Promoting clinical effectiveness
	John Hayward
	BMJ  1996;312:1491-1492 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulating complementary medicine
	Julie Stone
	BMJ  1996;312:1492-1493 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ecstasy and neurodegeneration
	A Richard Green, Guy M Goodwin
	BMJ  1996;312:1493-1494 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pharmaceutical representatives
	Allen F Shaughnessy, David C Slawson
	BMJ  1996;312:1494 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Designing a vaccine for tuberculosis
	Adam S Malin, Douglas B Young
	BMJ  1996;312:1495 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood bereavement
	Dora Black
	BMJ  1996;312:1496 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Secondary prevention of meningococcal disease
	Andrew J Pollard, Robert Booy, Simon Nadel, Michael Levin
	BMJ  1996;312:1536 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ceftriaxone or ciprofloxacin should be considered as first line prophylaxis
	M J Martin, N A Hutchinson, I J Eltringham, P Y C Lee, K Birthistle
	BMJ  1996;312:1536 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	No evidence exists to support use of penicillin
	Tim Stokes, Rashmi Shukla, Philip Monk
	BMJ  1996;312:1536-1537 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cases are "unavoidably unpredictable"
	Paul Bingham, Peter Old
	BMJ  1996;312:1537 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	British guidelines should have been considered
	D M Jones
	BMJ  1996;312:1537 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Bjorn-Erik Kristiansen, Arne-Birger Knapskog
	BMJ  1996;312:1537 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs often fail to give early parenteral benzylpenicillin in suspected meningococcal infection
	David Irwin, James M Miller, S John Cornell
	BMJ  1996;312:1538 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Admissions due to overdoses of aromatic analgesics have increased in Scotland
	S Hagen, D Hall, C Stark, H Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:1538 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children with an avulsed tooth may need antibiotic prophylaxis against bacterial endocarditis
	Daniel Wallis, Susan Matthai
	BMJ  1996;312:1538 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advance directives are compatible with good medical practice
	Simon Finfer
	BMJ  1996;312:1538-1539 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coffee intake and death from coronary heart disease
	Roberto Marchioli, Rocco Di Mascio, Rosa Maria Marfisi, Felice Vitullo, Gianni Tognoni
	BMJ  1996;312:1539 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coffee drinking was compared with tea drinking in monozygotic twins in 18th century
	Lars Breimer
	BMJ  1996;312:1539 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Care management
	Michael Phelan
	BMJ  1996;312:1539-1540 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Case management confers substantial benefits
	Tom Burns
	BMJ  1996;312:1540 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Administrative demands of care programme approach
	Claire Easton, Femi Oyebode
	BMJ  1996;312:1540 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Continuing transmission of sexually transmitted diseases among patients infected with HIV
	K Vedhara, K H Nott, R Holt, P Court, D Southworth, Joan Holmes, M H Snow
	BMJ  1996;312:1540-1541 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Several reasons exist for failure of health education message
	Susan Thornton, Deepti Shah, Jose Catalan, Elizabeth Carlin, Fiona Boag
	BMJ  1996;312:1541 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	HIV infection must be destigmatised
	Renee Danziger
	BMJ  1996;312:1541 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sexual behaviour of homosexual men with and without HIV infection differs
	S E Tchamouroff
	BMJ  1996;312:1541-1542 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Different diseases indicate different risks of transmission of HIV
	Sara Madge, Adeola Olaitan, Margaret Johnson
	BMJ  1996;312:1542 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Non-sexual transmission of human papillomavirus
	Paul Mansour, Michael Abbott, Mohsen Iskander, Stephen Dundas
	BMJ  1996;312:1542 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing HIV disease without Delta
	R A Seaton, A J France, D Nathwani
	BMJ  1996;312:1542 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Junior doctors should get "additional duty miles"
	Nicholas Jones, Dyfed Hughes
	BMJ  1996;312:1542 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	BMA leaders call for efficiency savings to be halted
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:1497 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:1498 [Extract] [Full text]

	Common pollutants may harm fetuses
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:1498 [Extract] [Full text]

	US pesticide use reaches new record
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:1498-1499 [Extract] [Full text]

	High levels of substandard care in maternal deaths
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:1499 [Extract] [Full text]

	Sports injuries are badly managed in Britain
	S J Louise Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:1499-1500 [Extract] [Full text]

