Avoiding premature coronary deaths in Asians in Britain
	Sandeep Gupta, Adam de Belder, Liam O Hughes
	BMJ  1995;311:1035-1036 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	European general practice
	Michael Boland
	BMJ  1995;311:1036-1037 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Creating new criminals
	Tom McClintock
	BMJ  1995;311:1037-1038 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Mental health informatics and the rhythm of community care
	Gyles Glover
	BMJ  1995;311:1038-1039 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Functional dysphonia
	Janet A Wilson, Ian J Deary, Shonagh Scott, Kenneth MacKenzie
	BMJ  1995;311:1039-1040 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Female genital mutilation
	Godwin I Meniru, Maryann O Meniru, Uchechukwu O Ezeh
	BMJ  1995;311:1088 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Cultural knowledge is the key to understanding
	Elspeth Webb
	BMJ  1995;311:1088 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Professionals should not collude with abusive systems
	Janet Menage
	BMJ  1995;311:1088-1089 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Dangers of cocaine and adrenaline paste
	Martin Burton, Richard Marks
	BMJ  1995;311:1089 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Accurate measurement of dose and patience are important
	Peter Williamson, Robert Slack
	BMJ  1995;311:1089 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Combination is still widely used
	R W R Farrell
	BMJ  1995;311:1089 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Other aspects of anaesthetic technique may have added to danger
	P D M Ellis, B R Wilkey
	BMJ  1995;311:1089-1090 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Inserting central venous catheters
	Duncan Young, Michael Kettlewell, Helen Hamilton
	BMJ  1995;311:1090 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Open technique has lower evidence of complications
	D M Richards, J Hill, N A Scott, J Bancewicz, Miles Irving
	BMJ  1995;311:1090 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Difficulties are rare and do not correlate with lifespan of catheter
	Jacqueline Filshie, Philippa Wood, Ruth Griffin, Claire Nightingale, G P R Browne, D G Skewes
	BMJ  1995;311:1090-1091 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Line should not enter the heart
	Malcolm Hilton, Geoffrey Pye, Andrew Walker
	BMJ  1995;311:1091 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Operating theatre is better back up than venography
	Tim Davidson
	BMJ  1995;311:1091 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Surgical cutdown technique should not be abandoned
	W G A Woods, R J Ham
	BMJ  1995;311:1091 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Author's reply
	A Adam
	BMJ  1995;311:1091 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Treatment of gall stones
	A G Lim, R P Jazrawi
	BMJ  1995;311:1091-1092 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Rate of surgery for gall stones is increasing
	Chi-Ming Lam, Alfred Cuschieri, Frank E Murray
	BMJ  1995;311:1092 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Qualitative thesis explored social dislocation and health
	Ernst Philipp
	BMJ  1995;311:1092 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Illness behaviour in the chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple sclerosis
	Peter D Campion, Christopher F Dowrick, Richard H T Edwards
	BMJ  1995;311:1092-1093 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Disentangling common characteristics is not so easy
	Charles Shepherd
	BMJ  1995;311:1093 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	Peter Trigwell, Simon Hatcher, Michael Johnson, Philip Stanley, Allan House
	BMJ  1995;311:1093 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Medical firms should be retained
	Michael Eliastam
	BMJ  1995;311:1093 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Junior doctors' hours
	Christopher Wong
	BMJ  1995;311:1093 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Long hours are needed
	Simon West, Timothy P Stephenson
	BMJ  1995;311:1093-1094 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Committee lacks "shop floor" support
	Chris Davies
	BMJ  1995;311:1094 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Wong was right
	Andrew McCombe
	BMJ  1995;311:1094 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Wong should join Junior Doctors' Committee
	S J Krikler
	BMJ  1995;311:1094 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Terms and conditions of service for new specialist registrar grade are not yet established
	Peter Bennie
	BMJ  1995;311:1094 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

News

This week's News

	Infertility clinics show variation in success
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1995;311:1041 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	US warns against early discharge of babies
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;311:1041-1042 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Headlines
	BMJ  1995;311:1042 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	German medical schools face serious reforms
	Helmut L Karcher
	BMJ  1995;311:1042 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Challenge is thrown to Europe's GPs
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  1995;311:1043 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Conservatives throw spotlight on primary care
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;311:1043-1044 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Nobel prize given for work on fruit flies
	Steve Connor
	BMJ  1995;311:1044 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Japan proposes settlement for tainted blood
	Robert Guest
	BMJ  1995;311:1044-1045 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	BUPA moves into general practice
	Sharon Kingman
	BMJ  1995;311:1045 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Australia launches third AIDS strategy
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1995;311:1045-1046 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Brazil takes steps to control tobacco
	Martin Raw, Ronaldo Laranjeira
	BMJ  1995;311:1046 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Rationality cut off in mobile phone row
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1995;311:1046 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Anticonvulsant drugs for management of pain: a systematic review
	Henry McQuay, Dawn Carroll, Alejandro R Jadad, Philip Wiffen, Andrew Moore
	BMJ  1995;311:1047-1052 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Home environment and severe asthma in adolescence: a population based case-control study
	David P Strachan, Iain M Carey
	BMJ  1995;311:1053-1056 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Evidence based purchasing: understanding results of clinical trials and systematic reviews
	T Fahey, S Griffiths, T J Peters
	BMJ  1995;311:1056-1059 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Commentary: The message is in the medium
	Ruairidh Milne, David Sackett
	BMJ  1995;311:1059-1060 [Full text] FREE

