Lipids and secondary prevention of ischaemic heart disease
	Christopher D Byrne, Sarah H Wild
	BMJ  1996;313:1273-1274 [Full text]

	Allocating budgets for fundholding and prescribing
	Azeem Majeed
	BMJ  1996;313:1274-1275 [Full text]

	Cervical sampling devices
	Peter Sasieni
	BMJ  1996;313:1275-1276 [Full text]

	Home birth
	Nachiel P Springer, Chris Van Weel
	BMJ  1996;313:1276-1277 [Full text]

	The future of the NHS
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  1996;313:1277-1278 [Full text]

	A gene for Parkinson's disease?
	Christopher Hawkes
	BMJ  1996;313:1278 [Full text]

News

	HIV positive surgeon allowed to operate
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1996;313:1279 [Full text]

	Counselling has grown haphazardly
	Alison Boulton
	BMJ  1996;313:1279 [Full text]

	In Brief
	BMJ  1996;313:1280 [Full text]

	High Court to rule on patient in near vegetative state
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:1280 [Full text]

	No need to keep taking the medicine
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:1281 [Full text]

	Low triglyceride concentrations may be cardiac risk factor
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:1281 [Full text]

	Gene locus for Parkinson's found
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:1281 [Full text]

	Health gains status in European Union
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  1996;313:1282 [Full text]

	German doctors protest against "organ tourism"
	Helmut L Karcher
	BMJ  1996;313:1282 [Full text]

	Kidney donation rules expanded in Israel
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  1996;313:1282 [Full text]

	Britain fails to stop 48 hour week limit
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1996;313:1283 [Full text]

	Alternatives to "999" emergency service sought
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:1283 [Full text]

	Legal rights for patients demanded
	Kathryn Godfrey
	BMJ  1996;313:1284 [Full text]

	Australia puts curbs on foreign doctors
	Christopher Zinn
	BMJ  1996;313:1284 [Full text]

	Ontario doctors stand firm against government
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  1996;313:1284 [Full text]

Papers

	Relation between sampling device and detection of abnormality in cervical smears: a meta-analysis of randomised and quasi-randomised studies
	Frank Buntinx, Marleen Brouwers
	BMJ  1996;313:1285-1290 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Conservative management of mechanical neck pain: systematic overview and meta-analysis
	Peter D Aker, Anita R Gross, Charles H Goldsmith, Paul Peloso
	BMJ  1996;313:1291-1296 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Effect of population mixing and socioeconomic status in England and Wales, 1979-85, on lymphoblastic leukaemia in children
	C A Stiller, P J Boyle
	BMJ  1996;313:1297-1300 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Absence of oats toxicity in adult coeliac disease
	Usha Srinivasan, Niamh Leonard, Eileen Jones, Donald D Kasarda, Donald G Weir, Cliona O'Farrelly, Conleth Feighery
	BMJ  1996;313:1300-1301 [Full text]

General practice

	Prospective regional study of planned home births
	J Davies, E Hey, W Reid, G Young
	BMJ  1996;313:1302-1306 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Collaborative survey of perinatal loss in planned and unplanned home births
	Northern Region Perinatal Mortality Survey Coordinating Group
	BMJ  1996;313:1306-1309 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Outcome of planned home and planned hospital births in low risk pregnancies: prospective study in midwifery practices in the Netherlands
	T A Wiegers, M J N C Keirse, J van der Zee, G A H Berghs
	BMJ  1996;313:1309-1313 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Home versus hospital deliveries: follow up study of matched pairs for procedures and outcome
	Ursula Ackermann-Liebrich, Thomas Voegeli, Kathrin Gunter-Witt, Isabelle Kunz, Maja Zullig, Christian Schindler, Margrit Maurer, Zurich Study Team
	BMJ  1996;313:1313-1318 [Abstract] [Full text]

Soundings

	Every package needs a government health warning
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  1996;313:1337 [Full text]

	A professional opinion?
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1996;313:1337 [Full text]

Personal views

	Symptomatic prescribing reappraised
	Peter Hays
	BMJ  1996;313:1338 [Full text]

Medicine and books

	Microbe Hunters--Then and Now
	Bernard Dixon
	BMJ  1996;313:1340 [Full text]

	Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case
	J A Muir Gray
	BMJ  1996;313:1340-1341 [Full text]

	Health Interview Surveys. Towards international harmonisation of methods and instruments
	Ann Bowling
	BMJ  1996;313:1341 [Full text]

	Measuring the Quality of Life: From Theory to Practice
	Ray Fitzpatrick
	BMJ  1996;313:1341 [Full text]

