Newly licensed drugs
	R E Ferner
	BMJ  1996;313:1157-1158 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Drug trials in epilepsy
	Gilles Mignot
	BMJ  1996;313:1158 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Interferon beta in multiple sclerosis
	Richard G Richards
	BMJ  1996;313:1159 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Controlling genital chlamydial infection
	Anne M Johnson, Lucia Grun, Andrew Haines
	BMJ  1996;313:1160-1161 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Promoting health in prisons
	Neil Squires
	BMJ  1996;313:1161 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why everyone over 65 deserves influenza vaccine
	Carolyn Diguiseppi
	BMJ  1996;313:1162 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's Letters

	Comparing hypertension guidelines
	T J Scanlon, R Luben, P Lyle
	BMJ  1996;313:1203 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Audit in Mid-Glamorgan also shows major problems with management of hypertension
	Andrew J Burr
	BMJ  1996;313:1203 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cost effectiveness analyses have been carried out in Sweden
	Lars H Lindholm, Lars Werko
	BMJ  1996;313:1203-1204 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Technical difficulties may have affected study's results
	Stuart Barton, Mike Cranney, Tom Walley
	BMJ  1996;313:1204 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	T P Fahey, T J Peters
	BMJ  1996;313:1204 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	St John's wort for depression
	Peter J Houghton
	BMJ  1996;313:1204-1205 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Iron deficiency anaemia and febrile convulsions
	William M Wike, W R Kiser
	BMJ  1996;313:1205 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	... and coeliac disease
	C E Macdonald, R J Playford
	BMJ  1996;313:1205 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Authors' reply
	Alfredo Pisacane, Renato Sansone, Nicola Impagliazzo, Angelo Coppola, Paolo Rolando, Alfonso D'Apuzzo, Ciro Tregrossi
	BMJ  1996;313:1205 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hormone replacement therapy for all?
	Tom Marshall
	BMJ  1996;313:1205 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Arguments should be based on ratio of benefits to risks
	Susan Bewley
	BMJ  1996;313:1205-1206 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Long term randomised controlled trial is needed
	Ronan Lyons
	BMJ  1996;313:1206 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Invalidity benefit has been superseded by incapacity benefit
	David Snell
	BMJ  1996;313:1206 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rights and responsibilities in HIV prevention
	Renee Danziger
	BMJ  1996;313:1206 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Income and mortality in the United States
	Ken Judge
	BMJ  1996;313:1206-1207 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kaplan and colleagues' reply
	George A Kaplan, John W Lynch, Richard D Cohen, Jennifer L Balfour, Elsie R Pamuk
	BMJ  1996;313:1207 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Kennedy and colleagues' reply
	Bruce P Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi, Deborah Prothrow-Stith
	BMJ  1996;313:1207 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The rise of counselling
	A P Boardman
	BMJ  1996;313:1207-1208 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Counselling has much to offer patients
	Philip Sugarman, Georgia Addie
	BMJ  1996;313:1208 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Counsellors are seeing people with previously unmet needs
	Gail Young
	BMJ  1996;313:1208 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Staff in mental health services need clearer guidelines
	D B Double
	BMJ  1996;313:1208 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Paracetamol-codeine combinations versus paracetamol alone
	A Li Wan Po, W Y Zhang
	BMJ  1996;313:1209 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Intention to treat approach is not popular
	Lasse A Skoglund
	BMJ  1996;313:1209 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Actual size of increase needs to be measured
	Sally Collins, Andrew Moore, Henry McQuay
	BMJ  1996;313:1209 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Telling patients there is nothing wrong
	Louise Howard
	BMJ  1996;313:1210 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What is said may not convey what is intended
	Joseph Lister
	BMJ  1996;313:1210 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Queen should remove her crest from cigarette packets
	David Goldberg
	BMJ  1996;313:1210 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Many hospices provide care for any patient with advanced incurable disease
	Stephen M W Hutchison
	BMJ  1996;313:1210 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cigarettes and drugs in Northern Ireland
	John Robshaw
	BMJ  1996;313:1210 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Banning smoking would not stop people from buying cigarettes
	Denis Cashman
	BMJ  1996;313:1210 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Former miners take British Coal to court over chest diseases
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:1163 [Extract] [Full text]

	GPs negotiate payment for nursing home patients
	Christina Bunce
	BMJ  1996;313:1163 [Extract] [Full text]

	In Brief
	BMJ  1996;313:1164 [Extract] [Full text]

	Citizens have their say on health care
	Hilary Bower
	BMJ  1996;313:1164 [Extract] [Full text]

