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This week's Editorials

Publishing research supported by the tobacco industry
John Roberts, Richard Smith
BMJ  1996;312:133-134
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Nursing shortages
James Buchan
BMJ  1996;312:134-135
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Homicides and suicides by mentally ill people
Allan House
BMJ  1996;312:135-136
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Neonatal prevention ofiron deficiency
Alfredo Pisacane
BMJ  1996;312:136-137
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The melanoma epidemic: reality and artefact
Jonathan L Rees
BMJ  1996;312:137-138
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Minocycline for acne
R E Ferner, Celia Moss
BMJ  1996;312:138
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This week's Letters

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Terence Featherstone
BMJ  1996;312:180
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Aetiology of scrapie in certain circumstances is not evidence against another aetiology in different circumstances
R M Ridley, H F Baker
BMJ  1996;312:180
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is being maintained by vertical and horizontal transmission
R W Lacey
BMJ  1996;312:180-181
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Scrapie can be transmitted to mice by instillation of inoculum into the conjunctiva
Janet R Fraser, James D Foster, Hugh Fraser
BMJ  1996;312:181
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Meat and Livestock Commission's advertising campaign
Chris Lamb
BMJ  1996;312:181
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Author may not be impartial
Simon Brophy
BMJ  1996;312:181
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Commission emphasises nutritional value of meat in booklet for new mothers
Judith R Glynn
BMJ  1996;312:181
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Treating anorexia nervosa
Rosalind Ramsay, Janet Treasure
BMJ  1996;312:182
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Patients' beliefs hinder treatment
John Sharkey
BMJ  1996;312:182
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Neonatal screening
Francesco P Cappuccio, Matthew Hickman, Maggie Barker
BMJ  1996;312:182
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Pretest counselling and informed consent should be prerequisites
Adrian Edwards
BMJ  1996;312:182-183
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Pitfalls in the interpretation of tumour markers
D A Oleesky, R Fifield
BMJ  1996;312:183
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Risk factors for acanthamoeba keratitis
Cherry F Radford, John K G Dart, Darwin C Minassian
BMJ  1996;312:183
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Placebo controlled trials of ondansetron for postoperative nausea and vomiting
James B D Palmer, Chris G Haigh, Trevor G Gibbs, Charlotte M Taylor
BMJ  1996;312:183
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Deprivation payments should be based on enumeration districts
Adrian Hastings
BMJ  1996;312:183-184
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Public discussion of rationing decisions is essential
Chris Ham
BMJ  1996;312:184
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Community care and general practice
Surinder Singh, Margaret Lloyd, Sarah Webb
BMJ  1996;312:184
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Multidisciplinary, proactive care is needed
Andrew Singleton, Richard Martin, Sue Mitchell
BMJ  1996;312:184
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Emergency contraception
Mark Dinwoodie
BMJ  1996;312:184
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Use of the term is erroneous
John Scotson
BMJ  1996;312:184-185
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Contract minimum dataset includes confidential data
O M Goodyear
BMJ  1996;312:185
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Assessing the quality of care
Richard J Davenport, Martin S Dennis
BMJ  1996;312:185
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Systematic methods must be used to develop review criteria
Mayur Lakhani, Richard Baker, Robin Fraser
BMJ  1996;312:185
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How to get patients' consent to enter clinical trials
F Andrew I Riordan, Alistair P J Thomson
BMJ  1996;312:185-186
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Information and consent forms should use short words and sentences
Naomi Pfeffer
BMJ  1996;312:186
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Participants should be given feedback about the trial
Sally Marshall
BMJ  1996;312:186
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Nurses could halve GP workload
Ruth Huddart
BMJ  1996;312:186
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Training in substance abuse is lacking for GPs
Edwin Martin
BMJ  1996;312:186-187
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Junior doctors' hours
V Vasantha Kumar
BMJ  1996;312:187
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Don't blame the Junior Doctors Committee
A Simon Carney
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Committee agrees that pay for additional duty hours is derisory
Simon Smith
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Committee is split on whether to reduce senior trainees' hours
Andrew J Lyons
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Reporting poorly performing doctors may seem an expensive waste of time
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This week's News

