Leptin in obesity
	Thorkild Ia Sorensen, Soren M Echwald, Jens-Christian Holm
	BMJ  1996;313:953-954 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Listen to the parents
	Helen Roberts
	BMJ  1996;313:954-955 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Primary care in the United States
	Trish Groves, John Roberts
	BMJ  1996;313:955-956 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Diagnosing death
	Rodger Charlton
	BMJ  1996;313:956-957 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	"Is my practice evidence-based?"
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1996;313:957-958 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Selective abortion
	Gregory Gardner
	BMJ  1996;313:1004 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Issues of reproduction must be faced more responsibly
	Anthony Papagiannis
	BMJ  1996;313:1004 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Dead fetuses might have to be registered as stillbirths
	R F Heys
	BMJ  1996;313:1004 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Psychological sequelae in people whose twin died at or before birth are unknown
	Elizabeth Bryan
	BMJ  1996;313:1004-1005 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Fifth of babies born after assisted conception have retinopathy of prematurity
	D P Choyce
	BMJ  1996;313:1005 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Use of fertility treatments needs more careful oversight
	Stephen Jeffcoate
	BMJ  1996;313:1005 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Terminations of pregnancy, not unplanned deliveries, increased as result of pill scare
	T J Child, I Z Mackenzie, M Rees
	BMJ  1996;313:1005 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Correcting outcome data for case mix in stroke medicine
	David Barer, John Ellul, Caroline Watkins
	BMJ  1996;313:1005-1006 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Further studies are needed to assess current outcome indicators
	Steve Kendrick, Marion Bain
	BMJ  1996;313:1006 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Study should have had more patients or longer time scale
	Jonathan Mant, Nicholas R Hicks, John Fletcher
	BMJ  1996;313:1006 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	Richard J Davenport, Martin S Dennis, Charles P Warlow
	BMJ  1996;313:1006 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Measuring health outcomes
	Alexander Foss
	BMJ  1996;313:1006-1007 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Measuring quality of life is important
	Karen Rose, Andrew Tullo
	BMJ  1996;313:1007 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Journal is right to require patients' consent to publication
	Roger Lloyd-Mostyn
	BMJ  1996;313:1007 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Need for a national arthroplasty register
	D Fender, W M Harper, P J Gregg
	BMJ  1996;313:1007 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Intensive Care Society has set up a centre for national audit
	Kathy Rowan
	BMJ  1996;313:1007-1008 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Current evaluations of information technology in health care are often inadequate
	Heather A Heathfield, Iain E Buchan
	BMJ  1996;313:1008 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Placebo mania
	Henry Mcquay, Andrew Moore
	BMJ  1996;313:1008 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Placebo controlled trials are needed to provide data on effectiveness of active treatment
	D B Double
	BMJ  1996;313:1008-1009 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	High quality placebos should be used
	Amanda Georgiou
	BMJ  1996;313:1009 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Use of anabolic steroids has been reported by 9% of men attending gymnasiums
	Pirkko Korkia
	BMJ  1996;313:1009 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Usefulness of urine dipstick tests
	Peter Wilson, Ronald R Cutler, Peter Jenks, Florence V Clarke, Jo Merrett
	BMJ  1996;313:1009-1010 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Packaging may lead to false positive results
	Adrian Edwards, Stephen Granier, Judith Van Der Voort
	BMJ  1996;313:1010 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Unfair book reviews?
	David Wilks, Mark Farrington, David Rubenstein
	BMJ  1996;313:1010 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Reviewer's reply
	David W Denning
	BMJ  1996;313:1010-1011 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Editor of book hits back
	Jean Ginsburg
	BMJ  1996;313:1011 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Reviewer's reply
	Henry G Burger
	BMJ  1996;313:1011 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Drug donations to Bosnia-Hercegovina are often inappropriate
	Maurizio Bonati, Gilles B Forte, Kees De Joncheere, Einar Magnusson
	BMJ  1996;313:1011 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

