Publishing research supported by the tobacco industry
	John Roberts, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:133-134 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nursing shortages
	James Buchan
	BMJ  1996;312:134-135 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Homicides and suicides by mentally ill people
	Allan House
	BMJ  1996;312:135-136 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neonatal prevention ofiron deficiency
	Alfredo Pisacane
	BMJ  1996;312:136-137 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The melanoma epidemic: reality and artefact
	Jonathan L Rees
	BMJ  1996;312:137-138 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minocycline for acne
	R E Ferner, Celia Moss
	BMJ  1996;312:138 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy
	Terence Featherstone
	BMJ  1996;312:180 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Aetiology of scrapie in certain circumstances is not evidence against another aetiology in different circumstances
	R M Ridley, H F Baker
	BMJ  1996;312:180 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is being maintained by vertical and horizontal transmission
	R W Lacey
	BMJ  1996;312:180-181 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scrapie can be transmitted to mice by instillation of inoculum into the conjunctiva
	Janet R Fraser, James D Foster, Hugh Fraser
	BMJ  1996;312:181 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Meat and Livestock Commission's advertising campaign
	Chris Lamb
	BMJ  1996;312:181 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author may not be impartial
	Simon Brophy
	BMJ  1996;312:181 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commission emphasises nutritional value of meat in booklet for new mothers
	Judith R Glynn
	BMJ  1996;312:181 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treating anorexia nervosa
	Rosalind Ramsay, Janet Treasure
	BMJ  1996;312:182 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' beliefs hinder treatment
	John Sharkey
	BMJ  1996;312:182 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neonatal screening
	Francesco P Cappuccio, Matthew Hickman, Maggie Barker
	BMJ  1996;312:182 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pretest counselling and informed consent should be prerequisites
	Adrian Edwards
	BMJ  1996;312:182-183 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pitfalls in the interpretation of tumour markers
	D A Oleesky, R Fifield
	BMJ  1996;312:183 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk factors for acanthamoeba keratitis
	Cherry F Radford, John K G Dart, Darwin C Minassian
	BMJ  1996;312:183 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Placebo controlled trials of ondansetron for postoperative nausea and vomiting
	James B D Palmer, Chris G Haigh, Trevor G Gibbs, Charlotte M Taylor
	BMJ  1996;312:183 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deprivation payments should be based on enumeration districts
	Adrian Hastings
	BMJ  1996;312:183-184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public discussion of rationing decisions is essential
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  1996;312:184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Community care and general practice
	Surinder Singh, Margaret Lloyd, Sarah Webb
	BMJ  1996;312:184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Multidisciplinary, proactive care is needed
	Andrew Singleton, Richard Martin, Sue Mitchell
	BMJ  1996;312:184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Emergency contraception
	Mark Dinwoodie
	BMJ  1996;312:184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Use of the term is erroneous
	John Scotson
	BMJ  1996;312:184-185 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Contract minimum dataset includes confidential data
	O M Goodyear
	BMJ  1996;312:185 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Assessing the quality of care
	Richard J Davenport, Martin S Dennis
	BMJ  1996;312:185 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Systematic methods must be used to develop review criteria
	Mayur Lakhani, Richard Baker, Robin Fraser
	BMJ  1996;312:185 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How to get patients' consent to enter clinical trials
	F Andrew I Riordan, Alistair P J Thomson
	BMJ  1996;312:185-186 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Information and consent forms should use short words and sentences
	Naomi Pfeffer
	BMJ  1996;312:186 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Participants should be given feedback about the trial
	Sally Marshall
	BMJ  1996;312:186 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nurses could halve GP workload
	Ruth Huddart
	BMJ  1996;312:186 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training in substance abuse is lacking for GPs
	Edwin Martin
	BMJ  1996;312:186-187 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Junior doctors' hours
	V Vasantha Kumar
	BMJ  1996;312:187 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Don't blame the Junior Doctors Committee
	A Simon Carney
	BMJ  1996;312:187 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Committee agrees that pay for additional duty hours is derisory
	Simon Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:187 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Committee is split on whether to reduce senior trainees' hours
	Andrew J Lyons
	BMJ  1996;312:187 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reporting poorly performing doctors may seem an expensive waste of time
	BMJ  1996;312:187 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Nursing shortfall hits Britain
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:139 [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA warns of bed crisis in the NHS
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:139-140 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:140 [Extract] [Full text]

