Congenital anterior abdominal wall defects
	Lyn Chitty, Joseph Iskaros
	BMJ  1996;313:891-892 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Intracoronary stents
	Neal G Uren, Nicolas Af Chronos
	BMJ  1996;313:892-893 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Lactational amenorrhoea method for family planning
	Paul Fa Van Look
	BMJ  1996;313:893-894 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Barriers to evidence based policy
	Dominique Florin
	BMJ  1996;313:894-895 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Drug delivery from inhaler devices
	Hans Bisgaard
	BMJ  1996;313:895-896 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Cancer registration: integrate or disintegrate?
	N E Day, T W Davies
	BMJ  1996;313:896 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Home ventilation of a child with motor and sensory neuropathy
	Fraser M Hadden
	BMJ  1996;313:940 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Central funding and a central resource providing information are needed
	Ian Barker
	BMJ  1996;313:940 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Study aims to set up national database of children receiving ventilatory support
	E Jardine, C Wallis
	BMJ  1996;313:940-941 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	GPs need to be more proactive in providing health care to teenagers
	Nicola Cowap
	BMJ  1996;313:941 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Survival of patients initially resuscitated from out of hospital cardiac arrest
	Ian Hatcher
	BMJ  1996;313:941 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Author's reply
	S M Cobbe
	BMJ  1996;313:941 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Data on eligibility for thrombolytic treatment cannot be generalised
	Adam D Timmis
	BMJ  1996;313:941 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Sunscreens, suntans, and skin cancer
	J F B Norris
	BMJ  1996;313:941-942 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	People do not apply enough sunscreen for protection
	B L Diffey
	BMJ  1996;313:942 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Knowledge about sunscreens is inadequate
	Colin Fleming, Rona Mackie
	BMJ  1996;313:942 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Much effort is spent on treating drug misusers in prison
	P L Armitage
	BMJ  1996;313:942 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Community leg ulcer clinics
	R Sheehan-Dare
	BMJ  1996;313:942-943 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Early vascular assessment should be carried out
	Saboor Ghauri, Isaac Nyamekye, Keith Poskitt, J R Farndon
	BMJ  1996;313:943 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	Deborah A Simon, Charles N Mccollum
	BMJ  1996;313:943 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Reference range for potassium concentration is lower in Barbados than Europe
	Egbert Gibson
	BMJ  1996;313:943 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Misdiagnosing the persistent vegetative state
	Derick T Wade
	BMJ  1996;313:943-944 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Misdiagnosis certainly occurs
	Nancy L Childs, Walt N Mercer
	BMJ  1996;313:944 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Young female doctors report achieving fewer surgical skills than young male doctors
	Geir Falck, Guttorm Brattebo
	BMJ  1996;313:944 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Advertisement for toremifene
	Chris Twelves, Adrian Harnett
	BMJ  1996;313:944-945 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Manufacturer's reply
	Martin C Eagle
	BMJ  1996;313:945 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Community pharmacists are increasingly supervising treatments
	Robert Scott, Howard Mcnulty
	BMJ  1996;313:945 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Septic arthritis in osteoarthritic hips
	D C Howlett
	BMJ  1996;313:945 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	F J Gilbert, D J Knight, J D Hutchison
	BMJ  1996;313:945 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	More emergency insulin distribution projects should be set up
	Ron Raab
	BMJ  1996;313:945-946 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Stress in general practice
	Dick Davies
	BMJ  1996;313:946 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	General practitioners must educate patients in the appropriate use of services
	Nick Bottone
	BMJ  1996;313:946 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	American guidelines on managed care are not the answer
	Rhian Evans
	BMJ  1996;313:946 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Statistics should reflect existence of two Indias
	B Ramamurthi
	BMJ  1996;313:946 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

