The food industry fights for salt
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  1996;312:1239-1240 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Salt and blood pressure revisited
	Dag S Thelle
	BMJ  1996;312:1240-1241 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Whose data are they anyway?
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1996;312:1241-1242 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Melatonin
	J Arendt
	BMJ  1996;312:1242-1243 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary HIV-1 infection: a new medical emergency?
	Stephen Jolles, Sabine Kinloch De Loes, Margaret A Johnson, George Janossy
	BMJ  1996;312:1243-1244 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	OxDONS syndrome
	C B T Adams
	BMJ  1996;312:1297 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Oxford case may be start of epidemic
	T Bunker
	BMJ  1996;312:1297 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Edinburgh's orthopaedic trauma unit has similar problems
	C M Court-Brown, M M Mcqueen, J Christie
	BMJ  1996;312:1297 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Early controlled trials
	D B E C Gill
	BMJ  1996;312:1298 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	...but "quasirandom allocation" of treatment was reported in 1930
	Mike Clarke
	BMJ  1996;312:1298 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Low serum cholesterol and serotonin metabolism
	Hanno Pijl, Arnoud C Toornvliet, A Edo Meinders, Jan A Gevers Leuven, G M J Van Kempen
	BMJ  1996;312:1298 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Risk of depression is higher in elderly patients with lowest serum cholesterol values
	Renzo Rozzini, Bruno Bertozzi, Piera Barbisoni, Marco Trabucchi
	BMJ  1996;312:1298-1299 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Other studies have been done in humans and monkeys
	Beatrice A Golomb
	BMJ  1996;312:1299 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	P H A Steegmans, D E Grobbee, D Fekkes, A W Hoes
	BMJ  1996;312:1299 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Epley's procedure should be used to treat benign positional vertigo
	Thomas Lempert, Michael A Gresty, Adolfo M Bronstein
	BMJ  1996;312:1300 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Correct technique is important in cardioversion of atrial fibrillation
	Alistair K B Slade, S Mark Sopher, A John Camm, David E Ward
	BMJ  1996;312:1300 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children and sport
	Hugo Crombie
	BMJ  1996;312:1300 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Physicians must not be misled by arguments against screening with densitometry
	Richard B Mazess
	BMJ  1996;312:1300-1301 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women need to be fully informed about risks of hormone replacement therapy
	Elizabeth H Price, Helen Kaye Little
	BMJ  1996;312:1301 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Education for educating surgeons
	Gifford Batstone
	BMJ  1996;312:1301 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Surgeons' knowledge base needs to be increased
	Rajan Madhok, John Stothard
	BMJ  1996;312:1301 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	College has found strong demand for training programmes
	Rodney Peyton
	BMJ  1996;312:1301-1302 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Compliance therapy in psychotic patients
	G O Dubourg
	BMJ  1996;312:1302 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Many ethical questions arise from study
	Richard Gray
	BMJ  1996;312:1302 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Roisin Kemp, Anthony David, Peter Hayward
	BMJ  1996;312:1302 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Disease in children with HIV infection in Abidjan
	Charles Gilks
	BMJ  1996;312:1302 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Sebastian Lucas, Kevin M De Cock
	BMJ  1996;312:1302-1303 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fewer needlestick injuries than expected occurred during immunisation campaign
	Ann R Haire, A Sharma
	BMJ  1996;312:1303 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Junior doctors' pay rates for additional duty hours have not been increased
	Peter Bennie
	BMJ  1996;312:1303 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Primary care out of hours
	David Heaney, Dermot Gorman
	BMJ  1996;312:1303-1304 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Emergency referral letters from deputising doctors need to be improved
	John Wright, Neeraj Prasad, Graham Dalrymple
	BMJ  1996;312:1304 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health promotion in primary care
	Hugh Bethell
	BMJ  1996;312:1304 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Scheme has been a disaster
	Judy A Gilley
	BMJ  1996;312:1304 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	British GP faces financial ruin
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:1245 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scientists find secret of HIV attack
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:1245-1246 [Extract] [Full text]

	US in the dark on doubling in asthma death rates
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:1246 [Extract] [Full text]

	Breast cancer deaths decline in US
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:1246 [Extract] [Full text]

	Government plan for care of elderly people
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  1996;312:1246-1247 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS repeats its mistakes
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:1247 [Extract] [Full text]

	US court case starts over eyeless babies
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:1247 [Extract] [Full text]

