Overwork can kill
	Susan Michie, Anne Cockcroft
	BMJ  1996;312:921-922 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Privatising the NHS: dentistry paves the way
	Jonathan P Shepherd, David W Thomas, Paul Shepherd
	BMJ  1996;312:922-923 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Hospital at home
	Sasha Shepperd, Steve Iliffe
	BMJ  1996;312:923-924 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Health and human rights
	Jonathan M Mann
	BMJ  1996;312:924-925 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Travel associated illness
	Martin Mckee
	BMJ  1996;312:925-926 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Patenting gene sequences
	Arthur L Caplan, Jon Merz
	BMJ  1996;312:926 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy feeding after acute dysphagic stroke
	Kate Mackay
	BMJ  1996;312:972 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Gag reflex has no role in ability to swallow
	David G Smithard
	BMJ  1996;312:972 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Speech and language therapists should have participated in study
	Jean Kerr, Richard Butterworth, Philip Bath
	BMJ  1996;312:972 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Radiological placement of the gastrostomy tube should be the preferred method
	Brian L Murphy, Paul S Sidhu, Reginald E Greene
	BMJ  1996;312:972-973 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Mortality associated with nasogastric tube feeding was high
	H D Duncan, E Walters, D B A Silk
	BMJ  1996;312:973 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Study's methods were inadequate
	Thomas Esmonde
	BMJ  1996;312:973 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	B Norton, G K T Holmes
	BMJ  1996;312:973-974 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Girls should be taught at school about importance of folic acid
	Jennifer Wild, Christopher J Schorah, Karen Maude, Malcolm I Levene
	BMJ  1996;312:974 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Health checks and coronary risk
	Jeffrey Graham
	BMJ  1996;312:974 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	P Hanlon, J Mcewen, H Gilmour, L Carey, C Tannahill, A Tannahill, M Kelly
	BMJ  1996;312:974 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Serum screening for Down's syndrome
	Alex Bunn, Karen Forrest, George Ioannou, Rustam Rea
	BMJ  1996;312:974-975 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Author's reply
	Philip Steer
	BMJ  1996;312:975 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Topical acyclovir is beneficial in recurrent herpes labialis
	P-J Lamey
	BMJ  1996;312:975 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Fertility continues after age 40
	Carol Cooper
	BMJ  1996;312:975 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Laboratories should use serum IgM tests to confirm measles
	Laura Ryall, Colin Goodbourn, Anne Taylor, Louise Teare
	BMJ  1996;312:975-976 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Training in advanced trauma life support
	T F Beattie
	BMJ  1996;312:976 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Go on a course in the United States
	B Nathan, J Mackeever
	BMJ  1996;312:976 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Increased mortality related to asthma among asthmatic patients using major tranquillisers
	Alan Jones
	BMJ  1996;312:976 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Smoking may increase mortality when patients stop using tranquillisers
	Leon Rozewic
	BMJ  1996;312:976-977 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Competition continues in the NHS
	John Baruch
	BMJ  1996;312:977 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	The Internet
	Andrew Parkin, David D Stretch
	BMJ  1996;312:977 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Editorial made extravagant claims
	Stephen Due
	BMJ  1996;312:977 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Encryption algorithms are effective in maintaining security
	David A Agbamu
	BMJ  1996;312:977-978 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Accessing it is easy
	Somdutt Prasad, Paul McCormack
	BMJ  1996;312:978 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Access is now available in Romania
	T Mihaescu
	BMJ  1996;312:978 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	MSc in general practice can be done over the Internet
	John Sanfey
	BMJ  1996;312:978 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Health Query Language can be used for collecting data from general practices
	Kevin Allan, Paul Murphy
	BMJ  1996;312:978 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Editing may ruin an obituary
	A Lahiri
	BMJ  1996;312:979 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Rwanda needs visiting teachers and textbooks
	Sydney Brandon
	BMJ  1996;312:979 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	New college of paediatrics and child health is being set up
	James Appleyard
	BMJ  1996;312:979 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	British Paediatric Association's reply
	Roy Meadow
	BMJ  1996;312:979 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

