Talking to patients about cancer
	Robert Buckman
	BMJ  1996;313:699-700 [Full text]

	Recurrence of malignant tumours in the head and neck
	G R Ogden
	BMJ  1996;313:700-701 [Full text]

	Varicella vaccine in pregnancy
	Daniel S Seidman, David K Stevenson, Ann M Arvin
	BMJ  1996;313:701-702 [Full text]

	Growing pains of meta-analysis
	Ida Sim, Mark A Hlatky
	BMJ  1996;313:702-703 [Full text]

	Vascularised pancreas transplantation
	Rj Stratta
	BMJ  1996;313:703-704 [Full text]

	Defining core general practitioner services
	Martin Roland
	BMJ  1996;313:704 [Full text]

News

	Caesareans without consent authorised
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:705 [Full text]

	Controversial surgical video is banned
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  1996;313:705 [Full text]

	Headlines
	BMJ  1996;313:706 [Full text]

	Researchers try crystal ball gazing to predict future
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  1996;313:706 [Full text]

	Personality changes due to "roid rage"
	Martin Mulube
	BMJ  1996;313:707 [Full text]

	Chemical castration for paedophiles approved
	Norra Macready
	BMJ  1996;313:707 [Full text]

	Trusts take action to ease congestion
	Douglas Carnall
	BMJ  1996;313:708 [Full text]

	Norway compensates lobotomy victims
	Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
	BMJ  1996;313:708 [Full text]

	Plan for insurance to fund elderly care
	Martin Mulube
	BMJ  1996;313:709 [Full text]

	Evidence supports antibiotic use in glue ear
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1996;313:709 [Full text]

	Benefits inflexible for mentally ill
	John Warden
	BMJ  1996;313:709 [Full text]

	Immigrants are twice as likely to die in childhood
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  1996;313:710 [Full text]

	European plans for complementary medicine criticised
	Alexander Dorozynski
	BMJ  1996;313:710 [Full text]

Papers

	Impaired lung function and mortality risk in men and women: findings from the Renfrew and Paisley prospective population study
	D J Hole, G C M Watt, G Davey-Smith, C L Hart, C R Gillis, V M Hawthorne
	BMJ  1996;313:711-715 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Commentary: Predicting and preventing premature mortality
	David P Strachan
	BMJ  1996;313:715-716 [Full text]

	Familial risks of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: retrospective case-control study
	William D Foulkes, Jean-Sebastien Brunet, Weiva Sieh, Martin J Black, George Shenouda, Steven A Narod
	BMJ  1996;313:716-721 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Adequacy of cervical cytology sampling with the Cervex brush and the Aylesbury spatula: a population based randomised controlled trial
	Paola Dey, Stuart Collins, Minaxi Desai, Ciaran Woodman
	BMJ  1996;313:721-723 [Abstract] [Full text]

	Information needs of cancer patients in west Scotland: cross sectional survey of patients' views
	Catherine Meredith, Paul Symonds, Lorraine Webster, Douglas Lamont, Elspeth Pyper, Charles R Gillis, Lesley Fallowfield
	BMJ  1996;313:724-726 [Abstract] [Full text]

	When is referral of Heaf test positive schoolchildren worth while? Prospective study
	Helen Booth, Christine Pollitt, E Christina Jessen, David J Hendrick, Andrew J Cant
	BMJ  1996;313:726-727 [Full text]

	Bowel preparation at home: prospective study of adverse effects in elderly people
	T D Heymann, K Chopra, E Nunn, L Coulter, D Westaby, I M Murray-Lyon
	BMJ  1996;313:727-728 [Full text]

General practice

	Respecting the autonomy of cancer patients when talking with their families: qualitative analysis of semistructured interviews with patients
	John Benson, Nicky Britten
	BMJ  1996;313:729-731 [Abstract] [Full text]

	General practice postal surveys: a questionnaire too far?
	Brian R McAvoy, Eileen F S Kaner
	BMJ  1996;313:732-733 [Full text]

	Commentary: avoid surveys masquerading as research
	Sue Lydeard
	BMJ  1996;313:733-734 [Full text]

	Commentary: an opposing view from the Netherlands
	Machiel P Springer, Harm W J van Marwijk
	BMJ  1996;313:734 [Full text]

Soundings

	Experts aren't news
	Bernard Dixon
	BMJ  1996;313:758 [Full text]

	Golden Olympics
	Judith Hollis-Triantafillou
	BMJ  1996;313:758 [Full text]

Personal views

	Who is "black" in medical research?
	Ikechukwu Obialo Azuonye
	BMJ  1996;313:760 [Full text]

Medicine and books

	Health Issues for Minority Adolescents
	Surya Bhate
	BMJ  1996;313:761 [Full text]

	Researching Cultural Differences in Health
	Ghada Karmi
	BMJ  1996;313:761 [Full text]

Education and debate

	The relation between treatment benefit and underlying risk in meta-analysis
	Stephen J Sharp, Simon G Thompson, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1996;313:735-738 [Full text]

	Letter from Washington DC: Guns don't die. People do
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1996;313:739-740 [Full text]

