Swan song for the Swan-Ganz catheter?
	Neil Soni
	BMJ  1996;313:763-764 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Global competition in health care
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:764-765 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Enjoy your fruits and vegetables
	Matthew W Gillman
	BMJ  1996;313:765-766 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Student BMJ
	Richard Claxton
	BMJ  1996;313:766 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Severe hypoglycaemia and cognitive impairment in diabetes
	Ian J Deary, Brian M Frier
	BMJ  1996;313:767-768 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New and not so new vaccines
	Tom Jefferson
	BMJ  1996;313:768 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Secretary of state for health declines to promote free distribution of smoke alarms
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1996;313:814 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Incidence and prognosis of asthma to age 33
	Kim Hinshaw
	BMJ  1996;313:814 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Respiratory sections of questionnaires are imprecise
	Rollo Clifford
	BMJ  1996;313:814 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Registers in general practice give cumulative rather than point prevalence
	Anna Livingstone
	BMJ  1996;313:815 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Asthma or wheezy bronchitis in childhood is independent risk factor for wheezing symptoms in adulthood
	Sue Ross, David Godden, James Friend, Joseph Legge, Graham Douglas
	BMJ  1996;313:815 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Author's reply
	David P Strachan
	BMJ  1996;313:815 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Changing the threshold of body mass index that indicates obesity affects health targets
	Tony Hill, Julian Roberts
	BMJ  1996;313:815-816 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prevalence of obesity is low in people who do not eat meat
	Timothy Key, Gwyneth Davey
	BMJ  1996;313:816-817 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long term outcome by method of delivery of fetuses in breech presentation
	Jonathan West
	BMJ  1996;313:817 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	External cephalic version at term should be considered
	P S Bhal, K Asaad, A Sharma, R W Shaw
	BMJ  1996;313:817 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Outcomes of breech presentations not diagnosed until labour need to be studied
	Sarah Vause
	BMJ  1996;313:817 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Evaluation should have included long term follow up of the mothers
	Geraldine Barrett, Christina R Victor
	BMJ  1996;313:817-818 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Peter Danielian, Marion Hall
	BMJ  1996;313:818 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	French regulatory medical references are criteria, not clinical guidelines
	Herve Maisonneuve, Cyrille Colin, Yves Matillon
	BMJ  1996;313:818 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Monitoring oral anticoagulation in primary care
	D I Gozzard, Alison Craig
	BMJ  1996;313:818 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Integrated, proactive laboratory based approach is effective
	R Wilmot, J Banks, M C Galvin
	BMJ  1996;313:818-819 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Shared care can work
	Elisabeth C M Logan, Martin J Auger, Peter Cotton, Peter I Otter
	BMJ  1996;313:819 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Meteorobiology" may have a role in sudden infant death
	Bernhard Schluter
	BMJ  1996;313:819 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prevalence of antibiotic resistance in pneumococci
	Peter Wilson, D Lewis, Peter Jenks, S Hoque
	BMJ  1996;313:819-820 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	... and Merseyside ..
	K D Allen, J J Anson
	BMJ  1996;313:820 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	... and Northern Ireland
	C E Goldsmith, J E Moore, P G Murphy
	BMJ  1996;313:820 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Prenatal screening for carriers of cystic fibrosis should screen both partners individually
	Marc De Braekeleer
	BMJ  1996;313:820-821 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Patients who have had fractures of the distal forearm do not lose bone as expected
	R W Keen, G O Griffiths, T D Spector
	BMJ  1996;313:821 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Definition of authorship may be changed
	P V Scott, T C Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:821 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinicians who enter patients into randomised controlled trials should be acknowledged
	Su Mason, Shona Haining
	BMJ  1996;313:821-822 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood bereavement
	Richard Harrington
	BMJ  1996;313:822 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	People with learning disabilities also need help in bereavement
	Sarah Huline-Dickens
	BMJ  1996;313:822 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Asylum seekers who claim to have been tortured should have right to independent medical examination
	Christopher Bulstrode
	BMJ  1996;313:822 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	British doctors need 53% pay increase to catch up
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:769 [Extract] [Full text]

	Bid to use fundholder savings for building
	Jo Waters
	BMJ  1996;313:769 [Extract] [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;313:770 [Extract] [Full text]

	Warning against overuse of drugs for inattentive children
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1996;313:770 [Extract] [Full text]

	Sick doctors need special treatment
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:771 [Extract] [Full text]

