Stroke family care workers improve patients' satisfaction [Full text]

	HIV status should not influence admissions to intensive care [Full text]

	Refined peanut oil is safe for most people allergic to peanuts [Full text]

	Ondansetron stops postoperative nausea in a quarter of affected patients [Full text]

	Pneumococcal vaccination in general practice improves coverage of patients at risk [Full text]

	Chronic tension headache may have a genetic element [Full text]

Editorials

	Informed consent: the intricacies
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:1059 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Spacer devices in the treatment of asthma
	Christopher O'Callaghan, Peter Barry
	BMJ  1997;314:1061 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Back pain, pregnancy, and childbirth
	Robin Russell, Felicity Reynolds
	BMJ  1997;314:1062 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Runaway children: whose problem?
	F Lawrenson
	BMJ  1997;314:1064 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Indian study of women with cervical lesions called unethical
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1997;314:1065 [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:1065 [Full text]

	European bioethics convention signed
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1997;314:1065 [Full text]

	Parties respond to BMA challenges
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:1065 [Full text]

	Pay claim will cost NHS £30m
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1065 [Full text]

	Labour fudge on fundholding
	Jack Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1065 [Full text]

	Spot the difference?
	BMJ  1997;314:1065 [Full text]

	Artificial human chromosomes created for the first time
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;314:1065 [Full text]

	Corneal tissue grown in laboratory
	Janet Morgan
	BMJ  1997;314:1065 [Full text]

	New guidelines on hepatitis C
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1997;314:1065 [Full text]

Papers

	Evaluation of a stroke family care worker: results of a randomised controlled trial
	Martin Dennis, Suzanne O'Rourke, Jim Slattery, Trish Staniforth, Charles Warlow
	BMJ  1997;314:1071 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: No consent means not treating the patient with respect
	Sheila McLean
	BMJ  1997;314:1076 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Why we didn't ask patients for their consent
	Martin Dennis
	BMJ  1997;314:1077 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Does HIV status influence the outcome of patients admitted to a surgical intensive care unit? A prospective double blind study
	Satish Bhagwanjee, David J J Muckart, Prakash M Jeena, Prushini Moodley
	BMJ  1997;314:1077 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Failing to seek patients' consent to research is always wrong
	Rajendra Kale
	BMJ  1997;314:1081 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Why we did not seek informed consent before testing patients for HIV
	Satish Bhagwanjee, David J J Muckart, Prakash M Jeena, Prushini Moodley
	BMJ  1997;314:1082 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: No simple and absolute ethical rule exists for every conceivable situation
	Y K Seedat, Y K Seedat, M Adhlkari, M H Cassimjee, V Gathiram, V B Jogessar, J Moodley, D J Pudifin, J V Robbs, S R Thomson, J R van Dellen, E M Barker, E M Barker, S Downes, R Gcaba, D J McQuoid-Mason, M E de Haas, U Govind
	BMJ  1997;314:1083 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Randomised, double blind, crossover challenge study of allergenicity of peanut oils in subjects allergic to peanuts
	Jonathan O'B Hourihane, Simon J Bedwani, Taraneh P Dean, John O Warner
	BMJ  1997;314:1084 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A quantitative systematic review of ondansetron in treatment of established postoperative nausea and vomiting
	Martin R Tramèr, R Andrew Moore, D John M Reynolds, Henry J McQuay
	BMJ  1997;314:1088 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Comparison of first degree relatives and spouses of people with chronic tension headache
	Steen Østergaard, Michael Bjørn Russell, Lars Bendtsen, Jes Olesen
	BMJ  1997;314:1092 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Recent advances in paediatrics: II–childhood and adolescence
	John Pearn
	BMJ  1997;314:1099 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of clinical haematology: Malignant lymphomas and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
	G M Mead
	BMJ  1997;314:1103 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Pneumococcal vaccine campaign based in general practice
	Paula McDonald, E H I Friedman, A Banks, Ros Anderson, Val Carman
	BMJ  1997;314:1094 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Age of innocence
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1997;314:1134 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All treatment and trials must have informed consent
	BMJ  1997;314:1134 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethnic issues in breast cancer treatment
	Kulsum Winship
	BMJ  1997;314:1135 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

