The National Medical Journal of India, On the frontline of Indian medicine,VOLUME 11,NUMBER 3, MAY / JUNE 1998

VOLUME 11, NUMBER 3

MAY / JUNE 1998

EDITORIALS
50 years of the World Health Organization: Looking back and moving forward		[PDF] 107
	K. SRINATH REDDY
The centenary of brachytherapy in clinical oncology		[PDF] 110
	BIDHU K. MOHANTI
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Oral submucous fibrosis in India: A new epidemic?		[PDF] 113
	P. C. GUPTA, P. N. SINOR, R. B. BHONSLE, V. S. PAWAR, H. C. MEHTA
Descriptive epidemiology of leukaemias in Greater Mumbai		[PDF] 116
	B. B. YEOLE, D. J. JUSSAWALLA, S. H. ADVANI
SHORT REPORTS
Maternal zinc indices and small babies		[PDF] 120
	SUSAN S. GEORGE, S. SWAMINATHAN, A. S. KANAGASABAPATHY, L. SESHADRI
In vitro occlusion of human fallopian tubes with Nd: YAG laser		[PDF] 122
	L. M. KUKREJA
REVIEW ARTICLE
Evaluation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis: The insulin tolerance test and beyond		[PDF] 125
	NIHAL THOMAS
SELECTED SUMMARIES
Bacterial infections in cirrhotics: Do they cause upper gastrointestinal bleeding?		[PDF] 129
How safe is carvedilol in NIDDM patients with hypertension?		[PDF] 130
SPEAKING FOR MYSELF
Qualitative research in health care: Fringe or frontier?		[PDF] 132
	JENS SEEBERG
MEDICINE AND SOCIETY
World Health Organization: A new approach into the new century		[PDF] 137
	(Excerpts from Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland's address to the World Health Assembly, Geneva, 13 May 1998)
CONFERENCES		[PDF] 140
LETTERS
	LETTER FROM CHENNAI	[PDF] 143
	LETTER FROM SRI LANKA	[PDF] 144
	LETTER FROM JOHANNESBURG	[PDF] 146
BOOK REVIEWS		[PDF] 147
CORRESPONDENCE		[PDF] 150
MASALA		[PDF] 153
NOTICES		[PDF] 154

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