Acute low back pain: a new paradigm for management
	Richard A Deyo
	BMJ  1996;313:1343-1344 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Funding research in the NHS
	Keith Peters, Richard Himsworth
	BMJ  1996;313:1344-1345 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Treating breast cancer before surgery
	Richard Epstein
	BMJ  1996;313:1345-1346 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Avoiding discrimination against disabled people
	Robin A F Cox
	BMJ  1996;313:1346-1347 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Age, ethnicity, and mental illness: a triple whammy
	Greta Rait, Alistair Burns, Carolyn Chew
	BMJ  1996;313:1347-1348 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	The global cigarette
	Nigel Gray
	BMJ  1996;313:1348 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Designer drinks and drunkenness among schoolchildren
	A Crawford, D T Allsop
	BMJ  1996;313:1397 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	More "alcopops" have come on market since study was done
	Mary-Ann McKibben
	BMJ  1996;313:1397 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	Neil McKeganey, Alasdair Forsyth, Marina Barnard, Gordon Hay
	BMJ  1996;313:1397-1398 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Algorithm to predict radiological erosions in early rheumatoid arthritis
	Paul Emery, Andrew Gough, Joe Devlin, Michael Green
	BMJ  1996;313:1398 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	Paul Brennan, Beverley Harrison, Alan Silman, Deborah Symmons
	BMJ  1996;313:1398 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Health workers and the baby food industry
	John Dobbing
	BMJ  1996;313:1398-1399 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Author's reply
	R K Anand
	BMJ  1996;313:1399 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	New developments in Nestle court case in India
	Tarsem Jindal
	BMJ  1996;313:1399 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Costs that would be incurred in establishing "difficult airway register" could be better spent
	Edmund Morris, Antony Osborne, Claire Jewkes
	BMJ  1996;313:1399 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Intravenous immunoglobulin in the Guillain-Barre syndrome
	H H M Hamdalla, C H Hawkes, E G Spokes, J M Bamford, P J Goulding
	BMJ  1996;313:1399-1400 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Products with low IgA content may be used in patients with total IgA deficiency
	Siraj Misbah
	BMJ  1996;313:1400 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Impact factors need to be improved
	Robert West
	BMJ  1996;313:1400 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Non-fatal overdosing is related to polydrug use in Glasgow
	Avril Taylor, Martin Frischer, David Goldberg
	BMJ  1996;313:1400-1401 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Private practice
	Mary G Barrington
	BMJ  1996;313:1401 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Same standards of staffing and equipment should apply in NHS and private sector
	Anne Savage
	BMJ  1996;313:1401 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Author is lucky that his waiting list can be managed quickly
	John C McGregor
	BMJ  1996;313:1401 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Many reasons exist for choosing private treatment
	Geoff Wilson
	BMJ  1996;313:1401-1402 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Insurers, doctors, and patients do not need to be apologetic about private treatment
	P J Gravett
	BMJ  1996;313:1402 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Jury is still out on National Blood Service
	P J Bowell
	BMJ  1996;313:1402 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Caring for older people
	L Robinson
	BMJ  1996;313:1402 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Carers need financial assistance to buy help
	Frada Eskin
	BMJ  1996;313:1402-1403 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Article omitted to mention Princess Royal Trust for Carers ..
	David Butler
	BMJ  1996;313:1403 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	...and Crossroads Association
	Pat Wallace, P Mayer
	BMJ  1996;313:1403 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Infants in Sandwell are screened for haemoglobinopathy gene
	Jammi N Rao, Sunil I Handa, Penelope J Stableforth, Jackie Martin, Helen Watson, Glenda Augustine
	BMJ  1996;313:1403 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Proportion of BMJ's editorials on medical subjects is decreasing
	Jonathan M Glass, Andrew Goldberg, Anuraj K Nigam
	BMJ  1996;313:1403-1404 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Standardising crash call numbers
	George P Findlay, Nick J Stallard
	BMJ  1996;313:1404 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	A recommendation already exists
	Michael Ward
	BMJ  1996;313:1404 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Goals and methods of audit should be reappraised
	John Bain
	BMJ  1996;313:1404-1405 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Evidence of effectiveness of audit in improving care is growing
	Richard Baker, Robin C Fraser
	BMJ  1996;313:1405 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Blood donated after vaccination with rabies vaccine derived from sheep brain cells might transmit CJD
	Subhash C Arya
	BMJ  1996;313:1405 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Royal Medical Benevolent Fund's Christmas appeal
	Josephine Barnes
	BMJ  1996;313:1405 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Race may be hard to define
	Carol Orchard
	BMJ  1996;313:1405 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;313:1405 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