	March bestsellers: BMJ Bookshop
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Health Services since the War: Volume II. Government and Health Care: British National Health Service 1958-1979, by Charles Webster
	Gordon Macpherson
	BMJ  1997;314:1136 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	DNA and Destiny: Nature and Nurture in Human Behavior, by R Grant Steen /Plenum Press, £21, pp 295
	Stuart W G Derbyshire
	BMJ  1997;314:1137 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Informed consent in medical research: Journals should not publish research to which patients have not given fully informed consent–with three exceptions
	Len Doyal
	BMJ  1997;314:1107 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ's present policy (sometimes approving research in which patients have not given fully informed consent) is wholly correct
	Jeffrey S Tobias
	BMJ  1997;314:1111 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The rationing debate: Rationing within the NHS should be explicit: The case for
	Len Doyal
	BMJ  1997;314:1114 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The case against
	Joanna Coast
	BMJ  1997;314:1118 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Socioeconomic determinants of health: Children, inequalities, and health
	Helen Roberts
	BMJ  1997;314:1122 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	CONSORT statement on the reporting standards of clinical trials
	T W Meade, Nicholas Wald, Rory Collins, Helen J Bromhead, Neville W Goodman, Liam B O'Toole, Douglas G Altman, David Moher, Drummond Rennie
	BMJ  1997;314:1126 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Details of patients' consent in studies should be reported
	Magne Nylenna
	BMJ  1997;314:1127 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The BMJ's Nuremberg issue
	G J Addis, D London
	BMJ  1997;314:1128 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Arabs were skilled in anaesthesia
	M Al-Fallouji
	BMJ  1997;314:1128 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Promoting health in prisons
	Olwen Williams, Jan Cassidy, S Rossiter
	BMJ  1997;314:1128 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicosocial aspects of depopulation in Belarus
	S V Kondrichin
	BMJ  1997;314:1129 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Routine follow up of breast cancer in primary care
	Alan Rodger
	BMJ  1997;314:1129 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Second study supports results of Whitehall study after retirement
	Seeromanie Harding, Ann Bethune, Michael Rosato
	BMJ  1997;314:1130 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New Zealand priority criteria project
	Alan Mordue, David W Parkin, John Elliott, Matthew Doogue, Ian Crozier, David Smyth, A Mark Richards, M Gary Nicholls, Hamid Ikram
	BMJ  1997;314:1130 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In Scotland, Mental Welfare Commission inquires into homicides by psychiatric patients
	J A T Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1131 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Which doctors die first?
	Kay-Tee Khaw, Chris McManus, D J M Wright, A P Roberts
	BMJ  1997;314:1132 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	Anthony Philip Hopkins • Kathryn Rhian James • James ("Jim") Keavney • Harry Rees • Vincent Andover ("Andy") Wills
	BMJ  1997;314:1133 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1138 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	A memorable patient: An air male delivery
	Andrew Benc
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Original contributions by medical students: Increased fees may discourage research
	A K Saggar-Malik, M A Patton
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When i use a word . . .: Sloe gin
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The benefits of foward planning:
	J C Merritt
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Corrections

	Telling patients they have Alzheimer's disease
	BMJ  1997;314:1063 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The medical health emergency card
	BMJ  1997;314:1063 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Disease modifying drugs in rheumatoid arthritis
	BMJ  1997;314:1063 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescribing antidepressants in general practice
	BMJ  1997;314:1132 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Learning to lead
	Jenny Simpson
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: An interesting combination of managerial and healthcare methodologies has been ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Morale in the defence medical services is low, according to ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The pilot scheme of the master's research degree, the MRes, ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Patients' consent and questions, and a statistical howler
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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