To receive this page (and more) by e-mail, subscribe to Customised @lerts

27 May 1995 (Vol 310, No 6991)
Other issues: prev. next
space
space
Down Editorials
Down Letters
Down News
Down General practice FREE
Down Soundings
Down Personal views
Down Medicine and books
Down Education and debate
Down Minerva
Down Fillers
Down Corrections FREE
Down MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA
Down MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST
Down Papers FREE
Down Career focus FREE
space



[Search ALL Issues]


To see an article, click its [Full Text] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button. To see one abstract at a time, click its [Abstract] link.

spaceEditorials back

This week's Editorials

BMJ on the internet
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  1995;310:1343-1344
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Ebola virus
Diane Bennett, David Brown
BMJ  1995;310:1344-1345
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Spinal cord injuries in rugby union players
Timothy Noakes, Ismail Jakoet
BMJ  1995;310:1345-1346
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Primary care at last for Brazil?
Andrew Haines, Elizabeth Wartchow, Airton Stein, Eliana Mattos Dourado, Jon Pollock, Barbara Stilwell
BMJ  1995;310:1346-1347
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corneal transplantation in Britain
A B Tullo, P A Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:1347-1348
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Recertifying general practitioners
Tessa Richards
BMJ  1995;310:1348-1349
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Cooperating, not competing, to improve health care
Don Berwick, Richard Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1349-1350
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceLetters back

This week's Letters

Increasing the number of organ transplants
Rafael Matesanz, Blanca Miranda, Carmen Felipe
BMJ  1995;310:1404
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Opting out scheme for donors has support in Britain
Colin Francome, Caryl Bryant, Marie Dunne
BMJ  1995;310:1404
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Establishing a minor illness nurse in a busy general practice
Anita Campbell, Michelle Herdman, Nicholas Kearsley, Steve Maric
BMJ  1995;310:1404-1405
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Busy is a weasel word
Simon Barley
BMJ  1995;310:1405
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Preregistration house officers in general practice
W McN Styles, I G Bogle
BMJ  1995;310:1405
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Problems will arise over who pays
B W McGuinness
BMJ  1995;310:1405
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Training in general practice is also important for postregistration doctors
Bill Cunningham, Brian Toms, Paddy Harrigan, Julian Turner, David Morgan
BMJ  1995;310:1405
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Posts are purely educational
George Freeman
BMJ  1995;310:1405-1406
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Services for cleft lip and palate
Peter Ward Booth
BMJ  1995;310:1406
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Surgical caseload is only one variable that influences outcome
Christopher Penfold
BMJ  1995;310:1406
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

The fibromyalgia syndrome
Geoff Littlejohn
BMJ  1995;310:1406
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Electroacupuncture is a potentially valuable treatment
Adrian White
BMJ  1995;310:1406
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Unreliability of reports of hypoglycaemia by diabetic patients
M R Kiln
BMJ  1995;310:1407
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Hypoglycaemia was validated
Brian M Frier, Ian J Deary
BMJ  1995;310:1407
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Private prescribing of controlled drugs needs closer scrutiny
Elizabeth Parameshwar
BMJ  1995;310:1407
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Drug users' views on general practitioners
Robin Ireland, Iain Mcleod
BMJ  1995;310:1407-1408
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Methadone maintenance treatment
Richard Mattick, Wayne Hall, Jeff Ward, Michael Farrell, Michael Gossop, John Strang, Gerry Stimson
BMJ  1995;310:1408
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Environmental lead and children's intelligence
Herbert L Needleman
BMJ  1995;310:1408
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Britain must replace its lead pipes to meet WHO standards for drinking water
Erik Millstone, John Russell
BMJ  1995;310:1408-1409
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Authors' reply
Stuart J Pocock, Marjorie Smith, Peter Baghurst
BMJ  1995;310:1409
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Emergency care in general practice
Francis Richardson, Peter Donnelly, Caroline Lester
BMJ  1995;310:1409
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Nicotine patches
Neal L Benowitz
BMJ  1995;310:1409-1410
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Limitations of randomised controlled trials
L Peter Fielding, Roger Grace, Rosemary Hittinger
BMJ  1995;310:1410
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Childhood antecedents of schizophrenia
Ian Jones
BMJ  1995;310:1410
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Palliative care in terminal cardiac failure
Craig Gannon
BMJ  1995;310:1410-1411
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Small numbers of patients with terminal cardiac failure may make considerable demands on services
J M Beattie, R G Murray, Jan Brittle, Trish Catanheira
BMJ  1995;310:1411
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Reperfusion injury after myocardial infarction
B Paul Morgan
BMJ  1995;310:1411
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Sleep related vehicle accidents
C C H Cook, I P Albery
BMJ  1995;310:1411
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Screening overseas students for tuberculosis
S Sebugwawo, G H Stewart, J R Catterall, M Kirkup, A V J Butler
BMJ  1995;310:1411-1412
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

GPs accept patients' vote on fundholding
Michael A Varnam, Malcolm Barker
BMJ  1995;310:1412
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

A global health disaster network is needed
Earl W Ferguson, Anthony Villasenor, Stephen Cunnion, Claude De Ville De Goyet, Frank E Young, Ronald E Laporte
BMJ  1995;310:1412
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Rationing intensive care
G B Smith, B L Taylor, P J McQuillan, E Nials
BMJ  1995;310:1412-1413
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Data from one high dependency unit supports their effectiveness
J E Peacock, D L Edbrooke
BMJ  1995;310:1413
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Torture in Israel
Derek Summerfield
BMJ  1995;310:1413
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceNews back

This week's News

US religious groups oppose gene patents
Fred B Charatan
BMJ  1995;310:1351
[Extract] [Full text]

