Advising women on which pill to take
	John Guillebaud
	BMJ  1995;311:1111-1112 [Full text]

	Third generation oral contraceptive pills
	Kenneth MacRae, Clifford Kay
	BMJ  1995;311:1112 [Full text]

	Endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis
	Craig D Irvine, Roger N Baird, Peter M Lamont, Alun H Davies
	BMJ  1995;311:1113-1114 [Full text]

	Hunger strikes
	George J Annas
	BMJ  1995;311:1114-1115 [Full text]

	Management of blood loss in Jehovah's Witnesses
	David Busuttil, Adrian Copplestone
	BMJ  1995;311:1115-1116 [Full text]

News

	Controversy rages over new contraceptive data
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1995;311:1117-1118 [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1995;311:1118 [Full text]

	Men can have free prescriptions at 60
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;311:1118 [Full text]

	US proposes radical reform of Medicare
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;311:1118-1119 [Full text]

	UK government will fund research into health variations
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;311:1119 [Full text]

	South African placentas sold to French drug firm
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1995;311:1119-1120 [Full text]

	Russia tries to reduce irradiation deaths
	Miranda Ingram
	BMJ  1995;311:1120 [Full text]

	Effect of air pollution on asthma is "small"
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1995;311:1120 [Full text]

Papers

	Community care for severely disabled people on low incomes
	V L Phillips
	BMJ  1995;311:1121-1123 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Increased risk of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus at low plasma vitamin E concentrations: a four year follow up study in men
	Jukka T Salonen, Kristiina Nyyssonen, Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, Pekka H Maenpaa, Heikki Korpela, George A Kaplan, John Lynch, Susan P Helmrich, Riitta Salonen
	BMJ  1995;311:1124-1127 [Abstract] [Full text]

	A randomised trial of three methods of giving information about prenatal testing
	J G Thornton, J Hewison, R J Lilford, A Vail
	BMJ  1995;311:1127-1130 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Sensitivity and specificity of photography and direct ophthalmoscopy in screening for sight threatening eye disease: the Liverpool diabetic eye study
	S P Harding, D M Broadbent, C Neoh, M C White, J Vora
	BMJ  1995;311:1131-1135 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Prison rites: starting to inject inside
	Sheila M Gore, A Graham Bird, Amanda J Ross
	BMJ  1995;311:1135-1136 [Full text]

General practice

	Patients' views of priority setting in health care: an interview survey in one practice
	Andrew Dicker, David Armstrong
	BMJ  1995;311:1137-1139 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Body fat distribution before pregnancy and gestational diabetes: findings from coronary artery risk development in young adults (CARDIA) study
	Shumin Zhang, Aaron R Folsom, John M Flack, Kiang Liu
	BMJ  1995;311:1139-1140 [Full text]

	Guidance on publishing in the BMJ
	BMJ  1995;311:1140 [Full text]

Soundings

	Audit my shorts
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1995;311:1171 [Full text]

	Doctors, one to nine
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1995;311:1171 [Full text]

Personal views

	Heads they win, tails we lose
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1995;311:1173 [Full text]

Medicine and books

	Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;311:1174 [Full text]

	Interprofessional Issues in Community and Primary Health Care
	Denis Pereira Gray
	BMJ  1995;311:1174-1175 [Full text]

	Development after Physical Abuse in Early Childhood
	Danya Glaser
	BMJ  1995;311:1175 [Full text]

	Selection
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1995;311:1175 [Full text]

Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Management of acoustic neuroma
	A Wright, R Bradford
	BMJ  1995;311:1141-1144 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Estimating sample sizes for binary, ordered categorical, and continuous outcomes in two group comparisons
	M J Campbell, S A Julious, D G Altman
	BMJ  1995;311:1145-1148 [Full text]

	ABC of Medical Computing: ADAPTIVE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
	C J M Poole, Andrew Millman
	BMJ  1995;311:1149-1151 [Full text]

	Counting the costs of children's smoking
	Jonathan Foulds, Christine Godfrey
	BMJ  1995;311:1152-1154 [Full text]

	Consulting the public about health service priorities
	Cameron Bowie, Ann Richardson, Wendy Sykes
	BMJ  1995;311:1155-1158 [Full text]

Letters

	Data from transnational study of oral contraceptives have been misused
	Walter O Spitzer
	BMJ  1995;311:1162 [Full text]

