Surprising new roles for endothelins
	Albert C M Ong
	BMJ  1996;312:195-196 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Genetic complexity in single gene diseases
	Joseph S Alper
	BMJ  1996;312:196-197 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Data protection, health care, and the new European directive
	M F Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:197-198 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Thrombosis, phlebitis, and varicose veins
	Bruce Campbell
	BMJ  1996;312:198 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children and sport
	Helen Trippe
	BMJ  1996;312:199 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shackling prisoners in hospital
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1996;312:200 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Tropical medicine for the 21st century
	Anthony Bryceson
	BMJ  1996;312:247 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tropical medicine should become specialty of "health in developing countries"
	D McLarty, K G M M Alberti, N Unwin
	BMJ  1996;312:247-248 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Genitourinary medicine should remain a separate specialty
	J S Bingham
	BMJ  1996;312:248 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinical care in resource poor countries is often provided by people outside the medical establishment
	Felicity Cutts, Anne Mills
	BMJ  1996;312:248 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Videotaping of general practice consultations
	L M Campbell, T S Murray, F M Sullivan
	BMJ  1996;312:248 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer
	R J Stephens, M K B Parmar, R L Souhami, S Spiro
	BMJ  1996;312:248-249 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Quality of life was ignored in meta-analysis
	Irene Higginson
	BMJ  1996;312:249 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	It may not be ethical to ask patients to participate in future trials
	Maggie Harding
	BMJ  1996;312:249 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Allocating census data to general practice populations
	Glen Scrivener, David C Lloyd
	BMJ  1996;312:249 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Learning from primary care in developing countries
	William A M Cutting
	BMJ  1996;312:249-250 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outreach programme in Kenya was based on extensive community participation
	Scott A Murray
	BMJ  1996;312:250 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors overestimate role of barefoot doctors in China
	Tony Jewell
	BMJ  1996;312:250 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Association of Helicobacter pylori infection with coronary heart disease
	Gregory Y H Lip, Richard Wise, Gareth Beevers
	BMJ  1996;312:250-251 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study confirms previous findings
	Antonio Ponzetto, Maria Teresa La Rovere, Patrizia Sanseverino, Franco Bazzoli
	BMJ  1996;312:251 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Association may not be causal
	Quentin D Sandifer, Su Vuilo, Gareth Crompton
	BMJ  1996;312:251 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Eradication of the infection on grounds of cardiovascular risk is not supported by current evidence
	Brendan C Delaney, F D Richard Hobbs, Roger Holder
	BMJ  1996;312:251-252 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	P Patel, M A Mendall, D Carrington, D P Strachan, E Leatham, N Molineaux, J Levy, C Blakeston, C A Seymour, A J Camm, T C Northfield
	BMJ  1996;312:252 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increasing prescription of drugs for secondary prevention of myocardial infarction
	Robert J Sapsford, Mike B Robinson, Alistair S Hall
	BMJ  1996;312:252 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lipid lowering drugs should be considered too
	A Taylor, J P Reckless
	BMJ  1996;312:252 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing cleft lip and palate
	Gareth Davies, James Partridge
	BMJ  1996;312:252-253 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of breast cancer is also increased among Danish female airline cabin attendants
	Elsebeth Lynge
	BMJ  1996;312:253 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of intensive treatment in insulin dependent diabetes mellitus with microalbuminuria
	Nish Chaturvedi, John H Fuller
	BMJ  1996;312:253 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Work in non-insulin diabetes corroborates study's findings
	R Davison, P West, H Tindall
	BMJ  1996;312:253-254 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interpretation of study's results is open to criticism
	Ralf Bender, Peter T Sawicki
	BMJ  1996;312:254 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Giancarlo Viberti, R John Jarrett
	BMJ  1996;312:254 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Electronic mail may infect computers with viruses
	J J Clarke
	BMJ  1996;312:254 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Mitterand book provokes storm in France
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;312:201 [Extract] [Full text]

	Investigation of sex abuse in Irish hospital expands
	Alan Murdoch
	BMJ  1996;312:201-202 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:202 [Extract] [Full text]

	Steep rise reported in meningococcal infections
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1996;312:202 [Extract] [Full text]

	US teaching hospitals pay row
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:202 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors and lawyers unite on incapacity laws
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:203 [Extract] [Full text]

	German doctors protest against coded diagnoses
	Helmut L Karcher
	BMJ  1996;312:203 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israel relaxes laws on food supplements
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1996;312:203-204 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scottish bed crisis leads to review on planning services
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1996;312:204 [Extract] [Full text]

