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LEADING ARTICLESAdvances in respiratory distress syndrome

N R C ROBERTON..................917Generic prescribing and the drug industry......919Thin students for thin medical schools........919

SATURDAY 27 MARCH 1982

Mitral valve prolapse and a Marfanoid habitusPETER BEIGHTON..................920

Immunotherapy reassessed C J WILLIAMS.......920Prevenitive medicine in general practice KEITH B TAYLOR 921

CLINICAL RESEARCH * PAPERS AND SHORT REPORTS * PRACTICE OBSERVEDBlood gas analysis: effect of air bubbles in syringe and delay in estimation C K BISWAS, J M RAMOS, B AGROYANNIS, D N S KERR .... 923Intravenous naloxone in acute respiratory failure JON AYRES, JOHfN REES, TAK LEE, G M COCHRANE ................927Medial arterial calcification and diabetic neuropathy M F EDMONDS, N MORRISON, J W LAWS, P J WATKINS.............928Burst abdomen and incisional hernia: a prospective study of 1129 mnajor laparotomieS T E BUCKNALL, P J COX, HAROLD ELLIS....931Neonatal screening for sickle haemoglobinopathies in BirminghaM K D GRIFFITHS, D N RAINE, J R MANN .............933Hydralazine, antinuclear antibodies, and the lupus syndrome

R MANSILL,A-TINOCO, S J HARLAND, P J RYAN, R M BERNSTEIN, C T DOLLERYI, G R V HUGHES, C J BULPTrU, A MORGAN, I MARY JONES ... 936Fatal overdose of theophylline simulating acute pancreatitiS T H S BURGAIN, I GUPTA, C M BATE .................939Acute renal failure in dense deposit disease: recovery after plasmapheresis

JESCIS MONTOLIU, EDUARDO BERGADA, PILAR ARRIZABALAGA, LUIS REVERT ............................940C-peptide suppression test and sulphonylurea-induced factitious hypoglycaemia

J S HARROPI, P R GOLDING, P GOODALL, V M LEVEAUX, G A STEELE, A R INGLE, S RAINBOW.....................940Importance of thyroxine in suppressing secretion of thyroid-stimulating hormone after thyroideCtomy E M ERFURTH, P HEDNER ... 941'Anxiety caused by a short-life hypnotic KEvIN mORGAN, IAN OSWALD .............................942Self-poisoning with sustained-release aminophylline: secondary rise in serum theophyfline concentration after charcoal haemoperfusion

J M C CONNELL, I F MCGEACHIE, I KNEPIL, A THOMSON, B JUNOR ...............................943Comfortable splinting for intravenous infusion C R I WOODHOUSE ..............................944Domperidone in the prevention of complete classical migraine I WAELKENS..........................944Practising Prevention: What does it mean? G,oDFREY FOWLER ................................945Advantages of deputising services: a personal view I S K STEVENSON .............................947Leicestershire: Encouraging specialisation in a general practice RONALD I THEW........................949Women in General Praetice SARAH- BOSWOOD .......................................951

MEDICAL PRACTICEMissed injuries of the spinal cord G RAVIC .....................

Lesson of the Week: Plasmodium falciparui un E WALKER, CATRIONA BRODIE .......General-practitioner obstetrics: two styles o. .....................

A chronic epidemic of hysterical blackouts ii 'A I BOND .................ABC of 1 to 7: Services for children: Outp.-.....................Any Questions? ...................................Materia Non Medica-Contnibutions from WIK-i.....................Medicine and Books

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Medicine and the Media-Contributions from i x,RBERT G TWYCROSS , TONY SMITIH...............Personal View JOHN STRANG ..............................................

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CORRESPONDENCE-List of Contents..........973 SUPPLEMENT___________________________________________ The Week.. .....................990

OBITUARY .....988 Effects on patient care of UGC cuts WILLIAM RUSSELL .... 991, ~~~~~~~~~Reflections of an ex-AHA member RUDOLF KLEIN .....992

NEWS AND NOTES National Insurance contributions 1982-3...........994Views .........................986 BMA Notices: NHS reorganisation-changes in division titlesMedical News......................987 and boundaries ....................994BMA Notices......................987 Correction: From the GMS Committee ..........994

No 6320 BRITISH MEDICAL jouRNAL 1982 VOLUME 284 917-994BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION TAVISTOCK SQUARE LONDON WCIH 9JR.

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