Testicular biopsy is associated with increased risk of testicular cancer in cryptorchidism [Full text]

	Intensive insulin treatment improves prognosis for diabetics with myocardial infarction [Full text]

	Sleeping on mattresses used by others may increase risk of cot death [Full text]

	Girls have an excess neonatal mortality in South India [Full text]

	Early antibiotics provide little benefit in acute otitis media [Full text]

	Acute pain can be treated effectively [Full text]

Editorials

	The future of healthcare systems
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:1495 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing diabetes after myocardial infarction
	Malcolm Nattrass
	BMJ  1997;314:1497 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	At last, a public health minister
	Noel Olsen
	BMJ  1997;314:1498 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Requesting necropsies
	Jane Turner, Beverley Raphael
	BMJ  1997;314:1499 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meet Minerva in cyberspace
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1997;314:1500 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Cardiologist admits research misconduct
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

	Britain declares war on smoking
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

	Learning to break bad news
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

	Australian doctor builds "coma machine"
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

	Woman dies two months after food withdrawal
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

	Invasive devices increase risk of infection
	Stephanie Swafford
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

	US senate likely to ban controversial abortion procedure
	Norra Macready
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

	WHO calls for tighter controls on Internet
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

	GPs prepare shopping list for new government
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

	High amounts of chemicals found in breast milk
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

	India protects jobs of people with HIV infection
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

	Romania plans tough antismoking laws
	Tudor P Toma
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

	Focus: Brussels – New Labour, New Europe
	Teresa Coghlan
	BMJ  1997;314:1501 [Full text]

Papers

	Risk of testicular cancer in cohort of boys with cryptorchidism
	A J Swerdlow, C D Higgins, M C Pike
	BMJ  1997;314:1507 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prospective randomised study of intensive insulin treatment on long term survival after acute myocardial infarction in patients with diabetes mellitus
	Klas Malmberg
	BMJ  1997;314:1512 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case-control study of sudden infant death syndrome in Scotland, 1992-5
	Hazel Brooke, Angus Gibson, David Tappin, Helen Brown
	BMJ  1997;314:1516 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reproductive pattern, perinatal mortality, and sex preference in rural Tamil Nadu, South India: community based, cross sectional study
	Birgitte Bruun Nielsen, Jerker Liljestrand, Morten Hedegaard, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Abraham Joseph
	BMJ  1997;314:1521 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eye disease associated with handling pet tarantulas: three case reports
	Andrew J Blaikie, John Ellis, Roshini Sanders, Caroline J MacEwen
	BMJ  1997;314:1524 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Treating acute pain in hospital
	Henry McQuay, Andrew Moore, Douglas Justins
	BMJ  1997;314:1531 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Mental health assessment
	Teifion Davies
	BMJ  1997;314:1536 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Are antibiotics indicated as initial treatment for children with acute otitis media? A meta-analysis
	Christopher B Del Mar, Paul P Glasziou, Mauricio Hayem
	BMJ  1997;314:1526 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Population based study of use of anticoagulants among patients with atrial fibrillation in the community
	Mark Sudlow, Helen Rodgers, Rose Anne Kenny, Richard Thomson
	BMJ  1997;314:1529 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	New logo
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;314:1559 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Stigma
	BMJ  1997;314:1559 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

	The Wellcome Trust Illustrated History of Tropical Diseases, by Ed F E G Cox
	Diana N J Lockwood
	BMJ  1997;314:1561 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bodies in Glass: Genetics, Eugenics, Embryo Ethics, by Deborah Lynn Steinberg
	Mary Warnock
	BMJ  1997;314:1561 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The performance of doctors. i: professionalism and self regulation in a changing world
	Donald Irvine
	BMJ  1997;314:1540 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health in china: From Mao to market reform
	Therese Hesketh, Wei Xing Zhu
	BMJ  1997;314:1543 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Socioeconomic determinants of health: The contribution of nutrition to inequalities in health
	W Philip T James, Michael Nelson, Ann Ralph, Suzi Leather
	BMJ  1997;314:1545 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Diagnosing pulmonary embolism
	John A Holemans, John F Reidy, Colin Borland, P Hawkins, Christoph Pechlaner, Thomas Buratti, Christian Wiedermann, David Fitzmaurice, E T Murray, F D R Hobbs
	BMJ  1997;314:1550 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intravenous antibiotic treatment at home can provide higher quality care
	Christopher P Conlon, Jill Kayley, David G Lalloo, Anthony R Berendt
	BMJ  1997;314:1551 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Macrocytic anaemias
	Roger Barton, A V Hoffbrand, D Provan
	BMJ  1997;314:1552 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pancreatic angiography is still valuable preoperatively in insulinoma
	D M Nichols, J R C Logie, P Zentler-Munro
	BMJ  1997;314:1552 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public is concerned about gene testing
	E J Brunner, J Sheppard, J Ravetz
	BMJ  1997;314:1552 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Leukaemia near La Hague nuclear plant
	Jacqueline Clavel, Denis Hémon, Graham Law, Eve Roman, Richard Wakeford, Carol Barton, Hilary Ryder, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Jean-François Viel
	BMJ  1997;314:1553 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advertisements for donepezil (Aricept) in the BMJ
	Selena Gray, Nicholas Wagner
	BMJ  1997;314:1555 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Editorial should have mentioned National Sports Medicine Institute of the UK
	Neil Townshend
	BMJ  1997;314:1556 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cancellation of debt of poorest people would be worthy memorial to millennium
	Dorothy Logie
	BMJ  1997;314:1556 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nurses are right not to take on responsibilities for which they have not been properly prepared
	Margaret Wallace
	BMJ  1997;314:1556 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	Andrew Patrick Curran • Eric Herzog • William Liston • John Bernard Mitchell • Richard Hume Townshend
	BMJ  1997;314:1557 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1562 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Words to the wise: Learning from the past
	W M Dixon
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Are athletes healthy?
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An influential doctor: Doctors should be walking question marks
	Ian D Conacher
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Any questions: Postoperative deep vein thrombosis in patient with hormone replacement implant:
	Michael de Swiet
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A patient who changed my practice: Always check the respiratory rate
	P Burdett-Smith
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Grand round: Hazards of running a marathon
	BMJ  1997;314:1535 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Integrating overseas work with an NHS career
	Nicholas Banatvala, Annie Macklow-Smith
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The median salary of NHS Trust chief executives increased by ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Bullying at work is a common problem-an Institute of Personnel ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Things getting better as you move up the career ladder ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	A week of beginnings
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Soap tackles stigma of schizophrenia
	Adrianne Reveley
	BMJ  1997;314:1560 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	WMA appoints new secretary general • Junior doctors want to meet health ministers • BMA counselling service receives over 3000 calls in first year • Changes sought to specialist order • BMA supports worldwide ban on landmines
	BMJ  1997;314:1558 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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