Directly observed therapy for tuberculosis
	Dale I Morse
	BMJ  1996;312:719-720 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The future shape of accident and emergency services
	Penny Newman
	BMJ  1996;312:720-721 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tobacco funding for academics
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1996;312:721-722 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Helping sick doctors
	Ruth Chambers, Richard Maxwell
	BMJ  1996;312:722-723 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Time to redefine authorship
	Richard Horton, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:723 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and motor neurone disease
	Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Alexander Steven Whitehead, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:724 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Paediatric intensive care beds: the problem is distribution rather than numbers
	S Tibby, M Hatherill, M J Marsh, I A Murdoch
	BMJ  1996;312:773 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Publishing research supported by the tobacco industry
	Gabriel Scally
	BMJ  1996;312:773 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A higher principle is at stake than simply freedom of speech
	David F Marks
	BMJ  1996;312:773-774 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	It's folly to allow the enemy access to your camp
	Martin J Connolly
	BMJ  1996;312:774 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Not to publish research is a slur on those who work for the industry
	David S Wright
	BMJ  1996;312:774 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Proposed BAT professorship at University of Cambridge should be opposed
	Donald Reid
	BMJ  1996;312:774 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tuberculosis in the United Kingdom
	John M Watson, Anne H C Uttley, Francis Drobuiewski
	BMJ  1996;312:774-775 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coverage by selective neonatal BCG vaccination should be monitored
	Nicholas Hicks, A Hamilton
	BMJ  1996;312:775 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Standards for control may not be consistent across United Kingdom
	Peter Ormerod
	BMJ  1996;312:775 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment should be free for everyone
	Craig Davidson, David Hughes, John Moore-Gillon
	BMJ  1996;312:775 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public health legislation should be changed
	G H Stewart, S Nelson
	BMJ  1996;312:775-776 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	System for screening new immigrants is inadequate
	Mike Lavender
	BMJ  1996;312:776 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tuberculosis as a predictor of survival in AIDS
	William C Holmes, Elly T Katabira
	BMJ  1996;312:776 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Thomas V Perneger, Philippe Sudre, Bernard Hirschel, Jens D Lundgren
	BMJ  1996;312:776 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Standardised coding is needed for reports of adverse drug reactions
	J M Bonnetblanc, J C Roujeau, C Benichou
	BMJ  1996;312:776-777 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endogenous sex hormones and cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women
	Paola Muti, Maurizio Trevisan
	BMJ  1996;312:777 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Deborah Goodman-Gruen
	BMJ  1996;312:777 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hepatitis B vaccination
	Anna Pallecaros, Angela Robinson
	BMJ  1996;312:777 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	All GPs in Brent and Harrow offer hepatitis B vaccination to drug users
	Chris Ford
	BMJ  1996;312:777-778 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of diarrhoea due to Clostridium difficile during cefotaxime treatment
	Eugene Rothschild, Alain Rauss, Gaby Danan
	BMJ  1996;312:778 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mortality due to C difficile colitis in elderly people has been underestimated
	M Lesna, D M Parham
	BMJ  1996;312:778 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	M Impallomeni, J Starr, T Rogers
	BMJ  1996;312:778 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Randomised controlled trials in general practice
	Tom Fahey
	BMJ  1996;312:779 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Internal validity of trials is more important than generalisability
	Jonathan Mant, Martin Dawes, Susanna Graham-Jones
	BMJ  1996;312:779 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	General practice research framework carries out such trials
	Julian Tudor Hart
	BMJ  1996;312:779 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neonatal circumcision does not protect against penile cancer
	Paul M Fleiss, Frederick Hodges
	BMJ  1996;312:779-780 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Brachial plexus neuropathy after radiotherapy can be treated by specialist surgeons
	L C Bainbridge
	BMJ  1996;312:780 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Benefits of fetal surgery must be carefully evaluated
	Mark D Kilby, Martin J Whittle
	BMJ  1996;312:780 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS will be left with high risk, low profit services under private finance initiative
	D N Bennett-Jones
	BMJ  1996;312:780 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advertisement's selective quotation from old article misrepresentscurrent situation
	Catherine Pope
	BMJ  1996;312:780 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	United States tobacco company rolls over
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:725 [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA will review guidelines on PVS
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:725-726 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:726 [Extract] [Full text]

	French court jails anti-abortion doctor
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:726 [Extract] [Full text]

	German doctor cleared by GMC
	Stuart Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:726 [Extract] [Full text]

	Germany cuts funds for methadone treatment
	Helmut Karcher
	BMJ  1996;312:727 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israel issues guidelines on prolonging life
	Judy Siegelitzkovich
	BMJ  1996;312:727 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch investigation launched into abortion clinics
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;312:727-728 [Extract] [Full text]

	Amyloid has new role in Alzheimer's disease
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:728 [Extract] [Full text]

	Tobacco industry plans to fund Cambridge chair
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:728 [Extract] [Full text]

	New targets set for cervical screening
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:728-729 [Extract] [Full text]

	UV radiation peaks at record high in UK
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:729 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS managers are found wanting
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:729 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israel legalises surrogate motherhood
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1996;312:729-730 [Extract] [Full text]

