Managed care and disease management in the NHS
	Martin Lawrence, Tim Williams
	BMJ  1996;313:125-126 [Full text]

	Physical activity and health
	Kenneth E Powell, Michael Pratt
	BMJ  1996;313:126-127 [Full text]

	A primary care market?
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  1996;313:127-128 [Full text]

	Vitamins in early pregnancy
	Dick Smithells
	BMJ  1996;313:128-129 [Full text]

	Postmenopausal cystitis
	Linda Cardozo
	BMJ  1996;313:129 [Full text]

	HIV pre-test discussion
	Riva Miller, Marc Lipman
	BMJ  1996;313:130 [Full text]

News

	Complementary medicine is booming worldwide
	BMJ  1996;313:131 [Full text]

	Britain
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1996;313:131 [Full text]

	France
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;313:132 [Full text]

	Norway
	Leiv Gunnar Lie
	BMJ  1996;313:132 [Full text]

	Japan
	Masaya Yamauchi
	BMJ  1996;313:132 [Full text]

	Australia
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1996;313:133 [Full text]

	United States
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1996;313:133 [Full text]

	Russia
	Miranda Ingram
	BMJ  1996;313:133 [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;313:134 [Full text]

	Back up drug found for severe malaria
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:134 [Full text]

	Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation saves lives
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;313:135 [Full text]

	New system will fail more GP registrars
	Jackie Cresswell
	BMJ  1996;313:135 [Full text]

	China is top of contraception league
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:135 [Full text]

	Efficiency savings here to stay
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:136 [Full text]

	BMA calls for cut in legal alcohol limits
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:136 [Full text]

	Ombudsman over the surgeon's shoulder
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:136 [Full text]

Papers

	Sex related differences in short and long term prognosis after acute myocardial infarction: 10 year follow up of 3073 patients in database of first Danish verapamil infarction trial
	S Galatius-Jensen, J Launbjerg, L Spange Mortensen, J Fischer Hansen
	BMJ  1996;313:137-140 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Efficacy of a small single dose of oral dexamethasone for outpatient croup: a double blind placebo controlled clinical trial
	G C Geelhoed, J Turner, W B G Macdonald
	BMJ  1996;313:140-142 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Chronic memory impairment after cardiac arrest outside hospital
	Neil R Grubb, Ronan O'Carroll, Stuart M Cobbe, Jane Sirel, Keith A A Fox
	BMJ  1996;313:143-146 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Blood pressure and risk of stroke in patients with cerebrovascular disease
	Anthony Rodgers, Stephen MacMahon, Greg Gamble, Jim Slattery, Peter Sandercock, Charles Warlow
	BMJ  1996;313:147 [Full text]

General practice

	Influence of ethnic group on asthma treatment in children in 1990-1: national cross sectional study
	Enric Duran-Tauleria, Roberto J Rona, Susan Chinn, Peter Burney
	BMJ  1996;313:148-152 [Abstract] [Full text]

Soundings

	Gut reactionaries
	Ian Robertson
	BMJ  1996;313:174 [Full text]

	Sound and fury, signifying nothing
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1996;313:174 [Full text]

Personal views

	The way I don't see it--living with a visual impairment
	J D Wright
	BMJ  1996;313:175 [Full text]

Medicine and books

	Carcinogens and Anticarcinogens in the Human Diet
	Sheila Bingham
	BMJ  1996;313:176 [Full text]

	Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide
	Sheila M Gore
	BMJ  1996;313:176 [Full text]

	Best books on counselling: a personal choice
	Richard Churchill, Simon Cocksedge
	BMJ  1996;313:177 [Full text]

Education and debate

	A Difficult Case: Home ventilation of a child with motor and sensory neuropathy
	R H Davies
	BMJ  1996;313:153-154 [Full text]

	Commentary: Reach beyond metaphor to assess value
	Ian Harvey
	BMJ  1996;313:154 [Full text]

	Commentary: The mother's story
	BMJ  1996;313:155 [Full text]

	Commentary: Little real choice
	Hugh Newton-John
	BMJ  1996;313:155 [Full text]

	Commentary: Need for a nationally consistent approach
	Trudy A Ward
	BMJ  1996;313:155 [Full text]

