Storage and disposal of embryos and gametes
	Alan Trounson, Karen Dawson
	BMJ  1996;313:1-2 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Career preferences of doctors
	Isobel Allen
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Careers advice for doctors
	Douglas Carnall, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Placebo mania
	Kenneth J Rothman
	BMJ  1996;313:3-4 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring diastolic blood pressure in pregnancy
	Peter Rubin
	BMJ  1996;313:4-5 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Misdiagnosing the persistent vegetative state
	Ronald Cranford
	BMJ  1996;313:5-6 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Measuring health outcomes
	John Cairns
	BMJ  1996;313:6 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Declining sperm count
	Jacques De Mouzon, A Spira, P Thonneau, L Multigner
	BMJ  1996;313:43 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Data from two groups should not have been combined in analysis
	A J P Eccersley
	BMJ  1996;313:43 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Results cannot be generalised
	Stephen Farrow
	BMJ  1996;313:43-44 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rise in semen quality between 1970 and 1990 in meta-analysis was non-significant
	Niels Keiding, Niels E Skakkebaek
	BMJ  1996;313:44 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recent decline may be relatively late stage of long term process
	Michael Joffe
	BMJ  1996;313:44 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Results of Scottish study may be due to confounding with age
	Gillian Raab
	BMJ  1996;313:44 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Increasing evidence that Young's syndrome is associated with mercury
	Ann Dally, Bill Hendry
	BMJ  1996;313:44 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Stewart Irvine, Elizabeth Cawood, John Aitken
	BMJ  1996;313:44-45 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Extrapyramidal signs should be sought more often in Alzheimer's disease
	Mark N Lowenthal
	BMJ  1996;313:45 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Directly observed treatment for tuberculosis
	Louise Sell, Emily Finch, Michael Farrell, Janie Sheridan, John Strang
	BMJ  1996;313:45 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Treatment strategies will need to be changed because of drug resistance
	Jon S Friedland, Gio Simoes
	BMJ  1996;313:45-46 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Strategic plans for vascular services have not been put into effect
	C V Ruckley
	BMJ  1996;313:46 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evidence for efficacy of topical acyclovir in recurrent herpes labialis is weak
	Graham Worrall
	BMJ  1996;313:46 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Neonatal circumcision and penile cancer
	Edgar J Schoen
	BMJ  1996;313:46 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors ignored main conclusion of study that they cited
	Alan Stanton
	BMJ  1996;313:47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Paul M Fleiss, Frederick Hodges
	BMJ  1996;313:47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prenatal and postnatal prevalence of Turner's syndrome
	C J M Van Der Sijs-Bos, R H Stigter, G C M L Christiaens, N J Leschot
	BMJ  1996;313:47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Claus Hojbjerg Gravholt, Svend Juul, Rune Weis Naeraa
	BMJ  1996;313:47-48 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vietnamese people in study may have had language difficulties
	Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam, Richard J Madeley
	BMJ  1996;313:48 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking in public places
	Kishor Padki
	BMJ  1996;313:48 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Vast majority of both smokers and non-smokers favour at least a partial ban
	Gerry Waldron
	BMJ  1996;313:48 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medical students do not think they have authority to advise patients to stop smoking
	Yoshikatsu Mochizuki, David While, Anne Charlton
	BMJ  1996;313:48-49 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Making decisions with children
	P J Mahaffey
	BMJ  1996;313:49 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author's reply
	George Rylance
	BMJ  1996;313:49 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Volunteering children for bone marrow donation
	Gerry Kent
	BMJ  1996;313:49-50 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children's views should have been represented in discussion
	W E Osmun
	BMJ  1996;313:50 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Children may be able to make their own decisions
	Priscilla Alderson, Jonathan Montgomery
	BMJ  1996;313:50 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Moving medical malpractice insurance to Medical Insurance Agency may be expensive
	Fiona Nicol
	BMJ  1996;313:50 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Warfarin should be available as 0.5 mg tablet
	G Rouse, J Pope, R G Dalton
	BMJ  1996;313:50 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	French biscuit makers force tobacco campaign ban
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;313:7 [Extract] [Full text]

	Labour pledges to cut NHS bureaucracy
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:7 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;313:8 [Extract] [Full text]

	BMA opposes NHS private finance initiative
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:8 [Extract] [Full text]

	WHO warns that multidrug resistant TB will spread
	Mark Ashurst
	BMJ  1996;313:9 [Extract] [Full text]

	Arsenic poisons 220 000 in India
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  1996;313:9 [Extract] [Full text]

