This week's This week in the BMJ

	Evidence for cerebral dysfunction in people after the Camelford water incident [Full text] FREE

	Fasting plasma glucose concentration can be used to screen for gestational diabetes [Full text] FREE

	Exclusive breast feeding is protective against asthma and atopy in children [Full text] FREE

	Alcohol has a negative net effect on young men's health [Full text] FREE

	Near patient tests in primary care are poorly evaluated [Full text] FREE

	"Exercise on prescription" is a waste of scarce resources [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	The third generation oral contraceptive controversy
	Paul A O'Brien
	BMJ  1999;319:795-796 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Should cases of permanent vegetative state still go to court?
	Bryan Jennett
	BMJ  1999;319:796-797 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reconfiguring acute hospital services
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:797-798 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Screening for gestational diabetes mellitus
	Evelyne Rey
	BMJ  1999;319:798-799 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Treatment options for chronic hepatitis
	A J Zuckerman, D Lavanchy
	BMJ  1999;319:799-800 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Cancellation of debt must ensure maximum benefit to vulnerable
	David Southall
	BMJ  1999;319:849 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Developing countries cannot afford high fees for speakers
	Teerakiat Jargensettasin, Guy Edwards
	BMJ  1999;319:849 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Antidepressants for old people
	R C Baldwin, Peter Haddad, R H McAllister-Williams, Catherine Gordon, Martin G Livingston, Hilary M Livingston
	BMJ  1999;319:849 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Low molecular weight heparins could be important in cancer
	Sergio Siragusa
	BMJ  1999;319:851 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Hypoalbuminaemia and transcapillary pressures have role in nephrotic syndrome
	Nadeem E Moghal
	BMJ  1999;319:852 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mibefradil was not rushed to market in United States
	Robert R Fenichel
	BMJ  1999;319:852 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	General practitioners' experiences of patients' complaints
	Peter Thomson, Gail Young
	BMJ  1999;319:852 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prison officers can recognise hidden psychiatric morbidity in prisoners
	Luke Birmingham
	BMJ  1999;319:853 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reducing risk of recurrent coronary heart disease in Cornwall
	H M Dalal, Hugh Bethell
	BMJ  1999;319:853 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is recruitment more difficult with a placebo arm in RCTs?
	Lindsay Forbes, Sue Chinn, Jose Figueroa-Munoz, Paul Seed, A J Welton, M R Vickers, J A Cooper, T W Meade, T M Marteau
	BMJ  1999;319:853 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Differences in death rates in English hospitals
	Tom Hennell, John P Bunker, Nick Black
	BMJ  1999;319:854 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Competing interests are relevant to lectures approved for PGEA
	Pawan Randev
	BMJ  1999;319:855 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Policy must separate need for hospital beds from demand
	Tom Marshall
	BMJ  1999;319:855 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	New epidemiological research in Europe may be thwarted by short term funding
	Rodolfo Saracci, Josep Anto', Jorn Olsen, Anthony McMichael, Dimitrios Trichopoulos
	BMJ  1999;319:855 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

News

This week's News

	Report suggests that NHS is unsustainable in present form
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  1999;319:801 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Professor accused of covering up mistakes in drug trial
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:801 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	UK GPs will be consulted on revalidation proposals
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;319:802 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Royal College battles for more women surgeons
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;319:802 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;319:802 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Study identifies why child heart operations go wrong
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;319:803 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Israel wants to abolish private medicine in public hospitals
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1999;319:803 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Report condemns NHS complaints procedure
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:804 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	WHO nominates new regional director for Europe
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  1999;319:804 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Complaints mechanism fails older patients
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  1999;319:804 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Direct to consumer drug advertising is billion dollar business in US
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1999;319:805 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	American Medical Association guidelines on direct to consumer advertising
	BMJ  1999;319:805 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	AIDS cuts life expectancy insub-Saharan Africa by a quarter
	Dorothy Logie
	BMJ  1999;319:806 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	AMA sets up "union" for employed doctors
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;319:806 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

	Calcium channel blockers affect cognitive function in older people
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1999;319:806 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] FREE

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Smokers who quit still die earlier than those who never smoked
	BMJ  1999;319:806 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Report reveals health inequalities in Wales
	BMJ  1999;319:806 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Disturbance of cerebral function in people exposed to drinking water contaminated with aluminium sulphate: retrospective study of the Camelford water incident
	Paul Altmann, John Cunningham, Usha Dhanesha, Margaret Ballard, James Thompson, Frank Marsh
	BMJ  1999;319:807-811 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: longer version] FREE

