International investigation of outbreaks of foodborne disease
	Robert V Tauxe, James M Hughes
	BMJ  1996;313:1093-1094 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Outbreaks of salmonellosis
	John Cowden
	BMJ  1996;313:1094-1095 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Reproductive and sexual health in adolescents with cystic fibrosis
	Susan M Sawyer
	BMJ  1996;313:1095-1096 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Dyslexia: a hundred years on
	Margaret J Snowling
	BMJ  1996;313:1096-1097 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	The doctrine of early intervention
	Kg Sweeney, Dj Pereira Gray, Ph Evans, Rjf Steele
	BMJ  1996;313:1097 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Management of ovarian cysts
	J Salat-Baroux, Ph Merviel, F Kuttenn
	BMJ  1996;313:1098 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Cost effectiveness of lowering cholesterol
	J Shepherd
	BMJ  1996;313:1142 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Study greatly underestimates the cost effectiveness of statin treatment
	J J V McMurray, C E Morrison
	BMJ  1996;313:1142 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Study did not take account of confounders
	Alan Haycox, Stuart Barton, Tom Walley
	BMJ  1996;313:1142-1143 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Full treatment of the costs and benefits is needed
	A S Wierzbicki, T M Reynolds
	BMJ  1996;313:1143 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Statin treatment should be started early
	Paul Masters, Arun Shetty
	BMJ  1996;313:1143 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Costs in general practice
	Michael Robertson
	BMJ  1996;313:1143-1144 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	P D P Pharoah, W Hollingworth
	BMJ  1996;313:1144 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Medical staff suffered severe stress after earthquake in Kobe, Japan
	Masaharu Uemoto, Akio Inui, Masato Kasuga, Sachie Shindo, Hiroshi Taniguchi
	BMJ  1996;313:1144 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Bacterial superinfection in chickenpox
	Begona A Bovill, Barbara A Bannister
	BMJ  1996;313:1145 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	... but it can occur at any age
	Amanda J Barnes, Alison S Johnson, Maire P Shelly, Clive I Orton
	BMJ  1996;313:1145 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Demand for donated eggs by ethnic minority groups exceeds the supply
	M A Birdsall, J M Edwards
	BMJ  1996;313:1145 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Laparoscopy does have a role in tuberculous peritonitis
	J Hossain, M Kinirons, R R Lewis
	BMJ  1996;313:1145-1146 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
	Molly Cullen, Mark Bellis, Karen Tocque
	BMJ  1996;313:1146 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Study shows need for better communication between government and doctors
	Christopher Simpson, Stephen Dealler, Will Patterson
	BMJ  1996;313:1146-1147 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	En bloc paediatric renal transplantation is not always appropriate
	Peter Horton
	BMJ  1996;313:1147 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Giving vitamin K at birth
	Nick Lessof
	BMJ  1996;313:1147 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Paediatricians should return to policies of parenteral prophylaxis
	Javier Miranda, Ignacio Guemes
	BMJ  1996;313:1147 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Alternative theories about AIDS should not be dismissed out of hand
	Richard Strohman
	BMJ  1996;313:1147-1148 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Objective tests exist to aid diagnosis of hand-arm vibration syndrome
	I J Lawson, K L Mcgeoch
	BMJ  1996;313:1148 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Living wills do have legal effect provided certain criteria are met
	Steven Luttrell
	BMJ  1996;313:1148 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	GPs' responsibility for midwives' actions
	Caroline Flint
	BMJ  1996;313:1148 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Author's reply
	P D Thomas
	BMJ  1996;313:1148 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	An advisory committee on cancer registration has now been established
	Graham Winyard
	BMJ  1996;313:1149 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Choosing tomorrow's doctors
	Caron Grainger, Eleanor Harries
	BMJ  1996;313:1149 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Interviews should be structured or semistructured
	Mairead Boohan, Robert W Stout
	BMJ  1996;313:1149 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

