Reducing exposure to house dust mite allergen does not improve asthma [Full text]

	Women are advantaged and ethnic minorities disadvantaged in medical school selection [Full text]

	Childhood fractures don't often cause bruising [Full text]

	Use of lipid lowering drugs in primary care is highly variable [Full text]

Editorials

	Assessing heart disease risk in primary care
	Tom Fahey
	BMJ  1998;317:1093-1094 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Revalidation for doctors
	John Parboosingh
	BMJ  1998;317:1094-1095 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Breaks without bruises
	Deborah Eastwood
	BMJ  1998;317:1095-1096 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	House dust mite allergen avoidance in asthma
	David P Strachan
	BMJ  1998;317:1096-1097 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is medical school selection discriminatory?
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1998;317:1097-1098 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Mothers are the key to reducing future inequalities in health
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:1099 [Full text] [PDF]

	Canadian medical president hid his conviction
	BMJ  1998;317:1099 [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:1100 [Full text] [PDF]

	WHO fills three key posts
	Adrea Mach
	BMJ  1998;317:1100 [Full text] [PDF]

	"Good Samaritans" face grilling
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:1100 [Full text] [PDF]

	More doctors face suspension as managers flex their muscles
	BMJ  1998;317:1101 [Full text] [PDF]

	Food and drugs alter response to anaesthesia
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1998;317:1102 [Full text] [PDF]

	Parents can choose child's treatment
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:1102 [Full text] [PDF]

	Philippines Congress launches corruption inquiry
	Adam Easton
	BMJ  1998;317:1102 [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors warn of dangers of the internet
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1998;317:1103 [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS cash boost has been inflated
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:1103 [Full text] [PDF]

	Study finds separate strains of HIV in different body fluids
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1998;317:1103 [Full text] [PDF]

	Surrogate mothers should be paid expenses only
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:1104 [Full text] [PDF]

	Spain launches patients' drugs database
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  1998;317:1104 [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs are angry over pay for primary care groups
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;317:1104 [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	New death adds pressure to cut dental anaesthetics
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1998;317:1104 [Full text]

