Rituals in antenatal care. Consider women's psychosocial needs.
	J Sikorski, J Fleming, S Clement
	BMJ  1993;307:1064, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1064 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Rituals in antenatal care. Women should understand the need for change.
	G Chamberlain
	BMJ  1993;307:1064, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1064-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Routine ultrasound scanning in pregnancy.
	K Salvesen
	BMJ  1993;307:1064, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1064-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Routine postnatal examination. Pelvimetry is unnecessary ...
	P J Danielian, R C Henshaw, H K Hinshaw
	BMJ  1993;307:1064-1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1064-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Assessment of elderly people in hospital. Use clinically relevant assessment tool.
	C Cooper, P Crome
	BMJ  1993;307:1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1065-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Assessment of elderly people in hospital. Assessment scales unevaluated.
	S Ebrahim, R Shinton
	BMJ  1993;307:1065-1066, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1065-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Assessing people's ability to drive after stroke.
	R J Irvine
	BMJ  1993;307:1066, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1066-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Iron and coronary heart disease. Iron makes myocardium vulnerable to ischemia.
	J L Sullivan
	BMJ  1993;307:1066-1067, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1066-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Iron and coronary heart disease. Control for haematological variables.
	I F Godsland, R Bruce, M Worthington, J C Stevenson
	BMJ  1993;307:1067, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1067 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Iron and coronary heart disease. Iron linked to immune activation.
	G Weiss, G Reibnegger, C Murr, H Wachter, D Fuchs
	BMJ  1993;307:1067, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1067-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Kidney granuloma in Whipple's disease.
	M Dhib, F Heron, A Francois, J Bourreile, I Landrin, M Godin
	BMJ  1993;307:1067-1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1067-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Activated charcoal for chloroquine poisoning.
	K T Kivistö, P J Neuvonen
	BMJ  1993;307:1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1068 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Sex differences among recipients of benzodiazepines.
	H Habraken, K Soenen
	BMJ  1993;307:1068, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1068-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment at Broadmoor Hospital.
	A Barker, D Jones, A Franey
	BMJ  1993;307:1069, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1069-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Psychotherapy. Is wanted, needed, and valued in the NHS.
	N O Temple, M P Patrick
	BMJ  1993;307:1069, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1069-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Psychotherapy. Short term therapies not always adequate.
	R Tillett
	BMJ  1993;307:1069-1070, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1069-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	New weightings for analysing prescribing in general practice.
	I Purves, C Edwards
	BMJ  1993;307:1070, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1070-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Routine postnatal examination:...forget it
	K Sharif, N Hammadieh
	BMJ  1993;307:1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1065 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Routine postnatal examination: GPs well placed to recognise postnatal depression
	T McFarlane
	BMJ  1993;307:1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1065-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Routine postnatal examination: Do GPs need to visit well mothers at home?
	Paul Neelamkavil
	BMJ  1993;307:1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1065-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Routine postnatal examination: Other examinations should be abandoned
	A D Chyc
	BMJ  1993;307:1065, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1065-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical journals' subscription policies for developing countries
	Cem Sungur, Sevket Ruacan
	BMJ  1993;307:1066, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1066 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Management of pneumothorax
	Andy Miller, John Harvey
	BMJ  1993;307:1067, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1067-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tobacco advertising: A tricky business
	Fenton Howell
	BMJ  1993;307:1068-1069, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1068-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tobacco advertising: Advertiser's response
	Mark S Jones
	BMJ  1993;307:1069, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1069 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Modern witch hunting
	Robert Wheatley
	BMJ  1993;307:1070, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1070 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Consultants' league tables
	A C Young
	BMJ  1993;307:1070, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1070-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Description of ME in disability handbook
	Rodney Grahame, Mansel Aylward
	BMJ  1993;307:1070-1071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1070-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Screening boys for growth delay
	C Ni Bhrolchain
	BMJ  1993;307:1071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1071 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The end of the GMC? Government and GMC inquiries are complementary and not in competition
	K C Calman
	BMJ  1993;307:1071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1071-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The end of the GMC? Government not the GMC failed with implementing performance procedures
	Alexander W Macara
	BMJ  1993;307:1071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1071-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The end of the GMC? GMC losing control
	Edwin Borman
	BMJ  1993;307:1071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1071-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing a dislocation in the nineteenth century
	A J Nimmo
	BMJ  1993;307:1071, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1071-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction: Guidelines for the management of asthma: A summary
	BMJ  1993;307:1054, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1054 [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: Assessment of thyroid status in elderly people
	BMJ  1993;307:1057, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1057-a [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Articles

This week's Articles

	News
	BMJ  1993;307:1023-1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1023 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Obituary
	BMJ  1993;307:1063, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1063 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicopolitical Digest
	BMJ  1993;307:1072, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1072 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Soundings
	BMJ  1993;307:1073, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1073 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media
	BMJ  1993;307:1074-1075, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1074 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal View
	BMJ  1993;307:1075, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1075 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	NOTES
	BMJ  1993;307:1080, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1080 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	BMJ  1993;307:1084, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1084 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	MEDICINE AND BOOKS
	BMJ  1993;307:1076-1083, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1076 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	The rising trend for caesarean birth.