	High court rules on trust's power to discipline
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:204-205 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health secretary faces GPs to discuss primary care
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:205 [Extract] [Full text]

	Patients try to save historic practice
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:205 [Extract] [Full text]

	Judge criticises transplant blunder
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:205-206 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scottish royal college tackles pre-hospital care
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1996;312:206 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scientists' new year: from dismal to delightful
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:206 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Management of labour in an isolated rural maternity hospital
	A G Baird, D Jewell, Jj Walker
	BMJ  1996;312:223-226 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Points of disagreement
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1996;312:255 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Don't look now
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1996;312:255 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	How could I breast feed with a man in the room?
	Beverley A Lawrence Beech
	BMJ  1996;312:256 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Albanian orphans: have they a future?
	Jonathan Boyce
	BMJ  1996;312:257 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	The Power of Life or Death: A Critique of Medical Tyranny
	Ulrich Freudenstein
	BMJ  1996;312:258 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Epithelial Cancer of the Ovary
	C Michael Steel
	BMJ  1996;312:258 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine Worth Paying For: Assessing Medical Innovations
	Trevor A Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;312:259 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Urogynaecology: The Investigation and Management of Urinary Incontinence in Women
	Richard Henshaw
	BMJ  1996;312:259 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Vascular dementia
	Khaled Amar, Gordon Wilcock
	BMJ  1996;312:227-231 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Redesigning the journal: having your say
	Tony Delamothe, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:232 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Brief for the redesign of the BMJ
	BMJ  1996;312:232 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of General Surgery in Children: SURGICALLY CORRECTABLE CAUSES OF VOMITING IN INFANCY
	Mark Davenport
	BMJ  1996;312:236-239 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of General Surgery in Children: NOTHING NEW
	N H Naqvi
	BMJ  1996;312:239 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Altruism by proxy: volunteering children for bone marrow donation
	BMJ  1996;312:240 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Protecting children from forced altruism: the legal approach
	Linda Delany
	BMJ  1996;312:240 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing children from donating may not be in their interests
	Stacy Month
	BMJ  1996;312:240-241 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Substantial harm but substantial benefit
	Julian Savulescu
	BMJ  1996;312:241-242 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Legal barriers might have catastrophic effects
	Peter Browett, Stephen Palmer
	BMJ  1996;312:242-243 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: False localising signs in the spinal cord
	D R S Jamieson, E Teasdale, H J Willison
	BMJ  1996;312:243-244 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:260 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A MEMORABLE PATIENT
	Ronald A Millar
	BMJ  1996;312:244 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:226 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

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

Papers

This week's Papers

	Comparison of immunodeficiency and AIDS defining conditions in HIV negative and HIV postive men with haemophilia A
	Caroline A Sabin, K John Pasi, Andrew N Phillips, Patricia Lilley, Margarita Bofill, Christine A Lee
	BMJ  1996;312:207-210 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: non-HIV hypotheses must be studied more carefully
	Peter Duesberg
	BMJ  1996;312:210-211 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Response: Arguments contradict the "foreign protein-zidovudine" hypothesis
	Caroline A Sabin, Andrew N Phillips, Christine A Lee
	BMJ  1996;312:211-212 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Magnitude of benefit from earlier thrombolytic treatment in acute myocardial infarction: new evidence from Grampian region early anistreplase trial (GREAT)
	John Rawles
	BMJ  1996;312:212-215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.312.7025.212 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Benefit from earlier thrombolytic therapy is certain, but what is the magnitude of benefit?
	Alain Leizorovicz
	BMJ  1996;312:215-216 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Outlook for survivors of childhood in sub-Saharan Africa: adult mortality in Tanzania
	Henry M Kitange, Harun Machibya, Jim Black, Deo M Mtasiwa, Gabriel Masuki, David Whiting, Nigel Unwin, Candida Moshiro, Peter M Klima, Mary Lewanga, Kgmm Alberti, Donald G McLarty
	BMJ  1996;312:216-220 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Low serum cholesterol concentration and serotonin metabolism in men
	Paul H A Steegmans, Durk Fekkes, Arno W Hoes, Annette A A Bak, Emiel van der Does, Diederick E Grobbee
	BMJ  1996;312:221 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Value of the electrocardiogram in identifying heart failure due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction
	A P Davie, C M Francis, M P Love, L Caruana, I R Starkey, T R D Shaw, G R Sutherland, J J V McMurray
	BMJ  1996;312:222 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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