- Leptin in obesity : Tells the brain how much fat there is, but in obese people the message may not get through
- Listen to the parents : They may know best
- Primary care in the United States : Getting more academic but needs greater cooperation between family physicians and primary care internists
- Diagnosing death : Getting it right is vital if opportunities for resuscitation are not to be missed
- "Is my practice evidence-based?" Should be answered in qualitative, as well as quantitative terms
- Government proposes new deal for family doctors
- In Brief
- Drug use is unaffected by government policies
- Genetic test for osteoporosis
- Man walks free in Scottish euthanasia case
- Dutch patients complain about poor access to euthanasia
- Early combination treatment for AIDS is urged
- Researchers claim abortion increases risk of breast cancer
- Travellers are the unhealthiest people in Britain
- Premature baby was not put on ventilator
- Advice on treatment of handicapped babies offered
- NHS consultants warn of dire cash crisis
- Focus : Brussels
- Serum leptin concentration, obesity, and insulin resistance in Western Samoans : cross sectional study
- Cell mediated immunity after measles in Guinea-Bissau : historical cohort study
- Socioeconomic differences in mortality among diabetic people in Finland : five year follow up
- Is lead in tap water still a public health problem? An observational study in Glasgow
- A Memorable Patient : The station master
- Capillary testing in an anticoagulant clinic : comparison of two methods
- What worries parents when their preschool children are acutely ill, and why : a qualitative study
- Parents' difficulties and information needs in coping with acute illness in preschool children : a qualitative study
- Patients' accounts of calling the doctor out of hours : qualitative study in one general practice
- Averting a world food shortage : tighten your belt for CAIRO II
- Lesson of the Week : Thyrotoxicosis in a patient with multiple trauma
- Any Questions
- ABC of Work Related Disorders : Working with an Occupational Health Department
- Any Questions
- Oscar Elliott Fisher
- George Robert Tennant Birtwhistle
- Anthony Bowyer
- Alan Glass
- Jarnail Singh Khara
- Marjorie Lillian Penwill
- Nigel Winnard Roberts
- Selective abortion : Doctors who perform abortions for social reasons are social technicians
- Selective abortion : Issues of reproduction must be faced more responsibly
- Selective abortion : Dead fetuses might have to be registered as stillbirths
- Selective abortion : Psychological sequelae in people whose twin died at or before birth are unknown
- Selective abortion : Fifth of babies born after assisted conception have retinopathy of prematurity
- Selective abortion : Use of fertility treatments needs more careful oversight
- Terminations of pregnancy, not unplanned deliveries, increased as result of pill scare
- Correcting outcome data for case mix in stroke medicine : Structure and process should be audited, rather than outcomes
- Correcting outcome data for case mix in stroke medicine : Further studies are needed to assess current outcome indicators
- Correcting outcome data for case mix in stroke medicine : Study should have had more patients or longer time scale
- Authors' reply : Correcting outcome data for case mix in stroke medicine
- Measuring health outcomes : Negative values should be allowed in ratings of quality of life
- Measuring health outcomes : Measuring quality of life is important
- Journal is right to require patients' consent to publication
- Need for a national arthroplasty register : Funding is important
- Need for a national arthroplasty register : Intensive Care Society has set up a centre for national audit
- Current evaluations of information technology in health care are often inadequate
- Placebo mania : Placebos are essential when extent and variability of placebo response are unknown
- Placebo mania : Placebo controlled trials are needed to provide data on effectiveness of active treatment
- Placebo mania : High quality placebos should be used
- Use of anabolic steroids has been reported by 9 percent of men attending gymnasiums
- Usefulness of urine dipstick tests : False negative results may occur in the absence of antibiotics, ketones, and glucose
- Usefulness of urine dipstick tests : Packaging may lead to false positive results
- Unfair book reviews? Authors of book hit back
- Reviewer's reply : Unfair book reviews?
- Unfair book reviews? Editor of book hits back
- Reviewer's reply : Unfair book reviews?
- Drug donations to Bosnia-Hercegovina are often inappropriate
- Fine doctors and fallen bishops
- Blackpool is OK
- My 27 year wait for an NHS diagnosis
- The false breast : should we go for it so quickly?
- Pink ribbons in October
- The Good Society : The Humane Agenda
- Themselves Writ Large : The British Medical Association 1832-1966
- Queer Science : The Use and Abuse of Research Into Homosexuality
- What next For Men?
- Pleasure and Quality of Life
- Smoke Screen : Women's Smoking And Social Control
- Medical Blunders. Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad and Dangerous Doctors
- Wrongful Death : A medical tragedy
- Death Comes for Peter Pan
- After Effects
- The Voluntary Insane
- The Railway Man
- John Hall and his Patients : The Medical Practice of Shakespeare's Son-in-Law; The Herbal Bed
- Opera : Desire, Disease, Death
- Mortally Wounded : Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing
- Facing Death; The Dead Good Funerals Book