	P E Treffers, M Pel
	BMJ  1993;307:1017-1018, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1017 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Can we afford the welfare state?
	J Le Grand
	BMJ  1993;307:1018-1019, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1018 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Atopy and its inheritance.
	J A Savin
	BMJ  1993;307:1019-1020, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1019 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths from stroke in younger people.
	C Wolfe
	BMJ  1993;307:1020-1021, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1020 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A model for British medical education.
	S Lowry
	BMJ  1993;307:1021-1022, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1021 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is an eye pad needed in cases of corneal abrasion?
	D L Easty
	BMJ  1993;307:1022, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1022 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Local confidential inquiry into avoidable factors in deaths from stroke and hypertensive disease.
	J N Payne, P C Milner, C Saul, I R Bowns, D R Hannay, L E Ramsay
	BMJ  1993;307:1027-1030, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1027 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Second malignant neoplasms after cancer in childhood or adolescence. Nordic Society of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology Association of the Nordic Cancer Registries.
	J H Olsen, S Garwicz, H Hertz, G Jonmundsson, F Langmark, M Lanning, S O Lie, P J Moe, T Møller, R Sankila
	BMJ  1993;307:1030-1036, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1030 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of filarial lymphoedema and elephantiasis with 5,6-benzo-alpha-pyrone (coumarin).
	J R Casley-Smith, C T Wang, J R Casley-Smith, C Zi-hai
	BMJ  1993;307:1037-1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1037 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Comparison of three regimens for malaria prophylaxis in travellers to east, central, and southern Africa.
	J C Wetsteyn, A de Geus
	BMJ  1993;307:1041-1043, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1041 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Use of structured letters to improve communication between hospital doctors and general practitioners.
	J Rawal, P Barnett, B W Lloyd
	BMJ  1993;307:1044, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1044 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Survey of use of anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation.
	P M Bath, A Prasad, M M Brown, G A MacGregor
	BMJ  1993;307:1045, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1045 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diabetes registers: a grassroots approach.
	A J Howitt, N A Cheales
	BMJ  1993;307:1046-1048, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1046 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosis and management of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection.
	G J Duckworth
	BMJ  1993;307:1049-1052, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1049 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Tuberculous pericarditis with rapid progression to constriction. Prompt diagnosis and treatment are needed.
	C P Clifford, G J Davies, J Scott, S Shaunak, J Sarvill, J B Schofield
	BMJ  1993;307:1052-1054, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1052 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Science or flat earthers? The clinical ecologist replies.
	K Mumby
	BMJ  1993;307:1055-1056, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1055 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Severe lactic acidosis in patient receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
	I H Khan, G R Catto, A M MacLeod
	BMJ  1993;307:1056-1057, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1056 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	"Postretirement polydipsia" mimicking prostatism.
	T S O'Brien, D C Hanbury, D Cranston
	BMJ  1993;307:1057, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1057 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of emergency radiology. The elbow.
	D A Nicholson, P A Driscoll
	BMJ  1993;307:1058-1062, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6911.1058 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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