News

This week's News

	Dutch anti-alcohol campaign is under attack
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;313:1349 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Joe Camel beware as doctors strike back
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  1996;313:1349 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	In Brief
	BMJ  1996;313:1350 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	US sets new priorities for liver transplants
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1996;313:1350 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Fears over Ebola spread as nurse dies
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  1996;313:1351 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Widow's case raises issues of informed consent
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:1351 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Hospitals are accident hotspots
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:1351 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Restrictions on paracetamol planned
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:1352 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Minister assures GPs over voluntary pilot studies
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:1352 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Mentally ill people face discrimination
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1996;313:1352 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Gene may code for anxiety
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:1353 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Unemployment quadruples among German doctors
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1996;313:1353 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Fetal retinal cells restore sight
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1996;313:1353 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Doctors and patients support right to die
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:1354 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Controversy surrounds home monitoring and diagnosis
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;313:1354 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Risk of diagnosis of ovarian cancer after raised serum CA 125 concentration: a prospective cohort study
	Ian J Jacobs, Steven Skates, Ann Prys Davies, Robert P Woolas, Arjun Jeyerajah, Pru Weidemann, Karen Sibley, David H Oram
	BMJ  1996;313:1355-1358 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Relation of caffeine intake and blood caffeine concentrations during pregnancy to fetal growth: prospective population based study
	Derek G Cook, Janet L Peacock, Colin Feyerabend, Iain M Carey, Martin J Jarvis, H Ross Anderson, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  1996;313:1358-1362 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Comparison of effect of cafetiere and filtered coffee on serum concentrations of liver aminotransferases and lipids: six month randomised controlled trial
	Rob Urgert, Saskia Meyboom, Marjan Kuilman, Henny Rexwinkel, Maud N Vissers, Mariska Klerk, Martijn B Katan
	BMJ  1996;313:1362-1366 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Ownership and uses of human tissue: Does the Nuffield bioethics report accord with opinion of surgical inpatients?
	R D Start, W Brown, R J Bryant, M W Reed, S S Cross, G Kent, J C E Underwood
	BMJ  1996;313:1366-1368 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Variation in local policies and guidelines for cholesterol management: national survey
	Rosalind Raine, Allison Streetly, Alan Maryon Davis
	BMJ  1996;313:1368-1369 [Full text] FREE

	NHS breast screening programme: is the high incidence of interval cancers inevitable?
	David Asbury, Caroline R M Boggis, David Sheals, Anthony G Threlfall, Ciaran B J Woodman
	BMJ  1996;313:1369-1370 [Full text] FREE

	Increased incidence of primary total hip replacement in rural communities
	Robert A Dunsmuir, David B Allan, Lindsay A G Davidson
	BMJ  1996;313:1370 [Full text] FREE

Information in practice

This week's Information in practice

	Telemedicine: a cautious welcome
	Richard Wootton
	BMJ  1996;313:1375-1377 [Full text] FREE

	Can telemedicine be used to improve communication between primary and secondary care?
	Robert Harrison, William Clayton, Paul Wallace
	BMJ  1996;313:1377-1380 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Commentary: Telemedicine trials--clinical pull or technology push?
	Jeremy C Wyatt
	BMJ  1996;313:1380-1381 [Full text] FREE

	Sentiweb: French communicable disease surveillance on the world wide web
	E Boussard, A Flahault, J-F Vibert, A-J Valleron
	BMJ  1996;313:1381-1382 [Full text] FREE

	Commentary: How good are the epidemiological data?
	Norman Noah
	BMJ  1996;313:1382-1383 [Full text] FREE

	Commentary: Public access to surveillance data
	John Williams
	BMJ  1996;313:1383 [Full text] FREE

	Commentary: Telepreventive medicine--the autobahn to health
	Ronald E LaPorte, for the Global Health Network
	BMJ  1996;313:1383-1384 [Full text] FREE

	Netlines
	BMJ  1996;313:1384 [Full text] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	Prevalence of potentially inappropriate long term prescribing in general practice in the United Kingdom, 1980-95: systematic literature review
	Stephen A Buetow, Bonnie Sibbald, Judith A Cantrill, Shirley Halliwell
	BMJ  1996;313:1371-1374 [Abstract] [Full text] [extra: Table 2] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	"Sorry, you won't be able to see this..."
	Bernard Dixon
	BMJ  1996;313:1407 [Full text] FREE

	Skylisia Zoe
	Judith Hollis-Triantafillou
	BMJ  1996;313:1407 [Full text] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	How to control the misuse of health services
	William G Pickering
	BMJ  1996;313:1408-1409 [Full text] FREE

	The degradation of Josip Broz
	Paul Aurora
	BMJ  1996;313:1409 [Full text] FREE

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Evidence Based Medicine--How to Practice and Teach EBM
	Kevin Jones
	BMJ  1996;313:1410 [Full text] FREE

	Skin Lesions
	Lorna Tapper Jones
	BMJ  1996;313:1410 [Full text] FREE

	Medical Information on the Internet
	BMJ  1996;313:1411 [Full text] FREE

	Health on the Internet
	Mark Pallen
	BMJ  1996;313:1411 [Full text] FREE

	Selection
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1996;313:1411 [Full text] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Fortnightly Review: Insulin resistance
	Andrew J Krentz
	BMJ  1996;313:1385-1389 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Are research ethics committees behaving unethically? Some suggestions for improving performance and accountability
	Julian Savulescu, Iain Chalmers, Jennifer Blunt
	BMJ  1996;313:1390-1393 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Contraceptive implants: long acting and provider dependent contraception raises concerns about freedom of choice
	M S Thompson
	BMJ  1996;313:1393-1395 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:1412 [Full text] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Fooled again
	Bill Stephens
	BMJ  1996;313:1395 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	How to organise a careers forum
	Caroline Anderson
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: If you find postgraduate education byzantine in its complexity, beset ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: 'Wastage' is human resources speak for trained workers who leave ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3a [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: How do you cite a career focus article? Using this ...
	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

	Looking living death in the face
	Naomi Craft
	BMJ  1996;313:1408 [Full text] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Hospital waiting lists increase • GPs quiz their leaders on core services • Medical students are worse off than other students • Consultation begins on genetic testing code • Medical managers call for better clinical audit training
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:1406 [Full text] FREE

Career focus

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