Long acting methods of contraception
	L Mascarenhas
	BMJ  1994;308:991-992 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating overdose with calcium channel blockers
	J Kenny
	BMJ  1994;308:992-993 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Skill mix in primary care
	I Heath
	BMJ  1994;308:993-994 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New public health and old rhetoric
	P J Vandenbroucke
	BMJ  1994;308:994-995 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vascular disease: the next target for local molecular therapeutics
	J McEwan, A Henney, S Humphries
	BMJ  1994;308:995-996 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Ischaemic heart disease and cholesterol There's more to heart disease than cholesterol
	L Bonneux, J J Barendregt, U Ravnskov, L E Ramsay, W W Yeo, P R Jackson, T A Sheldon, F Song, J Millo, C L M Sudlow, M R Macleod, J A Heady, J N Morris, M F Oliver, D L Vine, G E Hastings, P N Durrington, A Dugdale, M R Law, T Wu, N J Wald, A Hackshaw, A S G Thompson Bailey
	BMJ  1994;308:1038-1041 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gender identity in testicular feminisation Phenotypically, anatomically, legally, and socially female
	J A O Ahlquist, Anonymous
	BMJ  1994;308:1041-1042 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Suprapubic aspiration in children Pyuria is a poor predictor of infection
	R P Bendall, A P R Wilson, N B Wright, H Buys, L Pead, R Maskell
	BMJ  1994;308:1042 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diet and smoking habits
	O Strubelt
	BMJ  1994;308:1042-1043 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safer use of traditional remedies Clinical trials may fail to get ethical approval
	D J M Reynolds
	BMJ  1994;308:1043 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The preregistration period
	R S Korzen
	BMJ  1994;308:1043 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SHOs unaware of new August start date
	T J S Chesser, F M E Wadsworth
	BMJ  1994;308:1043 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GP trainees and summative assessment
	T A Carney
	BMJ  1994;308:1043-1044 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community care: the first year
	A K Stanley, J F MacMillan
	BMJ  1994;308:1044 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA's guidelines for private fees
	P C May
	BMJ  1994;308:1044 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Election of members of GMC
	I M Peek
	BMJ  1994;308:1044 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health policies in British medical schools
	R Bhopal, M White, A L Crombie
	BMJ  1994;308:1044 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Europe backs new declaration on patients' rights
	T Sheldon
	BMJ  1994;308:997 [Extract] [Full text]

	Trust audit highlights variations in performance
	C Court
	BMJ  1994;308:997-998 [Extract] [Full text]

	Australia may alter compensation scheme
	C Zinn
	BMJ  1994;308:998-999 [Extract] [Full text]

	Speed cameras linked to slower driving
	D Gloag
	BMJ  1994;308:999 [Extract] [Full text]

	New tacrine hopes for Alzheimer patients in US
	F B Charatan
	BMJ  1994;308:999-1000 [Extract] [Full text]

	Child sugar cane cutters exploited in Brazil
	J Rocha
	BMJ  1994;308:1000 [Extract] [Full text]

	Denmark's hospitals suffer staff shortages
	M Dolley
	BMJ  1994;308:1000 [Extract] [Full text]

	Suicide among farmers provokes government action
	L Dillner
	BMJ  1994;308:1001 [Extract] [Full text]

	Hospital chief resigns after phone tapping
	S Kingman
	BMJ  1994;308:1001-1002 [Extract] [Full text]

	French government issues guidelines on prescriptions
	A Dorozynski
	BMJ  1994;308:1002 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Edinburgh: The media: help or hindrance to medicine?
	L Beecham
	BMJ  1994;308:1002 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Health promotion priorities for general practice: constructing and using "indicative prevalences"
	B G Charlton, N Calvert, M White, G P Rye, W Conrad, T van Zwanenberg
	BMJ  1994;308:1019-1022 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Teaching laparoscopic surgery: the need for guidelines
	C M S Royston, M R J Lansdown, W A Brough
	BMJ  1994;308:1023-1025 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Statistical problems
	G D Smith, M Egger
	BMJ  1994;308:1025-1027 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Disagreements are not substantial
	M R Law, N J Wald
	BMJ  1994;308:1027-1029 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hands across the equator: the Hereford-Muheza link eight years on
	J B Wood, E Hills, F J K Keto
	BMJ  1994;308:1029-1032 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Current Issues in Cancer: Multiple myeloma
	I C M MacLennan, M Drayson, J Dunn
	BMJ  1994;308:1033-1036 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

VIEWS AND REVIEWS

This week's VIEWS AND REVIEWS

	BMA chairman has seven point plan for NHS
	L Beecham
	BMJ  1994;308:1045 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sex and ambition
	T Smith
	BMJ  1994;308:1046 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bacteria and newsprint
	B Dixon
	BMJ  1994;308:1046 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	So nearly a disaster
	T R Wiggin
	BMJ  1994;308:1047 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Handbook of Residential Care
	N Baldwin
	BMJ  1994;308:1048 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hypoglycaemia and Diabetes: Clinical and Physiological Aspects; Hypoglycaemia
	R Turner
	BMJ  1994;308:1048-1049 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnostic Tests in Endocrinology and Diabetes
	F J Woodroffe
	BMJ  1994;308:1049 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India
	D Armstrong
	BMJ  1994;308:1049 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1994;308:1050 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Effect of moderate dose of alcohol with evening meal on fibrinolytic factors
	H F J Hendriks, J Veenstra, E J M Velthuis-Te Wierik, G Shaafsma, C Kluft
	BMJ  1994;308:1003-1006 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Early identification of patients at low risk of death after myocardial infarction and potentially suitable for early hospital discharge
	R W Parson, K D Jamrozik, M S T Hobbs, D L Thompson
	BMJ  1994;308:1006-1010 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Racial differences in cardiac structure and function in essential hypertension
	J Mayet, M Shahi, R A Foale, N R Poulter, P S Sever, S A M Thom
	BMJ  1994;308:1011-1014 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Salivary diagnosis of measles: a study of notified cases in the United Kingdom, 1991-3
	D W G Brown, M E B Ramsay, A F Richards, E Miller
	BMJ  1994;308:1015-1017 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Computed tomography of the colon in elderly people
	M Fink, A H Freeman, A K Dixon, N K Coni
	BMJ  1994;308:1018 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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