Correction: Services for sickle cell disease: unified approach needed
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1426 [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: Psychiatric illness among British Afro-Caribbeans
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1426-a [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: Urinary catheters
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1472-f [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Articles

This week's Articles

	NEWS AND NOTES
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1473-1475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1473 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	OBITUARY
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1476 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1462-1465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1462 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical Research

This week's Clinical Research

	Parasympathetic nervous system in nocturnal asthma
	J F J Morrison, S B Pearson, H G Dean
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1427-1429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1427 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Contribution of alcohol to deaths in road traffic accidents in Tayside 1982-6
	Graham R Foster, James A Dunbar, David Whittet, Gyan C A Fernando
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1430-1432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1430 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Raised titres of anti-klebsiella IgA in ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease
	R Cooper, S M Fraser, R D Sturrock, C G Gemmell
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1432-1434, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1432 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	Coordinating community care
	S G Barber, P W Haynes
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1467 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Death despite malaria prophylaxis
	N D Kitchen
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1467-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Death despite malaria prophylaxis
	Anthony Hall
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1468 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sunbed lentigines
	B L Diffey, P M Farr
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1468-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of hypercalcaemia of malignancy
	Stuart H Ralston, Iain T Boyle
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1468-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of hypercalcaemia of malignancy: Author's reply
	A R Morton
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1468-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Blood pressure in the very old
	P C Waller
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1468-1469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1468-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Transplantation of fetal tissues
	R M Ridley, H F Baker, A Fine
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1469 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Transplantation of fetal tissues
	Robert M Redfern, John B Miles
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1469-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Risk factors for ischaemic brain infarction
	E Ernst
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1469-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Insulin for the non-insulin dependent?
	Rury R Holman
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1469-1470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1469-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	In vitro fertilisation
	H I Abdalla, T Leonard, R J Baber, A Kirkland, P A R Stocker, E C Owen, J W W Studd
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1470 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Induced ovulation in underweight women
	Vicky Osgood, Jean Ginsburg
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1470-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Imaging of the urinary tract
	M A Stott, P H Abrams, F C L Feneley
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1470-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drug addicts and the GP
	Colin Brewer
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1470-1471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1470-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fibre and patients with diabetes
	A Lakhdar, E Farish, E H McLaren
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1471 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fibre and patients with diabetes
	S R Bloom
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1471-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Neisseria gonorrhoeae resistant to tetracycline
	Catherine A Ison, Khalid Bindayna, Neil Woodford
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1471-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Meningococcal meningitis
	A S Sohal, V R Rao
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1471-1472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1471-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Other health services
	John Large
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1472 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Training in obstetrics and gynaecology
	Peter Gray
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1472-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: After the horror
	Rita Henryk-Gutt
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1472-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Cervical cytology screening
	David Slater
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1472-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Charges for dental examinations
	M J Aldred, P J M Crawford
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1472-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Disabled living centres
	W A Wallace
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1472-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Leading Articles

This week's Leading Articles

	Time to end softly softly approach on harvesting organs for transplantation
	Geoffrey D Chisholm
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1419-1420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1419 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Contact tracing for HIV infection
	Michael W Adler, Anne M Johnson
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1420-1421, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1420 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Disciplining doctors: the need for better methods
	Malcolm Forsythe
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1421-1422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1421 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Intravenous volume replacement: indications and choices
	G Ramsay
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1422-1423, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1422 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Regular Review: Financing health care: lessons from abroad
	Robert J Maxwell
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1423-1426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1423 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Medical Practice

This week's Medical Practice

	AIDS: a bill of rights for the surgical team?
	H A F Dudley, A Sim
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1449-1450, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1449 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Accidents in the home among children under 5: ethnic differences or social disadvantage?
	Rafi Alwash, Mark McCarthy
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1450-1453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1450 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics in Medicine: Calculating confidence intervals for some non-parametric analyses
	Michael J Campbell, Martin J Gardner
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1454-1456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1454 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Green College Lectures: The National Health Service versus private and complementary medicine
	R I S Bayliss
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1457-1459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1457 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Acute abdominal pain due to an acquired disorder of coagulation
	V Roy, M L Tillyer, B T Colvin
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1460 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1461 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	David Livingstone
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1466 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Papers and Short Reports

This week's Papers and Short Reports

	Cooperative study on the value of long term anticoagulation in patients with stroke and non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation
	J Lodder, M S Dennis, L Van Raak, L N Jones, C P Warlow
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1435-1438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1435 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Respiratory illness and home environment of ethnic groups
	R J W Melia, S Chinn, R J Rona
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1438-1441, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1438 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is surgical closure of the back lesion in open neural tube defects necessary?
	G T Deans, V E Boston
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1441-1442, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1441 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Nephrotic syndrome after treatment with 5-aminosalicylic acid
	B H Novis, Z Korzets, P Chen, J Bernheim
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1442, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1442 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Firefighting and malignant hyperthermia
	M A Denborough, K C Hopkinson, D G Banney
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1442-1443, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1442-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Are routine superficial cultures worth while in neonatal practice?
	G P Fox, T A Clarke, T G Matthews
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1443, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1443 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Anorexia nervosa in a 70 year old man
	N Nagaratnam, D F Ghougassian
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1443-1444, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1443-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Propionibacterium acnes
	Therese M O'Neill, Rosemary Hone, Sean Blake
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1444, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1444 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Changing pattern of Crohn's disease in Northern Ireland
	J S Brown, W G Humphreys, T G Parks
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1444-1445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1444-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma after liver retransplantation
	Ids J Klompmaker, Karel M de Bruijn, Annette S H Gouw, Johannes L Bams, Maarten J H Slooff
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1445, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1445 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice Observed

This week's Practice Observed

	Do personal computers make doctors less personal?
	Jan-Joost Rethans, Paul Höppener, George Wolfs, Jos Diederiks
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1446-1448, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1446 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Supplement

This week's Supplement

	The Week
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1477, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1477 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rise of the nurse practitioner
	John Warden
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1478, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1478 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the CCHMS: Reimbursement of defence society subscriptions
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1479-1480, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1479 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Scottish council: Imprudent use of NHS resources, concludes BMA
	Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1988;296:1481-1482, doi: 10.1136/bmj.296.6634.1481 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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