06 July 1996 (Vol 313, Issue 7048)

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Editorials

Storage and disposal of embryos and gametes

BMJ 1996;313:1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Career preferences of doctors

BMJ 1996;313:2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Careers advice for doctors

BMJ 1996;313:3.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Placebo mania

BMJ 1996;313:3.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Measuring diastolic blood pressure in pregnancy

BMJ 1996;313:4 (Published 6 July 1996)

Misdiagnosing the persistent vegetative state

BMJ 1996;313:5 (Published 6 July 1996)

Measuring health outcomes

BMJ 1996;313:6 (Published 6 July 1996)

Letters

Declining sperm count

BMJ 1996;313:43.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Data from two groups should not have been combined in analysis

BMJ 1996;313:43.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Results cannot be generalised

BMJ 1996;313:43.3 (Published 6 July 1996)

Rise in semen quality between 1970 and 1990 in meta-analysis was non-significant

BMJ 1996;313:44.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Recent decline may be relatively late stage of long term process

BMJ 1996;313:44.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Results of Scottish study may be due to confounding with age

BMJ 1996;313:44.3 (Published 6 July 1996)

Increasing evidence that Young's syndrome is associated with mercury

BMJ 1996;313:44.4 (Published 6 July 1996)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1996;313:44.5 (Published 6 July 1996)

Extrapyramidal signs should be sought more often in Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 1996;313:45.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Directly observed treatment for tuberculosis

BMJ 1996;313:45.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Treatment strategies will need to be changed because of drug resistance

BMJ 1996;313:45.3 (Published 6 July 1996)

Strategic plans for vascular services have not been put into effect

BMJ 1996;313:46.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Evidence for efficacy of topical acyclovir in recurrent herpes labialis is weak

BMJ 1996;313:46.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Neonatal circumcision and penile cancer

BMJ 1996;313:46.3 (Published 6 July 1996)

Authors ignored main conclusion of study that they cited

BMJ 1996;313:47.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1996;313:47.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Prenatal and postnatal prevalence of Turner's syndrome

BMJ 1996;313:47.3 (Published 6 July 1996)

Authors' reply

BMJ 1996;313:47.4 (Published 6 July 1996)

Vietnamese people in study may have had language difficulties

BMJ 1996;313:48.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Smoking in public places

BMJ 1996;313:48.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Letters - continued

Vast majority of both smokers and non-smokers favour at least a partial ban

BMJ 1996;313:48.3 (Published 6 July 1996)

Medical students do not think they have authority to advise patients to stop smoking

BMJ 1996;313:48.4 (Published 6 July 1996)

Making decisions with children

BMJ 1996;313:49.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Author's reply

BMJ 1996;313:49.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Volunteering children for bone marrow donation

BMJ 1996;313:49.3 (Published 6 July 1996)

Children's views should have been represented in discussion

BMJ 1996;313:50.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Children may be able to make their own decisions

BMJ 1996;313:50.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Moving medical malpractice insurance to Medical Insurance Agency may be expensive

BMJ 1996;313:50.3 (Published 6 July 1996)

Warfarin should be available as 0.5 mg tablet

BMJ 1996;313:50.4 (Published 6 July 1996)

News

French biscuit makers force tobacco campaign ban

BMJ 1996;313:7.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Labour pledges to cut NHS bureaucracy

BMJ 1996;313:7.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Headlines

BMJ 1996;313:8.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

BMA opposes NHS private finance initiative

BMJ 1996;313:8.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

WHO warns that multidrug resistant TB will spread

BMJ 1996;313:9.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Arsenic poisons 220 000 in India

BMJ 1996;313:9.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Court rules that care cannot be withdrawn due to cash cuts

BMJ 1996;313:9.3 (Published 6 July 1996)

Ombudsman highlights confusion over long term care

BMJ 1996;313:10.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Company challenges melatonin sales ban

BMJ 1996;313:10.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

US doctors reaffirm opposition to euthanasia

BMJ 1996;313:11.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

NHS pays too much for some supplies

BMJ 1996;313:11.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

US Scientific Fraud Office found at fault

BMJ 1996;313:11.3 (Published 6 July 1996)

Guernsey bans tobacco advertising

BMJ 1996;313:12.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

French asbestos victims go to court

BMJ 1996;313:12.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Disaster plans and prevention

BMJ 1996;313:12.3 (Published 6 July 1996)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1996;313:62 (Published 6 July 1996)

Editor's Choice

Editor's choice

BMJ 1996;313:7048 (Published 6 July 1996)

Papers

Misdiagnosis of the vegetative state: retrospective study in a rehabilitation unit

BMJ 1996;313:13 (Published 6 July 1996)

Commentary: The importance of patients' consent for publication

BMJ 1996;313:16 (Published 6 July 1996)

Association of common health symptoms with bullying in primary school children

BMJ 1996;313:17 (Published 6 July 1996)

Career preferences of doctors who qualified in the United Kingdom in 1993 compared with those of doctors qualifying in 1974, 1977, 1980, and 1983

BMJ 1996;313:19 (Published 6 July 1996)

Posthumous storage and use of sperm and embryos: survey of opinion of treatment centres

BMJ 1996;313:24 (Published 6 July 1996)

False positive results for leucocytes in urine dipstick test with common antibiotics

BMJ 1996;313:25 (Published 6 July 1996)

General practice

Long term outcome of patients with neurotic illness in general practice

BMJ 1996;313:26 (Published 6 July 1996)

Education and debate

A new short form individual quality of life measure (SEIQoL-DW): application in a cohort of individuals with HIV/AIDS

BMJ 1996;313:29 (Published 6 July 1996)

Lessons from international experience in controlling pharmaceutical expenditure III: regulating industry

BMJ 1996;313:33 (Published 6 July 1996)

Trials to assess equivalence: the importance of rigorous methods

BMJ 1996;313:36 (Published 6 July 1996)

Lesson of the Week: Septic arthritis in osteoarthritic hips

BMJ 1996;313:40 (Published 6 July 1996)

Statistics Notes: Measurement error and correlation coefficients

BMJ 1996;313:41 (Published 6 July 1996)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

The BMA's annual representative meetingThere must be more short stay bedsThe meeting..Seniors and juniors unite on workloadBMA divisions continue to be supportedThe meeting ..Doctors are haemorrhaging from the NHSMedical schools at saturation pointThe me…

BMJ 1996;313:51 (Published 6 July 1996)

Soundings

Another glossy flyer

BMJ 1996;313:57.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Mrs Simpson's knickers

BMJ 1996;313:57.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Personal View

Another deadly Zairian disease

BMJ 1996;313:58 (Published 6 July 1996)

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Sex on the agenda

BMJ 1996;313:59 (Published 6 July 1996)

Medicine and books

Deception by Design: Pharmaceutical Promotion in the Third World

BMJ 1996;313:60.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995

BMJ 1996;313:60.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Connective Tissue Diseases

BMJ 1996;313:61.1 (Published 6 July 1996)

Selection

BMJ 1996;313:61.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Career focus

Choosing your career

BMJ 1996;313:S2a-7048 (Published 6 July 1996)

Briefing

BMJ 1996;313:S3b-7048 (Published 6 July 1996)

Fillers

A MEMORABLE PATIENT

BMJ 1996;313:42.2 (Published 6 July 1996)

Correction

Correction

BMJ 1996;313:42.1 (Published 6 July 1996)