Evidence based policymaking
	Chris Ham, David J Hunter, Ray Robinson
	BMJ  1995;310:71-72 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Acute dissection of the thoracic aorta
	Adrian P Banning, Michael S T Ruttley, Francesco Musumeci, Alan G Fraser
	BMJ  1995;310:72-73 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	GPs, patients, and the distance between them
	J Robson
	BMJ  1995;310:73-74 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Clonality in Langerhans' cell histiocytosis
	Finbarr E Cotter, Jon Pritchard
	BMJ  1995;310:74-75 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Nutrition and lung health
	M K Sridhar
	BMJ  1995;310:75-76 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Voluntary agreement on tobacco advertising
	Wendy Robertson, Neil J G Field, Catherine Bird, David E Parfitt
	BMJ  1995;310:124 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Molecular cancer epidemiology can predict risk
	R Colin Garner, Karen Dingley, Cynthia M Dale
	BMJ  1995;310:124 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Evaluation of palliative care
	Julie Ling, Janet Hardy, Katherine Penn, Carol Davis
	BMJ  1995;310:125 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Patients should be randomised at time of diagnosis
	Brendan Mason
	BMJ  1995;310:125 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Important factors are hard to measure
	Eric Wilkes
	BMJ  1995;310:125 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Patients must be told that treatment will be randomised
	James Gilbert
	BMJ  1995;310:125 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Randomised controlled trials and health services research
	Sasha Shepperd, Crispin Jenkinson, Patrick Morgan
	BMJ  1995;310:125-126 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Identifying relevant studies for systematic reviews
	Carl Counsell, Hazel Fraser
	BMJ  1995;310:126 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Pressure sores
	M R Bliss
	BMJ  1995;310:126 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Carers should provide informed, cohesivek approach
	H P Henderson
	BMJ  1995;310:126 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Assessing risk of suicide
	Roy M Vining
	BMJ  1995;310:126-127 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Deal with self harm in prisons
	R P Rowlands
	BMJ  1995;310:127 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Antidepressants and suicide
	Goran Isacsson, Per Holmgren, Danuta Wasserman, Uip Bergman
	BMJ  1995;310:127 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Patient confidentiality in New Zealand
	Chris J Gedye
	BMJ  1995;310:127-128 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Catholic beliefs about contraception
	J Nickson
	BMJ  1995;310:128 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Misoprostol and birth defects
	P F A Van Look, H Von Hertzen
	BMJ  1995;310:128 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Training in laparoscopic surgery
	M H Lucas, G T Sunderland
	BMJ  1995;310:128 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Vascular surgical services
	R S Hanspal, A S Jain
	BMJ  1995;310:128 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Hepatitis C virus antibodies and Graves' disease
	Oriana Leri, Maria Teresa Sinopoli, Maria Anna Di Prima, Anna Di Prima
	BMJ  1995;310:128-129 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Enalapril and (beta) blockers in chronic renal failure
	Derya Bora Hazar, Li Tso
	BMJ  1995;310:129 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Computed tomography for single seizures
	J R C Bowen
	BMJ  1995;310:129 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Seasonal variations in fatal pulmonary embolism
	E A Cooke, M A McNally, R A B Mollan
	BMJ  1995;310:129 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Malignant phase hypertension does not vary by season
	Gregory Y H Lip, Michele Beevers, John Zarifis, Gareth Beevers
	BMJ  1995;310:129-130 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Histopathology and medical laboratory scientific officers
	T G Ashworth
	BMJ  1995;310:130 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Failure of consultant expansion
	Paul Aveyard
	BMJ  1995;310:130 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Human rights in Iraq
	Telha Al-Shawaf, Salman Rawaf
	BMJ  1995;310:130 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

