C Raviglione
	BMJ  1998;316:1458 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	An ethical code for everybody in health care
	Alexander E Limentani, Saul Miller, Julia Neuberger, George J Annas, Michael A Grodin, M F Brewster, Stephen Hyer, Hervey Wilcox, Craig K Brown, Robin Philipp, David Hart
	BMJ  1998;316:1458 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Accidental child poisoning
	John O'Donnell, Fiona D Brown, Thomas F Beattie, Clive Newman, Stephanie Smith, Sharon Cotton, D S Kettle
	BMJ  1998;316:1460 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Report on cleft lip and palate surgery
	B D G Morgan, Alison Williams, Jonathan Sandy, Alistair G Smyth, Gareth Davies
	BMJ  1998;316:1461 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evaluating health promotion is complex
	Viv Speller, Alyson Learmonth, Dominic Harrison
	BMJ  1998;316:1463 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Older women should receive annual breast examinations
	Rafael Marques de Souza, Valdir M de Souza
	BMJ  1998;316:1463 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Clinical trials to begin on potent angiogenesis inhibitors
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Dopamine producing cells cloned to treat Parkinson's disease
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Reform of the WHO depends on next week's vital budget debate
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	FDA approves heart laser treatment
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Single gene may protect cells against cancer
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Interferon beta produces only small benefits in multiple sclerosis
	Louise McKee
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	GPs fail to report food poisoning
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Court rules that patients can seek treatment in any EU country
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1998;316:i [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Europe agrees blood policy
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Britain launches new antidrugs strategy
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	French doctors grumble at healthcare reforms
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Doctors with health problems should seek help
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Former attorney general attacks Irish doctors
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Incidence of seroconversion to positivity for hepatitis C antibody in repeat blood donors in England, 1993-5
	K Soldan, J A J Barbara, J Heptonstall
	BMJ  1998;316:1413-1417 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Screening for human T cell leukaemia/lymphoma virus among blood donors in Sweden: cost effectiveness analysis
	Elsa Tynell, Soren Andersson, Eva Lithander, Malin Arneborn, Jonas Blomberg, Hans Bertil Hansson, Aud Krook, Mats Nomberg, Kristina Ramstedt, Agneta Shanwell, Anders Bjorkman
	BMJ  1998;316:1417-1422 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug resistant tuberculosis in prisons in Azerbaijan: case study
	R Coninx, G E Pfyffer, C Mathieu, D Savina, M Debacker, F Jafarov, I Jabrailov, A Ismailov, F Mirzoev, R de Haller, F Portaels
	BMJ  1998;316:1423-1425 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prospective, hospital based study of fever in children in the United Kingdom who had recently spent time in the tropics
	John L Klein, Guy C Millman
	BMJ  1998;316:1425-1426 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Determinants of car travel on daily journeys to school: cross sectional survey of primary school children
	Carolyn DiGuiseppi, Ian Roberts, Leah Li, Diane Allen
	BMJ  1998;316:1426-1428 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Evaluation of indices of obesity in men: descriptive study
	Derrick Pounder, David Carson, Michael Davison, Yoshiyuki Orihara
	BMJ  1998;316:1428-1429 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Investigating and managing infertility in general practice
	T B Hargreave, J A Mills
	BMJ  1998;316:1438-1441 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of allergies: Anaphylaxis
	Pamela W Ewan
	BMJ  1998;316:1442-1445 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	Secondary prevention in coronary heart disease: baseline survey of provision in general practice
	Neil C Campbell, Joan Thain, H George Deans, Lewis D Ritchie, John M Rawles
	BMJ  1998;316:1430-1434 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart disease: randomised trial of effect on health
	Neil C Campbell, Joan Thain, H George Deans, Lewis D Ritchie, John M Rawles, Janet L Squair
	BMJ  1998;316:1434-1437 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Valedictory lecture
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1998;316:1466 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Plunged in at the deep end
	Kevin Molloy
	BMJ  1998;316:1466 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Violence Against Women
	Iona Heath
	BMJ  1998;316:1468 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	European Health Care Reform: Analysis of Current Strategies • Back to Bismarck: Eastern European Health Care Systems in Transition
	Sakari Karjalainen
	BMJ  1998;316:1468 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	When and How to Assess Fast-changing Technologies: A Comparative Study of Medical Applications of Four Generic Technologies
	JP Bunker
	BMJ  1998;316:1468 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Sudan: in through the back door
	Hans Veeken
	BMJ  1998;316:1446-1447 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Health needs assessment: Needs assessment: from theory to practice
	Andrew Stevens, Stephen Gillam
	BMJ  1998;316:1448-1452 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Coping with loss: Loss in late life
	Brice Pitt
	BMJ  1998;316:1452-1454 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Statistics notes: The intracluster correlation coefficient in cluster randomisation
	Sally M Kerry, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  1998;316:1455-1460 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Maurice Anthony Barker • Richard Lindsey Batten • Mohan Bhakta • Robert Alan Caldwell • William Roy Costain
	Peter Lyne, Christopher E Ackroyd, Rena Bhakta, David Johnson, Christopher Gardner-Thorpe, L C Cowley
	BMJ  1998;316:1464 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:1470 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	One hundred years ago: British practitioners in Italy
	BMJ  1998;316:1428 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fifty years ago: The new NHS: National Health Service. Mr. Bevan's statement
	BMJ  1998;316:1428 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable patient: Home glucose monitoring, who started it?
	Clara Lowy
	BMJ  1998;316:1467 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Corrections
	BMJ  1998;316:1407 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Miscellaneous
	BMJ  1998;316:1455 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Culyer reforms will create new opportunities for research
	BMJ  1998;316:1463 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctors should beware of asking for too high a salary
	BMJ  1998;316:1463 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Quality control in postgraduate training
	Khaldoun Sharif, Masoud Afnan
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: A Harkness fellowship in healthcare policy is a nice number ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: An army may march on its stomach but finding even ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Do the Royal Colleges profit excessively from high examination fees ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Induction must include health and safety EDITOR - Dr Ward's ...
	BMJ  1998;316:3c [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Placing poverty at the centre of health initiatives
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA calls for risk management approach to stress • Juniors set catering standards charter • Irish qualifications and the specialist register • Defence society paid £67m to defend accused doctors • Funds allocated to reduce waiting lists
	BMJ  1998;316:1465 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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