Does debriefing after psychological trauma work?
	Beverley Raphael, Lenore Meldrum, A C Mcfarlane
	BMJ  1995;310:1479-1480 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New equities of information in an electronic age
	Christopher Zielinski
	BMJ  1995;310:1480-1481 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reliability of the Snellen chart
	Paul McGraw, Barry Winn, David Whitaker
	BMJ  1995;310:1481-1482 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Genetic traits in common diseases
	Anthony G Wilson, Gordon W Duff
	BMJ  1995;310:1482-1483 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health care rationing
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  1995;310:1483-1484 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Anti-therapeutic community mental health law
	K C Calman
	BMJ  1995;310:1530 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	National Schizophrenia Fellowship is highly critical of government's proposals
	Rosemary Moore
	BMJ  1995;310:1530 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical schools and racial discrimination
	I C McManus, P Richards
	BMJ  1995;310:1530-1531 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The London Hospital Medical College denies selection bias
	John Cunningham, Colin Berry
	BMJ  1995;310:1531 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sixth formers gamble over medical school choices
	S B Fazel, M W Hughes
	BMJ  1995;310:1531 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cambridge reveals results
	Susan Stobbs
	BMJ  1995;310:1531 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author's reply
	Aneez Esmail
	BMJ  1995;310:1531 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recruiting ethnic minority medical students
	Nigel Turner
	BMJ  1995;310:1532 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Investigating racial discrimination in the NHS
	Dipak Ray
	BMJ  1995;310:1532 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors from ethnic minority groups
	L R Murmu
	BMJ  1995;310:1532 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	National measles and rubella vaccination campaign
	E B P Wiratunga, Jeanette O'Brien
	BMJ  1995;310:1532 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening sperm donors for cystic fibrosis
	Ian Findlay, Howard Cuckle, Richard J Lilford, Anthony J Rutherford, Philip Quirke, Steven Lui
	BMJ  1995;310:1533 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dornase alfa for cystic fibrosis
	Andrew Bush, Duncan M Geddes, Margaret E Hodson, Mark Rosenthal, Robert Dinwiddie, Colin Wallis, David E Stableforth, Steven P Conway, James M Littlewood
	BMJ  1995;310:1533 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence supporting use of this drug has not yet been published
	Joe Collier
	BMJ  1995;310:1533-1534 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pain in the hand and wrist
	Christopher D Jefferiss
	BMJ  1995;310:1534 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment of fractures of the scaphoid
	Allan N Stirrat
	BMJ  1995;310:1534 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pyridoxine supplements may help patients with carpal tunnel syndrome
	Peter J Lewis
	BMJ  1995;310:1534 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author's reply
	Michael Shipley
	BMJ  1995;310:1534 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assessing health needs in primary care
	Anna McCormick, John Charlton, Douglas Fleming
	BMJ  1995;310:1534 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Standardised methods of data collection are required
	Mark C Shaw
	BMJ  1995;310:1534-1535 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chronic diseases need to have standard definitions
	Tom Fahey
	BMJ  1995;310:1535 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interventions must be effective to be needed
	Sarah Scobie, Ian Basnett, Peter McCartney
	BMJ  1995;310:1535 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tailor data collection to needs
	Eleanor Brown, Tyrrell Evans, Graham Hewett
	BMJ  1995;310:1535 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bullying in schools
	Judith Dawkins
	BMJ  1995;310:1536 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking and death
	Dieter Borgers
	BMJ  1995;310:1536 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Babies' deaths linked to suboptimal care
	Charles D A Wolfe
	BMJ  1995;310:1536 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Errors in administration of intravenous drugs
	M C B O'Hare, A M Bradley, T Gallagher, M D Shields
	BMJ  1995;310:1536-1537 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Protection of the individual in biomedical research in Africa
	Maurice Manouana
	BMJ  1995;310:1537 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of albumin on diuretic treatment in the nephrotic syndrome
	Per A Sjostrom, Bo G Odlind
	BMJ  1995;310:1537 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Suppression of medical conditions by Cushing's syndrome
	David Walmsley, John S Bevan
	BMJ  1995;310:1537 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lord Moran's prescriptions for Churchill
	Richard Lovell
	BMJ  1995;310:1537-1538 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood thyroid cancer since accident at Chernobyl
	J Sinnaeve, K H Chadwick, A Karaoglou
	BMJ  1995;310:1538 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unified training grade
	C R Jennings
	BMJ  1995;310:1538 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	China aims to improve health of newborn by law
	Yangchen Tsering
	BMJ  1995;310:1538 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Dutch drop plans for contraceptive pill payments
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1995;310:1485 [Extract] [Full text]

