07 December 1996 (Vol 313, Issue 7070)

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Editor's Choice

Editor's choice

BMJ 1996;313:7070 (Published 7 December 1996)

News

US compensates subjects of radiation experiments

BMJ 1996;313:1421.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Patients do not read consent forms

BMJ 1996;313:1421.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Anatomy textbook has Nazi origins

BMJ 1996;313:1422.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Lessons still need to be learned from Nuremberg

BMJ 1996;313:1422.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Public supports euthanasia for most desperate cases

BMJ 1996;313:1423.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Euthanasia reporting is increasing but is still low

BMJ 1996;313:1423.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

In Brief

BMJ 1996;313:1424.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

E coli 0157 kills five people in Scotland

BMJ 1996;313:1424.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Faecal occult blood testing cuts deaths by a fifth

BMJ 1996;313:1425.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

China implements 10 rules for hospitals

BMJ 1996;313:1425.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Setback for French antiabortionists

BMJ 1996;313:1425.3 (Published 7 December 1996)

Private finance deal signed for Norfolk hospital

BMJ 1996;313:1426.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

NHS does well from British budget

BMJ 1996;313:1426.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Sixty medicines are blacklisted

BMJ 1996;313:1427.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Labour reveals plans to dismantle internal market

BMJ 1996;313:1427.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

British clinical academic staff win pay battle

BMJ 1996;313:1427.3 (Published 7 December 1996)

WHO steps up efforts against trachoma

BMJ 1996;313:1428.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Changing of the cancer guard

BMJ 1996;313:1428.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Editorials

War crimes and medical science

BMJ 1996;313:1413 (Published 7 December 1996)

Preventing genocide

BMJ 1996;313:1415 (Published 7 December 1996)

Hitler's plans for genocide: a speech from 1939

BMJ 1996;313:1416 (Published 7 December 1996)

Reducing paracetamol overdoses

BMJ 1996;313:1417 (Published 7 December 1996)

Thromboembolism in primary pulmonary hypertension

BMJ 1996;313:1418 (Published 7 December 1996)

Heart attacks and homocysteine

BMJ 1996;313:1419 (Published 7 December 1996)

Letters

Widow's fight for husband's sperm

BMJ 1996;313:1477.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Reply from chairman of BMA's medical ethics committee

BMJ 1996;313:1477.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

No one can give consent on behalf of an incompetent adult patient

BMJ 1996;313:1477.3 (Published 7 December 1996)

Allergy to peanut, nuts, and sesame seed in Australian children

BMJ 1996;313:1477.4 (Published 7 December 1996)

Peanut allergy

BMJ 1996;313:1478.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1996;313:1478.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Should breast reduction surgery be rationed?

BMJ 1996;313:1478.3 (Published 7 December 1996)

Interventions requested for psychological reasons should be studied

BMJ 1996;313:1479.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1996;313:1479.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Letters - continued

Fatal methadone overdose

BMJ 1996;313:1479.3 (Published 7 December 1996)

Naloxone infusion should have been started earlier

BMJ 1996;313:1479.4 (Published 7 December 1996)

Patient may have injected methadone while in hospital

BMJ 1996;313:1480.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Close observation in intensive care unit is required when naloxone infusion ends

BMJ 1996;313:1480.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1996;313:1480.3 (Published 7 December 1996)

Methadone treatment

BMJ 1996;313:1480.4 (Published 7 December 1996)

Only half of patients store methadone in safe place

BMJ 1996;313:1481.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Methadone concentrations taken as indicating deaths due to overdose need to be reviewed

BMJ 1996;313:1481.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Treatment in general practice can be successful

BMJ 1996;313:1481.3 (Published 7 December 1996)

Clinical judgment is important

BMJ 1996;313:1482.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Treating hypertension in elderly people

BMJ 1996;313:1482.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Editorial should have given more pragmatic goals for primary health care teams

BMJ 1996;313:1482.3 (Published 7 December 1996)

Communicating risk

BMJ 1996;313:1483.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Risks can also be categorised as normal or abnormal

BMJ 1996;313:1483.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Prescribing incentive scheme for non-fundholding general practices

BMJ 1996;313:1483.3 (Published 7 December 1996)

Reduction in prescribing cannot confidently be attributed to scheme

BMJ 1996;313:1484.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1996;313:1484.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Side effects of tamoxifen are distressing and common

BMJ 1996;313:1484.3 (Published 7 December 1996)

Value of milk tokens for breast feeding mothers should be increased

BMJ 1996;313:1484.4 (Published 7 December 1996)

Medical Practices Committee's surveys of vacancies in general practice look at all vacancies

BMJ 1996;313:1485.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Skin storage

BMJ 1996;313:1485.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Demand has outstripped supply in Sheffield's skin bank

BMJ 1996;313:1485.3 (Published 7 December 1996)

