Sensible drinking
	Griffith Edwards
	BMJ  1996;312:1 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Serial homicide
	Jan Scott
	BMJ  1996;312:2-3 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Internet's challenge to health care provision
	Enrico Coiera
	BMJ  1996;312:3-4 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Virtual reality in rehabilitation
	Michael Henning Andreae
	BMJ  1996;312:4-5 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minimally invasive surgery for male subfertility
	Y Khalifa, J G Grudzinskas
	BMJ  1996;312:5-6 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acyclovir in recurrent herpes labialis
	Graham Worrall
	BMJ  1996;312:6 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Quality of service provision for anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation
	Adrian Edwards, Roisin Pill
	BMJ  1996;312:51 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Many patients are ineligible
	Gregory Y H Lip
	BMJ  1996;312:51 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients and doctors play it safe
	Michael E Scott, Willliam F M Wallace
	BMJ  1996;312:51-52 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Difficulties of routine treatment are exaggerated
	Tom Marshall
	BMJ  1996;312:52 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cardioversion should be attempted
	R C Davis
	BMJ  1996;312:52 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In Finland anticoagulant treatment is monitored by general practitioners
	K Eskola, I Virjo, M Isokoski, Pirjo Aittobiemi, H Kurunmaki, A Latva-Nevala, M Paloneva, A-M Wallin, M Viitaniemi, S Ylinen, S Ohman
	BMJ  1996;312:52-53 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Telephone interpreting service is available
	Tom Pointon
	BMJ  1996;312:53 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cancer among airline cabin attendants
	Rainer Fogelholm
	BMJ  1996;312:53 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interpretation of study minimises occupational hazards
	Sue Rabbitt Roff
	BMJ  1996;312:53 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Eero Pukkala, Anssi Auvinen, Gunilla Wahlberg
	BMJ  1996;312:53-54 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment for benign positional vertigo
	Graeme M Weiner
	BMJ  1996;312:54 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics committees
	Tom McClintock, Caroline Friendship
	BMJ  1996;312:54 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Separate criteria should be drawn up for questionnaire based epidemiological studies
	Balvinder Kaur, Jennifer Taylor
	BMJ  1996;312:54 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Communities' confidentiality should be maintained and community consent sought
	Fikre Enquselassie, James Nokes, Felicity Cutts
	BMJ  1996;312:54-55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long term care in later life
	R L Hawkins
	BMJ  1996;312:55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Best providers should win contracts irrespective of their ownership
	Barry Hassel
	BMJ  1996;312:55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Accessing the Internet is far from easy
	T J David
	BMJ  1996;312:55 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Probiotic" remedies are not what they seem
	J M T Hamilton-Miller, Saroj Shah, Craig T Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:55-56 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths in police custody
	Vinod Patel
	BMJ  1996;312:56 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients taking stable doses of morphine may drive
	A M Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:56-57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients with hydrocephalus should have regular eye checks
	Hannah Gaston
	BMJ  1996;312:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Torture and war
	N Mamode
	BMJ  1996;312:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	International congresses held in Israel should be boycotted
	Chris Burns-Cox
	BMJ  1996;312:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Letter did not mention terrorists' activities in Israel
	Jeremy Raphael
	BMJ  1996;312:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nicaragua has been neglected by Western media
	B O'Brien
	BMJ  1996;312:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Article omitted to mention victims of left wing revolutionary politics
	Derek Steinberg
	BMJ  1996;312:57 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Atrocities in eastern Europe were not mentioned
	Charles M Vygantas
	BMJ  1996;312:57-58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Abduction results in family, emotional, and legal problems
	Luis Bernardino
	BMJ  1996;312:58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Land mine injuries in Afghanistan
	James McDiarmid
	BMJ  1996;312:58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of performance indicators for general practice
	Sarah J Baker
	BMJ  1996;312:58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:58 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Alcohol--pushing the limits
	BMJ  1996;312:7 [Extract] [Full text]

	International guidelines
	BMJ  1996;312:7-9 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:8 [Extract] [Full text]

	The drinks trade lobby
	Luisa Dillner, Deborah Josefson, Helmut Karcher, Tony Sheldon, Alexander Dorozynski, Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1996;312:9 [Extract] [Full text]

	New battle looms for France over health reforms
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;312:9 [Extract] [Full text]

	Ombudsman plans to locate blame in complaints cases
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:10 [Extract] [Full text]

	Britain poised to extend storage of frozen embryos
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:10 [Extract] [Full text]

