Neurological emergencies.
	D T Wade
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:858, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.858 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sodium, potassium, and rate of constants for sodium efflux in leucocytes from hypertensive Jamaicans.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.860 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fractures of the carpal scaphoid.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.860-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Calcium homoeostasis during pregnancy.
	J C Stevenson, M I Whitehead, G Lane
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:860-861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.860-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Pindolol acts as beta-adrenoceptor agonist in orthostatic hypotension.
	G Nyberg
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.861 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Growth failure.
	J M Tanner
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:861-862, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.861-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Seasonal fluctuations in serum concentrations of vitamin D metabolites in normal subjects.
	R W Chesney, J F Rosen
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:862, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.862 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluation of laboratory test.
	R S Ramaiah, R W Biagi
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:862, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.862-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tonsillitis and otitis media.
	P Karma
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:862-863, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.862-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Management of patients with bilateral amputations.
	A W English
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:863, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.863 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Gamma-aminobutyric acid and weight control.
	M Weller
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:863, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.863-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction: Diabetes mellitus: I: Diagnosis and initial management
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:831, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.831 [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Articles

This week's Articles

	NEWS AND NOTES
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	OBITUARY
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:868-869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.868 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:852-856, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.852 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	Preconception clinics
	Richard Page
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	Preconception clinics
	V M Speller
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:858-859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.858-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Why treat cirrhosis?
	B R D Macdougall, Roger Williams
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.859 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Calcification of gall stones
	Malcolm J Whiting, James McK Watts
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.859-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What future for children in the developing world?
	Douglas Holdstock
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.859-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What future for children in the developing world?
	J K Monro
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.859-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The right to live and the right to die
	Alan M Smith
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.859-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The right to live and the right to die
	Ronald Illingworth
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.859-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Radioactivity in meat after a nuclear explosion
	J Vennart, D T Goodhead
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:859-860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.859-f [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sodium, potassium, and rate constants for sodium efflux in leucocytes from hypertensive Jamaicans
	Terrence E Forrester
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.860-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fractures of the carpal scaphoid
	J C Griffiths
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.860-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Damages and supervening illness: nofault compensation
	A M Morris
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.861-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Colorectal surgery—the Cinderella specialty
	Peter McDonald
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.861-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Stridor
	Piers Rowlandson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:863, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.863-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Management of asthma in the child aged under 6 years
	Janna Frears, A G Butler
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:863-864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.863-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Pharmacists as doctors
	Alan H Barker
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.864 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Operation looking for a name
	J T Scales, H M Shenkin
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.864-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Why request reprints?
	Seamus O'Riain
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.864-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Suggested nomenclature for premature or postmature babies
	A Murray Wilson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.864-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Minor brain damage and alcoholism
	Ivan Janota
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.864-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: General practitioner and his music festival
	R V H Jones
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Medical Practice

This week's Medical Practice

	Personal View
	Ann Dally
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.857 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice Observed

This week's Practice Observed

	Psychological problems in general practice: Oxford conference on a "grey area"
	Richard Smith
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:832-833, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.832 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	Chronic urticaria.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:805-806, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.805 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Primum non nocere.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:806-807, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.806 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Strategic policy monitoring at DHSS.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:807, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.807 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency and liver disease.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:807-808, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.807-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of seasonal and perennial rhinitis.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:808-810, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.808 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	NHS reorganisation: some hazards for doctors.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:810, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.810 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Acetazolamide in prevention of acute mountain sickness: a double-blind controlled cross-over study.
	M K Greene, A M Kerr, I B McIntosh, R J Prescott
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:811-813, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.811 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Nicotine intake by snuff users.
	M A Russell, M J Jarvis, G Devitt, C Feyerabend
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:814-817, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.814 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sister chromatid exchange induced by anti-herpes drugs.
	J J Cassiman, E De Clercq, A S Jones, R T Walker, H Van den Berghe
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:817-818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.817 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Microbiology of pyogenic liver abscess.
	J C Moore-Gillon, S J Eykyn, I Phillips
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:819-821, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.819 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ingrowing toenails: an evaluation of two treatments.
	P F Cameron
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:821-822, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.821 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Non-Clostridium difficile pseudomembranous colitis responding to both vancomycin and metronidazole. ?
	R K Phillips, G Glazer, S P Borriello
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:823, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.823 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Azathioprine-induced shock.
	T Cunningham, D Barraclough, K Muirden
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:823-824, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.823-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dominant inheritance of intracranial berry aneurysm.
	T W Evans, M C Venning, F A Strang, D Donnai
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:824-825, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.824 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Toxic hepatis during ketoconazole treatment.
	J K Heiberg, E Svejgaard
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:825-826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.825 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Abdominal hernias in patients receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
	M K Chan, R A Baillod, A Tanner, M Raftery, P Sweny, O N Fernando, J F Moorhead
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.826 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Homosexuality: treating patients in general practice.
	R Bath, J Sketchley
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:827-829, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.827 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rubella vaccination: screening all women at risk.
	S Rowlands, R G Bethel
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:829-831, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.829 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Records: a framework for establishing a record system.
	L I Zander
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:833-834, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.833 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Alcohol and alcoholism: overture to the alcohol debate.
	R Smith
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:835-838, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.835 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Asthma--expiratory dyspnoea?
	M J Morris
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:838-839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.838 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Assessing methods--survival.
	S M Gore
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:840-843, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.840 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Radiation injury and effects of early fallout.
	J Smith, T Smith
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:844-846, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.844 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Care of emergencies in the United Kingdom.
	M Irving
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:847-849, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.847 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Development at 18 months.
	H B Valman
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:850-851, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.850 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mortality statistics as measures of need for outpatient services.
	M J Goldacre
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:870-871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.870 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Supplement

This week's Supplement

	Overseas doctors and the EEC
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.871 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	GMSC: Primary health care in London
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1981;283:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.283.6295.872 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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