Confusion over use of placebos in clinical trials
	Joe Collier
	BMJ  1995;311:821-822 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pregnancy in women with cystic fibrosis
	F P Edenborough, D E Stableforth, W E Mackenzie
	BMJ  1995;311:822-823 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community care and general practice
	David Kingdon, Sue Sumners
	BMJ  1995;311:823-824 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The new out of hours agreement for general practitioners
	Brian Hurwitz
	BMJ  1995;311:824-825 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary health care and adolescence
	Aidan Macfarlane, Ann McPherson
	BMJ  1995;311:825-826 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	And now, evidence based editing
	Richard Smith, Drummond Rennie
	BMJ  1995;311:826 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Treating CS gas injuries to the eye
	Peter J Gray
	BMJ  1995;311:871 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poisons centre will monitor cases
	Henrietta Wheeler, Virginia Murray
	BMJ  1995;311:871 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Illegal "Mace" contains more toxic CN particles
	Robert A H Scott
	BMJ  1995;311:871 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pitfalls in the diagnosis of subarachnoid haemorrhage
	Fergus Coakley, Nick Messios, Bruno Morgan, Richard Owen
	BMJ  1995;311:871-872 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and nursing
	Anne Mulhall, Anne Jones
	BMJ  1995;311:872 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nurses should have experience of medical training
	Neil Simpson
	BMJ  1995;311:872 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Senior nurses are out of touch
	Eileen Cummins, Jeremy S Stern
	BMJ  1995;311:872 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Problems of hierarchy are not confined to nursing
	Sally Knight, Jonathan Knight
	BMJ  1995;311:872-873 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nurses' role is narrowing in Germany
	Sigrid Nikol, Tanya Y Huehns
	BMJ  1995;311:873 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nursing euologies ignored ethos of control and punishment
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1995;311:873 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Macintosh PC is better than Windows
	George G Hartnell
	BMJ  1995;311:873 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Software package makes counting episodes easier
	Martin Clarke
	BMJ  1995;311:873-874 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Incidence of gastrointestinal bleeding in Italy is similar to that in Britain
	Silvano Loperfido
	BMJ  1995;311:874 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vitamin D receptor genotype and bone mineral density
	Munro Peacock, Frank G Hustmyer, Siu Hui, C Conrad Johnston, Joe Christian
	BMJ  1995;311:874-875 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	T D Spector, R W Keen, N K Arden, T V Nguyen, N A Morrison, P N Sambrook, P J Kelly, J A Eisman
	BMJ  1995;311:875 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychosis is also common in users of "normal" cannabis
	Andrew J McBride, Huw Thomas
	BMJ  1995;311:875 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Allocating census data to general practice populations
	Paul Aveyard
	BMJ  1995;311:875-876 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reducing number of postcodes that cannot be ascribed would increase validity of method
	Ronan A Lyons, Stephen Monaghan, Martin Heaven, Alan Willson
	BMJ  1995;311:876 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fall in birth weight of third generation Asian infants
	E S Draper, K R Abrams, M Clarke
	BMJ  1995;311:876 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating temporarily incompetent patients
	Robert Francis
	BMJ  1995;311:876-877 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	No reasonable doubt that patient was incompetent
	Michael Pegg
	BMJ  1995;311:877 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practitioners can help with patients who take their own discharge
	David Emerton
	BMJ  1995;311:877 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Diabetes and breast feeding
	Rosemary Dodds, Daryl Dawson
	BMJ  1995;311:877 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Carbohydrate requirements are increased
	Michael Brudenell
	BMJ  1995;311:877 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ambulance staff exercise discretion over resuscitation decision
	P D Donnelly, C F M Weston
	BMJ  1995;311:877-878 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pig sticking injuries are no joke
	Paul Garner
	BMJ  1995;311:878 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New measures can help to measure economic "externalities"
	Ed Mayo
	BMJ  1995;311:878 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMJ should declare its own conflict of interest
	D C Mabin
	BMJ  1995;311:878 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Biomedical journals not dead yet
	S E Quinn, G S Kenyon
	BMJ  1995;311:879 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Whimsical titles are deeply unhelpful
	Jonathan R Kerr
	BMJ  1995;311:879 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Unreliability of reports of hypoglycaemia by diabetic patients
	Alberto Maran, Stephanie A Amiel
	BMJ  1995;311:879 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Information on sugar free medicines is readily available
	Michelle Styles
	BMJ  1995;311:879 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Study shows two drugs are best for HIV infection
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1995;311:827 [Extract] [Full text]

