Cancer risk is not raised in children of nuclear workers [Full text]

	Promethazine does not reduce reactions to bothrops antivenom [Full text]

	Brief advice to parents does not protect asthmatic children from passive smoking [Full text]

	Behavioural factors are important in non-specific abdominal pain [Full text]

	Time lag may explain the French paradox [Full text]

	Methods of appraising new drugs may be inadequate [Full text]

Editorials

	Foreseeing is not necessarily the same as intending
	Raanan Gillon
	BMJ  1999;318:1431-1432 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The moral character of clinicians or the best interests of patients?
	Len Doyal
	BMJ  1999;318:1432-1433 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Foodborne viral infections
	Antony Hale
	BMJ  1999;318:1433-1434 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Public health, civil liberties, and tuberculosis
	Richard Coker
	BMJ  1999;318:1434-1435 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Better blood transfusion
	Drew Provan
	BMJ  1999;318:1435-1436 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	WHO agrees measures to stop global spread of tobacco use
	Phyllida Brown
	BMJ  1999;318:1437 [Full text] [PDF]

	Dutch launch plan to combat legionnaires' disease
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1999;318:1437 [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:1438 [Full text] [PDF]

	Explanations shift attitudes to animal experiments
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;318:1438 [Full text] [PDF]

	Hungary passes non-smokers' rights bill
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  1999;318:1438 [Full text] [PDF]

	Bristol inquiry reveals lack of data on service quality
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:1439 [Full text] [PDF]

	European Union considers new plan to help refugees
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1999;318:1439 [Full text] [PDF]

	High dose chemotherapy offers little benefit in breast cancer
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1999;318:1440 [Full text] [PDF]

	Time to devolve the BMJ?
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1999;318:1440 [Full text] [PDF]

	Trial of steroids for treating head injury begins
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1999;318:1441 [Full text] [PDF]

	Chief medical officer clears genetically modified foods
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:1441 [Full text] [PDF]

	Kent private finance initiative scheme will not save money
	Arnold Kemp
	BMJ  1999;318:1441 [Full text] [PDF]

	US drug trials expand outside academic centres
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  1999;318:1442 [Full text] [PDF]

	EU says growth hormones pose health risk
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1999;318:1442 [Full text] [PDF]

Papers

	Cancer in children of nuclear industry employees: report on children aged under 25 years from nuclear industry family study
	Eve Roman, Pat Doyle, Noreen Maconochie, Graham Davies, Peter G Smith, Valerie Beral
	BMJ  1999;318:1443-1450 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: further table]

	Sequential randomised and double blind trial of promethazine prophylaxis against early anaphylactic reactions to antivenom for bothrops snake bites
	Hui Wen Fan, Luiz F Marcopito, João Luiz C Cardoso, Francisco O S França, Ceila M S Malaque, Ronnei A Ferrari, Robert David G Theakston, David A Warrell
	BMJ  1999;318:1451-1452 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: further details of the methods]

	The nuclear industry family study: linkage of occupational exposures to reproduction and child health
	Noreen Maconochie, Pat Doyle, Eve Roman, Graham Davies, Peter G Smith, Valerie Beral
	BMJ  1999;318:1453-1454 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: A full report of the study]

	Incidence of non-specific abdominal pain in children during school term: population survey based on discharge diagnoses
	Nigel Williams, Di Jackson, Paul C Lambert, J Michael Johnstone
	BMJ  1999;318:1455 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Evidence based cardiology: Psychosocial factors in the aetiology and prognosis of coronary heart disease: systematic review of prospective cohort studies
	Harry Hemingway, Michael Marmot
	BMJ  1999;318:1460-1467 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: references]

