Polymerase chain reaction is useful in defining infectiousness of people with hepatitis C [Full text]

	British anthropometric data are not suitable for all populations [Full text]

	Early insulin resistance may be present in young adults born small for gestational age [Full text]

	Giving antibiotics for sore throats medicalises a self limiting illness [Full text]

	GPs' attendance at courses is driven by finance, not learning needs [Full text]

	Emergency admissions to paediatric ITUs are blocked by children on ventilators [Full text]

Editorials

	Acute otitis media in children
	Azeem Majeed, Tess Harris
	BMJ  1997;315:321-322 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kawasaki disease
	Nigel Curtis
	BMJ  1997;315:322-323 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical guidelines
	Elizabeth West, John Newton
	BMJ  1997;315:324 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why Britain's drug czar mustn't wage war on drugs
	John Strang, William B Clee, Lawrence Gruer, Duncan Raistrick
	BMJ  1997;315:325-326 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Educating doctors, to improve patient care
	Peter Toon
	BMJ  1997;315:326 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Row over force feeding of patients with Alzheimer's disease
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;315:327-332 [Full text]

	For profit medicine in United States under scrutiny
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;315:327-332 [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:327-332 [Full text]

	Experimental angina treatment rejected by the FDA
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:327-332 [Full text]

	Health professionals can prevent mental health problems
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:327-332 [Full text]

	Nuclear test fallout linked to cancer risk
	Norra MacReady
	BMJ  1997;315:327-332 [Full text]

	Asthma drug linked with Churg-Strauss syndrome
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:327-332 [Full text]

	Heart attacks linked to pollution
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:327-332 [Full text]

	Canadians sue over hepatitis C infection
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;315:327-332 [Full text]

	Chinese clamp down on hospital overcharging
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1997;315:327-332 [Full text]

	United States budget supports child health
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;315:327-332 [Full text]

	Call for inquiry into CJD cluster
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:327-332 [Full text]

	A challenge to produce harmony out of conflict
	BMJ  1997;315:327-332 [Full text]

Papers

	Systematic review of role of polymerase chain reaction in defining infectiousness among people infected with hepatitis C virus
	Gregory J Dore, John M Kaldor, Geoffrey W McCaughan
	BMJ  1997;315:333-337 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluation of validity of British anthropometric reference data for assessing nutritional state of elderly people in Edinburgh: cross sectional study
	Elaine Bannerman, J J Reilly, W J MacLennan, T Kirk, F Pender
	BMJ  1997;315:338-341 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reduced final height and indications for insulin resistance in 20 year olds born small for gestational age: regional cohort study
	Juliane Leger, Claire Levy-Marchal, Juliette Bloch, Agnes Pinet, Didier Chevenne, Dominique Porquet, Dominique Collin, Paul Czernichow
	BMJ  1997;315:341-347 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Survey of occupancy of paediatric intensive care units by children who are dependent on ventilators
	James Fraser, Quen Mok, Robert Tasker
	BMJ  1997;315:347-348 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Comparison of blood or urine testing by patients with newly diagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes: patient survey after randomised crossover trial
	Pat Miles, Joan Everett, June Murphy, David Kerr
	BMJ  1997;315:348-349 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Recent advances: Otorhinolaryngology
	Jochen A Werner, Stefan Gottschlich
	BMJ  1997;315:354-357 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Addiction and dependence—II: Alcohol
	Mark Ashworth, Claire Gerada
	BMJ  1997;315:358-360 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Reattendance and complications in a randomised trial of prescribing strategies for sore throat: the medicalising effect of prescribing antibiotics
	P Little, C Gould, I Williamson, G Warner, M Gantley, A L Kinmonth
	BMJ  1997;315:350-352 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Finance, not learning needs, makes general practitioners attend courses: a database survey
	T S Murray, L M Campbell
	BMJ  1997;315:353 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	The moment
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1997;315:375 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Dislocations in the European Union
	Anne Savage
	BMJ  1997;315:375-376 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tired all the time
	David Memel
	BMJ  1997;315:376 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

	July bestsellers: BMJ Bookshop
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing Family Planning in General Practice, by Sam Rowlands
	Tim Carney
	BMJ  1997;315:377 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical Effectiveness and Primary Care, by Mark Baker, Neal Masirey, Simon Kirk
	Chris Silagy
	BMJ  1997;315:377 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The search for evidence of effective health promotion
	Viv Speller, Alyson Learmonth, D Harrison
	BMJ  1997;315:361-363 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How to read a paper: Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical tests
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:364-366 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Obstructive sleep apnoea
	John Shneerson, Ian Smith, Allan I Pack, Terry Young, J R Stradling, R J O Davies, G J Gibson, K Prowse, S J G Semple, D R London, H M Engleman, S E Martin, I J Deary, N J Douglas, John Wright, Trevor Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;315:367 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hazards of running a marathon
	Ian A Laing, Stuart Hood
	BMJ  1997;315:370 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unexpected findings of study of selegiline have not been treated with caution its authors advised
	Mark T Silva , Anthony H V Schapira , Peter Jenner
	BMJ  1997;315:370 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia
	Richard Mendelsohn, Diane Thompson, Gerald N Collins, S Taneja
	BMJ  1997;315:370-371 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Criticism of prophylaxis of gastrointestinal bleeding with H2 receptor antagonists is wrong
	T M Cook
	BMJ  1997;315:371-372 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of pregnant women with recurrent miscarriage associated with phospholipid antibodies
	Ole B Christiansen, John Kingdom, Eric Jauniaux, Jean-Charles Piette, Du Le Thi Huong, Bertrand Wechsler, Raj Rai, Lesley Regan
	BMJ  1997;315:372 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Casualties of Gulf war were higher than most reports suggest
	C S Nice
	BMJ  1997;315:373 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	Henry Bound
	BMJ  1997;315:374 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:378 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Endpiece: Sydenham on therapeutic method
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Producing a regional guide to house jobs
	Andrew G Smith, Cynthia Cummings
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Managers are receiving trained in counselling techniques can boost morale, ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The BMA's International department is organising four seminars for doctors ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Exclusion of certain categories of workers from the general protection ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	A battlefield of medicine
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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