Long term adjuvant therapy for primary breast cancer
	R D Bulbrook
	BMJ  1996;312:389-390 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Teenage sex
	Sue Stuart-Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:390-391 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Being creative about rationing
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:391-392 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adjuvant treatment for colorectal cancer
	Maurice L Slevin
	BMJ  1996;312:392-393 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Antibodies to streptokinase
	K Jennings
	BMJ  1996;312:393-394 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The European Medicines Evaluation Agency
	Andrew Herxheimer
	BMJ  1996;312:394 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Screening for sight threatening eye disease
	Marie Hickey-Dwyer, Susan Ellerby
	BMJ  1996;312:440 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cost effectiveness of screening modalities must be determined
	Peymane Adab
	BMJ  1996;312:440 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stereoscopic viewing of the retina needed to identify maculopathy
	R H B Grey, J C Dean Hart
	BMJ  1996;312:440 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	S P Harding, D M Broadbent, J P Vora
	BMJ  1996;312:440-441 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Screening for diabetic retinopathy
	J M Mason, M F Drummond, E G Woodward
	BMJ  1996;312:441 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shopkeepers should be educated about smoking among children
	Michael Devine, Jean Vickers
	BMJ  1996;312:441 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Stories about "doomsday killer bugs": the aftermath
	S G Jones, J Howard
	BMJ  1996;312:441-442 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Somatostatin in bleeding oesophageal varices
	S A Jenkins, I N Baxter
	BMJ  1996;312:442 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author's reply
	Peter C Gotzsche
	BMJ  1996;312:442 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug companies should report side effects in terms of frequency
	R Bracchi
	BMJ  1996;312:442 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis
	Carlos S Kase, Philip A Wolf
	BMJ  1996;312:442-443 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Resuscitation charts should be used in paediatric care
	R Alexander, G B Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:443 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Attitude of consultant physicians to Calman proposals
	Hugh M Mather, Robert S Elkeles
	BMJ  1996;312:443 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Who is responsible for quality of acute medical care?
	B L Taylor, S N Pilkington, G B Smith, P J McQuillan
	BMJ  1996;312:443-444 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hunger strikes
	Dermot Feenan
	BMJ  1996;312:444 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hunger strikers should be treated like other patients who refuse consent to treatment
	T J Hardie, A Reed
	BMJ  1996;312:444 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Practical guidelines are important
	Adriaan Van Es, Anne-Marie Raat, Gilles De Wildt
	BMJ  1996;312:444 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trends in referral patterns
	James A Dunbar, D Susan Vincent, Joyce N Meikle, Ann P Dunbar, Patricia A Jones
	BMJ  1996;312:444-445 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fundholding has changed referral practice
	Kevin Perrett
	BMJ  1996;312:445 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fundholding reduces dependence on private sector
	R A Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:445 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Angela Coulter, Jean Bradlow, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Helen Doll
	BMJ  1996;312:445 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Computer based prescribing
	David M Lewis
	BMJ  1996;312:445 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	...but Windows makes access easy
	Stella Dutton
	BMJ  1996;312:445-446 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Program calculates doses for neonates
	J M Davies
	BMJ  1996;312:446 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines for GPs are being tested
	Ian Purves
	BMJ  1996;312:446 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Database is linked to Read codes
	Roger Weeks
	BMJ  1996;312:446 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patient's consent to abortion is usually necessary even in emergencies
	Margaret Puxon
	BMJ  1996;312:446-447 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' views of priority setting
	Sarah Perry
	BMJ  1996;312:447 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Andrew Dicker, David Armstrong
	BMJ  1996;312:447 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BUPA's discretionary recognition of treatment
	Raymond E Goodman
	BMJ  1996;312:447 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BUPA's reply
	A J Vallance-Owen
	BMJ  1996;312:447 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Government phases NHS doctors' pay award
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:395 [Extract] [Full text]

	US doctors see average income fall
	Charles-Gene Mcdaniel
	BMJ  1996;312:395-396 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:396 [Extract] [Full text]

