Asthma may be underdiagnosed in overweight inactive girls [Full text]

	Babies born at night and in summer have a greater risk of intrapartum death [Full text]

	The risk of haematological toxicity from chloramphenicol eye drops is small [Full text]

	Vision screening in older people is of unproved benefit [Full text]

	Neither asthma nor its treatment adversely affects growth [Full text]

	Communication behaviour of hospital workers is inefficient [Full text]

Editorials

	The Swiss heroin trials: testing alternative approaches
	Michael Farrell, Wayne Hall
	BMJ  1998;316:639 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths related to intrapartum asphyxia
	John A D Spencer
	BMJ  1998;316:640 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Subcutaneous apomorphine in Parkinson's disease
	K Ray Chaudhuri, C Clough
	BMJ  1998;316:641 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Communication among health professionals
	John Gosbee
	BMJ  1998;316:642 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New government, same narrow vision
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1998;316:643 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lessons of a hip failure
	Sarah K Muirhead-Allwood
	BMJ  1998;316:644 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Short course of zidovudine cuts transmission of HIV
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text]

	Wisheart begins to give evidence at GMC
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text]

	Researchers grow new blood vessels in the heart
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text]

	Tissue trade in Hungary is investigated
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text]

	Doctor admits research fraud
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text]

	Moderate wine drinking reduces all cause mortality
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text]

	Marketing of antipsychotic drugs attacked
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text]

	Polish plagiarism scandal unearthed
	Zibigniew Zawadzki
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text]

	New obesity mediator is discovered
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text]

	Warning issued over hip implants
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text]

	Inquiry ordered into transfer of the frail elderly
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text]

	NHS waiting lists grow under Labour
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text]

Papers

	Population based study of risk factors for underdiagnosis of asthma in adolescence: Odense schoolchild study • Commentary: Risk factors for underdiagnosis of asthma in adolescence • Commentary: Identifying the correct risks in diagnosis • Commentary: Improving the diagnostic rate in asthma: a community issue
	Hans C Siersted, Jesper Boldsen, Henrik S Hansen, Gert Mostgaard, Niels Hyldebrandt, P John Rees, Stephen J W Evans, Hans C Siersted
	BMJ  1998;316:651-657 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Numbers of deaths related to intrapartum asphyxia and timing of birth in all Wales perinatal survey, 1993-5
	Jane H Stewart, Joan Andrews, Patrick H T Cartlidge
	BMJ  1998;316:657-660 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effectiveness of screening older people for impaired vision in community setting: systematic review of evidence from randomised controlled trials
	Liam Smeeth, Steve Iliffe
	BMJ  1998;316:660-663 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web references]

	Association of glutamine 27 polymorphism of 2 adrenoceptor with reported childhood asthma: population based study
	E Hopes, C McDougall, G Christie, J Dewar, A Wheatley, I P Hall, P J Helms
	BMJ  1998;316:664 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Parental history of gastric or duodenal ulcer and prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in preschool children: population based study
	Hermann Brenner, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Günter Bode, Guido Adler
	BMJ  1998;316:665 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Relation of aplastic anaemia to use of chloramphenicol eye drops in two international case-control studies
	Bengt-Erik Wiholm, Judith Parsells Kelly, David Kaufman, Surapol Issaragrisil, Micha Levy, Theresa Anderson, Samuel Shapiro
	BMJ  1998;316:666 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of serious haematological toxicity with use of chloramphenicol eye drops in a British general practice database
	Tim Lancaster, Ann Marie Swart, Hershel Jick
	BMJ  1998;316:667 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Information in practice

	Communication behaviours in a hospital setting: an observational study
	Enrico Coiera, Vanessa Tombs
	BMJ  1998;316:673-676 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Update on male erectile dysfunction
	G Wagner, I Saenz de Tejada
	BMJ  1998;316:678-682 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Hypopituitarism after coronary artery bypass grafting • Commentary: Hypoadrenalism should also be considered in cases of persistent hyponatraemia
	J S Davies, M F Scanlon, P E Belchetz
	BMJ  1998;316:682 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of allergies: Diagnosing allergy
	Csaba Rusznak, Robert J Davies
	BMJ  1998;316:686 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Effect of asthma and its treatment on growth: four year follow up of cohort of children from general practices in Tayside, Scotland
	C McCowan, R G Neville, G E Thomas, I K Crombie, R A Clark, I W Ricketts, A Y Cairns, F C Warner, S A Greene, E White
	BMJ  1998;316:668-672 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	My last car, I promise
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1998;316:711 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Thomas comes home
	David Stevens
	BMJ  1998;316:711 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

