11 November 1995 (Vol 311, Issue 7015)

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News

GMC finds doctors not guilty in consent case

BMJ 1995;311:1245 (Published 11 November 1995)

Headlines

BMJ 1995;311:1246.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

WHO sets new guidelines for air pollution

BMJ 1995;311:1246.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Black and Asian nurses in the NHS report harassment

BMJ 1995;311:1247.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

French protest at health budget cuts

BMJ 1995;311:1247.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Doctor wins claim over patent ownership

BMJ 1995;311:1248.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Foreign doctors strike over new French law

BMJ 1995;311:1248.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Minister defends immunisation campaign

BMJ 1995;311:1249.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Health network will work to reduce poverty

BMJ 1995;311:1249.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Australian wins right to fight tobacco company

BMJ 1995;311:1250.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Litigation Authority to focus on malpractice

BMJ 1995;311:1250.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Editorials

Polyunsaturated fat and the risk of cancer

BMJ 1995;311:1239 (Published 11 November 1995)

Publishing information about patients

BMJ 1995;311:1240 (Published 11 November 1995)

Atopic eczema

BMJ 1995;311:1241 (Published 11 November 1995)

New arrangements for specialist training in Britain

BMJ 1995;311:1242 (Published 11 November 1995)

Evaluating new surgical procedures

BMJ 1995;311:1243 (Published 11 November 1995)

Corticosteroids in the management of croup

BMJ 1995;311:1244 (Published 11 November 1995)

Letters

Survey illustrates misconception of the Calman proposals

BMJ 1995;311:1298.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Nurses may make surgical house officers obsolete

BMJ 1995;311:1298.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Junior doctors' hours

BMJ 1995;311:1298.3 (Published 11 November 1995)

Flexible partial shifts should be made to work

BMJ 1995;311:1299.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Wong has support of retired physician

BMJ 1995;311:1299.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Wong should join Junior Doctors Committee

BMJ 1995;311:1299.3 (Published 11 November 1995)

Harmonising specialist training in Europe

BMJ 1995;311:1299.4 (Published 11 November 1995)

Summative assessment for general practitioner registrars

BMJ 1995;311:1299.5 (Published 11 November 1995)

Summative assessment will protect patients from incompetent GPs

BMJ 1995;311:1300.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Letters - continued

NRPB will provide advice on radiation

BMJ 1995;311:1300.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Bone mineral densitometry in clinical practice

BMJ 1995;311:1300.3 (Published 11 November 1995)

Different guidelines will yield different estimates of prevalence

BMJ 1995;311:1301.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1995;311:1301.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Comparing hospital and chiropractic treatment for back pain

BMJ 1995;311:1301.3 (Published 11 November 1995)

Results were clinically trivial

BMJ 1995;311:1302.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1995;311:1302.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Practical pulse oximetry

BMJ 1995;311:1302.3 (Published 11 November 1995)

Overnight oximetry is easy and useful

BMJ 1995;311:1302.4 (Published 11 November 1995)

Advance directives increase personal autonomy

BMJ 1995;311:1302.5 (Published 11 November 1995)

Prejudice against Basildon is unwarranted

BMJ 1995;311:1303.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Government health warnings may encourage adolescents to smoke

BMJ 1995;311:1303.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Misleading meta-analysis

BMJ 1995;311:1303.3 (Published 11 November 1995)

Subject to many potential biases

BMJ 1995;311:1303.4 (Published 11 November 1995)

Exercise reponses in the chronic fatigue syndrome

BMJ 1995;311:1304.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1995;311:1304.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Volume and mortality in coronary artery bypass grafting

BMJ 1995;311:1304.3 (Published 11 November 1995)

Medical library innovates on the Internet

BMJ 1995;311:1305.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Nurse triage increases emergency department waiting times

BMJ 1995;311:1305.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Charity appeals for contributions

BMJ 1995;311:1305.3 (Published 11 November 1995)

How the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund can help

BMJ 1995;311:1305.4 (Published 11 November 1995)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1995;311:1312 (Published 11 November 1995)

Fillers

A MEMORABLE PATIENT

BMJ 1995;311:1281 (Published 11 November 1995)

Papers

Fatty acid proportions in cholesterol esters and risk of premature death from cancer in middle aged French men

BMJ 1995;311:1251 (Published 11 November 1995)

Changes in population cholesterol concentrations and other cardiovascular risk factor levels after five years of the non-communicable disease intervention programme in Mauritius

BMJ 1995;311:1255 (Published 11 November 1995)

Papers - continued

Individual variation in plasma cholesterol response to dietary saturated fat

BMJ 1995;311:1260 (Published 11 November 1995)

Health effects of anticipation of job change and non-employment: longitudinal data from the Whitehall II study

BMJ 1995;311:1264 (Published 11 November 1995)

Bed sharing and the sudden infant death syndrome

BMJ 1995;311:1269 (Published 11 November 1995)

The incidence of malaria after splenectomy in Papua New Guinea

BMJ 1995;311:1273.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Commentary

BMJ 1995;311:1273.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Style matters

Protection of patients' rights to privacy

BMJ 1995;311:1272 (Published 11 November 1995)

General practice

Twelve month outcome of depression in general practice: does detection or disclosure make a difference?

BMJ 1995;311:1274 (Published 11 November 1995)

Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: Fungal nail disease: a guide to good practice (report of a Working Group of the British Society for Medical Mycology)

BMJ 1995;311:1277 (Published 11 November 1995)

Income distribution and life expectancy: a critical appraisal

BMJ 1995;311:1282 (Published 11 November 1995)

Commentary: A reply to Ken Judge: mistaken criticisms ignore overwhelming evidence

BMJ 1995;311:1285 (Published 11 November 1995)

Lesson of the Week: Infected right atrial thrombus presenting as pulmonary embolism complicating central venous cannulation

BMJ 1995;311:1288 (Published 11 November 1995)

ABC of Medical Computing: KEEPING YOUR COMPUTER HEALTHY AND LEGAL

BMJ 1995;311:1289 (Published 11 November 1995)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Litigation authority set up for the NHSGPs in inner London to get £35mReducing GPs' paperworkJuniors' contracts will be held by trusts in ScotlandMPs debate merits of commissioning and fundholdingGovernment updates health statistics

BMJ 1995;311:1306 (Published 11 November 1995)

Soundings

Evidence and ideology

BMJ 1995;311:1307.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Cleaning up

BMJ 1995;311:1307.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Medicine and the media

Conduct unbecoming

BMJ 1995;311:1308.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Substandard research or conspiracy?

BMJ 1995;311:1308.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Personal View

Dodgems or doctors, training or education?

BMJ 1995;311:1309 (Published 11 November 1995)

Medicine and books

Problem Drugs

BMJ 1995;311:1310.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Epidemiology of Work Related Diseases

BMJ 1995;311:1310.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Statistics in Clinical Practice

BMJ 1995;311:1311.1 (Published 11 November 1995)

Sexuality and Disability (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol 9, No 2)

BMJ 1995;311:1311.2 (Published 11 November 1995)

Correction

Correction

BMJ 1995;311:1287 (Published 11 November 1995)