	Trust criticised for putting staff before patients
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:396-397 [Extract] [Full text]

	British surgeon sues paper for libel
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:397 [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA issues new guidance on surrogacy
	Naomi Craft
	BMJ  1996;312:397-398 [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO claims maternal mortality has been underestimated
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:398 [Extract] [Full text]

	Lawsuits are set to obstruct Canada's blood inquiry
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1996;312:398 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health dominates Australia's election campaign
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1996;312:398-399 [Extract] [Full text]

	Africa's leaders appeal for help with debt crisis
	Dorothy Logie
	BMJ  1996;312:399 [Extract] [Full text]

	Do not resuscitate order challenged in court
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:399-400 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctor struck off for scientific fraud
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1996;312:399-400 [Extract] [Full text]

	Europe and America forge health links
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1996;312:400 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Combining specialist and primary health care teams for HIV positive patients: retrospective and prospective studies
	Suzanne Smith, Jane Robinson, Justine Hollyer, Ramesh Bhatt, Stephen Ash, Sunil Shaunak
	BMJ  1996;312:416-420 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Hear no evil
	Ian Robertson
	BMJ  1996;312:449 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Microbes for life
	Bernard Dixon
	BMJ  1996;312:449 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Removing an obstruction from your own airway
	Marilyn Dover
	BMJ  1996;312:450 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary
	Michael Ward
	BMJ  1996;312:450-451 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Manual of Childhood Infections
	David Isaacs
	BMJ  1996;312:452 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Health of the Schoolchild: A History of the School Medical Service in England and Wales
	Leon Polnay
	BMJ  1996;312:452-453 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychosocial Disturbances in Young People: Challenges for Prevention
	John Pearce
	BMJ  1996;312:453 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Selection
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1996;312:453 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	East-West mortality divide and its potential explanations: proposed research agenda
	Martin Bobak, Michael Marmot
	BMJ  1996;312:421-425 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The number needed to treat: a clinically useful nomogram in its proper context
	Gilles Chatellier, Eric Zapletal, David Lemaitre, Joel Menard, Patrice Degoulet
	BMJ  1996;312:426-429 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of infection in patients with an absent or dysfunctional spleen
	BMJ  1996;312:430-434 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Wernicke's encephalopathy after vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity
	H Seehra, N MacDermott, R G Lascelles, T V Taylor
	BMJ  1996;312:434 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of General Surgery in Children: ACUTE PROBLEMS OF THE SCROTUM
	Mark Davenport
	BMJ  1996;312:435-437 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:454 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A LESSON TO REMEMBER
	J N S Simpson
	BMJ  1996;312:437 [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

	Teen-zine sex is not all it seems
	Alex Mellanby
	BMJ  1996;312:451 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Immigration rules hit potential GP registrars • Labour promises power to all GPs • Review body report 1996 • Who will give medical advice?
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:448 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Failure to realise growth potential in utero and adult obesity in relation to blood pressure in 50 year old Swedish men
	David A Leon, Ilona Koupilova, Hans O Lithell, Lars Berglund, Rawya Mohsen, Denny Vagero, Ulla-Britt Lithell, Paul M McKeigue
	BMJ  1996;312:401-406 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Relation of size at birth to non-insulin dependent diabetes and insulin concentrations in men aged 50-60 years
	Hans O Lithell, Paul M McKeigue, Lars Berglund, Rawya Mohsen, Ulla-Britt Lithell, David A Leon
	BMJ  1996;312:406-410 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Maternal nutrition in early and late pregnancy in relation to placental and fetal growth
	K Godfrey, S Robinson, Djp Barker, C Osmond, V Cox
	BMJ  1996;312:410 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Omeprazole as a risk factor for campylobacter gastroenteritis: case-control study
	Keith R Neal, Helen M Scott, Richard C B Slack, Richard F A Logan
	BMJ  1996;312:414-415 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A PATIENT WHO CHANGED MY PRACTICE
	Alison Martin
	BMJ  1996;312:415 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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