Education and debate

	Promoting efficiency in the NHS: problems with the labour productivity index
	John Appleby
	BMJ  1996;313:1319-1321 [Full text]

	Confine yourself to forms of English that are easily understood
	John Kirkman
	BMJ  1996;313:1321-1322 [Full text]

	Commentary: Freedom of expression should be preserved
	Iona Heath, Bjorn Nilsson
	BMJ  1996;313:1323 [Full text]

	Grand Rounds--Nottingham City Hospital: A rare cause of superior vena cava obstruction
	BMJ  1996;313:1324-1326 [Full text]

Letters

	Pulmonary artery catheterisation
	T J Dexter
	BMJ  1996;313:1328 [Full text]

	Proposed moratorium on use of pulmonary artery catheters is premature
	Robert Lazarus
	BMJ  1996;313:1328 [Full text]

	Pulmonary artery catheters should be banned from intensive care units
	William Konarzewski
	BMJ  1996;313:1328 [Full text]

	Tertiary cancer services
	Moli Paul
	BMJ  1996;313:1329 [Full text]

	Use of "population served" distorted findings
	Barry Tennison, Alison Frater, Keith Baker
	BMJ  1996;313:1329 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	M A Richards, J C Parrott
	BMJ  1996;313:1329-1330 [Full text]

	Patients should be given more information about drugs during consultations
	T P Schofield
	BMJ  1996;313:1330 [Full text]

	Cardiac troponin T in unstable angina
	A S Wierzbicki, T M Reynolds
	BMJ  1996;313:1330 [Full text]

	Does measurement of troponin T add to ability to stratify risk?
	R Lee Kennedy
	BMJ  1996;313:1330 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Peter Stubbs, Mark Noble, Paul Collinson, David Moseley, Trevor Greenwood
	BMJ  1996;313:1330-1331 [Full text]

	Health for all by the year 2000
	F S Antezana
	BMJ  1996;313:1331 [Full text]

	Much can still be done
	Alexander R P Walker, Lesley T Bourne, Barbara J Klugman
	BMJ  1996;313:1331 [Full text]

	Code of practice on managing tuberculosis is satisfactory
	Peter Ormerod, John Watson, Craig Skinner
	BMJ  1996;313:1331-1332 [Full text]

	Sudden infant death syndrome
	Alison Macfarlane
	BMJ  1996;313:1332 [Full text]

	Smoking is part of a causal chain
	Stuart Logan, Nick Spencer, Clare Blackburn
	BMJ  1996;313:1332-1333 [Full text]

	Many infants move from position in which they are put to sleep
	Guus A De Jonge, Adele C Engelberts
	BMJ  1996;313:1333 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	P J Fleming, P S Blair, I Smith, P J Berry, J Golding, D Bensley
	BMJ  1996;313:1333-1334 [Full text]

	Recorded consultations for children under 5 have increased considerably in general practice
	Alan R Del Mar
	BMJ  1996;313:1334 [Full text]

	Ambulatory monitoring of blood pressure should be restricted to scientific research
	M Brueren
	BMJ  1996;313:1334 [Full text]

	Intracytoplasmic sperm injection
	William Buckett, Ian Aird, Murray Luckas, Charles Kingsland, Iwan Lewis-Jones, Peter Howard
	BMJ  1996;313:1334 [Full text]

	Illustration of sperm may show attachment of potentially pathogenic micro-organisms
	T R Moss
	BMJ  1996;313:1334-1335 [Full text]

	Post-exposure prophylaxis after needlestick injuries would require change in management
	T J Neal, G Harvey
	BMJ  1996;313:1335 [Full text]

	Liberal Democrats' health policy merited more detail
	Simon Hughes
	BMJ  1996;313:1335 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:1342 [Full text]

Fillers

	A MOST MEMORABLE PATIENT
	A Marshall Barr
	BMJ  1996;313:1323 [Full text]

	WHEN I USE A WORD
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1996;313:1326 [Full text]

Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;313:1322 [Full text]

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;313:1335 [Full text]

Career focus

	Certify a specialist
	Stella Lowry
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text]

	Briefing: Informal mentoring is haphazard and likely to favour those in ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text]

	Briefing: The medical firm is dead, according to a new report ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text]

CHOICE

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

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	The enemy and the experiment
	Kenton Morgan
	BMJ  1996;313:1339 [Full text]

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	Rules on extracontractual referrals relaxed • NHS white paper proposes three projects • Ombudsman now has a role in clinical complaints • Trusts should have flexibility over manpower
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:1336 [Full text]

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