Fish oil and plasma fibrinogen.
	BMJ  1988;297:615-616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.615 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Botulinum toxin treatment of spasmodic torticollis.
	R. Stell, R. Coleman, P. Thompson, C. D. Marsden
	BMJ  1988;297:616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.616 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Continuous arteriovenous haemodialysis.
	BMJ  1988;297:616-617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.616-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cardiovascular risk factors.
	D. Simmons
	BMJ  1988;297:617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.617 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cervical cancer associated with mild dyskaryosis.
	BMJ  1988;297:617-618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.617-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Drop of the weak stuff.
	P. Fisher
	BMJ  1988;297:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.618 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Uptake of immunization.
	BMJ  1988;297:618-619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.618-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Surgical closure of the back lesion in open neural tube defects.
	G. T. Deans, V. E. Boston
	BMJ  1988;297:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.619 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Presenting features in Wegener's granulomatosis.
	BMJ  1988;297:619-620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.619-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Plasma oxytocin during third stage of labour.
	BMJ  1988;297:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.620 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Education campaign on early detection of malignant melanoma.
	S. M. Whitehead, M. A. Wroughton
	BMJ  1988;297:620-621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.620-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis.
	BMJ  1988;297:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.621 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Amiodarone and thyroid immunity.
	R. L. Kennedy, T. H. Jones, H. N. Shaukat
	BMJ  1988;297:621-622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.621-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Consensus on testing for HIV.
	BMJ  1988;297:622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.622 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Cleveland inquiry.
	A. Bentovim
	BMJ  1988;297:622-623, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.622-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fetal tachycardias.
	A. D. Cameron, J. J. Walker, C. A. Nimrod
	BMJ  1988;297:623, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.623 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dose ranging study of tissue plasminogen activator in acute myocardial infarction.
	S. J. Day
	BMJ  1988;297:623, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.623-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prevention of malaria.
	BMJ  1988;297:623-624, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.623-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Primary health care for the single homeless.
	P. Elton
	BMJ  1988;297:624, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.624-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Self examination of the breast.
	N. E. Day
	BMJ  1988;297:624, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.624-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thromboses during cytotoxic chemotherapy.
	A. Milne, S. Talbot, D. Bevan
	BMJ  1988;297:624, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.624-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cervical cytology screening.
	A. Sherwood
	BMJ  1988;297:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.625 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of stroke.
	R. L. Hewer
	BMJ  1988;297:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.625-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of ingrowing toenails.
	A. W. Fowler
	BMJ  1988;297:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.625-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	We were wrong
	BMJ  1988;297:580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.580 [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: Uptake of immunisation
	BMJ  1988;297:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.626-i [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Articles

This week's Articles

	News
	BMJ  1988;297:575-580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.575 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Obituary
	BMJ  1988;297:612-614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.612 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Notes
	BMJ  1988;297:627, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.627 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Opinion
	BMJ  1988;297:630, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.630 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	Peter Barnes
	BMJ  1988;297:631, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.631 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	BMJ  1988;297:632, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.632 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	BMJ  1988;297:628-629, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.628 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	Fish oil and plasma fibrinogen
	D P Mikhailidis, M A Barradas, P Dandona
	BMJ  1988;297:615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.615-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fish oil and plasma fibrinogen
	P C Elwood
	BMJ  1988;297:615, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.615-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fish oil and plasma fibrinogen
	H M Sinclair
	BMJ  1988;297:615-616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.615-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Continuous arteriovenous haemodialysis
	H K L Simpson, M E M Allison, A B M Telfer
	BMJ  1988;297:616-617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.616-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cervical cancer associated with mild dyskaryosis: Authors' reply
	J H Robertson, Bertha Woodend, E H Crozier, June Hutchinson
	BMJ  1988;297:617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.617-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cervical cancer associated with mild dyskaryosis
	Micheline Byrne, D Taylor-Robinson, J R W Harris
	BMJ  1988;297:617-618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.617-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Uptake of immunisation: Authors' reply
	Brian Jarman
	BMJ  1988;297:618, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.618-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Uptake of immunisation
	M L Senior, Suzanne J New, A C Gatrell
	BMJ  1988;297:618-619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.618-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Obstructive uropathy
	Peter Davies
	BMJ  1988;297:619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.619-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Presenting features in Wegener's granulomatosis
	Rajesh Kharbanda
	BMJ  1988;297:619-620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.619-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Plasma oxytocin during third stage of labour
	D Tuffnell, S N Tyrell
	BMJ  1988;297:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.620-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Plasma oxytocin during third stage of labour: Authors' reply
	S Thornton, P H Baylis, J M Davison
	BMJ  1988;297:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.620-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis: Authors' reply
	Nigel Bullock
	BMJ  1988;297:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.621-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis
	P M Higgins, G M Aber, P F Naish, David Bennett-Jones
	BMJ  1988;297:621, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.621-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Consensus on testing for HIV
	George D Ikkos
	BMJ  1988;297:622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.622-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Consensus on testing for HIV
	E G Dowsett
	BMJ  1988;297:622, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.622-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dose ranging study of tissue plasminogen activator in acute myocardial infarction: Authors' reply
	Gilbert Mackenzie, Albert Mcneill, Jennifer Adgey
	BMJ  1988;297:623, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.623-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prevention of malaria
	R T D Fitzgerald
	BMJ  1988;297:624, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.624 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A process of denial
	W W Blackburn
	BMJ  1988;297:624-625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.624-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Judgments about patients' lifestyles
	Richard Lim
	BMJ  1988;297:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.625-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Byron and pox
	R P Ryan
	BMJ  1988;297:625, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.625-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Uptake of immunisation
	Gillian Sleight
	BMJ  1988;297:626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.626 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Heart disease in Asians in Britain
	Stephen Head
	BMJ  1988;297:626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.626-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Heart disease in Asians in Britain
	Harpreet S Kohli
	BMJ  1988;297:626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.626-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
	J C M Sharp
	BMJ  1988;297:626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.626-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Restless leg syndrome
	Christian von Schéele
	BMJ  1988;297:626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.626-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Health and the ozone layer
	E S Shearer
	BMJ  1988;297:626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.626-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Ultrasound screening and abdominal aortic aneurysm
	R A P Scott
	BMJ  1988;297:626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.626-f [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Voluntary drug rationalisation programmes
	J R Trounce
	BMJ  1988;297:626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.626-g [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Points: Academic freedom at the MRC
	D A Rees
	BMJ  1988;297:626, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.626-h [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	Holding back the tide of caesareans.
