04 November 1995 (Vol 311, Issue 7014)

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News

Tighter medical controls proposed for boxing

BMJ 1995;311:1183.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

Dutch doctor given suspended sentence over euthanasia case

BMJ 1995;311:1183.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Headlines

BMJ 1995;311:1184.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

New York attacks raccoon rabies from the air

BMJ 1995;311:1184.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Health chiefs review London's helicopter ambulance service

BMJ 1995;311:1185.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

Patients given LSD may be able to claim compensation

BMJ 1995;311:1185.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Mandatory rural practice proposed in India

BMJ 1995;311:1186 (Published 4 November 1995)

Prenatal testing leads to row in the Netherlands

BMJ 1995;311:1187.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

Half a million French are infected with hepatitis C virus

BMJ 1995;311:1187.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Comparative advertising draft worries GMC

BMJ 1995;311:1188.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

Republicans subtly reform US medicine

BMJ 1995;311:1188.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Editorials

“Variations” in health

BMJ 1995;311:1177 (Published 4 November 1995)

Antenatal screening for carriers of hepatitis B virus

BMJ 1995;311:1178 (Published 4 November 1995)

Second opinions for patients with cancer

BMJ 1995;311:1179 (Published 4 November 1995)

European Union policy and health

BMJ 1995;311:1180 (Published 4 November 1995)

Computer based prescribing

BMJ 1995;311:1181 (Published 4 November 1995)

Letters

Gambling with the nation's health?

BMJ 1995;311:1225.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

Lottery has Orwellian resonances

BMJ 1995;311:1225.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Inability to reason statistically is prime cause of lottery fever

BMJ 1995;311:1225.3 (Published 4 November 1995)

Majority of secondary school children buy tickets

BMJ 1995;311:1225.4 (Published 4 November 1995)

Doctors should concentrate on more serious issues

BMJ 1995;311:1226.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

On sex education at school

BMJ 1995;311:1226.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Dutch surprise at British question

BMJ 1995;311:1226.3 (Published 4 November 1995)

Early education about contraception is needed

BMJ 1995;311:1226.4 (Published 4 November 1995)

Non-didactic methods are preferable

BMJ 1995;311:1226.5 (Published 4 November 1995)

Migraine runs in families ..

BMJ 1995;311:1227.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

Letters - continued

Authors' reply

BMJ 1995;311:1227.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Screening for intracranial aneurysms

BMJ 1995;311:1227.3 (Published 4 November 1995)

Paper is ambiguous about number with proven aneurysm

BMJ 1995;311:1228.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1995;311:1228.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Career choices for generation X

BMJ 1995;311:1228.3 (Published 4 November 1995)

Controversy over new data on oral contraceptives

BMJ 1995;311:1228.4 (Published 4 November 1995)

GPs were swamped by calls

BMJ 1995;311:1228.5 (Published 4 November 1995)

Perception of risk is affected by presentation

BMJ 1995;311:1229.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

Screening for diabetic retinopathy

BMJ 1995;311:1229.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Services are still patchy in Britain

BMJ 1995;311:1229.3 (Published 4 November 1995)

GPs in south London have direct access to screening service

BMJ 1995;311:1229.4 (Published 4 November 1995)

Annual retinal photography is not an option in India

BMJ 1995;311:1230.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

Screening should be organised by GPs

BMJ 1995;311:1230.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Note

BMJ 1995;311:1230.3 (Published 4 November 1995)

Approaching 90% sensitivity with new techniques

BMJ 1995;311:1230.4 (Published 4 November 1995)

Author's reply

BMJ 1995;311:1231.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

The new deal revisited

BMJ 1995;311:1231.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Survey showed most anaesthetists have no experience of shifts

BMJ 1995;311:1231.3 (Published 4 November 1995)

Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis

BMJ 1995;311:1232.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

Combined oral contraceptives and thromboembolism

BMJ 1995;311:1232.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1995;311:1238 (Published 4 November 1995)

Papers

UKCCCR multicentre randomised controlled trial of one and two view mammography in breast cancer screening

BMJ 1995;311:1189 (Published 4 November 1995)

Prospective study of endogenous sex hormones and fatal cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women

BMJ 1995;311:1193 (Published 4 November 1995)

BMJ audit: time to decisions and publication

BMJ 1995;311:1196.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Proposal for routine antenatal screening at 14 weeks for hepatitis B surface antigen

BMJ 1995;311:1197 (Published 4 November 1995)

Programme for preventing perinatal hepatitis B infection through screening of pregnant women and immunisation of infants of infected mothers in the Netherlands, 1989-92

BMJ 1995;311:1200 (Published 4 November 1995)

Papers - continued

Low weight gain in infancy and suicide in adult life

BMJ 1995;311:1203 (Published 4 November 1995)

Drug points: Artificial colourings and adverse reactions

BMJ 1995;311:1204.1 (Published 28 January 1995)

Drug points: Painful dysaesthesia with ciprofloxacin

BMJ 1995;311:1204.2 (Published 28 January 1995)

Drug points: High fever induced by sulphasalazine

BMJ 1995;311:1204.3 (Published 28 January 1995)

Drug points: Angio-oedema associated with risperidone

BMJ 1995;311:1204.4 (Published 28 January 1995)

Filler

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

BMJ 1995;311:1202 (Published 4 November 1995)

The importance of friendship

BMJ 1995;311:1221 (Published 4 November 1995)

General practice

Prospective study of trends in referral patterns in fundholding and non-fundholding practices in the Oxford region, 1990-4

BMJ 1995;311:1205 (Published 4 November 1995)

Urinary incontinence: long term effectiveness of nursing intervention in primary care

BMJ 1995;311:1208 (Published 4 November 1995)

Education and debate

Recent Advances: Obstetrics

BMJ 1995;311:1209 (Published 4 November 1995)

Lesson of the Week: Don't twist my child's head off: iatrogenic cervical dislocation

BMJ 1995;311:1212 (Published 4 November 1995)

Treatment for children with brain tumours

BMJ 1995;311:1213 (Published 4 November 1995)

Is there a moral obligation not to infect others?

BMJ 1995;311:1215 (Published 4 November 1995)

ABC of Medical Computing: DIGITAL IMAGING

BMJ 1995;311:1218 (Published 4 November 1995)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Specialist registrar grade will start on 1 DecemberPrimary care is unequally funded, claims reportJuniors given advice on lodging charges

BMJ 1995;311:1233 (Published 4 November 1995)

Soundings

Keeping fit

BMJ 1995;311:1234.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

The one that got away

BMJ 1995;311:1234.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Medicine and the media

Child B is revealed

BMJ 1995;311:1235.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

Brave new world of transplant technology

BMJ 1995;311:1235.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Personal View

Relief versus development

BMJ 1995;311:1236 (Published 4 November 1995)

Medicine and books

Hypertension for the Clinician

BMJ 1995;311:1237.1 (Published 4 November 1995)

Practical Rheumatology

BMJ 1995;311:1237.2 (Published 4 November 1995)

Correction

Correction

BMJ 1995;311:1196.1 (Published 4 November 1995)