News

This week's News

	NHS takeover of prison health service proposed
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:1099 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	In Brief
	BMJ  1996;313:1100 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	New variant CJD and BSE are linked
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:1100 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Mother wins right to refuse treatment for her child
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:1101 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Primary care bill is on its way
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:1101 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Angioplasty shows no benefit over thrombolysis
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1996;313:1102 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	HRT use in high risk women should be reviewed
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:1102 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Older, cheaper hip implants are best
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:1103 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Female genital mutilation outlawed in United States
	Norra Macready
	BMJ  1996;313:1103 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Health should gain in New Zealand coalition government
	Carmel Williams
	BMJ  1996;313:1103 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Dutch efficiency savings are hitting healthcare quality
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;313:1104 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	The paradox of prevention
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1996;313:1104 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	International epidemiological and microbiological study of outbreak of Salmonella agona infection from a ready to eat savoury snack--I: England and Wales and the United States
	D Killalea, L R Ward, D Roberts, J de Louvois, F Sufi, J M Stuart, P G Wall, M Susman, M Schwieger, P J Sanderson, I S T Fisher, P S Mead, O N Gill, C L R Bartlett, B Rowe
	BMJ  1996;313:1105-1107 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	International epidemiological and microbiological study of outbreak of Salmonella agona infection from a ready to eat savoury snack--II: Israel
	Tamy Shohat, Manfred S Green, Dafna Merom, O Noel Gill, Avi Reisfeld, Abraham Matas, Dvora Blau, Nitsa Gal, Paul E Slater
	BMJ  1996;313:1107-1109 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Role of puncture and aspiration in expectant management of simple ovarian cysts: a randomised study
	Gerardo Zanetta, Andrea Lissoni, Valter Torri, Cristina Dalla Valle, Diego Trio, Giovanni Rangoni, Costantino Mangioni
	BMJ  1996;313:1110-1113 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Child spacing and two child policy in practice in rural Vietnam: cross sectional survey
	H T Hoa, N V Toan, A Johansson, V T Hoa, B Hojer, L A Persson
	BMJ  1996;313:1113-1116 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Identifying reports of controlled trials in the BMJ and the Lancet
	Steven J McDonald, Carol Lefebvre, Michael J Clarke
	BMJ  1996;313:1116-1117 [Full text] FREE

	Informed consent in biomedical studies on aging: survey of four journals
	Marcel G M Olde Rikkert, Henk A M J ten Have, Willibrord H L Hoefnagels
	BMJ  1996;313:1117 [Full text] FREE

	High rate of antidepressant treatment in elderly people who commit suicide
	Margda Waern, Jan Beskow, Bo Runeson, Ingmar Skoog
	BMJ  1996;313:1118 [Full text] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	Risk factors for lower respiratory complications of rhinovirus infections in elderly people living in the community: prospective cohort study
	Karl G Nicholson, Julie Kent, Victoria Hammersley, Esperanza Cancio
	BMJ  1996;313:1119-1123 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Is the ratio of inhaled corticosteroid to bronchodilator a good indicator of the quality of asthma prescribing? Cross sectional study linking prescribing data to data on admissions
	Michael Shelley, Peter Croft, Stephen Chapman, Charles Pantin
	BMJ  1996;313:1124-1126 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	A woman's choice
	Judith Hollis-Triantafillou
	BMJ  1996;313:1151 [Full text] FREE

	Dying to know
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1996;313:1151 [Full text] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	The tale of two wards
	Matthew Juniper
	BMJ  1996;313:1152 [Full text] FREE

	There must be cost effective private health care
	Colin M Barron
	BMJ  1996;313:1152-1153 [Full text] FREE

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Scientific Basis of Health Services
	Stephen Leeder
	BMJ  1996;313:1154 [Full text] FREE

	Genetic Predisposition to Cancer
	Diana M Eccles
	BMJ  1996;313:1154-1155 [Full text] FREE

	A General Practitioner's Guide to Genitourinary Medicine and Sexual Health
	M R Fitzgerald
	BMJ  1996;313:1155 [Full text] FREE

	Selection
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1996;313:1155 [Full text] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Factor V Leiden: should we screen oral contraceptive users and pregnant women?
	Jan P Vandenbroucke, Felix J M van der Meer, Frans M Helmerhorst, Frits R Rosendaal
	BMJ  1996;313:1127-1130 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Grand Rounds--Hammersmith Hospital: A case of laboratory acquired brucellosis
	BMJ  1996;313:1130-1132 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	What happened to elderly people in the great Hanshin earthquake
	Noritoshi Tanida
	BMJ  1996;313:1133-1135 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	ABC of Work Related Disorders: LEGAL ASPECTS
	Martyn J F Davidson
	BMJ  1996;313:1136-1140 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:1156 [Full text] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Tall stories
	Hamish Nicol
	BMJ  1996;313:1123 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	ANY QUESTIONS
	Jeremy Beach
	BMJ  1996;313:1132 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	An acquaintance renewed
	Peter Rubin, Geoffrey Phillips
	BMJ  1996;313:1135 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;313:1149 [Full text] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Building a career portfolio in general practice
	Helen Crawley
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: Doctors are being deterred from entering academic medicine, which requires ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: Medical educators in the USA regularly agonise over the low ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3a [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: Clear goal setting, choosing a partner who shares them, and ...
	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

	Beneath the seamlessness of health
	Ian Robertson
	BMJ  1996;313:1153 [Full text] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	BMA criticises Benefits Agency Medical Service • All GPs should be involved in commissioning • BMA continues work on human rights • Practising in Europe • (pounds sterling)100m could be injected into GP premises • Crossing professional boundaries
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:1150 [Full text] FREE

Career focus

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