Secret government: the Scott report
	Martin McKee
	BMJ  1996;312:455-456 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The nature of general practice
	Per Fugelli, Iona Heath
	BMJ  1996;312:456-457 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Declining sperm counts
	D M de Kretser
	BMJ  1996;312:457-458 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Flavonoids and heart disease
	Matthew F Muldoon, Stephen B Kritchevsky
	BMJ  1996;312:458-459 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Triggering a heart attack
	M C Petch
	BMJ  1996;312:459-460 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Worldwide decline in semen quality might be due to smoking
	Marilyn F Vine
	BMJ  1996;312:506 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sensible drinking
	G J F Podger
	BMJ  1996;312:506 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Few people will change their drinking habits in London
	Nicos Kessaris, Lorraine A Greasley, Daniel R M Horner, Sunil Mathur, Raja A S Mukherzee
	BMJ  1996;312:506-507 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	... or elsewhere
	Louise Bayliss, Sylvia Connolly, Robert Flint, Elizabeth Garthwaite
	BMJ  1996;312:507 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Civil servants should be congratulated for rejecting "whole population theory"
	James Le Fanu
	BMJ  1996;312:507 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hepatitis B in the Chinese community in Britain
	Kam Yung Tang, Thomas Chan, Kevin A Fenton, Richard J C Gilson
	BMJ  1996;312:507 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of paediatric retrieval service on clinical activity
	T Sajjanhar, M J Marsh, I A Murdoch
	BMJ  1996;312:507-508 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Premature coronary deaths in Asians
	Alberto Ascherio, Eunyoung Cho, Kathleen Walsh, Frank M Sacks, Walter C Willett, Azhar Faruqui
	BMJ  1996;312:508 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Information about prenatal testing does not necessarily increase uptake
	W M O Moore
	BMJ  1996;312:508 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One and two view mammography in breast cancer
	A H S Lee, L G Bobrow, R R Millis
	BMJ  1996;312:508-509 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Many subjects in trial were not asked for consent
	Hazel Thornton
	BMJ  1996;312:509 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Redefining marginal costs and benefits
	M Jenning
	BMJ  1996;312:509 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	High detection rates do not necessarily lead to lower mortality
	Sneh Bhargava, D J Watmough, Fauzia Syed, Anjum Mernon, Fatima Gharbawy
	BMJ  1996;312:509 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Nicholas J Wald, Philip Murphy, Philippa Major, Carol Parkes, Chris Frost, Joy Townsend
	BMJ  1996;312:509-510 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Low weight gain in infancy and suicide in adult life
	Chris Hollis
	BMJ  1996;312:510 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	D J P Barker, C Osmond, I Rodin, C H D Fall, P D Winter
	BMJ  1996;312:510 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Steroids in the management of croup
	P I Macfarlane, S Suri
	BMJ  1996;312:510 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nebulised adrenaline is also useful
	M Cronin, R Diedericks
	BMJ  1996;312:510 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author's reply
	Iolo Doull
	BMJ  1996;312:510-511 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Deaths of children in house fires
	Phillip Whidden
	BMJ  1996;312:511 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	High levels of polyunsaturated fat may inhibit cancer growth
	David F Horrobin
	BMJ  1996;312:511 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Acoustic neuroma may impair vision
	Neil K Rogers, Christopher S Brand
	BMJ  1996;312:511 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Plasma cholesterol response to dietary saturated fat
	Susanne Doepfmer, Irene Guggenmoos-Holzmann
	BMJ  1996;312:511-512 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Jim Mann, Wayne Sutherland
	BMJ  1996;312:512 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of detection of depression in general practice
	David Goldberg
	BMJ  1996;312:512 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients may be receiving inadequate treatment
	Alan Currie, Ann Ryman
	BMJ  1996;312:512 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Study had methodological limitations
	Paulo Menezes, Glyn Lewis, Deborah Sharp
	BMJ  1996;312:512-513 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Christopher Dowrick, Iain Buchan
	BMJ  1996;312:513 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increasing the shelf life of review papers
	Yue-Fang Chang, Enrico I Portuese, Ronald E Laporte
	BMJ  1996;312:513 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Possible missed diagnosis of syllogomania
	Jane Keeley, Vaughan Keeley, Jessica Keeley
	BMJ  1996;312:513 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commons debates NHS morale
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:514 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA pledges support for armed forces doctors
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:514 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA calls for positive action to promote equal opportunities
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:514 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Japan apologises for HIV infected blood products
	Robert Guest
	BMJ  1996;312:461 [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors shun Canada's blood inquiry
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1996;312:461-462 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:462 [Extract] [Full text]

	French bishops ease ban on condoms
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;312:462 [Extract] [Full text]

	Italian doctors in torchlight march
	Lucinda Evans
	BMJ  1996;312:462 [Extract] [Full text]

	Sparks fly over electromagnetic link with cancer
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:463 [Extract] [Full text]

