NEWS AND NOTES
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:215-217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.215 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	OBITUARY
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:218-219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.218 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:203-205, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.203 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Research

This week's Clinical Research

	Gastric exocrine "failure" in critically ill patients: incidence and associated features
	V A Stannard, A Hutchinson, D L Morris, A Byrne
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:155-156, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.155 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prevalence of microalbuminuria, arterial hypertension, retinopathy, and neuropathy in patients with insulin dependent diabetes
	Hans-Henrik Parving, Eva Hommel, Elisabeth Mathiesen, Peter Skøtt, Berit Edsberg, Mogens Bahnsen, Mogens Lauritzen, Philip Hougaard, Erik Lauritzen
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:156-160, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.156 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	Retreat from openness
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:207, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.207 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Retreat from openness
	Gerald Draper
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:207, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.207-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Retreat from openness
	Ann Cartwright
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:207-208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.207-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Retreat from openness
	J S Metters
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.208 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Retreat from openness
	Alwyn Smith
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.208-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Retreat from openness
	Jeff Prosser
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.208-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Retreat from openness
	John Petrie
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.208-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Retreat from openness
	Spencer Hagard
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:208, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.208-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New year message
	Anthony Thould
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:208-209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.208-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New year message
	Sonia D Alexander
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.209 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New year message
	D L Crosby
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.209-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New year message
	John Peet
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.209-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Living wills and treatment refusal
	Bob Baldwin
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.210 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths in children with inguinal hernia
	S J Harper, G H Bush
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.210-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Penile cancer and smoking
	Peter N Lee
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.210-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Penile cancer and smoking: Authors' reply
	Dan Hellberg, Tore Eklund, Staffan Nilsson, Jack Valentin
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:210-211, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.210-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sensitive thyrotrophin assays
	E H McLaren, A A Lakhdar, J Tillman
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:211, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.211 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Important new treatments for acute ischaemic stroke?
	Göran Frithz
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:211, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.211-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Blood in Scotland
	John D Cash
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:211, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.211-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Communication of drug treatment to general practitioners
	J A Wilson, G Flynn, R G Smith
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:211-212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.211-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fiddling while tobacco burns
	N Islam
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.212 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis of ophthalmia neonatorum
	Peter Rudd
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.212-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis of ophthalmia neonatorum: Authors' Reply
	Joseph Winceslaus, Beng T Goh, Eric M C Dunlop, Janet Mantell, Ralph M Woodland, Tomothy Forsey, John D Treharne
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.212-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Death by inches
	Mary Wilson, Brennan Wilson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:212, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.212-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Photographs: a tool of discrimination?
	T Cundy
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.213 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Babies, bottles, and boobs
	Cherrie A Coghlan
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.213-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: The morality of the QALY
	Keith W James
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.213-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: District cancer physicians
	J S Malpas, T J McElwain
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.213-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: The eyes closed sign
	Clifford Hawkins
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.213-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: London weighting allowance
	Nicholas J H Davies
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.213-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Important new treatments for acute ischaemic stroke?
	Nawab Qizilbash
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.213-f [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Facial flushing after intra-articular injection of steroid
	D N Golding
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.213-g [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Convalescent beds
	John Neasham
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.213-h [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Leukaemia risks near nuclear sites
	R H Taylor, R A F Cox, J A Bonnell
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:i-214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.213-i [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Style
	Robert Cutler
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.214 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug points: Chest pain after captopril
	J B Davis
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.214-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug points: Near fatal auditory hallucinations after buprenorphine
	E C Paraskevaides
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.214-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug points: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome associated with metoclopramide
	T Cassidy, S K Bansal
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.214-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug points: Erythromycin: a case of nightmares
	Nerys R Williams
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:214, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.214-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Leading Articles

This week's Leading Articles

	The need to make rugby safer
	H C Burry, C J Calcinai
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:149-150, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.149 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tardive dyskinesia
	Thomas R E Barnes
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:150-151, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.150 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Extracorporeal gas exchange in acute respiratory failure
	Keith L Dorrington
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:151-152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.151 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The private hospital and the surgical trainee
	Harold Ellis
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:152, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.152 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical marriage: no bed of roses
	Alyson Hall
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:152-153, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.152-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Spout or pouch? Alternatives for patients with ileostomies
	Neil Mortensen
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:153-154, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.153 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Medical Practice

This week's Medical Practice

	For Debate: Dermatologists should not be concerned in routine treatments of warts
	M Keefe, D C Dick
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:177-179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.177 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Witchdoctors in Africa
	A B Koziell, I F Laurenson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:179-181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.179 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Nursing Grievances: III: Conditions
	Tony Delamothe
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:182-185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.182 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is research to be privatised?
	Richard Smith
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:185-188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.185 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Dermatology: Bacterial infection
	P K Buxton
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:189-192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.189 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Everyday Aids and Appliances: Communication aids
	Jayne Easton
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:193-195, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.193 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New Drugs: Peptic ulceration
	Donald G Weir
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:195-200, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.195 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Conversations with Consultants: Dr S the gastroenterologist
	Tony Smith
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:200-201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.200 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:202, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.202 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Papers and Short Reports

This week's Papers and Short Reports

	Successful non-invasive management of erectile impotence in diabetic men
	P G Wiles
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:161-162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.161 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical cost of curing childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
	Kate Wheeler, Alison D Leiper, Leila Jannoun, Judith M Chessells
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:162-166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.162 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Should colonoscopy be the first investigation for colonic disease?
	D C Lindsay, J G Freeman, I Cobden, C O Record
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:167-169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.167 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Apolipoprotein B polymorphism and altered apolipoprotein B and low density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations in Finnish children
	M J Tikkanen, J Viikari, H K Åkerblom, E Pesonen
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:169-170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.169 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Transporting critically ill patients by ambulance: audit by sickness scoring
	J F Bion, I H Wilson, P A Taylor
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.170 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is altered cardiac sensation responsible for chest pain in patients with normal coronary arteries? Clinical observation during cardiac catheterisation
	Leonard M Shapiro, Tom Crake, Philip A Poole-Wilson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:170-171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.170-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hyperthyroidism after gonadotrophic ovarian stimulation
	M Noppen, B Velkeniers, P Buydens, P Devroey, A Van Steirteghem, L Vanhaelst
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:171-172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.171 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Importance of negative result of cervical biopsy directed by colposcopy
	Paul Byrne, Joseph Jordan, Dennis Williams, Ciaran Woodman
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.172 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice Observed

This week's Practice Observed

	Narrowing the health gap between a deprived and an endowed community
	G N Marsh, D M Channing
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:173-176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.173 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	Personal view.
	R. F. Bury
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:206, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.206 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Supplement

This week's Supplement

	The Week
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.220 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prime Minister's mind not closed on medical defence
	John Warden
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.221 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the council: Opposition to optical and dental charges
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:222-223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.222 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital medical staffing in Scotland: the Shaw report
	Andrew Vallance-Owen
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:224-226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.224 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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