Fertility effects need not be considered in women with suspected appendicitis [Full text]

	Black people are twice as likely as white people to suffer stroke [Full text]

	Overdoses on television may encourage others [Full text]

	Watching medical soaps may increase medical knowledge [Full text]

	Intervention package did not reduce minor injuries in children [Full text]

	Computer support for determining drug doses improves outcomes [Full text]

Editorials

	Kevorkian and assisted death in the United States
	Howard Brody
	BMJ  1999;318:953-954 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prisoners: an end to second class health care?
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:954-955 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical fiction
	John Collee
	BMJ  1999;318:955-956 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Doing something about tuberculosis
	Alimuddin Zumla, John M Grange
	BMJ  1999;318:956 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The largest mass gathering
	T J Hodgetts, M W Cooke
	BMJ  1999;318:957-958 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Will the NHS pay awards help recruitment?
	Stephen Machin
	BMJ  1999;318:958 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Breast cancer treatment delays affect survival
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  1999;318:959 [Full text] [PDF]

	Strokes at night more likely to delay care
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;318:959 [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:960 [Full text] [PDF]

	Cholesterol lowering margarine launched in United Kingdom
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1999;318:960 [Full text] [PDF]

	Spain tackles eating disorders
	Xavier Bosch
	BMJ  1999;318:960 [Full text] [PDF]

	UN responding slowly to Kosovo refugee crisis
	By James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;318:961 [Full text] [PDF]

	Germany plans to make GPs gatekeepers
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  1999;318:961 [Full text] [PDF]

	Canada's drug plan hits old, mentally ill, and those on welfare
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;318:961 [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug companies criticised for exaggeration
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;318:962 [Full text] [PDF]

	UK appeal upholds clinical responsibility of managers
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:962 [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Deputising doctor reported to General Medical Council
	John Warden
	BMJ  1999;318:962 [Full text]

	US Congress considers medical privacy bill
	BMJ  1999;318:962 [Full text]

	NICE opens for business
	BMJ  1999;318:962 [Full text]

	UK private health sector wants NHS regulator
	BMJ  1999;318:962 [Full text]

Papers

	Fertility patterns after appendicectomy: historical cohort study
	Roland Andersson, Mats Lambe, Reinhold Bergström
	BMJ  1999;318:963-967 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ethnic differences in incidence of stroke: prospective study with stroke register
	Judith A Stewart, R Dundas, R S Howard, A G Rudd, C D A Wolfe
	BMJ  1999;318:967-971 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effects of a drug overdose in a television drama on presentations to hospital for self poisoning: time series and questionnaire study
	Keith Hawton, Sue Simkin, Jonathan J Deeks, Susan O'Connor, Allison Keen, Douglas G Altman, Greg Philo, Christopher Bulstrode
	BMJ  1999;318:972-977 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effects of a drug overdose in a television drama on knowledge of specific dangers of self poisoning: population based surveys
	Susan O'Connor, Jonathan J Deeks, Keith Hawton, Sue Simkin, Allison Keen, Douglas G Altman, Greg Philo, Christopher Bulstrode
	BMJ  1999;318:978-979 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Information in practice

	Computer support for determining drug dose: systematic review and meta-analysis
	Robert Walton, Susan Dovey, Emma Harvey, Nick Freemantle
	BMJ  1999;318:984-990 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Recent advances in haematology
	Drew Provan, Denise F O'Shaughnessy
	BMJ  1999;318:991-994 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of labour care: Induction
	Geoffrey Chamberlain, Luke Zander
	BMJ  1999;318:995-998 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Preventing injuries in children: cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care
	Denise Kendrick, Patricia Marsh, Katherine Fielding, Paul Miller
	BMJ  1999;318:980-983 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	May I take this opportunity ...
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1999;318:1017 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	A step towards effective self regulation
	Stephen A Smith
	BMJ  1999;318:1017 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Probiotics and prebiotics: can regulating the activities of intestinal bacteria benefit health?
	George T Macfarlane, John H Cummings
	BMJ  1999;318:999-1003 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The World Bank and world health: Under fire
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1999;318:1003-1006 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Smear tests were not on trial but should have been
	C Mary Anderson
	BMJ  1999;318:1007 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Postcoital testing
	M G R Hull, J L H Evers, William Forbes Hendry, B J Cohlen, E R te Velde, J D F Habbema, S Guid Oei, Frans M Helmerhorst, Marc J N C Keirse
	BMJ  1999;318:1007 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Value of breast imaging in women with painful breasts
	Richard D Neal, Stephen Morley, Robin Wilson, Roger Blamey
	BMJ  1999;318:1009 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More on the Bristol affair
	Peter M Dunn, Gordon M Stirrat, Stephen Bolsin, Maria Shortis, Elisabeth Winkler, Michelle Cummings
	BMJ  1999;318:1009 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of asthma drugs is less among women pregnant with boys rather than girls
	L Dodds, B A Armson, S Alexander
	BMJ  1999;318:1011 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Australian university students agree with Clinton's definition of sex
	Juliet Richters, Angela Song
	BMJ  1999;318:1011 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prevalence of smoking among pregnant women is lower in Italy than England
	Liliane Chatenoud, Francesca Chiaffarino, Fabio Parazzini, Guido Benzi, Carlo La Vecchia
	BMJ  1999;318:1012 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The profession, not the media, should assess where Kasai portoenterostomy should be performed
	S Davison, V Miller, A Thomas, J Bowen, J Bruce
	BMJ  1999;318:1013 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Political correctness is behind proposed appraisal system
	David Kerr
	BMJ  1999;318:1013 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescribing antibiotics for sore throats
	Andrew Sanderson
	BMJ  1999;318:1013 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Emyr Wyn Jones • Wilfrid George Oakley • Alexander Sherlock • Penat Raman Menon Sreevalsan
	Tom Davies, David Pyke, Donald Black, V T V Jose
	BMJ  1999;318:1014 [Full text]

reviews

	BMJ  1999;318:1016 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:1018 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	A memorable patient: All in the family
	E M M Besterman
	BMJ  1999;318:977 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	An important lesson: TB or not TB
	Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  1999;318:979 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Time
	Stephen Hawking
	BMJ  1999;318:979 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A mistake that changed my practice: The wrong notes
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1999;318:990 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The Royal Academy Exhibition
	BMJ  1999;318:995 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Information in practice: NHSnetlearning from academia
	BMJ  1999;318:990 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	The job and the exam
	Sudipta Paul
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Guy's specialist registrars Drs Yau and Chan write to point ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Diversity and variation characterise the scene in training consultants to ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Surfing for career information is a fairly irresistible activity, though ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	The champagne glass of world poverty
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

	Book: Cardiovascular Disease in the Octogenarian and Beyond
	A John Campbell
	BMJ  1999;318:1015 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Safety, Health and Environmental Hazards at the Workplace
	J M Harrington
	BMJ  1999;318:1015 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Journal: Journal of Clinical Effectiveness
	Alessandro Liberati
	BMJ  1999;318:1016 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the Week: http://www.whitedot.org
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:1016 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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