The cholesterol papers
	M Marmot
	BMJ  1994;308:351-352 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Arthroscopy
	J Noble
	BMJ  1994;308:352-353 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pregnancy's toll in the developing world
	A Tonks
	BMJ  1994;308:353-354 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maternal mortality: stalemate or stagnant?
	M J N C Keirse
	BMJ  1994;308:354-355 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Annoyance due to low frequency hums
	C G Rice
	BMJ  1994;308:355-356 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The haematuria clinic
	P Marazzi, R Gabriel
	BMJ  1994;308:356 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Left handedness and life expectancy: Causal inferences cannot be trusted
	R Peto, A Burgess, A A Beaton
	BMJ  1994;308:408 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mental health law: College committed to improving training
	F Caldicott, S Mann, I C C Matheson, M J Leverton, P A Patchett, P Sugarman, J Moss, D Silberston, S P Robinson
	BMJ  1994;308:408-409 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical freedom and drug dependence
	J Marks
	BMJ  1994;308:409 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trapped fingers
	C A Hajivassiliou
	BMJ  1994;308:409-410 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Access to cardiac catheterisation Influenced by deprivation, not sex
	In N Findlay, D Cunningham, H J Dargie, R W Morris, M Walker, A K McCallum, P H Whincup, S Ebrahim
	BMJ  1994;308:410 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Home visits by general practitioners
	M J Noble
	BMJ  1994;308:410 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Selective decontamination of the digestive tract
	A Liberati
	BMJ  1994;308:410-411 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health care in South Africa
	S R Benatar
	BMJ  1994;308:411 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Immigration status of overseas doctors
	F Ahemd
	BMJ  1994;308:411 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Measles immunisation in developing countries
	S K Obaro
	BMJ  1994;308:411-412 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical research in trust hospitals
	A Ferguson
	BMJ  1994;308:412 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and human rights in Egypt
	M Mandour
	BMJ  1994;308:412 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intensive care for children
	J Palmer, B L Taylor, G B Smith, P Fulbrook
	BMJ  1994;308:412 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical accidents
	C Worth, G Sparks
	BMJ  1994;308:412-413 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sister hospitals in Bosnia
	A Kvesic, I Sarac, S Lang
	BMJ  1994;308:413 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Value of confidential inquiries
	P Rhodes
	BMJ  1994;308:413 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unemployment and psychiatric admissions
	D B Double, R Huws
	BMJ  1994;308:413 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Height and weight of rural and urban children
	W Barker
	BMJ  1994;308:413 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hyponatraemia after ingestion of "ectasy"
	B Kessel
	BMJ  1994;308:414 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Laparoscopic nephrectomy
	S S Miller, D N Anderson
	BMJ  1994;308:414 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lead shot passed per urethram
	C A Hajivassiliou, C S Moore
	BMJ  1994;308:414 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ischaemic preconditioning
	M Hargreaves
	BMJ  1994;308:414 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for HIV in pregnancy
	J Meadows, T Chester, J Catalan
	BMJ  1994;308:414-415 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Actinic keratoses induced by use of sunbed
	E L Speight, M G C Dahl, P M Farr
	BMJ  1994;308:415 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation GPs struggle to meet demand
	J Shakespeare, D A Fitzmaurice, F D R Hobbs, E Murray
	BMJ  1994;308:415 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Market penetration of new drugs
	H McGavock, G D Johnston, C H Webb
	BMJ  1994;308:416 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening immigrants at risk of tuberculosis
	S Bakhshi
	BMJ  1994;308:416 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Male and female castration
	W Foulkes
	BMJ  1994;308:416 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poor children in rich countries
	C A Hamilton
	BMJ  1994;308:417 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Healthy alliances with drug dealers
	J Neeleman, R Beaseley, M Farrell
	BMJ  1994;308:417 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical students below the poverty line
	M Bailey
	BMJ  1994;308:417 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Junior doctors' hours
	P R Eldridge
	BMJ  1994;308:417 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The contamination of ties
	T H Pennington
	BMJ  1994;308:417 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An office at last
	R H A Campbell
	BMJ  1994;308:417 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	ANC promises national health service
	M Curtin
	BMJ  1994;308:357 [Extract] [Full text]

