Lung cancer patients vary in their preferences for chemotherapy [Full text]

	Working hours are associated with acute myocardial infarction in Japan [Full text]

	Patients with schizophrenia living in the community eat badly [Full text]

	British television medical dramas realistically depict cardiopulmonary resuscitation [Full text]

	Small practices are ready to take on screening for haemoglobin disorders [Full text]

	What to do with a neglectful patient who refuses surgery [Full text]

Editorials

	Viagra: on release
	Alain Gregoire
	BMJ  1998;317:759-760 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Viagra and rationing
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1998;317:760-761 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thalassaemia in Britain: a tale of two communities
	Paramjit S Gill, Bernadette Modell
	BMJ  1998;317:761-762 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Implantable defibrillators for life threatening ventricular arrhythmias
	Jason P Causer, Derek T Connelly
	BMJ  1998;317:762-763 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An amnesty for unpublished trials
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1998;317:763-764 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Action on antimicrobial resistance
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1998;317:764-770 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Viagra is licensed in Europe but rationed in Britain
	Alex Brooks
	BMJ  1998;317:765 [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:766 [Full text] [PDF]

	Aricept advertisement breached code
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:766 [Full text]

	Israel adopts tough laws on rabies
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1998;317:766 [Full text]

	Life expectancy falls in Europe
	BMJ  1998;317:767 [Full text] [PDF]

	Obstetrician accused of committing a series of surgical blunders
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:767 [Full text]

	US centre offers choice over sex of baby
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;317:768 [Full text] [PDF]

	Canadian doctors angry about lack of action over health funding
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1998;317:768 [Full text]

	Poland reforms its health system
	Scott Thompson
	BMJ  1998;317:769 [Full text] [PDF]

	Miracle cures advertised on the internet
	Alex Brooks
	BMJ  1998;317:769 [Full text]

	Pilot bowel screening scheme to start in Britain
	Alex Brooks
	BMJ  1998;317:769 [Full text]

	University of Vienna apologises for dismissing Jewish doctors
	Tudor P Toma
	BMJ  1998;317:770 [Full text] [PDF]

	BMJ buys Western Journal of Medicine
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:770 [Full text]

	Meningitis B vaccine looks promising
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1998;317:770 [Full text]

Papers

	Preferences for chemotherapy in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer: descriptive study based on scripted interviews
	Gerard Silvestri, Robert Pritchard, H Gilbert Welch
	BMJ  1998;317:771-775 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Working hours as a risk factor for acute myocardial infarction in Japan: case-control study
	Shigeru Sokejima, Sadanobu Kagamimori
	BMJ  1998;317:775-780 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	As seen on TV: observational study of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in British television medical dramas
	P N Gordon, S Williamson, P G Lawler
	BMJ  1998;317:780-783 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dietary intake of schizophrenic patients in Nithsdale, Scotland: case-control study
	Robin McCreadie, Elizabeth Macdonald, Claire Blacklock, Deepa Tilak-Singh, David Wiles, Jennifer Halliday, John Paterson
	BMJ  1998;317:784-785 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of fundholding on removing patients from general practitioners' lists: retrospective study
	Dermot O'Reilly, Keith Steele, Barry Merriman, Andrew Gilliland, Scott Brown
	BMJ  1998;317:785-786 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug points: Purpuric rash with donepezil treatment
	C A Bryant, E Ouldred, S H D Jackson, M T Kinirons
	BMJ  1998;317:787 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug points: Withdrawal reaction associated with venlafaxine
	H Johnson, W P Bouman, J Lawton
	BMJ  1998;317:787 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Recent advances: General medicine
	Laura A Petersen
	BMJ  1998;317:792-795 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Late onset interstitial nephritis associated with mesalazine treatment
	Joyce Popoola, Andrew F Muller, Lucy Pollock, Patrick O'Donnell, Paul Carmichael, Paul Stevens
	BMJ  1998;317:795-797 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Oxygen: Acute oxygen therapy
	N T Bateman, R M Leach
	BMJ  1998;317:798-801 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	A multidisciplinary approach for improving services in primary care: randomised controlled trial of screening for haemoglobin disorders
	Michael Modell, Beatrix Wonke, Elizabeth Anionwu, Maren Khan, Sharon See Tai, Michael Lloyd, Bernadette Modell
	BMJ  1998;317:788-791 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Evaluation and management guidelines
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1998;317:822 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The discovery of cortisone: a personal memory
	John H Glyn
	BMJ  1998;317:822 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

