Global public health and the information superhighway
	R E LaPorte, S Akazawa, P Hellmonds, E Boosrom, C Gamboa, T Gooch, F Hussain, I Libman, E Marler, K Roko, F Sauer, N Tajima
	BMJ  1994;308:1651-1652 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Decisions about cardiopulmonary resuscitation
	D Florin
	BMJ  1994;308:1653-1654 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Retaining personal medical records of children who have had chemotherapy and radiotherapy
	M M Hawkins, A W Craft
	BMJ  1994;308:1654-1655 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Researching the health needs of elderly people
	C K Cassel
	BMJ  1994;308:1655-1656 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Euthanasia: can be part of good terminal care
	A P M Heintz
	BMJ  1994;308:1656 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Misuse of benzodiazepines Specify the formulation when prescribing
	M Shaw, C Brabbins, S Ruben, B Cromptom, J R Robertson, F M Moley, M Dawkes, J P Berry
	BMJ  1994;308:1709-1710 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hepatitis C virus infection
	J Craske, W K Paver, J Neeleman, C Unwin, M Farrel, G R Foster, H C Thomas
	BMJ  1994;308:1710 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hepatitis B and medical student admission
	A M L Lever, P L Erridge
	BMJ  1994;308:1710-1711 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practioners and necropsies General practioners are welcome at necropsies
	F Patel, J Leigh, P McCartney, D Slater, R D Start, D W K Cotton
	BMJ  1994;308:1711-1712 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women consultants and merit awards
	A Streetly
	BMJ  1994;308:1712 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Merit awards
	G D P Wallen
	BMJ  1994;308:1712-1713 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Performance related pay Management could limit amount of work done
	E Field, R Knight
	BMJ  1994;308:1713 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aspirin and suspected myocardial infarction
	B K K Shetty
	BMJ  1994;308:1713-1714 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Services for people with haemoglobinopathy
	L Luzzato
	BMJ  1994;308:1714 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outreach clinics in general practice
	J A Dunbar, D S Vincent, J N Meikle, A P Dunbar, P A Jones, J Bailey, M Black, D Wilkin, S Weich, D MacMahon, A Roberts
	BMJ  1994;308:1714-1715 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgery for pancreatic cancer
	R M Charnley, R C Spiller, J Doran
	BMJ  1994;308:1715 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Multiple myeloma
	N H Russel, A E Hunter, A Haynes, E M Bessell
	BMJ  1994;308:1715 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Covert surveillance in Munchausen's syndrome by proxy
	B Morgan
	BMJ  1994;308:1715-1716 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug use in prison
	P Turnbull, G V Stimson
	BMJ  1994;308:1716 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mental disorders in the developing world
	L W Dunn, T O Adebowale, C Umapthy, I B Chaudry, S D Yangye, Y A Rahimi, R Omoigui, D Dighi-Deo, M N Siddiqi, P U Ikwuagwu, G Festumberhan, J A Ngowi, O Olayinka, D H Pepple, F M Ibitoye, O Obikoya
	BMJ  1994;308:1716 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cancer of the upper gastrointestinal tract
	R J Donnelly, D J Girling, P M Fayers
	BMJ  1994;308:1716-1717 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Equity in the NHS
	A Ritch
	BMJ  1994;308:1717 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	World Medical Association
	I T Field
	BMJ  1994;308:1717 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Waiting times and the patient's charter
	A M Ansons, J L Noble, N P Jones, E P O'Donoghue, B Leatherbarrow, A E A Ridgway, K B Mills, A B Tullo, D McLeod, G S Turner
	BMJ  1994;308:1717 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Elderly people who get stuck in the bath
	A M Campbell
	BMJ  1994;308:1717 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	India outlaws trade in human organs
	G Nandan
	BMJ  1994;308:1657 [Extract] [Full text]

	Junior doctors want legislation to cut hours of work
	L Beecham
	BMJ  1994;308:1657-1658 [Extract] [Full text]

	New health minister faces crisis in Israel
	J Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1994;308:1658-1659 [Extract] [Full text]

	Australia calls for calm on hepatitis C
	C Zinn
	BMJ  1994;308:1659 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch politicians struggle with disability benefit
	R Pascoe
	BMJ  1994;308:1659-1660 [Extract] [Full text]

