Routine protein energy supplementation may improve patient outcomes [Full text]

	Routine use of postcoital test does not raise pregnancy rate [Full text]

	Moderate alcohol intake reduces women's fecundity [Full text]

	Natriuretic peptides poorly predict left ventricular function in general practice [Full text]

	Blood pressure falls with disease in elderly people [Full text]

	Childhood infection with H pylori does not cause short stature [Full text]

Editorials

	Cerebral sinus thrombosis and oral contraceptives
	Jan P Vandenbroucke
	BMJ  1998;317:483-484 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing and responding to serious child abuse
	David P H Jones, Margaret A Lynch
	BMJ  1998;317:484-485 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Crisis in cremation
	Stuart Horner
	BMJ  1998;317:485-486 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Role of the ataxia-telangiectasia gene (ATM) in breast cancer
	Martin Lavin
	BMJ  1998;317:486-487 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescription charges: change overdue?
	T Walley
	BMJ  1998;317:487-488 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Breast cancer genes and the pill reduce cancer risk
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1998;317:489 [Full text] [PDF]

	Cardiac surgery inquiry given wide remit
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:489 [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:490 [Full text]

	High dose chemotherapy for breast cancer queried
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;317:490 [Full text]

	Users of NHS will be surveyed
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:490 [Full text]

	Quality of UK milk to be studied
	Alex Brooks
	BMJ  1998;317:491 [Full text]

	BMA launches appraisal scheme for consultants
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;317:491 [Full text]

	Two Scottish surgeons suspended
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:491 [Full text]

	The new WHO cabinet looks refreshingly different
	BMJ  1998;317:492 [Full text]

Papers

	Routine protein energy supplementation in adults: systematic review
	Jan Potter, Peter Langhorne, Margaret Roberts
	BMJ  1998;317:495-501 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	Effectiveness of the postcoital test: randomised controlled trial
	S Guid Oei, Frans M Helmerhorst, Kitty W M Bloemenkamp, Frederieke A M Hollants, Debbie E M Meerpoel, Marc J N C Keirse
	BMJ  1998;317:502-505 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Does moderate alcohol consumption affect fertility? Follow up study among couples planning first pregnancy
	Tina Kold Jensen, Niels Henrik I Hjollund, Tine Brink Henriksen, Thomas Scheike, Henrik Kolstad, Aleksander Giwercman, Erik Ernst, Jens Peter Bonde, Niels E Skakkebæk, Jørn Olsen
	BMJ  1998;317:505-510 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Psychological morbidity and job satisfaction in hospital consultants and junior house officers: multicentre, cross sectional survey
	Navneet Kapur, Carol Borrill, Chris Stride
	BMJ  1998;317:511-512 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The quality and stability of essential drugs in rural Zimbabwe: controlled longitudinal study
	Hanif Nazerali, Hans V Hogerzeil
	BMJ  1998;317:512-513 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Blood pressure and ageing: longitudinal cohort study
	John M Starr, Susan Inch, Susan Cross, William J MacLennan, Ian J Deary
	BMJ  1998;317:513-514 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	Short stature and Helicobacter pylori infection in Italian children: prospective multicentre hospital based case-control study
	Giuseppina Oderda, D Palli, C Saieva, Elena Chiorboli, G Bona
	BMJ  1998;317:514-515 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Assessing thrombotic risk
	Michael Laffan, Edward Tuddenham
	BMJ  1998;317:520-523 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Deaths after delayed recognition of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube migration
	Ian Botterill, Glenn Miller, Simon Dexter, Iain Martin
	BMJ  1998;317:524-525 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Cohort study of plasma natriuretic peptides for identifying left ventricular systolic dysfunction in primary care
	Samuel J McClure, Lynn Caruana, Andrew P Davie, Steven Goldthorp, John J V McMurray
	BMJ  1998;317:516-519 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	NPD blues
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1998;317:546 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The stress: he could not face it all again
	Anonymous
	BMJ  1998;317:546 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	North of England evidence based guideline development project: summary guideline for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs versus basic analgesia in treating the pain of degenerative arthritis
	Martin Eccles, Nick Freemantle, James Mason
	BMJ  1998;317:526-530 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Getting research findings into practice: Implementing research findings in developing countries
	Paul Garner, Rajendra Kale, Rumona Dickson, Tony Dans, Rodrigo Salinas
	BMJ  1998;317:531-535 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Prognosis of symptoms that are medically unexplained
	Michael Götz, Allan House
	BMJ  1998;317:536 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Applying results of randomised trials to patients
	Stephen Senn
	BMJ  1998;317:537 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Relation of rates of self referral to A&E departments to deprivation
	Sally Hull, Ian Rees Jones, Kath Moser
	BMJ  1998;317:538 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bereavement in adult life
	David Mazza
	BMJ  1998;317:538 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scottish data on intrapartum related deaths are in same direction as Welsh data
	James W T Chalmers, Etta Shanks, Samantha Paterson, Kevin McInneny, David Baird, Gillian Penney
	BMJ  1998;317:539 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children in the mountains
	Buddha Basnyat, Namka Sherpa, Govind Basyal, Prakash Adhirikari
	BMJ  1998;317:540 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Further studies of value of spiral computed tomography are needed
	Edwin J R van Beek
	BMJ  1998;317:540 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pressures in outpatient clinics
	D J Niblett
	BMJ  1998;317:541 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European register of patients with sickle cell disease treated with hydroxyurea is being set up
	Sally C Davies, Marilyn Roberts-Harwood
	BMJ  1998;317:541 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women's perception of risk of cancer
	Katrina Lavelle, Anne Charlton
	BMJ  1998;317:542 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Magnesium sulphate in pre-eclampsia
	T Justin Clark, Khalid S Khan, Patrick F W Chien
	BMJ  1998;317:542 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Using email for abstracts submitted for conference was unexpectedly labour intensive
	A W Murphy, M McSweeney, T C O'Dowd, G Bury, W Shannon, C P Bradley
	BMJ  1998;317:543 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Edward Carew-Shaw • Peter Hay • May Gertrude McGaughey • William Maxwell • William Harold Newnham • Ian Edwin Wilson Robertson • Ian Derek Simpson • Richard Stewart Stevens • Andrew Alexander Buchanan Swan • Denis Anthony Tolhurst • Franzeska Helene ("Frankie") Willer (née Manasse)
	M B Carew-Shaw
	BMJ  1998;317:544 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:548 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	One hundred years ago: Special correspondence: Paris
	BMJ  1998;317:515 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Praise from a patient
	Robert Louis Stevenson
	BMJ  1998;317:516 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Leading the way
	Charlie Knipe
	BMJ  1998;317:523 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Miss Stepney till the end
	Salma Ahmed
	BMJ  1998;317:525 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Nosology
	Matthew Arnold
	BMJ  1998;317:531 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . . : The venereal game
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1998;317:535 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	The 1998 European Resuscitation Council guidelines for adult single rescuer basic life support
	BMJ  1998;317:501 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Seasonal variation in coronary artery disease mortality in Hawaii: observational study
	BMJ  1998;317:515 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Acquiring computer literacy
	David Morris
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The chief benefits of jobsharing for employers are to enhance ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Managed care is predicted to have deep effects on the ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Learning more about infertility
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Learning more about infertility
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Science on a bad trip
	Colin Drummond, Hamid Ghodse
	BMJ  1998;317:547 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

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