Ursodeoxycholic acid and primary biliary cirrhosis
	A G Lim, T C Northfield
	BMJ  1994;309:491-492 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assisted suicide for depression: the slippery slope in action?
	A D Ogilvie, S G Potts
	BMJ  1994;309:492-493 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Are H2 receptor antagonists safe over the counter drugs?
	M Andersen, J S Schou
	BMJ  1994;309:493-494 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prescribing exercise in general practice
	S Iliffe, S S Tai, M Gould, M Thorogood, M Hillsdon
	BMJ  1994;309:494-495 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Locally determined performance related pay
	J Smith, J Simpson
	BMJ  1994;309:495-496 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Tests for diagnosing diabetes mellitus Glucose tolerance test is most sensitive
	K Simon, A Sinclair, D McHugh, M Roubicek, A Gonzalez Sanguineti, G Vines, G Jermendy, D R McCance, R L Hanson, M A Charles, L T H Jacobsson, D J Pettitt, P H Bennett, W C Knowler
	BMJ  1994;309:537-538 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Promoting research into peer review No quick fixes
	S A T Redfh, D N Poller, P Furness
	BMJ  1994;309:538-539 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The role of letters in reviewing research
	G N Kalla
	BMJ  1994;309:539 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics notes
	G L Dickie, S Fleminger, D G Altman, J M Bland
	BMJ  1994;309:539 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients are unwilling to enter clinical trials
	F Macbeth
	BMJ  1994;309:539-540 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advertisement for Zantac
	F M Hickey, D L Higson
	BMJ  1994;309:540 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Experimental and observational methods of evaluation
	N Black
	BMJ  1994;309:540 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Inventing a new diagnostic test
	P Sonksen, T O'Dowd, N Bourne
	BMJ  1994;309:540-541 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hazards of reducing cholesterol
	C Lines
	BMJ  1994;309:541 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cycle helmets Deter people from cycling
	R Keatinge, A Wachtel
	BMJ  1994;309:541-542 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Impairment of driving by ciprofloxacin
	K J Gray, K D Allen, E J Ridgway
	BMJ  1994;309:542 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' rights in the Netherlands
	J W W Coebergh, D E Grobbee, J P Vandenbroucke
	BMJ  1994;309:542 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Genesis of apoptosis
	S Fletcher
	BMJ  1994;309:542-543 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nocturnal ambulatory blood pressure measurement Authors' reply
	R J O Davies, J R Stradling
	BMJ  1994;309:543 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Periocular steroid ointments may cause ocular damage
	C J McLean, R F J Lobo, D J Brazier
	BMJ  1994;309:543 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Complementary medicine in Germany
	E Ernst
	BMJ  1994;309:543 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hopeful newspaper article was justified
	N Hawkes
	BMJ  1994;309:543-544 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fatty acids for treating pancreatic cancer
	S J Wigmore, J S Falconer, K C H Fearon
	BMJ  1994;309:544 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Informal complaints procedure in general practice
	V S Samaratunga
	BMJ  1994;309:544 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Airline's magazine promotes production of tobacco products
	N J Fulop, M McKee, P Jones
	BMJ  1994;309:544 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	New infection controls worry doctors in Australia
	C Zinn
	BMJ  1994;309:497 [Extract] [Full text]

	More patients wait but for shorter time
	S Kingman
	BMJ  1994;309:497-498 [Extract] [Full text]

	Government clarifies long term NHS care
	J Warden
	BMJ  1994;309:498 [Extract] [Full text]

	New code will cover confidentiality in the NHS
	J Warden
	BMJ  1994;309:499 [Extract] [Full text]

	Danish government orders closure of transplant centre
	M Dolley
	BMJ  1994;309:499-500 [Extract] [Full text]

	New day centre offers hope for "heartsink" patients
	C Court
	BMJ  1994;309:500 [Extract] [Full text]

	Focus: Washington: Health care reform is touch and go
	J Roberts
	BMJ  1994;309:500 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Auditing audits: use and development of the Oxfordshire Medical Audit Advisory Group rating system
	M Lawrence, K Griew, J Derry, J Anderson, J Humphreys
	BMJ  1994;309:513-516 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cancer Prevention in Primary Care: Current trends and some prospects for the future - II
	J Austoker
	BMJ  1994;309:517-520 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Muslim customs surrounding death, bereavement, postmortem examinations, and organ transplants
	A R Gatrad
	BMJ  1994;309:521-523 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Letter from Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone: people displaced because of diamonds
	H Veeken
	BMJ  1994;309:523-525 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Letter from Haiti: Fighting for survival
	C Chelala
	BMJ  1994;309:525-526 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Grand Rounds - Royal Liverpool University Hospital: Persistent post -traumatic stress disorder Often missed but worth treating
	BMJ  1994;309:526-528 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Options for change in the NHS consultant contract
	R W Clarke, C Gray
	BMJ  1994;309:528-530 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Sports Medicine: Temperature and Performance I: Cold
	E L Lloyd
	BMJ  1994;309:531-534 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

VIEWS AND REVIEWS

This week's VIEWS AND REVIEWS

	The barber trembles
	C Douglas
	BMJ  1994;309:545 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The media man
	B Dixon
	BMJ  1994;309:545 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	2000 years of medical history in Paris
	A Dorozynski
	BMJ  1994;309:546 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Feeding frenzy
	M Hodes
	BMJ  1994;309:546-547 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The luxury of fluency
	R X A Petrie
	BMJ  1994;309:547 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Critical Condition: Human Health and the Environment
	M Braddick
	BMJ  1994;309:548 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mortgaging the Earth
	D Logie
	BMJ  1994;309:548-549 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine
	J Gabbay
	BMJ  1994;309:549 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Making Sense of Partnerships
	P Gray
	BMJ  1994;309:549 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1994;309:550 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction: Toxocara canis and human health
	BMJ  1994;309:496 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Correction: Toxocara canis and human health
	BMJ  1994;309:495-496 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Distribution of childhood leukaemias and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas near nuclear installations in England and Wales
	J F Bithell, S J Dutton, G J Draper, N M Neary
	BMJ  1994;309:501-505 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Relation between mouth and haematogenous infection in total joint replacements
	C A Bartzokas, R Johnson, M Jane, M V Martin, P K Pearce, Y Saw
	BMJ  1994;309:506-508 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Relation between increase in length of hip axis in older women between 1950s and 1990s and increase in age specific rates of hip fracture
	I R Reid, K Chin, M C Evans, J G Jones
	BMJ  1994;309:508-509 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Value of screening for secondary causes of hyperlipidaemia in general practice
	P Evans, D P Gray
	BMJ  1994;309:509-510 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Gamete intrafallopian transfer in older women: effect of limiting number of gametes transferred
	C J Redgment, T Al-Shawaf, J G Grudzinskas, I L Craft
	BMJ  1994;309:510-511 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Water birth and infection in babies
	J Rawal, A Shah, F Stirk, S Mehtar
	BMJ  1994;309:511 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug Points: Metabolic abnormality induced by streptomycin
	S Fuchs, N Kaminski, M Brezis
	BMJ  1994;309:512 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug Points: Rhabdomyolysis after treatment with interferon alfa
	S M Greenfield, R S Harvey, R P H Thompson
	BMJ  1994;309:512 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug Points: Ketoprofen gel and delayed hypersensitivity dermatitis
	V M S Oh
	BMJ  1994;309:512 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Drug Points: Convulsions after clomiphene citrate
	M R Rimmington, S J Vine, D K C Chui, S M Walker
	BMJ  1994;309:512 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction: Doctors should supervise administration of methadone
	BMJ  1994;309:544 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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