The scientific basis of health services
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1995;311:961-962 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Consensus on red cell transfusion
	C A J Wardrop, B M Holland, J Gareth Jones
	BMJ  1995;311:962-963 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Friday the 13th and obsessive compulsive disorder
	David Veale
	BMJ  1995;311:963-964 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Domestic violence against women
	Jo Richardson, Gene Feder
	BMJ  1995;311:964-965 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Only doing my duty?
	Gwen Adshead
	BMJ  1995;311:965-966 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital jobs on the Internet
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1995;311:966 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Patients with a self diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis
	Charles Shepherd
	BMJ  1995;311:1021 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	S J Hurel, B Abuisha, P H Baylis, P E Harris
	BMJ  1995;311:1021 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cycling and physical exercise
	David Sloan
	BMJ  1995;311:1021 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Government's endorsement of cycling is welcome U turn
	D R Uncles
	BMJ  1995;311:1021 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cycling is one of most common forms of sport and recreation
	Domhnall Macauley
	BMJ  1995;311:1021-1022 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Falls due to stroke
	Kumud S Bhatnagar
	BMJ  1995;311:1022 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Anne Forster, John Young
	BMJ  1995;311:1022 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Predicting acute maxillary sinusitis
	Frank Dobbs
	BMJ  1995;311:1022 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trial was wrong to ignore other sinuses
	David J Gatland
	BMJ  1995;311:1022 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author's reply
	Jens Georg Hansen
	BMJ  1995;311:1022-1023 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ensuring that guidelines are effective
	Charlotte Williamson
	BMJ  1995;311:1023 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pilot of patient held guidelines is under way
	Jammi N Rao, P Myers, B S Smith, B A Andreou
	BMJ  1995;311:1023 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acute pain services
	S R Susay
	BMJ  1995;311:1023 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Work is needed to show that good quality analgesia improves outcome of surgery
	H B J Fischer, P V Scott
	BMJ  1995;311:1023-1024 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Low expectations of pain relief encourage persistence of poor standards
	Marek R Gabrielczyk
	BMJ  1995;311:1024 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Anaesthetics training in the United States
	P R Hambly
	BMJ  1995;311:1024 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Three year residency produces equivalent of competent middle grade registrar
	Michael Nathanson, Rob John
	BMJ  1995;311:1024 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Applying for flexible training
	Joanna Sayer
	BMJ  1995;311:1025 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Process has since been simplified
	A Geraldine Bynoe, Ilfra Goldberg
	BMJ  1995;311:1025 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Differences in mortality after fracture of hip
	C J Todd, Chris Palmer, C Camilleri-Ferrante, C J Freeman, C E Laxton, M J Parker, B V Payne, N Rushton
	BMJ  1995;311:1025 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sanctions against apartheid were effective
	Raymond Hoffenberg
	BMJ  1995;311:1025-1026 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	South African Medical Association colluded with apartheid
	Ralph A A R Lawrence
	BMJ  1995;311:1026 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Maintaining clinical contact during research
	Pamela Pole
	BMJ  1995;311:1026 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Genetic testing in the classroom
	Peter Jones, Mike Billett, Paul Scotting, Sandy Raeburn
	BMJ  1995;311:1026 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Extracontractual referrals
	S J Cornell
	BMJ  1995;311:1026-1027 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Panel has reduced inappropriate requests
	Stephen Curson, Andrew Mcalpine, John Shanks, Natalie Tiddy, Marc Rowland
	BMJ  1995;311:1027 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Classified advertisements in the BMJ
	K Cleary
	BMJ  1995;311:1027 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Colleges and trusts are blocking humanitarian service
	Peter Beale
	BMJ  1995;311:1027 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practice at night
	Martin Shutkever
	BMJ  1995;311:1027-1028 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Service must change to deal with patients' reasonable demands
	David N H Greig
	BMJ  1995;311:1028 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New agreement is not the answer but an opportunity
	John Hopkins
	BMJ  1995;311:1028 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs should be given breathing space to cope
	R R Nair
	BMJ  1995;311:1028 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New money should be divided equally amongst all GPs
	C D A Fabre
	BMJ  1995;311:1028 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	And fiinally, in the good old days..
	M Keith Thompson
	BMJ  1995;311:1028 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Medicare plans outrage elderly people and doctors
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;311:967 [Extract] [Full text]

