01 March 1997 (Vol 314, Issue 7081)

Prev issue
Next issue

Editor's Choice

Unravelling heart disease and keeping gynaecologists active

BMJ 1997;314:0.1 (Published 1 March 1997)

News

Pig virus transfer threatens xenotransplantation

BMJ 1997;314:623.1 (Published 1 March 1997)

Sheep cloned from mammary gland cells

BMJ 1997;314:623.2 (Published 1 March 1997)

In brief

BMJ 1997;314:623.3 (Published 1 March 1997)

Court case may clarify law on caesarean sections

BMJ 1997;314:623.4 (Published 1 March 1997)

Health put at risk by insurers' demands for gene test results

BMJ 1997;314:623.5 (Published 1 March 1997)

New York hospitals are to be paid to train fewer doctors

BMJ 1997;314:623.6 (Published 1 March 1997)

GPs demand a major review of their contracts and pay

BMJ 1997;314:623.7 (Published 1 March 1997)

Call for more research on cannabis

BMJ 1997;314:623.8 (Published 1 March 1997)

“Never again,” says NHS whistleblower

BMJ 1997;314:623.9 (Published 1 March 1997)

British public supports legal abortion for all

BMJ 1997;314:623.10 (Published 1 March 1997)

Obesity increases risk of pulmonary embolism

BMJ 1997;314:623.11 (Published 1 March 1997)

US asthma guidelines stress early steroid use

BMJ 1997;314:623.12 (Published 1 March 1997)

Health gains in Canadian budget

BMJ 1997;314:623.13 (Published 1 March 1997)

Antibody shows promise in Crohn's disease

BMJ 1997;314:623.14 (Published 1 March 1997)

Editorials

Bringing nurses and doctors closer together

BMJ 1997;314:617 (Published 1 March 1997)

Tackling racism in the NHS

BMJ 1997;314:618 (Published 1 March 1997)

Amiodarone pulmonary toxicity

BMJ 1997;314:619 (Published 1 March 1997)

The coming of age of sports medicine

BMJ 1997;314:621 (Published 1 March 1997)

Childhood matters

BMJ 1997;314:622 (Published 1 March 1997)

Letters

Are research ethics committees behaving unethically?

BMJ 1997;314:676 (Published 1 March 1997)

Corporal punishment must not be reintroduced into schools

BMJ 1997;314:677.1 (Published 1 March 1997)

Letters - continued

Cancer units are implementing changes from generic to specialist practice

BMJ 1997;314:677.2 (Published 1 March 1997)

Home births

BMJ 1997;314:678 (Published 1 March 1997)

Coffee drinking and risk of coronary heart disease

BMJ 1997;314:680.1 (Published 1 March 1997)

Ratio of inhaled corticosteroid to bronchodilator as indicator of quality of asthma prescribing

BMJ 1997;314:680.2 (Published 1 March 1997)

Increasing empathy between medical students and nurses

BMJ 1997;314:682 (Published 1 March 1997)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 1997;314:688 (Published 1 March 1997)

Fillers

A father's death

BMJ 1997;314:0.10 (Published 1 March 1997)

One hundred years ago: Doctors and fishermen

BMJ 1997;314:0.8 (Published 1 March 1997)

Veterinary Counter Practice: A dog's life

BMJ 1997;314:0.11 (Published 1 March 1997)

One hundred years ago: Hampstead Heath in the jubilee year

BMJ 1997;314:0.9 (Published 1 March 1997)

This Week In the BMJ

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are tolerated better than tricyclic antidepressants

BMJ 1997;314:0.6 (Published 1 March 1997)

Antioxidant state may be linked to high heart disease mortality

BMJ 1997;314:0.2 (Published 1 March 1997)

Further coronary events more likely in patients from the Indian subcontinent

BMJ 1997;314:0.5 (Published 1 March 1997)

Structures are needed when nurses take on doctors' work

BMJ 1997;314:0.4 (Published 1 March 1997)

Should we be identifying carriers of MRSA?

BMJ 1997;314:0.7 (Published 1 March 1997)

Vitamin C deficiency increases risk of myocardial infarction

BMJ 1997;314:0.3 (Published 1 March 1997)

Clinical Reviews

Science, medicine, and the future: Lung cancer

BMJ 1997;314:652 (Published 1 March 1997)

Lesson of the week: Mediterranean spotted fever mimicking Kawasaki disease

BMJ 1997;314:655 (Published 1 March 1997)

ABC of clinical haematology: Chronic myeloid leukaemia

BMJ 1997;314:657 (Published 1 March 1997)

Selection

Selection

BMJ 1997;314:0.12 (Published 1 March 1997)

Papers

Antioxidant state and mortality from coronary heart disease in lithuanian and swedish men: concomitant cross sectional study of men aged 50

BMJ 1997;314:629 (Published 1 March 1997)

Vitamin C deficiency and risk of myocardial infarction: prospective population study of men from eastern Finland

BMJ 1997;314:634 (Published 1 March 1997)

Papers - continued

First myocardial infarction in patients of Indian subcontinent and European origin: comparison of risk factors, management, and long term outcome

BMJ 1997;314:639 (Published 1 March 1997)

No sex differences in immunisation rates of British south Asian children: the effect of migration?

BMJ 1997;314:642 (Published 1 March 1997)

Use of calcium antagonists and need for perioperative transfusion in older patients with hip fracture: observational study

BMJ 1997;314:643 (Published 1 March 1997)

Vasospasm of the nipple–a manifestation of Raynaud's phenomenon: case reports

BMJ 1997;314:644 (Published 1 March 1997)

General practice

General practitioners' perceptions of the tolerability of antidepressant drugs: a comparison of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and tricyclic antidepressants

BMJ 1997;314:646 (Published 1 March 1997)

Education and debate

Personal paper: medicine in the 1990s needs a team approach

BMJ 1997;314:661 (Published 1 March 1997)

Controversies: Is it time to stop searching for MRSA?

BMJ 1997;314:664 (Published 1 March 1997)

Controversies: Is it time to stop searching for MRSA?

BMJ 1997;314:665 (Published 1 March 1997)

The rationing debate: Maximising the health of the whole community. The case for

BMJ 1997;314:667 (Published 1 March 1997)

The rationing debate: Maximising the health of the whole community. The case against: what the principal objective of the NHS should really be

BMJ 1997;314:669 (Published 1 March 1997)

Primary care: opportunities and threats Broader teamwork in primary care

BMJ 1997;314:672 (Published 1 March 1997)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Non-core services will not be negotiated nationallySome European doctors face discriminationProfession secures changes to primary care billMore patients wait longer for hospital admission

BMJ 1997;314:684 (Published 1 March 1997)

Personal Views

The gynaecologist in winter

BMJ 1997;314:685.1 (Published 1 March 1997)

We need strong public health leadership

BMJ 1997;314:685.2 (Published 1 March 1997)

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Sex sells, and under age sex sells even more

BMJ 1997;314:686 (Published 1 March 1997)

Medicine and books

The Environment for Children: Understanding and Acting on the Environmental Hazards that Threaten Children and Their Parents

BMJ 1997;314:687 (Published 1 March 1997)

Career focus

Circumventing racism in the NHS

BMJ 1997;314:S2-7081 (Published 1 March 1997)

Briefing

BMJ 1997;314:S3-7081 (Published 1 March 1997)

Briefing

BMJ 1997;314:S3a-7081 (Published 1 March 1997)

Obituary

Charles Harold EdwardsAlexander Clarkson ForresterJohn Arnott MacDougallLeila Mary Wainman

BMJ 1997;314:683 (Published 1 March 1997)