Nut consumption may protect against heart disease [Full text]

	Obstetric care may be associated with subsequent suicides [Full text]

	Childhood energy intake might explain the link between height and cancer risk [Full text]

	Starting angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in primary care is safe [Full text]

	Evidence based indicators are needed for primary care groups [Full text]

	Doctors need an answer on the duty to prescribe [Full text]

Editorials

	Height, early energy intake, and cancer
	Demetrius Albanes
	BMJ  1998;317:1331-1332 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Nuts to you (... and you, and you)
	Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
	BMJ  1998;317:1332-1333 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Violent suicide and obstetric complications
	Louis Appleby
	BMJ  1998;317:1333-1334 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Age related outcome in acute myocardial infarction
	Stephen R McMechan, A A Jennifer Adgey
	BMJ  1998;317:1334-1335 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hours, sleep, teamwork, and stress
	Jenny Firth-Cozens, Fiona Moss
	BMJ  1998;317:1335-1336 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Scientists cultivate stem cells in the laboratory
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1998;317:1337 [Full text] [PDF]

	UK report recommends medical trials of cannabis
	Hugh Matthews
	BMJ  1998;317:1337 [Full text] [PDF]

	Government gives NHS £250m for UK winter health pressures
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:1338 [Full text] [PDF]

	Israel to increase fluoridated drinking water
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1998;317:1338 [Full text] [PDF]

	UK to limit legal aid for medical negligence cases to specialist lawyers
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:1338 [Full text] [PDF]

	UK Human Rights Act will allow challenges to treatment refusals
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1998;317:1339 [Full text] [PDF]

	Californian voters increase cigarette tax
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;317:1339 [Full text] [PDF]

	Sheep dip patients deserve better care
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1998;317:1339 [Full text] [PDF]

	Indian women's groups question contraceptive vaccine research
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1998;317:1340 [Full text] [PDF]

	New UK hospital care plan for elderly
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:1340 [Full text] [PDF]

	Role of UK chief medical officer has been eroded
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:1340 [Full text] [PDF]

Papers

	Frequent nut consumption and risk of coronary heart disease in women: prospective cohort study
	Frank B Hu, Meir J Stampfer, JoAnn E Manson, Eric B Rimm, Graham A Colditz, Bernard A Rosner, Frank E Speizer, Charles H Hennekens, Walter C Willett
	BMJ  1998;317:1341-1345 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Obstetric care and proneness of offspring to suicide as adults: case-control study
	Bertil Jacobson, Marc Bygdeman
	BMJ  1998;317:1346-1349 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	Leg length and risk of cancer in the Boyd Orr cohort
	D J Gunnell, G Davey Smith, J M P Holly, S Frankel
	BMJ  1998;317:1350-1351 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Height and mortality from cancer among men: prospective observational study
	George Davey Smith, Martin Shipley, David A Leon
	BMJ  1998;317:1351-1352 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Initiating angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in mild to moderate heart failure in general practice: randomised, placebo controlled trial
	Murray Lough, John Cleland, John Langan, Alan Cowley, Alan Wade
	BMJ  1998;317:1352-1353 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Fortnightly review: Bladder cancer
	Adrian P M van der Meijden
	BMJ  1998;317:1366-1369 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of oxygen: Oxygen transport2. Tissue hypoxia
	R M Leach, D F Treacher
	BMJ  1998;317:1370-1373 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Performance indicators for primary care groups: an evidence based approach
	Alastair McColl, Paul Roderick, John Gabbay, Helen Smith, Michael Moore
	BMJ  1998;317:1354-1360 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra]

