Surgery and radiotherapy for early breast cancer
	J Michael Dixon
	BMJ  1995;311:1515-1516 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Brachial plexus neuropathy after radiotherapy for breast cancer
	Margaret F Spittle
	BMJ  1995;311:1516-1517 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical guidelines and the law
	Brian Hurwitz
	BMJ  1995;311:1517-1518 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Misoprostol in patients taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
	N Maiden, R Madhok
	BMJ  1995;311:1518-1519 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors and medical politics
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1995;311:1519-1520 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The costs of prevention
	John Cairns
	BMJ  1995;311:1520 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Controversy over psychiatric tourism
	Alice M Parshall
	BMJ  1995;311:1567 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	... but short on evidence
	Fred Kavalier
	BMJ  1995;311:1567 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Absence of data fuels "foreign scroungers" mentality
	Raymond K Akwayena
	BMJ  1995;311:1567 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	T H Turner, C Tannock
	BMJ  1995;311:1567-1568 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tackling general practitioners' depression
	Susan M Wearne
	BMJ  1995;311:1568 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Educational strategies to prevent depression
	Paul Sackin
	BMJ  1995;311:1568 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity in Britain
	J N Morris
	BMJ  1995;311:1568 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Andrew M Prentice, Susan A Jebb
	BMJ  1995;311:1568-1569 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rising trend may be due to "pathoenvironment"
	Eric Ravussin
	BMJ  1995;311:1569 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Monitoring the safety of herbal remedies
	D Sanders, N Kennedy, M W McKendrick
	BMJ  1995;311:1569 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHO project is under way
	Ralph Edwards
	BMJ  1995;311:1569-1570 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	European pilot studies are under way
	Simon Y Mills
	BMJ  1995;311:1570 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Depression, antidepressants, and accidents
	P A M Diamond
	BMJ  1995;311:1570 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients often present too late for inclusion in trials
	S Dische, D Gibson, M Parmar, M I Saunders, A Barrett
	BMJ  1995;311:1570 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Local research ethics committees
	Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
	BMJ  1995;311:1570-1571 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Central ethics committee might have to face hostile locals
	M I L Watling, J K Dewhurst
	BMJ  1995;311:1571 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Problems of students must not be ignored
	Graham Curtis Jenkins
	BMJ  1995;311:1571 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Attitude of their members is the critical factor
	Hugh Dudley
	BMJ  1995;311:1571 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Committees should devise special forms for the social sciences
	B J Oddens, D De Wied
	BMJ  1995;311:1572 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Differences in application process cause problems
	Mary Black, Brenda Leese, Toby Gosden
	BMJ  1995;311:1572 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical insurance in Republic of Ireland
	Barry O'Donnell
	BMJ  1995;311:1572 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Improving oral examinations
	L M Campbell, T S Murray
	BMJ  1995;311:1572-1573 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Richard Wakeford, Lesley Southgate, Val Wass
	BMJ  1995;311:1573 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Summative assessment for general practitioner registrars
	Jamie Bahrami
	BMJ  1995;311:1573 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Proposals may damage one of finest examples of postgraduate medical education
	Will Coppola
	BMJ  1995;311:1573 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Attitudes of consultant physicians to Calman proposals
	David London
	BMJ  1995;311:1573-1574 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Proposals do not refer to need for consultant provided service
	John G Temple
	BMJ  1995;311:1574 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Present situation is detrimental to patient care
	Olivia Williams, Paul Spiers
	BMJ  1995;311:1574 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rising emergency admissions
	John Weil, Michael Langman
	BMJ  1995;311:1574 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients prefer hospital follow up for cancer
	Rob Glynne-Jones, Ian Chait, Sally Thomas, Ivan Trotman
	BMJ  1995;311:1574-1575 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nurse triage may reduce workload in accident department
	G Prasad Rao, A Hughes
	BMJ  1995;311:1575 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Strengths of carotid endarterectomy were understated
	P R Taylor, Y P Panayiotopoulos, R A Edmondson, A J P Sandison
	BMJ  1995;311:1575 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	French doctors protest over health and welfare reforms
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1995;311:1521 [Extract] [Full text]

	Japan criticised for unsafe drug licences
	Robert Guest
	BMJ  1995;311:1521-1522 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1995;311:1522 [Extract] [Full text]

	Royal Society president slams arms trade
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1995;311:1522 [Extract] [Full text]

	Iraq sanctions lead to half a million child deaths
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1995;311:1523 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scotland's "right to die" case is put on hold
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1995;311:1523 [Extract] [Full text]