	Germany fears more deaths from E coli outbreak
	Helmut L Karcher
	BMJ  1996;312:1500 [Extract] [Full text]

	UK government proposes changes to primary care
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:1500 [Extract] [Full text]

	Teenage smokers fail to recognise health risks
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1996;312:1501 [Extract] [Full text]

	Definition of "authorship" may be changed
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  1996;312:1501-1502 [Extract] [Full text]

	French test threatens foreign doctors
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;312:1502 [Extract] [Full text]

	When MPs chicken out over beef
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:1502 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Collecting morbidity data in general practice: the Somerset morbidity project
	Nicky Pearson, Jim O Brien, Huw Thomas, Paul Ewings, Lesley Gallier, Alan Bussey
	BMJ  1996;312:1517-1520 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Big boys don't cry
	Ian Robertson
	BMJ  1996;312:1547 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trial by television
	Judith Hollistriantafillou
	BMJ  1996;312:1547 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Sins of youth
	James Welsh
	BMJ  1996;312:1548 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The view from the queue
	Teifion Davies
	BMJ  1996;312:1548-1549 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	The Cigarette Papers
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1996;312:1550 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Brain Injury and After: Towards Improved Outcome
	Douglas Gentleman
	BMJ  1996;312:1550-1551 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Guide to Care of the Elderly
	A John Campbell
	BMJ  1996;312:1551 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Selection
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1996;312:1551 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: The pneumococcal problem
	S K Obaro, M A Monteil, D C Henderson
	BMJ  1996;312:1521-1525 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Fortnightly Review: Lessons from international experience in controlling pharmaceutical expenditure II: influencing doctors
	Karen Bloor, Nick Freemantle
	BMJ  1996;312:1525-1527 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rationing in general practice: The Asbury draft policy on ethical use of resources
	Roger Crisp, Tony Hope, David Ebbs
	BMJ  1996;312:1528-1531 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rationing in general practice: Commentary: Guidelines for rationing resemble process of family decision making
	David C Thomasma
	BMJ  1996;312:1531-1532 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rationing in general practice: Commentary: Courageous attempt, but needs clarification
	Peter Dormer
	BMJ  1996;312:1532 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rationing in general practice: Commentary: Commendable but confused
	Peter Toon
	BMJ  1996;312:1533 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:1552 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1996;312:1511 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A MEMORABLE PATIENT
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  1996;312:1527 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	MY MOST REWARDING CASE
	D W Barritt
	BMJ  1996;312:1533 [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

	The tragedy of errors
	Helmut Karcher
	BMJ  1996;312:1549 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	From the medical academic conference • Specialist registrar grade is causing problems • Disincentives to an academic career spelt out • Labour party's plans for student finance • The conference .. • From the public health conference • Young people need a better deal • Possession of private handguns opposed • Continuing education must be properly resourced • General practice could be undermined • The conference.. • From the senior staffs conference • Proposal for a closed contract defeated • Non-consultant career grades need a better deal • Private finance initiative deplored • Intensive care needs adequate staffing • There must be local manpower advice • The conference ..
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:1543 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Effect of correcting outcome data for case mix: an example from stroke medicine
	Richard J Davenport, Martin S Dennis, Charles P Warlow
	BMJ  1996;312:1503-1505 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Psychological complications after stillbirth--influence of memories and immediate management: population based study
	Ingela Radestad, Gunnar Steineck, Conny Nordin, Berit Sjogren
	BMJ  1996;312:1505-1508 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Does suppressing luteinising hormone secretion reduce the miscarriage rate? Results of a randomised controlled trial
	K Clifford, R Rai, H Watson, S Franks, L Regan
	BMJ  1996;312:1508-1511 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Topical treatment of erectile dysfunction: randomised double blind placebo controlled trial of cream containing aminophylline, isosorbide dinitrate, and co-dergocrine mesylate
	Adel Gomaa, Mohamed Shalaby, Mohamed Osman, Mohamed Eissa, Alaa Eizat, Mostafy Mahmoud, Nabiel Mikhail
	BMJ  1996;312:1512-1515 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Certification of cause of death in patients dying soon after proximal femoral fracture
	S J Calder, G H Anderson, P J Gregg
	BMJ  1996;312:1515 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Audit study of next of kin's satisfaction with clinical necropsy service
	R D Start, S J Sherwood, G Kent, C A Angel
	BMJ  1996;312:1516 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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