	Primary care groups and the right to prescribe • Commentary: Bevan's covenant continues intact
	Christopher Newdick, Brian Hurwitz
	BMJ  1998;317:1361-1365 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Getting about
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1998;317:1397 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Britain needs a national cancer institute
	Jonathan Waxman, Ian Gibson
	BMJ  1998;317:1397 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The rise of doctor-patient working groups
	Charlotte Williamson
	BMJ  1998;317:1374-1377 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Systems and strategies for managing the drugs budget in Glasgow
	Keith Beard, Ewing Forrester, Anne Lee, Harry Burns, Martin J Brodie
	BMJ  1998;317:1378-1381 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Theories in health care and research: Theories of race, ethnicity and culture
	Naomi Pfeffer
	BMJ  1998;317:1381-1384 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Breast feeding: the baby friendly initiative
	Andrew Radford, Cynthia Rickitt, Anthony Williams, Julie Burgess, O O Ejidokun, J Norton, Sam Ramaiah, D P Gunasekera, P C Gunasekera
	BMJ  1998;317:1385 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fentanyl is not best anaesthetic induction agent in rapid sequence intubation
	I Taylor, D F Marsh
	BMJ  1998;317:1386 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Relative's consent to treatment of patient is not needed
	Jonathan Hooker
	BMJ  1998;317:1386 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based case reports
	Ivan J Perry, David Bates, Giuseppe Zuccalà, Claudio Pedone, Pierugo Carbonin, Paul Glasziou
	BMJ  1998;317:1386 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics on misuse of drugs have been misused
	Gerry V Stimson, Matt Hickman, Paul J Turnbull
	BMJ  1998;317:1388 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for hydroxychloroquine retinopathy
	Kristina May, Tim Metcalf, Andrew Gough, Chris Blyth, Carol Lane
	BMJ  1998;317:1388 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Routine episiotomy should be abandoned
	José M Belizán, Guillermo Carroli
	BMJ  1998;317:1389 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Elimination of elder abuse would be fitting way to mark millennium
	Gerry Bennett
	BMJ  1998;317:1389 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fever from the tropics
	A Colville, R E Stansfield, G Bignardi, J Hovenden, F Andrew I Riordan
	BMJ  1998;317:1389 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Single parents need home visits by health visitors
	John R Edwards
	BMJ  1998;317:1390 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Sir John David Nunes Nabarro • Edoardo Parma • Mary Veronica Porter (née Burdett-Smith) • Anthony Watson Purdie • Rory Sadler • Norah Patricia Sherlock • Michael Edward Skinner • Mark Stickland • John Wallace • William Derek Wylie • Stuart Young
	J L H O'Riordan, Vittorio Caimi, C B Burdett-Smith, P Burdett-Smith, H Caplan, John D C Bennett, Ursula Dickson, P J Enoch, Sharon Taylor, John Cash, Aileen K Adams, A A Clark
	BMJ  1998;317:1391 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:1398 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Fifty years ago: The new NHS: NHS
	BMJ  1998;317:1353 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The philosopher and the chicken
	BMJ  1998;317:1361 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable evening: A doctor's family
	Philip Edmondson
	BMJ  1998;317:1369 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Herbal remedies: Patient heal thyself
	Heather Goodare
	BMJ  1998;317:1377 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable interview: Saved by the chaplain
	K V Nair
	BMJ  1998;317:1384 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Reporting on quality of life in randomised controlled trials: bibliographic study
	BMJ  1998;317:1353 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Rehabilitation medicine
	Andrew Frank
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The Career focus article on http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/317/7165/S2-7165 (BMJ 1998;317classified suppl:17 Oct) ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The North West Deanery have got themselves some swanky new ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Unless the British are more tolerant than their Canadian counterparts ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Three linked editorials
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Three linked editorials
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

VIEWS AND REVIEWS

	October bestsellers
	BMJ  1998;317:1394 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Cost of NHS operations varies widely • Government advises on food borne infections • WMA aims to improve children's rights to health care • GMC wants to limit scope of order making power
	BMJ  1998;317:1393 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND MULTIMEDIA

	Book: The Third Way: New Politics for the New Century
	Albert Weale
	BMJ  1998;317:1394 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Cannabis and Cognitive Functioning
	Philip Wilson
	BMJ  1998;317:1394 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	CD Rom: RCOG Dialog CD ROM: Vol 1: Issue 1: January 1998
	D J Tuffnell
	BMJ  1998;317:1394 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Core Values in Primary Care
	Roger Jones
	BMJ  1998;317:1394 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: http://www.ukcia.org/
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1998;317:1394 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Media: Shell shock patients: from cowards to victims
	Derek Summerfield
	BMJ  1998;317:1394 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

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