Early origin of coronary heart disease (the "Barker hypothesis")
	Nigel Paneth, Mervyn Susser
	BMJ  1995;310:411-412 [Full text]

	Clinical audit in primary health care: towards quality assurance
	Richard Baker
	BMJ  1995;310:413 [Full text]

	Injuries to child pedestrians
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1995;310:413-414 [Full text]

	Hepatitis E
	Susan J Skidmore
	BMJ  1995;310:414-415 [Full text]

	Profiting from the NHS
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  1995;310:415-416 [Full text]

News

	Countries struggle with hepatitis C contamination
	Christopher Zinn, Owen Dyer, Alexander Dorozynski, Helmut Karcher, John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;310:417-418 [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1995;310:418 [Full text]

	Orthopaedic consultants warn of future shortages
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1995;310:419 [Full text]

	Review body calls for "measured" move to local pay
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:419-420 [Full text]

	Report highlights wide variations in intensive care
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1995;310:420 [Full text]

	Euthanasia bill divides Australian doctors and MPs
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1995;310:420-421 [Full text]

	Doctors plead for funds for Hungary's alcohol problem
	Carl Kovac
	BMJ  1995;310:421 [Full text]

	Minister reported for breaching privacy of patient
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1995;310:421-422 [Full text]

	pounds sterling15 million proposed for out of hours deal for GPs
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;310:422 [Full text]

	Medical profession at last speaks out over abortion
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;310:422 [Full text]

Papers

	Mortality from cardiovascular disease among interregional migrants in England and Wales
	D P Strachan, D A Leon, B Dodgeon
	BMJ  1995;310:423-427 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Fetal and infant growth and cardiovascular risk factors in women
	C H D Fall, C Osmond, D J P Barker, P M S Clark, C N Hales, Y Stirling, T W Meade
	BMJ  1995;310:428-432 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Mortality among twins after age 6: fetal origins hypothesis versus twin method
	Kaare Christensen, James W Vaupel, Niels V Holm, Anatoli I Yashin
	BMJ  1995;310:432-436 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Predictors of ratio of placental weight to fetal weight in multiethnic community
	Ivan J Perry, D G Beevers, P H Whincup, D Bareford
	BMJ  1995;310:436-439 [Abstract] [Full text]

	The NHS and Community Care Act 1990: is it a success for elderly people?
	Victoria Ajayi, Frank G Miskelly, Ivan G Walton
	BMJ  1995;310:439 [Full text]

	Unreliability of reports of hypoglycaemia by diabetic patients
	Simon Heller, Joel Chapman, Jonathan McCloud, John Ward
	BMJ  1995;310:440 [Full text]

General practice

	Randomised controlled trial comparing problem solving treatment with amitriptyline and placebo for major depression in primary care
	L M Mynors-Wallis, D H Gath, A R Lloyd-Thomas, D Tomlinson
	BMJ  1995;310:441-445 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Statistics notes: Calculating correlation coefficients with repeated observations: Part 1--correlation within subjects
	J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1995;310:446 [Full text] [PDF]

Soundings

	PatientWise
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1995;310:472 [Full text]

	A shameful trade
	Tony Smith
	BMJ  1995;310:472 [Full text]

Personal views

	Delirium: everyone's psychosis
	Malcolm Bowker
	BMJ  1995;310:473 [Full text]

Medicine and books

	Implementation of the Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000: Second Evaluation; Health and Social Change in International Perspective
	Richard G Wilkinson
	BMJ  1995;310:474 [Full text]

	Priority Setting Processes for Healthcare
	Allyson M Pollock
	BMJ  1995;310:474-475 [Full text]

	Controversies in Health Care Policies: Challenges to Practice
	Elaine Murphy
	BMJ  1995;310:475 [Full text]

	Selection
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1995;310:475 [Full text]

Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Parkinsonism--recognition and differential diagnosis
	Niall Quinn
	BMJ  1995;310:447-452 [Abstract] [Full text]

	The number needed to treat: a clinically useful measure of treatment effect
	Richard J Cook, David L Sackett
	BMJ  1995;310:452-454 [Full text]

	Events per person year--a dubious concept
	Jurgen Windeler, Stefan Lange
	BMJ  1995;310:454-456 [Full text]

