Income inequality and mortality: why are they related?
	George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:987-988 [Full text]

	Potential transmission of BSE via medicinal products
	E Anne Wickham
	BMJ  1996;312:988-989 [Full text]

	Shortage of organs for transplantation
	Celia Wight, Bernard Cohen
	BMJ  1996;312:989-990 [Full text]

	Landmines: time for an international ban
	John Pearn
	BMJ  1996;312:990-991 [Full text]

	The continuing rise in emergency admissions
	Simon Capewell
	BMJ  1996;312:991-992 [Full text]

News

	French doctors may strike against reforms
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;312:993 [Full text]

	Belgian doctors' freedom to be guaranteed
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;312:993 [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:994 [Full text]

	China tightens up traditional Chinese medicine courses
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1996;312:994 [Full text]

	Irish psychiatric workers criticised
	Alan Murdoch
	BMJ  1996;312:994-995 [Full text]

	Nets cut malaria deaths by a third
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:995 [Full text]

	Scottish court will rule on withdrawing treatment
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:995 [Full text]

	Pill scare linked to rise in abortions
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1996;312:996 [Full text]

	Male pill could soon be reality
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1996;312:996 [Full text]

	Poverty spreads among children in Britain
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1996;312:996-997 [Full text]

	France tackles psychotropic drug problem
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;312:997 [Full text]

	US could ban patents on medical procedures
	Charles Gene-McDaniel
	BMJ  1996;312:997 [Full text]

	Hospital computers fail to cut costs
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:997-998 [Full text]

	Britain will not legislate on public smoking
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:998 [Full text]

	Labour targets the chief medical officer
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:998 [Full text]

Papers

	Inequality in income and mortality in the United States: analysis of mortality and potential pathways
	George A Kaplan, Elsie R Pamuk, John W Lynch, Richard D Cohen, Jennifer L Balfour
	BMJ  1996;312:999-1003 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Income distribution and mortality: cross sectional ecological study of the Robin Hood index in the United States
	Bruce P Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi, Deborah Prothrow-Stith
	BMJ  1996;312:1004-1007 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Socioeconomic determinants of rates of consultation in general practice based on fourth national morbidity survey of general practices
	Roy A Carr-Hill, Nigel Rice, Martin Roland
	BMJ  1996;312:1008-1012 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Commentary: The basis of a more rational method of funding primary medical care?
	Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  1996;312:1012-1013 [Full text]

	Does the variation in the socioeconomic characteristics of an area affect mortality?
	Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Ian R White, Michael Marmot
	BMJ  1996;312:1013-1014 [Full text]

	Effect of inadvertent intradermal administration of high dose percutaneous BCG vaccine
	M M Miles, R J Shaw
	BMJ  1996;312:1014 [Full text]

	Functional disability and antibody response to influenza vaccine in elderly patients in a Dutch nursing home
	E J Remarque, H J M Cools, T J Boere, R J van der Klis, N Masurel, G J Ligthart
	BMJ  1996;312:1015 [Full text]

General practice

	Measuring outcomes in primary care: a patient generated measure, MYMOP, compared with the SF-36 health survey
	Charlotte Paterson
	BMJ  1996;312:1016-1020 [Abstract] [Full text]

Soundings

	We know why they die
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1996;312:1044 [Full text]

	Vertical integration
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1996;312:1044 [Full text]

Personal views

	Visions of anaesthesia hell
	Peter Hambly
	BMJ  1996;312:1045 [Full text]

Medicine and books

	Who Should We Treat? Law, Patients and Resources in the NHS
	Liam J Donaldson
	BMJ  1996;312:1046 [Full text]

	Prescribing in General Practice
	Colin P Bradley
	BMJ  1996;312:1046-1047 [Full text]

	Extending Primary Care: Polyclinics, Resource Centres, Hospitals-at-Home
	Chris Van Weel
	BMJ  1996;312:1047 [Full text]

	Selection
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1996;312:1047 [Full text]

Education and debate

	Recent Advances: Medical genetics
	John R W Yates
	BMJ  1996;312:1021-1025 [Abstract] [Full text]

	All together now: why social deprivation matters to everyone
	Graham C M Watt
	BMJ  1996;312:1026-1029 [Full text]