Papers

	House dust mite control measures in the management of asthma: meta-analysis
	Peter C Gøtzsche, Cecilia Hammarquist, Michael Burr
	BMJ  1998;317:1105-1110 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	Hypersensitivity revisited
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1998;317:1110 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Factors affecting likelihood of applicants being offered a place in medical schools in the United Kingdom in 1996 and 1997: retrospective study • Commentary: League tables will help • Commentary: Some legal aspects arising from the study
	I C McManus, Aneez Esmail, Marie Demetriou
	BMJ  1998;317:1111-1117 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Importance of bruising associated with paediatric fractures: prospective observational study
	M O Mathew, N Ramamohan, G C Bennet
	BMJ  1998;317:1117-1118 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prevalence of congenital anterior abdominal wall defects in the United Kingdom: comparison of regional registers
	D H Stone, Shahnaz Rimaz, W H Gilmour
	BMJ  1998;317:1118-1119 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Magic bullet for obesity
	Jules Hirsch
	BMJ  1998;317:1136-1138 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Methaemoglobinaemia associated with sodium nitrite in three siblings
	Alan Finan, Peter Keenan, Frances O' Donovan, Philip Mayne, John Murphy
	BMJ  1998;317:1138-1139 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of oxygen: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
	R M Leach, P J Rees, P Wilmshurst
	BMJ  1998;317:1140-1143 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Preventing ischaemic heart disease in one general practice: from one patient, through clinical audit, needs assessment, and commissioning into quality improvement • Commentary: Clinical and economic perspectives have to be integrated when selecting priorities for intervention
	Mike Pringle, Jeremy Jones
	BMJ  1998;317:1120-1124 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Implications of applying widely accepted cholesterol screening and management guidelines to a British adult population: cross sectional study of cardiovascular disease and risk factors
	Nigel Unwin, Richard Thomson, Ann Marie O'Byrne, Mike Laker, Heather Armstrong
	BMJ  1998;317:1125-1130 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From trial data to practical knowledge: qualitative study of how general practitioners have accessed and used evidence about statin drugs in their management of hypercholesterolaemia
	Karen Fairhurst, Guro Huby
	BMJ  1998;317:1130-1134 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Time trend analysis and variations in prescribing lipid lowering drugs in general practice
	Catherine Baxter, Roger Jones, Laura Corr
	BMJ  1998;317:1134-1135 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	One's own petard
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1998;317:1165 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	When big may not be beautiful
	Nicholas Markham
	BMJ  1998;317:1165 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The Wisheart affair: paediatric cardiological services in Bristol, 1990-5
	Peter M Dunn
	BMJ  1998;317:1144-1145 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Professional self respect: rights and responsibilities in the new NHS
	Peter Richards
	BMJ  1998;317:1146-1148 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How to do itSelect medical students
	David Powis
	BMJ  1998;317:1149-1150 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics notes: Bayesians and frequentists
	J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1998;317:1151-1160 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Guidelines for cervical screening await scientific evaluation
	J F Nottingham
	BMJ  1998;317:1152 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Secondary prevention in acute myocardial infarction
	Niall A Herity, Rajendra H Mehta, Kim A Eagle, Roger Harrison, Michael Burr, Angus Nightingale, Andrew Marshall, Jørgen Fischer Hansen, R D Rice
	BMJ  1998;317:1152 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acute excited states and sudden death
	H G Kennedy, F R Farnham
	BMJ  1998;317:1154 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health needs assessment is not required for priority setting
	Stavros Petrou
	BMJ  1998;317:1154 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Insider view of rationing down under
	Trevor M Agnew, Mark W I Webster
	BMJ  1998;317:1154 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How should different life expectancies be valued?
	Tim Benson, Werner Brouwer, Ben van Hout
	BMJ  1998;317:1155 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When can odds ratios mislead?
	Jon Deeks, Michael B Bracken, John C Sinclair, Huw Talfryn Oakley Davies, Manouche Tavakoli, Iain Kinloch Crombie
	BMJ  1998;317:1155 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long term pharmacotherapy of depression
	Damian Gamble, Jogin Thakore, Robert Tobiansky, Chris Manning, J Guy Edwards
	BMJ  1998;317:1157 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Admissions for depression have not increased among men in Republic of Ireland
	D Walsh
	BMJ  1998;317:1158 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors who do not feel sober enough to drive should avoid helping in medical emergencies
	J A D Stewart
	BMJ  1998;317:1158 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Donald Barrie Case • Reginald ("Rex") Frank Robert Gardner • Evan Griffiths • Alfred Gordon Heppleston • Theodore David Lambert • Margaret Joyce Poole • Isaac ("Sakkie") Rachman • Thomas Rutherford • Alexander Marshall Short • Jean Margaret Vickers • Matthew Westwood • John Christopher Wharton
	M R Wharton, Gordon Mackay, Leon LeDune, Elizabeth Gardner, Nicholas Griffiths, Paul Heppleston, George Conn, Christopher Cameron, Dorothy Logie, Gisela Boss, A Percy Walker, W Alan Johnstone, Chris Vickers, Andrew Chapel, William McKee, Christopher Wharton
	BMJ  1998;317:1159 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:1166 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	A memorable consultant: Perils of opera
	James Wright
	BMJ  1998;317:1110 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fifty years ago: The hippocratic oath
	BMJ  1998;317:1110 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: All in a day's work
	BMJ  1998;317:1134 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Good advice
	Thomas Plume
	BMJ  1998;317:1134 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Scented women
	BMJ  1998;317:1138 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Memorable patients: The milkman of human kindness
	Robert Baker
	BMJ  1998;317:1148 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1998;317:1103 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Correction
	BMJ  1998;317:1104 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	North of England evidence based guidelines development project: guideline for the primary care management of dementia
	BMJ  1998;317:1151 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Remote and rural general practice
	John C M Gillies
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The UK Medical Careers Forum is a one day seminar ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Cook was incorrect to say that there are few or ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: How do the web designers and information gurus get their ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	From selection to revalidation
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	From selection to revalidation
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

VIEWS AND REVIEWS

	Bookcase
	BMJ  1998;317:1162 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Northern Ireland GPs complain of stress and workload • Consultants reach agreement on working time directive • GPs welcome NHS information strategy
	BMJ  1998;317:1161 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND MULTIMEDIA

	Book: The New Dictionary of Medical Ethics
	Pamela J Taylor
	BMJ  1998;317:1162 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music • Book: Straight, No Chaser. The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  1998;317:1162 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	CD Rom: Communications Skills Version 1:2
	Muiris Houston
	BMJ  1998;317:1162 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: http://www.improb.com
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1998;317:1162 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thelonious Monk Website
	BMJ  1998;317:1165 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

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