St John's wort as an antidepressant
	Peter A G M De Smet, Willem A Nolen
	BMJ  1996;313:241-242 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Access to civil justice: Lord Woolf's visionary new landscape
	Suzanne Burn
	BMJ  1996;313:242-243 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Managing medical mishaps
	Peter Richards, I M Kennedy, Lord Woolf
	BMJ  1996;313:243-244 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Motor neurone disease
	John M Shneerson
	BMJ  1996;313:244-245 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Methadone treatment for opiate addicts
	James L Sorensen
	BMJ  1996;313:245-246 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Breaking Olympic records
	E A Newsholme
	BMJ  1996;313:246 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Intensive care of severely head injured patients
	M D D Bell
	BMJ  1996;313:296 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Answers may have reflected perceived rather than actual management
	J D Palmer, A Wagstaff, G Mckelvie
	BMJ  1996;313:296 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	National research is needed
	Graham Teasdale, John Bartlett, John Pickard, A David Mendelow
	BMJ  1996;313:296 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Guidelines should be based on systematic reviews of the evidence
	Ian Roberts, Phil Alderson, Kathy Rowan
	BMJ  1996;313:297 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Author's reply
	D K Menon
	BMJ  1996;313:297 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Assay used in serum screening for Down's syndrome may depend on ethnic make up of population
	L Gilbert, Jon Nicholl, Anthony Mander
	BMJ  1996;313:297 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Why interferon beta 1b was licensed is a mystery
	Peter Harvey
	BMJ  1996;313:297-298 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and solar ultraviolet radiation
	Robert Newton, Eve Roman, Nicola Fear, Lucy Carpenter
	BMJ  1996;313:298 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Basal cell carcinoma may be linked to haematological malignancy
	J T Lear, B B Tan, A G Smith, A A Fryer, R C Strange, P W Jones
	BMJ  1996;313:298-299 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Peanut and nut allergy
	Laurence R Lever
	BMJ  1996;313:299 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Baby massage oils could be a hazard
	Rachel Joyce, Adam Frosh
	BMJ  1996;313:299 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Serious adverse reactions to adrenaline are becoming more likely
	John A Wilson
	BMJ  1996;313:299 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Study was not designed to measure prevalence
	Sheila Jones, Ian Jones
	BMJ  1996;313:299-300 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Reduced exposure might increase allergic sensitisation
	Gideon Lack, Jean Golding
	BMJ  1996;313:300 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Author's reply
	Pamela W Ewan
	BMJ  1996;313:300 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Sesame allergy is also a problem
	Maggie Spirito Perkins
	BMJ  1996;313:300 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Value of ECGs in identifying heart failure due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction
	Andrew P Davie, Michael P Love, John J V McMurray
	BMJ  1996;313:300-301 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Inequality in income and mortality in US
	Patrick T Dowling, Joseph M Allevato
	BMJ  1996;313:301 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	George A Kaplan, John W Lynch, Richard D Cohen, Jennifer L Balfour, Elsie R Pamuk
	BMJ  1996;313:301 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Monitoring may need to be prolonged in patients given warfarin and amiodarone
	Brian Tomlinson, Robert P Young, Thomas Y K Chan, Julian A J H Critchley, Juliana C N Chan
	BMJ  1996;313:301-302 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Continuing rise in emergency admissions
	Joy Townsend, Andrew Frank, Mary Piper
	BMJ  1996;313:302 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	GPs' low morale is contributing factor
	Ruth Chambers
	BMJ  1996;313:302 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Reduce time from referral by GP to first outpatient attendance
	Adrian Midgley
	BMJ  1996;313:302 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	More paediatric renal donors should be used for adult recipients
	D Talbot, K L Narasimhan, D M Mirza, M G Thick, D Manas
	BMJ  1996;313:303 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Methods used in economic evaluations of prenatal screening are disputed
	David J Torgerson, Anne Spencer
	BMJ  1996;313:303 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Rights and responsibilities in HIV prevention
	Paul Bailey
	BMJ  1996;313:303 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	AIDS might have been tackled differently if it had presented as a disease of women
	Lars H Breimer
	BMJ  1996;313:303-304 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	HIV negative people should be responsible for protecting themselves
	Stuart Macwilliam
	BMJ  1996;313:304 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Maternal mortality in India
	Rajendra Kale
	BMJ  1996;313:304 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Preventable ill health occurs in Britain too
	A Mahmood
	BMJ  1996;313:304 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Training for overseas doctors may not be appropriate
	Christopher E Lennox
	BMJ  1996;313:305 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	GMSC's advice on intrapartum care
	Luke Zander
	BMJ  1996;313:305 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Committee is out of touch with needs of profession
	P D Thomas
	BMJ  1996;313:305 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	BMJ's embargo should not be broken
	Chris Mihill, Nicki Pope, Liz Hunt, Glenda Cooper, David Fletcher
	BMJ  1996;313:305 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

