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Focuses on ways of selecting medical literature to be published in the British Medical Journal. Reasons for writing medical journals; Role of editorial committees in selecting articles to be published; Criteria in the selection.

Focuses on the dynamics of medical manpower in Great Britain. Increase in the medical unemployment rate; Recommendations on medical student intake and employment of overseas qualified physicians; Strategies in controlling the entry of overseas doctors.

Focuses on the use of computer system for the publication of the journal 'British Medical Journal' in Great Britain. Scheme on the use of computer system in the editorial office; Problems relating to computer systems; Advantage on the use of computer systems.

Focuses on research publications from the department of general practice at Glasgow University in Scotland. Importance of publications in learning; Use of proper key words for computer reference systems; Tips to help contributors of medical journals.

Focuses on the white paper negotiations of the General Medical Service Committee in Great Britain. Completion of the Health and Medicine Bill committee stage; Review of the long term funding of the National Health Service (NHS); Reference term of the prime minister on the internal review of the NHS.

Focuses on the publication of the green paper on general practice in Great Britain. Proposals on retirement plans for physicians; Move of the Department of Health and Social Security in increasing capitation fee; Implication of primary care funding for the National Health Service.

Reports developments related to medicine in Great Britain. Delay of the publication of the green paper report on general practice; Recommendation of the Social Services Select Committee for extra funding; Criticisms of the pharmaceutical price regulation scheme in the country.

Focuses on the increase of medical staff in Great Britain. Employment of clerks for taking responsibility of the administrative and paper work; Announcement of the new accountability procedures; Evaluation of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill.

Focuses on the medical issues presented at the meeting of the Association of Community Health Councils in Great Britain. Emphasis of John Patter, health minister on the services of physician to patients; Arguments related to pay awards initiated by the National Health Services; Controversies concerning termination of pregnancy practices.

Presents a reply on the use of Vitamin B12 in general practice in Great Britain.

Presents several views related to the health system in Great Britain. Discussion of a doctor leaving the Aneurin Bevan's health service; Issue on the withdrawal of paper towels to cut costs; Status of the Aneurin Bevan's health service.

Reports developments related to medicine in Great Britain. Uses of a plastic drip set; Usefulness of waste papers; Preference to live in Africa.

Examines the use of the database of Excerpta Medica to measure the output of medical research in Great Britain. Changes in the research outputs in research centers; Increase in the proportion of clinical papers; Necessity to devise a measurement of the importance of each paper.

Presents the results of the election of voting members of the British Medical Association council in Great Britain for the year 1986-87. Data on the election in each region; List of officers elected; Number of voting papers issued nad valid papers returned.

Focuses on the rules on publication of papers in the New England Journal of Medicine in Great Britain. Limitations on the dissemination of research reports in the medical newspapers; Reasons for following the rules; Revisions made on papers received by the British Medical Journal.

Reports developments in medicine and the mass media in Great Britain. Recipient of the British Pediatric Association's prize for the best paper presented by a young pediatrician; Campaign of the government in the mass media on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; Story on the achievements of Clive Jermaine as a patient with spinal tumor.

Presents several developments on medical sciences in Great Britain as of January 1986. Publication of a white paper on the reform of social security; Breach of the code of practice for mounting hypertension screening project of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry; Response of the government to drug misusers.

Comments on the proposed white paper as extension of the Family Doctor Charter of 1966 implemented in Great Britain. Scrutiny on the rationale of the proposal; Conflicts between the report issued by the House of Commons Social Service Committee and the primary health care stated in the white paper; Insufficiencies identified in the proposal.

Reports the solicitation for papers seeking views on the professional advisory rearrangements in the reorganized National Health Service in Great Britain. Ways to achieve an effective management for the medical practice; List of the main recommendations for the paper.

Reports medical developments in Great Britain as of August 1987. Campaign of British Medical Association against cigarette smoking; Issuance of consultation papers on performance indicators for the health service by the National Health Service Management Board; Announcement on the applications for scientists on cancer research awards.

Focuses on the unemployment and health in Great Britain. Impact of unemployment on the practice workload of practitioners; Narration on the beginnings of the research paper; Success over the project.

Reports developments related to health in Great Britain as of October 1983. Approach designed to help people cope with many changes related to old age; Issuance of the series of discussion papers as part of debate on improving primary care; List of scheduled congresses.

Focuses on the plan of the government to expand the consultant grade and freeze the SHO grade in the Great Britain. Response of physician Nabarro to the plan og the government; Implication of the freezing of SHO grade on registrar bulge; Characterization on the SHO grade as content of the paper of physician G.H. Hall. INSET: Dr Nabarro's proposals on manpower.

Focuses on the health care for aged people in Great Britain. Reduction on the length of stay in acute hospitals; Provision of short term support in residential homes; Proposal of White Paper for National Health Service nursing homes in the hospital sector.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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.