Time to face up to research misconduct
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:789-790 [Full text]

	Bovine spongiform encephalopahy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
	Paul Brown
	BMJ  1996;312:790-791 [Full text]

	Bovine Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
	Sheila M Gore
	BMJ  1996;312:791-793 [Full text]

	Cognitive function and low blood pressure in elderly people
	J M S Pearce
	BMJ  1996;312:793-794 [Full text]

	Making decisions with children
	George Rylance
	BMJ  1996;312:794 [Full text]

News

	BSE linked to new variant of CJD in humans
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1996;312:795 [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:796 [Full text]

	WHO steps up fight against TB
	Pritpal S Tamber
	BMJ  1996;312:796 [Full text]

	AIDS now more chronic than fatal
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:796-797 [Full text]

	Gulf war veterans show nerve damage
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:797 [Full text]

	Baby's doctors to ask for right to die
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:797 [Full text]

	Scottish judges say court can decide in PVS cases
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:797-798 [Full text]

	Census shows that employment is healthier
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:798 [Full text]

	GP struck off for fraud in drug trials
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:798 [Full text]

	NHS urged to rethink children's rights
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:798-799 [Full text]

	Russian life expectancy rises
	Miranda Ingram
	BMJ  1996;312:799 [Full text]

	Campaign aims to make the English more active
	Daphne Gloag
	BMJ  1996;312:799 [Full text]

	Locum's errors prompt review
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:799-800 [Full text]

	US graduates opt for primary care
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:800 [Full text]

	Another task for harrassed doctors
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:800 [Full text]

Papers

	Is the cognitive function of older patients affected by antihypertensive treatment? Results from 54 months of the Medical Research Council's treatment trial of hypertension in older adults
	Martin J Prince, Anne S Bird, Robert A Blizard, Anthony H Mann
	BMJ  1996;312:801-805 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Low blood pressure and dementia in elderly people: the Kungsholmen project
	Zhenchao Guo, Matti Viitanen, Laura Fratiglioni, Bengt Winblad
	BMJ  1996;312:805-808 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Mammography screening: an incremental cost effectiveness analysis of double versus single reading of mammograms
	Jackie Brown, Stirling Bryan, Ruth Warren
	BMJ  1996;312:809-812 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Psychological support for patients undergoing breast cancer surgery: a randomised study
	June M C McArdle, W David George, Colin S McArdle, David C Smith, Alastair R Moodie, A V Mark Hughson, Gordon D Murray
	BMJ  1996;312:813-816 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Interchangeability of conjugated Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccines during primary immunisation of infants
	David Goldblatt, Christopher K Fairley, Keith Cartwright, Elizabeth Miller
	BMJ  1996;312:817-818, doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7034.817 [Full text]

	Commentary: ethics of clinical research without patients' consent
	Claire Foster
	BMJ  1996;312:818, doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7034.818 [Full text]

General practice

	Evidence based general practice: a retrospective study of interventions in one training practice
	P Gill, A C Dowell, R D Neal, N Smith, P Heywood, A E Wilson
	BMJ  1996;312:819-821 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Survey of general practitioners' views of consultants' non-urgent referral of outpatients to other consultants
	S Bridger, S R Cairns
	BMJ  1996;312:821-822 [Full text]

Soundings

	Complaints made easy
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1996;312:853 [Full text]

	Life must go on
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1996;312:853 [Full text]

Personal views

	The legal system is an ass
	BMJ  1996;312:855 [Full text]

Medicine and books

	Current Diagnosis and Treatment
	Stephen P Kane
	BMJ  1996;312:856 [Full text]

	Exotic Viral Infections (Kass Handbook of Infectious Diseases)
	David Mabey
	BMJ  1996;312:856 [Full text]

	Research and Development for the NHS: Evidence, Evaluation, and Effectiveness
	Martin McKee
	BMJ  1996;312:857 [Full text]

	Successful Scientific Writing: A Step-By-Step Guide for the Biological and Medical Sciences
	Tim Albert
	BMJ  1996;312:857 [Full text]

Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Morphine in cancer pain: modes of administration
	BMJ  1996;312:823-826 [Full text]

	North of England evidence based guidelines development project: summary version of evidence based guideline for the primary care management of stable angina
	North of England Stable Angina Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  1996;312:827-832 [Full text]

	Are tobacco subsidies a misuse of public funds?
	Luk Joossens, Martin Raw
	BMJ  1996;312:832-835 [Full text]

	Over the Counter Drugs: The future for self medication
	Colin Bradley, Alison Blenkinsopp
	BMJ  1996;312:835-837 [Full text]

	ABC of Urology: UROLOGICAL EMERGENCIES IN GENERAL PRACTICE
	Chris Dawson, Hugh Whitfield
	BMJ  1996;312:838-840 [Full text]

