This week's This week in the BMJ

	Insulin four times daily is better than twice daily for diabetes in pregnancy [Full text] FREE

	Vertical transmission of HIV is falling in Britain [Full text] FREE

	Universal antenatal HIV testing could be cost effective in UK [Full text] FREE

	Near patient tests for H pylori perform poorly in primary care [Full text] FREE

	Antibiotic resistance correlates with use of antibiotics by local practices [Full text] FREE

	Patients with cancer prefer personalised clinical information [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Reducing vertical transmission of HIV in the UK
	Angus Nicoll, Catherine Peckham
	BMJ  1999;319:1211-1212 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Fuller version of government targets] FREE

	Implementing screening for colorectal cancer
	Wendy Atkin
	BMJ  1999;319:1212-1213 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Making trade work for public health
	Nick Drager
	BMJ  1999;319:1214 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Linkworkers in primary care
	Stephen Gillam, Ros Levenson
	BMJ  1999;319:1215 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Exploring the medical humanities
	Martyn Evans, David Greaves
	BMJ  1999;319:1216 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Developing world needs access to low cost pharmaceutical information from reliable sources
	Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Michael Eddleston, Manjit Kaur
	BMJ  1999;319:1265 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Research questions for systematic reviews must be unambiguous from protocol stage
	Gunther Eysenbach
	BMJ  1999;319:1265 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Chaperones for genital examination
	Michael Croft, James Morrow, Sarah Randall, Anne Webb, Meera Kishen
	BMJ  1999;319:1266 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Patients' physical disability may influence doctors' perceptions of suitability for risk assessment of CHD
	Matthew Banks, George Kitas
	BMJ  1999;319:1266 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Alcohol consumption and mortality
	Martin Ashton-Key, Margaret Ashton-Key, Morten Grønbæk, Carole L Hart, George Davey Smith, David J Hole, Victor M Hawthorne
	BMJ  1999;319:1267 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Smoking by young people
	Carolyn Levy, William D Novelli
	BMJ  1999;319:1268 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Children are another group at risk of hyponatraemia perioperatively
	Desmond Bohn
	BMJ  1999;319:1269 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How often should we go to the dentist?
	Martin C Downer, Jari Ahlberg, Elizabeth J Kay
	BMJ  1999;319:1269 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Only about 1 in 30 predictions of assault by discharged psychiatric patients will be correct
	Tom Palmstierna
	BMJ  1999;319:1270 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of labour care
	Dominic Aldington, Diana Brighouse, Philip Steer, Steve Yentis
	BMJ  1999;319:1270 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fetus papyraceus is being registered increasingly in Wessex
	Melanie J Gompels, David Davies
	BMJ  1999;319:1271 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Prime minister launches NHS inspectorate
	Andy McSmith
	BMJ  1999;319:1217 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	American Medical Association launches new internet "supersite"
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:1217 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Tobacco companies win delay on advertising ban
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:1218 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Adults will be able to appoint proxies to make health decisions
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:1218 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:1218 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Surgeon infects patient with hepatitis C
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  1999;319:1219 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Dutch consider obligatory testing of surgeons for hepatitis B
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1999;319:1219 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	US courts in conflict over late term abortion
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;319:1220 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Drug resistant TB is spreading worldwide
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1999;319:1220 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	New England Journal's publisher in conflict of interest dispute
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:1220 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Surgeons' college launches campaign to save research
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  1999;319:1221 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	BMA's patient confidentiality rules are deemed unlawful
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:1221 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Panel needed to combat research fraud
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1999;319:1222 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [extra: Consensus statement] FREE

	Christmas firework "sweets" kill hundreds of children
	Claire Wallerstein
	BMJ  1999;319:1222 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Council aims to integrate arts and humanities into the NHS
	Sian Knight
	BMJ  1999;319:1222 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Patients given extra oxygen during surgery have less nausea
	BMJ  1999;319:1222 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Chairman of NICE admits that its judgments are hard to defend
	BMJ  1999;319:1222 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Twice daily versus four times daily insulin dose regimens for diabetes in pregnancy: randomised controlled trial
	Zohar Nachum, Izhar Ben-Shlomo, Ehud Weiner, Eliezer Shalev
	BMJ  1999;319:1223-1227 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Flow of participants] FREE

	Vertical transmission rates for HIV in the British Isles: estimates based on surveillance data
	Trinh Duong, A E Ades, Diana M Gibb, Pat A Tookey, Janet Masters
	BMJ  1999;319:1227-1229 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Longer version] FREE

