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08 July 1995 (Vol 311, Issue 6997)

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News

Cholera epidemic threatens Sierra Leone

BMJ 1995;311:77.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

NHS staff should work in developing world, says princess

BMJ 1995;311:77.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Headlines

BMJ 1995;311:78.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Syphilis soars in Russia

BMJ 1995;311:78.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Labour unveils its health reforms

BMJ 1995;311:79.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Court rules against suing in child abuse cases

BMJ 1995;311:79.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Colleges review continuing medical education

BMJ 1995;311:80.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Japan could unlock its people with leprosy

BMJ 1995;311:80.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Juveniles still sent to British prisons

BMJ 1995;311:81.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

French government cracks down on abortion protests

BMJ 1995;311:81.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

French prosthesis company accused of fraud

BMJ 1995;311:81.3 (Published 8 July 1995)

North-south divide does not explain British poverty

BMJ 1995;311:82.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

BMA needs a richer way to encourage participation

BMJ 1995;311:82.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Editorials

Structural adjustment and health

BMJ 1995;311:71 (Published 8 July 1995)

Is aid to developing countries hitting the spot?

BMJ 1995;311:72 (Published 8 July 1995)

Protecting adolescent girls against tetanus

BMJ 1995;311:73 (Published 8 July 1995)

Falls after strokes

BMJ 1995;311:74 (Published 8 July 1995)

Labour's health policy

BMJ 1995;311:75 (Published 8 July 1995)

Letters

Transfer of patients requiring

BMJ 1995;311:121.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Burr holes are within the remit of every competent surgeon

BMJ 1995;311:121.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Mr Percy's reply

BMJ 1995;311:121.3 (Published 8 July 1995)

Elective ventilation of potential organ donors

BMJ 1995;311:121.4 (Published 8 July 1995)

Intensive care units have good reasons not to do it

BMJ 1995;311:121.5 (Published 8 July 1995)

Written protocols do not solve difficulties

BMJ 1995;311:122.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Protocol balanced ethical principles

BMJ 1995;311:122.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Increase in incidence of tuberculosis

BMJ 1995;311:122.3 (Published 8 July 1995)

Bottle feeding and the sudden infant death syndrome

BMJ 1995;311:122.4 (Published 8 July 1995)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1995;311:123.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Diabetes and breast feeding

BMJ 1995;311:123.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Vitamin A deficiency

BMJ 1995;311:123.3 (Published 8 July 1995)

Use non-invasive dark adaptometry to screen children and adolescents

BMJ 1995;311:124.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Letters - continued

Effect of alfacalcidol on renal bone disease in mild to moderate renal failure

BMJ 1995;311:124.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Questions remain over alfacalcidol's efficacy in preventing secondary hyperparathyroidism

BMJ 1995;311:124.3 (Published 8 July 1995)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1995;311:124.4 (Published 8 July 1995)

Psychosis due to “skunk”

BMJ 1995;311:125.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Rationing is not inevitable

BMJ 1995;311:125.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Education and prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

BMJ 1995;311:125.3 (Published 8 July 1995)

A study of patients living in institutes may bias the findings

BMJ 1995;311:126.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Author's reply

BMJ 1995;311:126.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Promoting cost effective prescribing

BMJ 1995;311:126.3 (Published 8 July 1995)

More trials from general practice are needed

BMJ 1995;311:126.4 (Published 8 July 1995)

Cost effectiveness rapidly becomes cost containment

BMJ 1995;311:126.5 (Published 8 July 1995)

Fundholding and prescribing

BMJ 1995;311:127.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Similar savings in non-fundholding practices are not similarly rewarded

BMJ 1995;311:127.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Capitation payments would be fairer

BMJ 1995;311:127.3 (Published 8 July 1995)

High spending practices may benefit most from fundholding

BMJ 1995;311:128.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Patient dissatisfaction may be underreported

BMJ 1995;311:128.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Prescribing practice may have been inefficient

BMJ 1995;311:128.3 (Published 8 July 1995)

