Co-proxamol is no better than paracetamol alone [Full text]

	Patients at high risk from carotid endarterectomy can be identified [Full text]

	Preventing heart disease with pravastatin is economically viable [Full text]

	Haemorrhagic strokes confer higher risk of seizures [Full text]

	Asian general practitioners are not high cost prescribers [Full text]

	Too many consultants are each managing too few cases of head and neck cancer [Full text]

Editorials

	Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in corneal grafts
	Bruce Allan, Stephen Tuft
	BMJ  1997;315:1553-1554 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The emerging role of statins in the prevention of coronary heart disease
	Matthew F Muldoon, Michael H Criqui
	BMJ  1997;315:1554-1555 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of head and neck cancer in Britain
	J S Tobias
	BMJ  1997;315:1556 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hazardous drugs in developing countries
	David B Menkes
	BMJ  1997;315:1557-1558 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Developing www.bmj.com
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1997;315:1558 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Europe agrees complete ban on tobacco advertising by 2006
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	AMA chief forced to resign
	Charles-Gene McDaniel
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	UK government bans sale of beef on the bone
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	GPs should have access to spirometry for assessing COPD
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	White paper puts GPs in the driving seat of the new NHS
	John Warden
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	Report urges widespread reform of handling of NHS data
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	Doctors stage hunger strike in Australia
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	South African row over denial of dialysis
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	Difference in life expectancy between rich and poor is widening
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	Drug company loses battle to stop article
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	Ethical guide for surgeons is launched
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	Herpes virus linked to multiple sclerosis
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	Canada creates new national blood service
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

	Diabetes drug withdrawn after reports of hepatic events
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:1559-1564 [Full text]

Papers

	Systematic overview of co-proxamol to assess analgesic effects of addition of dextropropoxyphene to paracetamol
	A Li Wan Po, W Y Zhang
	BMJ  1997;315:1565-1571 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical and angiographic predictors of stroke and death from carotid endarterectomy: systematic review
	P M Rothwell, J Slattery, C P Warlow
	BMJ  1997;315:1571-1577 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The West of Scotland coronary prevention study: economic benefit analysis of primary prevention with pravastatin
	J Caro, W Klittich, A McGuire, I Ford, J Norrie, D Pettitt, J McMurray, J Shepherd
	BMJ  1997;315:1577-1582 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Epileptic seizures after a first stroke: the Oxfordshire community stroke project
	John Burn, Martin Dennis, John Bamford, Peter Sandercock, Derick Wade, Charles Warlow
	BMJ  1997;315:1582-1587 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rate of RhD sensitisation before and after implementation of a community based antenatal prophylaxis programme
	Stewart Mayne, John H Parker, Trevor A Harden, Sandra D Dodds, Judith A Beale
	BMJ  1997;315:1588 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of cancers of the head and neck in the United Kingdom: questionnaire survey of consultants
	Dympna Edwards, N W Johnson, D Cooper, K A A S Warnakulasuriya
	BMJ  1997;315:1589 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Vaccines and vaccination
	Paul-Henri Lambert, Claire-Anne Siegrist
	BMJ  1997;315:1595-1598 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Lumbar puncture still has an important role in diagnosing subarachnoid haemorrhage
	Jonathan Wasserberg, Philip Barlow
	BMJ  1997;315:1598-1599 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of palliative care: The last 48 hours
	Jim Adam
	BMJ  1997;315:1600-1603 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Effect of doctors' ethnicity and country of qualification on prescribing patterns in single handed general practices: linkage of information collected by questionnaire and from routine data
	Paramjit S Gill, Anthony Dowell, Conrad M Harris
	BMJ  1997;315:1590-1594 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Blocking a bed
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1997;315:1628 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	What have I achieved?
	Hugh Watson
	BMJ  1997;315:1628-1629 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The truth is out there
	Anita Forrest
	BMJ  1997;315:1629-1630 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Out of the closet
	Jackie Napier
	BMJ  1997;315:1630 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

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

	Community Based Teaching, by Ed Susan L Deutsch
	J B Cookson
	BMJ  1997;315:1631 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Asthma, by P J Barnes
	John Rees
	BMJ  1997;315:1631 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Personal paper: Gene therapy for cancer—managing expectations
	Alan A Melcher, Ignacio Garcia-Ribas, Richard G Vile
	BMJ  1997;315:1604-1607 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Your letter failed to win a place...
	Eyal Shahar
	BMJ  1997;315:1608-1609 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The editor's decision is final
	Liz Crossan, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:1609 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meta-analysis: Beyond the grand mean?
	George Davey Smith, Matthias Egger, Andrew N Phillips
	BMJ  1997;315:1610-1614 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

	Use of statins
	Peter Enoch, R L Akehurst, Peter Sheridan, Peter Savege, Sue Silverman, Win Bennett, Wayne McNee, Scott Metcalfe, James M Wright, A S Wierzbicki, T M Reynolds, Alan Maryon Davis, D P Mikhailidis, A F Winder, J McMurray, A McGuire, M Raikou, C Morrison, Andrew P Wakeman, Robert H Leach, David Lewis, E J Wallis, L E Ramsay, W W Yeo, P R Jackson, M Pickin, I U Haq, John Betteridge, James Shepherd, Gilbert Thompson, John Kjekshus, Terje R Pedersen
	BMJ  1997;315:1615 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS bonds could be alternative to private finance initiative for NHS
	Harry Keen, Peter Fisher, Peter Draper
	BMJ  1997;315:1620 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines are needed for evaluations that use cluster approach
	Diana Elbourne
	BMJ  1997;315:1620-1621 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based advertising?
	Luc Blondeel, Graham Leighton, Michael E Telford, Pavel Hamet, Jennifer Mindell, Trudi Kemp, Steven Crane, Siobhan Smart, Chris Williams
	BMJ  1997;315:1621, doi:10.1136/bmj.315.7122.1621 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advertisements for donepezil
	Trisha Greenhalgh, Ken Stein, Ruairidh Milne, Lesley Best, H Boothby, S M N Zaidi, V Seth, S Khalaf, H Jameel, S Mahomed, Al- Yassiri, P Hooper, A M Whitehead, Roy W Jones, Jill B Mann, Samantha A Saunders
	BMJ  1997;315:1623 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quiet room is needed in hospitals for prayer and reflection
	Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  1997;315:1625 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

	Francisco Javier Arroyo-Vacas
	BMJ  1997;315:1626 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:1632 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Endpiece: Moral closure
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Two doctors who changed my practice: We can all try that little bit harder
	James Francombe
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson learnt: Asking the wrong questions
	Ann Dally
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Any questions: Combination approach to pain relief
	A S C Rice
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Chattering doctors
	Andy Rooney
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ audit: time to decision and publication:
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Science, medicine, and the future: Obesity treatment
	BMJ  1997;315:1599 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths from cervical cancer began falling before screening programmes were established
	BMJ  1997;315:1625 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reduction in use of temazepam is factor in deaths related to overdose
	BMJ  1997;315:1625 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Recruiting in hard times
	Joan Rogers
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Bureaucracy and paperwork were identified as key reasons for seeking ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Doctors planning to work in developing countries may find what ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Two rulings from the European Court of Justice (IDS Brief ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Not coming out EDITOR - Interesting though I found Air ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Forces on prescribing
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	UK emergency services need priority • BMA urges reduction in drink driving limits • NHS will claw back outstanding accident claims • Data Protection Registrar will target GPs
	BMJ  1997;315:1627 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

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