Monitoring oral anticoagulation in primary care
	D A Fitzmaurice, F D R Hobbs, J A Murray
	BMJ  1996;312:1431-1432 [Full text]

	Financial meltdown for the NHS?
	Jennifer Dixon, Sean Boyle, Anthony Harrison
	BMJ  1996;312:1432-1433 [Full text]

	Caesarean section or vaginal birth for breech presentation at term
	M Hannah, W Hannah
	BMJ  1996;312:1433-1434 [Full text]

	Jack Kevorkian: a medical hero
	John Roberts, Carl Kjellstrand
	BMJ  1996;312:1434 [Full text]

	Heroin overdose: the case for take-home naloxone
	John Strang, Shane Darke, Wayne Hall, Michael Farrell, Robert Ali
	BMJ  1996;312:1435-1436 [Full text]

	Veterinary and industrial high pressure injection injuries
	Frank Burke, Owen Brady
	BMJ  1996;312:1436 [Full text]

News

	Australian doctors renew battle over euthanasia
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1996;312:1437 [Full text]

	HIV in plasma is best predictor of progression to AIDS
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:1437-1438 [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:1438 [Full text]

	No cause for alarm over baby milk, says EU
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:1438, doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7044.1438/a [Full text]

	MDU exposes drug errors
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1996;312:1439 [Full text]

	Paediatric intensive care expands with 37 new beds
	S J Louise Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:1439 [Full text]

	NHS Handbook criticises evidence based medicine
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:1439-1440 [Full text]

	Netherlands proposes tougher antismoking laws
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;312:1440 [Full text]

	Britain is failing to meet targets on reducing obesity
	S J Louise Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:1440 [Full text]

	Herbal stimulant causes US deaths
	Deb Josefson
	BMJ  1996;312:1441 [Full text]

	New York seeks to make chiropractic more available
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1996;312:1441 [Full text]

	NHS trusts criticised for staff strategies
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:1441 [Full text]

	Australian doctors' push for gun controls
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1996;312:1442 [Full text]

	Organ thieving is urban myth
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;312:1442 [Full text]

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:1442 [Full text]

	Europe's aging population
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1996;312:1442 [Full text]

Papers

	Cost effectiveness of lowering cholesterol concentration with statins in patients with and without pre-existing coronary heart disease: life table method applied to health authority population
	P D P Pharoah, W Hollingworth
	BMJ  1996;312:1443-1448 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Relation of indoor heating with asthma, allergic sensitisation, and bronchial responsiveness: survey of children in South Bavaria
	Erika von Mutius, Sabina Illi, Thomas Nicolai, Fernando D Martinez
	BMJ  1996;312:1448-1450 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Long term outcome by method of delivery of fetuses in breech presentation at term: population based follow up
	P J Danielian, J Wang, M H Hall
	BMJ  1996;312:1451-1453 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Prevalence of antibiotic resistance and serotypes in pneumococci in England and Wales: results of observational surveys in 1990 and 1995
	Alan P Johnson, David C E Speller, Robert C George, Marina Warner, Gil Domingue, Androulla Efstratiou
	BMJ  1996;312:1454-1456 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Seasonality of birth of patients with childhood diabetes in Britain
	P M Rothwell, A Staines, P Smail, E Wadsworth, P McKinney
	BMJ  1996;312:1456-1457 [Full text]

	Rate of bone loss from lumbar spine in women with distal forearm fracture
	N F A Peel, A G Smith, R A Hannon, R Eastell, Eastell
	BMJ  1996;312:1457 [Full text]

	Health of cohort of heroin addicts from London clinics: 22 year follow up
	Clive Tobutt, Edna Oppenheimer, Ronaldo Laranjeira
	BMJ  1996;312:1458 [Full text]

General practice

	Treatment of urinary incontinence in women in general practice: observational study
	Arnfinn Seim, Bjorg Sivertsen, Bjarne C Eriksen, Steinar Hunskaar
	BMJ  1996;312:1459-1462 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Knowledge of emergency compulsory detention procedures among general practitioners in Edinburgh: sample survey
	Martin Humphreys, Ann Ryman
	BMJ  1996;312:1462-1463 [Full text]

	Survey of HIV patients' views on confidentiality and non-discrimination policies in general practice
	M Shaw, D Tomlinson, I Higginson
	BMJ  1996;312:1463-1464 [Full text]

Soundings

	Funny business
	Bernard Dixon
	BMJ  1996;312:1484 [Full text]

	Green couch
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1996;312:1484 [Full text]

Personal views

	Moving forward: to surgery by taxi, or a home visit?
	Stephen J Parkes
	BMJ  1996;312:1485 [Full text]

	Desert brainstorm
	BMJ  1996;312:1485-1486 [Full text]

	Pitching it low
	Richard Orme
	BMJ  1996;312:1486 [Full text]

Medicine and books

	The Infectious Diseases Manual
	David W Denning
	BMJ  1996;312:1488 [Full text]

	Improving the Health of the Nation: The Failure of the Government's Health Reforms
	Stephen Gillam
	BMJ  1996;312:1488 [Full text]

	Inquiries after Homicide
	A M P Kellam
	BMJ  1996;312:1489 [Full text]

	The Friendly Professional: Selected Writings of Thurstan Brewin
	Lesley Fallowfield
	BMJ  1996;312:1489 [Full text]

Education and debate

	Recent Advances: Clinical immunology
	Tom Eirik Mollnes, Morten Harboe
	BMJ  1996;312:1465-1469 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Lessons from international experience in controlling pharmaceutical expenditure. I: influencing patients
	Nick Freemantle, Karen Bloor
	BMJ  1996;312:1469-1471 [Full text]

