The role of skeletal scanning in clinical oncology.
	R C Leonard, J P Owen
	Br Med J  1980;281:742, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.742 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Breast cancer trials--a new initiative.
	M Baum, J Houghton, N Kemp
	Br Med J  1980;281:742, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.742-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Geographical analysis of cardiovasscular mortality: a cautionary note.
	S Openshaw, M Charlton
	Br Med J  1980;281:742-743, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.742-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cholesterol and mortality rates.
	T J Bassler
	Br Med J  1980;281:743, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.743-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Heart disease in different ethnic groups.
	P R Burch
	Br Med J  1980;281:743-744, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.743-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hyperlipidaemia advances and retreats.
	C R Klimt
	Br Med J  1980;281:744, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.744 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sodium and potassium intake and blood pressure.
	H Trowell
	Br Med J  1980;281:744, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.744-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Retroperitoneal fibrosis associated with atenolol.
	F L Rose, F Bergel
	Br Med J  1980;281:745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.745-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Postoperative deep-vein thrombosis: identifying high-risk pateart disease in different ethnic groups.
	J D Hamer
	Br Med J  1980;281:745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.745-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Following up patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
	G A Binnie
	Br Med J  1980;281:745-746, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.745-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Perinatal and neonatal mortality.
	J Sluglett
	Br Med J  1980;281:746, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.746 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Anastomotic integrity after operations for large-bowel cancer.
	H Ellis
	Br Med J  1980;281:746, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.746-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Unprocessed bran idiopathic hypercalciuria.
	F J Roe
	Br Med J  1980;281:746-747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.746-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Proctoscopy and sigmoidoscopy.
	P H Lord
	Br Med J  1980;281:747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.747 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Percutaneous central venous cannulation.
	M E Hancock, R Ware, P Richardson, V C Roberts, L T Cotton
	Br Med J  1980;281:747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.747-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Unusual presentation of appendicitis.
	J H Jessop
	Br Med J  1980;281:747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.747-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The prepregnancy clinic.
	N Williams
	Br Med J  1980;281:747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.747-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bone-marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy.
	M A Coe
	Br Med J  1980;281:747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.747-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bioavailability of dihydroergotamine.
	J Kanto
	Br Med J  1980;281:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.748 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction: Interferon: therapeutic fact or fiction for the '80s?
	Br Med J  1980;281:695, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.695-a [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: Nocturnal enuresis and the buzzer alarm: role of the general practitioner
	Br Med J  1980;281:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.716-a [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Articles

This week's Articles

	NEWS AND NOTES
	Br Med J  1980;281:749-751, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.749 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	OBITUARY
	Br Med J  1980;281:752-753, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.752 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	Br Med J  1980;281:735-739, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.735 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	Cutting the cost of the National Health Service
	G N Marsh
	Br Med J  1980;281:741-742, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.741 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Geographical analysis of cardiovascular mortality: a cautionary note
	S J Pocock, A G Shaper
	Br Med J  1980;281:743, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.743 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Three types of health education
	John Catford, I A P Dillow
	Br Med J  1980;281:744-745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.744-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Three types of health education
	Ernest Sidey
	Br Med J  1980;281:745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.745 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Anastomotic integrity after operations for large-bowel cancer
	L P Fielding
	Br Med J  1980;281:746, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.746-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is the emergency ambulance service abused?
	C J Pinchen
	Br Med J  1980;281:747-748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.747-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Generic prescribing
	H W Forshaw
	Br Med J  1980;281:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.748-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical and managerial aspects of hospital admission
	Lachlan Campbell
	Br Med J  1980;281:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.748-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thanks from a retired GP
	A A Clay
	Br Med J  1980;281:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.748-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Medical Practice

This week's Medical Practice

	"Ruthing" without tears
	Anne Savage
	Br Med J  1980;281:728-729, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.728 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Materia Non Medica
	Br Med J  1980;281:729, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.729 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reading for Pleasure: Guilty consciences
	Alex Paton
	Br Med J  1980;281:733-734, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.733 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	Alan Walker
	Br Med J  1980;281:740, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.740 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	Women in hospital medicine.
	Br Med J  1980;281:693-694, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.693 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hormone receptors and human breast cancer.
	Br Med J  1980;281:694-695, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.694 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Leukaemic tumefaction in soft tissues.
	Br Med J  1980;281:695, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.695 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Occupational hazards of anesthesia.
	M P Vessey, J F Nunn
	Br Med J  1980;281:696-698, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.696 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Recent experience with heart transplantation.
	T A English, D K Cooper, R Cory-Pearce
	Br Med J  1980;281:699-702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.699 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Attenuation of hypotensive effect of propranolol and thiazide diuretics by indomethacin.
	J Watkins, E C Abbott, C N Hensby, J Webster, C T Dollery
	Br Med J  1980;281:702-705, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.702 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic stable asthma and the normal arterial pressure of carbon dioxide in hypoxia.
	G M Cochrane, J G Prior, C B Wolff
	Br Med J  1980;281:705-707, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.705 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Changes in glycosylated haemoglobin after poor control in insulin-dependent diabetics.
	A P Brooks, I M Nairn, J D Baird
	Br Med J  1980;281:707-710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.707 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Gonadotrophin and the human secondary sex ratio.
	W H James
	Br Med J  1980;281:711-712, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.711 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Serum concentrations of 24,25-dihydroxy vitamin D in different degrees of chronic renal failure.
	Y Weisman, Z Eisenberg, L Leib, A Harell, S M Shasha, S Edelstein
	Br Med J  1980;281:712-713, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.712 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Jet injection of insulin: comparison with conventional injection by syringe and needle.
	R Worth, J Anderson, R Taylor, K G Alberti
	Br Med J  1980;281:713-714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.713 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Chlorthalidone-induced impotence.
	J Stessman, D Ben-Ishay
	Br Med J  1980;281:714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.714 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Unprecedented rise in incidence of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.
	A M Kerr
	Br Med J  1980;281:714-715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.714-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Synovial fluid ferritin in rheumatoid arthritis.
	D R Blake, P A Bacon, E J Eastham, K Brigham
	Br Med J  1980;281:715-716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.715 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Galactorrhoea after withdrawal of bromocriptine.
	B Pentland, J S Sawers
	Br Med J  1980;281:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.716 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Confirmation of death.
	M S Christian, J K Gosnold, P N Kersley
	Br Med J  1980;281:717-719, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.717 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Large-bowel surgery, 1979: self-assessment.
	N A Matheson, D Valerio
	Br Med J  1980;281:719-721, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.719 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Procedures in practice. Prostatic biopsy.
	J R Rhind
	Br Med J  1980;281:722-723, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.722 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Adjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer. Summary of an NIH consensus statement.
	Br Med J  1980;281:724-725, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.724 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dialysis and transplant.
	W K Waterfall
	Br Med J  1980;281:726-727, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.726 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The practice brochure: a patient's guide to team care.
	G N Marsh
	Br Med J  1980;281:730-732, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.730 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Women doctors in training: problems and progress.
	A J Swerdlow, R H McNeilly, E R Rue
	Br Med J  1980;281:754-758, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.754 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Survey of part-time senior registrar anaesthetists.
	J M Eaton
	Br Med J  1980;281:758-759, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.758 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Supplement

This week's Supplement

	EEC doctors' language test discontinued
	Br Med J  1980;281:760, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.760 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Less NI certification for doctors
	Br Med J  1980;281:760, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.760-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	London weighting
	Br Med J  1980;281:760, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.760-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMA Notices: Group committee elections
	Br Med J  1980;281:760, doi: 10.1136/bmj.281.6242.760-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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