Tight blood pressure control reduces risks of type 2 diabetes and is cost effective [Full text]

	High iron stores may predict development of type 2 diabetes [Full text]

	British women persist in smoking during pregnancy [Full text]

	Danish data do not suggest greatly increased risk of testicular cancer in biopsied testes [Full text]

	Training for general practice should be more like that for specialties [Full text]

Editorials

	Diabetes: a time for excitementand concern
	Trevor Orchard
	BMJ  1998;317:691-692 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Combined high blood pressure and glucose in type 2 diabetes: double jeopardy
	Carl Erik Mogensen
	BMJ  1998;317:693-694 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	First trimester ultrasound screening
	Anne McFadyen, Julia Gledhill, Barry Whitlow, Demetrios Economides
	BMJ  1998;317:694-695 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Avoiding the consequences of deep vein thrombosis
	Charles McCollum
	BMJ  1998;317:696-697 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Drug to prevent breast cancer near approval
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1998;317:697 [Full text] [PDF]

	Emergency contraception approved in the US
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1998;317:697 [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:698 [Full text] [PDF]

	BMA calls for 10% pay increase
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:698 [Full text]

	South African health minister wins first round of tobacco battle
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1998;317:698 [Full text]

	UK strategy to cut antibiotic use outlined
	Alex Brooks
	BMJ  1998;317:699 [Full text] [PDF]

	Liberals propose new health forum
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:699 [Full text]

	Psychiatrist is investigated by GMC
	Norman Swan
	BMJ  1998;317:699 [Full text]

	Possibility of BSE in sheep causes alarm
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:700 [Full text] [PDF]

	Many junior doctors misuse drugs and drink excessively
	Alex Brooks
	BMJ  1998;317:700 [Full text]

	Doctor demands payment for helping airline passenger
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:701 [Full text] [PDF]

	Novel protein may identify more aggressive prostate cancers
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1998;317:701 [Full text]

	Concern raised about performance enhancing drugs in the US
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;317:702 [Full text] [PDF]

	US doctors want no part in executions
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;317:702 [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Future of Guy's hospital finalised
	BMJ  1998;317:702 [Full text]

Papers

	Tight blood pressure control and risk of macrovascular and microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes: UKPDS 38
	UK Prospective Diabetes Study Group
	BMJ  1998;317:703-713 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Efficacy of atenolol and captopril in reducing risk of macrovascular and microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes: UKPDS 39
	UK Prospective Diabetes Study Group
	BMJ  1998;317:713-720 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cost effectiveness analysis of improved blood pressure control in hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes: UKPDS 40
	UK Prospective Diabetes Study Group
	BMJ  1998;317:720-726 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Relation between iron stores and non-insulin dependent diabetes in men: case-control study
	Jukka T Salonen, Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, Kristiina Nyyssönen, Hanna-Maaria Lakka, Kari Punnonen
	BMJ  1998;317:727-730 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Trends in smoking during pregnancy in England, 1992-7: quota sampling surveys
	Lesley Owen, Ann McNeill, Christine Callum
	BMJ  1998;317:728-730 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of testicular cancer with cryptorchidism and with testicular biopsy: cohort study
	Henrik Møller, Dina Cortes, Gerda Engholm, Jørgen Thorup
	BMJ  1998;317:729-730 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast
	Melvin J Silverstein
	BMJ  1998;317:734-739 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Childhood Cushing's syndrome induced by betamethasone nose drops, and repeat prescriptions
	C A Findlay, J F Macdonald, A M Wallace, N Geddes, M D C Donaldson
	BMJ  1998;317:739-740 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Is general practice in need of a career structure?
	Glyn J Elwyn, Simon A Smail, Adrian G K Edwards
	BMJ  1998;317:730-733 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	The value of life
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1998;317:756 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Anna: too much, too young
	John Fullbrook
	BMJ  1998;317:756 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Reforming the Russian health service • Otherwise it might be convenient • Urgent aid, chronic penalties • Professional law breakers • Training general practitioners in St Petersburg • Training general practitioners in Gatchina
	Peter D Toon, Timur Vilks, Katya Schlachter, Vladimir Vinokur, N N Gurin, C V Logunov, N U Baranova
	BMJ  1998;317:741-744 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal paper: Late onset genetic disease: where ignorance is bliss, is it folly to inform relatives?
	Jon Torgny R Wilcke
	BMJ  1998;317:744 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Screening for nuchal translucency
	Stephen Carroll, D L S Eustace, Katherine Hampton, T G Nash, Johanna Layng, Kypros Nicolaides, Sally-Ann Cooper
	BMJ  1998;317:748 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Association between plasma plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 and survival in colorectal cancer
	Naveed Sattar, Donald C McMillan, Hans Jørgen Nielsen, Ib Jarle Christensen, Nils Brünner, Steen Sørensen
	BMJ  1998;317:750 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public concern about complaints against doctors is widespread
	Anne Savage
	BMJ  1998;317:751 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trial is needed of ACE inhibitors plus  blockers in survivors of myocardial infarction
	Finlay A McAlister
	BMJ  1998;317:751 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors must be trained to deal with adolescents
	Russell Viner
	BMJ  1998;317:751 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interrupting the sympathetic outflow in causalgia and reflex sympathetic dystrophy
	Laurie Allan, G Lamacraft, C M Price, A S J Prosser, P D Rogers, D Pounder, G D Schott, Guy Titley, P D Collins
	BMJ  1998;317:752 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Elements of decentralisation in plans to reform NHS may prevail
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  1998;317:753 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Jonathan Mann • Edward James Barrington-Ward • Nellie Eirwen Davies • James Watson Farquhar • Alexander Bruce Junor Gilbert • Kandiah Mahadeva • Stephen Lane Henderson Smith • Dorothy Mary Yoxall
	Jennifer Leaning, Peter J Adams, F W Beswick, Gordon Stark, Ron Lampard, Dharshini Wallooppillai, Shayami Thanabalasundrum, Richard Henderson Smith, Harry Yoxall
	BMJ  1998;317:754 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:758 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	One hundred years ago: The cycle and its medical foes
	BMJ  1998;317:730 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The golden mean
	Felix Semon
	BMJ  1998;317:739 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unacceptable practices: Prison to the community in one, totally unprepared, step
	Roy Robertson
	BMJ  1998;317:757 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	The anatomy of a clinical information system
	BMJ  1998;317:744 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Underperforming doctors: a postal survey of the Northern Deanery
	BMJ  1998;317:744 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Development of generic skills
	David Pencheon
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: There are plenty of airport lounge self help books, but ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The Overseas Doctors' Association has published its handbook on mentoring ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: If NHS general practitioners are self employed, what's to stop ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Diabetes and death
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Good news on diabetes, bad news on nose drops
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

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