	Using fasting plasma glucose concentrations to screen for gestational diabetes mellitus: prospective population based study
	Daniele Perucchini, Ursin Fischer, Giatgen A Spinas, Renate Huch, Albert Huch, Roger Lehmann
	BMJ  1999;319:812-815 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between breast feeding and asthma in 6 year old children: findings of a prospective birth cohort study
	W H Oddy, P G Holt, P D Sly, A W Read, L I Landau, F J Stanley, G E Kendall, P R Burton
	BMJ  1999;319:815-819 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Admission for and mortality from primary venous thromboembolism in women of fertile age in Denmark, 1977-95
	Lene Mellemkjær, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Lene Dreyer, Jørn Olsen, Jørgen H Olsen
	BMJ  1999;319:820-821 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between alcohol consumption and mortality, myocardial infarction, and stroke in 25 year follow up of 49 618 young Swedish men
	Anders Romelsjö, Anders Leifman
	BMJ  1999;319:821-822 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: detailed methods section] FREE

	Helicobacter pylori and childhood recurrent abdominal pain: community based case-control study
	Colin Macarthur, Norman Saunders, William Feldman, Moshe Ipp, Patricia Winders-Lee, Susan Roberts, Linda Best, Philip Sherman, Paul Pencharz, Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten
	BMJ  1999;319:822-823 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Clinical evidence: Acute otitis media
	Paddy O'Neill
	BMJ  1999;319:833-835 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of complementary medicine: Users and practitioners of complementary medicine
	Catherine Zollman, Andrew Vickers
	BMJ  1999;319:836-838 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	Systematic review of near patient test evaluations in primary care
	Brendan C Delaney, Chris J Hyde, Richard J McManus, Sue Wilson, David A Fitzmaurice, Sue Jowett, Ros Tobias, Gary H Thorpe, F D Richard Hobbs
	BMJ  1999;319:824-827 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables][extra: external review panel] FREE

	The Newcastle exercise project: a randomised controlled trial of methods to promote physical activity in primary care
	Jane Harland, Martin White, Chris Drinkwater, David Chinn, Lorna Farr, Denise Howel
	BMJ  1999;319:828-832 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Exclusion criteria] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Pinot Noir powders
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1999;319:861 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Peer review: thinking the unthinkable
	Tim Albert
	BMJ  1999;319:861 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Everywhere and nowherea Socratic dialogue on the new public health
	Ian Wylie, Siân Griffiths, David J Hunter
	BMJ  1999;319:839-840 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The permanent vegetative state: practical guidance on diagnosis and management
	Derick T Wade, Claire Johnston
	BMJ  1999;319:841-844 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The hospital of the future: International trends in the provision and utilisation of hospital care
	Martin Hensher, Nigel Edwards, Rachel Stokes
	BMJ  1999;319:845-848 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	Clarence Walton Lillehei • John Andrew • John Aubrey Luther Bonnell • Kenyon Carnarvon Brown • Stuart Charles Kennedy • Harold Oliver Phillipson • Ephraim Frank Swift • Alfred Butler Taylor • Michael Richard Tomlinson
	Norman Shumway, C J Earl, W M Dixon, K C Brown, Michael Middleton, Peter H Phillipson, David Watt, Raphael Marcus, Timothy Pick, Janet Fricker
	BMJ  1999;319:856 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;319:862 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  1999;319:828 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A memorable teacher: Reasons to be thankful
	Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  1999;319:844 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	One hundred years ago: Dangerous lunatics
	BMJ  1999;319:845 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Nutritional hyperhomocysteinaemia
	BMJ  1999;319:800 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Ethnic and sex differences in selection for admission to Nottingham University Medical School
	BMJ  1999;319:823 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Developing skills in consulting with the public
	Diana Jakubowska
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: An EU directive gives parents of preschool children...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The professional bodies who accredit specialists must move...
	BMJ  1999;319:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

BOOK

This week's BOOK

	Book: Drug Treatment Systems in an International Perspective: Drugs, Demons, and Delinquents
	Diyanath Samarasinghe
	BMJ  1999;319:859 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Book: Law Without Enforcement
	Martin Humphreys
	BMJ  1999;319:859 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

RADIO

This week's RADIO

	Radio: Vital Signs
	Hilary Scott, Gerry Bennett
	BMJ  1999;319:860 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Interpreting competing interests
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Interpreting competing interests
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Women in surgery
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;319:860 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GPs should be balloted on primary care trusts • GMC delays guidelines on confidentiality • Health secretary refuses moratorium on bed closures • Health department sets up clinical governance team • BMA sets deadline for working time directive
	BMJ  1999;319:858 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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