Asthma: guided self management
	M R Partridge
	BMJ  1994;308:547-548 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Peak Flow meters: a problem of scale
	M R Miller, P H Ouanjer
	BMJ  1994;308:548-549 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Non-heart beating donors as a source of kidneys
	A J Wing, R W S Chang
	BMJ  1994;308:549-550 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Homosexuality and mental health services
	P McColl
	BMJ  1994;308:550-551 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cutaneous T cell lymphomas
	P A Bunn
	BMJ  1994;308:551-552 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	The scandal of poor medical research: Sloppy use of literature often to blame
	R Jones, J Scouller, F Grainer, M Lachlan, S Evans, N Torrance, R C Tallis, N A Matheson, J A Morris, T E J Ind, H Dudley, A Sykes, G R Masterson, S G Ashcroft, J P W Bell, H Goodare
	BMJ  1994;308:591 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cancer study controversy
	L Fallowfield
	BMJ  1994;308:593 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and asthma
	W H W Inman, L Wilton, G Pearce, R D Mann
	BMJ  1994;308:593-594 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Charges for educational visits
	M McNicol, G Morgan
	BMJ  1994;308:594 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effective health care: Cochrane database accessible in Scotland
	C Wilkinson, I Johnstone, J Hayward, J A D Spencer, H Lewison
	BMJ  1994;308:594 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Local research ethics committees: Fail community research
	C Bonell, M Watling, J K Dewhurst
	BMJ  1994;308:594-595 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Human parvovirus B19: Hard to differentiate from infectious mononucleosis
	J W Jones, J V S Pether, R W P Frost, J A Snowden, W I Ali-Wali
	BMJ  1994;308:595 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Raw eggs in recipes in magazines should go
	L Lighton, L Greenwood
	BMJ  1994;308:595-596 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health promotion advice in the private sector
	J Justice
	BMJ  1994;308:596 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study leave difficult to fund
	D P Coates
	BMJ  1994;308:596 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Failure to thrive: Define it carefully
	M Donaldson, J Alexander, C Fisher, S Inch
	BMJ  1994;308:596 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk factors for salmonella infection: Loss of gastric acid linked to candidiasis
	A J Larner, S Singh
	BMJ  1994;308:596-597 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical oncology information network: Population based registries remain valuable
	M C Gulliford, R Carr, C Poynton, D R Glover, P Quartey
	BMJ  1994;308:597 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Call for more confidential inquiries
	D M Wayte
	BMJ  1994;308:597 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Overruling the parents of child patients
	L Delany
	BMJ  1994;308:597-598 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long term management after splenectomy
	G Summerfield
	BMJ  1994;308:598 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alcohol intake and mortality
	A G Shaper
	BMJ  1994;308:598 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Immunity to diphtheria in adults in England
	E Miller, M Rush, P Morgan-Capner, D Hutchinson, L Hindle
	BMJ  1994;308:598 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Continuing medical education
	R Atlay
	BMJ  1994;308:598-599 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Funding international family planning
	M Potts, J Guillebaud
	BMJ  1994;308:599 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Focusing social policy
	M Leicester
	BMJ  1994;308:599 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regional information systems
	F T De Dombal
	BMJ  1994;308:599 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Life expectancy in Russia falls
	P Conradi
	BMJ  1994;308:553 [Extract] [Full text]

	Lords reject legalisation of euthanasia
	S Kingman
	BMJ  1994;308:553-554 [Extract] [Full text]

	Canadian woman ignores court to claim right to die
	J Roberts
	BMJ  1994;308:554 [Extract] [Full text]

	One in seven beds could go in the Netherlands
	T Sheldon
	BMJ  1994;308:555 [Extract] [Full text]

	Sydney could ask tourists for health insurance
	C Zinn
	BMJ  1994;308:555 [Extract] [Full text]

	Companies in US pay up for silicone implants
	J Roberts
	BMJ  1994;308:555-556 [Extract] [Full text]

	Traffic contributes to rise in asthma, says report
	L Dillner
	BMJ  1994;308:556 [Extract] [Full text]

	New Zealand's health reforms run into trouble
	C Essex
	BMJ  1994;308:556-557 [Extract] [Full text]

	Clinton could damage research, warn doctors
	J Hopkins-Tanne
	BMJ  1994;308:557 [Extract] [Full text]

	Age of consent for homosexuals in Britain is cut to 18
	L Dillner
	BMJ  1994;308:557 [Extract] [Full text]

	Women in India forced to have hysterectomies
	G Nandan
	BMJ  1994;308:558 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Westminster: Ministers begin a drive on effectiveness
	J Warden
	BMJ  1994;308:558 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Clinical course and prognostic factors in acute low back pain: an inception cohort study in primary care practice
	J Coste, G Delecoeuillerie, A Cohen de Lara, J M LeParc, J B Paolaggi
	BMJ  1994;308:577-580 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Concensus on diagnosis and management of primary antibody deficiencies
	H M Chapel
	BMJ  1994;308:581-585 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Homophobia among doctors
	L Rose
	BMJ  1994;308:586-587 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Myxoedema revealed by simvastatin induced myopathy
	M A Al-Jubouri, P G Briston, D Sinclair, R H Chinn, R M Young
	BMJ  1994;308:588 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

VIEWS AND REVIEWS

This week's VIEWS AND REVIEWS

	Minister wants more generic prescribing
	L Beecham
	BMJ  1994;308:600 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Your country needs you!
	I Robertson
	BMJ  1994;308:601 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Upwardly mobile
	T Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1994;308:601 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A grief shared
	H Allott
	BMJ  1994;308:602 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The emperor's new clothes
	D Keeley
	BMJ  1994;308:603 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The hidden epidemic
	P Burney
	BMJ  1994;308:603 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Emergency Medical Services for Children: Children and their Accidents
	E J S Durch, K N Lohr, J G Avery, R H Jackson
	BMJ  1994;308:604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children, Transport and the Quality of Life
	E M Hillman
	BMJ  1994;308:604-605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thomas Wakley: An Improbable Radical
	J Hostettler
	BMJ  1994;308:605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1994;308:606 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Correction

This week's Correction

	Correction Murder in the NHS
	J Francis, I Ross
	BMJ  1994;308:599 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Integrated care for asthma: a clinical, social, and economic evaluation
	N Drummond, M Abdalla, J K Buckingham, J A G Beattie, T Lindsay, L M Osman, S J Ross, A Roy-Chaudhury, I Russell, M Turner, J G Douglass, J S Legge, J A R Friend
	BMJ  1994;308:559-564 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effectiveness of routine self monitoring of peak flow in patients with asthma
	N Drummond, M Abdalla, J A G Beattie, J K Buckingham, T Lindsay, L M Osman, S J Ross, A Roy-Chaudhury, I Russell, M Turner, J A R Friend, J S Legge, J G Douglas
	BMJ  1994;308:564-567 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reducing hospital admission through computer supported education for asthma patients
	L M Osman, M I Abdalla, J A G Beattie, S J Ross, I T Russell, J A Friend, J S Legge, J G Douglas
	BMJ  1994;308:568-571 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Accuracy of mini peak flow meters in indicating changes in lung function in children with asthma
	P D Sly, P Cahill, K Willet, P Burton
	BMJ  1994;308:572-574 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Response to organ shortage: kidney retrieval programme using non-heart beating donors
	K Varty, P S Veitch, J D T Morgan, E O Kehinde, P K Donnelly, P R F Bell
	BMJ  1994;308:575 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Renal grafts from non-heart beating donors
	A O Phillips, S A Snowden, A N Hillis, M Bewick
	BMJ  1994;308:575-576 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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