25 July 1998(vol 317, issue 7153)

This Week In the BMJ

• Leaflets about breast screening are misleading

  BMJ 1998; 317 :f (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Cancer patients from deprived areas receive poorer care

  BMJ 1998; 317 :c (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Excess risk of death with selegiline is small

  BMJ 1998; 317 :d (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Total purchasing has important lessons for primary care groups

  BMJ 1998; 317 :e (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Giving albumin increases mortality in critically ill patients

  BMJ 1998; 317 :a (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Fetal growth rate affects risk of ischaemic heart disease

  BMJ 1998; 317 :b (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission

Editorials

• Excess mortality after human albumin administration in critically ill patients

  BMJ 1998; 317 :223 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission
  • Responses
• A generous birthday present to the NHS

  BMJ 1998; 317 :224 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses
• Evidence based patient information

  BMJ 1998; 317 :225 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses
• Intravenous β blockade in acute myocardial infarction

  BMJ 1998; 317 :226 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses
• Objective measures and the diagnosis of asthma

  BMJ 1998; 317 :227 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses

Letters

• Fluid resuscitation with colloid or crystalloid solutions

  BMJ 1998; 317 :277 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission
  • Responses
• Communication among health professionals

  BMJ 1998; 317 :279 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Who decides whether the patient is mentally incapacitated?

  BMJ 1998; 317 :280 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Topical NSAIDs are better than placebo

  BMJ 1998; 317 :280 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Adequate pain relief is important in non-malignant conditions

  BMJ 1998; 317 :281 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• UK blood donation needs reorganisation

  BMJ 1998; 317 :281 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses
• All members of primary care team are aware of importance of evidence based medicine

  BMJ 1998; 317 :282 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Extraintestinal disease may be associated with Crohn's disease

  BMJ 1998; 317 :282 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses
• Terminally ill patients treated in the community should keep a copy of their records

  BMJ 1998; 317 :283 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Care models for discharged psychiatric patients

  BMJ 1998; 317 :283 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Plans for future influenza pandemics must raise awareness of Reye's syndrome

  BMJ 1998; 317 :284 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Palliative care services for children must adopt a family centred approach

  BMJ 1998; 317 :284 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Television gives a distorted picture of birth as well as death

  BMJ 1998; 317 :284 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses

News

• Brundtland replaces top staff at the WHO

  BMJ 1998; 317 :229 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission
• In brief

  BMJ 1998; 317 :230 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Breast implants deemed safe--again

  BMJ 1998; 317 :230 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Neglect of children in councilcare exposed in England

  BMJ 1998; 317 :230 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses
• NHS getsmore cash to modernise

  BMJ 1998; 317 :231 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Boost for science research

  BMJ 1998; 317 :231 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Staff cuts would leave CMO stranded in a crisis

  BMJ 1998; 317 :232 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Blood supplies to be treated to reduce CJD risk

  BMJ 1998; 317 :232 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses
• The new “nation's doctor” may find it lonely at the top

  BMJ 1998; 317 :233 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Child poverty is rising in US

  BMJ 1998; 317 :234 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• France creates opt out register for organ donation

  BMJ 1998; 317 :234 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses
• Viagra unlikely to be prescribed by GPs in Britain

  BMJ 1998; 317 :234 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses

Clinical Reviews

• Helping an obese patient make informed choices

  BMJ 1998; 317 :266 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission
  • Responses
• A foodborne outbreak of organophosphate poisoning

  BMJ 1998; 317 :268 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses

Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 1998; 317 :290 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission

Editor's Choice

• Crystalloid, colloid, albumin?

  BMJ 1998; 317 :0 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses

Papers

• Cochrane Injuries Group Albumin ReviewersWhy albumin may not work

  BMJ 1998; 317 :235 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission
  • Responses
• Why albumin may not work

  BMJ 1998; 317 :240 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses
• Reduced fetal growth rate and increased risk of death from ischaemic heart disease: cohort study of 15 000 Swedish men and women born 1915-29

  BMJ 1998; 317 :241 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission
  • Responses
• Deprivation and emergency admissions for cancers of colorectum, lung, and breast in south east England: ecological study

  BMJ 1998; 317 :245 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission
  • Responses
• Mortality in people taking selegiline: observational study

  BMJ 1998; 317 :252 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission
  • Responses
• Inequality among men in standardised years of potential life lost, 1970-93

  BMJ 1998; 317 :255 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission

General Practice

• Evaluation of total purchasing pilots in England and Scotland and implications for primary care groups in England: personal interviews and analysis of routine data

  BMJ 1998; 317 :256 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission
  • Responses
• Primary care: core valuesPatients' priorities

  BMJ 1998; 317 :260 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses

Information in practice

• How risks of breast cancer and benefits of screening are communicated to women: analysis of 58 pamphlets

  BMJ 1998; 317 :263 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission
  • Responses
• Evaluation of readability and accuracy of information leaflets in general practice for patients with asthma

  BMJ 1998; 317 :264 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses
• NetlinesBack to basicsMore and more diseases onlineUnix on a PCFree email accounts via the webThe internet is biggerSpamNewsgroupsSearching the web

  BMJ 1998; 317 :264 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission

Filler

• Limited opportunities

  BMJ 1998; 317 :268 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Mountain power

  BMJ 1998; 317 :276 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Heroic medicine in the Iron Age

  BMJ 1998; 317 :288 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission

Education and debate

• Provision of syringes: the cutting edge of harm reduction in prison?

  BMJ 1998; 317 :270 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission
  • Responses
• Barriers and bridges to evidence based clinical practice

  BMJ 1998; 317 :273 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• The review body's remit should not be changedMore women hold top NHS jobsNHS helpline will cover 10 million peopleBMA Notice

  BMJ 1998; 317 :286 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission

Soundings

• Clinical governance made simple

  BMJ 1998; 317 :287 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission

Personal View

• OCD—the answer to the ultimate question ?

  BMJ 1998; 317 :287 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses

Medicine and books

• Our NHS: A celebration of 50 years

  BMJ 1998; 317 :289 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission
• Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy

  BMJ 1998; 317 :289 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission

Career focus

• Specialty training in the United States

  BMJ 1998; 317 :S2-7153 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Briefing

  BMJ 1998; 317 :S3-7153 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Briefing

  BMJ 1998; 317 :S3a-7153 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• Briefing

  BMJ 1998; 317 :S3b-7153 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission

Fillers

• Alternative definitions

  BMJ 1998; 317 :240 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
• “I got no counselling”

  BMJ 1998; 317 :240 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission
  • Responses
• A death on the Rock

  BMJ 1998; 317 :262 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • Permission

Obituary

• Ian Alexander McGregorJoseph McNuttLawrence Arthur PikeElizabeth Maria ThompsonEmily Katharine Williams

  BMJ 1998; 317 :285 (Published 25 July 1998)

  • PDF
  • Permission