	ABC of intensive care: Organisation of intensive care
	David Bennett, Julian Bion
	BMJ  1999;318:1468-1470 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	Advising parents of asthmatic children on passive smoking: randomised controlled trial
	Linda Irvine, Iain K Crombie, Roland A Clark, Peter W Slane, Colin Feyerabend, Kirsty E Goodman, John I Cater
	BMJ  1999;318:1456-1459 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Basic science
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1999;318:1497 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Anything else, sir?
	Anna Eleri Livingstone
	BMJ  1999;318:1497 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Why heart disease mortality is low in France: the time lag explanation • Commentary: Alcohol and other dietary factors may be important • Commentary: Intrauterine nutrition may be important • Commentary: Heterogeneity of populations should be taken into account • Authors' response
	Malcolm Law, Nicholas Wald, Meir Stampfer, Eric Rimm, D J P Barker, Johan P Mackenbach, Anton E Kunst
	BMJ  1999;318:1471-1480 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Not playing with a full DEC: why development and evaluation committee methods for appraising new drugs may be inadequate
	Nick Freemantle, James Mason
	BMJ  1999;318:1480-1482 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Left ventricular dysfunction among elderly patients in general practice
	S Talwar, P F Downie, Syed Zaman, Philip A Poole-Wilson
	BMJ  1999;318:1483 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence exists for some advertising claims made on the internet
	Stephen Lawson
	BMJ  1999;318:1484 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical trials in primary care
	Sue Wilson, B Delaney, Andrea Roalfe, R Hobbs, Jammi N Rao
	BMJ  1999;318:1484 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Migraine and stroke in young women
	E Anne MacGregor, John Guillebaud, Jes Olesen, M Donaghy, N R Poulter, C L Chang
	BMJ  1999;318:1485 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors may have underestimated number of young doctors still working in NHS
	G H Hall
	BMJ  1999;318:1486 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hereditary haemochromatosis should be more widely known about
	William Rosenberg, Martin Howell, Paul Roderick, Diana Eccles, Ian Day
	BMJ  1999;318:1486 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vaccines and their real or perceived adverse effects
	T O Jefferson, Regina Rabinovich, Jaako Tuomilehto, Helen Bedford, David Elliman, John Barthelow Classen, David C Classen
	BMJ  1999;318:1487 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neurogenetic determinism and the new euphenics
	Nick Craddock, Ian R Jones, Lindsey Kent, Justin H G Williams, Steven Rose
	BMJ  1999;318:1488 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scanning during pregnancy is often for doctors' benefit rather than parents'
	B E Price
	BMJ  1999;318:1489 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Radiosurgery for brain tumours
	C B T Adams, Jeremy C Ganz
	BMJ  1999;318:1489 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Presumed consent
	David J Hill, Tony C Palmer, David W Evans, Sue Cansdale, Richard Cansdale
	BMJ  1999;318:1490 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Speaking sign language from birth can make deaf children confident
	Peter Hindley, Roger Parkes
	BMJ  1999;318:1491 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted suicide law in Oregon
	Michael Irwin
	BMJ  1999;318:1491 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Airline passenger dies after being sedated
	H A Macdonald, M Samer Abdalla
	BMJ  1999;318:1491 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	George Duncan Stewart Beechey • Vincent Jerome Boyce • Alfred McKillop ("Mac") Simpson-Brass • Leslie Turner • Geoffrey Herbert Watson
	W R Almond, Andrew D Weeks, A Gordon Cameron, Andrew Turner, Raman Patel, Ian Watson
	BMJ  1999;318:1492 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:1498 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	Endpiece: Spitting of blood
	Submitted by A P Radford
	BMJ  1999;318:1455 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: More than reason
	Alice Heim
	BMJ  1999;318:1456 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Studying for the MRCPwas it worth while?
	Waltraud Finckh
	BMJ  1999;318:1467 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Thinking about teaching?
	Zoe-Jane Playdon
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Doctors need to be honest about their resistance to ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The claim on the front page of Hospital Doctor (1999:13 ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Insight through argument
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Insight through argument
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

MULTIMEDIA

	Book: Informing Patients: An Assessment of the Quality of Patient Information Materials
	Martin Tattersall
	BMJ  1999;318:1494 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Should Health Screening be Private?
	John Cairns
	BMJ  1999;318:1494 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Mobiles on the brain
	Robin Grant
	BMJ  1999;318:1495 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: Making a mess of sex
	Richard Harling
	BMJ  1999;318:1496 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/eh41.pdf
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:1496 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GPs oppose MPs' proposals on removing patients from lists • Clinical governance needs time and money • GPs given guidance over millennium planning • BMA Council Elections
	BMJ  1999;318:1493 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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