	Inadequate care linked to homicides and suicides
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  1996;312:140-141 [Extract] [Full text]

	Prison doctor faces misconduct charge after speaking out
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1996;312:141 [Extract] [Full text]

	Britain creates watchdog for genetic tests
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:141-142 [Extract] [Full text]

	Meat commission cautioned after anaemia advert
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:142 [Extract] [Full text]

	Australia improves access to records
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1996;312:142 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch doctors fight law on sick pay
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;312:142 [Extract] [Full text]

	MPs predict gloomy future for NHS dentistry
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:143 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors in Britain urged to practise effectively
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1996;312:143-144 [Extract] [Full text]

	Elderly in US have rising suicide risk
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1996;312:144 [Extract] [Full text]

	Merging hospitals can benefit everybody
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:144 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Alternatives to hospital care: what are they and who should decide?
	Joanna Coast, Abby Inglis, Stephen Frankel
	BMJ  1996;312:162-166 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	To see ourselves
	Ian Robertson
	BMJ  1996;312:189 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Researching the market
	Bernard Dixon
	BMJ  1996;312:189 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	How did your brother die?
	Thomas Roques
	BMJ  1996;312:191 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Services, Treatments, and Outcomes
	R J Greenwood
	BMJ  1996;312:192 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Handling Aggression and Violence in Health Services: A Training Programme
	Richard Hobbs
	BMJ  1996;312:192-193 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Cognitive Neurosciences
	Sean Spence
	BMJ  1996;312:193 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Selection
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1996;312:193 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Lessons for health care rationing from the case of child B
	David Price
	BMJ  1996;312:167-169 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minocycline induced autoimmune hepatitis and systemic lupus erythematosus-like syndrome
	Andrew Gough, Stephen Chapman, Kate Wagstaff, Paul Emery, Elwyn Elias
	BMJ  1996;312:169-172 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Allopurinol, erythema multiforme, and renal insufficiency
	A Kumar, N Edward, M I White, P W Johnston, G R D Catto
	BMJ  1996;312:173-174 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Atrial Fibrillation: ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN GENERAL AND HOSPITAL PRACTICE
	Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers, John R Coope
	BMJ  1996;312:175-178 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:194 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A MEMORABLE PATIENT
	John Zorab
	BMJ  1996;312:172 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	WHEN I USE A WORD
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1996;312:178 [Extract] [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

	The patient's dilemma
	Heather Draper
	BMJ  1996;312:190 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Milken buys immunity
	Frances Calman
	BMJ  1996;312:190-191 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Accident departments can appoint more staff • Helping GPs to provide better out of hours services • Human rights will be emphasised at Istanbul meeting • Maintaining Medical Excellence will impose new costs • In brief
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:188 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Survival outcome of care by specialist surgeons in breast cancer: a study of 3786 patients in the west of Scotland
	Charles R Gillis, David J Hole
	BMJ  1996;312:145-148 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prevention of respiratory complications after abdominal surgery: a randomised clinical trial
	John C Hall, Richard A Tarala, Jeff Tapper, Jane L Hall
	BMJ  1996;312:148-152 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Depression and other psychiatric morbidity in carers of elderly people living at home
	Gill Livingston, Monica Manela, Cornelius Katona
	BMJ  1996;312:153-156 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fetal growth and cardiovascular risk factors in Jamaican schoolchildren
	Terrence E Forrester, Rainford J Wilks, Franklyn I Bennett, Donald Simeon, Clive Osmond, Mureen Allen, Andrene P Chung, Paul Scott
	BMJ  1996;312:156 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Changing patterns of invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease in England and Wales after introduction of the Hib vaccination programme
	Ruth M Hargreaves, Mary P E Slack, Anthony J Howard, Eileen Anderson, Mary E Ramsay
	BMJ  1996;312:160-161 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Congenital rubella in south India: diagnosis using saliva from infants with cataract
	M B Eckstein, D W G Brown, A Foster, A F Richards, C E Gilbert, P Vijayalakshmi
	BMJ  1996;312:161 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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