Advanced rectal cancer.
	BMJ  1990;300:606-607, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.606 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Should fertile people have access to in vitro fertilisation?
	M Ratcliffe, G Flett, A Dawson, A Templeton
	BMJ  1990;300:607, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.607-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Research ethics committees.
	BMJ  1990;300:607-608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.607-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What is medically pointless?
	M Evans
	BMJ  1990;300:608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.608-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' right to know.
	G Rylance
	BMJ  1990;300:608-609, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.608-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Impotence after prostatectomy.
	H W Gilbert, J C Gingell
	BMJ  1990;300:609, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.609 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Scuba divers with asthma.
	BMJ  1990;300:609-610, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.609-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Should radiologists talk to patients?
	BMJ  1990;300:610, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.610 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Variations in reported serum alkaline phosphatase activities.
	S G Parker
	BMJ  1990;300:610, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.610-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Why are the Japanese living longer?
	T Sakuta
	BMJ  1990;300:610, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.610-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Nibblers, gorgers, snackers, and grazers.
	BMJ  1990;300:610-611, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.610-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Districts' use of thrombolytic agents.
	BMJ  1990;300:611-612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.611-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Node negative breast cancer.
	J Grogono
	BMJ  1990;300:612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.612 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Crisis in our hospital kitchens.
	S Murdoch, P S Murdoch
	BMJ  1990;300:612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.612-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Geographic variations in blood pressure.
	W E Miall
	BMJ  1990;300:612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.612-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lymphomatoid granulomatosis.
	P G Isaacson
	BMJ  1990;300:612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.612-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Detection of intravenous drug use.
	M Farrell, J Herrod, B Smith, J Strang
	BMJ  1990;300:612-613, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.612-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Articles

This week's Articles

	News
	BMJ  1990;300:557-562, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.557 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Obituary
	BMJ  1990;300:602-605, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.602 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	BMA Affairs
	BMJ  1990;300:615-616, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.615 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	Bob Bury
	BMJ  1990;300:617, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.617 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	BMJ  1990;300:620, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.620 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	BMJ  1990;300:618-619, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.618 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correspondence

This week's Correspondence

	Advanced rectal cancer
	J S Morgan, M Quigley
	BMJ  1990;300:606, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.606-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advanced rectal cancer
	T G Allen-Mersh
	BMJ  1990;300:606-607, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.606-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advanced rectal cancer
	J A Haggie
	BMJ  1990;300:607, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.607 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Research ethics committees
	Anthony P Madden
	BMJ  1990;300:607-608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.607-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Research ethics committees
	A Rushton, G H Murray
	BMJ  1990;300:608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.608 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Research ethics committees
	Michael Drury
	BMJ  1990;300:608, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.608-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Scuba divers with asthma
	Stephen J Watt, William J Gunnyeon
	BMJ  1990;300:609, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.609-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Scuba divers with asthma: Authors' reply
	Peter Glanvill, Patrick Farrell
	BMJ  1990;300:609-610, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.609-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Should radiologists talk to patients?
	Mark Charig, Fred W Wright
	BMJ  1990;300:610, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.610-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Nibblers, gorgers, snackers, and grazers
	R J Jarrett
	BMJ  1990;300:611, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.611 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Consultants' views on NHS trusts
	K A Jaleel
	BMJ  1990;300:611, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.611-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Districts' use of thrombolytic agents
	S G Fort, A G Chappell
	BMJ  1990;300:611-612, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.611-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Demoralised doctors
	Derek Meyers
	BMJ  1990;300:613, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.613 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Use of newsprint to wrap fish
	D M G Wishart
	BMJ  1990;300:613, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.613-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	Calcium sensitisers.
	J A Lee, D G Allen
	BMJ  1990;300:551-552, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.551 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Surgery and salmonella.
	J G Mosley, A K Chaudhuri
	BMJ  1990;300:552-553, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.552 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Raynaud's syndrome.
	E D Cooke, A N Nicolaides
	BMJ  1990;300:553-555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.553 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Care for the infirm elderly.
	C Godber, J Higgins
	BMJ  1990;300:555-556, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.555 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prevalence of vertebral compression fractures due to osteoporosis in ankylosing spondylitis.
	S H Ralston, G D Urquhart, M Brzeski, R D Sturrock
	BMJ  1990;300:563-565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.563 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Coffee consumption and death from coronary heart disease in middle aged Norwegian men and women.
	A Tverdal, I Stensvold, K Solvoll, O P Foss, P Lund-Larsen, K Bjartveit
	BMJ  1990;300:566-569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.566 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Blood pressure response to percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for renovascular hypertension: an overview of published series.
	L E Ramsay, P C Waller
	BMJ  1990;300:569-572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.569 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Association between recombinant human erythropoietin and quality of life and exercise capacity of patients receiving haemodialysis. Canadian Erythropoietin Study Group.
	BMJ  1990;300:573-578, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.573 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Short term increase in risk of breast cancer associated with full term pregnancy.
	E M Williams, L Jones, M P Vessey, K McPherson
	BMJ  1990;300:578-579, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.578 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Proliferative retinopathy and nephropathy at presentation in young insulin dependent diabetics.
	J A O'Hare
	BMJ  1990;300:579-580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.579 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood leukaemia around the La Hague nuclear waste reprocessing plant.
	J F Viel, S T Richardson
	BMJ  1990;300:580-581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.580 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effectiveness of using end tidal carbon dioxide concentration to monitor cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
	D Higgins, M Hayes, W Denman, D J Wilkinson
	BMJ  1990;300:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.581 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of acute otitis media: report from International Primary Care Network.
	J Froom, L Culpepper, P Grob, A Bartelds, P Bowers, C Bridges-Webb, I Grava-Gubins, L Green, J Lion, B Somaini
	BMJ  1990;300:582-586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.582 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Creating a new drug service in Edinburgh.
	J Greenwood
	BMJ  1990;300:587-589, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.587 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Portal vein thrombosis in myeloproliferative disease. Uses of thrombolytic and antiplatelet treatment.
	H Fidler, A Booth, H J Hodgson, J Calam, L Luzatto, J M Hughes
	BMJ  1990;300:590-592, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.590 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Gall stones.
	I A Bouchier
	BMJ  1990;300:592-597, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.592 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Toddlers, teapots, and kettles: beware intraoral scalds.
	D J Dye, M A Milling, E R Emmanuel, K V Craddock
	BMJ  1990;300:597-598, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.597 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of transfusion. Red cell substitutes.
	W Odling-Smee
	BMJ  1990;300:599-601, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.599 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Quinine induced granulomatous hepatitis and vasculitis.
	S Mathur, J Dooley, P J Scheuer
	BMJ  1990;300:613, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.613-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Convulsions induced by enoximone administered as a continuous intravenous infusion.
	I Appadurai, M Edmunds, R Wyatt, T J Spyt
	BMJ  1990;300:613-614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.613-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Acute dystonia induced by midazolam and abolished by flumazenil.
	I H Stolarek, M J Ford
	BMJ  1990;300:614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.614 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hypertensive crisis precipitated by a monoamine oxidase inhibitor in a patient with phaeochromocytoma.
	R F Cook, D Katritsis
	BMJ  1990;300:614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.614-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical signs of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis developing after polyradiculoneuropathy associated with amitriptyline.
	D Leys, H Petit
	BMJ  1990;300:614, doi: 10.1136/bmj.300.6724.614-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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