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Reports the effectiveness of the statistical assessment scheme for papers submitted to the 'British Medical Journal,'. Statistical criticism of the content; Comparison of reports on published and unpublished papers; Acceptability of assessed papers.

During a series of presentations of scientific papers 40.6% of 276 subjects reported dreaming, but only 18.1% actually fell asleep. The frequency of dreaming was significantly increased by the addition of either "very boring" or "very interesting" slides to the usual ones, but not by "neutral" slides. The recall of lecture content and the proportion of audience asleep were (surprisingly) not greatly affected by the addition of extraneous slides of any sort. On the other hand, adding "very interesting" slides greatly increases audience enjoyment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Examines the problem in multiauthorship of works. Factors attributing to the problem in indexing published papers; Contribution of each of the authors in a certain article; Difference in assessments made in the value of the first and last author.

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 applicability of personally arranged learning sessions for the presentation of free papers in Great Britain. Background of the method; Steps involved in the preparation of the of free papers; Advantages of the methodology to satisfy audience passivity.

Reports developments on medicine in Europe as of January 1988. Negotiation between the General Medical Services Committee and the Department of Health on primary health care; Access of the district health authorities to family practitioner committees; Derivation of circular of community nursing services and community health care teams.

Details the anemic condition common among runners. Reflection on changes in the circulating red cell mass and in plasma volume; Reduction in serum ferritin concentration; Association of excessive fecal blood loss with marathon training.

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 different difficulties in the medical professions. Removal of tax charges on medical insurance premium paid by some employers; Benefits of the employees from the medical insurance; Publication of the Public Expenditure White Paper by the government.

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 a reply on the article regarding the effectiveness of systemic decongestant or antihistamine treatment for the modification of clinical course of acute otitis media. Pattern response to a child with acute otitis media; Effectiveness of placebo in children.

Focuses on the influence of medical-related literatures on the practice of medicine. Context of medical literatures; Factors to consider in medical writing; Reliance of the medical practice on medical books.

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 capability of sulphoxidation state to predict gold toxicity among patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Glasgow, Scotland. Analysis of urine for sulphide and sulfoxide metabolites of carbocysteine via paper chromatography; Derivation of the sulphoxidation index; Use of the Fisher's exact test for statistical analysis.

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.

Focuses on the development related to medicine as of January 1984. Publication of 'Selected Papers' by the local medical association; Evidence of the use of chemical weapons in South East Asia; Hazards in the use of microwave ovens.

Compares different combinations of pants and pads used in the ambulatory management of urinary incontinence among female patients. Types of pads and pants; Comfort of using pads and pants; Effectiveness of the pads and pants for urinary incontinence.

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.

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.

Evaluates the issue of authorship for papers having several authors. Consequences of casual attitudes towards the issue; Stress put into the editors in taking the initiative of dealing the problem; Responsibilities of the authors on defending the content of the papers.

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.

Presents several aids for urinary incontinence. Incontinence pads and pants for women; External incontinence devices for men; Rewashable absorbent sheets as protection to the mattress during sleeping.

Highlights the Guangdong/Hong Kong/Macau conference on diseases of the chest held in Canton, China. Presentation of approaches to chest problems using Chinese traditional medicine; Speech on morbidity of chronic airflow obstruction in China; Papers on conventional treatment of asthma.

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.

Focuses on the problems of clinical biochemistry on technological changes in getting near a patient. Development of side room testing from litmus paper to solid phase immunoassays; Value of the advice of biochemists on test reliability in diagnosis; Benefits from therapeutic drug monitoring im measuring drug concentrations in the outpatient clinic.

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.

Provides tips in preparing for an interview for junior medical staff applications. Necessity to remember the names of the panel members; Consideration of honesty in answering the questions; Evaluation of papers before the interview.

Examines the treatment of tetany due to hyperventilation during the labor of a patient. Exacerbation of fetal hypoxia by a rebreathe into a paper bag; Effect of intravenous calcium salts on hypocalcaemic tetany; Disadvantage of using an epidural analgesia.

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 contribution of physician B.L. Alexander on health services literature. Reference on the comprehensive paper of Alexander on sick doctor; Introduction of a scheme to aid the sick physicians; Terms of the locum allowance for sickness absence; Details on the compensation fund for rural dispensing.

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.