Nursing shortfall hits Britain
Alison Boulton
BMJ  1996;312:139
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BMA warns of bed crisis in the NHS
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1996;312:139-140
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Inadequate care linked to homicides and suicides
Trish Groves
BMJ  1996;312:140-141
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Prison doctor faces misconduct charge after speaking out
Bryan Christie
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Britain creates watchdog for genetic tests
John Warden
BMJ  1996;312:141-142
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Meat commission cautioned after anaemia advert
Claudia Court
BMJ  1996;312:142
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Australia improves access to records
Christopher Zinn
BMJ  1996;312:142
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Dutch doctors fight law on sick pay
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  1996;312:142
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MPs predict gloomy future for NHS dentistry
Claudia Court
BMJ  1996;312:143
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Doctors in Britain urged to practise effectively
Luisa Dillner
BMJ  1996;312:143-144
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Elderly in US have rising suicide risk
Fred B Charatan
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Merging hospitals can benefit everybody
Jane Smith
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This week's Papers

Survival outcome of care by specialist surgeons in breast cancer: a study of 3786 patients in the west of Scotland
Charles R Gillis, David J Hole
BMJ  1996;312:145-148
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Prevention of respiratory complications after abdominal surgery: a randomised clinical trial
John C Hall, Richard A Tarala, Jeff Tapper, Jane L Hall
BMJ  1996;312:148-152
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Depression and other psychiatric morbidity in carers of elderly people living at home
Gill Livingston, Monica Manela, Cornelius Katona
BMJ  1996;312:153-156
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Fetal growth and cardiovascular risk factors in Jamaican schoolchildren
Terrence E Forrester, Rainford J Wilks, Franklyn I Bennett, Donald Simeon, Clive Osmond, Mureen Allen, Andrene P Chung, Paul Scott
BMJ  1996;312:156
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Changing patterns of invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease in England and Wales after introduction of the Hib vaccination programme
Ruth M Hargreaves, Mary P E Slack, Anthony J Howard, Eileen Anderson, Mary E Ramsay
BMJ  1996;312:160-161
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Congenital rubella in south India: diagnosis using saliva from infants with cataract
M B Eckstein, D W G Brown, A Foster, A F Richards, C E Gilbert, P Vijayalakshmi
BMJ  1996;312:161
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This week's General practice

Alternatives to hospital care: what are they and who should decide?
Joanna Coast, Abby Inglis, Stephen Frankel
BMJ  1996;312:162-166
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This week's Soundings

To see ourselves
Ian Robertson
BMJ  1996;312:189
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Researching the market
Bernard Dixon
BMJ  1996;312:189
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This week's Personal views

How did your brother die?
Thomas Roques
BMJ  1996;312:191
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This week's Medicine and books

Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Services, Treatments, and Outcomes
R J Greenwood
BMJ  1996;312:192
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Handling Aggression and Violence in Health Services: A Training Programme
Richard Hobbs
BMJ  1996;312:192-193
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The Cognitive Neurosciences
Sean Spence
BMJ  1996;312:193
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Selection
Alex Paton
BMJ  1996;312:193
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This week's Education and debate

Lessons for health care rationing from the case of child B
David Price
BMJ  1996;312:167-169
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Minocycline induced autoimmune hepatitis and systemic lupus erythematosus-like syndrome
Andrew Gough, Stephen Chapman, Kate Wagstaff, Paul Emery, Elwyn Elias
BMJ  1996;312:169-172
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Lesson of the Week: Allopurinol, erythema multiforme, and renal insufficiency
A Kumar, N Edward, M I White, P W Johnston, G R D Catto
BMJ  1996;312:173-174
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ABC of Atrial Fibrillation: ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN GENERAL AND HOSPITAL PRACTICE
Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers, John R Coope
BMJ  1996;312:175-178
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1996;312:194
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This week's Fillers

A MEMORABLE PATIENT
John Zorab
BMJ  1996;312:172
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WHEN I USE A WORD
Jeff Aronson
BMJ  1996;312:178
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This week's CHOICE

Editor's choice
BMJ  1996;312
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

The patient's dilemma
Heather Draper
BMJ  1996;312:190
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Milken buys immunity
Frances Calman
BMJ  1996;312:190-191
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Accident departments can appoint more staff • Helping GPs to provide better out of hours services • Human rights will be emphasised at Istanbul meeting • Maintaining Medical Excellence will impose new costs • In brief
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1996;312:188
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