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Reports on the negotiations on the white paper on the meeting with the Department of Health and Social Security in Great Britain. Proposals of the department to establish working parties; Assurance given by physician M.A. Wilson to report back progress on the negotiations; General Medical Services Committee as the sole negotiating body for general practitioners.

Comments on the deterioration of patient care standards in Great Britain. Issuance of a warning from presidents of health associations; Calls for overall review of acute hospital services; Reference to a white paper entitled 'Promoting Better Health.'

Focuses on issues related to medical care in Great Britain. Ideas tackled in the white paper Promoting Better Health; System of payment for doctors advocated by Tony Newton, British minister of health; Controversies concerning the budget for National Health Services.

Presents several views on medicine. Outbreak of rheumatic fever among children in the United States; Quality of paper used in medical journals; Techniques of the Heimlich maneuver used in choking victims.

Reports on the British Medical Association Council election. Result of the third and final stage of the selection; Selection of four officers with most numbered votes; Issuance of voting papers.

Features the candidates for the council election of British Medical Association in Great Britain. Issuance date of the ballot papers; Submission date of votes; Announcement of the result in the journal.

Reports developments related to medical care in Great Britain as of September 1986. Strategies implemented by the National Health Service; Launch of a series of Labour Party papers on health; Proposals for a community nursing review.

Presents several medical related issues in Great Britain. Reports on the blue paper related to primary health care; Association of road accidents with drunk drivers; Retirement of director Gordon McLachlan of Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust.

Comments on the publication of agenda for discussion on primary health care by the government in Great Britain. Variety of headlines on health care; Proposals of the government for health care; Interpretation of different papers on the agenda of the government for health care.

Focuses on the publication of the 'Green Paper' on primary care proposal in Great Britain. Contents of the primary care proposals; Opposition on the proposals; Fears of the politicians on the proposals.

Focuses on the standardization of medical journal publication in Great Britain. Improvement of quality of published papers; Selection of journals for the publication; Chances of authors and readers for the most demanding journal.

Focuses on the activities of the editors of general medical journals during Christmas season. Application of the reference 13 trick; Failure of the author to mention in his paper that somebody has published a similar study; Improvement of the sinking image of the editors.

Presents information on the importance of media on the field of medicine in Great Britain. Beliefs of news editors and headline writers on newspapers sold by doom and disaster; Access of information by parents with a handicapped child; Citations of papers writer by medical practitioners.

Investigates the relation of the timing and duration of lucom duties to an objective measure of factual knowledge and to clinical assessment in final year students in surgery in Great Britain. Association between junior clinical assessments and score in the final year paper; Acknowledgement of teachers on the value of lucom duties on current assessments; Implications of lucom duties on the ability of students.

Focuses on the report on primary care by the Department of Health and Social Security in Great Britain. Contents of the primary care green paper; Need to improve services on patients; Importance of consultations between public ministers and the British Medical Association on medical policies concerning the National Health Service.

Presents views about the paper of authors Graham Dukes and Inga Lunde on the comparison of two areas in Europe. Definition of area in terms of the religions over the past centuries; Tendency of Dukes and Lunde to exaggerate; Effect of the Reformation on the mentality of the people.

Presents a personal view on the medicopolitical events in Great Britain. Effects of nuclear war on medicine; Recommendations of an increase in the salaries on National Health Service physicians; Reference to a consultative paper issued by the government on a review body proposed by nurses.

Focuses on the condition of medical press advertising and the costs of health advertising in Great Britain. Reference of the data on the meeting of the Pharmaceutical Marketing Club; Argument on the quality of medical papers; Assessment on the impact of medical press advertising on drug companies and health care services.

Presents guidelines to authors for the preparation of papers for publication. Length of the original articles; Assessment of medical works before publication; Evaluation of topics to be discussed in the 'Talking Point' articles.

Comments on several books and television programs related to medicine. Popularity of the legionnaires' disease; Publish of scientific papers on blood lead concentrations; Problems encountered by women in coping with miscarriages.

Focuses on the allocation of budget for the National Health Services (NHS) in Great Britain. Publication of White Paper on public expenditure; Plans of the NHS in the financial year; References of capital for the project.

Examines the relation between the use of tampons and urogenital carriage of group B streptococci. Observation of the prolonged carriage of streptococci in women using tampons during menstruation; Relation of tampons with toxic shock syndrome; Implication of tampons on the prevalence of carriage of group B streptococci in women.

Examines association between toxic-shock syndrome and tampon use in Great Britain. Description of toxic-shock syndrome cases; Relation between syndrome and postpartum breast abscess; Efficacy of intravenous fluids treatment.

Examines the etiology of toxic shock syndrome among menstruating women. Signs and symptoms of the disease; Association between the use of tampons and the development of the syndrome; Management and treatment of the disease.