	British government revamps screening policy
	R Smith
	BMJ  1994;308:357-358 [Extract] [Full text]

	Britain needs to screen for aortic aneurysms
	R Smith
	BMJ  1994;308:358-359 [Extract] [Full text]

	Brain damage found in victims of Bhopal disaster
	G Nandan
	BMJ  1994;308:359 [Extract] [Full text]

	House officers must not be exploited, say deans
	L Dillner
	BMJ  1994;308:359-360 [Extract] [Full text]

	Egyptians score high on blood pressure
	M Gulens
	BMJ  1994;308:360 [Extract] [Full text]

	Fundholders to take over all purchasing
	A Tonks
	BMJ  1994;308:360-361 [Extract] [Full text]

	GMC says it will watch curriculum reforms
	L Dillner
	BMJ  1994;308:361 [Extract] [Full text]

	Paediatricians tell press they are innocent
	C Dyer
	BMJ  1994;308:361-362 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Brussels Which "Europe" should deal with ethical issues?
	R Watson
	BMJ  1994;308:362 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Purchasing for all: an alternative to fundholding
	J P Graffy, J Williams
	BMJ  1994;308:391-394 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Progress on smoking control in Western Australia
	A W Musk, R Shean, N Walker, M Swanson
	BMJ  1994;308:395-398 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improving the preregistration experience: the New Zealand approach
	P I M Allen, B M Colls
	BMJ  1994;308:398-400 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Emergency Radiology THE HAND
	D W Hodgkinson, N Kurdy, D A Nicholson, P A Driscoll
	BMJ  1994;308:401-405 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

VIEWS AND REVIEWS

This week's VIEWS AND REVIEWS

	Chairman of new NHS regions announced
	BMJ  1994;308:418 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fire
	T Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1994;308:419 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sound on sex?
	J Owen
	BMJ  1994;308:419 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Performance indices or patient care
	J Brodribb
	BMJ  1994;308:420 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Personality disorder - who needs protecting?
	D Gordon
	BMJ  1994;308:420 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BBC2 Horizon: "Death Wish" 7 February Genes that fail in their duty?
	J Goldman
	BMJ  1994;308:421 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Soft Tissues: Trauma and Sports Injuries
	W N Dodds
	BMJ  1994;308:422 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology
	M Field
	BMJ  1994;308:422 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Best books on anaesthesia: a personal choice
	N Goodman
	BMJ  1994;308:423 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1994;308:424 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1994;308:400 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: Management of acute symptomatic hyponatraemia
	BMJ  1994;308:417 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Systematic underestimation of association between serum cholesterol concentration and ischaemic heart disease in observational studies: data from the BUPA study
	M R Law, N J Wald, T Wu, A Hackshaw, A Bailey
	BMJ  1994;308:363-366 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	By how much and how quickly does reduction in serum cholesterol concentration lower risk of ischaemic heart disease?
	M R Law, N J Wald, S G Thompson
	BMJ  1994;308:367-372 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Assessing possible hazards of reducing serum cholesterol
	M R Law, S G Thompson, N J Wald
	BMJ  1994;308:373-379 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Passive smoking at work as a risk factor for coronary heart disease in Chinese women who have never smoked
	Y He, T H Lam, L S Li, L S Li, R Y Du, G L Jia, J Y Huang, J S Zheng
	BMJ  1994;308:380-384 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Passive exposure to tobacco smoke in children aged 5-7 years: individual, family, and community factors
	G D Cook, P H Whincup, M J Jarvis, D P Strachan, O Papacosta, A Bryant
	BMJ  1994;308:384-389 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Post-traumatic stress disorder in children after television programmes
	D Simons, W R Silveira
	BMJ  1994;308:389-390 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Metal residues after cremation
	M Barry
	BMJ  1994;308:390 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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