	Cost effectiveness analysis of antenatal HIV screening in United Kingdom
	A E Ades, M J Sculpher, D M Gibb, R Gupta, J Ratcliffe
	BMJ  1999;319:1230-1234 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Differentiating between audit and research: postal survey of health authorities' views
	Andrew Wilson, Gill Grimshaw, Richard Baker, John Thompson
	BMJ  1999;319:1235 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Randomised trial of personalised computer based information for cancer patients
	Ray Jones, Janne Pearson, Sandra McGregor, Alison J Cawsey, Ann Barrett, Neil Craig, Jacqueline M Atkinson, W Harper Gilmour, Jim McEwen
	BMJ  1999;319:1241-1247 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Cross sectional survey of patients' satisfaction with information about cancer
	Ray Jones, Janne Pearson, Sandra McGregor, W Harper Gilmour, Jacqueline M Atkinson, Ann Barrett, Alison J Cawsey, Jim McEwen
	BMJ  1999;319:1247-1248 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Virtual colonoscopy
	Steve Halligan, Helen M Fenlon
	BMJ  1999;319:1249-1252 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lesson of the week Oestrogen and calcium homeostasis in women with hypoparathyroidism
	Janet McIlroy, Frances Dryburgh, John Hinnie, Rosemary Dargie, Alaa Al-Rawi
	BMJ  1999;319:1252-1253 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of complementary medicine: Massage therapies
	Andrew Vickers, Catherine Zollman
	BMJ  1999;319:1254-1257 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	Testing for Helicobacter pylori infection: validation and diagnostic yield of a near patient test in primary care
	Anne E Duggan, Catherine Elliott, Richard F A Logan
	BMJ  1999;319:1236-1239 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antibiotic prescribing and antibiotic resistance in community practice: retrospective study, 1996-8
	J T Magee, Emma L Pritchard, Karen A Fitzgerald, F D J Dunstan, A J Howard
	BMJ  1999;319:1239-1240 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Complete members list] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Fading away
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1999;319:1277 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	A principle to die for
	Susan Pocklington
	BMJ  1999;319:1277 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Tragic choices in health care: lessons from the Child B case
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  1999;319:1258-1261 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The hospital of the future: Changing hospitals
	Jane Haycock, Anna Stanley, Nigel Edwards, Robert Nicholls
	BMJ  1999;319:1262-1264 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Terence David Hennessey • Philip John Hogg • John Anthony Lasserson • Pamela Margaret Le Quesne (née Fullerton) • Robert Sinclair Patrick • Patrick William Roy Petrie • Matthew Neal Rankin • William Henry Reynolds • Robert Alan Richardson • Arthur John Thomas
	Janice Taverne, Howard Scott, Daniel Lasserson, W I McDonald, R B Goudie, Brian Dean, Margery J Rankin, E H Reynolds, Tom Stoyle, Joseph Dias, Arthur John Thomas
	BMJ  1999;319:1272 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:1278 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Endpiece: There when needed
	BMJ  1999;319:1235 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: On ageing: the best things
	BMJ  1999;319:1235 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  1999;319:1239 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: Bill Gates's strength
	BMJ  1999;319:1247 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	An hour that might have made history: Before transfusion became established procedure
	Frank Boulton
	BMJ  1999;319:1257 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable moment: Love and respect after 30 years
	Terry Cubitt
	BMJ  1999;319:1261 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endpiece: In hindsight
	BMJ  1999;319:1261 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Screening of newborn infants for cholestatic hepatobiliary disease with tandem mass spectrometry
	BMJ  1999;319:1253 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:1253 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Letters
	BMJ  1999;319:1253 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Clinical pharmacology
	Nick Bateman, Simon Maxwell
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Many doctors may contemplate a spell in the...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The long hours culture is firmly established in...
	BMJ  1999;319:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: In Your Right Mind
	Kwame McKenzie
	BMJ  1999;319:1275 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
	John P Bunker
	BMJ  1999;319:1276 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Struggling towards coherence
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Struggling towards coherence
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

HIT PARADE

This week's HIT PARADE

	Hit parade
	BMJ  1999;319:1275 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: HIV testing in pregnancy
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:1275 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GPC advises on becoming a primary care trust • Medical students criticise delay over loans • EU's power to act on health issues will be increased • Removing patients should be subject to further research
	BMJ  1999;319:1274 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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