The legacy of Edward Jenner
	Myron M Levine
	BMJ  1996;312:1177-1178 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Mass polio vaccination
	Jagdish Chander, Subha Subrahmanyan
	BMJ  1996;312:1178-1179 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	The cardioprotective effects of moderate alcohol consumption
	Ian R White
	BMJ  1996;312:1179-1180 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Seriously deficient professional performance
	Stephen Brearley
	BMJ  1996;312:1180-1181 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Primary biliary cirrhosis: epidemiology helping the clinician
	Jane V Metcalf, Denise Howel, Oliver F W James, Raj Bhopal
	BMJ  1996;312:1181-1182 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Depression in carers of elderly people living at home
	R H Bird
	BMJ  1996;312:1224 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Other studies were misrepresented
	J M Eagles
	BMJ  1996;312:1224 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Carers' characteristics could be risk factors
	Orazio Zanetti, Giovanni B Frisoni, Angelo Bianchetti, Giancarlo Tamanza, Vittorio Cigoli, Marco Trabucchi
	BMJ  1996;312:1224-1225 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Developing a policy on osteoporosis
	Colin R Paterson
	BMJ  1996;312:1225 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Clinical risk factors alone are insufficient in decision making
	Peter Selby, Michael Davies
	BMJ  1996;312:1225 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Bone densitometry is worth while
	David J Torgerson
	BMJ  1996;312:1225-1226 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	High potency parenteral B complex vitamin preparation is still available
	Philip Hallwood
	BMJ  1996;312:1226 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Managing the increased workload in anticoagulant clinics
	D A Fitzmaurice, P E Rose, M Gilbert
	BMJ  1996;312:1226 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Clinics led by nurse practitioners can work well
	J Van De Pette, Claire Mackie
	BMJ  1996;312:1226-1227 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	False positive findings of mammography will have psychological consequences
	I S Tobias, Michael Baum
	BMJ  1996;312:1227 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Seasonal variation in deep vein thrombosis
	T M Allan, A S Douglas
	BMJ  1996;312:1227 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Daily measurements of temperature should have been used
	Alun Tomkinson
	BMJ  1996;312:1227 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Author's reply
	H Bounameaux
	BMJ  1996;312:1227 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Stridor in rheumatoid arthritis may be caused by laryngeal amyloidosis
	J C Watkinson
	BMJ  1996;312:1227 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Waist circumference remains useful predictor of coronary heart disease
	Thang S Han, Mike E J Lean, Jacob C Seidell
	BMJ  1996;312:1227-1228 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Shackling prisoners in hospital
	Elliot E Philipp
	BMJ  1996;312:1228 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Is a breach of human rights
	Douglas Holdstock
	BMJ  1996;312:1228 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Causes problems for doctors
	Sarah J Pearce
	BMJ  1996;312:1228 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Nocturia may be due to growing old
	John Blandy
	BMJ  1996;312:1228-1229 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Nomogram for number needed to treat will be of limited use
	Julia Thomas, Chris Sharp
	BMJ  1996;312:1229 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Children and sport
	Hugo Crombie
	BMJ  1996;312:1229 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Walking to school has future benefits
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:1229 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Not all schoolchildren prefer team sports
	Ruth Coffey
	BMJ  1996;312:1229 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Health care rationing
	Ralph Crawshaw
	BMJ  1996;312:1229-1230 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Who will be patients' advocate if doctors assume the rationing role?
	Paquita De Zulueta
	BMJ  1996;312:1230 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Boosting women consultants
	Jayne Cockburn, Susan Bewley
	BMJ  1996;312:1230 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Problems with the penis and prepuce
	H C Coleridge
	BMJ  1996;312:1230 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Author's reply
	Mark Davenport
	BMJ  1996;312:1230-1231 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Chlamydial infection is asymptomatic in England as well as Tanzania
	Debashis Mandal, Vivienne Gillanders
	BMJ  1996;312:1231 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Cause of AIDS
	G C Cook
	BMJ  1996;312:1231 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Egyptian doctors held as prisoners of conscience
	Harold Phillipson
	BMJ  1996;312:1231 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Electronic mail can be protected from computer viruses
	Andrew Lotery
	BMJ  1996;312:1231 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

