Lessons from the Pearce affair: handling scientific fraud
	Stephen Lock
	BMJ  1995;310:1547 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vitamin C and vascular disease
	Christopher J Bulpitt
	BMJ  1995;310:1548-1549 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychiatric services for people with learning disabilities
	Andrew H Reid
	BMJ  1995;310:1549-1550 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The BMJ family
	Richard Smith, Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1995;310:1550-1551 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Family mediation
	Thelma Fisher
	BMJ  1995;310:1551 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Their lordships on medical research
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1995;310:1552 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	The shaken infant syndrome
	Stephen Leadbeatter, Ryk James, Susan Claydon, Bernard Knight
	BMJ  1995;310:1600 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deal with minor episodes of abuse to prevent more serious injuries
	Alison M Kemp, Jo Sibert
	BMJ  1995;310:1600 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Serious effects of shaking were described in 1971
	A Norma Guthkelch
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	Authors' reply
	Helen Carty, Jane Ratcliffe
	BMJ  1995;310:1600-1601 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maternal haemoglobin and birth weight in different ethnic groups
	Sarah Vause, Michael Maresh, Khaled Khaled
	BMJ  1995;310:1601 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study's conclusions are implausible
	A Houghton
	BMJ  1995;310:1601 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lower haemoglobin may be the result rather than the cause of larger fetuses
	David Howe
	BMJ  1995;310:1601 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Figure for lower end of range of maximal haemoglobin is too low
	Alan F Fleming
	BMJ  1995;310:1601-1602 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author's reply
	Philip Steer
	BMJ  1995;310:1602 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outcomes of neonatal intensive care
	David Field
	BMJ  1995;310:1602 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Water births
	C N Barry
	BMJ  1995;310:1602 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trends in sudden infant death
	A N Stanton
	BMJ  1995;310:1602-1603 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Infant respiratory death rates mirror sudden infant deaths
	D L Crombie, K W Cross, D M Fleming
	BMJ  1995;310:1603 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dutch doctor convicted of murdering disabled infant
	Janet Goodall
	BMJ  1995;310:1603 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Misleading meta-analysis
	James Le Fanu
	BMJ  1995;310:1603-1604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Registers for clinical trials already exist
	J A Muir Gray
	BMJ  1995;310:1604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Variability among studies should be investigated
	A Perry, R Persaud
	BMJ  1995;310:1604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fish oils and cardiovascular disease
	Andrew Haines, John S Yudkin
	BMJ  1995;310:1604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advance directives
	Paul A J Hardy
	BMJ  1995;310:1604 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Law Commission's report makes no provision for dissenting doctors
	A P Cole
	BMJ  1995;310:1604-1605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Incompetence develops gradually
	John P Wattis
	BMJ  1995;310:1605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Keyhole surgery
	R S Taylor, T M Loosemore
	BMJ  1995;310:1605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Accident and emergency radiology
	A H Troughton, I Kendall
	BMJ  1995;310:1605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Comparison view radiographs are not routinely required
	T F Beattie, M Hendry, M Mcphillips, S Mackenzie
	BMJ  1995;310:1605 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Elderly people and the 1990 act
	Farshid Namdaran, James Sherval, Martin Bull
	BMJ  1995;310:1605-1606 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical schools and racial discrimination
	Peter Richards, Chris Mcmanus
	BMJ  1995;310:1606 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating mental health problems in health care workers
	James Barrett
	BMJ  1995;310:1606 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Failing sick doctors
	Sydney Brandon
	BMJ  1995;310:1606 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	British Doctors' and Dentists' Group will provide an intervention service from 1 July
	I M Joiner
	BMJ  1995;310:1606-1607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	FHSA's or health commission's medical adviser can support and advise
	Gordon Barclay
	BMJ  1995;310:1607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment in the air
	D R Farquhar-Thomson, T Skinner
	BMJ  1995;310:1607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trust withdraws allegations against consultant
	Su Maddock
	BMJ  1995;310:1607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Suspension was waste of talent
	Wendy Savage
	BMJ  1995;310:1607 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	British GPs reject out of hours offer
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:1553 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1995;310:1554 [Extract] [Full text]

	Consultant struck off for fraudulent claims
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1995;310:1554-1555 [Extract] [Full text]

	Disabled people take care issues to court
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1995;310:1555 [Extract] [Full text]

	Peers define best and worst of NHS research
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;310:1555-1556 [Extract] [Full text]

