September 1996 Vol 4

Editorials

• 306 Sudden infant death syndrome: after the "back to sleep" campaign

• 307 Welcome freshers

• 307 Extreme poverty: an obligation ignored

• 308 Breaking Olympic records

• 309 HIV pre-test discussion

News and Student Politics

• 310 US student conference * South African medical course lengthened * Infertility treatment * Call to legalise cannabis * Consultants increase * Smoking in films * Correction

Education

• 313 Writing better essays

• 314 Sex and the patient

• 315 Sex in the consulting room: ethics of relationships between doctors and patients

• 318 How to use a stethoscope

• 321 Review Article: Drugs in sport

• 325 A Difficult Case: Home ventilation of a child with motor and sensory neuropathy

Papers

• 328 Home visiting by general practitioners in England and Wales

• 331 Blood pressure and risk of stroke in patients with cerebrovascular disease

• 332 Retrospective study of influence of deprivation on uptake of cardiac rehabilitation

Student Life

• 334 On a wing and a prayer - diary of a junior doctor's first day

• 335 A fresher's life

• 336 I've got to get out of this place

• 338 How true to life are medical dramas?

• 340 My Career: plastic surgery

• 341 Studying medicine in Hungary on an English programme

• 342 Career focus - Making use of the university careers service

Letters

• 344 Medicine and common sense * Fantasy league tables * Graduate recruitment * Jack Kevorkian * Science students * AIDS health promotion

Soundings

• 346 They think it's all over - it is now

• 346 The meaning of life, university, and everything

Personal View

• 347 The way I don't see it - living with a visual impairment

• 348 Pitching it low

Books

• 349 Fresher's guide to buying books

Minerva

• 350