	ABC of Rheumatology: OSTEOARTHRITIS
	Adrian Jones, Michael Doherty
	BMJ  1995;310:457-460 [Full text]

Letters

	Methadone maintenance treatment
	John Caplehorn
	BMJ  1995;310:463 [Full text]

	Methadone treatment can reduce mortality
	Wolfgang Poser, John Koc, Hannelore Ehrenreich
	BMJ  1995;310:463 [Full text]

	Treatment should be tailored for each patient
	Kim Wolff, Alastair Hay, Duncan Raistrick
	BMJ  1995;310:463-464 [Full text]

	Pregnant women taking methadone should be warned about withdrawal symptoms in babies
	Steve Kempley
	BMJ  1995;310:464 [Full text]

	Patients on methadone often continue with injected heroin
	Frederick H Meyers
	BMJ  1995;310:464 [Full text]

	We don't know whether heroin or methadone produces more withdrawal symptoms in babies
	N J Shaw
	BMJ  1995;310:464 [Full text]

	Glasgow has an innovative scheme for encouraging GPs to manage drug misusers
	Robert T A Scott, Lawrence D Gruer, Philip Wilson, S Hinshel Wood
	BMJ  1995;310:464-465 [Full text]

	Auditing incidents of exposure to blood
	Anne Cockcroft, Jane Zuckerman, Yvonne Odegbami
	BMJ  1995;310:465 [Full text]

	Treatment of myocardial infarction and angina
	John Rawles
	BMJ  1995;310:465 [Full text]

	Advice on reducing cholesterol should be included
	T Reynolds, A Wierzbicki
	BMJ  1995;310:466 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	John McMurray, Andrew Rankin
	BMJ  1995;310:466 [Full text]

	Management of ventricular fibrillation by cardiac arrest teams
	T M Cook, J Handel
	BMJ  1995;310:466 [Full text]

	Risk of coronary heart disease in Asian women
	Naveed A Sattar, Allan Gaw
	BMJ  1995;310:466-467 [Full text]

	Temperature and cardiovascular mortality
	Owen L Lloyd
	BMJ  1995;310:467 [Full text]

	Diagnosing pulmonary embolism
	J Richard Harding
	BMJ  1995;310:467 [Full text]

	Interpretation of electrocardiograms
	Peter Mills
	BMJ  1995;310:467-468 [Full text]

	Formal teaching can reduce serious errors in interpretation
	P A Woodmansey, T White, K S Channer
	BMJ  1995;310:468 [Full text]

	Continuous ambulatory electrocardiography in elderly people
	Mayer Bassan
	BMJ  1995;310:468 [Full text]

	Weight in infancy and coronary heart disease in adult life
	D P Davies
	BMJ  1995;310:468 [Full text]

	Simple aspiration for spontaneous pneumothorax
	Ian W B Grant
	BMJ  1995;310:468-469 [Full text]

	Author's reply
	John Harvey, Robin Prescott
	BMJ  1995;310:469 [Full text]

	Reform of GMSC not needed
	J David Watts
	BMJ  1995;310:469 [Full text]

	Doctors and management
	Brendan Harrington
	BMJ  1995;310:469 [Full text]

	Failure of consultant expansion
	Jonathan Howell, Sam Ramaiah
	BMJ  1995;310:469-470 [Full text]

	Expansion depends on rigorous control of numbers in training and non-consultant career grades
	Andrew G Hobart
	BMJ  1995;310:470 [Full text]

	"Subconsultant" posts are increasing dramatically
	P E Robin
	BMJ  1995;310:470 [Full text]

	Mortality and alcohol consumption
	Richard Doll, Richard Peto
	BMJ  1995;310:470 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1995;310:476 [Full text]

Fillers

	KEYWORDS
	C N Martyn
	BMJ  1995;310:427 [Full text]

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1995;310:440 [Full text]

	A PAPER THAT CHANGED MY PRACTICE
	Donald Mowat
	BMJ  1995;310:445 [Full text]

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1995;310:456 [Full text]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Review body recommends 2.5% increase • General practitioners will decide where to visit patients • General Medical Council proposes increase in lay membership • Medical deans to manage registrar training • European Union undermines medical advisory committee • Royal college calls for changes to general practice training
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:471 [Full text]

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