War crimes and medical science
	Jennifer Leaning
	BMJ  1996;313:1413-1415 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Preventing genocide
	Donald Acheson
	BMJ  1996;313:1415-1417 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Hitler's plans for genocide: a speech from 1939
	BMJ  1996;313:1416 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Reducing paracetamol overdoses
	Elizabeth Fagan, Gary Wannan
	BMJ  1996;313:1417-1418 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Thromboembolism in primary pulmonary hypertension
	Andrew Bishop, Paul Oldershaw
	BMJ  1996;313:1418-1419 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Heart attacks and homocysteine
	Ian Graham, Raymond Meleady
	BMJ  1996;313:1419-1420 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Letters

This week's Letters

	Widow's fight for husband's sperm
	Robert Winston
	BMJ  1996;313:1477 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Reply from chairman of BMA's medical ethics committee
	J Stuart Horner
	BMJ  1996;313:1477 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	No one can give consent on behalf of an incompetent adult patient
	John H Hughes
	BMJ  1996;313:1477 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Allergy to peanut, nuts, and sesame seed in Australian children
	R Sporik, D Hill
	BMJ  1996;313:1477-1478 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Peanut allergy
	Rollo Clifford
	BMJ  1996;313:1478 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	Jonathan O'B Hourihane, J O Warner, T P Dean
	BMJ  1996;313:1478 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Should breast reduction surgery be rationed?
	Jayant S Vaidya, Nigel Sacks
	BMJ  1996;313:1478-1479 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Interventions requested for psychological reasons should be studied
	Margaret Somerville, Gina Radford, Nicola Hews
	BMJ  1996;313:1479 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	Ray Fitzpatrick, Anne Klassen, Crispin Jenkinson, Tim Goodacre
	BMJ  1996;313:1479 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Fatal methadone overdose
	Emyr W Benbow, Ian S D Roberts, Alison Cairns
	BMJ  1996;313:1479 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Naloxone infusion should have been started earlier
	N Nichol, L Pieterse, T Beattie
	BMJ  1996;313:1479-1480 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Patient may have injected methadone while in hospital
	Aidan J Byrne
	BMJ  1996;313:1480 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Close observation in intensive care unit is required when naloxone infusion ends
	Simon Finfer
	BMJ  1996;313:1480 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	T J Hendra, S P Gerrish, A R W Forrest
	BMJ  1996;313:1480 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Methadone treatment
	J R Robertson, J Macleod
	BMJ  1996;313:1480-1481 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Only half of patients store methadone in safe place
	Lynn Calman, Emily Finch, Beverley Powis, John Strang
	BMJ  1996;313:1481 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Methadone concentrations taken as indicating deaths due to overdose need to be reviewed
	John Merrill, Tim Garvey, Chris Rosson
	BMJ  1996;313:1481 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Treatment in general practice can be successful
	Chris Ford, Brian Whitehead
	BMJ  1996;313:1481-1482 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Clinical judgment is important
	Colin Brewer, Catherine Neill
	BMJ  1996;313:1482 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Treating hypertension in elderly people
	Mikael Hoffmann, Johan Ahlner
	BMJ  1996;313:1482 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Editorial should have given more pragmatic goals for primary health care teams
	David Seamark
	BMJ  1996;313:1482-1483 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Communicating risk
	Adrian Edwards, Roisin Pill, Nigel Stott
	BMJ  1996;313:1483 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Risks can also be categorised as normal or abnormal
	Dick Madeley
	BMJ  1996;313:1483 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Prescribing incentive scheme for non-fundholding general practices
	Philip Rutledge
	BMJ  1996;313:1483-1484 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Reduction in prescribing cannot confidently be attributed to scheme
	Elizabeth Robinson, Ian Harvey
	BMJ  1996;313:1484 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Authors' reply
	D N Bateman, M Campbell, S J Roberts, J M Smith, L J Donaldson
	BMJ  1996;313:1484 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Side effects of tamoxifen are distressing and common
	Amrit Ray, Robert C F Leonard
	BMJ  1996;313:1484 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Value of milk tokens for breast feeding mothers should be increased
	Rhona J Mcinnes, David M Tappin
	BMJ  1996;313:1484-1485 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Medical Practices Committee's surveys of vacancies in general practice look at all vacancies
	Mary Leigh
	BMJ  1996;313:1485 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Skin storage
	B W E M Powell
	BMJ  1996;313:1485 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Demand has outstripped supply in Sheffield's skin bank
	David R Ralston, Sue G Boyce, Sheila Macneil, Eric Freedlander
	BMJ  1996;313:1485 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Propranolol is contraindicated in asthma
	J M Fallowfield, H F Marlow
	BMJ  1996;313:1486 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Sex differences in weight in infancy
	M A Preece, J V Freeman, T J Cole
	BMJ  1996;313:1486 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Data from Sheffield support authors' findings
	J K H Wales, C P A Kennedy
	BMJ  1996;313:1486 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Confusion over whether new technologies should be regulated at European or state level
	Frederic Fleurette
	BMJ  1996;313:1486-1487 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Ratio of waist circumference to height is better predictor of death than body mass index
	Brian D Cox, Margaret J Whichelow
	BMJ  1996;313:1487 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Consensus statement on management of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism
	I K Takacs, I Szabolcs, M Goth, O Dohan, L Kovacs, G Szilagyi, J Foldes
	BMJ  1996;313:1487 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Registers based in general practice are essential in long term surveillance
	Jeremy P Hill, Tom Pitts-Tucker
	BMJ  1996;313:1488 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Thyroxine concentrations should be at upper end of reference range
	R I S Bayliss
	BMJ  1996;313:1488 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	People with Down's syndrome should be screened
	J Mcaloon
	BMJ  1996;313:1488 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Role of animal experiments in assessing drug safety needs clarification
	Gabriel Symonds
	BMJ  1996;313:1488 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Patients should not be discouraged from entering trials
	Jayne E Harrison
	BMJ  1996;313:1488 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