	Before I Say Goodbye • C. Because Cowards Get Cancer Too
	Paul Keeley
	BMJ  1998;317:825 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Human Rights, Ethical and Moral Dimensions of Health Care: 120 Practical Case Studies
	Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  1998;317:825 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	North of England evidence based guidelines development project: guideline for the primary care management of dementia
	Martin Eccles, Julie Clarke, Moira Livingston, Nick Freemantle, James Mason
	BMJ  1998;317:802-808 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical dilemma: Competency, consent, and the duty of care • Best of motives, worst of consequences • Let the courts decide • The only failure was the outcome
	A C Inwald, Julia Hippisley-Cox, Stephen Hippisley-Cox, Ian Hill-Smith
	BMJ  1998;317:809 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	The aftermath of the Bristol case
	James A R Willis, Brian McKinstry, P J Tomlin, Rachael Dawson, Alison J Gray, Roger Hole, Jim Egan, Douglas Lee, Peter Fisher, Rosemary J Geller, Katharine Gardiner, Patrick J Pemberton, Jim Ramsay, Dennis Briley, Richard Nicholson, Anjan K Banerjee, Beverley Webb, N Gainsborough, Susan Kerrison, R H Lloyd-Mostyn, Michael Ashley-Miller, Glyn J Elwyn, Malcolm Lewis
	BMJ  1998;317:811 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breaking down language barriers
	Caroline Free, Kamaldeep Bhui, John Irwin, Suzanne Martin, Joyce Carter, Kathie Hare-Cockburn
	BMJ  1998;317:816 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pressure on doctors to prescribe needs measuring directly
	O C Ukoumunne, N Britten
	BMJ  1998;317:818 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety of patients participating in drug trials
	Elizabeth Armstrong, Stuart Dollow
	BMJ  1998;317:818 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	If devolved facilities are used, processes may be streamlined
	Tim Heymann
	BMJ  1998;317:818 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of the READER method of critical appraisal in general practice
	Johannes C van der Wouden, Domhnall MacAuley
	BMJ  1998;317:819 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Living wills might make patients at risk of death by starvation and dehydration
	Ann Widdecombe
	BMJ  1998;317:819 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths outside hospital from acute coronary events
	A Absalom, P Bradley, J Soar, Alison Round, Maurice Backett, Claire Hunter, Andrew Marshall
	BMJ  1998;317:819 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug treatments for asthma may cause erosive tooth damage
	Elizabeth A O'Sullivan, Martin E J Curzon
	BMJ  1998;317:820 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	Susan Elizabeth Jean ("Sue") Munby • Rachael Mary Rosser • Robert Spencer ("Bob") Rudland • Sankar Das Sarkar • Roger Sauvan-Smith
	Anthea Lewis, Vincent Watts, John Keenan, Sandip Sarkar, Norman Paros
	BMJ  1998;317:821 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:826 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	A lesson learnt: Never again
	Dawar Abbas
	BMJ  1998;317:783 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Words to the wise: The white album
	Grant Hutchison
	BMJ  1998;317:797 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1998;317:766 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Correction for vol. 316, p. 1031
	BMJ  1998;317:786 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Correction for vol. 317, p. 223
	BMJ  1998;317:786 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Correction for vol. 316, p. 1796
	BMJ  1998;317:786 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Genitourinary Medicine
	Jackie Cassell
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: All posts should have sufficient formal and informal teaching in ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The 1998 Data Protection Act corrects the anomalous situation in ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The forthcoming conference of the National Association of Non-Principals should ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	A corker of a journal?
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	A corker of a journal?
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	The rise and fall of Viagra
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;317:824 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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