News

This week's News

	NHS managers meet over beds crisis
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  1996;312:1183 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Sperm counts up in New York
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:1183 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Algae kills dialysis patients in Brazil
	John Dunn
	BMJ  1996;312:1183-1184 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;312:1184 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Cancer patients seek honesty
	Claudia Court
	BMJ  1996;312:1184 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Newborn babies threatened with HIV testing
	John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;312:1185 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	WHO issues new guidelines on drug donations
	Pritpal S Tamber
	BMJ  1996;312:1185 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	US parity planned for mental health
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1996;312:1185 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Doctors voice virus fears over xenotransplants
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;312:1186 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Fatal outbreak traced to wooden tongue depressors
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  1996;312:1186 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Albendazole chemotherapy for treatment of diarrhoea in patients with AIDS in Zambia: a randomised double blind controlled trial
	Paul Kelly, Florence Lungu, Eileen Keane, Rachel Baggaley, Frida Kazembe, Joseph Pobee, Michael Farthing
	BMJ  1996;312:1187-1191 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Role of patients' view of their illness in predicting return to work and functioning after myocardial infarction: longitudinal study
	Keith J Petrie, John Weinman, Norman Sharpe, Judith Buckley
	BMJ  1996;312:1191-1194 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Incidence and prognosis of asthma and wheezing illness from early childhood to age 33 in a national British cohort
	David P Strachan, Barbara K Butland, H Ross Anderson
	BMJ  1996;312:1195-1199 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Serum high density lipoprotein cholesterol, alcohol, and coronary mortality in male smokers
	Mikko Paunio, Jarmo Virtamo, Carl-Gustaf Gref, Olli P Heinonen
	BMJ  1996;312:1200-1203 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Population mixing and the incidence of childhood leukaemias: retrospective comparison in rural areas of New Zealand
	John D Dockerty, Brian Cox, Barry Borman, Katrina Sharples
	BMJ  1996;312:1203-1204 [Full text] FREE

	Rupture of the uterus: a review of 32 cases in a general hospital in Zambia
	Mulumba Nkata
	BMJ  1996;312:1204-1205 [Full text] FREE

	Effect of inadvertent intradermal administration of high dose percutaneous BCG vaccine
	M M Miles, R J Shaw
	BMJ  1996;312:1205 [Full text] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	Creating a shared vision of out of hours care: using rapid appraisal methods to create an interagency, community oriented, approach to service development
	Jeremy Dale, Cathy Shipman, Lynne Lacock, Mark Davies
	BMJ  1996;312:1206-1210 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Apprentice surgeons
	Tony Smith
	BMJ  1996;312:1233 [Full text] FREE

	Alastair's calling
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1996;312:1233 [Full text] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Doctors in distress
	Bob Bury
	BMJ  1996;312:1235 [Full text] FREE

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	AIDS in the UK: The Making of Policy, 1981-1994
	R A Coutinho
	BMJ  1996;312:1236 [Full text] FREE

	Infectious AIDS: Have We Been Misled?
	Stuart W G Derbyshire
	BMJ  1996;312:1236 [Full text] FREE

	Respiratory Disease in the Elderly Patient
	Husayn Al Mahdy
	BMJ  1996;312:1237 [Full text] FREE

	A Miracle and a Privilege: Recounting Half a Century of Surgical Advance
	Roger N Baird
	BMJ  1996;312:1237 [Full text] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Nurses taking on junior doctors' work: a confusion of accountability
	Sue Dowling, Robyn Martin, Paul Skidmore, Lesley Doyal, Ailsa Cameron, Sharon Lloyd
	BMJ  1996;312:1211-1214 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Why we need observational studies to evaluate the effectiveness of health care
	Nick Black
	BMJ  1996;312:1215-1218 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	ABC of Urology: URINARY STONE DISEASE
	Chris Dawson, Hugh Whitfield
	BMJ  1996;312:1219-1221 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Lesson of the Week: Recurrent pelvic endometriosis and bilateral ureteric obstruction associated with hormone replacement therapy
	R J Brough, K O'Flynn
	BMJ  1996;312:1221-1222 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;312:1238 [Full text] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	Jenner: full recognition at last
	John Empson
	BMJ  1996;312:1210 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Important correction
	BMJ  1996;312:1194 [Full text] FREE

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:1203 [Full text] FREE

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;312:1231 [Full text] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Editor's choice
	BMJ  1996;312 [Full text] FREE

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	King of the media shrink pack?
	Pritpal S Tamber
	BMJ  1996;312:1234 [Full text] FREE

	What if..
	Kwame Mckenzie
	BMJ  1996;312:1234-1235 [Full text] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	NHS appointments will be vetted • BMA warns about patient data being sold to third parties • From the BMA council.. • Social services costs will be reviewed • How to provide secondary care in general practice
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;312:1232 [Full text] FREE

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