Gastric cancer. No proof that early diagnosis reduces mortality.
	L Bonneux, J J Barendregt
	BMJ  1993;307:1279-1280, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1279 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Gastric cancer. Abandon quick gastrectomies.
	D Kerrigan
	BMJ  1993;307:1279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1279-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Gastric cancer. Push for prompt endoscopy.
	V Spataro, W Mueller
	BMJ  1993;307:1279, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1279-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Metered dose inhalers. Safe if used properly.
	F G Simpson
	BMJ  1993;307:1280-1281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1280-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Metered dose inhalers. Link with excess deaths unproved.
	M Levy
	BMJ  1993;307:1280-1281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1280-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Metered dose inhalers. Doctors don't teach flotation method.
	D Keeley
	BMJ  1993;307:1280-1281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1280-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for breast cancer. Has no impact on mortality.
	H Hewitt
	BMJ  1993;307:1281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1281 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for breast cancer. Mammography unsafe and unreliable.
	B Barmus
	BMJ  1993;307:1281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1281-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hormone treatment for infertility. Restrictions won't prevent multiple pregnancies.
	R P Dickey, T T Olar
	BMJ  1993;307:1281-1282, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1281-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Hormone treatment for infertility. A chance for those who can't pay for IVF.
	S Lee, L Mascarenhas
	BMJ  1993;307:1282, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1282 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Thyroid function in elderly people.
	S J Hurel, P Baylis
	BMJ  1993;307:1282, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1282-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Psychiatric consequences of road traffic accidents. Consider somatoform pain disorder.
	B Dalal, G Harrison
	BMJ  1993;307:1282, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1282-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Psychiatric consequences of road traffic accidents. Children may be seriously affected.
	A Thompson, P McArdle, F Dunne
	BMJ  1993;307:1282-1283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1282-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Psychiatric consequences of road traffic accidents. Often disabling and unrecognised.
	A Frank
	BMJ  1993;307:1283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1283 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Psychiatric consequences of road traffic accidents. Loss of memory is protective.
	M O'Brien
	BMJ  1993;307:1283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1283-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Psychiatric consequences of road traffic accidents. Phobias linked to chronic pain.
	K Kuch
	BMJ  1993;307:1283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1283-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Women in medicine. Need flexible training.
	G Markham
	BMJ  1993;307:1284, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1284-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Women in medicine. Hidden processes hold women back.
	C L Welsh, P Nicolson
	BMJ  1993;307:1284-1285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1284-e [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Women in medicine. Interview panels still prejudiced.
	A G Bynoe
	BMJ  1993;307:1285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1285 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Gastric cancer: Authors' reply
	H M Sue-Ling, D Johnston, A T R Axon
	BMJ  1993;307:1280, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1280 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Metered dose inhalers: Authors' reply
	D J Williams, A C Williams, D G Kruchek
	BMJ  1993;307:1280-1281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1280-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The end of the GMC?: Not without public debate on self regulation
	Margaret Stacey
	BMJ  1993;307:1284, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1284 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The end of the GMC?: The GMC has failed
	A C Srivastava
	BMJ  1993;307:1284, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1284-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The end of the GMC?: The profession has lost its way
	G Murray Jones
	BMJ  1993;307:1284, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1284-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The end of the GMC?: GMC deserves its fate
	G L W Bonney
	BMJ  1993;307:1284, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1284-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Women in medicine: Many are trained in public health
	Tim Davies
	BMJ  1993;307:1285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1285-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Women in medicine: RCPath represented at conference
	Peter J Lachmann
	BMJ  1993;307:1285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1285-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Women in medicine: Women lead in community child health
	Sonya Leff
	BMJ  1993;307:1285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1285-c [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Women in medicine: Both men and women need family lives
	Ilana B Glass-Crome, Peter Crome
	BMJ  1993;307:1285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1285-d [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction: The Gardner hypothesis
	BMJ  1993;307:1228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1228 [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: Paternal radiation exposure and leukaemia in offspring: the Ontario case-control study
	BMJ  1993;307:1257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1257 [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: Arthroscopic surgery compared with supervised exercises in patients with rotator cuff disease (stage II impingement syndrome)
	BMJ  1993;307:1269, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1269 [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Articles

This week's Articles

	News
	BMJ  1993;307:1229-1234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1229 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Obituary
	BMJ  1993;307:1278, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1278 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicopolitical Digest
	BMJ  1993;307:1286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1286 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Soundings
	BMJ  1993;307:1287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1287 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Personal view
	BMJ  1993;307:1288-1289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1288 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the Media
	BMJ  1993;307:1289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1289 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	BMJ  1993;307:1292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1292 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book Review

This week's Book Review

	Medicine and Books
	BMJ  1993;307:1290-1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1290 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research Article

This week's Research Article

	How "malignant" is the neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
	M F Bristow, D Kohen
	BMJ  1993;307:1223-1224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1223 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Human T cell leukaemia/lymphoma virus and blood donation.
	A G Dalgleish
	BMJ  1993;307:1224-1225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1224 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Identifying hearing impairment in infants and young children.
	D A Curnock
	BMJ  1993;307:1225-1226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1225 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	p53: a gene for all tumours?
	R G Vile
	BMJ  1993;307:1226-1227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1226 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Information management and patient privacy in the NHS.
	A Tonks
	BMJ  1993;307:1227-1228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1227 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prevalence of antibodies to human T cell leukaemia/lymphoma virus in blood donors in north London.
	M Brennan, J Runganga, J A Barbara, M Contreras, R S Tedder, J A Garson, P W Tuke, P P Mortimer, L McAlpine, J H Tosswill
	BMJ  1993;307:1235-1239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1235 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Twins, triplets, and cerebral palsy in births in Western Australia in the 1980s.
	B Petterson, K B Nelson, L Watson, F Stanley
	BMJ  1993;307:1239-1243, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1239 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Early programmes of high and low intensity exercise and quality of life after acute myocardial infarction.
	M C Worcester, D L Hare, R G Oliver, M A Reid, A J Goble
	BMJ  1993;307:1244-1247, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1244 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mortality and morbidity after hip fractures.
	G S Keene, M J Parker, G A Pryor
	BMJ  1993;307:1248-1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1248 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Initial effects of the grounding of the tanker Braer on health in Shetland. The Shetland Health Study Group.
	D Campbell, D Cox, J Crum, K Foster, P Christie, D Brewster
	BMJ  1993;307:1251-1255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1251 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Acute myocardial infarction in patients with normal coronary arteries.
	S J Brecker, R N Stevenson, R Roberts, S Uthayakumar, A D Timmis, R Balcon
	BMJ  1993;307:1255-1256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1255 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Public opinion on different approaches to teaching intubation techniques.
	G Brattebø, T Wisborg, K Solheim, N Oyen
	BMJ  1993;307:1256-1257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1256 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commodes: inconvenient conveniences.
	J R Naylor, G P Mulley
	BMJ  1993;307:1258-1260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1258 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How to achieve better outcome in treatment of asthma in general practice.
	D Keeley
	BMJ  1993;307:1261-1263, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1261 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Design a questionnaire.
	D H Stone
	BMJ  1993;307:1264-1266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1264 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	General surgery: biliary surgery.
	R C Russell
	BMJ  1993;307:1266-1269, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1266 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Making the internal market work: a case for managed change.
	L Moore, M Dalziel
	BMJ  1993;307:1270-1272, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1270 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of emergency radiology. Chest radiographs--II.
	D W Hodgkinson, B R O'Driscoll, P A Driscoll, D A Nicholson
	BMJ  1993;307:1273-1277, doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6914.1273 [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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