News

This week's News

	US compensates subjects of radiation experiments
	Deborah Josefson
	BMJ  1996;313:1421 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Patients do not read consent forms
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:1421 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Anatomy textbook has Nazi origins
	Fred B Charatan
	BMJ  1996;313:1422 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Lessons still need to be learned from Nuremberg
	David Woods
	BMJ  1996;313:1422 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Public supports euthanasia for most desperate cases
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1996;313:1423 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Euthanasia reporting is increasing but is still low
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;313:1423 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	In Brief
	BMJ  1996;313:1424 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	E coli 0157 kills five people in Scotland
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  1996;313:1424 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Faecal occult blood testing cuts deaths by a fifth
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1996;313:1425 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	China implements 10 rules for hospitals
	Richard Tomlinson
	BMJ  1996;313:1425 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Setback for French antiabortionists
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;313:1425 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Private finance deal signed for Norfolk hospital
	Jackie Cresswell
	BMJ  1996;313:1426 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	NHS does well from British budget
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:1426 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Sixty medicines are blacklisted
	Adam Legge
	BMJ  1996;313:1427 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Labour reveals plans to dismantle internal market
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:1427 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	British clinical academic staff win pay battle
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:1427 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	WHO steps up efforts against trachoma
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1996;313:1428 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	Changing of the cancer guard
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1996;313:1428 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Papers

This week's Papers

	A comparison of aspirin and anticoagulation following thrombolysis for myocardial infarction (the AFTER study): a multicentre unblinded randomised clinical trial
	D G Julian, D A Chamberlain, S J Pocock
	BMJ  1996;313:1429-1431 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Suicides after pregnancy in Finland, 1987-94: register linkage study
	Mika Gissler, Elina Hemminki, Jouko Lonnqvist
	BMJ  1996;313:1431-1434 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	Association of cardiovascular disease risk factors with socioeconomic position during childhood and during adulthood
	D Blane, C L Hart, G Davey Smith, C R Gillis, D J Hole, V M Hawthorne
	BMJ  1996;313:1434-1438 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

	A randomised controlled trial of psychological debriefing for victims of road traffic accidents
	Michael Hobbs, Richard Mayou, Beverly Harrison, Peter Worlock
	BMJ  1996;313:1438-1439 [Full text] FREE

General practice

This week's General practice

	Use of ankle brachial pressure index to predict cardiovascular events and death: a cohort study
	G C Leng, F G R Fowkes, A J Lee, J Dunbar, E Housley, C V Ruckley
	BMJ  1996;313:1440-1443 [Abstract] [Full text] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Too many people
	Tony Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:1490 [Full text] FREE

	Salt and other enemies
	George Dunea
	BMJ  1996;313:1490 [Full text] FREE

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Sex and sin
	David Berger
	BMJ  1996;313:1492 [Full text] FREE

	Can children be protected from the effects of war?
	David Southall, Manuel Carballo
	BMJ  1996;313:1493 [Full text] FREE

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Treatment Without Consent: Law, Psychiatry and the Treatment of Mentally Disordered People Since 1845
	Udo Schuklenk
	BMJ  1996;313:1494 [Full text] FREE

	Reenchanted Science: Holism in Germany Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler
	Michael Burleigh
	BMJ  1996;313:1494 [Full text] FREE

	Euthanasia: death, dying and the medical duty
	Johannes J M Van Delden
	BMJ  1996;313:1495 [Full text] FREE

	One New Humanity: the Challenge of AIDS
	Kenneth M Boyd
	BMJ  1996;313:1495 [Full text] FREE

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:1496 [Full text] FREE

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	A MEMORABLE PATIENT
	Edward Lavender
	BMJ  1996;313:1439 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

	A MEMORABLE PATIENT
	J P Payne
	BMJ  1996;313:1444 [Extract] [Full text] FREE

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Publish and prosper
	Tim Albert
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: Doug Gillies' article on choosing a consultant post (Career Focus, ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: One in three men have a criminal record by the ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3a [Full text] FREE

	Briefing: Record numbers of students are passing out of university- nearly ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3b [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

	A day Sheffield will never forget
	Ed Walker
	BMJ  1996;313:1491 [Full text] FREE

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

	More teamwork needed to improve patient care • MPs expose Quarry House "disaster" • Hospitals told not to close emergency departments • BMA calls for confidential firearms hotline • Rural pharmacists win test case • BMA rejects terms for public health registrars
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  1996;313:1489 [Full text] FREE

Career focus

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