Avoiding premature coronary deaths in Asians in Britain
	Sandeep Gupta, Adam de Belder, Liam O Hughes
	BMJ  1995;311:1035-1036 [Full text]

	European general practice
	Michael Boland
	BMJ  1995;311:1036-1037 [Full text]

	Creating new criminals
	Tom McClintock
	BMJ  1995;311:1037-1038 [Full text]

	Mental health informatics and the rhythm of community care
	Gyles Glover
	BMJ  1995;311:1038-1039 [Full text]

	Functional dysphonia
	Janet A Wilson, Ian J Deary, Shonagh Scott, Kenneth MacKenzie
	BMJ  1995;311:1039-1040 [Full text]

News

	Infertility clinics show variation in success
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1995;311:1041 [Full text]

	US warns against early discharge of babies
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;311:1041-1042 [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1995;311:1042 [Full text]

	German medical schools face serious reforms
	Helmut L Karcher
	BMJ  1995;311:1042 [Full text]

	Challenge is thrown to Europe's GPs
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1995;311:1043 [Full text]

	Conservatives throw spotlight on primary care
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;311:1043-1044 [Full text]

	Nobel prize given for work on fruit flies
	Steve Connor
	BMJ  1995;311:1044 [Full text]

	Japan proposes settlement for tainted blood
	Robert Guest
	BMJ  1995;311:1044-1045 [Full text]

	BUPA moves into general practice
	Sharon Kingman
	BMJ  1995;311:1045 [Full text]

	Australia launches third AIDS strategy
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1995;311:1045-1046 [Full text]

	Brazil takes steps to control tobacco
	Martin Raw, Ronaldo Laranjeira
	BMJ  1995;311:1046 [Full text]

	Rationality cut off in mobile phone row
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1995;311:1046 [Full text]

Papers

	Anticonvulsant drugs for management of pain: a systematic review
	Henry McQuay, Dawn Carroll, Alejandro R Jadad, Philip Wiffen, Andrew Moore
	BMJ  1995;311:1047-1052 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Home environment and severe asthma in adolescence: a population based case-control study
	David P Strachan, Iain M Carey
	BMJ  1995;311:1053-1056 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Evidence based purchasing: understanding results of clinical trials and systematic reviews
	T Fahey, S Griffiths, T J Peters
	BMJ  1995;311:1056-1059 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Commentary: The message is in the medium
	Ruairidh Milne, David Sackett
	BMJ  1995;311:1059-1060 [Full text]

	Attitudes of consultant physicians to the Calman proposals: a questionnaire survey
	Hugh M Mather, Robert S Elkeles
	BMJ  1995;311:1060-1062 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Randomised controlled trial assessing effectiveness of health education leaflets in reducing incidence of sunburn
	Paola Dey, Stuart Collins, Sheila Will, Ciaran B J Woodman
	BMJ  1995;311:1062-1063 [Full text]

	Prevalence of urinary and faecal incontinence in hospitals and residential and nursing homes for older people
	S M Peet, C M Castleden, C W McGrother
	BMJ  1995;311:1063-1064 [Full text]

	Contamination with blood during management of epistaxis
	A Simon Carney, Jennifer Weir, David L Baldwin
	BMJ  1995;311:1064 [Full text]

General practice

	Using information from asthma patients: a trial of information feedback in primary care
	Patrick White, Annie Atherton, Graham Hewett, Kate Howells
	BMJ  1995;311:1065-1069 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Moving house: a risk factor for the development of childhood asthma?
	C H Hughes, J H Baumer
	BMJ  1995;311:1069-1070 [Full text]

Soundings

	Long hot summer
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1995;311:1097 [Full text]

	Unfair to men
	Tony Smith
	BMJ  1995;311:1097 [Full text]

Personal views

	Grime and punishment
	Bob Britchford
	BMJ  1995;311:1098 [Full text]

	There is now a place to grieve
	Helene Armstrong
	BMJ  1995;311:1098-1099 [Full text]

Education and debate

	The myth of maternal transmission of spongiform encephalopathy
	R M Ridley, H F Baker
	BMJ  1995;311:1071-1075 [Full text]

	Commentary: Scrapie revisited
	R G Will
	BMJ  1995;311:1075-1076 [Full text]

	Setting priorities for research and development in the NHS: a case study on the interface between primary and secondary care
	Roger Jones, Tara Lamont, Andrew Haines
	BMJ  1995;311:1076-1080 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Commissioning a national programme of research and development on the interface between primary and secondary care
	Janet Wisely, Andrew Haines
	BMJ  1995;311:1080-1082 [Full text]

