The coming of age of band ligation for oesophageal varices
	P C Hayes
	BMJ  1996;312:1111-1112 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The paperless general practice
	Ian N Purves
	BMJ  1996;312:1112-1113 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Persistent tachypnoea in neonates
	Peter N Le Souef
	BMJ  1996;312:1113-1114 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Blood donation--altruism or profit?
	Ann Oakley
	BMJ  1996;312:1114 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Specialist surgeons and survival in breast cancer
	Karol Sikora
	BMJ  1996;312:1155 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Large differences in survival are not explained
	Michael Baum
	BMJ  1996;312:1155 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A multidisciplinary approach is needed
	J Michael Dixon, R C F Leonard
	BMJ  1996;312:1155-1156 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More centralisation of services is not needed
	Bruce Sizer, Stephen Karp
	BMJ  1996;312:1156 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case selection bias affected results
	Ian Campbell
	BMJ  1996;312:1156 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Protocols are important
	J G Williams
	BMJ  1996;312:1156 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health services must develop services to reduce crime and violence
	J D Middleton, J N Rao, J A Reid
	BMJ  1996;312:1156-1157 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Minimum standards should be set for near patient testing
	Martin Crook
	BMJ  1996;312:1157 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychosis in Afro-Caribbean people
	Nitin B Purandare, Priyadarshan Neelkanth Joshi
	BMJ  1996;312:1157 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Afro-Caribbeans" could have been of Chinese, Indian, European, or African extraction
	Ikechukwu O Azuonye
	BMJ  1996;312:1157 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Kwame Mckenzie, Brian Toone, Tom Fahy, Robin Murray, Jim Van Os, Peter Jones, Ian Harvey
	BMJ  1996;312:1157-1158 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Performance of neonatal screening programme must be monitored
	Angela Galloway, Janet Stevenson
	BMJ  1996;312:1158 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Postoperative deep vein thrombosis and surgery for varicose veins
	Henri Bounameaux, Olivier Huber
	BMJ  1996;312:1158 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Postoperative pulmonary complications
	Sabaratnam Sabanathan, Rajesh Shah, Johnathan Richardson
	BMJ  1996;312:1158-1159 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Obesity, pain, and sedation are important
	Andrew Higgs
	BMJ  1996;312:1159 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Adequate pain relief is also necessary
	Audrey C Quinn, A Mallick
	BMJ  1996;312:1159 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Laparoscopic surgery leads to better postoperative pulmonary function
	Anne Haigh, Christopher Eden
	BMJ  1996;312:1159 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	John Hall
	BMJ  1996;312:1159-1160 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Future of tropical medicine
	G C Cook
	BMJ  1996;312:1160 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	False localising signs in the spinal cord
	Paul Goddard, Charles Wakeley, Audrey Cook
	BMJ  1996;312:1160 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Value of ECGs in identifying heart failure due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction
	Suresh Khandekar, Jeremy J Murphy, Christopher M Bossingham
	BMJ  1996;312:1160 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Likelihood ratios should have been given
	Simon Sanderson
	BMJ  1996;312:1161 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Courses on interpreting ECGs would improve general practitioners' skills
	Kamlesh Khunti, Robert K Mckinley
	BMJ  1996;312:1161 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ECGs are valuable in hospital as well as general practice
	Gregory Y H Lip, John Zarifis, Gareth Beevers, Shyam P Singh
	BMJ  1996;312:1161 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Learning from primary care in developing countries
	P C Gunasekera, K K Wijew Ardene, D P Gunasekera
	BMJ  1996;312:1161-1162 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Training in substance misuse for GPs
	Bruce Ritson
	BMJ  1996;312:1162 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Courses are available in Lothian
	Judy Bury, Muriel Simmonte, Caroline Jaquet
	BMJ  1996;312:1162 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Methadone maintenance reduces injecting in prison
	Kate Dolan, Wayne Hall, Alex Wodak
	BMJ  1996;312:1162 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Code is needed to protect inpatients from press publicity
	Austen Smith, Iain Hutchison
	BMJ  1996;312:1163 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Television programme distorted dangers of diagnostic radiology
	Michael J Brindle
	BMJ  1996;312:1163 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Newspaper hype
	Rita Carter
	BMJ  1996;312:1163 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Newspapers' job is to report results for lay readers
	Charles Wilson
	BMJ  1996;312:1163 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Scottish court gives right to die
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:1115 [Extract] [Full text]

	Judge rules in favour of "do not resuscitate"
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:1115 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:1116 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch GP on murder charge over euthanasia claim
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;312:1116 [Extract] [Full text]

	Britain needs a policy on diet and low income
	Geraldine Martell
	BMJ  1996;312:1116-1117 [Extract] [Full text]

	Three new CJD cases as scientists push ahead
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:1117 [Extract] [Full text]

	MRC withdraws intercalated degree funds
	Pritpal S Tamber
	BMJ  1996;312:1117-1118 [Extract] [Full text]

	Poets more stable than playwrights
	Pritpal S Tamber
	BMJ  1996;312:1118 [Extract] [Full text]

	Bavaria threatens to reduce abortion access
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1996;312:1118 [Extract] [Full text]