	India moves towards equal rights for disabled people
	Meenal Mudur
	BMJ  1995;310:1556 [Extract] [Full text]

	Abortion laws cause problems in Poland
	Marek Gajewski
	BMJ  1995;310:1556-1557 [Extract] [Full text]

	Academics call for review of National Lottery's funding
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:1557 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health ministers to help orphan drugs
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1995;310:1557-1558 [Extract] [Full text]

	Nurses claim breakthrough in pay
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:1558 [Extract] [Full text]

	How we live now
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  1995;310:1558 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Extracontractual referrals: safety valve or administrative paperchase?
	Barbara Ghodse
	BMJ  1995;310:1573-1576 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Hospital investigation of men and women treated for angina
	Ian Spencer, Nigel Unwin, Gordon Pledger
	BMJ  1995;310:1576 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Resting the brain
	Tony Smith
	BMJ  1995;310:1611 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Microbes and cancer
	Bernard Dixon
	BMJ  1995;310:1611 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	General practice's last stand
	D P Kernick
	BMJ  1995;310:1613 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	A Literature Review of the Cost-Effectiveness of Nuclear Medicine
	Tom Jefferson
	BMJ  1995;310:1614 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Private Decisions, Public Debate: Women, Reproduction and Population
	Monica Das Gupta
	BMJ  1995;310:1614-1615 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of Disasters and their Aftermath
	Patrick K Plunkett
	BMJ  1995;310:1615 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Prisoners' Handbook 1995
	Ed Walker
	BMJ  1995;310:1615 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Integrating undergraduate and postgraduate education in general practice: experience in Tayside
	John Bain, Robin Scott, David Snadden
	BMJ  1995;310:1577-1579 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Where should health services go: local authorities versus the NHS?
	Allyson M Pollock
	BMJ  1995;310:1580-1584 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Local government and health care: the historical perspective
	Charles Webster
	BMJ  1995;310:1584-1587 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The case for closer cooperation between local authorities and the NHS
	David J Hunter
	BMJ  1995;310:1587-1589 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Female genital mutilation in Britain
	J A Black, G D Debelle
	BMJ  1995;310:1590-1592 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Female genital mutilation in France
	Colette Gallard
	BMJ  1995;310:1592-1593 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why the problem continues in Britain
	Rupert Walder
	BMJ  1995;310:1593-1594 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recent Advances: Respiratory medicine
	R M du Bois
	BMJ  1995;310:1594-1597 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1995;310:1616 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1995;310:1566 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WORDS TO THE WISE
	Grant Hutchison
	BMJ  1995;310:1572 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ANY QUESTIONS
	John Rees
	BMJ  1995;310:1597 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1995;310:1615 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Facing the future
	Sarah Kelly
	BMJ  1995;310:1612 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An everyday story of ICU folk
	Graham Baldock
	BMJ  1995;310:1612-1613 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	From the public health conference • Transport policies should be reviewed • Public health faculty should be restricted to doctors • Discrimination in admission to medical school should end • Proposal for school family planning clinics defeated • Conference welcomes core values document • Community doctors have had some success • Trainees are concerned over manpower • The conference.. • NHS to have code of practice on openness • Minister gives assurance on GMC's performance review • Health secretary sets out aims • Junior doctors' salaries must be protected • WMA secretary calls for doctors to remain patients' advocates • NHS socialised medicine works, says health secretary • The ethics of audit must be considered
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:1608 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Interrelation of vitamin C, infection, haemostatic factors, and cardiovascular disease
	Kay-Tee Khaw, Peter Woodhouse
	BMJ  1995;310:1559-1563 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Vitamin C and risk of death from stroke and coronary heart disease in cohort of elderly people
	Catharine R Gale, Christopher N Martyn, Paul D Winter, Cyrus Cooper
	BMJ  1995;310:1563-1566 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk factors for acanthamoeba keratitis in contact lens users: a case-control study
	Cherry F Radford, Annette S Bacon, John K G Dart, Darwin C Minassian
	BMJ  1995;310:1567-1570 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Macular degeneration and early menopause: a case-control study
	Johannes R Vingerling, Ida Dielemans, Jacqueline C M Witteman, Albert Hofman, Diederick E Grobbee, Paulus T V M de Jong
	BMJ  1995;310:1570-1571 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lower respiratory infection and inflammation in infants with newly diagnosed cystic fibrosis
	David S Armstrong, Keith Grimwood, Rosemary Carzino, John B Carlin, Anthony Olinsky, Peter D Phelan
	BMJ  1995;310:1571-1572 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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