	Grand Rounds--Hammersmith Hospital: A physiology classic revisited after 60 years
	BMJ  1996;312:1029-1031 [Full text]

	ABC of Urology: UROLOGICAL MALIGNANCY--1: PROSTATE CANCER
	Chris Dawson, Hugh Whitfield
	BMJ  1996;312:1032-1034 [Full text]

Letters

	Adjuvant treatment with tamoxifen
	Michael Baum, Jack Cuzick
	BMJ  1996;312:1036 [Full text]

	Local research ethics committees should review their approval of prevention trial
	Catherine Read
	BMJ  1996;312:1036 [Full text]

	Recruitment into studies assessing optimum duration of treatment must continue
	Helena Earl, Pat Baker, David Kerr, Martin Lee, Richard Gray, Michael Baum
	BMJ  1996;312:1036-1037 [Full text]

	Multicentre trial should be welcomed
	A P Corder
	BMJ  1996;312:1037 [Full text]

	Clinicians must share knowledge with their patients more readily
	Heather Goodare
	BMJ  1996;312:1037 [Full text]

	Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy
	Michael Fitzpatrick
	BMJ  1996;312:1037 [Full text]

	Doctors and scientists must be able to communicate degree of risk
	John Harrison
	BMJ  1996;312:1037-1038 [Full text]

	...but members of the public make up their own minds about risks
	K D Gunasekera, A I Hapgood, E L Harvey, T R M Hayfron Benjamin, M S J Jachuck, A L N Jackson, N P A Kronfeld, M I Manikon, C J Mearns, N Mushtaq, Fiona Adshead
	BMJ  1996;312:1038 [Full text]

	Advisory committee's conclusion was based on "absence of any credible alternative"
	Anne Wickham
	BMJ  1996;312:1038 [Full text]

	Government policy has failed
	Martin Mckee, Jennifer A Roberts, Tim Lang
	BMJ  1996;312:1038 [Full text]

	Risk to human populations is remote
	Stuart Neilson
	BMJ  1996;312:1038-1039 [Full text]

	Plasma lactate and blood cyanide in acute cyanide poisoning
	T M Cook
	BMJ  1996;312:1039 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Frederic J Baud, Eric Bavoux, Stephen W Borron, Jerome Hoffman, Alain Astier
	BMJ  1996;312:1039 [Full text]

	Vocational training schemes in south London have been improved
	Richard Savage, John Hitchens, David Misslebrook
	BMJ  1996;312:1039-1040 [Full text]

	Florence Nightingale's fever
	Monica E Baly
	BMJ  1996;312:1040 [Full text]

	Men's health: don't blame the victims
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1996;312:1040 [Full text]

	Ethnic differences in outcome of serum screening for Down's syndrome
	Clare Ford, Alison Moore, William A Bartlett, Alan F Jones
	BMJ  1996;312:1040-1041 [Full text]

	For appreciable ethnic differences in false positive rates, use different cut off points
	P J Holloway, S Bulusu
	BMJ  1996;312:1041 [Full text]

	Median values and maternal weight specific to the ethnic group should be used
	Kevin Spencer
	BMJ  1996;312:1041 [Full text]

	When marginal costs and benefits should be used in screening
	Nicholas Wald, Hilary Watt
	BMJ  1996;312:1041-1042 [Full text]

	Supervised discharge is anachronistic
	T H Turner, E Akuffo, P Caviston, T Dinan, M Deahl, D Kohen, J Lucey, S Murphy, P Nayer, L Petterson, M Salter, R Seifert, N Boast
	BMJ  1996;312:1042 [Full text]

	Junior doctors' hours
	Christopher Wong
	BMJ  1996;312:1042 [Full text]

	Junior doctors need to have time for their lives outside medicine
	Margaret Cant
	BMJ  1996;312:1042 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:1048 [Full text]

Fillers

	TWO PATIENTS WHO DETERMINED MY CAREER
	John Raison
	BMJ  1996;312:1020 [Full text]

Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:992 [Full text]

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:1007 [Full text]

CHOICE

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

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	NHS is being dismantled, BMA chairman declares • Junior doctors call for new medical school • Changes made to consultant appointment procedures
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:1043 [Full text]

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