Factors from before conception, labour, and delivery are linked with newborn encephalopathy [Full text]

	Clinicians must always exclude child abuse in cases of subdural haemorrhage [Full text]

	Contacting experts can help with systematic review [Full text]

	Management of back pain should vary with length of episode [Full text]

	The ethics of semen retrieval remain controversial [Full text]

Editorials

	Neonatal encephalopathies
	A D Edwards, K B Nelson
	BMJ  1998;317:1537-1538 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Subdural haemorrhages in infants
	Ben Lloyd
	BMJ  1998;317:1538-1539 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Regulation of doctors and the Bristol inquiry
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1998;317:1539-1540 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The end of the heparin pump?
	Neil R Grubb, Peter Bloomfield, Christopher A Ludlam
	BMJ  1998;317:1540-1542 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical futures
	Marshall Marinker, Michael Peckham
	BMJ  1998;317:1542 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	HIV vaccine partnerships offer hope to the developing world
	Hugh Matthews
	BMJ  1998;317:1543 [Full text] [PDF]

	Few patients are aware of contents of patient's charter
	Ann Kent
	BMJ  1998;317:1543 [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1998;317:1544 [Full text] [PDF]

	Reform of social services on the way
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:1544 [Full text] [PDF]

	Low levels of brain chemical drives mice to drink
	Matt Cockerill
	BMJ  1998;317:1544 [Full text] [PDF]

	US panel calls for research into effects of Ritalin
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1998;317:1545 [Full text] [PDF]

	France moves towards a GP system
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1998;317:1545 [Full text] [PDF]

	Old remedy proves useful for heart attacks
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1998;317:1546 [Full text] [PDF]

	Pakistan lags behind in reproductive health
	Claire Wallerstein
	BMJ  1998;317:1546 [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctor might escape conviction on a technicality
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1998;317:1547 [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS prepares for greater skill mix
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:1547 [Full text] [PDF]

	Patients with bone metastases need better care
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1998;317:1547 [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors refuse to operate on 80 year old man
	Georgina Kenyon
	BMJ  1998;317:1548 [Full text] [PDF]

	Study recommends early screening for type 2 diabetes
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1998;317:1548 [Full text] [PDF]

	All clear soon for beef on the bone
	John Warden
	BMJ  1998;317:1548 [Full text] [PDF]

