Social mobility and health: cause or effect?
	Espen Dahl
	BMJ  1996;313:435-436 [Full text]

	The future of epidemiology
	Dimitrios Trichopoulus
	BMJ  1996;313:436-437 [Full text]

	Treating hypertension: the evidence from clinical trials
	Joel A Simon
	BMJ  1996;313:437-438 [Full text]

	Information in practice
	Alison Tonks, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:438 [Full text]

	Skin storage
	S R Myers, M R Machesney, R M Warwick, P D Cussons
	BMJ  1996;313:439 [Full text]

	Caring for patients with HIV and AIDS in middle income countries
	Eric Van Praag, Joseph H Perriens
	BMJ  1996;313:440 [Full text]

News

	Blood to be screened for CJD
	Janet Morgan
	BMJ  1996;313:441 [Full text]

	Signing gun licences would put heavy burden on GPs
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:441 [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;313:442 [Full text]

	Hormone therapy may protect against Alzheimer's disease
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;313:442 [Full text]

	Change in funding will boost part time junior posts
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:443 [Full text]

	German doctor donates kidney
	Helmut Karcher
	BMJ  1996;313:443 [Full text]

	Call for fewer trusts in Wales
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1996;313:443 [Full text]

	Government agents raid the Cannabis Buyers' Club
	Norra MacReady
	BMJ  1996;313:444 [Full text]

	Doctors in Wales should learn Welsh
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1996;313:444 [Full text]

	France allows sperm injection to treat infertility
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;313:444 [Full text]

Papers

	Relation between socioeconomic status, employment, and health during economic change, 1973-93
	Mel Bartley, Charlie Owen
	BMJ  1996;313:445-449 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Inequalities in self rated health in the 1958 birth cohort: lifetime social circumstances or social mobility?
	Chris Power, Sharon Matthews, Orly Manor
	BMJ  1996;313:449-453 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Should breast reduction surgery be rationed? A comparison of the health status of patients before and after treatment: postal questionnaire survey
	Anne Klassen, Ray Fitzpatrick, Crispin Jenkinson, Tim Goodacre
	BMJ  1996;313:454-457 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Incidence of myocardial infarction in elderly men being treated with antihypertensive drugs: population based cohort study
	Juan Merlo, Jonas Ranstam, Hans Liedholm, Bo Hedblad, Gunnar Lindberg, Ulf Lindblad, Sven-Olof Isacsson, Arne Melander, Lennart Rastam
	BMJ  1996;313:457-461 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Prevalence and determinants of antibodies to hepatitis C virus and markers for hepatitis B virus infection in patients with HIV infection in Aquitaine
	F Saillour, F Dabis, M Dupon, D Lacoste, P Trimoulet, P Rispal, E Monlun, J-M Ragnaud, P Morlat, J-L Pellegrin, H Fleury, P Couzigou
	BMJ  1996;313:461-464 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Differences in use of abbreviated mental test score by geriatricians and psychiatrists
	John Holmes, Simon Gilbody
	BMJ  1996;313:465 [Full text]

	Referral of elderly patients with severe renal failure: questionnaire survey of physicians
	R G Parry, A Crowe, J M Stevens, J C Mason, P Roderick
	BMJ  1996;313:466 [Full text]

	Accuracy of recall of back pain after delivery
	Colin Macarthur, Alison Macarthur, Sally Weeks
	BMJ  1996;313:467 [Full text]

General practice

	Factors influencing the response to advertisements for general practice vacancies
	Robin Carlisle, Sue Johnstone
	BMJ  1996;313:468-471 [Abstract] [Full text]

	A simple algorithm to predict the development of radiological erosions in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: prospective cohort study
	Paul Brennan, Beverley Harrison, Elizabeth Barrett, Kuntal Chakravarty, David Scott, Alan Silman, Deborah Symmons
	BMJ  1996;313:471-476 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Are community mental health teams providing an equitable service? Comparison of source of referrals with inpatient care
	Richard Laugharne, Simon Fleminger
	BMJ  1996;313:476 [Full text]

Soundings

	Jane Austen's doctors and patients
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1996;313:498 [Full text]

	Touching
	Judith Hollis-Triantafillou
	BMJ  1996;313:498 [Full text]

Personal views

	We all need an Annie's Place
	Chris Brittain
	BMJ  1996;313:500 [Full text]

Medicine and books

	The Prevention of Mental Illness in Primary Care
	Christopher Dowrick
	BMJ  1996;313:501 [Full text]

	Infectious Disease
	Alan Pithie
	BMJ  1996;313:501 [Full text]

Education and debate

	For Debate: Can contracts drive clinical care?
	Anthony Hopkins, Juliet K Solomon
	BMJ  1996;313:477-478 [Full text]

	For Debate: Continuing with pregnancy after a diagnosis of lethal abnormality: experience of five couples and recommendations for management
	Lyn S Chitty, Chris A Barnes, Caroline Berry
	BMJ  1996;313:478-480 [Full text]

	Lesson of the Week: Fatal methadone overdose
	T J Hendra, S P Gerrish, A R W Forrest
	BMJ  1996;313:481-482 [Full text]

