Multiple doses of anticholinergics are beneficial in severe, acute childhood asthma [Full text]

	Warm clothing and housing prevent excess winter mortality [Full text]

	White matter lesions predict outcome in late depression [Full text]

	People who decline psychiatric assessment are more likely to repeat self harm [Full text]

	Inhaled budesonide may be less potent than beclomethasone in primary care [Full text]

	Priority setting reaches its second phase [Full text]

Editorials

	Puzzling out priorities
	Rudolf Klein
	BMJ  1998;317:959-960 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The teenager with epilepsy
	Philip E M Smith
	BMJ  1998;317:960-961 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dying from heart failure: lessons from palliative care
	Louise M E Gibbs, Julia Addington-Hall, J Simon R Gibbs
	BMJ  1998;317:961-962 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking and stroke: a causative role
	Munther I Aldoori, Sakhawat H Rahman
	BMJ  1998;317:962-963 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Psychiatry, stigma, and resistance
	Nicky Britten
	BMJ  1998;317:963-964 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Repositioning self regulation
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1998;317:964 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Gynaecologist showed "lack of care and judgment"
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:965 [Full text] [PDF]

	Canadian inquest into paediatric cardiac surgery deaths ends
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1998;317:965 [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:966 [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS bed cuts to be reviewed
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:966 [Full text] [PDF]

	Better services needed for "ME"
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;317:966 [Full text] [PDF]

	Gateshead dispute was due to antipathy between consultants
	Duncan Campbell
	BMJ  1998;317:967 [Full text] [PDF]

	Hypothermia improves with skin to skin care
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:967 [Full text] [PDF]

	Israeli health insurer files lawsuit against tobacco companies
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1998;317:968 [Full text] [PDF]

	Clash in US over methadone treatment
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1998;317:968 [Full text] [PDF]

	Australian euthanasia law throws up many difficulties
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1998;317:969 [Full text] [PDF]

	Genotype linked to long QT syndrome
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;317:969 [Full text] [PDF]

	Suspended consultant surgeon challenges official inquiry
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:970 [Full text] [PDF]

	Commission set up to deal with HIV infected doctors in Spain
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  1998;317:970 [Full text] [PDF]

	Public campaigns do not always work
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1998;317:970 [Full text] [PDF]

Papers

	Should inhaled anticholinergics be added to 2 agonists for treating acute childhood and adolescent asthma? A systematic review
	Laurie H Plotnick, Francine M Ducharme
	BMJ  1998;317:971-977 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cold related mortalities and protection against cold in Yakutsk, eastern Siberia: observation and interview study
	G C Donaldson, S P Ermakov, Y M Komarov, C P McDonald, W R Keatinge
	BMJ  1998;317:978-982 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Severe deep white matter lesions and outcome in elderly patients with major depressive disorder: follow up study
	John O'Brien, David Ames, Edmond Chiu, Isaac Schweitzer, Patricia Desmond, Brian Tress
	BMJ  1998;317:982-984 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Does initial management affect the rate of repetition of deliberate self harm? Cohort study
	M J Crawford, S Wessely
	BMJ  1998;317:985-990 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: The muscular dystrophies
	Alan E H Emery
	BMJ  1998;317:991-995 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of oxygen: Diving and oxygen
	Peter Wilmshurst
	BMJ  1998;317:996-999 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Comparison of potency of inhaled beclomethasone and budesonide in New Zealand: retrospective study of computerised general practice records
	B D Pethica, A Penrose, D MacKenzie, J Hall, R Beasley, M Tilyard
	BMJ  1998;317:986-990 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Retraction
	Trish Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1998;317:1022 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	German medical editors' uphill struggle
	Karl Kimbel
	BMJ  1998;317:1022 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The second phase of priority setting • Goodbye to the simple solutions: the second phase of priority setting in health care • Fairness as a problem of love and the heart: a clinician's perspective on priority setting • Israel's basic basket of health services: the importance of being explicitly implicit
	Søren Holm, James E Sabin, David Chinitz, Carmel Shalev, Noya Galai, Avi Israeli
	BMJ  1998;317:1000-1007 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Theories in health care and research: The importance of theories in health care
	Priscilla Alderson
	BMJ  1998;317:1007-1010 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	The Swiss heroin trials
	G R Venning, Alex Wodak, Wayne Hall, Michael Farrell
	BMJ  1998;317:1011 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recovered memories of childhood abuse
	J K Ilsley, Carl-David Birman, Jennifer Hoult, Chris R Brewin, Lynn Crook, Harrison G Pope, Jr
	BMJ  1998;317:1012 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mouth care and skin care in palliative medicine
	Claud Regnard, Sarah Allport, Lydia Stephenson
	BMJ  1998;317:1013 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Number needed to harm should be measured for treatments
	Arnold Zermansky
	BMJ  1998;317:1014 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Systematic review of trials comparing antibiotic with placebo for acute cough in adults
	C J Cates, Thomas P Shakespeare, Rachael C Bourke, Jessica Harris, Tom Fahey, Nigel Stocks
	BMJ  1998;317:1014 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Celebrity's death from cancer resulted in increased calls to CancerBACUP
	Markella Boudioni, Jean Mossman, Alison L Jones, Geraldine Leydon, Klim McPherson
	BMJ  1998;317:1016 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sumatriptan is not the only analgesic used inappropriately
	Peter J Goadsby
	BMJ  1998;317:1016 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Suicide in patients with stroke
	K R Brittain, C M Castleden, Rahul Rao
	BMJ  1998;317:1016 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Early diagnosis of cystic fibrosis can improve children's growth
	Philip M Farrell
	BMJ  1998;317:1017 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking and risk of myocardial infarction
	Thomas V Perneger, Jin-Ling Tang, James A Dickinson, Penella J Woll, Eva Prescott, Merete Hippe
	BMJ  1998;317:1017 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	James Alexander ("Hamish") Chalmers • Norman Creighton • Thomas Hugh English • Roger Philip Golding • John Richard Hewett • Arthur Richard ("Dick") Kittermaster • Anthony Robert Lyons • Dominic William Andrew McCreadie • Rosalie Ada Helen Paul • Anthony Ferrier Stallard
	Richard Johanson, Marcia Hall, John Harris, Robert Brown, Gethin Morgan, David Bradford, P M O Massey, W Angus Wallace, Dominic McCreadie, Henry H Gebbie, Serena Stallard
	BMJ  1998;317:1019 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:1024 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Fifty years ago: Clouding of Surgeons' Spectacles
	BMJ  1998;317:985 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The Collins case
	BMJ  1998;317:986 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Observing patients: The chair sign
	Fiona Mackay
	BMJ  1998;317:995 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fifty years ago: Academic dress
	BMJ  1998;317:1007 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1998;317:969 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Corrections
	BMJ  1998;317:1004 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Pathology
	William Marshall
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Healthcare rationing: no desistance, no completion
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Healthcare rationing: no desistance, no completion
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Did MONICA really say that?
	Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
	BMJ  1998;317:1023 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Junior doctors advised on self regulation • N Ireland's GPs propose "third way" • Juniors repeat calls for study leave improvements • Royal college calls for NICE to have a broader role
	BMJ  1998;317:1021 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

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