	Caring for Older People: Some legal aspects of mental capacity
	Tom Arie
	BMJ  1996;313:156-158 [Full text]

	The rise of counselling and the return of alienism
	Simon Wessely
	BMJ  1996;313:158-160 [Full text]

	ABC of Work Related Disorders: HAZARDS OF WORK
	David Snashall
	BMJ  1996;313:161-163 [Full text]

Letters

	Bed occupancy in psychiatric units in Greater London is 113%
	Doris Hollander, Robin Powell, Robert Tobiansky
	BMJ  1996;313:166 [Full text]

	Effect of antihypertensive treatment on cognitive function of older patients
	C D Irvine, S H Irvine
	BMJ  1996;313:166 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Martin Prince, Anthony Mann, Robert Blizard, Anne Bird
	BMJ  1996;313:166-167 [Full text]

	Reduced schedule of antenatal visits
	Tom O'Connell
	BMJ  1996;313:167 [Full text]

	Study ignored influence of parity on women's needs
	Sarah Vause, Michael Maresh, Khaled Khaled
	BMJ  1996;313:167 [Full text]

	Effect of fewer visits on postnatal depression is important
	Douglas Tincello
	BMJ  1996;313:167-168 [Full text]

	Postnatal care also requires evaluation
	Ruth Bell
	BMJ  1996;313:168 [Full text]

	Attention should be paid to what women want
	Kim Hinshaw, Amr El-Horishy, Suzanne Bates
	BMJ  1996;313:168 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Jim Sikorski, Sarah Clement, Jennifer Wilson, Sarah Das, Nigel Smeeton
	BMJ  1996;313:169 [Full text]

	Recent advances in ophthalmology are not solely technological
	Alan D Penman, Michael M Engelgau
	BMJ  1996;313:169 [Full text]

	Evidence based medicine
	Blair H Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:169 [Full text]

	Scientific method and raw data should be considered
	Nigel T James
	BMJ  1996;313:169-170 [Full text]

	Authors' redefinition is better but not perfect
	Oliver R Dearlove, Jo Rogers, Andrew Sharples
	BMJ  1996;313:170 [Full text]

	Needs to be within framework of decision making based on decision analysis
	Jack Dowie
	BMJ  1996;313:170 [Full text]

	Cost effectiveness and equity are ignored
	Alan Maynard
	BMJ  1996;313:170 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	David L Sackett, William M C Rosenberg, J A Muir Gray, R Brian Haynes, W Scott Richardson
	BMJ  1996;313:170-171 [Full text]

	Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
	Stephen Dealler
	BMJ  1996;313:171 [Full text]

	Media coverage had shortlived effect on beef consumption by pregnant women
	Sue Wilson, Sandy Mcleod, Anne Gillies, Yvonne Carter
	BMJ  1996;313:171 [Full text]

	Doctors are less likely than patients to have stopped eating beef
	Helen Cohen
	BMJ  1996;313:171-172 [Full text]

	Rehabilitation after brain injury
	M A Chamberlain
	BMJ  1996;313:172 [Full text]

	...or new
	Brian Pentland
	BMJ  1996;313:172 [Full text]

	Laboratory tests for Helicobacter pylori should be more widely available
	Greg Rubin, Richard Stevens
	BMJ  1996;313:172-173 [Full text]

	Epidemiology of aortic aneurysm and peripheral vascular disease may show ethnic differences
	Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
	BMJ  1996;313:173 [Full text]

	Drop out rate in medical schools seems reasonable
	I C Mcmanus
	BMJ  1996;313:173 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:178 [Full text]

Fillers

	A MEMORABLE PATIENT
	W F Paveley
	BMJ  1996;313:142 [Full text]

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1996;313:146 [Full text]

	WORDS TO THE WISE
	Grant Hutchison
	BMJ  1996;313:152 [Full text]

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1996;313:160 [Full text]

Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;313:173 [Full text]

Career focus

	Making use of the university careers service
	Pritpal S Tamber
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text]

	Briefing: Those who found advice on finding a job conspicuous by ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text]

	Briefing: Job-sharing is not working part-time, nor is it necessarily an ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text]

	Briefing: Canada's current shortfall of neurosurgeons is predicted to continue until ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text]

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	Editor's choice
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