	Caring for Older People: Carers
	Anne F Travers
	BMJ  1996;313:482-486 [Full text]

	Statistics Notes: Interaction 1: heterogeneity of effects
	Douglas G Altman, John N S Matthews
	BMJ  1996;313:486 [Full text] [PDF]

	ABC of Work Related Disorders: Occupational Dermititis
	Ian R White
	BMJ  1996;313:487-489 [Full text]

	ABC of Work Related Disorders: A memorable patent
	C L Koul
	BMJ  1996;313:489 [Full text]

Letters

	Single or multiple daily doses of aminoglycosides
	Harry Campbell
	BMJ  1996;313:490 [Full text]

	Giving gentamicin once daily for neutropenic fever has proved to be simple
	R P D Cooke, R J Grace, P A Gover
	BMJ  1996;313:490 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Michael Barza, John Ioannidis, Joseph Lau
	BMJ  1996;313:490-491 [Full text]

	Exposure to aminoglycosides should be monitored during treatment
	Evan J Begg, Stephen B Duffull, Carl M Kirlpatrick
	BMJ  1996;313:491 [Full text]

	Twin methodology is not always easily understood
	Kirsten Ohm Kyvik
	BMJ  1996;313:491 [Full text]

	Project has been set up to explore ways of preventing wastage of doctors
	Jane Harvey, Stephanie Seeley, Hilary Bichovsky, Jo Winsland
	BMJ  1996;313:491 [Full text]

	ABC of Urology
	Sue J Vernon, Malcolm G Coulthard, Heather J Lambert
	BMJ  1996;313:491-492 [Full text]

	Article on prostate cancer should have adhered to agreed staging terminology
	Michael Hehir, Lawrence Walker
	BMJ  1996;313:492 [Full text]

	Recommended treatment of paediatric tumours is misleading
	C R Pinkerton, Kathy Pritchard-Jones, S J K Holmes
	BMJ  1996;313:492 [Full text]

	Radical pelvic surgery has no role in primary management of vesical or prostatic rhabdomyosarcoma
	G Humphrey, B R Squire
	BMJ  1996;313:492-493 [Full text]

	Orchidopexy before age of 10 is best for undescended testes
	J A Jibril, A A Mahomed, G K Ninan, G G Youngson
	BMJ  1996;313:493 [Full text]

	Laparoscopy has much to offer
	Sherif E Habib
	BMJ  1996;313:493 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	C Dawson, Hugh Whitfield
	BMJ  1996;313:493 [Full text]

	Adjuvant treatment with tamoxifen
	R D Bulbrook
	BMJ  1996;313:493-494 [Full text]

	Informed consent and follow up in aTTom trial are inadequate
	Hazel Cunnigham
	BMJ  1996;313:494 [Full text]

	Specialist surgeons and survival in breast cancer
	R A Haward, D Forman
	BMJ  1996;313:494 [Full text]

	Treating a specified number of patients is no guarantee of quality
	Adrian Ball
	BMJ  1996;313:494-495 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Charles R Gillis, David J Hole
	BMJ  1996;313:495 [Full text]

	Anaesthesia in the United States
	Errol M Cornish
	BMJ  1996;313:495 [Full text]

	Anaesthesia is an unpopular specialty in the United States
	Colin Berry
	BMJ  1996;313:495-496 [Full text]

	Trainees have much to gain from working in the United States
	Michael Parr, David Gabbott, Peter Baskett, John Criswell, Alasdair Dow, Alexander Hunter, Paul Martin, Rona Patey, Jerry Nolan, Bryce Randalls, Fergus Millar, Peter Donahue, Frances Forrest, Ian Ryder, Gordon Craig
	BMJ  1996;313:496 [Full text]

	Educational experience for trainees is better than in Britain
	Colin F MacKenzie
	BMJ  1996;313:496 [Full text]

	Changes in specialty's name reflect greater involvement in preoperative and postoperative care
	Norig Ellison
	BMJ  1996;313:496 [Full text]

	Goals and methods of audit should be reappraised
	Andrew Miles, Paul Bentley, Andreas Polychronis, Nicholas Price, Joseph Grey
	BMJ  1996;313:497 [Full text]

	Regions should define audit strategy
	J R M Lough
	BMJ  1996;313:497 [Full text]

	Obituaries and tributes should be put on to worldwide web
	Deborah J Aaron, Ronald E Laporte
	BMJ  1996;313:497 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:502 [Full text]

Fillers

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1996;313:453 [Full text]

Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;313:497 [Full text]

Career focus

	Flexible training as a specialist registrar
	Patricia Scriven
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text]

	Briefing: The number of doctors and dentists in England has risen ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text]

	Briefing: Have you used the BMA helpline? The Manchester School of ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text]

CHOICE

	Editor's choice
	BMJ  1996;313 [Full text]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	A view from the back of the queue
	Ann Sommerville
	BMJ  1996;313:499 [Full text]

	Advocates for those who suffer in silence
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  1996;313:499-500 [Full text]

Career focus

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