Hepatitis A seropositivity is linked to low risk of atopy [Full text]

	Post-term and heavy babies have increased risk of atopic dermatitis [Full text]

	Researchers disagree with editors on criteria for authorship [Full text]

	Many ICUs use the wrong drug for prophylaxis of stress ulcers [Full text]

	GPs' recognition of psychosocial problems depends on characteristics of the patient [Full text]

Editorials

	Discovering the causes of atopy
	Seif Shaheen
	BMJ  1997;314:987 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients in the community
	Julie K Johnston
	BMJ  1997;314:988 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should we screen for prostate cancer?
	Steven H Woolf
	BMJ  1997;314:989 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Facial disfigurement
	D A McGrouther
	BMJ  1997;314:991 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authorship: time for a paradigm shift?
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:992 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Appeal court rules against compulsory caesarean sections
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:993 [Full text]

	French doctors' strike enters third week
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;314:993 [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:993 [Full text]

	Australian voluntary euthanasia law is overturned
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1997;314:993 [Full text]

	Children with learning disabilities lack information and support
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:993 [Full text]

	United States cracks down on healthcare fraud
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;314:993 [Full text]

	Mental illness is often not recognised among black people
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;314:993 [Full text]

	Hillsborough survivor emerges from permanent vegetative state
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:993 [Full text]

	Hospital childcare is poor
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:993 [Full text]

	Junior doctors object to "tax on training"
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:993 [Full text]

	Wine may prevent dementia
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1997;314:993 [Full text]

	WHO director general faces leadership challenge
	BMJ  1997;314:993 [Full text]

	Focus: Brussels – EU makes a difference over AIDS
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1997;314:993 [Full text]

Papers

	Cross sectional retrospective study of prevalence of atopy among Italian military students with antibodies against hepatitis a virus
	Paolo M Matricardi, Francesco Rosmini, Luigina Ferrigno, Roberto Nisini, Maria Rapicetta, Paola Chionne, Tommaso Stroffolini, Paolo Pasquini, Raffaele D'Amelio
	BMJ  1997;314:999 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Atopic dermatitis and birth factors: historical follow up by record linkage
	Anne Braae Olesen, Anne Ringer Ellingsen, Hanne Olesen, Svend Juul, Kristian Thestrup-Pedersen
	BMJ  1997;314:1003 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The vexed question of authorship: views of researchers in a British medical faculty
	Raj Bhopal, Judith Rankin, Elaine McColl, Lois Thomas, Eileen Kaner, Rosie Stacy, Pauline Pearson, Brian Vernon, Helen Rodgers
	BMJ  1997;314:1009 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	H2 blockers in the intensive care unit: ignoring the evidence? Telephone survey
	D L A Wyncoll, P C Roberts, R J Beale, A McLuckie
	BMJ  1997;314:1013 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Chronic venous ulcer
	Niren Angle, John J Bergan
	BMJ  1997;314:1019 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Grand Rounds--Hammersmith Hospital: Hazards of running a marathon
	G R Thompson
	BMJ  1997;314:1023 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical haematology: Bleeding disorders, thrombosis, and anticoagulation
	K K Hampton, F E Preston
	BMJ  1997;314:1026 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	General practitioners' knowledge of their patients' psychosocial problems: multipractice questionnaire survey
	Pål Gulbrandsen, Per Hjortdahl, Per Fugelli
	BMJ  1997;314:1014 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	My lonely battle with disease
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1997;314:1053 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Running the New York marathon with diabetes
	Bjorn Kjeldby
	BMJ  1997;314:1053 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