	Prison cells unhealthy for prisoners, say BMA
	A Tonks
	BMJ  1994;308:1660 [Extract] [Full text]

	Judge rules out coercion for liver transplant boy
	F B Charatan
	BMJ  1994;308:1660-1661 [Extract] [Full text]

	Zidovudine could stop HIV infection of babies
	O Dyer
	BMJ  1994;308:1661 [Extract] [Full text]

	Paediatricians question Nestle's donation
	C Court
	BMJ  1994;308:1661-1662 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Brussels: A little glimpse of ethics for the union
	R Watson
	BMJ  1994;308:1662 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Higher professional training in general practice: provision of master's degree courses in the United Kingdom in 1993
	L F P Smith
	BMJ  1994;308:1679-1682 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cancer Prevention in Primary Care: Melanoma: prevention and early diagnosis
	J Austoker
	BMJ  1994;308:1682-1686 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Should relatives be allowed to watch resuscitation?
	S Adams, M Whitlock, P J F Baskett, P Bloomfield, R Higgs
	BMJ  1994;308:1687-1689 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatment from elderly people: towards formal guidelines
	L Doyal, D Wilsher
	BMJ  1994;308:1689-1692 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Style Matters: Advertising in medical journals and the use of supplements
	BMJ  1994;308:1692 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Epidemiological approach to surgical management of the casualties of war
	R M Coupland
	BMJ  1994;308:1693-1697 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Grand Rounds - Hammersmith Hospital: New approach to superior vena caval obstruction Mechanical clearance of thrombus may help
	L Robinson, J Jackson
	BMJ  1994;308:1697-1699 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient characteristics and clinical caseload of short stay independent hospitals in England and Wales, 1992-3
	B T Williams, J P Nicholl
	BMJ  1994;308:1699-1701 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Sports Medicine: Infections in sport
	J C M Sharp
	BMJ  1994;308:1702-1706 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

VIEWS AND REVIEWS

This week's VIEWS AND REVIEWS

	From the public health conference: The population's health must be paramount
	L Beecham
	BMJ  1994;308:1718-1719 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	From the junior doctors conference: Hospital life is like a soap opera
	L Beecham
	BMJ  1994;308:1719-1720 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The appendix in bed four ..
	T Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1994;308:1721 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interstellar bugs
	B Dixon
	BMJ  1994;308:1721 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' sense of completion
	R Morrison
	BMJ  1994;308:1722 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Can performance related pay work in the health service?
	S Vallely
	BMJ  1994;308:1722-1723 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The cruelty of false hope
	J R Petrie
	BMJ  1994;308:1723 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self
	C Elliott
	BMJ  1994;308:1724 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Free for All: Lessons from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment
	C Normand
	BMJ  1994;308:1724-1725 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy
	R Klein
	BMJ  1994;308:1725 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Role of Hospital Consultants in Clinical Directorates: The Syncromesh Report
	R B Hopkinson
	BMJ  1994;308:1725 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1994;308:1726 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Moderate alcohol consumption and loss of cerebellar Prikinje cells
	P J Karhune, T Erkinjuntti, P Laippala
	BMJ  1994;308:1663-1667 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of death from cancer and ischaemic heart disease in meat and non-meat eaters
	M Thorogood, J Mann, P Appleby, K McPherson
	BMJ  1994;308:1667-1670 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Should you eat meat, or are you confounded by methodological debate?
	P J Vandenbroucke
	BMJ  1994;308:1671 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of breast cancer in relation to the interval since last full term pregnancy
	P Cumming, J L Stanford, J R Daling, N S Weiss, B McKnight
	BMJ  1994;308:1672-1674 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Comparability and validity of two clinical scores in the early differential diagnosis of acute stroke
	M G Celani, E Righetti, R Migliacci, M Zampolini, L Antoniutti, C F Grandi, S Ricci
	BMJ  1994;308:1674-1676 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: who makes the decision?
	M E Hill, G MacQuillan, M Forsyth, D A Heath
	BMJ  1994;308:1677 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Views of elderly patients and their relatives on cardiopulmonary resuscitation
	R Morgan, D King, C Prajapati, J Rowe
	BMJ  1994;308:1677-1678 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: New public health
	BMJ  1994;308:1717 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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