Cognitive dysfunction is a risk factor for sustaining concussion [Full text]

	Reassurance doesn't work in anxious patients [Full text]

	Compression should be routine for venous leg ulcers [Full text]

	Local health promotion initiatives on coronary heart disease can be cost effective [Full text]

	Separating frozen beefburgers risks injury to the hand [Full text]

	Drug misuse databases underestimate drug taking [Full text]

Editorials

	Prophylaxis after occupational exposure to HIV
	Philippa Easterbrook, Giuseppe Ippolito
	BMJ  1997;315:557-558 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why the BMJ needs your data
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:558-559 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug misusers: whose business is it?
	Michael Farrel, Claire Gerada
	BMJ  1997;315:559-560 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Academia: the view from below
	Bill Chaudhry, Paul Winyard, Catherine Cale
	BMJ  1997;315:560-561 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating medically unexplained physical symptoms
	Richard Mayou, Michael Sharpe
	BMJ  1997;315:561-562 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:562 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Thousands of women sterilised in Sweden without consent
	Claire Armstrong
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	Karolinska professor broke research rules
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	Florida wins huge award from tobacco firms
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	First rise in cot deaths for five years
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	Smoking death toll shifts to third world
	The 10th world conference on tobacco or health was held in Beijing last month. Richard Tomlinson reports
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	US settlement harms rest of the world
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	Economic argument is the key to tobacco control
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	Thrombolysis in strokes carries large risk
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	US admits radiation experiments on 20 000 veterans
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	NHS plans for winter pressures
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	Anonymous AIDS testing in Hungary to end
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	Canadian doctors' leader calls for more central funding
	David Woods
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	NHS needs a sense of direction
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	Palestinian man shackled in Jerusalem hospital
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

	United Kingdom spends less than average on health care
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:563-568 [Full text]

Papers

	Duration of cognitive dysfunction after concussion, and cognitive dysfunction as a risk factor: a population study of young men
	Thomas W Teasdale, Aase Engberg
	BMJ  1997;315:569-572 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Responses of consecutive patients to reassurance after gastroscopy: results of self administered questionnaire survey
	M P Lucock, S Morley, C White, M D Peake
	BMJ  1997;315:572-575 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A systematic review of compression treatment for venous leg ulcers
	Alison Fletcher, Nicky Cullum, Trevor A Sheldon
	BMJ  1997;315:576-580 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The beefburger injury: a retrospective survey
	V S Jigjinni, J Stevenson, A F S Flemming
	BMJ  1997;315:580 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Validation of a regional drug misuse database: implications for policy and surveillance of problem drug use in the uk
	Matthew Hickman, Heather Sutcliffe, Arun Sondhi, Gerry V Stimson
	BMJ  1997;315:581 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Recent advances: General surgery
	Carlos U Corvera, Kimberly S Kirkwood
	BMJ  1997;315:586-589 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of mental health: Mental health and the law
	Ann Barker
	BMJ  1997;315:590-592 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	A cost effective, community based heart health promotion project in England: prospective comparative study
	Tony Baxter, Philip Milner, Keith Wilson, Mike Leaf, Jon Nicholl, Jenny Freeman, Nicola Cooper
	BMJ  1997;315:582-585 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra]

Soundings

	Be prepared
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:612 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The future of medical education in South Africa
	Raymond Hoffenberg
	BMJ  1997;315:612-613 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug misuse: GPs' pivotal role
	Robert Scott
	BMJ  1997;315:613-614 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dodgy doctors: your time is up
	Andrew Pickersgill
	BMJ  1997;315:614 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

	Women and Childbirth in the Twentieth Century, by A Susan Williams
	Susan Bewley
	BMJ  1997;315:615 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health Care Law, by Jonathan Montgomery
	Vivienne Harpwood
	BMJ  1997;315:615 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Clinical academic medicine: a Socratic dialogue
	D G Grahame-Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:593-595 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How to read a paper: Papers that tell you what things cost (economic analyses)
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1997;315:596-599 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trials randomised in clusters
	J Martin Bland, Sally M Kerry
	BMJ  1997;315:600 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	General practitioners' attitudes towards treatment of opiate misusers
	Edwin van Teijlingen, Mike Porter, Judy Bury, Jim Sherval, Andrew Preston, Charles Campion-Smith, Helen Lester, Colin Bradley, Jane R Mason
	BMJ  1997;315:601 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of opiate dependent drug misusers
	Andrew Byrne, A M Daniels, John Haydon McCarthy
	BMJ  1997;315:602-603 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Performing hysterectomy in low income women may be easier than educating them
	John P Bunker
	BMJ  1997;315:603 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Investigation of left ventricular dysfunction in acute dyspnoea
	Pamela Crawford, Anne Hendry, Andrew Davie, John McMurray, Warwick Bagg, Robert N Doughty, Gillian A Whalley, Gary Gordon, Norman Sharpe, Neil D Gillespie, Allan D Struthers, Stuart D Pringle
	BMJ  1997;315:604 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Specialised transfer teams can operate effectively from district general hospitals
	K J Bannell, J M Fielden, B L Taylor, G B Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:605 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Common criteria for providing powered wheelchairs should be agreed by wheelchair service centres
	Christopher W Roy
	BMJ  1997;315:605-606 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stroke family care workers
	Ann F Bisset, Rosemary Chesson, Pandora Pound, Patrick Gompertz, Shah Ebrahim, M A Chamberlain, J M L Geddes, Asim Wasti, Richard Trigg, Victorine Wood, Martin Dennis, Charles Warlow, Suzanne O'Rourke
	BMJ  1997;315:606 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for HIV infection should be part of routine antenatal screening
	Ben Essex
	BMJ  1997;315:608 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Careers in academic medicine
	Robert Baker, Andrew Ustianowski, E J Dunstan, Jonathan Shepherd
	BMJ  1997;315:608 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Concordance of phenprocoumon dose in married couples
	F Kamali, C Edwards, H Wynne, J Cox, T W van Haeften
	BMJ  1997;315:609 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ice cream headache
	J W Sleigh, Mark Harries
	BMJ  1997;315:609 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	James Roderick Johnston ("J R") Cameron
	BMJ  1997;315:610 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:616 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	A paper that changed my practice: Optional illness
	Joseph Herman
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Dr Johnson on information retrieval
	James Boswell
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word...: Sausages
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Eligible for flexible training?
	Ilfra Goldberg, John Maingay
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Knowing what you don't know is as important as knowing ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The BMA's telephone oriented counselling service fielded its 5000th call ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: CAREER-F, the electronic discussion list that complements Career Focus's mission ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Not for the timid
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