Single screening test for neonatal cholestasis is not yet feasible from blood spots [Full text]

	Social activities lengthen life in elderly Americans [Full text]

	Babies delivered in water: perinatal mortality is no higher [Full text]

	A single genetic polymorphism may account for a fifth of infarctions [Full text]

	Weight control measures help women stop smoking [Full text]

	What should the developing world do about cancer? [Full text]

Editorials

	Cancer survival in Britain
	Karol Sikora
	BMJ  1999;319:461-462 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence based palliative care
	Irene J Higginson
	BMJ  1999;319:462-463 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and nurses: changing family values?
	Celia Davies, Jane Salvage, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:463-464 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What the millennium bug tells us about ourselves
	Jeremy Anderson
	BMJ  1999;319:464-465 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The joy of being electronic
	Tony Delamothe, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:465-466 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	Utrecht
	BMJ  1999;319:467 [Full text] [PDF]

	Immunotherapy produces long term clinical remission
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1999;319:467 [Full text] [PDF]

	Irish doctors protest over pay and conditions
	Doug Payne
	BMJ  1999;319:468 [Full text] [PDF]

	Life expectancy of Russian men falls to 58
	James Ciment
	BMJ  1999;319:468 [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:468 [Full text] [PDF]

	UK hospitals assess eye damage after solar eclipse
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;319:469 [Full text] [PDF]

	Earlier discharge for newborns may increase health risks
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;319:469 [Full text] [PDF]

	Global health gap widens says World Bank
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;319:470 [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug treatment beats prison for cutting crime and addiction rates
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  1999;319:470 [Full text] [PDF]

	Raloxifene can cut fracture risk
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:470 [Full text] [PDF]

Papers

	Screening of newborn infants for cholestatic hepatobiliary disease with tandem mass spectrometry • Commentary: What is tandem mass spectrometry?
	Imran Mushtaq, Stuart Logan, Michael Morris, Andrew W Johnson, Angie M Wade, Deirdre Kelly, Peter T Clayton
	BMJ  1999;319:471-477 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Population based study of social and productive activities as predictors of survival among elderly Americans
	Thomas A Glass, Carlos Mendes de Leon, Richard A Marottoli, Lisa F Berkman
	BMJ  1999;319:478-483 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Perinatal mortality and morbidity among babies delivered in water: surveillance study and postal survey
	Ruth E Gilbert, Pat A Tookey
	BMJ  1999;319:483-487 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Polymorphism in high density lipoprotein paraoxonase gene and risk of acute myocardial infarction in men: prospective nested case-control study • Commentary: Causalitythe Achilles' heel of observational studies • Commentary: How high density lipoprotein protects against heart disease
	Jukka T Salonen, Riikka Malin, Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, Kristiina Nyyssönen, Timo A Lakka, Terho Lehtimäki, Marcus D Flather
	BMJ  1999;319:487-489 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Clinical evidence: Stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	Huib A M Kerstjens
	BMJ  1999;319:495-500 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of intensive care: Cutting edge
	Mervyn Singer, Rod Little
	BMJ  1999;319:501-504 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Open randomised trial of intermittent very low energy diet together with nicotine gum for stopping smoking in women who gained weight in previous attempts to quit • Commentary: results are unlikely to be as good in routine practice
	Tobias Danielsson, Stephan Rössner, Åke Westin, Kevin Jones
	BMJ  1999;319:490-494 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Fancy drugs for worried folks
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1999;319:525 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	A patient's eye view of quality
	Claire Rayner
	BMJ  1999;319:525 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Cancer in the developing world: a call to action
	Sinéad B Jones
	BMJ  1999;319:505-508 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Methods in health service research: An introduction to bayesian methods in health technology assessment
	David J Spiegelhalter, Jonathan P Myles, David R Jones, Keith R Abrams
	BMJ  1999;319:508-512 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Contacting GP surgeries over Christmas
	Bob Tanner, Martin McShane, P G Houghton, George Young, Andrew Rouse
	BMJ  1999;319:513 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hyponatraemia after orthopaedic surgery
	Andrew M Severn, Chris Dodds, P Harrington, Anthony Marino, Stephen Krikler, Martin Blakemore, Olusegun A Mojiminiyi, Barry Hoffbrand, Nick Lane, Kathryn Allen
	BMJ  1999;319:514 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intensive care is not expensive compared with other treatments
	Martin Stockwell
	BMJ  1999;319:516 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Orbital trauma
	Carrie Newlands, Peter Ramsay Baggs, Richard Kendrick, G N Shuttleworth, D B David, M J Potts, C N Bell, P G Guest
	BMJ  1999;319:516 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Twins and the fetal origins hypothesis
	D I W Phillips, C Osmond, Pat Doyle, David Leon, Noreen Maconochie, Susan Morton, Bianca de Stavola, Calum N Ross, Sheila Williams, Richie Poulton
	BMJ  1999;319:517 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hand washing
	Andrew Weeks, Rachel Sen, Maeve Keaney, Ann Trail, Carol Howard, Paul Chadwick, S Kesavan, C Richard B Welbourn, Steve M Jones, Paul M Hateley, P A Jurnaa, Robert MacDermott, D Varghese, H Patel, A Majid Katme
	BMJ  1999;319:518 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Black boxing:" response by editor of Hospital Doctor
	Phil Johnson
	BMJ  1999;319:520 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Referral to intensive care units should not be limited to consultants
	C M Danbury
	BMJ  1999;319:520 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shakespeare knew the layered clothing sign of schizophrenia
	Eric Altschuler
	BMJ  1999;319:520 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluation of NHS direct
	Kevin McKenna, Mark Reynolds
	BMJ  1999;319:521 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Charles Peter Broad • Kenneth Playfair Duncan • Howard Larmour English • Dorothy Younie
	John Hoyle, Colin Rowe-Jones, William M Dixon, Howard English, Elaine English, Graham Watt, Joan Burrell
	BMJ  1999;319:522 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:526 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	A memorable patient: The screaming man
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  1999;319:489 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word . . .: Now concentrate
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1999;319:494 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable experience: The qat party
	D N Baron
	BMJ  1999;319:500 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Comparative efficacy of three mumps vaccines during disease outbreak in eastern Switzerland: cohort study
	BMJ  1999;319:477 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	What do directors of postgraduate education in general practice do?
	Jamie Bahrami
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Employers giving references must 'exercise care and skill'...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: According to the Equal Opportunities Commission, the statutory body...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Professionals of all kinds are usually recruited through...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

ADS

	Ads: "Unselling" the cigarette
	Melanie Wakefield
	BMJ  1999;319:524 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	A global look at cancer
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOKS CDS

	Books CDs: QBase: Anaesthesia: 1-3
	Ian Barker
	BMJ  1999;319:523 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	A global look at cancer
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BESTSELLERS

	July Bestsellers
	BMJ  1999;319:523 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Water births
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:524 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

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