No link supported between myocardial infarction and oral contraceptive use [Full text]

	Hospital experiences affect pain management in sickle cell disease [Full text]

	Lymphoedema and site of entry are risk factors for cellulitis [Full text]

	Surveillance of playground accidents can lead to their reduction [Full text]

	Patient complaints are damaging for doctors' health and practice [Full text]

	Is choosing the right antibiotic really that difficult? [Full text]

Editorials

	Learning from complaints about general practitioners
	Richard Baker
	BMJ  1999;318:1567-1568 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Free the slaves
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  1999;318:1568-1569 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Nutritional hyperhomocysteinaemia
	I V Mohan, G Stansby
	BMJ  1999;318:1569-1570 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical Evidence
	Fiona Godlee, Richard Smith, David Goldmann
	BMJ  1999;318:1570-1571 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Antithrombotic therapy in cancer
	A K Kakkar, R C N Williamson
	BMJ  1999;318:1571-1572 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News

	UK junior doctors vote to ballot on industrial action
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:1573 [Full text] [PDF]

	Increasing numbers of English junior doctors work above agreed limits on hours
	BMJ  1999;318:1573 [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  1999;318:1574 [Full text] [PDF]

	European plan to put obesity on governments' health agenda
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1999;318:1574 [Full text] [PDF]

	US considers ban on British blood
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:1574 [Full text] [PDF]

	Younger women might benefit from breast cancer screening
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1999;318:1575 [Full text] [PDF]

	Neural stem cells successfully transplanted
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1999;318:1575 [Full text] [PDF]

	Bristol manager argues patient care was a matter for clinicians
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1999;318:1575 [Full text] [PDF]

	Welsh Office to review consultant's lengthy suspension
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1999;318:1576 [Full text] [PDF]

	UK consultants warn of overwork and general demoralisation
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1999;318:1576 [Full text] [PDF]

	New president of the German Medical Council may back reform
	Déirdre Tilmann Mahkorn
	BMJ  1999;318:1576 [Full text] [PDF]

	English surgeons call for improved management of head injury
	Richard Woodman
	BMJ  1999;318:1577 [Full text] [PDF]

	Doctors in Israel oppose open performance data
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1999;318:1577 [Full text] [PDF]

	Pregnancy does not increase mortality from breast cancer
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  1999;318:1577 [Full text] [PDF]

	Another media scare about MMR vaccine hits Britain
	Pat Anderson
	BMJ  1999;318:1578 [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Canadian GPs believe that media health reporting could be better
	BMJ  1999;318:1578 [Full text]

	Scrips for Viagra to be free in Ireland
	BMJ  1999;318:1578 [Full text]

	More use of private sector could cut NHS waiting lists
	BMJ  1999;318:1578 [Full text]

	Hungarian doctor charged with running baby selling scheme
	BMJ  1999;318:1578 [Full text]

Papers

	Oral contraceptives and myocardial infarction: results of the MICA case-control study • Commentary: Oral contraceptives and myocardial infarction: reassuring new findings
	Nicholas Dunn, Margaret Thorogood, Brian Faragher, Linda de Caestecker, Thomas M MacDonald, Charles McCollum, Simon Thomas, Ronald Mann, Øjvind Lidegaard
	BMJ  1999;318:1579-1584 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Experiences of hospital care and treatment seeking for pain from sickle cell disease: qualitative study
	Krista Maxwell, Allison Streetly, David Bevan
	BMJ  1999;318:1585-1590 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Risk factors for erysipelas of the leg (cellulitis): case-control study
	Alain Dupuy, Hakima Benchikhi, Jean-Claude Roujeau, Philippe Bernard, Loïc Vaillant, Olivier Chosidow, Bruno Sassolas, Jean-Claude Guillaume, Jean-Jacques Grob, Sylvie Bastuji-Garin
	BMJ  1999;318:1591-1594 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing injuries in public playgrounds through partnership between health services and local authority: community intervention study
	J R Sibert, Alison Mott, Kim Rolfe, Rosie James, Rupert Evans, Alison Kemp, F D J Dunstan
	BMJ  1999;318:1595 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical review

	Clinical evidence: Atopic eczema
	Carolyn Charman
	BMJ  1999;318:1600-1604 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Cavernous haemangioma mimicking multiple sclerosis
	M Zameel Cader, J B Winer
	BMJ  1999;318:1604-1605 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of intensive care: Organ dysfunction
	Timothy W Evans, Mark Smithies
	BMJ  1999;318:1606-1609 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