Letters

	Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy
	H F Baker, R M Ridley
	BMJ  1996;312:843 [Full text]

	Cohort study of cows is in progress
	J W Wilesmith
	BMJ  1996;312:843 [Full text]

	Incidence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy is higher in cows born after feed ban
	M Bennett
	BMJ  1996;312:843-844 [Full text]

	Magnetic resonance imaging is not a sensitive test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
	Martin Zeidler, R G Will, J W Ironside, R Sellar, J Wardlaw
	BMJ  1996;312:844 [Full text]

	GPs decide not to countersign applications for gun licences
	Geraldine Badger, Neil Crichton, Andrew Negus, Colin Judge, Romilly Rees
	BMJ  1996;312:844 [Full text]

	Acute sports injuries
	Jon Nicholl, Patricia Coleman
	BMJ  1996;312:844 [Full text]

	Data on leisure accidents and injuries should be collated centrally
	Sally O'Driscoll, Harry Campbell
	BMJ  1996;312:844-845 [Full text]

	Adverse life events and breast cancer
	Jennifer Barraclough
	BMJ  1996;312:845 [Full text]

	Association may be due to imbalance in ratio of adrenal androgens to glucocorticoid
	M J Reed, M W Ghilchik
	BMJ  1996;312:845 [Full text]

	Reservations about conservative surgery for early breast cancer
	E A Benson
	BMJ  1996;312:845-846 [Full text]

	Use of aspirin in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease is rising
	A J Carney, T A Carney
	BMJ  1996;312:846 [Full text]

	Misoprostol in patients taking non-steroidalanti-inflammatory drugs
	M J Shield, S V Morant
	BMJ  1996;312:846 [Full text]

	This reduction in risk is deemed worth while in other circumstances
	Paul Blenkiron
	BMJ  1996;312:846-847 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	R Madhok, N Maiden
	BMJ  1996;312:847 [Full text]

	Patients' understanding of consent form should be checked before participation in trial
	Tina Melby, John E Mendelson, Reese T Jones
	BMJ  1996;312:847 [Full text]

	AIDS associated with blood transfusion and haemophilia in Europe
	Francoise Hamers
	BMJ  1996;312:847-848 [Full text]

	Effects of fundholding on prescribing habits
	R Wilson, T Walley
	BMJ  1996;312:848 [Full text]

	Generic prescriptions are defined differently for dispensing practices
	Ted Willis
	BMJ  1996;312:848 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Sarah Stewart-Brown, Rebecca Surender, Helen Doll, Jean Bradlow, Angela Coulter
	BMJ  1996;312:848 [Full text]

	Prescribing by general practitioner fundholders
	Ian Trimble, Doug Black
	BMJ  1996;312:848-849 [Full text]

	Other factors probably explain differences in prescribing
	Elizabeth Robinson
	BMJ  1996;312:849 [Full text]

	Direct access magnetic resonance imaging of the knee for GPs
	Jeremy Southgate, Neil Thomas
	BMJ  1996;312:849 [Full text]

	Patients should be seen by an experienced orthopaedic surgeon
	Roderick Mackenzie, Dennis Edwards, Adrian K Dixon
	BMJ  1996;312:849-850 [Full text]

	Paper highlights shortage of orthopaedic skill
	John Ireland
	BMJ  1996;312:850 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	David C F Lloyd, Sanjiv Chawda, Roland Watura
	BMJ  1996;312:850 [Full text]

	Cochlear implantation is controversial among deaf people
	Rupert Gauntlett
	BMJ  1996;312:850 [Full text]

	BMA division disagrees with association's stance over advance directives
	I M C D Jessiman
	BMJ  1996;312:850-851 [Full text]

	Doctors and medical politics
	Graham Cooper, James Roxburgh
	BMJ  1996;312:851 [Full text]

	BMA is meeting change with outraged reaction rather than adaptation
	Carl Cray
	BMJ  1996;312:851 [Full text]

	Long term care can be provided by NHS at low cost
	John Bickford
	BMJ  1996;312:851 [Full text]

	Policies for humanitarian service should be less ageist
	D E Rowlands
	BMJ  1996;312:851 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:858 [Full text]

Fillers

	PAST PRESCRIBING
	BMJ  1996;312:837 [Full text]

Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:822 [Full text]

CHOICE

	Editor's choice
	BMJ  1996;312 [Full text]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Meltdown: the media and mad cows
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1996;312:854-855 [Full text]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GPs' leader to meet review body on out of hours • GPs' committee will be elected by wider franchise • Health secretary agrees to revise deputising circular • New group will look at public health manpower • Consultation document launched on data protection
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:852 [Full text]

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