	Lesson of the Week: The risks of delay in diagnosis of breathlessness in pregnancy
	C A Morley, B A Lim
	BMJ  1995;311:1083-1084 [Full text]

Letters

	Female genital mutilation
	Godwin I Meniru, Maryann O Meniru, Uchechukwu O Ezeh
	BMJ  1995;311:1088 [Full text]

	Cultural knowledge is the key to understanding
	Elspeth Webb
	BMJ  1995;311:1088 [Full text]

	Professionals should not collude with abusive systems
	Janet Menage
	BMJ  1995;311:1088-1089 [Full text]

	Dangers of cocaine and adrenaline paste
	Martin Burton, Richard Marks
	BMJ  1995;311:1089 [Full text]

	Accurate measurement of dose and patience are important
	Peter Williamson, Robert Slack
	BMJ  1995;311:1089 [Full text]

	Combination is still widely used
	R W R Farrell
	BMJ  1995;311:1089 [Full text]

	Other aspects of anaesthetic technique may have added to danger
	P D M Ellis, B R Wilkey
	BMJ  1995;311:1089-1090 [Full text]

	Inserting central venous catheters
	Duncan Young, Michael Kettlewell, Helen Hamilton
	BMJ  1995;311:1090 [Full text]

	Open technique has lower evidence of complications
	D M Richards, J Hill, N A Scott, J Bancewicz, Miles Irving
	BMJ  1995;311:1090 [Full text]

	Difficulties are rare and do not correlate with lifespan of catheter
	Jacqueline Filshie, Philippa Wood, Ruth Griffin, Claire Nightingale, G P R Browne, D G Skewes
	BMJ  1995;311:1090-1091 [Full text]

	Line should not enter the heart
	Malcolm Hilton, Geoffrey Pye, Andrew Walker
	BMJ  1995;311:1091 [Full text]

	Operating theatre is better back up than venography
	Tim Davidson
	BMJ  1995;311:1091 [Full text]

	Surgical cutdown technique should not be abandoned
	W G A Woods, R J Ham
	BMJ  1995;311:1091 [Full text]

	Author's reply
	A Adam
	BMJ  1995;311:1091 [Full text]

	Treatment of gall stones
	A G Lim, R P Jazrawi
	BMJ  1995;311:1091-1092 [Full text]

	Rate of surgery for gall stones is increasing
	Chi-Ming Lam, Alfred Cuschieri, Frank E Murray
	BMJ  1995;311:1092 [Full text]

	Qualitative thesis explored social dislocation and health
	Ernst Philipp
	BMJ  1995;311:1092 [Full text]

	Illness behaviour in the chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple sclerosis
	Peter D Campion, Christopher F Dowrick, Richard H T Edwards
	BMJ  1995;311:1092-1093 [Full text]

	Disentangling common characteristics is not so easy
	Charles Shepherd
	BMJ  1995;311:1093 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Peter Trigwell, Simon Hatcher, Michael Johnson, Philip Stanley, Allan House
	BMJ  1995;311:1093 [Full text]

	Medical firms should be retained
	Michael Eliastam
	BMJ  1995;311:1093 [Full text]

	Junior doctors' hours
	Christopher Wong
	BMJ  1995;311:1093 [Full text]

	Long hours are needed
	Simon West, Timothy P Stephenson
	BMJ  1995;311:1093-1094 [Full text]

	Committee lacks "shop floor" support
	Chris Davies
	BMJ  1995;311:1094 [Full text]

	Wong was right
	Andrew McCombe
	BMJ  1995;311:1094 [Full text]

	Wong should join Junior Doctors' Committee
	S J Krikler
	BMJ  1995;311:1094 [Full text]

	Terms and conditions of service for new specialist registrar grade are not yet established
	Peter Bennie
	BMJ  1995;311:1094 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1995;311:1110 [Full text]

Fillers

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1995;311:1052 [Full text]

	Fit as a fiddle
	George Giri
	BMJ  1995;311:1070 [Full text]

	WAYS WITH WORDS
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1995;311:1084 [Full text]

Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1995;311:1094 [Full text]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	The key to nursing
	Sarah Burns
	BMJ  1995;311:1099 [Full text]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Doctors vote to suspend cooperation in NHS Wide Network • "Core values" initiative is welcomed • Doctors criticise compulsory privatisation in health care • Maintaining Medical Excellence: doctors' performance • BMA will separate science and education • Concentration of services threaten smaller hospitals • GPs reach agreement on deprivation payments • Regularising immigration arrangements • In vitro diagnostic devices may be controlled
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;311:1095 [Full text]

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