First "no win, no fee" case to go to Lords
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:1351-1352
[Extract] [Full text]

Headlines
BMJ  1995;310:1352
[Extract] [Full text]

Britain ranks poorly for cancer survival rates
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1995;310:1352-1353
[Extract] [Full text]

Ebola threat eases
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:1353
[Extract] [Full text]

Britain to boost competitiveness and science
Richard Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1353-1354
[Extract] [Full text]

Traffic victims call for help
Luisa Dillner
BMJ  1995;310:1354
[Extract] [Full text]

Overseas doctors coming to Britain need language test
Jane Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1354
[Extract] [Full text]

Spanish doctors strike over pay
Vincente Mateu
BMJ  1995;310:1355
[Extract] [Full text]

Consent is not always essential, say Dutch experts
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  1995;310:1355-1356
[Extract] [Full text]

Patient packs to come on stream in Britain
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;310:1356
[Extract] [Full text]

New infection control measures miss the point
Simon Chapman
BMJ  1995;310:1356
[Extract] [Full text]

spaceGeneral practice back

This week's General practice

Need and demand for primary health care: a comparative survey approach
Jane L Hopton, Maria Dlugolecka
BMJ  1995;310:1369-1373
[Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Sociodemographic variables for general practices: use of census data
F Azeem Majeed, Derek G Cook, Jan Poloniecki, Jo Griffiths, Caroline Stones
BMJ  1995;310:1373-1374
[Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Guidance for authors: Nutrition guidelines
BMJ  1995;310:1374
[Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

spaceSoundings back

This week's Soundings

No laughing matter?
Liam Farrell
BMJ  1995;310:1415
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

The view from Ulm minster
James Owen Drife
BMJ  1995;310:1415
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

spacePersonal views back

This week's Personal views

The end of a story
Muntzer Mughal
BMJ  1995;310:1416-1417
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceMedicine and books back

This week's Medicine and books

The Paradox of Progress
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1995;310:1418
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

Profession of Conscience: The Making and Meaning of Life-Sciences Liberalism
Peter D Toon
BMJ  1995;310:1418
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

Best books on urology: a personal choice
Patrick H O' Reilly
BMJ  1995;310:1419
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceEducation and debate back

This week's Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: Diagnosis and management of Clostridium difficile infection
Soad Tabaqchali, Pauline Jumaa
BMJ  1995;310:1375-1380
[Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Recent Advances: Medical informatics
Enrico Coiera
BMJ  1995;310:1381-1387
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

The death of biomedical journals
Ronald E LaPorte, Eric Marler, Shunichi Akazawa, Francois Sauer, Carlos Gamboa, Chris Shenton, Caryle Glosser, Anthony Villasenor, Malcolm Maclure
BMJ  1995;310:1387-1390
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Telemedicine: lessons remain unheeded
Paul McLaren, C J Ball
BMJ  1995;310:1390-1391
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Teleradiology
Richard Wright, Claire Loughrey
BMJ  1995;310:1392-1393
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Smuggling and cross border shopping of tobacco in Europe
Luk Joossens, Martin Raw
BMJ  1995;310:1393-1397
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

South Africa's Health: Restructuring South Africa's health care: dilemmas for planners
Rajendra Kale
BMJ  1995;310:1397-1399
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

ABC of Asthma: CHRONIC ASTHMA--GENERAL MANAGEMENT
John Rees, John Price
BMJ  1995;310:1400-1401
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceMinerva back

This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;310:1420
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceFillers back

This week's Fillers

A PATIENT WHO CHANGED MY PRACTICE
Beverley Webb
BMJ  1995;310:1380
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceCorrections back

This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;310:1413
[Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

spaceMEDICINE AND THE MEDIA back

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Conflict of interest in the Times
Richard Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1417
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

spaceMEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST back

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Fundholders should form wider partnerships • New medical training committee will have more GPs • Health minister threatens future of nurses' review body • Parliament comments on NHS trusts' financial management
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:1414
[Full text] [Request Permissions]

spacePapers back

This week's Papers

Influence of vitamin D receptor genotype on bone mineral density in postmenopausal women: a twin study in Britain
T D Spector, R W Keen, N K Arden, N A Morrison, P J Major, T V Nguyen, P J Kelly, J R Baker, P N Sambrook, J S Lanchbury, J A Eisman
BMJ  1995;310:1357-1360
[Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Oral versus intravenous antibiotics for community acquired lower respiratory tract infection in a general hospital: open, randomised controlled trial
Robert Chan, Linda Hemeryck, Myra O'Regan, Luke Clancy, John Feely
BMJ  1995;310:1360-1362
[Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Prevalence and outcome of symptomatic carotid lesions in young adults
Antonio Carolei, Carmine Marini, Patrizia Nencini, Carlo Gandolfo, Cristina Motto, Elietta Zanette, Massimiliano Prencipe, Cesare Fieschi
BMJ  1995;310:1363-1366
[Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Mental disorders in young and middle aged men who commit suicide
Erkki Isometsa, Markus Henriksson, Mauri Marttunen, Martti Heikkinen, Hillevi Aro, Kimmo Kuoppasalmi, Jouko Lonnqvist
BMJ  1995;310:1366-1367
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Children who miss immunisation: implications for eliminating measles
Meirion R Evans
BMJ  1995;310:1367-1368
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Balti curries and iron
S J Fairweather-Tait, T E Fox, A Mallillin
BMJ  1995;310:1368
[Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

spaceCareer focus back

Read this week's articles on http://careers.bmj.com/careers/

To see an article, click its [Full Text] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button. To see one abstract at a time, click its [Abstract] link.




Access jobs at BMJ Careers
Whats new online at Student 

BMJ