	France gears up to fight health insurance debts
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1995;311:967-968 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1995;311:968 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch propose paying GPs more for difficult work
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1995;311:968-969 [Extract] [Full text]

	Multiple sclerosis drug prompts rationing fears
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1995;311:969 [Extract] [Full text]

	Labour sets out high tech vision for NHS
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;311:969-970 [Extract] [Full text]

	Research must be declared by trusts and universities
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  1995;311:970 [Extract] [Full text]

	US apologises for radiation tests on unaware patients
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;311:970 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS trust loses pounds sterling3.5 million on business venture
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1995;311:971 [Extract] [Full text]

	Autologous blood transfusions need risk register
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1995;311:971 [Extract] [Full text]

	Australian doctors in confidentiality controversy
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1995;311:971-972 [Extract] [Full text]

	GMC launches new "blue book"
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1995;311:972 [Extract] [Full text]

	Commission targets Europe's major killer
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1995;311:972 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Specific therapeutic group age-sex related prescribing units (STAR-PUs): weightings for analysing general practices' prescribing in England
	D C E F Lloyd, C M Harris, D J Roberts
	BMJ  1995;311:991-994 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Settefonte
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1995;311:1030 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sound medicine
	Bernard Dixon
	BMJ  1995;311:1030 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	A betrayal
	Neville W Goodman
	BMJ  1995;311:1032 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Down Syndrome: Living and Learning in the Community
	Ian McKinlay
	BMJ  1995;311:1033 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Practice Management Handbook
	Roger Pietroni
	BMJ  1995;311:1033 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Humanitarian responses to mass violence perpetrated against vulnerable populations
	George A Gellert
	BMJ  1995;311:995-1001 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Life in the real world is more complicated
	Anthony B Zwi
	BMJ  1995;311:1001-1002 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Towards the safer use of medicines
	A W Asscher, G D Parr, V B Whitmarsh
	BMJ  1995;311:1003-1005 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Department of Health's requirement for mandatory collection of data on ethnic group of inpatients
	Peter J Aspinall
	BMJ  1995;311:1006-1009 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Beijing diary: ten days at the women's conference
	Naomi Craft
	BMJ  1995;311:1010-1012 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Medical Computing: HOSPITAL BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
	Nicholas Lee, Andrew Millman
	BMJ  1995;311:1013-1016 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1995;311:1034 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1995;311:990 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A PAPER THAT CHANGED MY PRACTICE
	Wayne Lewis
	BMJ  1995;311:994 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1995;311:985 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Corrections
	BMJ  1995;311:990 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction
	BMJ  1995;311:1028 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Anecdotes on asthma
	John Rees
	BMJ  1995;311:1031 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improving odds in the cancer lottery
	Irene M Peat
	BMJ  1995;311:1031-1032 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA opposes private ethos in the NHS • GPs will discuss a salaried option • BMA wants landmines banned • EU committee votes to remove tobacco growers' premium • Consultants support doctor's freedom of speech • Army medical college will leave London
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;311:1029 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Intensive therapy and progression to clinical albuminuria in patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus and microalbuminuria
	Microalbuminuria Collaborative Study Group
	BMJ  1995;311:973-977 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cardiac and vascular morbidity in women receiving adjuvant tamoxifen for breast cancer in a randomised trial
	Carolyn C McDonald, Freda E Alexander, Bruce W Whyte, A Patrick Forrest, Helen J Stewart
	BMJ  1995;311:977-980 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial of laparoscopic versus open repair of inguinal hernia: early results
	Kate Lawrence, Douglas McWhinnie, Alex Goodwin, Helen Doll, Andrew Gordon, Alistair Gray, Julian Britton, Jack Collin
	BMJ  1995;311:981-985 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Dietary underreporting by obese individuals--is it specific or non-specific?
	Berit Lilienthal Heitmann, Lauren Lissner
	BMJ  1995;311:986-989 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prediction of acute mountain sickness
	D Austin, J Sleigh
	BMJ  1995;311:989-990 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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