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20 April 1996 (Vol 312, Issue 7037)

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Editor's choice

BMJ 1996;312:7037 (Published 20 April 1996)

News

French doctors may strike against reforms

BMJ 1996;312:993.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Belgian doctors' freedom to be guaranteed

BMJ 1996;312:993.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Headlines

BMJ 1996;312:994.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

China tightens up traditional Chinese medicine courses

BMJ 1996;312:994.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Irish psychiatric workers criticised

BMJ 1996;312:994.3 (Published 20 April 1996)

Nets cut malaria deaths by a third

BMJ 1996;312:995.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Scottish court will rule on withdrawing treatment

BMJ 1996;312:995.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Pill scare linked to rise in abortions

BMJ 1996;312:996.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Male pill could soon be reality

BMJ 1996;312:996.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Poverty spreads among children in Britain

BMJ 1996;312:996.3 (Published 20 April 1996)

France tackles psychotropic drug problem

BMJ 1996;312:997.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

US could ban patents on medical procedures

BMJ 1996;312:997.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Hospital computers fail to cut costs

BMJ 1996;312:997.3 (Published 20 April 1996)

Britain will not legislate on public smoking

BMJ 1996;312:998.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Labour targets the chief medical officer

BMJ 1996;312:998.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Editorials

Income inequality and mortality: why are they related?

BMJ 1996;312:987 (Published 20 April 1996)

Potential transmission of BSE via medicinal products

BMJ 1996;312:988 (Published 20 April 1996)

Shortage of organs for transplantation

BMJ 1996;312:989 (Published 20 April 1996)

Landmines: time for an international ban

BMJ 1996;312:990 (Published 20 April 1996)

The continuing rise in emergency admissions

BMJ 1996;312:991 (Published 20 April 1996)

Letters

Adjuvant treatment with tamoxifen

BMJ 1996;312:1036.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Local research ethics committees should review their approval of prevention trial

BMJ 1996;312:1036.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Recruitment into studies assessing optimum duration of treatment must continue

BMJ 1996;312:1036.3 (Published 20 April 1996)

Multicentre trial should be welcomed

BMJ 1996;312:1037.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Letters - continued

Clinicians must share knowledge with their patients more readily

BMJ 1996;312:1037.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy

BMJ 1996;312:1037.3 (Published 20 April 1996)

Doctors and scientists must be able to communicate degree of risk

BMJ 1996;312:1037.4 (Published 20 April 1996)

…but members of the public make up their own minds about risks

BMJ 1996;312:1038.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Advisory committee's conclusion was based on “absence of any credible alternative”

BMJ 1996;312:1038.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Government policy has failed

BMJ 1996;312:1038.3 (Published 20 April 1996)

Risk to human populations is remote

BMJ 1996;312:1038.4 (Published 20 April 1996)

Plasma lactate and blood cyanide in acute cyanide poisoning

BMJ 1996;312:1039.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1996;312:1039.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Vocational training schemes in south London have been improved

BMJ 1996;312:1039.3 (Published 20 April 1996)

Florence Nightingale's fever

BMJ 1996;312:1040.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Men's health: don't blame the victims

BMJ 1996;312:1040.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Ethnic differences in outcome of serum screening for Down's syndrome

BMJ 1996;312:1040.3 (Published 20 April 1996)

For appreciable ethnic differences in false positive rates, use different cut off points

BMJ 1996;312:1041.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Median values and maternal weight specific to the ethnic group should be used

BMJ 1996;312:1041.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

When marginal costs and benefits should be used in screening

BMJ 1996;312:1041.3 (Published 20 April 1996)

Supervised discharge is anachronistic

BMJ 1996;312:1042.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Junior doctors' hours

BMJ 1996;312:1042.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Junior doctors need to have time for their lives outside medicine

BMJ 1996;312:1042.3 (Published 20 April 1996)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1996;312:1048 (Published 20 April 1996)

Fillers

TWO PATIENTS WHO DETERMINED MY CAREER

BMJ 1996;312:1020 (Published 20 April 1996)

Papers

Inequality in income and mortality in the United States: analysis of mortality and potential pathways

BMJ 1996;312:999 (Published 20 April 1996)

Income distribution and mortality: cross sectional ecological study of the Robin Hood index in the United States

BMJ 1996;312:1004 (Published 20 April 1996)

Papers - continued

Socioeconomic determinants of rates of consultation in general practice based on fourth national morbidity survey of general practices

BMJ 1996;312:1008 (Published 20 April 1996)

Commentary: The basis of a more rational method of funding primary medical care?

BMJ 1996;312:1012 (Published 20 April 1996)

Does the variation in the socioeconomic characteristics of an area affect mortality?

BMJ 1996;312:1013 (Published 20 April 1996)

Effect of inadvertent intradermal administration of high dose percutaneous BCG vaccine

BMJ 1996;312:1014 (Published 20 April 1996)

Functional disability and antibody response to influenza vaccine in elderly patients in a Dutch nursing home

BMJ 1996;312:1015 (Published 20 April 1996)

General practice

Measuring outcomes in primary care: a patient generated measure, MYMOP, compared with the SF-36 health survey

BMJ 1996;312:1016 (Published 20 April 1996)

Education and debate

Recent Advances: Medical genetics

BMJ 1996;312:1021 (Published 20 April 1996)

All together now: why social deprivation matters to everyone

BMJ 1996;312:1026 (Published 20 April 1996)

Grand Rounds—Hammersmith Hospital: A physiology classic revisited after 60 years

BMJ 1996;312:1029 (Published 20 April 1996)

ABC of Urology: UROLOGICAL MALIGNANCY—1: PROSTATE CANCER

BMJ 1996;312:1032 (Published 20 April 1996)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

NHS is being dismantled, BMA chairman declaresJunior doctors call for new medical schoolChanges made to consultant appointment procedures

BMJ 1996;312:1043 (Published 20 April 1996)

Soundings

We know why they die

BMJ 1996;312:1044.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Vertical integration

BMJ 1996;312:1044.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Personal View

Visions of anaesthesia hell

BMJ 1996;312:1045 (Published 20 April 1996)

Medicine and books

Who Should We Treat? Law, Patients and Resources in the NHS

BMJ 1996;312:1046.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Prescribing in General Practice

BMJ 1996;312:1046.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Extending Primary Care: Polyclinics, Resource Centres, Hospitals-at-Home

BMJ 1996;312:1047.1 (Published 20 April 1996)

Selection

BMJ 1996;312:1047.2 (Published 20 April 1996)

Corrections

Correction

BMJ 1996;312:992 (Published 20 April 1996)

Correction

BMJ 1996;312:1007 (Published 20 April 1996)