	Harvard dispenses medical information to the world
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;311:1523-1524 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health ministers look at cross border prescriptions
	Peter Conradi
	BMJ  1995;311:1524 [Extract] [Full text]

	Private projects and boost and squeeze budget for NHS
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;311:1524 [Extract] [Full text]

	American doctors alerted to assault
	Erik Gunn
	BMJ  1995;311:1525 [Extract] [Full text]

	Heart disease prevention needs attention
	Naomi Craft
	BMJ  1995;311:1525 [Extract] [Full text]

	Belgium brews row over euthanasia
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1995;311:1525-1526 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israeli doctors allowed to advertise
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovitch
	BMJ  1995;311:1526 [Extract] [Full text]

	Ombudsmen in the operating theatre
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;311:1526 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	The effects of fundholding in general practice on prescribing habits three years after introduction of the scheme
	Sarah Stewart-Brown, Rebecca Surender, Jean Bradlow, Angela Coulter, Helen Doll
	BMJ  1995;311:1543-1547 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Characteristics of general practices that prescribe appropriately for asthma
	Patricia Sturdy, Jeannette Naish, Filomena Pereira, Chris Griffiths, Susan Dolan, Peter Toon, Mike Chambers
	BMJ  1995;311:1547-1548 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	No mana for the shaman
	Ian Robertson
	BMJ  1995;311:1577 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Civil services
	Judith Hollis-Triantafillou
	BMJ  1995;311:1577 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Why Abena is not having a HIV test
	Yaw Adu-Sarkodie
	BMJ  1995;311:1578 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	I was tested for HIV
	BMJ  1995;311:1578-1579 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Patient-Centered Medicine: Transforming the Clinical Method
	Theo Schofield
	BMJ  1995;311:1580 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stress, Catecholamines, and Cardiovascular Disease
	Morris J Brown
	BMJ  1995;311:1580-1581 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and Futile Treatment
	Charles Weijer
	BMJ  1995;311:1581 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Parvovirus B19: an expanding spectrum of disease
	Bernard Cohen
	BMJ  1995;311:1549-1552 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guide to the Internet: The world wide web
	Mark Pallen
	BMJ  1995;311:1552-1556 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of recent health and social service policy reforms on Britain's mental health system
	Trevor R Hadley, Howard Goldman
	BMJ  1995;311:1556-1558 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	OxDONS syndrome: the inevitable disease of the NHS reforms
	C B T Adams
	BMJ  1995;311:1559-1561 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: misinterpretation of the rules
	Colin Reeves
	BMJ  1995;311:1561 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Atrial Fibrillation: INVESTIGATION AND NON-DRUG MANAGEMENT OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
	Gregory Y H Lip, S P Singh, R D S Watson
	BMJ  1995;311:1562-1565 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1995;311:1582 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	ANY QUESTIONS
	Malcolm Fishers
	BMJ  1995;311:1558 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Trust in the future?
	Charles Easmon
	BMJ  1995;311:1579 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA calls for lower blood alcohollevel for drivers • Number of GPs increases • Public health doctors forecast required manpower • New health minister appointed • Government promises extra pounds sterling50m for mentally ill patients • GPs clarify their role in childbirth
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;311:1576 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Adverse life events and breast cancer: case-control study
	C C Chen, A S David, H Nunnerley, M Michell, J L Dawson, H Berry, J Dobbs, T Fahy
	BMJ  1995;311:1527-1530 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mortality in relation to tar yield of cigarettes: a prospective study of four cohorts
	Jin-Ling Tang, Joan K Morris, Nicholas J Wald, David Hole, Martin Shipley, Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
	BMJ  1995;311:1530-1533 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Trends in incidence of AIDS associated with transfusion of blood and blood products in Europe and the United States, 1985-93
	S Franceschi, L Dal Maso, C La Vecchia
	BMJ  1995;311:1534-1536 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prognostic trees to aid prognosis in patients with cutaneous malignant melanoma
	Tom C Aitchison, Jane M Sirel, Douglas C Watt, Rona M MacKie, for the Scottish Melanoma Group
	BMJ  1995;311:1536-1539 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Prognostic models: clinically useful or quickly forgotten?
	Jeremy C Wyatt, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1995;311:1539-1541 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prescribing of quinine and cramp inducing drugs in general practice
	Margaret A Mackie, John Davidson
	BMJ  1995;311:1541 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	High frequency of parvovirus B19 in patients tested for rheumatoid factor
	P Jobanputra, F Davidson, S Graham, H O'Neill, P Simmonds, P L Yap
	BMJ  1995;311:1542 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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