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This week's Editorials

Preventing crime and violence
Jonathan P Shepherd, David P Farrington
BMJ  1995;310:271-272
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Biological influences on criminal behaviour: how good is the evidence?
Joseph S Alper
BMJ  1995;310:272-273
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Television violence and children
Dora Black, Martin Newman
BMJ  1995;310:273-274
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Bullying in schools: doctors' responsibilities
Judith Dawkins
BMJ  1995;310:274-275
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Imprisonment, injecting drug use, and bloodborne viruses
Onoel Gill, Ahilya Noone, Julia Heptonstall
BMJ  1995;310:275-276
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This week's Letters

Mortality and alcohol consumption
A G Shaper
BMJ  1995;310:325
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The dose-response relation is probably linear
David F Marks
BMJ  1995;310:325-326
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Moderate drinking also improves health
Ronan A Lyons, Su Vuilo, Stephen Monaghan, Beverley N C Littlepage
BMJ  1995;310:326
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The conclusions we draw
T M Reynolds
BMJ  1995;310:326
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Length of femoral neck and rates of hip fractures
Arne Hoiseth
BMJ  1995;310:326
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Author's reply
Ian R Reid
BMJ  1995;310:326
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Changes in the Health Education Authority
Bob Haward
BMJ  1995;310:327
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Severe chickenpox during treatment with corticosteroids
Paul Buss
BMJ  1995;310:327
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Immunoglobulin should be given if steroid dosage was >/=0.15 mg/kg/day in preceding three months
Isobel Burnett
BMJ  1995;310:327
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National guidelines exist
Donna Ellender, Patrick Waller, Susan Wood, Michael Rawlins, Michael Langman, David Salisbury, Elizabeth Wilson
BMJ  1995;310:327
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Commercial assays have high false positive rate
Justin Bendig, Valerie Meurisse, Sharon Chambers
BMJ  1995;310:327-328
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Authors' reply
Philip S Rice, Jangu E Banatvala, Robert Carr, Katy Simmons
BMJ  1995;310:328
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Managing ulceration of the breast
Chris Stone, Ken Dunn
BMJ  1995;310:328
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J Michael Dixon
BMJ  1995;310:328-329
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Macroglossia
A G Renehan, M E Morton
BMJ  1995;310:329
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Tracheostomy may not be necessary during surgery
R W R Farrell
BMJ  1995;310:329
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Confounding and Simpson's paradox
C R Charig
BMJ  1995;310:329
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Authors' reply
Mark A Mullee, Steven A Julious
BMJ  1995;310:329
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Matching in case-control studies
Henrik Toft Sorensen, Matthew W Gillman
BMJ  1995;310:329-330
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Numbers alone cannot determine rational treatment
Patrick Vallance
BMJ  1995;310:330
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Apolipoprotein e4 allele and cognitive decline
G B Frisoni, A Bianchetti, G Franceschini, S Govoni, M Trabucchi
BMJ  1995;310:330
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Author's reply
E J M Feskens
BMJ  1995;310:330-331
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Referral of women with breast lumps
Justine Foster
BMJ  1995;310:331
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Positive predictive value of tests for breast disease
James W T Chalmers, David Breen
BMJ  1995;310:331
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Psychotic illness in ethnic groups
Jean-Paul Selten
BMJ  1995;310:331
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Numbers are small
D Bhugra, J Leff, R Mallett
BMJ  1995;310:331
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Study did not deal with "category fallacy"
Suman Fernando
BMJ  1995;310:331-332
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Biological is not synonymous with genetic
John M Eagles
BMJ  1995;310:332
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Census categories of ethnic group are limited
Annie Bartlett, Matthew Fiander
BMJ  1995;310:332
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Some ethnic groups may be more vulnerable to extremes of social deprivation
Rachel Perkins, Nigel Fisher
BMJ  1995;310:332-333
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Larger studies are needed
Kamud S Bhatnagar
BMJ  1995;310:333
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Accuracy of variables describing ethnic minority groups is important
Kwame Mckenzie
BMJ  1995;310:333
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Michael King, Eleanor Coker, Gerard Leavey
BMJ  1995;310:333
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Prison service agrees to BMA talks
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;310:277-278
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Headlines
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Prison policies put inmates at risk
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England and Wales: Testing with consent
Steve Connor
BMJ  1995;310:278
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Scotland: Learning from experience
Bryan Christie
BMJ  1995;310:279
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Australia: Climbing the political agenda
Christopher Zinn
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India: Campaigners urge check on spread of HIV
Meenal Mudur
BMJ  1995;310:280
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Denmark: Opinion is divided
Margaret Dolley
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US: Injecting drug misuse is rare in prisons
John Roberts
BMJ  1995;310:281
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France: one in five prisoners rejects voluntary HIV test
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;310:281
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Netherlands: Potential HIV epidemic feared in jails
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  1995;310:281
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Germany: Approach varies widely between states
Helmut L Karcher
BMJ  1995;310:282
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Thailand: One hospital for HIV positive prisoners
Paul Hunt
BMJ  1995;310:282
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Israel: All prisoners have voluntary HIV test
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
BMJ  1995;310:282-283
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Emergency delays need urgent attention
Luisa Dillner
BMJ  1995;310:283
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Wellcome waits for white knight
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:283-284
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Britain will not ban baby milk adverts
John Warden
BMJ  1995;310:284
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Gun control: bang or whimper at March election?
Simon Chapman
BMJ  1995;310:284
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This week's Papers

