Privatising microbiology services.
	N. R. Grist
	BMJ  1989;299:1098, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1098 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cytomegalovirus in blood from blood donors.
	M. Contreras, J. A. Barbara, C. McDonald
	BMJ  1989;299:1098, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1098-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Colourings and preservatives in drugs.
	F. Wells
	BMJ  1989;299:1099, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1099-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Depot medroxyprogesterone and risk of breast cancer.
	R. H. Gray
	BMJ  1989;299:1099, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1099-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rape and subsequent seroconversion to HIV.
	R. Hillman, D. Taylor-Robinson, N. O'Mara
	BMJ  1989;299:1100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1100 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Passive smoking and cardiorespiratory health in Scotland.
	D. J. Hole, C. R. Gillis, C. Chopra, V. M. Hawthorne
	BMJ  1989;299:1100-1101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1100-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Psychiatric illness among the homeless.
	K. R. Lethem, C. R. Pugh
	BMJ  1989;299:1101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1101-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Safety of Picolax in inflammatory bowel disease.
	M. Evans, J. Walker-Smith, C. Williams
	BMJ  1989;299:1101-1102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1101-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Symptoms of oestrogen deficiency in women with oestradiol implants.
	P. Wardle, R. Fox
	BMJ  1989;299:1102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1102 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Immunisation: causes of failure and strategies for success.
	S. Chadwick
	BMJ  1989;299:1102-1103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1102-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rules for drug trials.
	I. Oswald
	BMJ  1989;299:1103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1103-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction: Influence of past reproductive performance on risk of spontaneous abortion
	BMJ  1989;299:1082, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1082-a [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction
	BMJ  1989;299:1097, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1097 [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Articles

This week's Articles

	News
	BMJ  1989;299:1063-1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1063 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Obituary
	BMJ  1989;299:1095-1097, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1095 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMA Affairs
	BMJ  1989;299:1104-1109, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1104 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Notes
	BMJ  1989;299:1109, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1109 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Opinion
	BMJ  1989;299:1110, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1110 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	T C O'Dowd
	BMJ  1989;299:1111, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1111 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	BMJ  1989;299:1114, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1114 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	BMJ  1989;299:1112-1113, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1112 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	Why are operations cancelled?
	Philip Robinson
	BMJ  1989;299:1098-1099, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1098-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Why are operations cancelled?
	P M Yate
	BMJ  1989;299:1099, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1099 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care of patients with mental disorder in the community
	R C Humphreys, N C H Stott
	BMJ  1989;299:1099-1100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1099-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Referrals from general practice to hospital outpatient departments
	Philip Harrison, Robert Blewitt
	BMJ  1989;299:1101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1101 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Provision of services
	Margaret E Pickering-Pick
	BMJ  1989;299:1101, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1101-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Body mass index and diastolic blood pressure
	J Marley, J Curram
	BMJ  1989;299:1102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1102-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia
	William A Silverman
	BMJ  1989;299:1102, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1102-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Overprescribing
	Alan L Yell
	BMJ  1989;299:1103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1103 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	"Balances" and "safety nets"
	C H Cheetham, A Earley, H M Fleet
	BMJ  1989;299:1103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1103-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dementia syndrome and the community charge
	Parsley Power Smith, Gwilym D Hayes, Paul Rowlands
	BMJ  1989;299:1103, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1103-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	Risks and benefits of prophylactic antimalarial drugs.
	A. Breckenridge
	BMJ  1989;299:1057-1058, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1057 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Survival of patients with cancer.
	C. A. Stiller
	BMJ  1989;299:1058-1059, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1058 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Annual reports on public health.
	N. Black
	BMJ  1989;299:1059-1060, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1059 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Gall bladder lithotripsy.
	G. Matthews
	BMJ  1989;299:1060-1061, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1060 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Breast cancer and a proto-oncogene.
	D. M. Barnes
	BMJ  1989;299:1061-1062, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1061 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Law, politics, and the GPs' contract.
	T. Smith
	BMJ  1989;299:1062, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1062 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Do treatment protocols improve end results? A study of survival of patients with multiple myeloma in Finland.
	S. Karjalainen, I. Palva
	BMJ  1989;299:1069-1072, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1069 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital admissions before and after shipyard closure.
	L. Iversen, S. Sabroe, M. T. Damsgaard
	BMJ  1989;299:1073-1076, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1073 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Role of community pharmacies in prevention of AIDS among injecting drug misusers: findings of a survey in England and Wales.
	A. Glanz, C. Byrne, P. Jackson
	BMJ  1989;299:1076-1079, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1076 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Suprascapular nerve block for chronic shoulder pain in rheumatoid arthritis.
	P. Emery, S. Bowman, L. Wedderburn, R. Grahame
	BMJ  1989;299:1079-1080, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1079 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cholestasis induced by oestrogen after liver transplantation.
	D. M. Fedorkow, B. Corenblum, E. A. Shaffer
	BMJ  1989;299:1080-1081, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1080 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Bronchodilator effect of atrial natriuretic peptide in asthma.
	G. Hulks, A. Jardine, J. M. Connell, N. C. Thomson
	BMJ  1989;299:1081-1082, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1081 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Managing drug dealers who swallow the evidence.
	B. Marc, R. K. Gherardi, F. J. Baud, M. Garnier, O. Diamant-Berger
	BMJ  1989;299:1082, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1082 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis and treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in general practice.
	D. B. Johnson, C. J. Rowlands
	BMJ  1989;299:1083-1086, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1083 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prophylaxis against malaria for travellers from the United Kingdom. Report of meetings convened by the Malaria Reference Laboratory and the Ross Institute.
	BMJ  1989;299:1087-1089, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1087 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Outcome of pregnancies referred to a general practitioner maternity unit in a district hospital.
	A. Prentice, S. M. Walton
	BMJ  1989;299:1090-1092, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1090 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Campylobacter pylori, duodenal ulcer disease, and gastrin.
	S. Levi, C. T. Dollery, S. R. Bloom, J. Calam, T. M. Cox, H. J. Hodgson, M. S. Losowsky, M. B. Pepys, N. A. Wright, O. M. Wrong
	BMJ  1989;299:1093-1094, doi: 10.1136/bmj.299.6707.1093 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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