	Emergency Triage, by Ed Kevin Mackway-Jones
	Colin Robertson
	BMJ  1997;314:1056 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Osteoporosis–Prevention and Management in Primary Care, by Colin Waine
	Cindy L K Lam
	BMJ  1997;314:1056 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gene Therapy, by Ed N R Lemoine, D N Cooper
	Sir David Weatherall
	BMJ  1997;314:1057 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Health targets in the NHS: lessons learned from experience with breast feeding targets in scotland
	Harry Campbell, Anne Gibson
	BMJ  1997;314:1030 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Integration of hepatitis B vaccination into national immunisation programmes
	Pierre Van Damme, Mark Kane, André Meheus
	BMJ  1997;314:1033 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Antenatal screening and targeting should be sufficient in some countries
	Philip P Mortimer, Elizabeth Miller
	BMJ  1997;314:1036 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Socioeconomic determinants of health : Health and social cohesion: why care about income inequality?
	Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce P Kennedy
	BMJ  1997;314:1037 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Gulf war illness
	Peter Beale, Peter Heaf, Norman Jones
	BMJ  1997;314:1041 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic forearm pain
	C M Colles, A G Pusey, J Brooks, L C Bainbridge
	BMJ  1997;314:1041 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Disorders of spermatogenesis in Finland
	Michael Joffe, Jarkko Pajarinen, Pekka J Karhunen
	BMJ  1997;314:1042 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Penetrating intraoral trauma may occur in adults as well as children
	S S Rayatt, P Hamlyn, P Magennis
	BMJ  1997;314:1043 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Suspension of nurse who gave drug on consultant's instructions
	John M Kellett, David Curtis
	BMJ  1997;314:1043 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Allowing relatives to witness resuscitation
	Chris A J McLauchlan
	BMJ  1997;314:1044 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine, postmodernism, and the end of certainty
	Nick Raithatha, James Harrison, Paul R Hunter, David P Frost
	BMJ  1997;314:1044 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rationing breast reduction surgery
	N Horlock, R P Cole, L F A R Rossi
	BMJ  1997;314:1045 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authorship
	Andrew Barker, Richard A Powell, R S Bhopal, J M Rankin, E McColl, R Stacy, P H Pearson, E F S Kaner, L H Thomas, B G Vernon, H Rodgers
	BMJ  1997;314:1046 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New bill offers control for mentally disordered offenders
	D J Thompson
	BMJ  1997;314:1047 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Traders' views on sale of cigarettes to children
	Delwyth Wyn Jones, Anne Charlton
	BMJ  1997;314:1047 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Head up tilt testing has a place in distinguishing certain conditions from epilepsy
	Amir Zaidi, Lawrence Cotter, Adam Fitzpatrick
	BMJ  1997;314:1048 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prognosis for babies of less than 28 weeks' gestation
	T H H G Koh
	BMJ  1997;314:1048 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Teleconferencing should be extended to include job interviews
	Graham Briars
	BMJ  1997;314:1048 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	John Shackleton Bailey • Alexander Colin Patton Campbell • John Felix Bolton Carter • Philip Crann • John (James) Lewis Freer • Charles Edward Lewis Freer • Joshua ("Jessel") Hazelton • William John Hughes • Arthur Royland Hunt • Brian Herbert Kirman • William Love • James Marshall • David Wilkes
	BMJ  1997;314:1049 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1058 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	One hundred years ago: The remuneration of the general practitioner
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Drug delivery from inhaler devices
	BMJ  1997;314:990 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lifetime socioeconomic position and mortality: prospective observational study
	BMJ  1997;314:1012 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Changing partnership
	Neil Snowise
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The immigration rules for doctors who come to Britain for ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Most GPs are also employers. The Advisory, Conciliation, and Arbitration ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: A generation ago 100 newly qualified principals would have been ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Relating published evidence to individual patients
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

SELECTION

	Selection
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Harsh decisions behind closed doors
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1997;314:1054 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Genetics: let the public decide
	Gail Vines
	BMJ  1997;314:1055 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Survey shows low morale in defence medical services • Junior doctors criticise poor food and accommodation • Bad habits hit the Health of the Nation targets • A GP salaried service is one option • Junior doctors criticise phasing of pay award • BMA wants no discrimination on grounds of sexual discrimination • Scottish community care is underresourced • The BMA will look into needs of prison doctors
	BMJ  1997;314:1051 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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