The Health Authorities Bill
	John Gabbay
	BMJ  1995;310:1421-1422 [Full text]

	Psychological care of medical patients
	Allan House, Michael Farthing, Robert Peveler
	BMJ  1995;310:1422-1423 [Full text]

	Human tissue: ethical and legal issues
	Sheila McLean
	BMJ  1995;310:1423-1424 [Full text]

	Poor response to erythropoietin
	Iain C Macdougall
	BMJ  1995;310:1424-1425 [Full text]

	A policy framework for commissioning cancer services
	Michael Whitehouse
	BMJ  1995;310:1425-1426 [Full text]

	Management of first trimester spontaneous abortions
	Kevin Forbes
	BMJ  1995;310:1426 [Full text]

News

	GP elected as GMC president
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1995;310:1427 [Full text]

	Australia passes first euthanasia law
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1995;310:1427-1428 [Full text]

	Fall in tobacco consumption "could create jobs"
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1995;310:1428 [Full text]

	Renault's boss is investigated in blood scandal
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1995;310:1428-1429 [Full text]

	Psychosocial disorders rise among the young
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1995;310:1429 [Full text]

	Incontinence needs better services, says report
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1995;310:1429-1430 [Full text]

	BMA commends changes to merit award system
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:1430 [Full text]

	Double standards for doctors and MPs
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;310:1430 [Full text]

Papers

	Cigarette smoking and breast cancer
	Kim Bennicke, Carsten Conrad, Svend Sabroe, Henrik Toft Sorensen
	BMJ  1995;310:1431-1433 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Treatment discontinuation with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors compared with tricyclic antidepressants: a meta-analysis
	I M Anderson, B M Tomenson
	BMJ  1995;310:1433-1438 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Effect of homoeopathy on pain and other events after acute trauma: placebo controlled trial with bilateral oral surgery
	Per Lokken, Per Atle Straumsheim, Dag Tveiten, Per Skjelbred, Christian Fredrik Borchgrevink
	BMJ  1995;310:1439-1442 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Patients with major trauma who do not use emergency ambulances
	B P McNicholl, J Lee
	BMJ  1995;310:1442 [Full text]

General practice

	Practice based health needs assessment: use of four methods in a small neighbourhood
	Scott A Murray, Lesley J C Graham
	BMJ  1995;310:1443-1448 [Abstract] [Full text]

Soundings

	Telling the patient
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1995;310:1474 [Full text]

	Privileged men?
	Judith Hollis-Triantafillou
	BMJ  1995;310:1474 [Full text]

Personal views

	Out of control
	Richard Rigby
	BMJ  1995;310:1475 [Full text]

Medicine and books

	Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
	Gordon M Stirrat
	BMJ  1995;310:1476 [Full text]

	Ethics and Perinatology
	Ian Ainsworth-Smith
	BMJ  1995;310:1476-1477 [Full text]

	Feasible Socialism: The National Health Service Past, Present and Future
	George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1995;310:1477 [Full text]

	Selection
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1995;310:1477 [Full text]

Education and debate

	A Difficult Case: How should a patient presenting with unstable angina and a recent stroke be managed?
	BMJ  1995;310:1449 [Full text]

	A Difficult Case: Case report
	R J Davenport, I R Starkey, C V Ruckley, M S Dennis, P A G Sandercock, C P Warlow
	BMJ  1995;310:1449 [Full text]

	A Difficult Case: Perform left carotid endarterectomy without delay
	John M Porter
	BMJ  1995;310:1449-1450 [Full text]

	A Difficult Case: Patient needs carotid artery surgery
	Graham Jackson
	BMJ  1995;310:1450 [Full text]

	A Difficult Case: Treat the most unstable vascular distribution identified by carotid and cardiac angiography
	E Magnus Ohman
	BMJ  1995;310:1450-1451 [Full text]

	A Difficult Case: Perform carotid endarterectomy and coronary artery bypass surgery as a single procedure
	Philip Hornick, K M Taylor
	BMJ  1995;310:1451-1452 [Full text]

	A Difficult Case: Outcome
	BMJ  1995;310:1451-1452 [Full text]

	Preventing hospital acquired urinary and respiratory infection
	P J Sanderson
	BMJ  1995;310:1452-1453 [Full text]

	Healthy eating: clarifying advice about fruit and vegetables
	Carol Williams
	BMJ  1995;310:1453-1455 [Full text]

	An Ethical Debate: Should older women be offered in vitro fertilisation? The interests of the potential child
	Tony Hope, Gill Lockwood, Michael Lockwood
	BMJ  1995;310:1455-1456 [Full text]