	Court rules that care cannot be withdrawn due to cash cuts
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:9-10 [Extract] [Full text]

	Ombudsman highlights confusion over long term care
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:10 [Extract] [Full text]

	Company challenges melatonin sales ban
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:10 [Extract] [Full text]

	US doctors reaffirm opposition to euthanasia
	Charles-Gene Mcdaniel
	BMJ  1996;313:11 [Extract] [Full text]

	NHS pays too much for some supplies
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;313:11 [Extract] [Full text]

	US Scientific Fraud Office found at fault
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;313:11-12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Guernsey bans tobacco advertising
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;313:12 [Extract] [Full text]

	French asbestos victims go to court
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;313:12 [Extract] [Full text]

	Disaster plans and prevention
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1996;313:12 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Long term outcome of patients with neurotic illness in general practice
	Keith R Lloyd, Rachel Jenkins, Anthony Mann
	BMJ  1996;313:26-28 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Another glossy flyer
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1996;313:57 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mrs Simpson's knickers
	Tony Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:57 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Another deadly Zairian disease
	J Burdon
	BMJ  1996;313:58 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Deception by Design: Pharmaceutical Promotion in the Third World
	Tariq Iqbal Bhutta
	BMJ  1996;313:60 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995
	Gareth W Roberts
	BMJ  1996;313:60-61 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Connective Tissue Diseases
	L Guillevin
	BMJ  1996;313:61 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Selection
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1996;313:61 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	A new short form individual quality of life measure (SEIQoL-DW): application in a cohort of individuals with HIV/AIDS
	Anne M Hickey, Gerard Bury, Ciaran A O'Boyle, Fiona Bradley, Fergus D O'Kelly, William Shannon
	BMJ  1996;313:29-33 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lessons from international experience in controlling pharmaceutical expenditure III: regulating industry
	Karen Bloor, Alan Maynard, Nick Freemantle
	BMJ  1996;313:33-35 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Trials to assess equivalence: the importance of rigorous methods
	B Jones, P Jarvis, J A Lewis, A F Ebbutt
	BMJ  1996;313:36-39 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Septic arthritis in osteoarthritic hips
	D J Knight, F J Gilbert, J D Hutchison
	BMJ  1996;313:40-41 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics Notes: Measurement error and correlation coefficients
	J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1996;313:41-42 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Correction to Table 1]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:62 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A MEMORABLE PATIENT
	John S M Zorab
	BMJ  1996;313:42 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;313:42 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Choosing your career
	Patricia Scriven
	BMJ  1996;313:2a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing
	BMJ  1996;313:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Editor's choice
	BMJ  1996;313 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Sex on the agenda
	Nigel Duncan
	BMJ  1996;313:59 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	The BMA's annual representative meeting • There must be more short stay beds • The meeting.. • Seniors and juniors unite on workload • BMA divisions continue to be supported • The meeting .. • Doctors are haemorrhaging from the NHS • Medical schools at saturation point • The meeting .. • BMA stress service receives nearly 800 calls • Academic medicine is in crisis • BMJ reaches 300 000 readers • Doctors should not endorse gun licence applications • The meeting .. • Meeting criticises new asylum bill • Doctors should boycott NHS wide network • More support needed for drug dependent doctors • Advance directives should not be specific • BMA will study domestic violence • The meeting .. • Community care is not a cheap option • Supervised discharge needs to be strengthened • Doctors should not report on doctors' poor performance • Service medical officers are under threat • The meeting ..
	Linda Beecham, Jane Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:51 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Misdiagnosis of the vegetative state: retrospective study in a rehabilitation unit
	Keith Andrews, Lesley Murphy, Ros Munday, Clare Littlewood
	BMJ  1996;313:13-16 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: The importance of patients' consent for publication
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:16 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association of common health symptoms with bullying in primary school children
	Katrina Williams, Mike Chambers, Stuart Logan, Derek Robinson
	BMJ  1996;313:17-19 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Career preferences of doctors who qualified in the United Kingdom in 1993 compared with those of doctors qualifying in 1974, 1977, 1980, and 1983
	Trevor W Lambert, Michael J Goldacre, Carol Edwards, James Parkhouse
	BMJ  1996;313:19-24 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Posthumous storage and use of sperm and embryos: survey of opinion of treatment centres
	Elizabeth Corrigan, S Elizabeth Mumford, M G R Hull
	BMJ  1996;313:24 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	False positive results for leucocytes in urine dipstick test with common antibiotics
	J H Beer, A Vogt, K Neftel, P Cottagnoud
	BMJ  1996;313:25 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

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