	Audit Commission defines NHS management costs
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  1995;310:1485-1486 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1995;310:1486 [Extract] [Full text]

	Trust withdraws allegations against consultant
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1995;310:1486-1487 [Extract] [Full text]

	14000 preventable deaths in Australian hospitals
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1995;310:1487 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israeli smoking ban succeeds in 80% of adults at work
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1995;310:1487-1488 [Extract] [Full text]

	EU's alcohol subsidies come under attack
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1995;310:1488 [Extract] [Full text]

	Children affected by HIV need more help
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1995;310:1488 [Extract] [Full text]

	GMC approves guidelines on medical practice
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:1489 [Extract] [Full text]

	Funding to follow students into the community
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:1489 [Extract] [Full text]

	Report criticises French AIDS "charlatans"
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1995;310:1489-1490 [Extract] [Full text]

	German doctors fear unemployment
	Helmut L Karcher
	BMJ  1995;310:1490 [Extract] [Full text]

	Republicans turn health reform into a revolution
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;310:1490 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Community care for demented and non-demented elderly people: a comparison study of financial burden, service use, and unmet needs in family supporters
	I Philp, K J McKee, P Meldrum, B R Ballinger, M L M Gilhooly, D S Gordon, W J Mutch, J E Whittick
	BMJ  1995;310:1503-1506 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Guidance to authors
	BMJ  1995;310:1506 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	And finally ..
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1995;310:1541 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The call of the wild (rabbit)
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1995;310:1541 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Obsoletely hopeless
	Stephan Rossner
	BMJ  1995;310:1542 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient suicide (physician unassisted)
	Michael Phillips
	BMJ  1995;310:1542-1543 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Medical Negligence Litigation: A Practitioner's Guide
	John Murphy
	BMJ  1995;310:1544 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Incompetent Doctor: Behind Closed Doors
	Alan Pollock
	BMJ  1995;310:1544 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pulse Oximetry
	Tom Clutton-Brock
	BMJ  1995;310:1545 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Summer Plague: Polio and its Survivors
	Bill Inman
	BMJ  1995;310:1545 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Bone densitometry in clinical practice
	J E Compston, C Cooper, J A Kanis
	BMJ  1995;310:1507-1510 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Using data from the 1991 census
	F Azeem Majeed, Derek G Cook, Jan Poloniecki, David Martin
	BMJ  1995;310:1511-1514 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The future of the GMC: an interview with Donald Irvine, the new president
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1995;310:1515-1518 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	World Health Organisation: change and progress
	Ilona Kickbusch
	BMJ  1995;310:1518-1520 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Minocycline and pulmonary eosinophilia
	R S Dykhuizen, A M Zaidi, D J Godden, S Jegarajah, J S Legge
	BMJ  1995;310:1520-1521 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Asthma: ASTHMA IN CHILDREN: TREATMENT
	John Rees, John Price
	BMJ  1995;310:1522-1527 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1995;310:1546 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1995;310:1538 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Medicine woman
	Vivienne Van Someren
	BMJ  1995;310:1543 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Work intensity must be tackled
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:1539 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lack of progress on Calman report criticised
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:1539 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Students need an "honourable exit" from medicine
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:1539 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Telephone helpline given strong support
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:1539-1540 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The conference ..
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:1540 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA calls for medical manpower to be funded adequately • The NHS network must be secure • BMA agrees to pilot helpline
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:1540 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Evidence of an association between non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and skin cancer
	Johanna Adami, Morten Frisch, Jonathan Yuen, Bengt Glimelius, Mads Melbye
	BMJ  1995;310:1491-1495 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Somatostatin v placebo in bleeding oesophageal varices: randomised trial and meta-analysis
	Peter C Gotzsche, Ida Gjorup, Helen Bonnen, Niels Erik Bille Brahe, Ulrik Becker, Flemming Burcharth
	BMJ  1995;310:1495-1498 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The analgesic effect of sucrose in full term infants: a randomised controlled trial
	Nora Haouari, Christopher Wood, Gillian Griffiths, Malcolm Levene
	BMJ  1995;310:1498-1500 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Occurrence of different cancers in patients with Parkinson's disease
	Henrik Moller, Lene Mellemkjaer, Joseph K McLaughlin, Jorgen H Olsen
	BMJ  1995;310:1500-1501 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effect of physical activity on femoral bone density in men
	A G Need, J M Wishart, F Scopacasa, M Horowitz, H A Morris, B E C Nordin
	BMJ  1995;310:1501-1502 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The time of death after trauma
	Jonathan Wyatt, Diana Beard, Alasdair Gray, Anthony Busuttil, Colin Robertson
	BMJ  1995;310:1502 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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