	An Ethical Debate: Can older women cope with motherhood?
	Jennifer Jackson
	BMJ  1995;310:1456-1457 [Full text]

	An Ethical Debate: In vitro fertilisation is rarely successful in older women
	Susan Bewley
	BMJ  1995;310:1457 [Full text]

	An Ethical Debate: The role of ethics committees
	Ian Craft
	BMJ  1995;310:1457-1458 [Full text]

	ABC of Asthma: TREATMENT OF CHRONIC ASTHMA
	John Rees, John Price
	BMJ  1995;310:1459-1463 [Full text]

Letters

	Euthanasia debate
	Anne Rodway
	BMJ  1995;310:1466 [Full text]

	Euthanasia is still a criminal offence in the Netherlands
	Joseph O'Neill
	BMJ  1995;310:1466 [Full text]

	Doctors may be ignorant of treatments for intractable symptoms
	Richard Sloan
	BMJ  1995;310:1466 [Full text]

	Can society deny the right to die?
	Terence A Forster
	BMJ  1995;310:1466 [Full text]

	Death from motor neurone disease can be peaceful
	David Oliver
	BMJ  1995;310:1466-1467 [Full text]

	Euthanasia is an option which alleviates patients' fear
	Irvine Loudon
	BMJ  1995;310:1467 [Full text]

	The choice to live or die should remain to the end
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1995;310:1467 [Full text]

	Should doctors have a dual role, preserving life and assisting death?
	Thurstan Brewin
	BMJ  1995;310:1467 [Full text]

	Legalised suicide may increase openness in the doctor-patient relationship
	Gill Green
	BMJ  1995;310:1467 [Full text]

	Early origin of coronary heart disease
	David Howe, Timothy Wheeler
	BMJ  1995;310:1468 [Full text]

	The influence of parental somatic features on childhood weight has been extensively studied
	Patrick J Bradley
	BMJ  1995;310:1468 [Full text]

	Earlier published work supports the "Barker hypothesis"
	Inger Torhild Gram, Bjorn Straume, Maja-Lisa Lochen, Bjarne K Jacobsen, Egil Arnesen, Eiliv Lund
	BMJ  1995;310:1468 [Full text]

	A definition of sexual health
	Peter Greenhouse
	BMJ  1995;310:1468-1469 [Full text]

	Electronic diaries for asthma
	Brian Tiplady, G K Crompton, David Brackenridge
	BMJ  1995;310:1469 [Full text]

	Events per person year
	John A Kanis, Eugene V McCloskey
	BMJ  1995;310:1469 [Full text]

	Use individual event rate adjustment for follow up time
	Kalevi Laitinen
	BMJ  1995;310:1469-1470 [Full text]

	Can obscure the true risk of certain adverse drug reactions
	K R Paterson
	BMJ  1995;310:1470 [Full text]

	Treating heart disease
	John Rawles
	BMJ  1995;310:1470 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Anthony K Hall, D M Humphreys
	BMJ  1995;310:1470-1471 [Full text]

	Carotid endarterectomy
	Mark Lambert
	BMJ  1995;310:1471 [Full text]

	Influence of patient's age on GPs' definition of hypertension
	Tim Coleman
	BMJ  1995;310:1471 [Full text]

	General practitioners' age may influence management of hypertension
	Michael Whitfield, Anthony Hughes
	BMJ  1995;310:1471 [Full text]

	The World Health Organisation
	David Macfadyen
	BMJ  1995;310:1471-1472 [Full text]

	WHO stimulates a commitment to tackling inequalities in health
	Margaret Whitehead
	BMJ  1995;310:1472 [Full text]

	Appropriate prescribing in asthma
	Jeannette Naish, Chris Griffiths, Patricia Sturdy, Peter Toon
	BMJ  1995;310:1472 [Full text]

	Measuring cardiolipin antibodies
	A Milford Ward, P A E White
	BMJ  1995;310:1472-1473 [Full text]

	Herbal medicines should be in child resistant containers
	Anne-Marie Houlder
	BMJ  1995;310:1473 [Full text]

	Priority setting processes for health care
	Allyson Pollock
	BMJ  1995;310:1473 [Full text]

	Fees for postgraduate medical education lectures
	A E Mackinnon
	BMJ  1995;310:1473 [Full text]

	Training doctors
	Sian Caiach
	BMJ  1995;310:1473 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1995;310:1478 [Full text]

Fillers

	A PATIENT WHO TAUGHT ME SOMETHING
	John A Ewing
	BMJ  1995;310:1438 [Full text]

	PROBLEMS OF PRACTICE
	John N S Simpson
	BMJ  1995;310:1448 [Full text]

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1995;310:1463 [Full text]

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