The persistent vegetative state
	Robin S Howard, David H Miller
	BMJ  1995;310:341-342 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Rethinking sexual health clinics
	Yvonne Stedman, Max Elstein
	BMJ  1995;310:342-343 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Learning medicine in the community
	Jenny Field, Ann-Louise Kinmonth
	BMJ  1995;310:343-344 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	The shaken infant syndrome
	Helen Carty, Jane Ratcliffe
	BMJ  1995;310:344-345 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	New treatments for multiple sclerosis
	W I McDonald
	BMJ  1995;310:345-346 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Smoking and death
	George Davey Smith, Sabine Strobele, Matthias Egger
	BMJ  1995;310:396 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Author's reply
	Richard Peto
	BMJ  1995;310:396 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Environmental lead and children's intelligence
	Robin Russell Jones
	BMJ  1995;310:397 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Cleveland study hypothesis was not confirmed
	Claire B Ernhart
	BMJ  1995;310:397 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Taiwan results are not included
	Michael B Rabinowitz
	BMJ  1995;310:397 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Hair lead studies were excluded
	Guy Huel, Dave Campagna, Thierry Moreau, Pascale Tubert-Bitter
	BMJ  1995;310:397-398 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Living close to industry
	Owen L Lloyd
	BMJ  1995;310:398 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Monitoring effects of deprivation on health
	Michael Ryan, Geraldine Barrett, Leila Lessof
	BMJ  1995;310:398 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Teenage pregnancy and deprivation
	C Boulton-Jones, G McIl Waine, K McInneny
	BMJ  1995;310:398-399 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Inequalities in health
	Keith Williams
	BMJ  1995;310:399 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	...or are they?
	James Le Fanu
	BMJ  1995;310:399 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Payment for blood donations in Germany
	Friedger Von Auer
	BMJ  1995;310:399 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Measles campaign
	Kenneth C Calman
	BMJ  1995;310:399-400 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Immunising infants at risk of hepatitis B
	Elizabeth H Boxall
	BMJ  1995;310:400 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Community programme boasts initial success
	Anne Nesbitt, Marjorie Jackson
	BMJ  1995;310:400 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	BCG vaccination programmes may provide useful guidance
	David Chappel, Vasco Fernandes
	BMJ  1995;310:400 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Drug resistant tuberculosis
	P D O Davies
	BMJ  1995;310:400-401 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Transmission of tuberculosis in patients with HIV infection
	R F Miller, R J Kent, A H C Uttley, N G Stoker, A L Pozniak
	BMJ  1995;310:401 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Length of hip axis and rate of hip fracture
	Chris Todd
	BMJ  1995;310:401 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Prophylaxis against malaria
	Santanu Chatterjee
	BMJ  1995;310:401 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Travel prophylaxis
	E Walker
	BMJ  1995;310:401-402 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Assumptions were confusing
	Pierre Van Damme, Eddy Van Doorslaer, Guy Tormans, Philippe Beutels
	BMJ  1995;310:402 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Journals should develop guidelines for economic evaluations
	Martin E Backhouse
	BMJ  1995;310:402 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Reporting of air pollution levels
	Jon G Ayres
	BMJ  1995;310:402 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Pigments in breast fluid
	A F McDonagh
	BMJ  1995;310:402-403 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	J M Dixon, R E Mansel
	BMJ  1995;310:403 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Diabetes in the developing world
	Zaheer Lakhani
	BMJ  1995;310:403 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Pharmaceutical donations to eastern Europe
	Christopher J Derrett, David R White, Tim Eden, John Dickerson, Carolyn Green
	BMJ  1995;310:403 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