Spread of bloodborne viruses among Australian prison entrants
Nick Crofts, Tony Stewart, Peter Hearne, Xin Yi Ping, Alan M Breschkin, Stephen A Locarnini
BMJ  1995;310:285-288
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Outbreak of HIV infection in a Scottish prison
Avril Taylor, David Goldberg, John Emslie, John Wrench, Laurence Gruer, Sheila Cameron, James Black, Barbara Davis, James McGregor, Edward Follett, Janina Harvey, John Basson, James McGavigan
BMJ  1995;310:289-292
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Drug injection and HIV prevalence in inmates of Glenochil prison
Sheila M Gore, A Graham Bird, Sheila M Burns, David J Goldberg, Amanda J Ross, James Macgregor
BMJ  1995;310:293-296
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Short stature and diabetic nephropathy
P Rossing, L Tarnow, F S Nielsen, S Boelskifte, B M Brenner, H-H Parving
BMJ  1995;310:296-297
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Statistics notes: The normal distribution
Douglas G Altman, J Martin Bland
BMJ  1995;310:298
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This week's General practice

Natural course of 500 consecutive cases of whooping cough: a general practice population study
Douglas Jenkinson
BMJ  1995;310:299-302
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Drug users' views on general practitioners
Charles Hindler, Irwin Nazareth, Michael King, John Cohen, Roger Farmer, Clare Gerada
BMJ  1995;310:302
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This week's Soundings

To heal on wheels
George Dunea
BMJ  1995;310:335
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Night thoughts
Liam Farrell
BMJ  1995;310:335
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This week's Personal views

So easy to start
BMJ  1995;310:337
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This week's Medicine and books

Die Totung Geisteskranker in Deutschland
Michael Burleigh
BMJ  1995;310:338
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Death and Deliverance: "Euthanasia" in Germany 1900-1945
Michael Shepherd
BMJ  1995;310:338-339
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Counselling and Therapy with Refugees
Derek Summerfield
BMJ  1995;310:339
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Torture and Ill-Treatment: Israel's Interrogation of Palestinians from the Occupied Territories
Jon Immanuel
BMJ  1995;310:339
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This week's Education and debate

Fortnightly review: Lyme disease in the United Kingdom
Susan O'Connell
BMJ  1995;310:303-308
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A Difficult Case: Severe gastroparesis diabeticorum in a young patient with insulin dependent diabetes
Clare J Dowling, Sudhesh Kumar, Andrew J M Boulton
BMJ  1995;310:308-309
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Establish enteral feeding
Mike Edmonds
BMJ  1995;310:309
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Radical surgical approach now indicated
L P Fielding
BMJ  1995;310:310
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Improve feeding then drugs may work
David J A Jenkins
BMJ  1995;310:310
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Conservative treatment with alternative routes of drug administration
J G Llewelyn
BMJ  1995;310:311
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The outcome
BMJ  1995;310:311
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Management for Doctors: Financial accounting in the NHS
Anthony Cook
BMJ  1995;310:312-316
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Controversies in Management: Should carotid endarterectomy be purchased? Treatment avoids much morbidity
Roger N Baird
BMJ  1995;310:316-317
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Controversies in Management: Purchasers need a broader perspective
Mark Lambert
BMJ  1995;310:317-318
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Commentary: valuable in selected patients
Peter C Rubin
BMJ  1995;310:318
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ABC of Rheumatology: PAIN IN THE HIP AND KNEE
E Paice
BMJ  1995;310:319-322
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;310:340
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This week's Fillers

SEEING STARS
Maurice Wooldridge
BMJ  1995;310:297
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This week's Corrections

Corrections
BMJ  1995;310:311
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

New blood
Alec Logan
BMJ  1995;310:336
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Pulling through or pegging out
Ged Mercurio
BMJ  1995;310:336-337
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

BMA raises concerns about NHS restructuring • Professional staff should be involved in health authorities' work • Medical students fight increase in course fees • Number of total fundholding projects will double
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:334
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