NEWS AND NOTES
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1069-1071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1069 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	OBITUARY
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1072-1074, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1072 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	Efficiency savings or financial cuts
	T S Low-Beer
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1061, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1061 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The blood transfusion service and the National Health Service
	J E W Van de Pette, Janet A Shirley
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1061, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1061-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The blood transfusion service and the National Health Service
	K Ll Rogers
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1061-1062, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1061-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of growth hormone on short normal children
	Denis Gill
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1063, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1063 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of growth hormone on short normal children
	Terence Wilkin
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1063, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1063-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of growth hormone on short normal children:: Authors' reply
	Charles G D Brook, Peter Hindmarsh
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1063, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1063-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commercialisation of medical education
	Alan Gilston
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1064, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1064-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commercialisation of medical education
	Julian M Leigh
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1064, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1064-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A test for manpower planning
	Ian Brockington
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1067, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1067 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A test for manpower planning
	Gary Butler
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1067, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1067-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital and community health service costs: England and Scotland compared
	Stephen Birch, Alan Maynard
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1067, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1067-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Training doctors and surgeons to meet the surgical needs of Africa
	G N Kalla
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1067-1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1067-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Is schizophrenia a neurodevelopmental disorder?
	S J Cooper, D J King
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1068 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Cardiac tamponade
	D J Fairlamb
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1068-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Permanent pacing
	H A Fleming
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1068-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Skeletal dysplasias
	William Shakespeare
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1068-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: How to organise a clinical examination
	A J Elliott
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1068-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Device to permit recapping of syringes without risk of infection
	C Reisner
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1068-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Treatment of asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism
	A E Young
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1068-f [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Plasma exchange in neurological diseases
	C Pigrau, A Lorente, T Fernández de Sevilla, J M Martínez-Vázquez
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1068-g [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Medical Practice

This week's Medical Practice

	Letter from Amsterdam: Euthanasia
	Robin Hull
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1052, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1052 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1054-1055, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1054 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and Books
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1056-1057, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1056 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What's new in the new editions?
	Clifford Hawkins
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1057-1059, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1057 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1060, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1060 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	Alcohol, coffee, fat, and breast cancer.
	D C Skegg
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1011-1012, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1011 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Spending more on turning patients into people.
	J Walton
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1012-1013, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1012 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Smallpox ten years gone: what next?
	N D Noah, N T Begg
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1013-1014, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1013 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Respiratory care in muscular dystrophy.
	J Z Heckmatt
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1014-1015, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1014 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	RAWP revisited.
	J Smith
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1015, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1015 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The sauna: killer or healer?
	C Hawkins
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1015-1016, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1015-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Benefits and risks of protracted treatment with human recombinant erythropoietin in patients having haemodialysis.
	S Casati, P Passerini, M R Campise, G Graziani, B Cesana, M Perisic, C Ponticelli
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1017-1020, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1017 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fatal toxicity of antidepressant drugs in overdose.
	S Cassidy, J Henry
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1021-1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1021 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Secretor state of patients with insulin dependent or non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
	C C Blackwell, V S James, D M Weir, J D Gemmill, A W Patrick, A Collier, B F Clarke
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1024-1025, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1024 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Quality of haemofiltration fluids: a potential cause of severe electrolyte imbalance.
	N D Barber, J S Gibbs, P Barrett, K M Fox
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1025, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1025 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Increased cough reflex associated with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor cough.
	R W Fuller, N B Choudry
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1025-1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1025-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mania induced by biochemical imbalance resulting from low energy diet in a patient with undiagnosed myxoedema.
	G Zolese, R Henryk-Gutt
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1026-1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1026 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Faecal peritonitis induced by picolax.
	R F Phipps, S Fraser
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1027 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Incidence of the premenstrual syndrome in twins.
	K Dalton, M E Dalton, K Guthrie
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1027-1028, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1027-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Continuous arteriovenous haemofiltration in patients with hepatic encephalopathy and renal failure.
	A Davenport, E J Will, M S Losowsky, S Swindells
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1028, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1028 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Creating a general practice data set: new role for Northumberland Local Medical Committee.
	A Hutchinson, P Mitford, M Aylett
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1029-1032, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1029 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and witchdoctors: which doctors are which? I.
	L Briskman
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1033-1036, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1033 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cell reproduction.
	P Nurse
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1037-1038, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1037 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reviewing RAWP. Variations in admission rates: implications for equitable allocation of resources.
	G Bevan, R Ingram
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1039-1042, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1039 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Write for money.
	M O'Donnell
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1042-1043, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1042 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Study of intellectual performance of children in ordinary schools after certain serious complications of whooping cough. Swansea Research Unit of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1044-1047, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1044 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of dermatology. Eczema and dermatitis.
	P K Buxton
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1048-1051, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1048 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Whooping cough vaccine on trial again.
	C Dyer
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1053-1054, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1053 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Aluminium and human albumin solutions.
	B Cuthbertson, W E McBay, A G Welch, R J Perry, P R Foster
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1062, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1062 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Liver disease and platelet function in alcoholics.
	D P Mikhailidis, M A Barradas, J Y Jeremy, P Dandona
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1062-1063, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1062-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm presenting as ureteric colic.
	F T de Dombal, S Telfer
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1063-1064, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1063-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bone turnover and trabecular plate survival after artificial menopause.
	P W Thompson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1064, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1064 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is birth weight determined genetically?
	I M Harvey, T J Peters, R R West
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1064, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1064-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing late abortions.
	D B Paintin
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1064-1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1064-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tonsillar enlargement and failure to thrive.
	N J Shaw, I Bowler, P R Dear
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1065 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Regional neonatal intensive care: bias and benefit.
	M R Cohn
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1065-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Health promotion campaigns.
	N Job-Spira, L Meyer, E Bouvet-Koskas, A Spira
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1065-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sexual dysfunction in women with Crohn's disease.
	A M Lichtarowicz, J F Mayberry
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1065-1066, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1065-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Children born in Seascale.
	D Crouch
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1066, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1066 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Keeping up with orthopaedic epidemics.
	T R Austin
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1066, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1066-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reference bias in reports of drug trials.
	K Dickersin
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1066-1067, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1066-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Obstetricians on the labour ward: implications of medical staffing structures.
	V A Coupland, J M Green, J V Kitzinger, M P Richards
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1077-1079, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1077 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Supplement

This week's Supplement

	The Week
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1075, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1075 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Abortion minefield for doctors
	John Warden
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1076, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1076 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minister gives aims for primary care
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1987;295:1080, doi: 10.1136/bmj.295.6605.1080 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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