	Public can check doctors' background under new US law
	Terri Rutter
	BMJ  1996;313:1165 [Extract] [Full text]

	Health workers strike in Zimbabwe
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1996;313:1165 [Extract] [Full text]

	Campaign calls for action on fluoridation
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:1166 [Extract] [Full text]

	Total purchasing schemes face budget problems
	Jo Waters
	BMJ  1996;313:1166 [Extract] [Full text]

	Unwanted children at increased risk of schizophrenia
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1996;313:1167 [Extract] [Full text]

	Switching off ovaries benefits women with breast cancer
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;313:1167 [Extract] [Full text]

	Israel investigates organ sales
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1996;313:1167 [Extract] [Full text]

	Women get greater pain relief than men
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1996;313:1168 [Extract] [Full text]

	MPs would ban all that harms--except boxing
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:1168 [Extract] [Full text]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Diagnosis of urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in women based on mailed samples obtained at home: multipractice comparative study
	Lars Ostergaard, Jens K Moller, Berit Andersen, Frede Olesen
	BMJ  1996;313:1186-1189 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Catchment areas in general practice and their relation to size and quality of practice and deprivation: a descriptive study in one London borough
	Clare Jenkins, John Campbell
	BMJ  1996;313:1189-1192 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Genital Chlamydia trachomatis infections in primary care
	Jonathan D C Ross, Sheena Sutherland, John Coia
	BMJ  1996;313:1192-1193 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Postal survey of management of cervical Chlamydia trachomatis infection in English and Welsh general practices
	Diana Mason, Sally Kerry, Pippa Oakeshott
	BMJ  1996;313:1193-1194 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Third age docs
	Tony Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:1212 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pestering the elderly
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1996;313:1212 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Problems of site specific cancer specialisation
	Irving Taylor
	BMJ  1996;313:1213 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	The Male Menopause: Restoring Vitality and Virility
	Marc E Weksler
	BMJ  1996;313:1214 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia
	R E Ferner
	BMJ  1996;313:1214 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Understanding Drug Treatment in Mental Health Care
	Tony Kendrick
	BMJ  1996;313:1215 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	An Outline of Scientific Writing
	John Kirkman
	BMJ  1996;313:1215 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	A purchaser experience of managing new expensive drugs: interferon beta
	E Rous, A Coppel, J Haworth, S Noyce
	BMJ  1996;313:1195-1196 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Environment--a new key area for Health of the Nation?
	Alison Walker
	BMJ  1996;313:1197-1199 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Statistics Notes: Detecting skewness from summary information
	Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  1996;313:1200 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the Week: Importance of accurate assessment of fetomaternal haemorrhage after late abortions
	Imelda Bromilow, J K M Duguid, S Walkinshaw
	BMJ  1996;313:1200-1201 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:1216 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	WHEN I USE A WORD..
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1996;313:1201 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Making the shortlist
	Naomi Craft, Scruffy CVs rejected, Patricia Scriven
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The Disability Discrimination Act becomes law on 2 December. Although ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The National Association of Non-Principals has moved closer to inception: ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Precedents establish much of the law relating to unfair dismissal. ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

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

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Labour party says fundholding should evolve • NHS will not fund private nursing care • WMA acts on family violence • GPs accused of wrong diagnoses • Professions secure safeguards on comparative advertising • NHS Health Advisory Service will have new role
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:1211 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	New antiepileptic drugs: a systematic review of their efficacy and tolerability
	A G Marson, Z A Kadir, D W Chadwick
	BMJ  1996;313:1169-1174 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Intrauterine growth pattern and risk of childhood onset insulin dependent (type I) diabetes: population based case-control study
	Gisela Dahlquist, Sara Sandberg Bennich, Bengt Kallen
	BMJ  1996;313:1174-1177 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Do socioeconomic differences in mortality persist after retirement? 25 Year follow up of civil servants from the first Whitehall study
	M G Marmot, Martin J Shipley
	BMJ  1996;313:1177-1180 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Xylitol chewing gum in prevention of acute otitis media: double blind randomised trial
	M Uhari, T Kontiokari, M Koskela, Marjo Niemela
	BMJ  1996;313:1180-1183 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: What about the ethics?
	Gerald B Winter
	BMJ  1996;313:1183-1184 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Long term use of lamotrigine and vigabatrin in severe refractory epilepsy: audit of outcome
	M C Walker, L M Li, J W A S Sander
	BMJ  1996;313:1184-1185 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Do authors know who refereed their paper? A questionnaire survey
	S Wessely, T Brugha, P Cowen, L Smith, E Paykel
	BMJ  1996;313:1185 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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