This report to the Secretaries of State for the environment and health comprises 3 parts:
appraisal of evidence; scientific and technical data; and bibliographies, etc. A summary is …

The absorption of calcium and vitamin D was studied in 6 patients with steatorrhoea. Estimation
of Ca balance in 2 of them showed that on a high-fat diet without vitamin D the faecal Ca …

Rubella contracted during the first nine weeks of pregnancy causes multiple defects in up to
90% of fetuses.'When rubella vaccine became available in 1970 the aim of all rubella …

Ten patients with idiopathic steatorrhoea or coeliac disease were studied. Absorption of
labelled FeSO 4, given with ascorbic acid, was poor but improved rapidly in all except one …

It is hard to imagine any field of human activity where close and accurate communication
between individuals is more important than it is in the prac-tice of medicine, and yet it isonly …

We have found tests with radioactive iron to be of value in the investigation of cases of so-called
refractory hypochromic anaemia. Patients with a true failure of absorption of iron may be …

OVER one hundred years ago Thomas Addison published his classical description of pernicious
anemia, but although his careful clinical observa-tions defined a picture which we still …

In September 1422, King Henry V died at Bois de Vincennes while campaigning in France,
leaving Catherine de Valois, Catherine the Fair, a widow at the age of 21. After a romantic …

BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL VOLUME 288 18 FEBRUARY 1984 565 rather than to pursue
the present strategy of immunising schoolgirls and susceptible women of childbearing age. …

SIR,-I can see no moral or logical reason for savings achieved by reducing dispensing
general practitioners' remuneration being re-distributed to all general practitioners (26 May, p …