Time to face up to research misconduct
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:789-790 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Bovine spongiform encephalopahy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
	Paul Brown
	BMJ  1996;312:790-791 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Bovine Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
	Sheila M Gore
	BMJ  1996;312:791-793 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Cognitive function and low blood pressure in elderly people
	J M S Pearce
	BMJ  1996;312:793-794 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Making decisions with children
	George Rylance
	BMJ  1996;312:794 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy
	H F Baker, R M Ridley
	BMJ  1996;312:843 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Cohort study of cows is in progress
	J W Wilesmith
	BMJ  1996;312:843 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Incidence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy is higher in cows born after feed ban
	M Bennett
	BMJ  1996;312:843-844 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Magnetic resonance imaging is not a sensitive test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
	Martin Zeidler, R G Will, J W Ironside, R Sellar, J Wardlaw
	BMJ  1996;312:844 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	GPs decide not to countersign applications for gun licences
	Geraldine Badger, Neil Crichton, Andrew Negus, Colin Judge, Romilly Rees
	BMJ  1996;312:844 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Acute sports injuries
	Jon Nicholl, Patricia Coleman
	BMJ  1996;312:844 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Data on leisure accidents and injuries should be collated centrally
	Sally O'Driscoll, Harry Campbell
	BMJ  1996;312:844-845 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Adverse life events and breast cancer
	Jennifer Barraclough
	BMJ  1996;312:845 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Association may be due to imbalance in ratio of adrenal androgens to glucocorticoid
	M J Reed, M W Ghilchik
	BMJ  1996;312:845 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Reservations about conservative surgery for early breast cancer
	E A Benson
	BMJ  1996;312:845-846 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Use of aspirin in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease is rising
	A J Carney, T A Carney
	BMJ  1996;312:846 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Misoprostol in patients taking non-steroidalanti-inflammatory drugs
	M J Shield, S V Morant
	BMJ  1996;312:846 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	This reduction in risk is deemed worth while in other circumstances
	Paul Blenkiron
	BMJ  1996;312:846-847 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	R Madhok, N Maiden
	BMJ  1996;312:847 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Patients' understanding of consent form should be checked before participation in trial
	Tina Melby, John E Mendelson, Reese T Jones
	BMJ  1996;312:847 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	AIDS associated with blood transfusion and haemophilia in Europe
	Francoise Hamers
	BMJ  1996;312:847-848 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Effects of fundholding on prescribing habits
	R Wilson, T Walley
	BMJ  1996;312:848 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Generic prescriptions are defined differently for dispensing practices
	Ted Willis
	BMJ  1996;312:848 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	Sarah Stewart-Brown, Rebecca Surender, Helen Doll, Jean Bradlow, Angela Coulter
	BMJ  1996;312:848 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Prescribing by general practitioner fundholders
	Ian Trimble, Doug Black
	BMJ  1996;312:848-849 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Other factors probably explain differences in prescribing
	Elizabeth Robinson
	BMJ  1996;312:849 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Direct access magnetic resonance imaging of the knee for GPs
	Jeremy Southgate, Neil Thomas
	BMJ  1996;312:849 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Patients should be seen by an experienced orthopaedic surgeon
	Roderick Mackenzie, Dennis Edwards, Adrian K Dixon
	BMJ  1996;312:849-850 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Paper highlights shortage of orthopaedic skill
	John Ireland
	BMJ  1996;312:850 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	David C F Lloyd, Sanjiv Chawda, Roland Watura
	BMJ  1996;312:850 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Cochlear implantation is controversial among deaf people
	Rupert Gauntlett
	BMJ  1996;312:850 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	BMA division disagrees with association's stance over advance directives
	I M C D Jessiman
	BMJ  1996;312:850-851 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Doctors and medical politics
	Graham Cooper, James Roxburgh
	BMJ  1996;312:851 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	BMA is meeting change with outraged reaction rather than adaptation
	Carl Cray
	BMJ  1996;312:851 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Long term care can be provided by NHS at low cost
	John Bickford
	BMJ  1996;312:851 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Policies for humanitarian service should be less ageist
	D E Rowlands
	BMJ  1996;312:851 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

