Telling patients there is nothing wrong
	Ray Fitzpatrick
	BMJ  1996;313:311-312 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Private finance for the public good?
	Diane Dawson, Alan Maynard
	BMJ  1996;313:312 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Choosing tomorrow's doctors
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1996;313:313 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Growth hormone deficiency and replacement in adults
	Stephen M Shalet
	BMJ  1996;313:314 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Informing patients about the drugs they take
	Barbara Meredith
	BMJ  1996;313:315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health for all by the year 2000?
	Staffan Bergstrom, Pascoal Mocumbi
	BMJ  1996;313:316 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Proposal to abolish resale price maintenance on medicines
	John Ferguson
	BMJ  1996;313:360 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Asda's reply
	Archie J Norman
	BMJ  1996;313:360 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Psychological support for patients having breast cancer surgery
	Karin Friedli, Michael King
	BMJ  1996;313:360-361 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Support groups whose members have themselves had breast cancer are helpful
	Helen Caulton
	BMJ  1996;313:361 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' consent should have been sought
	Heather Goodare
	BMJ  1996;313:361 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Data may not have been summarised appropriately
	Derek Lowe
	BMJ  1996;313:361 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	J M C McArdle, W D George, C S McArdle, D C Smith, G D Murray, A V M Hughson
	BMJ  1996;313:361-362 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reply from dissenting author
	Alastair R Moodie
	BMJ  1996;313:362 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gaining patients' consent
	I Callanan, J M Pegum
	BMJ  1996;313:362 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Telling parents all relevant details might reduce recruitment of children to trials
	Terence Stephenson, David A Walker
	BMJ  1996;313:362-363 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of CSM's warning about safety of third generation oral contraceptives
	John J Ferguson, Martin G V Jenkins
	BMJ  1996;313:363 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Contraceptive effectiveness may be being sacrificed for safety
	Judy Murty, Sue Firth
	BMJ  1996;313:363 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Abortions increased by nearly 8% in Norway
	Ole-Erik Iversen, Stein Tore Nilsen
	BMJ  1996;313:363-364 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Depression in carers of elderly people living at home
	G Livingston, C Katona
	BMJ  1996;313:364 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Transdermal glyceryl trinitrate for dysmenorrhoea
	A Li Wan Po, R W Stones
	BMJ  1996;313:364 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Rudiger Pittrof, Stuart Campbell, Christoph Lees, Catherine Thompson, Andrew Pickles, John Martin
	BMJ  1996;313:364 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Contamination of ampicillin was probably due to reuse of disposable stoppers
	Harry Jeene
	BMJ  1996;313:364-365 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alcohol consumption and risk of coronary heart disease
	Morten Gronbaek, Thorkild I A Sorensen
	BMJ  1996;313:365 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Eric B Rimm, Meir J Stampfer, Arthur Klatsky, Diederick Grobbee
	BMJ  1996;313:365 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Association cannot be assumed to be causal
	Luke Whitaker, Helen Ward
	BMJ  1996;313:365-366 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	H O Hein, P Suadicani, F Gyntelberg
	BMJ  1996;313:366 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of interventions should help to reduce inequalities in health
	Vikki Entwistle, Ian Watt
	BMJ  1996;313:366 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Time for a ban on landmines
	Eddie Chaloner
	BMJ  1996;313:366-367 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Doctors should actively support campaign to ban landmines
	Caroline Leveaux
	BMJ  1996;313:367 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	GPs' prescribing behaviour may be affected by drug promotion
	Paramjit S Gill, Nick Freemantle, Lisa Bero, Flora Haaijer-Ruskamp, Marjukka Markela, Kaveh P Barjesteh
	BMJ  1996;313:367 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Junior Doctors Committee has achieved much recently
	Simon Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:367 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	BMA calls for evidence on ethical implications of new genetic technology
	Richard Holloway
	BMJ  1996;313:367 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Scientists find low level transmission of BSE
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:317 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;313:318 [Extract] [Full text]

	Violence may be predicted among psychiatric patients
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:318 [Extract] [Full text]

	Transsexuals challenge rationing decision
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:319 [Extract] [Full text]