	Nigerian doctor held as "prisoner of conscience"
	Pritpal S Tamber
	BMJ  1996;312:1247-1248 [Extract] [Full text]

	Supermarket offers allergy tests
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:1248 [Extract] [Full text]

	Humanitarian situation worsens in northern Sri Lanka
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1996;312:1248 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Costs and cost effectiveness of health checks conducted by nurses in primary care: the Oxcheck study
	Susan Langham, Margaret Thorogood, Charles Normand, John Muir, Lesley Jones, Godfrey Fowler
	BMJ  1996;312:1265-1268 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Costs and cost effectiveness of cardiovascular screening and intervention: the British family heart study
	David Wonderling, Christine McDermott, Martin Buxton, Ann-Louise Kinmonth, Stephen Pyke, Simon Thompson, David Wood
	BMJ  1996;312:1269-1273 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What can be concluded from the Oxcheck and British family heart studies: commentary on cost effectiveness analyses
	David Wonderling, Susan Langham, Martin Buxton, Charles Normand, Christine McDermott
	BMJ  1996;312:1274-1278 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Reading matters
	Ian Robertson
	BMJ  1996;312:1306 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The cruellest month
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1996;312:1306 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	What I might have been
	Sue Ruben
	BMJ  1996;312:1307 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Secret of the knights' success
	H V Wyatt
	BMJ  1996;312:1307 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	The Vasculitides: Science and Practice
	Jurg A Schifferli
	BMJ  1996;312:1309 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychotherapy, Psychological Treatments and the Addictions
	Shane Darke
	BMJ  1996;312:1309 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Diagnosis and management of migraine
	Peter J Goadsby, Jes Olesen
	BMJ  1996;312:1279-1283 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intersalt: hypertension rise with age revisited
	Richard L Hanneman
	BMJ  1996;312:1283-1284 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Evidence on salt is consistent
	Malcolm Law
	BMJ  1996;312:1284-1285 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Sodium and blood pressure in the Intersalt study and other studies--in reply to the Salt Institute
	Jeremiah Stamler, Paul Elliott, Alan R Dyer, Rose Stamler, Hugo Kesteloot, Michael Marmot
	BMJ  1996;312:1285-1287 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Salt--overwhelming evidence but still no action: can a consensus be reached with the food industry?
	Graham A MacGregor, Peter S Sever
	BMJ  1996;312:1287-1289 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Hyperkalaemic cardiac arrest successfully treated with peritoneal dialysis
	M A Jackson, R Lodwick, S G Hutchinson
	BMJ  1996;312:1289-1290 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Urology: COMMON PAEDIATRIC PROBLEMS
	Chris Dawson, Hugh Whitfield
	BMJ  1996;312:1291-1294 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:1310 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	THE TEACHER WHO INFLUENCED ME
	Anthony Abrahams
	BMJ  1996;312:1264 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MANNERS MAKYTH MAN
	John S M Zorab
	BMJ  1996;312:1268 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	AN EVENT THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
	Rabindranath Roy
	BMJ  1996;312:1290 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:1253 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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

	Surgery as satire
	Charles Hall
	BMJ  1996;312:1308 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Instrumental to the brain
	Anthony Storr
	BMJ  1996;312:1308 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Academic staff want early translation of pay award • BMA will give evidence to inquiry into clinical academic careers • Doctors want tighter gun laws • BMA approves the transplanting of animal organs • Doctors resist hospital computers • Fundholders can purchase osteopathy
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:1305 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Intersalt revisited: further analyses of 24 hour sodium excretion and blood pressure within and across populations
	Paul Elliott, Jeremiah Stamler, Rob Nichols, Alan R Dyer, Rose Stamler, Hugo Kesteloot, Michael Marmot
	BMJ  1996;312:1249-1253 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Meta-analysis of how well measures of bone mineral density predict occurrence of osteoporotic fractures
	Deborah Marshall, Olof Johnell, Hans Wedel
	BMJ  1996;312:1254-1259 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lung cancer, smoking, and environment: a cohort study of the Danish population
	Gerda Engholm, Finn Palmgren, Elsebeth Lynge
	BMJ  1996;312:1259-1263 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Case-control study of evening melatonin concentration in primary insomnia
	M E J Attenburrow, B A Dowling, A L Sharpley, P J Cowen
	BMJ  1996;312:1263-1264 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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