General practice

	General practitioners' experiences of patients' complaints: qualitative study
	Ashok Jain, Jane Ogden
	BMJ  1999;318:1596-1599 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Good doctors doing nothing
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1999;318:1633 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The beginning of the end
	David Haslam
	BMJ  1999;318:1633 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Towards an understanding of oedema
	Charles J Diskin, Thomas J Stokes, Linda M Dansby, Thomas B Carter, Lautrec Radcliff, Selby G Thomas
	BMJ  1999;318:1610-1613 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How do you choose antibiotic treatment? • Commentary: Resist jumping to conclusions • Commentary: A matter of good clinical practice • Commentary: Honesty is the best policy
	Leonard Leibovici, Ilana Shraga, Steen Andreassen, Stephen G Pauker, Michael Rothberg, Julius R Weinberg, Brian I Duerden, Margaret A Drickamer
	BMJ  1999;318:1614-1618 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Is there a rationale for rationing chronic dialysis?
	Rasheed Ahmad, T Farrant, Fergus J Caskey, Wendy Metcalfe, Alison M MacLeod, Izhar H Khan, Shahid M Chandna, Roger N Greenwood, Ken Farrington
	BMJ  1999;318:1619 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rationing of sildenafil
	Stephen Hayes, Andrew Green, Anonymous
	BMJ  1999;318:1620 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient centred care of diabetes in general practice
	John Skelton, Tim Coleman, Christopher Hand, Ann Louise Kinmonth, Simon Griffin, Alison Woodcock, Mike Campbell
	BMJ  1999;318:1621 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prenatal and perinatal risk factors for psychiatric diseases of early onset
	Pirkko Räsänen, Helinä Hakko, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Christina M Hultman
	BMJ  1999;318:1622 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antibiotics for acute sinusitis in general practice
	G G Browning, John P A Ioannidis, Sarah D de Ferranti, Michael Barza, Joseph Lau
	BMJ  1999;318:1623 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Breast feeding and working mothers
	BMJ  1999;318:1624 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Britain's Academy of Medical Sciences has been busy in recent months
	Peter Lachmann
	BMJ  1999;318:1624 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Early diet in preterm babies and later intelligence quotient
	Deborah Behrman, Mary Broadfoot, Phyll Buchanan, Carolanne Lamont, Magda Sachs, Alan Lucas, Tim Cole, Ruth Morley
	BMJ  1999;318:1625 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Robert Hugh Cawley • John David Ebsworth • Anne Lydia Evans • Howard Brinley Jenkins • Kenneth Arthur Latter • Martin Lawrence • Ann Moran • James Robinson Rowell • Anne Spoerrey • Kenneth Eric Warren • Leslie Andrew Wilson
	W A Lishman, Leon Kaufman, Peter Willis, Mike Jenkins, Anthony Batty Shaw, Godfrey Fowler, Jonathan Moore, David McCartney, Neville Rowell, Anne Savage, Michael Hall-Smith, Ian Lawson
	BMJ  1999;318:1626 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1999;318:1634 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	One hundred years ago: A new day in surgery
	BMJ  1999;318:1595 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Women's complaints
	BMJ  1999;318:1595 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
	BMJ  1999;318:1604 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An incident which changed my medical life: Something to celebrate
	Suresh Pathak
	BMJ  1999;318:1609 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: "It's got to be terrible!"
	BMJ  1999;318:1614 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Quebec faces severe pressure on casualty departments
	BMJ  1999;318:1584 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Call to needle times after acute myocardial infarction
	BMJ  1999;318:1584 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reforming British primary care (again)
	BMJ  1999;318:1584 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ordeals for the fetal programming hypothesis
	BMJ  1999;318:1584 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing injuries in children: cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care
	BMJ  1999;318:1584 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Computer support for determining drug dose: systematic review and meta-analysis
	BMJ  1999;318:1584 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of labour care: induction
	BMJ  1999;318:1584 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	Challenging the "F" word: redefining failure in medical careers
	Carl Gray
	BMJ  1999;318:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: Failure to consider whether an attack on an employee ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The colleges of the University of London collaborate to ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Briefing: The PLAB (Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board) exam is due ...
	BMJ  1999;318:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

TV

	TV: Adding insult to injury
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1999;318:1632 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: High Life: A History of High Altitude Physiology and Medicine
	David R Murdoch
	BMJ  1999;318:1631 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Against the Grain: The Genetic Transformation of Global Agriculture
	D A T Southgate
	BMJ  1999;318:1631 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Failure: the great teacher
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

	Failure: the great teacher
	BMJ  1999;318 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BESTSELLERS

	May bestsellers
	BMJ  1999;318:1632 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: http://www.coventrydoctors.org.uk/westminster/Feedback.htm
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1999;318:1632 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Senior medical staffs conference • Junior doctors conference • BMA's ARM agenda
	BMJ  1999;318:1628 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

Read this week's articles on http://bmjcareers.com/careerfocus

Website extra

George Lundberg speaks [Full text]

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