Propranolol is contraindicated in asthma

BMJ 1996;313:1486.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Sex differences in weight in infancy

BMJ 1996;313:1486.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Data from Sheffield support authors' findings

BMJ 1996;313:1486.3 (Published 7 December 1996)

Confusion over whether new technologies should be regulated at European or state level

BMJ 1996;313:1486.4 (Published 7 December 1996)

Ratio of waist circumference to height is better predictor of death than body mass index

BMJ 1996;313:1487.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Consensus statement on management of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism

BMJ 1996;313:1487.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Registers based in general practice are essential in long term surveillance

BMJ 1996;313:1488.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Thyroxine concentrations should be at upper end of reference range

BMJ 1996;313:1488.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

People with Down's syndrome should be screened

BMJ 1996;313:1488.3 (Published 7 December 1996)

Role of animal experiments in assessing drug safety needs clarification

BMJ 1996;313:1488.4 (Published 7 December 1996)

Patients should not be discouraged from entering trials

BMJ 1996;313:1488.5 (Published 7 December 1996)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1996;313:1496 (Published 7 December 1996)

Fillers

A MEMORABLE PATIENT

BMJ 1996;313:1439 (Published 7 December 1996)

A MEMORABLE PATIENT

BMJ 1996;313:1444 (Published 7 December 1996)

Papers

A comparison of aspirin and anticoagulation following thrombolysis for myocardial infarction (the AFTER study): a multicentre unblinded randomised clinical trial

BMJ 1996;313:1429 (Published 7 December 1996)

Suicides after pregnancy in Finland, 1987–94: register linkage study

BMJ 1996;313:1431 (Published 7 December 1996)

Association of cardiovascular disease risk factors with socioeconomic position during childhood and during adulthood

BMJ 1996;313:1434 (Published 7 December 1996)

A randomised controlled trial of psychological debriefing for victims of road traffic accidents

BMJ 1996;313:1438 (Published 7 December 1996)

General practice

Use of ankle brachial pressure index to predict cardiovascular events and death: a cohort study

BMJ 1996;313:1440 (Published 7 December 1996)

NUREMBERG

Informed consent in human experimentation before the Nuremberg code

BMJ 1996;313:1445 (Published 7 December 1996)

The Nuremberg Code (1947)

BMJ 1996;313:1448.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Declaration of Helsinki (1964)

BMJ 1996;313:1448.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

The anti-tobacco campaign of the Nazis: a little known aspect of public health in Germany, 1933–45

BMJ 1996;313:1450 (Published 7 December 1996)

Not a slippery slope or sudden subversion: German medicine and National Socialism in 1933

BMJ 1996;313:1453 (Published 7 December 1996)

Nuremberg lamentation: for the forgotten victims of medical science

BMJ 1996;313:1463 (Published 7 December 1996)

Human guinea pigs and the ethics of experimentation: the BMJ's correspondent at the Nuremberg medical trial

BMJ 1996;313:1467 (Published 7 December 1996)

Health sector response to security threats during the civil war in El Salvador

BMJ 1996;313:1470 (Published 7 December 1996)

Effect of sanctions on surgical practice

BMJ 1996;313:1474 (Published 7 December 1996)

NUREMBERG DOCTORS' TRIAL LETTER FROM IRAQ

Editor's choice (continued)

BMJ 1996;313:1475 (Published 7 December 1996)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

More teamwork needed to improve patient careMPs expose Quarry House “disaster”Hospitals told not to close emergency departmentsBMA calls for confidential firearms hotlineRural pharmacists win test caseBMA rejects terms for public health registrars

BMJ 1996;313:1489 (Published 7 December 1996)

Soundings

Too many people

BMJ 1996;313:1490.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Salt and other enemies

BMJ 1996;313:1490.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

A day Sheffield will never forget

BMJ 1996;313:1491 (Published 7 December 1996)

Personal Views

Sex and sin

BMJ 1996;313:1492 (Published 7 December 1996)

Can children be protected from the effects of war?

BMJ 1996;313:1493 (Published 7 December 1996)

Medicine and books

Treatment Without Consent: Law, Psychiatry and the Treatment of Mentally Disordered People Since 1845

BMJ 1996;313:1494.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

Reenchanted Science: Holism in Germany Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler

BMJ 1996;313:1494.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Euthanasia: death, dying and the medical duty

BMJ 1996;313:1495.1 (Published 7 December 1996)

One New Humanity: the Challenge of AIDS

BMJ 1996;313:1495.2 (Published 7 December 1996)

Career focus

Publish and prosper

BMJ 1996;313:S2-7070 (Published 7 December 1996)

Briefing

BMJ 1996;313:S3-7070 (Published 7 December 1996)

Briefing

BMJ 1996;313:S3a-7070 (Published 7 December 1996)

Briefing

BMJ 1996;313:S3b-7070 (Published 7 December 1996)