	J. Lomas
	BMJ  1988;297:569-570, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.569 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Anyone for tetanus?
	J. G. Howie
	BMJ  1988;297:570-571, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.570 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Oestrogens and cardiovascular disease.
	R. Beaglehole
	BMJ  1988;297:571-572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.571 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Complications of central venous cannulation.
	C. G. Kaye, D. R. Smith
	BMJ  1988;297:572-573, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.572 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Selenium and cancer.
	W. C. Willett, M. J. Stampfer
	BMJ  1988;297:573-574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.573 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Risk factors for infection with human immmunodeficiency virus among European expatriates in Africa.
	L. Bonneux, P. Van der Stuyft, H. Taelman, P. Cornet, C. Goilav, G. van der Groen, P. Piot
	BMJ  1988;297:581-584, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.581 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A prospective study of maternal and fetal outcome in acute Lassa fever infection during pregnancy.
	M. E. Price, S. P. Fisher-Hoch, R. B. Craven, J. B. McCormick
	BMJ  1988;297:584-587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.584 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	High prevalence of diabetes in an urban population in south India.
	A. Ramachandran, M. V. Jali, V. Mohan, C. Snehalatha, M. Viswanathan
	BMJ  1988;297:587-590, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.587 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Save the prepuce. Painless separation of preputial adhesions in the outpatient clinic.
	G. A. MacKinlay
	BMJ  1988;297:590-591, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.590 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Novel and non-toxic treatment for night terrors.
	B. Lask
	BMJ  1988;297:592, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.592 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Severe reaction to diphosphonate: implications for treatment of Paget's disease.
	A. T. Elliott, T. Murray, R. M. Mackie, J. A. Hunter
	BMJ  1988;297:592-593, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.592-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Plasmapheresis: a rational treatment for fulminant acute pancreatitis?
	M. Larvin, M. R. Lansdown, M. J. McMahon, A. G. Chalmers, J. H. Turney, A. M. Brownjohn
	BMJ  1988;297:593-594, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.593 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Human leucocyte antigen in a Chinese family with thyrotoxic periodic paralysis in Singapore.
	C. F. Sum, A. C. Fok, K. T. Tan, S. H. Chan, J. S. Cheah
	BMJ  1988;297:594-595, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.594 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Notification of tuberculosis: can the pathologist help?
	B. L. Bradley, K. M. Kerr, A. G. Leitch, D. Lamb
	BMJ  1988;297:595, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.595 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of death after release from prison: a duty to warn.
	D. Harding-Pink, O. Fryc
	BMJ  1988;297:596, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.596 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The frozen hip: an underdiagnosed condition.
	M. D. Chard, J. R. Jenner
	BMJ  1988;297:596-597, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.596-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Does wearing two pairs of gloves protect operating theatre staff from skin contamination?
	H. Matta, A. M. Thompson, J. B. Rainey
	BMJ  1988;297:597-598, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.597 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tetanus immunisation state in a general practice population.
	A. M. Dixon, J. A. Bibby
	BMJ  1988;297:598, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.598 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Are referrals by general practitioners influenced by the availability of consultants?
	M. Roland, R. Morris
	BMJ  1988;297:599-600, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.599 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Work of a rehabilitation medicine service.
	C. W. Roy, Y. Arthurs, J. Hunter, S. Parker, A. McLaren
	BMJ  1988;297:601-604, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.601 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hands across the equator: the Hereford/Muheza link.
	J. B. Wood, E. A. Hills
	BMJ  1988;297:604-607, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.604 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of eyes. Squint.
	A. R. Elkington, P. T. Khaw
	BMJ  1988;297:608-611, doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6648.608 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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