	Care of Older People: Community care: the independent sector
	S Barodawala
	BMJ  1996;313:740-743 [Full text]

	Statistics Notes: Measurement error
	J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
	BMJ  1996;313:744 [Full text]

	ABC of Work Related Disorders: STRESS AT WORK
	Julia von Onciul
	BMJ  1996;313:745-748 [Full text]

Letters

	Perioperative myocardial infarction in peripheral vascular surgery
	M D D Bell
	BMJ  1996;313:750 [Full text]

	Stratifying patients by perioperative risk is equivalent to screening
	Simon Howell, Pierre Foex
	BMJ  1996;313:750 [Full text]

	Presence of renal artery stenosis may indicate risk
	Constantinos G Missouris, Tim Buckenham, Graham A Macgregor
	BMJ  1996;313:750 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	N Mamode, J G Pollock, R N Scott
	BMJ  1996;313:750-751 [Full text]

	HIV antibody testing should be routine investigation
	Paul Lister
	BMJ  1996;313:751 [Full text]

	"HIV exceptionalism" has been harmful
	G R Venning
	BMJ  1996;313:751 [Full text]

	GMC's guidance on HIV infection and AIDS is useful
	Ian Aston
	BMJ  1996;313:751-752 [Full text]

	Needle exchange programmes should do more to prevent transmission of hepatitis C virus
	Chris Ford
	BMJ  1996;313:752 [Full text]

	Testing to check success of treatment to eradicate H pylori
	P S Phull, M R Jacyna
	BMJ  1996;313:752 [Full text]

	General practice fundholding has improved services
	Kenneth Scott
	BMJ  1996;313:752 [Full text]

	Reduction in sudden infant death syndrome may be due to parents checking their babies more often
	D P Davies, B M Ansari, I E L Evans
	BMJ  1996;313:752-753 [Full text]

	Information about initiatives that use new technology to inform patients should be shared
	Mark Duman, Simon Wallace
	BMJ  1996;313:753 [Full text]

	Mortality in second generation Irish people living in England and Wales
	J K Cruickshank
	BMJ  1996;313:753 [Full text]

	Effects of social deprivation in whole population should be addressed
	H M P Fielder, J G Avery, D Wright
	BMJ  1996;313:753 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	S Harding, R Balarajan
	BMJ  1996;313:753-754 [Full text]

	Going home after a heart attack
	Keith Hopcroft
	BMJ  1996;313:754 [Full text]

	Depression is also'a risk factor
	David Gill
	BMJ  1996;313:754 [Full text]

	Women with urinary incontinence should be referred to a specialist
	Jonathan R A Duckett
	BMJ  1996;313:754 [Full text]

	Interventions in childbirth
	Kathryn M Grady
	BMJ  1996;313:754-755 [Full text]

	Author confused natural birth with normal birth
	Charles Essex
	BMJ  1996;313:755 [Full text]

	Long term backache after childbirth
	Imogen F D Stephens
	BMJ  1996;313:755 [Full text]

	Study should have been randomised
	Bernadette A Loughnan, Harry Gordon, Andrew O Frank
	BMJ  1996;313:755 [Full text]

	Authors' reply
	Robin Russell, Felicity Reynolds
	BMJ  1996;313:755-756 [Full text]

	Reasons for stopping drugs are monitored in New Zealand
	David M Coulter
	BMJ  1996;313:756 [Full text]

	Patients might be encouraged to become more ill in community psychiatry
	T Webb
	BMJ  1996;313:756 [Full text]

	Herbal stimulant containing ephedrine has also caused psychosis
	H Doyle, M Kargin
	BMJ  1996;313:756 [Full text]

	General Practice Research Database provides detailed anonymised data
	M J Lockwood
	BMJ  1996;313:757 [Full text]

	Small children may consume perfumed body sprays after mistaking them for soft drinks
	David Moore, Rhian Gronow, Michael Mccabe
	BMJ  1996;313:757 [Full text]

	Blood culture is poor method of confirming pneumococcus as cause of childhood pneumonia
	Helena Clements, Terence J Stephenson
	BMJ  1996;313:757 [Full text]

	Unnecessary words creep in
	J R Willcox
	BMJ  1996;313:757 [Full text]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1996;313:762 [Full text]

Fillers

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1996;313:723 [Full text]

	ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
	BMJ  1996;313:728 [Full text]

	More on the Jenner statue
	BMJ  1996;313:743 [Full text]

Corrections

	Correction
	BMJ  1996;313:744 [Full text]

Career focus

	How to be interviewed
	Mark Sudlow, Peter Toghill
	BMJ  1996;313:2 [Full text]

	Briefing: The statutory rules on maternity leave and pay are notoriously ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text]

	Briefing: Half of the full time basic salary of a junior ...
	BMJ  1996;313:3 [Full text]

CHOICE

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

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Corner's caring contribution
	Matthew Robson
	BMJ  1996;313:759 [Full text]

	More pricks than kicks
	Stephen Lock
	BMJ  1996;313:759-760 [Full text]

Career focus

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