News

This week's News

	Gulf war syndrome needs coordinated study
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;310:77 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Executives of NHS trusts beat the pay squeeze
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;310:77-78 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Headlines
	BMJ  1995;310:78 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	The Netherlands lags behind in heart operations
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1995;310:78-79 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	South Africa plans more rural clinics
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1995;310:79 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Premature baby in US provokes ethical dilemma
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1995;310:79 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Expanded role planned for Ontario's nurses
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1995;310:80 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Appeal court allows delay in personal injury case
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1995;310:80 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Long term carers have low incomes, says study
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  1995;310:81 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Paedophile health worker is named
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1995;310:81-82 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Dutch hospitals face up to living wills
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1995;310:82 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Food and Drug Administration under assault
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;310:82 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	United Kingdom prospective diabetes study (UKPDS) 13: relative efficacy of randomly allocated diet, sulphonylurea, insulin, or metformin in patients with newly diagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes followed for three years
	BMJ  1995;310:83-88 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Bottle feeding and the sudden infant death syndrome
	R E Gilbert, R E Wigfield, P J Fleming, P J Berry, P T Rudd
	BMJ  1995;310:88-90 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Effect of environmental factors on risk of injury of child pedestrians by motor vehicles: a case-control study
	I Roberts, R Norton, R Jackson, R Dunn, I Hassall
	BMJ  1995;310:91-94 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Predictive value of human papillomavirus type for histological diagnosis of women with cervical cytological abnormalities
	M P M Burger, H Hollema, W J L M Pieters, W G V Quint
	BMJ  1995;310:94-95 [Full text] FREE

	Long term effects of guar gum on lipid metabolism after carotid endarterectomy
	Juha-Pekka Salenius, Esko Harju, Hannu Jokela, Heikki Riekkinen, Matti Silvasti
	BMJ  1995;310:95-96 [Full text] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	Appropriate prescribing in asthma and its related cost in east London
	Jeannette Naish, Patricia Sturdy, Peter Toon
	BMJ  1995;310:97-100 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	How many general practitioners for 1433 patients?
	Scott A Murray, Lesley J C Graham, Maria J Dlugolecka
	BMJ  1995;310:100 [Full text] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Paying the doctor
	Judith Hollistriantafillou
	BMJ  1995;310:132 [Full text] FREE

	Money matters
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1995;310:132 [Full text] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Prescribing by numbers
	John Trowell
	BMJ  1995;310:135 [Full text] FREE

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Positively Parents: Caring for a Severely Disabled Child; Taking Care; Running a Team for Disabled Children and Their Families; The Integration of Disabled Children into Mainstream Education: Ambitions, Theories and Practices
	Lewis Rosenbloom
	BMJ  1995;310:136 [Full text] FREE

	The Environmental Protection Agency: Asking the Wrong Questions. From Nixon to Clinton
	Michael Mccally
	BMJ  1995;310:136-137 [Full text] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Guidelines, enthusiasms, uncertainty, and the limits to purchasing
	Martin McKee, Aileen Clarke
	BMJ  1995;310:101-104 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Management for Doctors: Conflict, power, negotiation
	Liam Donaldson
	BMJ  1995;310:104-107 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Controversies in Management: Acyclovir for childhood chickenpox
	M W McKendrick
	BMJ  1995;310:108-109 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	No reason not to treat
	Henry H Balfour
	BMJ  1995;310:109-110 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Commentary: reserve acyclovir for secondary cases
	Peter C Rubin
	BMJ  1995;310:110 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	The World Health Organisation: WHO fellowships--what do they achieve?
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  1995;310:110-112 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Recent Advances: Clinical gastroenterology
	Ian Forgacs
	BMJ  1995;310:113-116 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	ABC of Breast Diseases: BREAST RECONSTRUCTION AFTER SURGERY
	J D Watson, J R C Sainsbury, J M Dixon
	BMJ  1995;310:117-121 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1995;310:138 [Full text] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	SOUND BITES
	Tony Drummond
	BMJ  1995;310:96 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	ANY QUESTIONS
	A C Chu
	BMJ  1995;310:116 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	PATIENT WHO CHANGED MY PRACTICE
	Jo Bowen
	BMJ  1995;310:121 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1995;310:116 [Full text] FREE

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	When giants fight
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1995;310:133-134 [Full text] FREE

	Monkey business
	Adam Malin
	BMJ  1995;310:134 [Full text] FREE

	"Beyond Love"
	David Cook
	BMJ  1995;310:135 [Full text] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Survey shows junior doctors are still overworked • Government will commission research on NHS prescribing • British tobacco curbs remain voluntary • Health secretary promises blitz on practice paperwork • Nurses can prescribe more medicines
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:131 [Full text] FREE

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