	Surgeon had mutant form of hepatitis B
	Martyn Halle
	BMJ  1996;313:771 [Extract] [Full text]

	Managed health care cuts costs and raises quality
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:772 [Extract] [Full text]

	Rationing happens all the time
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:772 [Extract] [Full text]

	Scandal over trust appointment
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1996;313:772 [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch test case over records
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;313:773 [Extract] [Full text]

	More trust mergers on the cards
	Vincent Dawe
	BMJ  1996;313:773 [Extract] [Full text]

	Post-traumatic stress disorder may follow childbirth
	Sandra Gold-Beck-Wood
	BMJ  1996;313:774 [Extract] [Full text]

	Cancer treatments rationed by authority
	Martyn Halle
	BMJ  1996;313:774 [Extract] [Full text]

	Eight minute response target set for ambulances
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:774 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Evaluation of investigations to diagnose the cause of dizziness in elderly people: a community based controlled study
	Nicki R Colledge, Robin M Barr-Hamilton, Susan J Lewis, Robin J Sellar, Janet A Wilson
	BMJ  1996;313:788-792 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctors' retainer scheme in Scotland: time for change?
	Alison Douglas, Ian McCann
	BMJ  1996;313:792-794 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Legislative flurry
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1996;313:824 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Flaming August
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1996;313:824 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The great hijack
	Bernard Rabinowitz
	BMJ  1996;313:826 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Soft Tissue Injuries in Sports Medicine
	Wendy N. Dodds
	BMJ  1996;313:827 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Review of Clinical Risk Management
	Jennifer Leaning
	BMJ  1996;313:827 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	For Debate: Do fetuses feel pain?
	BMJ  1996;313:795 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: "Fetal pain" is a misnomer
	Stuart W G Derbyshire, Ann Furedi
	BMJ  1996;313:795 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: We don't know; better to err on the safe side from mid-gestation
	Vivette Glover, Nicholas Fisk
	BMJ  1996;313:796 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Probably no pain in the absence of "self"
	Zbigniew Szawarski
	BMJ  1996;313:796-797 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	For Debate: Reflex responses do not necessarily signify pain
	Adrian R Lloyd-Thomas, Maria Fitzgerald
	BMJ  1996;313:797-798 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	For Debate: 250th anniversary of source document verification
	Denis Gibbs
	BMJ  1996;313:798 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cancer: science and society and the communication of risk
	Kenneth C Calman
	BMJ  1996;313:799-802 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Grand Rounds--Hammersmith Hospitals: Distinguishing acute disseminated encephalomyelitis from multiple sclerosis
	BMJ  1996;313:802-804 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Caring for Older People: Community services: health
	M Pushpangadan, E Burns
	BMJ  1996;313:805-808 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics Notes: Interaction 2: compare effect sizes not P values
	John N S Matthews, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1996;313:808 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of Work Related Disorders: INVESTIGATING SUSPECTED OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS AND EVALUATING THE WORKPLACE
	Keith Palmer, David Coggon
	BMJ  1996;313:809-811 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:828 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Facilitatory mentoring in general practice
	Robert Alliott
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Compassion, resourcefulness, boundless energy and perserverance are the essential personal ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [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

	Shire Hall Communications and the case for hepatitis B immunisation
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1996;313:825 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recovery and abuse
	Ian Robertson
	BMJ  1996;313:825-826 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA gives evidence to review body • New groups will advise on medical manpower • Universities are losing clinical staff • Isolated areas need help to provide out of hours care • GPs are concerned about checks on medical records
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:823 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Dietary habits and mortality in 11 000 vegetarians and health conscious people: results of a 17 year follow up
	Timothy J A Key, Margaret Thorogood, Paul N Appleby, Michael L Burr
	BMJ  1996;313:775-779 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Predictors of mortality in insulin dependent diabetes: 10 year observational follow up study
	Peter Rossing, Philip Hougaard, Knut Borch-Johnsen, Hans-Henrik Parving
	BMJ  1996;313:779-784 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Does the decline in child injury mortality vary by social class? A comparison of class specific mortality in 1981 and 1991
	Ian Roberts, Chris Power
	BMJ  1996;313:784-786 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Infant and neonatal pain: anaesthetists' perceptions and prescribing patterns
	Jonathan de Lima, Adrian R Lloyd-Thomas, Richard F Howard, Edward Sumner, Teresa M Quinn
	BMJ  1996;313:787 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

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