	German doctors flock to Britain
	Helmut L Karcher
	BMJ  1996;313:319 [Extract] [Full text]

	Increase in consultants is not enough
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:319 [Extract] [Full text]

	Combination drug treatment benefits patients with HIV
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;313:320 [Extract] [Full text]

	Asthma spacer devices need evaluating
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1996;313:320 [Extract] [Full text]

	Appeal for cases of rationing
	BMJ  1996;313:320 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Use of oral corticosteroids in the community and the prevention of secondary osteoporosis: a cross sectional study
	L J Walsh, C A Wong, M Pringle, A E Tattersfield
	BMJ  1996;313:344-346 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Driven to distraction
	Tony Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:368 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Old men and young girls
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1996;313:368 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The need to protect our colleagues
	B W A Herriot
	BMJ  1996;313:369-370 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Open letter from a carer
	Anne Mary Jayes
	BMJ  1996;313:370 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	The Effects of Drugs on the Fetus and Nursing Infant
	Mary J Seller
	BMJ  1996;313:371 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poverty and Child Health
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1996;313:371 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Tertiary cancer services in Britain: benchmarking study of activity and facilities at 12 specialist centres
	M A Richards, J C Parrott
	BMJ  1996;313:347-349 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Controversies in Management: Hormone replacement therapy for all? Universal prescription is desirable
	Philip Toozs-Hobson, Linda Cardozo
	BMJ  1996;313:350-351 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Controversies in Management: Not for everybody
	H S Jacobs
	BMJ  1996;313:351-352 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Caring for Older People: Loneliness
	Anne Forbes
	BMJ  1996;313:352-354 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Work Related Disorders: BACK PAIN
	Malcolm I V Jayson
	BMJ  1996;313:355-358 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:372 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Do it yourself career guidance
	Sonia Hutton-Taylor
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: More Germans are coming to Britain to complete their medical ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Employers who fail in their duty to protect employees against ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Doctors considering a period of employment in New Zealand are ...
	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

	Taking "ME" too personally
	Richard Morriss
	BMJ  1996;313:369 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Analgesic efficacy and safety of paracetamol-codeine combinations versus paracetamol alone: a systematic review
	Anton J M de Craen, Giuseppe Di Giulio, Angela J E M Lampe-Schoenmaeckers, Alphons G H Kessels, Jos Kleijnen
	BMJ  1996;313:321-325 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial of penicillin V and amoxycillin in treatment of acute sinus infections in adults
	Morten Lindbaek, Per Hjortdahl, Ulf L-H Johnsen
	BMJ  1996;313:325-329 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Opening Pandora's box: the unpredictability of reassurance by a normal test result
	I G McDonald, J Daly, V M Jelinek, F Panetta, J M Gutman
	BMJ  1996;313:329-332 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Serum complex of trypsin 2 and (alpha)(sub 1) antitrypsin as diagnostic and prognostic marker of acute pancreatitis: clinical study in consecutive patients
	Johan Hedstrom, Vesa Sainio, Esko Kemppainen, Reijo Haapiainen, Eero Kivilaakso, Tom Schroder, Jari Leinonen, Ulf-Hakan Stenman
	BMJ  1996;313:333-337 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Perinatal characteristics in relation to incidence of and mortality from prostate cancer
	Anders Ekbom, Chung-cheng Hsieh, Loren Lipworth, Alicja Wolk, Jan Ponten, Hans-Olov Adami, Dimitrios Trichopoulos
	BMJ  1996;313:337-341 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Fluctuations of HIV load in semen of HIV positive patients with newly acquired sexually transmitted diseases
	M C Atkins, E M Carlin, V C Emery, P D Griffiths, F Boag
	BMJ  1996;313:341-342 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of the capture-recapture technique to evaluate the completeness of systematic literature searches
	Pat Spoor, Mark Airey, Cathy Bennett, Julie Greensill, Rhys Williams
	BMJ  1996;313:342-343 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Iron deficiency anaemia and febrile convulsions: case-control study in children under 2 years
	Alfredo Pisacane, Renato Sansone, Nicola Impagliazzo, Angelo Coppola, Paolo Rolando, Alfonso D'Apuzzo, Ciro Tregrossi
	BMJ  1996;313:343 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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