An absence of alcohol policy.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:221-222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.221 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Choosing treatment for metastatic breast cancer.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.222 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Popular marathons: forecasting casualties.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.223-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Transient monoclonal gammopathy in hydralazine induced lupus erythematosus.
	Y Shoenfeld, D Isenberg
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.224-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Computed tomographic abnormalities of the pituitary in hyperprolactinaemic women.
	G Teasdale, J Thomson, C Semple, E Teasdale, P Macpherson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:224-225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.224-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Blue plaques: London houses of medicohistorical interest.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.225 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Monoamine oxidase inhibitors in depression.
	P Rowan
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:225-226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.225-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Congenital dislocation of the hip.
	C H Cheetham, D H Garrow, P Tarin, A W Medhurst
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.227-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Yersinia and chronic glomerulopathy in the savannah region of Nigeria.
	J Vandepitte, G Wauters
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:227-228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.227-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction: Assessment of the accuracy and role of self-recorded blood pressures in the management of hypertension
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	Correction: Management of traumatic intracranial haematoma
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.187-a [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Articles

This week's Articles

	OBITUARY
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:229-231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.229 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	NEWS AND NOTES
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:232-237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.232 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:213-217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.213 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	An absence of alcohol policy
	Neil Kessel
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:221-222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.221-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Choosing treatment for metastatic breast cancer
	Ezra M Greenspan
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.222-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Multimodal treatment in operable breast cancer
	Anna Rossi
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.223 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Multimodal treatment in operable breast cancer
	R W Blamey
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.223-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Popular marathons: forecasting casualties
	J P Nicholl, B T Williams
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.223-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Do it yourself obituaries
	A P Radford
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.223-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Do it yourself obituaries
	Ronald Bedford
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:223-224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.223-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Do it yourself obituaries
	Eliot Slater
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.224 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Do it yourself obituaries
	K Raghavendra
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.224-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Do it yourself obituaries
	T B Boulton
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.224-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Do it yourself obituaries
	Walter Hedgcock
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.224-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Blue plaques: London houses of medicohistorical interest
	Claire Graham
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.225-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Blue plaques: London houses of medicohistorical interest
	Richard H Ellis
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.225-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dietary protein energy supplementation of pregnant Asian mothers
	B A Wharton
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.225-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New thoughts for the Health Education Council
	Brian Bailey, David A Player
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.226 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New thoughts for the Health Education Council
	Bernard M Laurance
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.226-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New thoughts for the Health Education Council
	O A N Husain
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.226-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New thoughts for the Health Education Council
	Katherine McIntosh
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:226-227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.226-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Disciplinary attitudes and cigarette smoking: a comparison of two schools
	V G Tirlapur
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.227 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Promoting children's home safety
	R Hugh Jackson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.227-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Can infection be abolished?
	Norman R Grist
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.228 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Respect for traditional medicine
	Patricia B R Kolman
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.228-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical unemployment
	Gordon Parker
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.228-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	All doctors are equal
	Emmanuel Udezue
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.228-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Medical Practice

This week's Medical Practice

	Medicine and the Media
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:218-219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.218 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	Philip Bentley
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.220 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice Observed

This week's Practice Observed

	Conference Report: Primary health care: is it poor care for poor people?
	Sue Burkhart
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:195-196, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.195 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	Smoking in patients with advanced lung disease.
	A E Tattersfield
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:163-164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.163 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Consequences of intrauterine growth retardation.
	C G Brook
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:164-165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.164 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tuberculosis: who should prescribe?
	N Horne
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.165 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Legislation and medical ethics.
	J D Havard
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:165-166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.165-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Failure patterns after total hip replacement.
	J E Nixon
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:166-170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.166 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of attitudes and beliefs on exercise tolerance in chronic bronchitis.
	A D Morgan, D F Peck, D R Buchanan, G J McHardy
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:171-173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.171 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Low phospholipid arachidonic acid values in diabetic platelets.
	D B Jones, R D Carter, B Haitas, J I Mann
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:173-175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.173 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Plasmapheresis in the initial treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in children.
	J Ludvigsson, L Heding, G Liedén, B Marner, A Lernmark
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:176-178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.176 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Are "pink puffers" more breathless than "blue bloaters"?
	M A Johnson, A A Woodcock, M Rehahn, D M Geddes
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:179-182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.179 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Vitamin D state of Asians living in Pakistan.
	A Rashid, T Mohammed, W P Stephens, S Warrington, J L Berry, E B Mawer
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:182-184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.182 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Epidemiology of cholera in travellers, and conclusions for vaccination recommendations.
	H Morger, R Steffen, M Schär
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:184-186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.184 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Therapeutic retraction of the foreskin in childhood.
	G G Cooper, G J Thomson, P A Raine
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:186-187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.186 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Detection of rotavirus in handwashings of attendants of children with diarrhoea.
	A R Samadi, M I Huq, Q S Ahmed
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.188 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reactive arthritis associated with Staphylococcus epidermidis peritonitis in patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
	B R Hughes, C R Hind
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:188-189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.188-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lithium-induced constructional dyspraxia.
	E P Worrall, R A Gillham
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.189 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Why patients were lost from follow-up at an urban diabetic clinic.
	I N Scobie, A B Rafferty, P C Franks, P H Sönksen
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:189-190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.189-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Valproic acid and fetal abnormality.
	C J Bailey, R W Pool, E M Poskitt, F Harris
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.190 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	General practice in 2000. Alma Ata declaration.
	J Horder
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:191-194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.191 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Acne and oral contraceptives.
	D M Lawrence, M Katz, G C Lachelin, M Shaw
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:196, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.196 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Intrauterine contraceptive device clinic in a group practice.
	N Naish
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:197-198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.197 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Identification of adverse reactions to new drugs. I: What have been the important adverse reactions since thalidomide?
	G R Venning
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:199-202, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.199 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Occult pneumococcal bacteraemia and febrile convulsions.
	P McIntyre, R Kennedy, F Harris
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:203-206, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.203 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Careers outside hospital and general practice.
	P Rhodes
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:206-207, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.206 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Leg ulcers that do not heal.
	J S Ackroyd, A E Young
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:207-208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.207 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of brain stem death. The position in the USA and elsewhere.
	C Pallis
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:209-210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.209 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Death over the counter.
	G Dunea
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:211-212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.211 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Relations between private practice and the NHS: a personal view.
	D E Bolt
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:239-240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.239 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Budgeting for pharmaceuticals.
	M S Patel
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:241-242, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.241 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Supplement

This week's Supplement

	The Week
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.238 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New agreement for police surgeons and other local authority work
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1983;286:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.286.6360.240 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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