News

This week's News

	Turkish doctors tackle human rights crisis
	Paul Mansour
	BMJ  1995;310:347 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Egyptian doctors' arrest sparks protest
	Peter Kandela
	BMJ  1995;310:347-348 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Headlines
	BMJ  1995;310:348 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Report highlights needs of minority groups
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1995;310:348-349 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Smokers in Britain get legal aid
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1995;310:349 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	GPs accept patients' vote on fundholding
	Martin Leaver
	BMJ  1995;310:349-350 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Doctor in Zimbabwe race row out on bail
	Christopher Bishop
	BMJ  1995;310:350 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Israel compensates for ringworm treatment
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1995;310:350-351 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	US's new surgeon general already in trouble
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1995;310:351-352 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	US announces drug treatment for sickle cell anaemia
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1995;310:352 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	House of Lords inquires into medical research
	John Warden
	BMJ  1995;310:352 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Antenatal screening for carriers of cystic fibrosis: randomised trial of stepwise v couple screening
	Zosia H Miedzybrodzka, Marion H Hall, Jill Mollison, Allan Templeton, Ian T Russell, John C S Dean, Kevin F Kelly, Theresa M Marteau, Neva E Haites
	BMJ  1995;310:353-357 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Effect of alfacalcidol on natural course of renal bone disease in mild to moderate renal failure
	Neveen A T Hamdy, John A Kanis, Monique N C Beneton, Colin B Brown, Job R Juttmann, Johannes G M Jordans, Sylvie Josse, Alain Meyrier, Robert L Lins, Ian T Fairey
	BMJ  1995;310:358-363 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Why do so few patients appeal against detention under section 2 of the mental health act?
	Caroline Bradley, Max Marshall, Dennis Gath
	BMJ  1995;310:364-367 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Serum cholesterol concentration and risk of brain cancer
	Lisa J Herrinton, Gary D Friedman
	BMJ  1995;310:367-368 [Full text] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	Preregistration house officers in general practice
	Joe Wilton
	BMJ  1995;310:369-372 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Treating swimmer's ear
	Bernard Dixon
	BMJ  1995;310:405 [Full text] FREE

	Dear wellwisher
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  1995;310:405 [Full text] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Clinical training in the community: a holistic approach
	Mandy Wharton
	BMJ  1995;310:407 [Full text] FREE

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Problems with Patients: Managing Complicated Transactions
	Roger Neighbour
	BMJ  1995;310:408 [Full text] FREE

	A Practical Guide to Fundholding
	Ulrich Freudenstein
	BMJ  1995;310:408-409 [Full text] FREE

	Business and Health Planning for General Practice
	Philip L Heywood
	BMJ  1995;310:409 [Full text] FREE

	Making Sense of General Practice
	Peter Fitton
	BMJ  1995;310:409 [Full text] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Withholding consent to lifesaving treatment: three cases
	Anne Elton, Peter Honig, Arnon Bentovim, Jean Simons
	BMJ  1995;310:373-377 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Recent Advances: Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
	Alasdair Breckenridge
	BMJ  1995;310:377-380 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Management for Doctors: Management accounting
	Anthony Cook
	BMJ  1995;310:381-385 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	ABC of Rheumatology: FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME
	Michael Doherty, Adrian Jones
	BMJ  1995;310:386-389 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	The World Health Organisation: WHO in Europe: does it have a role?
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  1995;310:389-393 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1995;310:410 [Full text] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A MEMORABLE PATIENT
	Gordon Black
	BMJ  1995;310:368 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	A PATIENT WHO CHANGED OUR PRACTICE
	O R Dearlove, W J Wooldridge
	BMJ  1995;310:372 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	WAY WITH WORDS
	Alex Paton
	BMJ  1995;310:393 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Men on top
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  1995;310:406 [Full text] FREE

	Approaching negligence
	Ian McKinlay
	BMJ  1995;310:406-407 [Full text] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Health minister will meet the BMA on staff shortages • GP leaders want more doctors involved in commissioning • Tobacco firms sign new deal on sports sponsorship • MPs review how choices are made in the NHS
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1995;310:404 [Full text] FREE

Career focus

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