Papers

	Antepartum risk factors for newborn encephalopathy: the Western Australian case-control study
	Nadia Badawi, Jennifer J Kurinczuk, John M Keogh, Louisa M Alessandri, Fiona O'Sullivan, Paul R Burton, Patrick J Pemberton, Fiona J Stanley
	BMJ  1998;317:1549-1553 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Intrapartum risk factors for newborn encephalopathy: the Western Australian case-control study
	Nadia Badawi, Jennifer J Kurinczuk, John M Keogh, Louisa M Alessandri, Fiona O'Sullivan, Paul R Burton, Patrick J Pemberton, Fiona J Stanley
	BMJ  1998;317:1554-1558 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Subdural haemorrhages in infants: population based study
	S Jayawant, A Rawlinson, F Gibbon, J Price, J Schulte, P Sharples, J R Sibert, A M Kemp
	BMJ  1998;317:1558-1561 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the usefulness of contacting other experts when conducting a literature search for systematic reviews
	R J McManus, S Wilson, B C Delaney, D A Fitzmaurice, C J Hyde, R S Tobias, S Jowett, F D R Hobbs
	BMJ  1998;317:1562-1563 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug points: Anaphylaxis induced by gabexate mesylate
	Yoshihiro Matsukawa
	BMJ  1998;317:1563 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Science, medicine, and the future: Microbial genome sequencingbeyond the double helix
	Peter J Jenks
	BMJ  1998;317:1568-1571 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics Notes: Survival probabilities (the Kaplan-Meier method)
	J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1998;317:1572-1580 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of sexual health: Taking a sexual history
	John Tomlinson
	BMJ  1998;317:1573-1576 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Community survey of factors associated with consultation for low back pain
	Robin Waxman, Alan Tennant, Philip Helliwell
	BMJ  1998;317:1564-1567 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Lord Reith and I
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1998;317:1599 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Fatal episodes in medical history
	Brian Boettcher
	BMJ  1998;317:1599 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Bristol again: (Very) short service on the Bristol inquiry
	Nick Barnes
	BMJ  1998;317:1577-1579 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Wisheart affair: responses to Dunn • The Bristol cardiac disaster • Editor's response to Stephen Bolsin • A patient's perspective
	Stephen N Bolsin, James Stewart
	BMJ  1998;317:1579-1582 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical dilemma: Retrieving semen from a dead patient • Utilitarianism in the absence of definitive guidelines • The patient was assaulted • Some ethical concerns were ignored • An ethic of ambivalence
	Michael Swinn, Mark Emberton, David Ralph, Martin Smith, Paul Serhal, Susan Bewley, Boleslav Lichterman, Deborah Lynn Steinberg
	BMJ  1998;317:1583-1585 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Effect of adding selegiline to levodopa in early, mild Parkinson's disease
	Carl Counsell, Helena Aaltonen, Olavi Kilkku, Esa Heinonen, Outi Mäki-Ikola
	BMJ  1998;317:1586 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anaesthetists consume 3% of trust expenditure but affect 60% of trust income
	Andrew Sharples, Oliver R Dearlove
	BMJ  1998;317:1587 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Extrapolation of trial results suggests that aspirin is useful in intermittent claudication
	Paolo Gresele, Rino Migliacci
	BMJ  1998;317:1587 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors are ethically obliged to advise patients to quit smoking
	Joseph L Y Liu, Jin-Ling Tang
	BMJ  1998;317:1588 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing headache after lumbar puncture
	Arun Sharma, Elisabeth Williams, William Fawcett, Gareth Jenkins, Cathie Sudlow, M G Serpell, G J Haldane, D R S Jamieson, D Carson
	BMJ  1998;317:1588 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trial of mammography in women under 50 is ethical
	Sue Moss, Howard Cuckle
	BMJ  1998;317:1589 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fraud
	Lars Breimer, Laura Brown, Andrew Skinner, Akif Gani, Harold Hillman, Janice Rymer
	BMJ  1998;317:1590 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Calcium channel blockers: Is the jury still out?
	James M Wright
	BMJ  1998;317:1591 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Secondary prevention in coronary heart disease
	R E Ferner, Hugh J N Bethell
	BMJ  1998;317:1592 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Bristol affair
	James Garrett, Wendy Savage, Robyn Cain
	BMJ  1998;317:1592 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	League tables of in vitro fertilisation clinics misinform patients
	Robert Winston
	BMJ  1998;317:1593 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Information systems introduced carefully can aid clinicians
	R C Baldwin
	BMJ  1998;317:1594 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	We need to develop scoring systems to determine clinical need
	Nicholas Odom
	BMJ  1998;317:1594 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethical commentaries must be based on sound science
	Jaideep J Pandit
	BMJ  1998;317:1594 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Educational resource pack exists to help staff listen to what concerns children
	Una M MacFadyen
	BMJ  1998;317:1595 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Several issues need to be considered before all patients are followed up by telephone
	Wai-Ching Leung
	BMJ  1998;317:1595 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Charles George Drake • David Ferguson • Stanley Ferguson • Basil Herbert ("Bunny") Goodrich • Thomas Adesanya Ige Grillo • Ursula Hickman • Malik Laki Kassam • Colin Henry Rylands Knowles • Colin William Morley • William Wallace Park • Nigel David Bentley Preston • Karel Styblo
	John Walton, Tony Ganner, Felicity Mead, Gordon Ferguson, J R Sudbury, Adetokunbo Lucas, Ray Vella, J Forbes, S Russell, M Martin, J Steyn, Michael Nicholls, John Hopewell, Anne Ranken, Ian Brown, Shian Fan, Henry B Goodall, A J Hicks, Jaap F Broekmans
	BMJ  1998;317:1596 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1998;317:1604 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Fifty years ago: The new NHS: Too many or too few?
	BMJ  1998;317:1563 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Orifices
	BMJ  1998;317:1563 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Never fully examined
	K P Paulose
	BMJ  1998;317:1567 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Words to the wise: Muscling in
	Grant Hutchison
	BMJ  1998;317:1582 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Obituary
	BMJ  1998;317:1561 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Secondary prevention in acute myocardial infarction
	BMJ  1998;317:1561 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mammography and the politics of randomised controlled trials
	BMJ  1998;317:1561 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Odds ratios should be avoided when events are common
	BMJ  1998;317:1595 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Systematic review of trials comparing antibiotic with placebo for acute cough in adults
	BMJ  1998;317:1595 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Balancing medicine with a life
	Sian Falder
	BMJ  1998;317:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Perhaps not surprisingly, the state of the art website out ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Hierarchy is alive and kicking in the NHS, and a ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Unhappy marriages and divorce among doctors are common, and are ...
	BMJ  1998;317:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Looking after infants
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Looking after infants
	BMJ  1998;317 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Drug companies face new controls • Treatment of NHS staff varies • Healthy lifestyle will improve bone health • BMA loses challenge to new criteria for consultant status
	BMJ  1998;317:1598 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND MULTIMEDIA

	Book: MASH: An Army Surgeon in Korea
	Richard N Villar
	BMJ  1998;317:1599 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Where's the Evidence? Debates in Modern Medicine
	Tony Dixon
	BMJ  1998;317:1599 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Media: "Butchers and gropers"
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1998;317:1599 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Film: The Knowledge of Healing
	Larry Culliford
	BMJ  1998;317:1599 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bookcase
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  1998;317:1599 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: http://www.Biristol-Inquiry.org.uk/bristol.htm
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1998;317:1599 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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