News

This week's News

	Threatened surgeon has case reconsidered
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:927 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Researchers shed light on rotavirus
	Douglas Carnell
	BMJ  1996;312:927 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:928 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Judge allows baby to die in peace
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:928 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Dutch crack down on drugs policy
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;312:928-929 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Women's prison regime was "squalid and degrading"
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:929 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Private finance to build NHS hospitals
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;312:929-930 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Doctors launch twins research company
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:930 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Police investigate suspicious hospital deaths
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:930 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Effect on lipoprotein profile of replacing butter wit margarine in a low fat diet: randomised crossover study with hypercholesterolaemic subjects
	Alexandra Chisholm, Jim Mann, Wayne Sutherland, Ashley Duncan, Murray Skeaff, Christopher Frampton
	BMJ  1996;312:931-934 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Clearance of chylomicron remnants in normolipidaemic patients with coronary artery disease: case control study over three years
	Moshe S Weintraub, Itamar Grosskopf, Toby Rassin, Hylton Miller, Gideon Charach, Heschi H Rotmensch, Meir Liron, Ardon Rubinstein, Adrian Iaina
	BMJ  1996;312:935-939 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Genetic influences on osteoarthritis in women: a twin study
	Tim D Spector, Flavia Cicuttini, Juliet Baker, John Loughlin, Deborah Hart
	BMJ  1996;312:940-943 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Commentary: Genes for osteoarthritis: interpreting twin data
	John Hopper
	BMJ  1996;312:943-944 [Full text] FREE

	Survey of intensive care of severely head injured patients in the United Kingdom
	D R Jeevaratnam, D K Menon
	BMJ  1996;312:944-947 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	A follow up study of depression in the carers of dementia sufferers
	C G Ballard, C Eastwood, M Gahir, G Wilcock
	BMJ  1996;312:947 [Full text] FREE

	Contrasting epidemiology of aortic aneurysm and peripheral vascular disease in England and Wales
	David Coggon, Paul Winter, Christopher Martyn, Hazel Inskip
	BMJ  1996;312:948 [Full text] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	A study of general practitioners' reasons for changing their prescribing behaviour
	David Armstrong, Hugh Reyburn, Roger Jones
	BMJ  1996;312:949-952 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	A method of creating a death register for general practice
	Kamlesh Khunti
	BMJ  1996;312:952 [Full text] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Foreign wives
	Judith Hollis-Triantafillou
	BMJ  1996;312:981 [Full text] FREE

	An ill wind
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1996;312:981 [Full text] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Both sides of the coin
	Fran Reichenberg
	BMJ  1996;312:982 [Full text] FREE

	Are hospital patients fellow human beings?
	Felicity Reynolds
	BMJ  1996;312:982-983 [Full text] FREE

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Amputation: Surgical Practice and Patient Management
	Ron Hoile
	BMJ  1996;312:984 [Full text] FREE

	Current Controversies in the Anxiety Disorders
	Malcolm Lader
	BMJ  1996;312:984 [Full text] FREE

	Future Options for General Practice
	Christopher Watkins
	BMJ  1996;312:985 [Full text] FREE

	The Mystery of General Practice
	William R Phillips
	BMJ  1996;312:985 [Full text] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Evaluating fever in travellers returning from tropical countries
	Atul Humar, Jay Keystone
	BMJ  1996;312:953-956 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Lesson of the Week: Seabather's eruption--a case of Caribbean itch
	Ruth M MacSween, Hywel C Williams
	BMJ  1996;312:957-958 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Patients' prerogatives and perceptions of benefit
	Frank Kee
	BMJ  1996;312:958-960 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	ABC of Urology: URINARY INCONTINENCE AND URINARY INFECTION
	Chris Dawson, Hugh Whitfield
	BMJ  1996;312:961-964 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Dangerous patients with mental illness: increased risks warrant new policies, adequate resources, and appropriate legislation
	Jeremy W Coid
	BMJ  1996;312:965-966 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Commentary: Dangerous patients or dangerous diseases?
	Pamela J Taylor, John Monahan
	BMJ  1996;312:967-969 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:986 [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

	Three rules to cut the hype
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:983 [Full text] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA opens discussion on NHS financing • Junior doctors should claim for intensive rotas • BMA issues guidance on treating prisoners • Cooperation welcomed between NHS and universities • Timetable announced for cancer services framework
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:980 [Full text] FREE

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