	French government seizes purse strings
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;312:1119 [Extract] [Full text]

	Chernobyl damaged children's genes
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:1119 [Extract] [Full text]

	MPs seek more control over genetics
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:1119 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israel rules on medical confidentiality
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1996;312:1120 [Extract] [Full text]

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:1120 [Extract] [Full text]

	Greiner does a Thatcher
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1996;312:1120 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Randomised controlled trial of general practitioner versus usual medical care in an urban accident and emergency department: process, outcome, and comparative cost
	Andrew W Murphy, Gerard Bury, Patrick K Plunkett, David Gibney, Mary Smith, Edwina Mullan, Zachary Johnson
	BMJ  1996;312:1135-1142 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	"Don't forget the meatballs, Mum"
	Judith Hollis-Trantafillou
	BMJ  1996;312:1164 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bloody but unbowed
	Ian Robertson
	BMJ  1996;312:1164 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Looking for an answer
	Mary Price
	BMJ  1996;312:1165 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Short acting dihydropyridine (vasodilating) calcium channel blockers for hypertension: is there a risk?
	D G Beevers, P Sleight
	BMJ  1996;312:1143-1145 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Urology: UROLOGICAL MALIGNANCY--III: RENAL AND TESTICULAR CARCINOMA
	Chris Dawson, Hugh Whitfield
	BMJ  1996;312:1146-1148 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Pulmonary hypoplasia presenting as persistent tachypnoea in the first few months of life
	N R Aiton, G F Fox, S Hannam, C M M Stern, A D Milner
	BMJ  1996;312:1149-1150 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Management of HIV infected health care workers: lessons from three cases
	Jill Pell, Laurence Gruer, Peter Christie, David Goldberg
	BMJ  1996;312:1150-1152 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: The government has mismanaged cases of HIV infected health care workers
	Cris Swinhoe
	BMJ  1996;312:1152-1153 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics Notes: The use of transformation when comparing two means
	J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1996;312:1153 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:1176 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A MEMORABLE PATIENT
	A P Joseph
	BMJ  1996;312:1142 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	Henry Hemsted
	BMJ  1996;312:1145 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:1163 [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

	Has mortality from melanoma stopped rising in Australia? Analysis of trends between 1931 and 1994
	Graham G Giles, Bruce K Armstrong, Robert C Burton, Margaret P Staples, Vicky J Thursfield
	BMJ  1996;312:1121-1125 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Incidence and thickness of primary tumours and survival of patients with cutaneous malignant melanoma in relation to socioeconomic status
	Rona M MacKie, David J Hole
	BMJ  1996;312:1125-1128 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and solar ultraviolet radiation in England and Wales
	Graham Bentham
	BMJ  1996;312:1128-1131 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Blood money: blood donors' attitudes to changes in the New Zealand blood transfusion service
	Philippa Howden-Chapman, John Carter, Nicholas Woods
	BMJ  1996;312:1131-1132 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Low triiodothyronine concentration in preterm infants and subsequent intelligence quotient (IQ) at 8 year follow up
	A Lucas, R Morley, Ms Fewtrell
	BMJ  1996;312:1132-1133 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Do preterm infants need thyroxine replacement?
	C G D Brook
	BMJ  1996;312:1133-1134 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Current practice and complications of temporary transvenous cardiac pacing
	J J Murphy
	BMJ  1996;312:1134 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

SPRING

This week's SPRING

	Oriental Medicine: An Illustrated Guide to the Asian Arts of Healing
	Michael Chan
	BMJ  1996;312:1166 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ancient Egyptian Medicine
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1996;312:1166-1167 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Colonial Psychiatry and "The African Mind"
	Maurice Lipsedge
	BMJ  1996;312:1167-1168 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science
	Paul Weindling
	BMJ  1996;312:1168 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Culture, Religion and Childbearing in a Multiracial Society: A Handbook for Health Professionals
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1996;312:1168-1169 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Bedside Nature: Genius and Eccentricity in Science 1869-1953
	Jean Claude Mbanya
	BMJ  1996;312:1169 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Devil and Dr Barnes
	Peter Dormer
	BMJ  1996;312:1169-1170 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics
	Mikulas Teich
	BMJ  1996;312:1170-1171 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regeneration
	BMJ  1996;312:1171 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Eye in the Door
	BMJ  1996;312:1171 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Ghost Road
	BMJ  1996;312:1171 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Keats and Medicine
	Ruth Richardson
	BMJ  1996;312:1171-1172 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
	Alan D Ogilvie
	BMJ  1996;312:1172 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Murdering to Dissect: Grave-Robbing, Frankenstein and the Anatomy Literature
	Bernard Knight
	BMJ  1996;312:1172-1173 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bitter Blue: Tranquillizers, Drugs, Dependency
	Ed Walker
	BMJ  1996;312:1173 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	One World: The Health and Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century
	Eugene Boostrom
	BMJ  1996;312:1174 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Troubled Helix: Social and Psychological Implications of the New Human Genetics
	D J Weatherall
	BMJ  1996;312:1174-1175 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Newton's Sleep: Two Cultures and Two Kingdoms
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1996;312:1175 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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