The placebo effect: can we use it better?
	Vernon M S Oh
	BMJ  1994;309:69-70 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Microscopic haematuria
	Fritz H Schroder
	BMJ  1994;309:70-72 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Growing up with asthma
	Malcolm R Sears
	BMJ  1994;309:72-73 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hepatitis B and exposure prone procedures
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1994;309:73-74 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chinese medical journals: getting in touch
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1994;309:74 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Managing patients who refuse blood transfusions
	P C Shewell
	BMJ  1994;309:124 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	100% Oxygen at normal pressure is an alternative
	J F Nunn
	BMJ  1994;309:124 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Proposed alternatives are incorrect
	Gary Reah, Ian Sanders
	BMJ  1994;309:124 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Puts additional burdens on the rest of society
	A W Fox
	BMJ  1994;309:124-125 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of resources needs to be addressed
	Richard Fry
	BMJ  1994;309:125 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chemotherapy for haematological malignancies can be fatal
	Alastair G Smith
	BMJ  1994;309:125 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Register of willing consultants is needed
	Arabinda Saha, Max Elstein
	BMJ  1994;309:125 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of oesophageal cancer
	Fayek Salama, David Beggs, Ellis Morgan
	BMJ  1994;309:125-126 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients are unwilling to enter randomised trials
	T C B Dehn
	BMJ  1994;309:126 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Uptake of influenza vaccine
	Jonathan Nguyen-Van-Tam, Simon Warren, James Pearson
	BMJ  1994;309:126 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New guidelines are needed
	Ann Bisset
	BMJ  1994;309:126 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Social inequalities in uptake of immunisation
	Chris Foy, Raj Bhopal
	BMJ  1994;309:126 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Richard Reading, Stephen Jarvis, Allan Colver, Stan Openshaw
	BMJ  1994;309:127 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Successful childhood immunisations may endanger adults
	Martin Schweiger
	BMJ  1994;309:127 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community geriatricians
	Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  1994;309:127 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are not a good idea
	Michael Denham, Alistair Ritch
	BMJ  1994;309:127 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Existing general practitioner based system is adequate
	Iona Heath, W McN Styles
	BMJ  1994;309:127-128 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Elderly people need "high tech" services too
	Kevin Stewart, Michael Gill
	BMJ  1994;309:128 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical medical officers could provide service
	Sukhdev Saharan Sharma
	BMJ  1994;309:128 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More geriatricians are needed
	David Black
	BMJ  1994;309:128 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drink-driving
	Mark Davies
	BMJ  1994;309:128-129 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Colour blindness
	M P Clarke
	BMJ  1994;309:129 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is a minor inconvenience
	Ian Leck
	BMJ  1994;309:129 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rehabilitation needs after severe head injury
	Brian Pentland
	BMJ  1994;309:129 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS complaints procedures
	Graham Neale
	BMJ  1994;309:129 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Similar process exists in general practice
	F A O'Driscoll
	BMJ  1994;309:129-130 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pregnancy and immunity
	Sammy Lee
	BMJ  1994;309:130 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety and magnetic resonance imaging
	Hamid Daya, Neil Weir
	BMJ  1994;309:130 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pituitary tumours
	S J Hurel, P Kendall-Taylor, P H Baylis
	BMJ  1994;309:130 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Finns defined patients' rights before Dutch
	Marja-Liisa Partanen, Tyyne Martikainen
	BMJ  1994;309:130-131 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Metal detectors to detect aluminium
	John Ryan, Brian Tidey
	BMJ  1994;309:131 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking in aeroplanes
	A J Hedley
	BMJ  1994;309:131 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Falling sperm quality
	Niels Keiding, Aleksander Giwercman, Elisabeth Carlsen, Niels E Skakkebaek
	BMJ  1994;309:131 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Epidemic of asthma possibly related to thunderstorms
	Virginia Murray, Kate Venables, Tish Laing-Morton, Martyn Partridge John Thurston, David Williams
	BMJ  1994;309:131-132 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Television programme's realism
	Mark Rickenbach
	BMJ  1994;309:132 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BPA's response to Clothier inquiry
	C S Nanayakkara
	BMJ  1994;309:132 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ulcer wars
	Michael Mosley
	BMJ  1994;309:132 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author's reply
	D Colin-Jones
	BMJ  1994;309:132 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	BMA chairman proposes reforming the reforms
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1994;309:75 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1994;309:75-76 [Extract] [Full text]

