BMA ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNCIL 1987-8
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1-47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.1 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	NEWS AND NOTES
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:937-940, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.937 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	OBITUARY
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:941, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.941 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:925-927, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.925 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Research

This week's Clinical Research

	Breast feeding, nutritional state, and child survival in rural Bangladesh
	André Briend, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Michael G M Rowland
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:879-882, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.879 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Patient and general practitioner delays in acute myocardial infarction
	John M Rawles, Neva E Haites
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:882-884, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.882 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fetal intracardiac transfusions in patients with severe rhesus isoimmunisation
	Magnus Westgren, Anders Selbing, Magnus Stangenberg
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:885-886, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.885 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	The full potential of ultrasound
	S Mindel
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:929, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.929 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Late life depression: undertreated?
	Cornelius L E Katona, Emily J L Finch
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:929-930, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.929-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Late life depression: undertreated?
	Som D Soni, J Shrimankar
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:930, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.930 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hypnotic drug use for the elderly
	Kevin Morgan
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:930, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.930-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hypnotic drug use for the elderly
	Caroline Sullivan
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:930, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.930-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Providing donor organs for transplantation
	J Wallwork, J Hutter, T A H English
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:930-931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.930-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Providing donor organs for transplantation
	Alison Crombie, Joanna Nicholls
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.931 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Do psychiatric registrars take a proper drinking history?
	Rosalyn Coleman, Stuart Turner
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.931-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Acheson: a missed opportunity for the new public health
	Angus Nicoll
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:931, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.931-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Acheson: a missed opportunity for the new public health
	W E Waters
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:931-932, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.931-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Acheson: a missed opportunity for the new public health
	S S Bakhshi
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:932, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.932 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Parathyroid hormone and renal transplants
	Ian R Gunn
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:932, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.932-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Parathyroid hormone and renal transplants
	Stanley Shaldon
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:932, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.932-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Parathyroid hormone and renal transplants: Authors' reply
	Z Varghese, M K Chan, D Wheeler, S F Lui, P S Sweny, J F Moorhead
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:932, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.932-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	False negative colposcopic cervical biopsy
	Paul Byrne, Ciaran Woodman
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:932-933, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.932-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Strict product liability arrives
	Nigel Puttick
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:933, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.933 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dietary management of gastroenteritis
	David N K Symon, Joan Stevenson, Lesley Pearson, Patricia G P Sanderson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:933, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.933-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Refusing to treat the indigent
	M G Jacoby
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:933, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.933-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Genetic counselling
	J G Thornton, R J Lilford
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:933-934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.933-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Who needs pulse oximetry?
	Robin M Weller, Andrew D Lawson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.934 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Who needs pulse oximetry?
	M B Taylor, J G Whitwam
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.934-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Does infection with HIV affect the outcome of pregnancy?
	Mary Hepburn, Colin A Forrest
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:934, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.934-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Antisperm antibodies in infertility
	Z I Z Ibrahim, B Lowe, P L Matson, B A Lieberman, M R Haeney, S E Farrand
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:934-935, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.934-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Career counselling for general practitioners
	Paul Sackin
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:935, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.935 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Solving the problem of longitude
	Charles G Phillips
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:935, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.935-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Should the pill be stopped preoperatively?
	R D Eastham
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:935, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.935-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: HIV, genital ulceration, and granuloma inguinale
	Nigel O'Farrell
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:935, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.935-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Newly registered elderly patients
	Phyllis Lemon
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:935, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.935-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Negative results at cervical biopsy directed by colposcopy
	Fabio Parazzini
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:935-936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.935-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Acute pancreatitis
	Leslie Turner
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.936 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Controlling symptoms in advanced cancer
	M D Thomas
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.936-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Dermatologists and warts
	K Shanmugaratnam, R S Pattman
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.936-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Malaria in Britain
	P J Lehner, A P Jepson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.936-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Laboratory staff in the National Blood Transfusion Service
	J A F Napier
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.936-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Westminster and Chelsea Hospital
	P K Barnes, D A Brewerton, H Ellis
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.936-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Who needs pulse oximetry?
	Stephen Chapman
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.936-f [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Transporting critically ill patients by ambulance
	Humphrey Scott
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.936-g [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Product liability and GPs
	S J Jennings
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:936, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.936-h [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: The need to make rugby safer
	J M Cundy
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.936-i [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Leading Articles