News

This week's News

	Pesticide link with Gulf war syndrome
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:897 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	BMJ faces (pounds sterling)107000 bill over libel case
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:897 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;313:898 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Smoke does get in your eyes
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1996;313:898 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Widow backed in legal fight for husband's sperm
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:898 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	French doctors strike over night visits
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;313:899 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	South African doctors work to rule
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1996;313:899 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Push to allow relatives to witness resuscitation
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:899 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Half of German doctors were Nazis
	David Woods
	BMJ  1996;313:900 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Australia to reintroduce quotas on foreign doctors
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1996;313:900 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Flu jab cuts hospital admissions by two thirds
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:901 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Furore in Norway over private practice clampdown
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1996;313:901 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	New Zealand's voters focus on health
	Carmel Williams
	BMJ  1996;313:901 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Prozac linked with minor birth defects
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1996;313:902 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Shooting the messenger
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1996;313:902 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Congenital anterior abdominal wall defects in England and Wales 1987-93: retrospective analysis of OPCS data
	Kelvin H Tan, Mark D Kilby, Martin J Whittle, Bryan R Beattie, Ian W Booth, Beverley J Botting
	BMJ  1996;313:903-906 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Life expectancy in men who have never smoked and those who have smoked continuously: 15 year follow up of large cohort of middle aged British men
	Andrew N Phillips, S Goya Wannamethee, Mary Walker, Andy Thomson, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:907-908 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Effectiveness of lactational amenorrhoea in prevention of pregnancy in Manila, the Philippines: non-comparative prospective trial
	Rebecca Ramos, Kathy Irene Kennedy, Cynthia M Visness
	BMJ  1996;313:909-912 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Effectiveness of the BBC's 999 training roadshows on cardiopulmonary resuscitation: video performance of cohort of unforewarned participants at home six months afterwards
	C Ll Morgan, P D Donnelly, C A Lester, D H Assar
	BMJ  1996;313:912-916 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	House dust mite allergen in pillows
	T J Kemp, R W Siebers, D Fishwick, G B O'Grady, P Fitzharris, J Crane
	BMJ  1996;313:916 [Full text] FREE

	Improving uptake of prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism in general surgical patients using prospective audit
	Ged J Byrne, Mark J McCarthy, Stanley H Silverman
	BMJ  1996;313:917 [Full text] FREE

	Continuing medical education and training for associate specialists: results of a survey in Yorkshire
	Rosemary Macdonald, Mohib A Khan, Carol Singleton
	BMJ  1996;313:918 [Full text] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	Postal questionnaire study of disability in the community associated with psoriasis
	Patrick O'Neill, Peter Kelly
	BMJ  1996;313:919-921 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Relation between general practitioners' prescribing of antibacterial drugs and their use of laboratory tests
	Michael C Kelsey, George A Kouloumas, Peter A Lamport, Cheryl L Davis
	BMJ  1996;313:922 [Full text] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Is it a mortgage? Is it a photocopier? No..
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1996;313:948 [Full text] FREE

	Obsolete jingoism
	Tony Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:948 [Full text] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Bureaucracy gone mad
	Peter Wenham
	BMJ  1996;313:949 [Full text] FREE

	Consultant vacancies in the NHS--a short term solution?
	Peter Sykes
	BMJ  1996;313:949-950 [Full text] FREE

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Care in Chaos
	Julian Leff
	BMJ  1996;313:951 [Full text] FREE

	Occupation and Disease
	Peter Brooks
	BMJ  1996;313:951 [Full text] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	For Debate: Collecting ethnic group data for inpatients: is it useful?
	Claire Hilton
	BMJ  1996;313:923-925 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Lesson of the Week: Methadone maintenance and tuberculosis treatment
	Duncan Raistrick, Alistair Hay, Kim Wolff
	BMJ  1996;313:925-926 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Caring for Older People: Aids to compliance with medication
	A J Corlett
	BMJ  1996;313:926-929 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Passive smoking and health: should we believe Philip Morris's "experts"?
	George Davey Smith, Andrew N Phillips
	BMJ  1996;313:929-933 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	ABC of Work Related Disorders: ASSESSING FITNESS FOR WORK
	William Davies
	BMJ  1996;313:934-938 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:952 [Full text] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	ANY QUESTIONS
	Paul N Durrington
	BMJ  1996;313:921 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	A memorable patient
	Gregor Mannes
	BMJ  1996;313:933 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Career counselling in general practice
	Ruth Chambers
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: Inclusion on the GMC's specialist register will be compulsory for ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: The penultimate tranche of 17 specialties made the transition to ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3a [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

	The Elvis of pharmaceuticals
	Carl Elliott
	BMJ  1996;313:950 [Full text] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	New Scottish CMO criticises training reforms • Non-principal GPs will have their own committee • BMA warns of growing inequalities in healthcare • New pay system agreed for Medical Research Council staff • Changes agreed to PLAB test • Do performance indicators have a role in health promotion?
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:947 [Full text] FREE

Career focus

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