This week's This week in the BMJ

	Alcohol misusers reduce risks of surgery if they stop drinking [Full text] FREE

	Protective effect of breast milk against pneumonia is greatest for young infants [Full text] FREE

	Teenage birth rates in England and Wales are highest in Europe [Full text] FREE

	Estimates of diagnostic accuracy should give confidence intervals [Full text] FREE

	Patients' health beliefs constrain uptake of evidence based medicine [Full text] FREE

	Hospital clinical information system ensures patient privacy [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Osteoarthritis: time to shift the paradigm
	Paul Dieppe
	BMJ  1999;318:1299-1300 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sex and drugs and rock and roll
	Martin McKee
	BMJ  1999;318:1300-1301 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Direct to consumer advertising of prescription drugs
	Jerome R Hoffman, Michael Wilkes
	BMJ  1999;318:1301-1302 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Does the new NHS need personal medical services pilots?
	Stephen Gillam
	BMJ  1999;318:1302-1303 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Breast feeding reduces morbidity
	Michael C Latham
	BMJ  1999;318:1303-1304 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Intranasal corticosteroids in allergic rhinitis
	Damian Paddon, Charlotte Paterson, John Weiner, Robert Puy, Michael Abramson
	BMJ  1999;318:1350 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are African governments allocating sufficient resources to fight AIDS?
	Patrice Matchaba
	BMJ  1999;318:1351 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Impact of HIV infection and AIDS on prevalence of type 2 diabetes in South Africa in 2010
	Vanessa R Panz, Barry I Joffe
	BMJ  1999;318:1351 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of randomisation in early clinical trials
	J G Scadding
	BMJ  1999;318:1352 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Albumin again
	Peter Horsey
	BMJ  1999;318:1352 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Randomised trials useful to find best methods of enhancing clinical practice
	Jeremy C Wyatt, Sarah Paterson-Brown, Nicholas M Fisk, Richard Johanson, Douglas G Altman, Michael Bradburn
	BMJ  1999;318:1353 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Waveforms are needed to interpret figures shown by pulse oximeters
	Tom Peck
	BMJ  1999;318:1353 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unifactorial models are not appropriate for multifactorial disease
	J H Edwards
	BMJ  1999;318:1353 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Opposition to the Icelandic database is based on false information
	Gisli Ragnarsson
	BMJ  1999;318:1354 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public policy and mental health legislation should be reconsidered
	Frank Holloway, George Szmukler
	BMJ  1999;318:1354 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public health psychiatry and crime prevention
	John J Sandford, Derek Summerfield
	BMJ  1999;318:1354 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cushing's syndrome induced by betamethasone nose drops
	Jarrod J Homer, Tasso G Gazis, Saul Malozowski, Mary Purucker, Alexandra Worobec, Tim Scorrer, John Barton
	BMJ  1999;318:1355 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Does the fly matter in trout fishing?
	Anthony Alment, Samuel W Adams, B J Britton, J Grimley Evans
	BMJ  1999;318:1356 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	WHO urges "coverage for all, not coverage of everything"
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  1999;318:1305 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK government finalises restrictions on Viagra prescribing
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;318:1305 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Rabies cases increase in the Philippines
	Claire Wallerstein
	BMJ  1999;318:1306 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	British GP cleared of murder charge
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:1306 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Researchers discover "feedback loop" in allergic reactions
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:1306 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Heart disease mortality declining with fewer and less deadly attacks
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1999;318:1307 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Tennessee's state funded health care faces crisis
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;318:1307 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK proposes 15 year delay for 48 hour week for doctors
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;318:1307 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	South Africa plans to make AIDS a notifiable disease
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1999;318:1308 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctor in India arrested over irregularities trial of vaccine
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1999;318:1308 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Spain to review role of pharmacists in chronic disease management
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  1999;318:1308 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New formula predicts risk of prostate cancer relapse
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1999;318:1309 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Ship's doctor wins claim after demanding better care
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:1309 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs should give reasons for removing patients from lists
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;318:1309 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Immunisation and counselling for Kosovar refugee children
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;318:1310 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors should obtain informed consent for intimate body searches
	Mark Pownall
	BMJ  1999;318:1310 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	WHO responds to major polio outbreak in Angola
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  1999;318:1310 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Privacy in clinical information systems in secondary care • Commentary: Let's discuss wider social and professional issues • Commentary: Organisational and cultural aspects are also important
	Ian Denley, Simon Weston Smith, Martin Gardner, Rory O'Conor
	BMJ  1999;318:1328-1331 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Management of hypertension in pregnancy
	L A Magee, M P Ornstein, P von Dadelszen
	BMJ  1999;318:1332-1336 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based cardiology: Emerging approaches in preventing cardiovascular disease
	Eva M Lonn, Salim Yusuf
	BMJ  1999;318:1337-1341 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of labour care: Obstetric emergencies
	Geoffrey Chamberlain, Philip Steer
	BMJ  1999;318:1342-1345 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Implementing evidence based medicine in general practice: audit and qualitative study of antithrombotic treatment for atrial fibrillation
	Alistair Howitt, David Armstrong
	BMJ  1999;318:1324-1327 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Old bones
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1999;318:1361 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	A hands on or hands off approach to patients?
	N E Dudley
	BMJ  1999;318:1361 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Experience with rationing health care in New Zealand
	Colin M Feek, Winston McKean, Loek Henneveld, Graeme Barrow, Wendy Edgar, Ron J Paterson
	BMJ  1999;318:1346-1348 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Economics Notes: Types of economic evaluation
	Stephen Palmer, Sarah Byford, James Raftery
	BMJ  1999;318:1349 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:1362 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: Governed by his phantasy
	BMJ  1999;318:1322 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The doctor who changed my view: How to drive away teenagers
	Mary Selby
	BMJ  1999;318:1323 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thirty one years on: A memorable patient
	Richard Harding
	BMJ  1999;318:1327 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Noble art
	BMJ  1999;318:1349 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Minerva pictures
	BMJ  1999;318:1341 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Coeliac disease in primary care: case finding study
	BMJ  1999;318:1341 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Haemolytic uraemic syndrome and E coli O157
	BMJ  1999;318:1341 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Scientists discover a gene involved in diabetes and obesity
	BMJ  1999;318:s1341 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of labour care: Place of birth
	BMJ  1999;318:1341 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fortnightly review: Acute urinary retention in men: an age old problem
	BMJ  1999;318:1341 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Minerva pictures
	BMJ  1999;318:v [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Clinical radiology
	Tom Sulkin
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: One of the distinguishing features of American private practice ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: If it's career development materials of the most general sort ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Nautical metaphor is in fashion: a whole supplement of Academic ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Patients and other influences
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Patients and other influences
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