	GPs accept out of hours offer unanimously
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;311:827-828 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1995;311:828 [Extract] [Full text]

	US drug companies battle over dyspepsia drugs
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1995;311:828-829 [Extract] [Full text]

	Medical student lies for university place
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1995;311:829 [Extract] [Full text]

	Colombian hospital did not steal child's corneas
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1995;311:829-830 [Extract] [Full text]

	South Pacific leads the world in rates of youth suicide
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1995;311:830 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS trust faces bill for compensation in home takeover
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1995;311:830 [Extract] [Full text]

	British children face changing health risks
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1995;311:831 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israeli doctors oppose "black medicine" bill
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1995;311:831-832 [Extract] [Full text]

	Needle exchanges reduce HIV infection in US
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;311:832 [Extract] [Full text]

	Playing politics with the poor: the cities
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;311:832 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Has general practitioner computing made a difference to patient care? A systematic review of published reports
	Frank Sullivan, Elizabeth Mitchell
	BMJ  1995;311:848-852 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Emergency room medicine: 2
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1995;311:881 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Confessions of a blood donor
	Judith Hollis-Triantafillou
	BMJ  1995;311:881 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	"Quiet consummation have"
	Betty Bridger
	BMJ  1995;311:882 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The patient is now an economic unit
	Anonymous
	BMJ  1995;311:882-883 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Cardiac Rehabilitation
	Andrew McLeod
	BMJ  1995;311:884 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Symptoms of Disease in Childhood
	William J Bassett
	BMJ  1995;311:884 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Best books in medical physiology
	A H Short
	BMJ  1995;311:885 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Management of hip osteoarthritis
	Paul Dieppe
	BMJ  1995;311:853-857 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of cases of nosocomial Lassa fever in Nigeria: the high price of poor medical practice
	S P Fisher-Hoch, O Tomori, A Nasidi, G I Perez-Oronoz, Y Fakile, L Hutwagner, J B McCormick
	BMJ  1995;311:857-859 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fortnightly Review: Tropical medicine for the 21st century
	Kevin M De Cock, Sebastian B Lucas, David Mabey, Eldryd Parry
	BMJ  1995;311:860-862 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Letter from Ethiopia: Harnessing the strengths of the leprosy programme to control tuberculosis
	Diana N J Lockwood, Paul R Saunderson
	BMJ  1995;311:862-863 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Medical Computing: COMPUTERS IN GENERAL PRACTICE--II
	Andrew Millman, Nicholas Lee, Andrew Brooke
	BMJ  1995;311:864-867 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1995;311:886 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1995;311:843 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	THE MAN WHO MOST INFLUENCED ME
	C S Breathnach
	BMJ  1995;311:852 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1995;311:852 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Traumatised children
	Harry Zeitlin
	BMJ  1995;311:883 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GPs approve simpler complaints and disciplinary procedure • Health care in remote areas must be flexible • Government endorses strategic review of pathology services • European Commission reports on Europe's health
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;311:880 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Decreasing HIV-1 seroprevalence in young adults in a rural Ugandan cohort
	Daan Mulder, Andrew Nunn, Anatoli Kamali, Jane Kengeya-Kayondo
	BMJ  1995;311:833-836 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Morbidity and severity of illness during interhospital transfer: impact of a specialised paediatric retrieval team
	Joseph Britto, Simon Nadel, Ian Maconochie, Michael Levin, Parviz Habibi
	BMJ  1995;311:836-839 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Evaluation of specialist paediatric retrieval teams
	Stuart Logan
	BMJ  1995;311:839 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Socioeconomic variation in admission for diseases of female genital system and breast in a national cohort aged 15-43
	Diana Kuh, Susan Stirling
	BMJ  1995;311:840-843 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Denial of effective treatment and poor quality of clinical information in placebo controlled trials of ondansetron for postoperative nausea and vomiting: a review of published trials
	Rebecca L Aspinall, Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  1995;311:844-846 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Incidence of transfusion associated B and non-A, non-B hepatitis in Italy
	Alfonso Mele, Tommaso Stroffolini, Raffaele Catapano, Filippo Palumbo, Angela Moiraghi, Francesca Novaco
	BMJ  1995;311:846-847 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevalence of alcohol histories in medical and nursing notes of patients admitted with self poisoning
	Robin M Shepherd, Thomas H S Dent, Graeme J M Alexander, Mervyn London
	BMJ  1995;311:847 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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