27 January 1996 (Vol 312, Issue 7025)

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Editor's Choice

Editor's choice

BMJ 1996;312:7025 (Published 27 January 1996)

News

Mitterand book provokes storm in France

BMJ 1996;312:201.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Investigation of sex abuse in Irish hospital expands

BMJ 1996;312:201.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Headlines

BMJ 1996;312:202.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Steep rise reported in meningococcal infections

BMJ 1996;312:202.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

US teaching hospitals pay row

BMJ 1996;312:202.3 (Published 27 January 1996)

Doctors and lawyers unite on incapacity laws

BMJ 1996;312:203.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

German doctors protest against coded diagnoses

BMJ 1996;312:203.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Israel relaxes laws on food supplements

BMJ 1996;312:203.3 (Published 27 January 1996)

Scottish bed crisis leads to review on planning services

BMJ 1996;312:204.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

High court rules on trust's power to discipline

BMJ 1996;312:204.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Health secretary faces GPs to discuss primary care

BMJ 1996;312:205.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Patients try to save historic practice

BMJ 1996;312:205.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Judge criticises transplant blunder

BMJ 1996;312:205.3 (Published 27 January 1996)

Scottish royal college tackles pre-hospital care

BMJ 1996;312:206.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Scientists' new year: from dismal to delightful

BMJ 1996;312:206.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Editorials

Surprising new roles for endothelins

BMJ 1996;312:195 (Published 27 January 1996)

Genetic complexity in single gene diseases

BMJ 1996;312:196 (Published 27 January 1996)

Data protection, health care, and the new European directive

BMJ 1996;312:197 (Published 27 January 1996)

Thrombosis, phlebitis, and varicose veins

BMJ 1996;312:198 (Published 27 January 1996)

Children and sport

BMJ 1996;312:199 (Published 27 January 1996)

Shackling prisoners in hospital

BMJ 1996;312:200 (Published 27 January 1996)

Letters

Tropical medicine for the 21st century

BMJ 1996;312:247.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Tropical medicine should become specialty of “health in developing countries”

BMJ 1996;312:247.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Genitourinary medicine should remain a separate specialty

BMJ 1996;312:248.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Clinical care in resource poor countries is often provided by people outside the medical establishment

BMJ 1996;312:248.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Videotaping of general practice consultations

BMJ 1996;312:248.3 (Published 27 January 1996)

Letters - continued

Chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer

BMJ 1996;312:248.4 (Published 27 January 1996)

Quality of life was ignored in meta-analysis

BMJ 1996;312:249.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

It may not be ethical to ask patients to participate in future trials

BMJ 1996;312:249.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Allocating census data to general practice populations

BMJ 1996;312:249.3 (Published 27 January 1996)

Learning from primary care in developing countries

BMJ 1996;312:249.4 (Published 27 January 1996)

Outreach programme in Kenya was based on extensive community participation

BMJ 1996;312:250.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Authors overestimate role of barefoot doctors in China

BMJ 1996;312:250.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Association of Helicobacter pylori infection with coronary heart disease

BMJ 1996;312:250.3 (Published 27 January 1996)

Study confirms previous findings

BMJ 1996;312:251.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Association may not be causal

BMJ 1996;312:251.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Eradication of the infection on grounds of cardiovascular risk is not supported by current evidence

BMJ 1996;312:251.3 (Published 27 January 1996)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1996;312:252.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Increasing prescription of drugs for secondary prevention of myocardial infarction

BMJ 1996;312:252.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Lipid lowering drugs should be considered too

BMJ 1996;312:252.3 (Published 27 January 1996)

Managing cleft lip and palate

BMJ 1996;312:252.4 (Published 27 January 1996)

Risk of breast cancer is also increased among Danish female airline cabin attendants

BMJ 1996;312:253.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Effect of intensive treatment in insulin dependent diabetes mellitus with microalbuminuria

BMJ 1996;312:253.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Work in non-insulin diabetes corroborates study's findings

BMJ 1996;312:253.3 (Published 27 January 1996)

Interpretation of study's results is open to criticism

BMJ 1996;312:254.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1996;312:254.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Electronic mail may infect computers with viruses

BMJ 1996;312:254.3 (Published 27 January 1996)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1996;312:260 (Published 27 January 1996)

Fillers

A MEMORABLE PATIENT

BMJ 1996;312:244 (Published 27 January 1996)

Papers

Comparison of immunodeficiency and AIDS defining conditions in HIV negative and HIV postive men with haemophilia A

BMJ 1996;312:207 (Published 27 January 1996)

Commentary: non-HIV hypotheses must be studied more carefully

BMJ 1996;312:210 (Published 27 January 1996)

Response: Arguments contradict the “foreign protein-zidovudine” hypothesis

BMJ 1996;312:211 (Published 27 January 1996)

Magnitude of benefit from earlier thrombolytic treatment in acute myocardial infarction: new evidence from Grampian region early anistreplase trial (GREAT)

BMJ 1996;312:212 (Published 27 January 1996)

Papers - continued

Benefit from earlier thrombolytic therapy is certain, but what is the magnitude of benefit?

BMJ 1996;312:215 (Published 27 January 1996)

Outlook for survivors of childhood in sub-Saharan Africa: adult mortality in Tanzania

BMJ 1996;312:216 (Published 27 January 1996)

Low serum cholesterol concentration and serotonin metabolism in men

BMJ 1996;312:221 (Published 27 January 1996)

Value of the electrocardiogram in identifying heart failure due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction

BMJ 1996;312:222 (Published 27 January 1996)

General practice

Management of labour in an isolated rural maternity hospital

BMJ 1996;312:223 (Published 27 January 1996)

Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: Vascular dementia

BMJ 1996;312:227 (Published 27 January 1996)

Redesigning the journal: having your say

BMJ 1996;312:232.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Brief for the redesign of the BMJ

BMJ 1996;312:232.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

ABC of General Surgery in Children: SURGICALLY CORRECTABLE CAUSES OF VOMITING IN INFANCY

BMJ 1996;312:236 (Published 27 January 1996)

ABC of General Surgery in Children: NOTHING NEW

BMJ 1996;312:239 (Published 27 January 1996)

Altruism by proxy: volunteering children for bone marrow donation

BMJ 1996;312:240.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Protecting children from forced altruism: the legal approach

BMJ 1996;312:240.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Preventing children from donating may not be in their interests

BMJ 1996;312:240.3 (Published 27 January 1996)

Substantial harm but substantial benefit

BMJ 1996;312:241 (Published 27 January 1996)

Legal barriers might have catastrophic effects

BMJ 1996;312:242 (Published 27 January 1996)

Lesson of the Week: False localising signs in the spinal cord

BMJ 1996;312:243 (Published 27 January 1996)

Soundings

Points of disagreement

BMJ 1996;312:255.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Don't look now

BMJ 1996;312:255.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Personal Views

How could I breast feed with a man in the room?

BMJ 1996;312:256 (Published 27 January 1996)

Albanian orphans: have they a future?

BMJ 1996;312:257 (Published 27 January 1996)

Medicine and books

The Power of Life or Death: A Critique of Medical Tyranny

BMJ 1996;312:258.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Epithelial Cancer of the Ovary

BMJ 1996;312:258.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Medicine Worth Paying For: Assessing Medical Innovations

BMJ 1996;312:259.1 (Published 27 January 1996)

Urogynaecology: The Investigation and Management of Urinary Incontinence in Women

BMJ 1996;312:259.2 (Published 27 January 1996)

Correction

Correction

BMJ 1996;312:226 (Published 27 January 1996)