	Australian insurers accused of overcharging
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1994;309:75-76 [Extract] [Full text]

	Kenyan doctors meet political deadlock
	Buchizya Mseteka
	BMJ  1994;309:76-77 [Extract] [Full text]

	Psychiatric services are dangerous, warn doctors
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1994;309:77 [Extract] [Full text]

	French orthopaedic surgeons charged with fraud
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1994;309:77-78 [Extract] [Full text]

	Anaesthetist loses final appeal
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1994;309:78 [Extract] [Full text]

	The bottom line is a moral one
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  1994;309:78 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Where have all the pennies gone? The work of Manchester medical audit advisory group
	Roger Johnson
	BMJ  1994;309:98-102 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Statistics Notes: Diagnostic tests 2: predictive values
	Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
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Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Hot air on the superhighway
	Ian Robertson
	BMJ  1994;309:134 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The runaway brain
	Tony Smith
	BMJ  1994;309:134 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	A secret and dirty war
	C M Milroy
	BMJ  1994;309:135 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Hospice Care for Children
	Roger Burne
	BMJ  1994;309:136 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood Cancer and Nuclear Installations
	A M Stewart
	BMJ  1994;309:136-137 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Faecal Incontinence and Related Problems in the Older Adult
	Thelma M Thomas
	BMJ  1994;309:137 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Laparoscopic Surgery
	John A Rennie
	BMJ  1994;309:137 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	What does homoeopathy do--and how?
	Robert Buckman, George Lewith
	BMJ  1994;309:103-106 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine in Europe: Complementary medicine in Europe
	Peter Fisher, Adam Ward
	BMJ  1994;309:107-111 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Value of opinion by oral physician in diagnosing Wegener's granulomatosis
	J M Zakrzewska, J Feehally, J J H Gilkes
	BMJ  1994;309:111-112 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Sports Medicine : PULMONARY LIMITATIONS TO PERFORMANCE IN SPORT
	Mark Harries
	BMJ  1994;309:113-115 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How should European health policy develop? A discussion
	Tessa Richards, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1994;309:116-121 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1994;309:138 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction: diet and cancer
	BMJ  1994;309:102 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction
	BMJ  1994;309:132 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Medicopolitical Digest
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1994;309:133 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries

	BMJ  1994;309:122-123 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Absorption of non-haem iron from food during normal pregnancy
	Jon F R Barrett, Paul G Whittaker, John G Williams, Tom Lind
	BMJ  1994;309:79-82 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Changes in long term prognosis for breast cancer in a Dutch cancer registry
	Henk W Nab, Wim C J Hop, Mariad A Crommelin, Huub M Kluck, Louis H van der Heijden, Jan-Willem W Coebergh
	BMJ  1994;309:83-86 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Pursuit and practice of complementary therapies by cancer patients receiving conventional treatment
	S M Downer, M M Cody, P McCluskey, P D Wilson, S J Arnott, T A Lister, M L Slevin
	BMJ  1994;309:86-89 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Factors in childhood as predictors of asthma in adult life
	Mark A Jenkins, John L Hopper, Glenn Bowes, John B Carlin, Louisa B Flander, Graham G Giles
	BMJ  1994;309:90-93 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reiter's syndrome and reactive arthritis in health care workers after vaccination
	Wajahat Hassan, Roger Oldham
	BMJ  1994;309:94 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Immunity to hepatitis B among health care workers performing exposure prone procedures
	C J M Poole, S Miller, G Fillingham
	BMJ  1994;309:94-95 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Outcome of childhood asthma in mid-adult life
	Helmut Oswald, Peter D Phelan, Anna Lanigan, Marienne Hibbert, Glenn Bowes, Anthony Olinsky
	BMJ  1994;309:95-96 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug Points: Zidovudine related arthropathy
	D Murphy, M Lynch, F Mulcahy
	BMJ  1994;309:97 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug Points: Pustular eruptions after chlorpromazine
	N P Burrows, R C Ratnavel, and P G Norris
	BMJ  1994;309:97 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug Points: Iritis after treatment with streptokinase
	M Y Gray and J H Lazarus
	BMJ  1994;309:97 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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