Reorganisation of prescribing practices should not be delayed

BMJ 1995;311:128.4 (Published 8 July 1995)

Most savings come from a small number of generic drugs

BMJ 1995;311:128.5 (Published 8 July 1995)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1995;311:128.6 (Published 8 July 1995)

Continuing medical education does not guarantee standards

BMJ 1995;311:129.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Use of albumin

BMJ 1995;311:129.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Roger's ants: a new pest in hospitals

BMJ 1995;311:129.3 (Published 8 July 1995)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1995;311:138 (Published 8 July 1995)

Fillers

A MEMORABLE PATIENT

BMJ 1995;311:92 (Published 8 July 1995)

WORDS TO THE WISE

BMJ 1995;311:98 (Published 8 July 1995)

A MEMORABLE OUTPATIENT

BMJ 1995;311:105 (Published 8 July 1995)

Papers

Incidence and consequences offalls due to stroke: a systematic inquiry

BMJ 1995;311:83 (Published 8 July 1995)

Birth weights of infants of first generation Asian women in Britain compared with second generation Asian women

BMJ 1995;311:86 (Published 8 July 1995)

Fatal renal failure caused by diethylene glycol in paracetamol elixir: the Bangladesh epidemic

BMJ 1995;311:88 (Published 8 July 1995)

Papers - continued

Changes in body weight and incidence of hip fracture among middle aged Norwegians

BMJ 1995;311:91 (Published 8 July 1995)

General practice

Randomised controlled trial of teaching general practitioners to carry out structured assessments of their long term mentally ill patients

BMJ 1995;311:93 (Published 8 July 1995)

Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: The treatment of gall stones

BMJ 1995;311:99 (Published 8 July 1995)

ABC of Medical Computing: GETTING YOUR COMPUTER UP AND RUNNING

BMJ 1995;311:106 (Published 8 July 1995)

Qualitative Research: Rigour and qualitative research

BMJ 1995;311:109 (Published 8 July 1995)

How To Do It: Work in a developing country

BMJ 1995;311:113 (Published 8 July 1995)

Ethical Debate: Doctors' legal position in treating temporarily incompetent patients

BMJ 1995;311:115.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Ethical Debate: Case history: head injury and drunkenness

BMJ 1995;311:115.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Ethical Debate: Case history: serious drug overdoses

BMJ 1995;311:115.3 (Published 8 July 1995)

Ethical Debate: Legal issues

BMJ 1995;311:116 (Published 8 July 1995)

Ethical Debate: Presumption of incompetence

BMJ 1995;311:117.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Ethical Debate: Doctors' duty to patients

BMJ 1995;311:117.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Ethical Debate: Practical ethics

BMJ 1995;311:118.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Ethical Debate: Providing treatment against a patient's wishes

BMJ 1995;311:118.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

The BMA annual representative meetingDoctors oppose resiting of juniors' contractsPrivate hospital given kiss of lifeFrom the local medical committee conferenceThere should be an alternative to target net remunerationCore element of general medical servi…

BMJ 1995;311:130 (Published 8 July 1995)

Soundings

Out of the mouths..

BMJ 1995;311:132.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Eating well

BMJ 1995;311:132.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Personal Views

The NHS benefits from doctors working abroad

BMJ 1995;311:133 (Published 8 July 1995)

Mutiny in the cholera centre

BMJ 1995;311:134 (Published 8 July 1995)

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Partial truths

BMJ 1995;311:135.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Lifestyle advice from Planet Granada

BMJ 1995;311:135.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Medicine and books

Out in the Cold: Academic Boycotts and the Isolation of South Africa

BMJ 1995;311:136.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

Obstetric Myths versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature

BMJ 1995;311:136.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Emergencies in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

BMJ 1995;311:137.1 (Published 8 July 1995)

The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950

BMJ 1995;311:137.2 (Published 8 July 1995)

Correction

Correction

BMJ 1995;311:129.4 (Published 8 July 1995)