This week's Leading Articles

	Haemorrhagic colitis and Escherichia coli 0157—a pathogen unmasked
	J Symonds
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:875-876, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.875 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Griffiths on community care: potentially disastrous
	Elaine Murphy
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:876-877, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.876 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Plastic insulin syringes: reuse or waste £8m a year
	William D Alexander, Robert Tattersall
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:877-878, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.877 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Polycystic ovaries in childhood
	C G D Brook, H S Jacobs, R Stanhope
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:878, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.878 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Medical Practice

This week's Medical Practice

	Körner, nomenclature, and SNOMED
	Richard Earlam
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:903-905, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.903 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Detecting bacteriuria in a primary maternal and child health care programme
	K S Joseph, K N Brahmadathan, Sulochana Abraham, Abraham Joseph
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:906-907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.906 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	General practitioners' use of written materials during consultations
	Lorna Tapper-Jones, Simon A Smail, Roisin Pill, Robert Harvard Davis
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:908-909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.908 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A licence for breast cancer screening?
	J B Witcombe
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:909-911, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.909 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Letter from Chicago: Nurse shortages
	George Dunea
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:911-912, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.911 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New Drugs: Prescribing in old age
	Cameron G Swift
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:913-915, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.913 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Dermatology: The skin and systemic disease II
	P K Buxton
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:916-917, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.916 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Everyday Aids and Appliances: Toilet aids
	N D Penn
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:918-919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.918 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Research Policy: Medical researchers: training and straining
	Richard Smith
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:920-924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.920 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	Vernon Kenneth Hochuli
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:928, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.928 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Papers and Short Reports

This week's Papers and Short Reports

	Blood pressure and five year survival in the very old
	Kari Mattila, Matti Haavisto, Sulo Rajala, Rauno Heikinheimo
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:887-889, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.887 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Asthma as a link between chest illness in childhood and chronic cough and phlegm in young adults
	D P Strachan, H R Anderson, J M Bland, C Peckham
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:890-893, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.890 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of acute non-specific upper respiratory tract infections in healthy men taking dapsone-pyrimethamine for prophylaxis against malaria
	Pheng Soon Lee, Edwin Y L Lau
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:893-895, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.893 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Brachial plexus neuropathy associated with human parvovirus infection
	Kevin J Walsh, R D Armstrong, A M Turner
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:896, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.896 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Intraperitoneal calcium for resistant symptomatic hypocalcaemia after parathyroidectomy in chronic renal failure
	T J Thompson, T J Neale
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:896-897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.896-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rash mediated by immune complexes associated with ranitidine treatment
	N Haboubi, P Asquith
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:897, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.897 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Spread of Neisseria gonorrhoeae resistant to tetracycline outside the United States of America
	M A Waugh, C J N Lacey, P M Hawkey, J Heritage, A Turner, A E Jephcott
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:898, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.898 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Frequency of attendance at anticoagulant clinics: a prospective study
	M R Howard, D W Milligan
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:898-899, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.898-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Haemolytic uraemic syndrome in adults
	D J White, F Yong, M W McKendrick
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:899, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.899 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice Observed

This week's Practice Observed

	Some patterns of prescribing by urban general practitioners
	Hugh McGavock
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:900-902, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.900 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	Annual report of Council, 1987-1988: medical ethics.
	British Medical Association
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:30-32, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.30 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Annual report of Council, 1987-1988, Appendix V: practical guide to medical ethics.
	British Medical Association
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:40-47, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.40 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Supplement

This week's Supplement

	The Week
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:942, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.942 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From budgets to babies
	John Warden
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:943, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.943 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Negotiations begin on white paper
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:944-945, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.944 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Local authorities should coordinate community care, says Griffiths
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:945, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.945 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Call for negotiated limitation on continuous hours of work
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:946, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6626.946 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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