Fruit and vegetables raise plasma carotenes and vitamin C but not vitamin E [Full text]

	Weight gain and weight loss in old age are both associated with increased coronary heart disease [Full text]

	Increased reporting of asthma may be due to information bias [Full text]

	Oral aciclovir is effective for herpetic gingivostomatitis [Full text]

	Using only net changes in the GP workforce masks the true picture [Full text]

	Victims of medical accidents should not have first claim on NHS funds [Full text]

Editorials

	Risk, safety, and the dark side of quality
	Charles Vincent
	BMJ  1997;314:1775 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating diarrhoea
	Sherwood L Gorbach
	BMJ  1997;314:1776 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chlamydia pneumoniae and coronary heart disease
	Sandeep Gupta, A John Camm
	BMJ  1997;314:1778 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for people with a family history of colorectal cancer
	Malcolm Dunlop, Harry Campbell
	BMJ  1997;314:1779 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Review of NHS spending begins
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	Poverty to have priority in NHS
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	Surrogacy to be reviewed in United Kingdom
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	US attempts to keep Medicare solvent
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	Russia fears rapid increase in HIV infection
	Miranda Ingram
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	Australian orphans were used as guinea pigs
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	New Filipino law may harm inner city care
	Adam Easton
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	The Maasai move to eliminate trachoma
	Sam Crowe
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	European Union to send medical aid to Guatemala
	Josh Hamilton
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	Romania adopts new transplant law
	Tudor P Toma
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	Near patient tests are poorly evaluated
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	Wales is set 20 health targets
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	Health authority tries to reclaim £700 000 settlement
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	Doctors must be chosen with care
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

	Focus: Westminster – New doctors in the house
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;314:1781 [Full text]

Papers

	Randomised controlled trial of effect of fruit and vegetable consumption on plasma concentrations of lipids and antioxidants
	Sarah Zino, Murray Skeaff, Sheila Williams, Jim Mann
	BMJ  1997;314:1787 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cohort study of effect of being overweight and change in weight on risk of coronary heart disease in old age
	Tamara B Harris, Lenore J Launer, Jennifer Madans, Jacob J Feldman
	BMJ  1997;314:1791 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Secular trend in the occurrence of asthma among children and young adults: critical appraisal of repeated cross sectional surveys
	Per Magnus, Jouni J K Jaakkola
	BMJ  1997;314:1795 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of herpes simplex gingivostomatitis with aciclovir in children: a randomised double blind placebo controlled study
	Jacob Amir, Liora Harel, Zehava Smetana, Itzhak Varsano
	BMJ  1997;314:1800 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unsupervised surgical training: questionnaire study
	Janet A Wilson
	BMJ  1997;314:1803 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug points: Ocular damage associated with proton pump inhibitors
	P S Schönhöfer, B Werner, U Tröger
	BMJ  1997;314:1805 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Cognitive behaviour therapy–clinical applications
	Simon J Enright
	BMJ  1997;314:1811 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Community mental health services
	Karen White, David Roy, Ian Hamilton
	BMJ  1997;314:1817 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Recruitment, retention, and time commitment change of general practitioners in England and wales, 1990-4: a retrospective study
	Donald H Taylor Jr, Brenda Leese
	BMJ  1997;314:1806 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: there is urgent need to raise recruitment–even to stand still
	James Parkhouse
	BMJ  1997;314:1810 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Cheers
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1997;314:1838 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The Child B case–reflections of a chief executive
	Stephen Thornton
	BMJ  1997;314:1838 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The injustice of compensation for victims of medical accidents
	John Harris
	BMJ  1997;314:1821 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managed care: origins, principles, and evolution
	Gillian Fairfield, David J Hunter, David Mechanic, Flemming Rosleff
	BMJ  1997;314:1823 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Nicotine replacement therapy should be prescribable on NHS
	Godfrey Fowler
	BMJ  1997;314:1827 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dietary treatment of active Crohn's disease
	J A Walker-Smith, T S King, J T Woolner, J O Hunter, Nick Wight, Brian B Scott
	BMJ  1997;314:1827 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypothesis that people with coronary heart disease are living longer is supported
	P S Watson, D C Bensley
	BMJ  1997;314:1828 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cyclosporin can be used in early rheumatoid arthritis
	J K Dawson, B Roychowdhury, E J Tunn
	BMJ  1997;314:1828 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Senior house officer training
	G A Bunch, J Bahrami, R Macdonald, Navneet Kapur, Mark Rickenbach, Joan Dunleavey, Paul Little, Mark Mullee, Bruce Ramsay
	BMJ  1997;314:1828 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Blood donation, body iron stores, and risk of myocardial infarction
	Harri Hemilä, Mikko Paunio, Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, Riitta Salonen, Kristiina Nyyssönen, Jukka T Salonen
	BMJ  1997;314:1830 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Most British research and development in primary care arises outside rural areas
	Woody Caan
	BMJ  1997;314:1831 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chaplains on transplant teams facilitate permission being given for organ donation
	Grant Williams
	BMJ  1997;314:1831 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Amiodarone pulmonary toxicity
	Andrew Leonard, Paul Corris, Dinah Parums, L Donaldson, I S Grant, M R Naysmith, J St J Thomas, Gillian A J Jessurun
	BMJ  1997;314:1831 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Systematic reviews provide information not contained in traditional narrative reviews
	David Henry
	BMJ  1997;314:1832 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Does setting good practice standards for research ethics committees increase their legal liability?
	Julian Savulescu, Iain Chalmers, Jennifer Blunt
	BMJ  1997;314:1833 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mechanism of accountability needs to be developed for changing role of healthcare professionals
	Martin Lombard, James Brown, Gillian Hall, Richard Sturgess
	BMJ  1997;314:1833 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alcohol misuse among doctors
	G M Cunningham, Nigel I Jowett
	BMJ  1997;314:1833 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast cancer screening for younger women is not an efficient use of resources
	Michael Baum
	BMJ  1997;314:1834 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vegetarians and vegans may be most at risk from low selenium intakes
	Patricia A Judd, A Long, M Butcher, Christine P Caygill, A T Diplock
	BMJ  1997;314:1834 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	John Henry Harper Clough • Florence Ruth Dingley (ne Clulow) • Ronald Wilfred Lewis Hall • Eric Alister Knappett • Enid Sylvia LeGrange
	BMJ  1997;314:1835 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;314:1842 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Endpiece: Dr Johnson on overinterpretation of the mini mental state examination
	James Boswell
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Paradigms and "normal science"
	Thomas S Kuhn
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Administrators are never popular
	Richard Hooker
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson learnt: My brother's keeper?
	Mansoor Ahmed
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Will you blossom in public health medicine?
	David Pencheon
	BMJ  1997;314:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The latest edition of the Guide to house jobs in ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Questions in job interviews about marital status, children or personal ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Although the concepts that underlie performance related pay seem simple ...
	BMJ  1997;314:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Lessons on childhood diseases and managed care
	BMJ  1997;314 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

SELECTION

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

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	The death of childhood
	Dr Charles Essex
	BMJ  1997;314:1839 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Public health conference
	BMJ  1997;314:1836 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND MULTIMEDIA

	Stroke: A Practical Guide to Management, by
	Martin M Brown
	BMJ  1997;314:1840 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Abortion: Between Freedom and Necessity, by
	Stuart WG Derbyshire
	BMJ  1997;314:1840 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safe Practice in Endoscopic Surgery, by
	F Penninckx
	BMJ  1997;314:1840 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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