	Making Doctors: An Institutional Apprenticeship
	Simon Wessely
	BMJ  1998;316:713 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity From Antiquity to the Present
	Benjamin Hope
	BMJ  1998;316:713 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Interpreting treatment effects in randomised trials
	Gordon H Guyatt, Elizabeth F Juniper, Stephen D Walter, Lauren E Griffith, Roger S Goldstein
	BMJ  1998;316:690-693 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The new genetics: Psychological responses to genetic testing
	Theresa M Marteau, Robert T Croyle
	BMJ  1998;316:693-696 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Continuing medical education: Maintaining standards in British and Canadian medicine: the developing role of the regulatory body
	Lesley Southgate, Dale Dauphinee
	BMJ  1998;316:697-700 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Prophylaxis after occupational exposure to HIV
	V Harindra, Jean Tobin, J R Willcox, Barry Evans, David Goldberg, N Mir, Paul P Walker, Maureen T Reynolds
	BMJ  1998;316:701 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Substitution of another opioid for morphine may be useful for pain control
	Paul Murray
	BMJ  1998;316:702 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Studies of drugs in epilepsy cited by author are not evidence based
	A G Marson, D W Chadwick
	BMJ  1998;316:703 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Search for evidence of effective health promotion
	Annie Britton, Margaret Thorogood, Yolande Coombes, Gillian Lewando-Hundt, Trevor A Sheldon, Amanda J Sowden, Deborah Lister-Sharp
	BMJ  1998;316:703 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Debate is needed over who provides drug treatment in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
	Kapil Sayal
	BMJ  1998;316:704 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community based heart health promotion project in England
	John Muir, Tim Lancaster, Godfrey Fowler, Andrew Neil, George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim, Tony Baxter, Philip Milner, Jon Nicholl, Keith Wilson
	BMJ  1998;316:704 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bus shelters in photograph, showing drug adverts, were replaced long ago
	Jonathan Michael
	BMJ  1998;316:705 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consultants could give patients a letter summarising their consultation
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1998;316:706 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Self regulation is necessary in war on drugs
	Bruce Trathen
	BMJ  1998;316:706 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vulval Pain Society provides information on vulval symptoms
	David Nunns, Diane Hamdy
	BMJ  1998;316:706 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Weight loss will be much faster in lean than in obese hunger strikers
	I N Scobie
	BMJ  1998;316:707 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Several factors were not considered in study of increase in hay fever and eczema
	Verity McClelland, Emily Watson, Maria Safar
	BMJ  1998;316:707 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Royal colleges need modernisation
	Michael Brudenell
	BMJ  1998;316:707 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Alison George Selborne ("Joe") Bailey • Arthur Reginald Bollen • Timothy Cordley Bradford • William Frederick Buchanan • William David Calderwood • Rasiah Dharmaindra • Sami Zaki Fouad • Stanley Lester Goodman • Avinash Khunger • Louise-Vaughan Lewis • Geoffrey Bertrand Leyton • Douglas Robert Mackenzie • Noel Myddelton Mann • Lex Mitchell • David Michael ("Mike") Philip Pullen
	Douglas Fergusson, Ray Jones, Peggy Bollen, Graham J Fowler, Jane Suranyi, Douglas Fergusson, V Jeevananthan, Satwant S Gill, Barbara Goodman, David Goodman, Deborah Goodman, and Alison Goodman, Shalini Khunger, Wendy Levison, J Moir, Drummond Mansbridge, Rory Melville, and Alan Sweenie, G V Feldman, Michael Lowe, John Cox
	BMJ  1998;316:708 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;316:714 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Endpiece: Asherisms
	BMJ  1998;316:667 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Special correspondence: Berlin
	BMJ  1998;316:668 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Alternative definitions
	BMJ  1998;316:682 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson learnt: Always listen to the patient
	William D Carroll
	BMJ  1998;316:689 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A strange experience: Taking precautions
	Thurstan Brewin
	BMJ  1998;316:700 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Corrections
	BMJ  1998;316:645 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Systematic overview of co-proxamol to assess analgesic effects of addition of dextropropoxyphene to paracetamol
	BMJ  1998;316:656 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Survival is better indicator than mortality in geographic comparisons of health
	BMJ  1998;316:707 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Recent developments in training for general practice
	Katie Carter
	BMJ  1998;316:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	The BMJ welcomes careful readers
	BMJ  1998;316 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Smoking on celluloid
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1998;316:712 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GMSC will continue to represent all GPs in the NHS • Extra £60m must be used flexibly • NHS trust boards have more ethnic minority appointments • Legal challenge lies ahead on tobacco advertising
	BMJ  1998;316:710 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

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