News

This week's News

	Government proposes new deal for family doctors
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:959 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	In Brief
	BMJ  1996;313:960 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Drug use is unaffected by government policies
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1996;313:960 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Genetic test for osteoporosis
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;313:960 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Man walks free in Scottish euthanasia case
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1996;313:961 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Dutch patients complain about poor access to euthanasia
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;313:961 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Early combination treatment for AIDS is urged
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1996;313:962 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Researchers claim abortion increases risk of breast cancer
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1996;313:962 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Travellers are the unhealthiest people in Britain
	Christina Bunce
	BMJ  1996;313:963 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Premature baby was not put on ventilator
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1996;313:963 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Advice on treatment of handicapped babies offered
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;313:963 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	NHS consultants warn of dire cash crisis
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:964 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	European parliament tackles biotechnology
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1996;313:964 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	Serum leptin concentration, obesity, and insulin resistance in Western Samoans: cross sectional study
	Paul Zimmet, Allison Hodge, Margery Nicolson, Myrlene Staten, Maximilian de Courten, Jason Moore, Andrew Morawiecki, John Lubina, Gregory Collier, George Alberti, Gary Dowse
	BMJ  1996;313:965-969 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Cell mediated immunity after measles in Guinea-Bissau: historical cohort study
	S O Shaheen, P Aaby, A J Hall, D J P Barker, C B Heyes, A W Shiell, A Goudiaby
	BMJ  1996;313:969-974 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Socioeconomic differences in mortality among diabetic people in Finland: five year follow up
	Seppo V P Koskinen, Tuija P Martelin, Tapani Valkonen
	BMJ  1996;313:975-978 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Is lead in tap water still a public health problem? An observational study in Glasgow
	Graham C M Watt, Andrew Britton, W Harper Gilmour, Michael R Moore, Gordon D Murray, Stuart J Robertson, John Womersley
	BMJ  1996;313:979-981 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	A MEMORABLE PATIENT
	Eric Hainsworth
	BMJ  1996;313:981 [Full text] FREE

	Capillary testing in an anticoagulant clinic: comparison of two methods
	S M Donohue, J M K Dufty, N A Kafkarkou, R Kirwan, D A Taberner
	BMJ  1996;313:982 [Full text] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	What worries parents when their preschool children are acutely ill, and why: a qualitative study
	Joe Kai
	BMJ  1996;313:983-986 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Parents' difficulties and information needs in coping with acute illness in preschool children: a qualitative study
	Joe Kai
	BMJ  1996;313:987-990 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Patients' accounts of calling the doctor out of hours: qualitative study in one general practice
	Jane Hopton, Rhona Hogg, Ian McKee
	BMJ  1996;313:991-994 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Fine doctors and fallen bishops
	Ian Robertson
	BMJ  1996;313:1013 [Full text] FREE

	Blackpool is OK
	Bernard Dixon
	BMJ  1996;313:1013 [Full text] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	My 27 year wait for an NHS diagnosis
	Christopher Mansley
	BMJ  1996;313:1014 [Full text] FREE

	The false breast: should we go for it so quickly?
	Julie Friedeberger
	BMJ  1996;313:1014-1015 [Full text] FREE

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Autumn books: Medical Blunders. Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad and Dangerous Doctors
	D John Doyle
	BMJ  1996;313:1019 [Full text] FREE

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Averting a world food shortage: tighten your belts for CAIRO II
	Maurice King, Charles Elliott
	BMJ  1996;313:995-997 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Lesson of the Week: Thyrotoxicosis in a patient with multiple trauma: value of "AMPLE" history taking
	Jo Fitz-Henry, Bernard Riley
	BMJ  1996;313:997-998 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	ABC of Work Related Disorders: WORKING WITH AN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT
	Anil Adisesh, Gordon Parker
	BMJ  1996;313:999-1002 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:1024 [Full text] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	ANY QUESTIONS
	Alan C Bird
	BMJ  1996;313:998 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	ANY QUESTIONS
	Arthur Hollman
	BMJ  1996;313:1002 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Corrections

This week's Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;313:978 [Full text] FREE

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;313:1011 [Full text] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Jobs for sleep
	Alison Howe
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: More than three quarters of a million whole time equivalent ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Editor's choice
	BMJ  1996;313 [Full text] FREE

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Pink ribbons in October
	Luisa Dillner
	BMJ  1996;313:1015 [Full text] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Health departments call for pay restraint • European manpower is predicted to even out • Consultants want extra work recognised • NHS patient care standards to be extended • Audit centre launches action pack
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:1012 [Full text] FREE

Career focus

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