This week's MULTIMEDIA

	Books: Biotechnology in Healthcare
	Roger Walker
	BMJ  1999;318:1358 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: An End To Torture: Strategies for its Eradication
	Derek Summerfield
	BMJ  1999;318:1358 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Internet: Windows shopping
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1999;318:1359 [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: full version review]

	TV: Doctors taking over the asylum
	Raj Persaud
	BMJ  1999;318:1360 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: http://www.tcwf.org/links/link.htm
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:1360 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BESTSELLERS

This week's BESTSELLERS

	April Bestsellers
	BMJ  1999;318:1359 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Rosentyl Griffiths • Robert Barrie Niven • John Godfrey Peacock • James Norman Swainston • Robert George Whitelaw
	Ralph A A R Lawrence, Tom Dunn, Elizabeth Butler, D G Swainston, R G Whitelaw
	BMJ  1999;318:1357 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Effect of preoperative abstinence on poor postoperative outcome in alcohol misusers: randomised controlled trial
	Hanne Tønnesen, Jacob Rosenberg, Hans J Nielsen, Verner Rasmussen, Christina Hauge, Ib K Pedersen, Henrik Kehlet
	BMJ  1999;318:1311-1316 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of breast feeding on admission for pneumonia during postneonatal period in Brazil: nested case-control study
	Juraci A César, Cesar G Victora, Fernando C Barros, Iná S Santos, José A Flores
	BMJ  1999;318:1316-1320 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Sexual health of teenagers in England and Wales: analysis of national data
	Angus Nicoll, Mike Catchpole, Susan Cliffe, Gwenda Hughes, Ian Simms, Daniel Thomas
	BMJ  1999;318:1321-1322 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: further table of results] FREE

	Reporting of precision of estimates for diagnostic accuracy: a review
	Robert Harper, Barnaby Reeves
	BMJ  1999;318:1322-1323 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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