	Lesson of the Week: Delayed diagnosis of Kawasaki disease presenting with massive lymphadenopathy and airway obstruction
	David Burgner, Marino Festa, David Isaacs
	BMJ  1996;312:1471-1472 [Full text]

	Statistics Notes: Comparing several groups using analysis of variance
	Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  1996;312:1472-1473 [Full text] [PDF]

Letters

	Government secrecy
	Nicholas Banatvala, Patti Rundall
	BMJ  1996;312:1475 [Full text]

	Safety of air travellers is not protected
	H Swire
	BMJ  1996;312:1475, doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7044.1475/a [Full text]

	Ombudsman is available when codes of practice fail
	William Reid
	BMJ  1996;312:1475 [Full text]

	Vaccines and Guillain-Barre syndrome
	Richard Hughes, Jeremy Rees, Nigel Smeeton, John Winer
	BMJ  1996;312:1475-1476 [Full text]

	Vaccines and Guillain-Barre syndrome
	Richard Hughes, Jeremy Rees, Nigel Smeeton, John Winer
	BMJ  1996;312:1475-1476 [Full text]

	Providing intensive care
	D F Bowden, D P Burke
	BMJ  1996;312:1476 [Full text]

	Service can't cope with troughs in demand, let alone peaks
	Roop Kishen
	BMJ  1996;312:1476 [Full text]

	Centralised paediatric intensive care beds are blocked
	Ian James
	BMJ  1996;312:1476 [Full text]

	Disodium pamidronate has beneficial effect in Paget's disease of bone
	Kuntal Chakravarty, Peter Merry, David G I Scott
	BMJ  1996;312:1476-1477 [Full text]

	Retention of drugs in venous access port chamber
	J M Fielden, T Cook, C J E Day
	BMJ  1996;312:1477 [Full text]

	Drug did not cause collapse of patient
	David C Crawford
	BMJ  1996;312:1477 [Full text]

	Port systems can safely be used for anaesthesia
	Mark Tidmarsh, Naresh Nandwani, John Wandless
	BMJ  1996;312:1477 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Myriam Ben-Arush, Moshe Berant
	BMJ  1996;312:1477 [Full text]

	British urologists provide a cost effective service
	G Michael Flannigan
	BMJ  1996;312:1478 [Full text]

	Using condoms to prevent transmission of HIV
	John Kelly
	BMJ  1996;312:1478, doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7044.1478/a [Full text]

	Abstinence and fidelity are only fully effective means of prevention
	A Grazioli
	BMJ  1996;312:1478 [Full text]

	Poor diet in pregnancy may be a proxy for some other hostile influence on fetal growth
	M Cosgrove, D P Davies
	BMJ  1996;312:1478-1479 [Full text]

	Raised adult blood pressure linked to failure to achieve growth potential in utero
	Catherine M Law, Caroline H D Fall, Christopher N Martyn, Clive Osmond
	BMJ  1996;312:1479 [Full text]

	Not gaining patients' consent in trials is deceitful
	Charlotte Williamson
	BMJ  1996;312:1479 [Full text]

	Flavonoid intake and coronary mortality
	Gema Fruhbeck
	BMJ  1996;312:1479 [Full text]

	Objective data trials are needed
	George Davey Smith, Yoav Ben-Shlomo
	BMJ  1996;312:1479-1480 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Paul Knekt, Antti Reunanen, Ritva Jarvinen, Jouni Maatela
	BMJ  1996;312:1480 [Full text]

	GPs' management of acute back pain
	Nicholas Summerton
	BMJ  1996;312:1480 [Full text]

	Referral letters are inadequate
	Peter Ward, John Carvell
	BMJ  1996;312:1481 [Full text]

	Research on which to base guidelines is possible in primary care
	Paul Elliston
	BMJ  1996;312:1481 [Full text]

	Routine feedback to GPs who request microbiological tests is effective
	Alasdair P Macgowan, Raymond Feeney, Ingrid Brown, Sue Mcculloch, David Reeves, Andrew Lovering
	BMJ  1996;312:1481 [Full text]

	Research priorities in complementary medicine
	E Ernst, N C Abbot
	BMJ  1996;312:1481-1482 [Full text]

	Jumping through hoops to buy equipment
	A Hughes
	BMJ  1996;312:1482 [Full text]

	British health insurers fail to learn lessons from the US
	Anthony Hopkins
	BMJ  1996;312:1482 [Full text]

	Orphanages in China require more funding
	Therese Hesketh
	BMJ  1996;312:1482 [Full text]

	Albanian orphans
	Anthony J Pelosi
	BMJ  1996;312:1482 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:1490 [Full text]

Fillers

	Payment by results
	Robt Norden Charles Savage, Mich Feild, Walter Gatland William Anscomb, George Mace
	BMJ  1996;312:1453 [Full text]

	THE COLLEAGUE WHO CHANGED MY LIFE
	Neville Conway
	BMJ  1996;312:1464 [Full text]

	A MEMORABLE PATIENT
	H Klonin, C Vickery
	BMJ  1996;312:1473 [Full text]

Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:1473 [Full text]

CHOICE

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

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Obsessional art
	Ronan McIvor
	BMJ  1996;312:1487 [Full text]

	Debating points
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1996;312:1487 [Full text]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Funding for AIDS treatment critisised • GP trends show more women, fewer registrars, and smaller lists • Doctors must have the right to whistleblowing • BMA seeks amendments to housing bill • First report on drug pricing
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:1483 [Full text]

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