	Medical aspects of fitness to drive
	D E Morris
	BMJ  1995;311:1162 [Full text]

	Enabling patients to drive is also important
	Desmond O'Neill
	BMJ  1995;311:1162-1163 [Full text]

	Assessments should be independent
	Fiona Finlay, Rosemary Jones
	BMJ  1995;311:1163 [Full text]

	Rigid rules for hypomanic patients are unfair
	Eleanor Halloran
	BMJ  1995;311:1163 [Full text]

	DVLA senior medical adviser's reply
	Elizabeth Rowse
	BMJ  1995;311:1163 [Full text]

	Sexual behaviour of men
	T J McManus, A P M Coxon
	BMJ  1995;311:1163 [Full text]

	Survey shows unprotected sex is a common behaviour in bisexual men
	P Weatherburn, D Reid
	BMJ  1995;311:1163-1164 [Full text]

	Protecting children in cars from tobacco smoke
	Adrian Bauman, X C Chen, Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1995;311:1164 [Full text]

	Obtaining insurance should not depend on mechanism of diagnosis tests
	W T Hamilton, A P Round, G H Hall
	BMJ  1995;311:1164 [Full text]

	Effects of helicopter service on survival after trauma
	Peter Greengross
	BMJ  1995;311:1164-1165 [Full text]

	Design of study predisposed to type II error
	A D W Maclean, T J Coats, C J C Kirk, F W Cross
	BMJ  1995;311:1165 [Full text]

	Helicopters do not care for patients
	John N Wilden
	BMJ  1995;311:1165 [Full text]

	Miscalculation exaggerated benefits
	Garry J Wilkes
	BMJ  1995;311:1165 [Full text]

	Dramatic management of trauma may be counter productive
	John Bache
	BMJ  1995;311:1165-1166 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Jon Nicholl, Helen Snooks, John Brazier
	BMJ  1995;311:1166 [Full text]

	Mortality associated with wines, beers, and spirits
	V Burke, I B Puddey, L J Beilin
	BMJ  1995;311:1166 [Full text]

	Inappropriate groups were used to calculate relative risk
	Victoria Wilson, Dorothy Gregson, Edward Smyth
	BMJ  1995;311:1166 [Full text]

	Binge drinkers should have been identified separately
	Praveen P Jadhav, Guido A Rosito
	BMJ  1995;311:1166-1167 [Full text]

	Risk function had peculiar properties
	John Duffy, Geoff Cohen
	BMJ  1995;311:1167 [Full text]

	Study confounded by lack of correction for social class
	Steinar Westin
	BMJ  1995;311:1167 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Morten Gronbaek, Thorkild I A Sorensen
	BMJ  1995;311:1167 [Full text]

	Performance indicators for general practice
	Frances Mair
	BMJ  1995;311:1167-1168 [Full text]

	Inadequate smears are not always due to poor technique
	Andrea Tree, Paul Mansour
	BMJ  1995;311:1168 [Full text]

	Factors influencing participation in audit
	J R M Lough, J Mckay, T S Murray
	BMJ  1995;311:1168 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Richard Baker, Noelle Robertson, Azhar Farooqi
	BMJ  1995;311:1168 [Full text]

	Health authorities use panels to gather public opinion
	T Dowswell, R J Lilford, S Harrison, K Mcharg
	BMJ  1995;311:1168-1169 [Full text]

	Analgesic effects of sucrose were known to the prophet
	A Majid Katme
	BMJ  1995;311:1169 [Full text]

	BMJ should review its policy on reprints
	David Cummins, Richard M Osborn
	BMJ  1995;311:1169 [Full text]

	Concern about "lookback" exercise for hepatitis C
	Patricia Hewitt
	BMJ  1995;311:1169 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1995;311:1176 [Full text]

Fillers

	MYTHOLOGY AND MEDICINE
	M Malaguarnera, G Pistone, M Motta
	BMJ  1995;311:1136 [Full text]

	WAYS WITH WORDS
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1995;311:1154 [Full text]

Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1995;311:1120 [Full text]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	True lies
	Henry R Rollin
	BMJ  1995;311:1172 [Full text]

	Clots of trouble
	Naomi Craft
	BMJ  1995;311:1172-1173 [Full text]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Decision on out of hours package endorsed • GPs will plan the contract for the future • Health secretary spells out future for family doctors • Registrars may withdraw from summative assessments • Correction
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;311:1170 [Full text]

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