News

This week's News

	BSE linked to new variant of CJD in humans
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1996;312:795 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:796 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	WHO steps up fight against TB
	Pritpal S Tamber
	BMJ  1996;312:796 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	AIDS now more chronic than fatal
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:796-797 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Gulf war veterans show nerve damage
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:797 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Baby's doctors to ask for right to die
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:797 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Scottish judges say court can decide in PVS cases
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:797-798 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Census shows that employment is healthier
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:798 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	GP struck off for fraud in drug trials
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:798 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	NHS urged to rethink children's rights
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:798-799 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Russian life expectancy rises
	Miranda Ingram
	BMJ  1996;312:799 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Campaign aims to make the English more active
	Daphne Gloag
	BMJ  1996;312:799 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Locum's errors prompt review
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:799-800 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	US graduates opt for primary care
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:800 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Another task for harrassed doctors
	Jane Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:800 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Is the cognitive function of older patients affected by antihypertensive treatment? Results from 54 months of the Medical Research Council's treatment trial of hypertension in older adults
	Martin J Prince, Anne S Bird, Robert A Blizard, Anthony H Mann
	BMJ  1996;312:801-805 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Low blood pressure and dementia in elderly people: the Kungsholmen project
	Zhenchao Guo, Matti Viitanen, Laura Fratiglioni, Bengt Winblad
	BMJ  1996;312:805-808 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Mammography screening: an incremental cost effectiveness analysis of double versus single reading of mammograms
	Jackie Brown, Stirling Bryan, Ruth Warren
	BMJ  1996;312:809-812 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Psychological support for patients undergoing breast cancer surgery: a randomised study
	June M C McArdle, W David George, Colin S McArdle, David C Smith, Alastair R Moodie, A V Mark Hughson, Gordon D Murray
	BMJ  1996;312:813-816 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Interchangeability of conjugated Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccines during primary immunisation of infants
	David Goldblatt, Christopher K Fairley, Keith Cartwright, Elizabeth Miller
	BMJ  1996;312:817-818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.312.7034.817 [Full text] FREE

	Commentary: ethics of clinical research without patients' consent
	Claire Foster
	BMJ  1996;312:818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.312.7034.818 [Full text] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	Evidence based general practice: a retrospective study of interventions in one training practice
	P Gill, A C Dowell, R D Neal, N Smith, P Heywood, A E Wilson
	BMJ  1996;312:819-821 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Survey of general practitioners' views of consultants' non-urgent referral of outpatients to other consultants
	S Bridger, S R Cairns
	BMJ  1996;312:821-822 [Full text] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Complaints made easy
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1996;312:853 [Full text] FREE

	Life must go on
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1996;312:853 [Full text] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The legal system is an ass
	BMJ  1996;312:855 [Full text] FREE

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Current Diagnosis and Treatment
	Stephen P Kane
	BMJ  1996;312:856 [Full text] FREE

	Exotic Viral Infections (Kass Handbook of Infectious Diseases)
	David Mabey
	BMJ  1996;312:856 [Full text] FREE

	Research and Development for the NHS: Evidence, Evaluation, and Effectiveness
	Martin McKee
	BMJ  1996;312:857 [Full text] FREE

	Successful Scientific Writing: A Step-By-Step Guide for the Biological and Medical Sciences
	Tim Albert
	BMJ  1996;312:857 [Full text] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Morphine in cancer pain: modes of administration
	BMJ  1996;312:823-826 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	North of England evidence based guidelines development project: summary version of evidence based guideline for the primary care management of stable angina
	North of England Stable Angina Guideline Development Group
	BMJ  1996;312:827-832 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Are tobacco subsidies a misuse of public funds?
	Luk Joossens, Martin Raw
	BMJ  1996;312:832-835 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Over the Counter Drugs: The future for self medication
	Colin Bradley, Alison Blenkinsopp
	BMJ  1996;312:835-837 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	ABC of Urology: UROLOGICAL EMERGENCIES IN GENERAL PRACTICE
	Chris Dawson, Hugh Whitfield
	BMJ  1996;312:838-840 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:858 [Full text] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	PAST PRESCRIBING
	BMJ  1996;312:837 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:822 [Full text] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

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

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Meltdown: the media and mad cows
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1996;312:854-855 [Full text] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	GPs' leader to meet review body on out of hours • GPs' committee will be elected by wider franchise • Health secretary agrees to revise deputising circular • New group will look at public health manpower • Consultation document launched on data protection
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:852 [Full text] FREE

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