	Fraud squad gets to work on prescriptions
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:730 [Extract] [Full text]

	France regulates organ imports
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;312:730 [Extract] [Full text]

	The commodification of prevention
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1996;312:730 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Randomised comparison of guided self management and traditional treatment of asthma over one year
	Aarne Lahdensuo, Tari Haahtela, Jaakko Herrala, Tuomo Kava, Kirsti Kiviranta, Paula Kuusisto, Erkki Peramaki, Tuija Poussa, Seppo Saarelainen, Thore Svahn
	BMJ  1996;312:748-752 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Venice from the air
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1996;312:783 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The new ayatollahs
	Ian Robertson
	BMJ  1996;312:783 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Tackling stress in ourselves
	BMJ  1996;312:784 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Driven from efficiency to distraction
	G E P Vincenti
	BMJ  1996;312:784-785 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Treatment without Consent Law, Psychiatry and the Treatment of Mentally Disordered People since 1845
	Graham Thornicroft
	BMJ  1996;312:786 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Child Psychiatric Units: At the Crossroads
	Alyson Hall
	BMJ  1996;312:786-787 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychiatry and Religion: Context, Consensus and Controversies
	Christopher S Thomas
	BMJ  1996;312:787 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Selection
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1996;312:787 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Measuring outcomes other than safety is feasible
	T Dowswell, Jg Thornton, J Hewison, Rjl Lilford
	BMJ  1996;312:753 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence from US suggests that trials will not alter obstetric behaviour
	Jeanne Raisler
	BMJ  1996;312:754 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trial would not answer key question, but data monitoring should be improved
	Alison Macfarlane
	BMJ  1996;312:754-755 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Uncertainty is likely to persist, but some knowledge would be better than none
	Gavin Young
	BMJ  1996;312:755-756 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Such a trial should not limit the choices of women who already have a preference
	Mary Newburn, Rosemary Dodds
	BMJ  1996;312:756 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mortality is still important, and hospital is safer
	R S Settatree
	BMJ  1996;312:756-757 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A PAPER THAT CHANGED MY PRACTICE
	John Dunn
	BMJ  1996;312:757 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Over the Counter Drugs: The interface between the community pharmacist and patients
	Christine M Bond, Colin Bradley
	BMJ  1996;312:758-760 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	North of England evidence based guidelines development project: methods of guideline development
	Martin Eccles, Zoe Clapp, Jeremy Grimshaw, Philip C Adams, Bernard Higgins, Ian Purves, Ian Russell
	BMJ  1996;312:760-762 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	North of England evidence based guidelines development project: summary version of evidence based guideline for the primary care management of asthma in adults
	BMJ  1996;312:762-766 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Urology: BLADDER OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION
	Chris Dawson, Hugh Whitfield
	BMJ  1996;312:767-770 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics Notes: Transforming data
	J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1996;312:770 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:788 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A DOG WHO CHANGED MY PRACTICE, FOR A WHILE
	Aideen Landers
	BMJ  1996;312:747 [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

	Can we outfox rabies?
	Diana N J Lockwood
	BMJ  1996;312:785 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	How will the hospital service be provided in future? • Concern expressed about GMC's performance procedures • Minister agrees to discussions on the staff grade • BMA meets health secretary on savings exercise • Getting on to the specialist register • GPs' staff should have NHS pensions • Doctors' careers services should be properly funded • Minister rejects bill on patient confidentiality • Final guidance on NHS complaints procedure issued
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:781 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Review of moderate alcohol consumption and reduced risk of coronary heart disease: is the effect due to beer, wine, or spirits?
	Eric B Rimm, Arthur Klatsky, Diederick Grobbee, Meir J Stampfer
	BMJ  1996;312:731-736 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Alcohol consumption, serum low density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration, and risk of ischaemic heart disease: six year follow up in the Copenhagen male study
	Hans Ole Hein, Poul Suadicani, Finn Gyntelberg
	BMJ  1996;312:736-741 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Blinding and exclusions after allocation in randomised controlled trials: survey of published parallel group trials in obstetrics and gynaecology
	Kenneth F Schulz, David A Grimes, Douglas G Altman, Richard J Hayes
	BMJ  1996;312:742-744 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Endothelium and inelastic arteries: an early marker of vascular dysfunction in non-insulin dependent diabetes
	Jonathan Goodfellow, Mark W Ramsey, Lisa A Luddington, Christopher J H Jones, Phillip A Coates, Frank Dunstan, Malcolm J Lewis, David R Owens, Andrew H Henderson
	BMJ  1996;312:744-745 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Breast feeding and hypertrophic pyloric stenosis: population based case-control study
	Alfredo Pisacane, Ugo de Luca, Luciano Criscuolo, Filomena Vaccaro, Adriana Valiante, Angelina Inglese, Giuseppe Caracciolo, Luciano Pinto
	BMJ  1996;312:745-746 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Breast feeding and tonsillectomy
	Alfredo Pisacane, Nicola Impagliazzo, Carmela De Caprio, Luciano Criscuolo, Angelina Inglese
	BMJ  1996;312:746-747 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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