News

This week's News

	Overhaul of medical negligence litigation announced
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:247 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;313:248 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Technique for treating infertility may be risky
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1996;313:248 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Female circumcision is curbed in Egypt
	Jennifer Wiens
	BMJ  1996;313:249 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Dutch consultants are to unite
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;313:249 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Paradox over role of Helicobacter pylori
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1996;313:250 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Computer prescribing scheme gets green light
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:250 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	More scope for audit, say MPs
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:250 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Royal college calls for central research ethics committee
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:251 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	School meals ruled out as source of food poisoning
	Robert Guest
	BMJ  1996;313:251 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Doctors call for smoking ban in films
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1996;313:251 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	South African medical students to do two extra years
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1996;313:252 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Cut planned for dispensing doctors
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1996;313:252 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Russia is on brink of AIDS epidemic
	Miranda Ingram
	BMJ  1996;313:252 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Too many f words in politics
	BMJ  1996;313:252 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	St John's wort for depression--an overview and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials
	Klaus Linde, Gilbert Ramirez, Cynthia D Mulrow, Andrej Pauls, Wolfgang Weidenhammer, Dieter Melchart
	BMJ  1996;313:253-258 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Double blind randomised controlled trial of effect of metoprolol on myocardial ischaemia during endoscopic cholangiopancreatography
	Jacob Rosenberg, Helle Overgaard, Mette Andersen, Verner Rasmussen, Svend Schulze
	BMJ  1996;313:258-261 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Prospective study of the role of cardiac troponin T in patients admitted with unstable angina
	Peter Stubbs, Paul Collinson, David Moseley, Trevor Greenwood, Mark Noble
	BMJ  1996;313:262-264 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Characteristics of fatal methadone overdose in Manchester, 1985-94
	Alison Cairns, Ian S D Roberts, Emyr W Benbow
	BMJ  1996;313:264-265 [Full text] FREE

	Patients' awareness of adverse relation between Crohn's disease and their smoking: questionnaire survey
	P L Shields, T S Low-Beer
	BMJ  1996;313:265-266 [Full text] FREE

	Road traffic noise and psychiatric disorder: prospective findings from the Caerphilly study
	Stephen Stansfeld, John Gallacher, Wolfgang Babisch, Martin Shipley
	BMJ  1996;313:266-267 [Full text] FREE

	Retrospective study of influence of deprivation on uptake of cardiac rehabilitation
	Jill Pell, Alastair Pell, Caroline Morrison, Oliver Blatchford, Henry Dargie
	BMJ  1996;313:267-268 [Full text] FREE

	Schistosomiasis in travellers returning from sub-Saharan Africa
	John H Day, Alison D Grant, Justin F Doherty, Peter L Chiodini, Stephen G Wright
	BMJ  1996;313:268-269 [Full text] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	Prescribing injectable and oral methadone to opiate addicts: results from the 1995 national postal survey of community pharmacies in England and Wales
	John Strang, Janie Sheridan, Nick Barber
	BMJ  1996;313:270-272 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Role of community pharmacies in relation to HIV prevention and drug misuse: findings from the 1995 national survey in England and Wales
	Janie Sheridan, John Strang, Nick Barber, Alan Glanz
	BMJ  1996;313:272-274 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Uncool, unsmooth, unhealthy
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1996;313:306 [Full text] FREE

	The iceman's worms
	Bernard Dixon
	BMJ  1996;313:306 [Full text] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The NHS: there when you really need it?
	Alan Ferris
	BMJ  1996;313:308 [Full text] FREE

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Fighting Spirit: The Story of Women in the Bristol Breast Cancer Survey
	Irene M Peat
	BMJ  1996;313:309 [Full text] FREE

	A Primary Care-Led NHS: Putting it into Practice
	Chris Silagy
	BMJ  1996;313:309 [Full text] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Guidelines for authors and peer reviewers of economic submissions to the BMJ
	M F Drummond, T O Jefferson
	BMJ  1996;313:275-283 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Lesson of the Week: Potentially lethal bacterial infection associated with varicella zoster virus
	Andrew J Pollard, Austin Isaacs, E G Hermione Lyall, Nigel Curtis, Kwan Lee, Sam Walters, Michael Levin
	BMJ  1996;313:283-285 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Controversies in Management: Access should be denied
	H Lavender
	BMJ  1996;313:286-287 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Controversies in management: Denying access would do more harm than good
	P H Smee
	BMJ  1996;313:287 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Caring for Older People: Money problems and financial help
	Charlie Teale
	BMJ  1996;313:288-290 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	ABC of Work Related Disorders: OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA AND OTHER RESPIRATORY DISEASES
	Ira Madan
	BMJ  1996;313:291-294 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:310 [Full text] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A MEMORABLE PATIENT
	Richard Barnes
	BMJ  1996;313:261 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	My first week at Guy's 40 years ago
	Anthony Abrahams
	BMJ  1996;313:269 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1996;313:285 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	A PATIENT WHO CHANGED MY PRACTICE
	Colin Borland
	BMJ  1996;313:290 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	AN ANNIVERSARY
	Charles Mcgarrity
	BMJ  1996;313:294 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	The pitfalls in junior hospital doctors' contracts
	Jim Milligan, Bill Mayers
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: A new report from NB Selection Ltd, Recruiting consultant clinicians, ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: The chairman of the council of the Royal College of ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3a [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: Two thirds of women doctors prefer careers outside general practice ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3b [Full text] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

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

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Women behaving badly
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1996;313:307 [Full text] FREE

	Embargoes, boring but beneficial
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:307-308 [Full text] FREE

Career focus

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