	Attitudes of consultant physicians to the Calman proposals: a questionnaire survey
	Hugh M Mather, Robert S Elkeles
	BMJ  1995;311:1060-1062 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial assessing effectiveness of health education leaflets in reducing incidence of sunburn
	Paola Dey, Stuart Collins, Sheila Will, Ciaran B J Woodman
	BMJ  1995;311:1062-1063 [Full text] FREE

	Prevalence of urinary and faecal incontinence in hospitals and residential and nursing homes for older people
	S M Peet, C M Castleden, C W McGrother
	BMJ  1995;311:1063-1064 [Full text] FREE

	Contamination with blood during management of epistaxis
	A Simon Carney, Jennifer Weir, David L Baldwin
	BMJ  1995;311:1064 [Full text] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	Using information from asthma patients: a trial of information feedback in primary care
	Patrick White, Annie Atherton, Graham Hewett, Kate Howells
	BMJ  1995;311:1065-1069 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Moving house: a risk factor for the development of childhood asthma?
	C H Hughes, J H Baumer
	BMJ  1995;311:1069-1070 [Full text] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Long hot summer
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1995;311:1097 [Full text] FREE

	Unfair to men
	Tony Smith
	BMJ  1995;311:1097 [Full text] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Grime and punishment
	Bob Britchford
	BMJ  1995;311:1098 [Full text] FREE

	There is now a place to grieve
	Helene Armstrong
	BMJ  1995;311:1098-1099 [Full text] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	The myth of maternal transmission of spongiform encephalopathy
	R M Ridley, H F Baker
	BMJ  1995;311:1071-1075 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Commentary: Scrapie revisited
	R G Will
	BMJ  1995;311:1075-1076 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Setting priorities for research and development in the NHS: a case study on the interface between primary and secondary care
	Roger Jones, Tara Lamont, Andrew Haines
	BMJ  1995;311:1076-1080 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Commissioning a national programme of research and development on the interface between primary and secondary care
	Janet Wisely, Andrew Haines
	BMJ  1995;311:1080-1082 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Lesson of the Week: The risks of delay in diagnosis of breathlessness in pregnancy
	C A Morley, B A Lim
	BMJ  1995;311:1083-1084 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1995;311:1110 [Full text] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1995;311:1052 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Fit as a fiddle
	George Giri
	BMJ  1995;311:1070 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	WAYS WITH WORDS
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1995;311:1084 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1995;311:1094 [Full text] FREE

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	The key to nursing
	Sarah Burns
	BMJ  1995;311:1099 [Full text] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Doctors vote to suspend cooperation in NHS Wide Network • "Core values" initiative is welcomed • Doctors criticise compulsory privatisation in health care • Maintaining Medical Excellence: doctors' performance • BMA will separate science and education • Concentration of services threaten smaller hospitals • GPs reach agreement on deprivation payments • Regularising immigration arrangements • In vitro diagnostic devices may be controlled
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;311:1095 [Full text] FREE

AUTUMN BOOKS

This week's AUTUMN BOOKS

	The Davies Report: The "Great Battle" in Swansea
	Naomi Pfeffer
	BMJ  1995;311:1100 [Full text] FREE

	Nuclear Wastelands: A Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons Production and its Health and Environmental Effects
	John Slater
	BMJ  1995;311:1100-1101 [Full text] FREE

	Hidden Histories of Science
	William Foulkes
	BMJ  1995;311:1101 [Full text] FREE

	Science, Politics, and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Controversy and Bias in Drug Regulation
	Joe Collier
	BMJ  1995;311:1101-1102 [Full text] FREE

	Green, Inc: A Guide to Business and the Environment
	Mick Braddick
	BMJ  1995;311:1102 [Full text] FREE

	Talking from 9 to 5
	Naomi Craft
	BMJ  1995;311:1103 [Full text] FREE

	The Art and Science of Reminiscing Theory: Research, Methods, Applications
	Helen Matthews
	BMJ  1995;311:1103-1104 [Full text] FREE

	Bedside Manners: An Anthology of Wit and Wisdom
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1995;311:1104 [Full text] FREE

	Death Of A Mother: Daughters' Stories
	Jill Johnston
	BMJ  1995;311:1104-1105 [Full text] FREE

	Exciting Times in the Accounts Department
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1995;311:1105-1106 [Full text] FREE

	The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800
	Pietro Corsi
	BMJ  1995;311:1106 [Full text] FREE

	Queen Victoria's Gene: Haemophilia and the Royal Family
	Helen M Kingston
	BMJ  1995;311:1106-1107 [Full text] FREE

	John Snow: Anaesthetist to a Queen and Epidemiologist to a Nation
	Dorothy Porter
	BMJ  1995;311:1107 [Full text] FREE

	The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts
	Kwame Mckenzie
	BMJ  1995;311:1108 [Full text] FREE

	The Monkey-Puzzle Tree
	Sean Spence
	BMJ  1995;311:1108-1109 [Full text] FREE

	Diseases in Wax: The History of the Medical Moulage
	Sander L Gilman
	BMJ  1995;311:1109 [Full text] FREE

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