	New Zealand doctors resist emergency contraception
	Carmel Williams
	BMJ  1996;312:463 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dr Kevorkian on trial again
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:464 [Extract] [Full text]

	India concerned at export of genetic material
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1996;312:464 [Extract] [Full text]

	Government faces genetics challenge
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:464 [Extract] [Full text]

	British GPs call for pricing on out of hours
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:465 [Extract] [Full text]

	Early fundholders quit after cash crisis
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:465 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch doctors oppose new euthanasia proposals
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;312:465-466 [Extract] [Full text]

	Belgian doctors face computer monitoring
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;312:466 [Extract] [Full text]

	Light and dark in life and death
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:466 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	General practitioners' management of acute back pain: a survey of reported practice compared with clinical guidelines
	Paul Little, Lisa Smith, Ted Cantrell, Judith Chapman, John Langridge, Ruth Pickering
	BMJ  1996;312:485-488 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Explaining variations in general practice prescribing costs per ASTRO-PU (age, sex, and temporary resident originated prescribing unit)
	David K Whynes, Darrin L Baines, Keith H Tolley
	BMJ  1996;312:488-489 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1996;312:489 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effects of routine individual feedback over nine years on general practitioners' requests for tests
	Ron A G Winkens, Peter Pop, Richard P T M Grol, Annemiek M A Bugter-Maessen, Arnold D M Kester, George H M I Beusmans, J Andre Knottnerus
	BMJ  1996;312:490 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	The happiest man in the picture
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1996;312:515 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Troubles
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1996;312:515 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Saddam strikes in the wrong postal district
	Charles Anderson
	BMJ  1996;312:516-517 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Theory and Practice
	J G Reddan
	BMJ  1996;312:518 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis
	John S Callender
	BMJ  1996;312:518 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Modulation of MHC Antigen Expression and Disease
	David R Johnson
	BMJ  1996;312:519 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Qualitative Research in Health Care
	Priscilla Alderson
	BMJ  1996;312:519 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Paget's disease of bone: diagnosis and management
	David Hosking, Pierre J Meunier, Johann D Ringe, Jean-Yves Reginster, Carlo Gennari
	BMJ  1996;312:491-494 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ANY QUESTIONS
	C J Ellis
	BMJ  1996;312:494 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Exposing the abuse of Chinese orphans
	Peter Kandela
	BMJ  1996;312:495-496 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Retention of drugs in venous access port chamber: a note of caution
	Myriam Ben-Arush, Moshe Berant
	BMJ  1996;312:496-497 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A MEMORABLE PATIENT
	Bir Singh
	BMJ  1996;312:497 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of General Surgery in Children: ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN IN CHILDREN
	Mark Davenport
	BMJ  1996;312:498-501 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children on hunger strike: child abuse or legitimate protest?
	A Mok, E A S Nelson
	BMJ  1996;312:501-502 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	In England starving your child would amount to "criminal neglect"
	John Murphy
	BMJ  1996;312:502-503 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Definitely not legitimate protest, but probably not child abuse either
	Andy Hampson
	BMJ  1996;312:503-504 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Autonomy is important but not as important as the "sanctity of life"
	Jean Harris Hendriks
	BMJ  1996;312:504 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE
	Roger Kneebone
	BMJ  1996;312:504 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:520 [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

	Does electricity give you cancer?
	Gerald Draper
	BMJ  1996;312:517 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Report highlights recruitment crisis in general practice
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:514 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Evidence of deteriorating semen quality in the United Kingdom: birth cohort study in 577 men in Scotland over 11 years
	Stewart Irvine, Elizabeth Cawood, David Richardson, Eileen MacDonald, John Aitken
	BMJ  1996;312:467-471 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Time series analysis of sperm concentration in fertile men in Toulouse, France between 1977 and 1992
	L Bujan, A Mansat, F Pontonnier, R Mieusset
	BMJ  1996;312:471-472 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised comparison of oestrogen versus oestrogen plus progestogen hormone replacement therapy in women with hysterectomy
	BMJ  1996;312:473-478 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Flavonoid intake and coronary mortality in Finland: a cohort study
	Paul Knekt, Ritva Jarvinen, Antti Reunanen, Jouni Maatela
	BMJ  1996;312:478-481 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prescribing and hospital admissions for asthma in east London
	Chris Griffiths, Jeannette Naish, Patricia Sturdy, Filomena Pereira
	BMJ  1996;312:481-482 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Case-control analysis of bone resorption markers, disability, and hip fracture risk: the Rotterdam study
	Paulus L A van Daele, Markus J Seibel, Huibert Burger, Albert Hofman, Diederick E Grobbee, Johannes P T M van Leeuwen, Jan C Birkenhager, Huibert A P Pols
	BMJ  1996;312:482-483 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:483 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Upper airways obstruction in 153 consecutive patients presenting with thyroid enlargement
	N J L Gittoes, M R Miller, J Daykin, M C Sheppard, J A Franklyn
	BMJ  1996;312:484 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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