	US journals veto tobacco funded research
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1996;312:11 [Extract] [Full text]

	Gynaecologist acquitted in hysterectomy case
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:11-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Researchers face patent race for breast cancer gene
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Russia fights flu outbreak
	Sue Jameson
	BMJ  1996;312:12 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Does home visiting prevent childhood injury? A systematic review of randomised controlled trials
	Ian Roberts, Michael S Kramer, Samy Suissa
	BMJ  1996;312:29-33 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Collecting data in general practice: need for standardisation
	D C Newrick, J A Spencer, K P Jones
	BMJ  1996;312:33-34 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Continuing increase in respiratory symptoms and atopy in Aberdeen schoolchildren
	Maeda Omran, George Russell
	BMJ  1996;312:34 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Like the plagues of Egypt
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1996;312:61 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MaLAM
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1996;312:61 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Hospital culture shock
	Ewoud G Bos
	BMJ  1996;312:63 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital culture shock
	Ewoud G Bos
	BMJ  1996;312:63 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Medical Discipline: The Professional Conduct Jurisdiction of the General Medical Council, 1858-1990
	Catherine Crawford
	BMJ  1996;312:64 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
	Mary Loudon
	BMJ  1996;312:64-65 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of Neurological Disorders
	B Sadzot
	BMJ  1996;312:65 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Selection
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1996;312:65 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Marginal costs and benefits
	David J Torgerson, Anne Spencer
	BMJ  1996;312:35-36 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Nephrotic syndrome in childhood complicated by life threatening pulmonary oedema
	C J D Reid, M J Marsh, I M Murdoch, G Clark
	BMJ  1996;312:36-38 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Controversies in Management: Should backache be treated with spinal fusion?
	John P O'Brien
	BMJ  1996;312:38-39 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Controversies in Management: The case for spinal fusion is unproved
	James Wilson-MacDonald
	BMJ  1996;312:39-40 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Controversies in Management: Commentary
	P C Rubin
	BMJ  1996;312:40 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ANY QUESTIONS
	Malcolm Fisher
	BMJ  1996;312:40 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advice to authors
	BMJ  1996;312:41-43 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines for referees
	BMJ  1996;312:43 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Checklists for statisticians
	BMJ  1996;312:43-44 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug points
	BMJ  1996;312:44 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Technical editor's checklist
	BMJ  1996;312:44 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Atrial Fibrillation: ANTITHROMBOTIC TREATMENT FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
	Gregory Y H Lip, Gordon D O Lowe
	BMJ  1996;312:45-49 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:49 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical encounters in cyberspace
	David Sellu
	BMJ  1996;312:49 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:66 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Editor's choice
	BMJ  1996;312 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Sanitising horror for the public good
	Joshua Rozenberg
	BMJ  1996;312:62 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Should the media self-censor some court cases?
	Richard Morriss
	BMJ  1996;312:62-63 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Juniors win victory over new grade proposals • Consultants oppose hierarchical structure • Associate specialists will be eligible for discretionary points • NHS regional offices will hold lists of consultant assessors • BMA warns doctors about computer security • Doctors in hard pressed posts will be compensated • Private hospital lost pounds sterling8.5m of public funds • Survey shows changes in smoking and drinking
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:59 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	A randomised prospective comparison of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and nasogastric tube feeding after acute dysphagic stroke
	B Norton, M Homer-Ward, M T Donnelly, R G Long, G K T Holmes
	BMJ  1996;312:13-16 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prenatal and postnatal prevalence of Turner's syndrome: a registry study
	Claus Hojbjerg Gravholt, Svend Juul, Rune Weis Naeraa, Jan Hansen
	BMJ  1996;312:16-21 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1996;312:21 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cognitive behaviour therapy for the chronic fatigue syndrome: a randomised controlled trial
	Michael Sharpe, Keith Hawton, Sue Simkin, Christina Surawy, Ann Hackmann, Ivana Klimes, Tim Peto, David Warrell, Valerie Seagroatt
	BMJ  1996;312:22-26 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Relation between plasma lactate and blood cyanide concentrations in acute cyanide poisoning
	Frederic J Baud, Stephen W Borron, Eric Bavoux, Alain Astier, Jerome R Hoffman
	BMJ  1996;312:26-27 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Assessment of urine analysis for the diagnosis of tuberculosis
	Emmanuel Mortier, Jacques Pouchot, Laurence Girard, Yves Boussougant, Philippe Vinceneux
	BMJ  1996;312:27-28 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	WHEN I USE A WORD
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1996;312:28 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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