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This week's Editorials

Long term adjuvant therapy for primary breast cancer
R D Bulbrook
BMJ  1996;312:389-390
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Teenage sex
Sue Stuart-Smith
BMJ  1996;312:390-391
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Being creative about rationing
Richard Smith
BMJ  1996;312:391-392
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Adjuvant treatment for colorectal cancer
Maurice L Slevin
BMJ  1996;312:392-393
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Antibodies to streptokinase
K Jennings
BMJ  1996;312:393-394
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The European Medicines Evaluation Agency
Andrew Herxheimer
BMJ  1996;312:394
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This week's Letters

Screening for sight threatening eye disease
Marie Hickey-Dwyer, Susan Ellerby
BMJ  1996;312:440
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Cost effectiveness of screening modalities must be determined
Peymane Adab
BMJ  1996;312:440
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Stereoscopic viewing of the retina needed to identify maculopathy
R H B Grey, J C Dean Hart
BMJ  1996;312:440
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Authors' reply
S P Harding, D M Broadbent, J P Vora
BMJ  1996;312:440-441
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Screening for diabetic retinopathy
J M Mason, M F Drummond, E G Woodward
BMJ  1996;312:441
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Shopkeepers should be educated about smoking among children
Michael Devine, Jean Vickers
BMJ  1996;312:441
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Stories about "doomsday killer bugs": the aftermath
S G Jones, J Howard
BMJ  1996;312:441-442
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Somatostatin in bleeding oesophageal varices
S A Jenkins, I N Baxter
BMJ  1996;312:442
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Author's reply
Peter C Gotzsche
BMJ  1996;312:442
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Drug companies should report side effects in terms of frequency
R Bracchi
BMJ  1996;312:442
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Endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis
Carlos S Kase, Philip A Wolf
BMJ  1996;312:442-443
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Resuscitation charts should be used in paediatric care
R Alexander, G B Smith
BMJ  1996;312:443
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Attitude of consultant physicians to Calman proposals
Hugh M Mather, Robert S Elkeles
BMJ  1996;312:443
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Who is responsible for quality of acute medical care?
B L Taylor, S N Pilkington, G B Smith, P J McQuillan
BMJ  1996;312:443-444
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Hunger strikes
Dermot Feenan
BMJ  1996;312:444
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Hunger strikers should be treated like other patients who refuse consent to treatment
T J Hardie, A Reed
BMJ  1996;312:444
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Practical guidelines are important
Adriaan Van Es, Anne-Marie Raat, Gilles De Wildt
BMJ  1996;312:444
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Trends in referral patterns
James A Dunbar, D Susan Vincent, Joyce N Meikle, Ann P Dunbar, Patricia A Jones
BMJ  1996;312:444-445
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Fundholding has changed referral practice
Kevin Perrett
BMJ  1996;312:445
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Fundholding reduces dependence on private sector
R A Smith
BMJ  1996;312:445
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Authors' reply
Angela Coulter, Jean Bradlow, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Helen Doll
BMJ  1996;312:445
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Computer based prescribing
David M Lewis
BMJ  1996;312:445
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...but Windows makes access easy
Stella Dutton
BMJ  1996;312:445-446
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Program calculates doses for neonates
J M Davies
BMJ  1996;312:446
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Guidelines for GPs are being tested
Ian Purves
BMJ  1996;312:446
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Database is linked to Read codes
Roger Weeks
BMJ  1996;312:446
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Patient's consent to abortion is usually necessary even in emergencies
Margaret Puxon
BMJ  1996;312:446-447
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Patients' views of priority setting
Sarah Perry
BMJ  1996;312:447
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Authors' reply
Andrew Dicker, David Armstrong
BMJ  1996;312:447
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BUPA's discretionary recognition of treatment
Raymond E Goodman
BMJ  1996;312:447
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BUPA's reply
A J Vallance-Owen
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This week's News

Government phases NHS doctors' pay award
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1996;312:395
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US doctors see average income fall
Charles-Gene Mcdaniel
BMJ  1996;312:395-396
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BMJ  1996;312:396
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Trust criticised for putting staff before patients
Alison Boulton
BMJ  1996;312:396-397
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British surgeon sues paper for libel
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;312:397
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BMA issues new guidance on surrogacy
Naomi Craft
BMJ  1996;312:397-398
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WHO claims maternal mortality has been underestimated
Claudia Court
BMJ  1996;312:398
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Lawsuits are set to obstruct Canada's blood inquiry
David Spurgeon
BMJ  1996;312:398
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Health dominates Australia's election campaign
Christopher Zinn
BMJ  1996;312:398-399
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Africa's leaders appeal for help with debt crisis
Dorothy Logie
BMJ  1996;312:399
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Do not resuscitate order challenged in court
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;312:399-400
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Doctor struck off for scientific fraud
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1996;312:399-400
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Europe and America forge health links
Rory Watson
BMJ  1996;312:400
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This week's Papers

Failure to realise growth potential in utero and adult obesity in relation to blood pressure in 50 year old Swedish men
David A Leon, Ilona Koupilova, Hans O Lithell, Lars Berglund, Rawya Mohsen, Denny Vagero, Ulla-Britt Lithell, Paul M McKeigue
BMJ  1996;312:401-406
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Relation of size at birth to non-insulin dependent diabetes and insulin concentrations in men aged 50-60 years
Hans O Lithell, Paul M McKeigue, Lars Berglund, Rawya Mohsen, Ulla-Britt Lithell, David A Leon
BMJ  1996;312:406-410
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Maternal nutrition in early and late pregnancy in relation to placental and fetal growth
K Godfrey, S Robinson, Djp Barker, C Osmond, V Cox
BMJ  1996;312:410
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Omeprazole as a risk factor for campylobacter gastroenteritis: case-control study
Keith R Neal, Helen M Scott, Richard C B Slack, Richard F A Logan
BMJ  1996;312:414-415
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A PATIENT WHO CHANGED MY PRACTICE
Alison Martin
BMJ  1996;312:415
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This week's General practice

Combining specialist and primary health care teams for HIV positive patients: retrospective and prospective studies
Suzanne Smith, Jane Robinson, Justine Hollyer, Ramesh Bhatt, Stephen Ash, Sunil Shaunak
BMJ  1996;312:416-420
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This week's Soundings

Hear no evil
Ian Robertson
BMJ  1996;312:449
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Microbes for life
Bernard Dixon
BMJ  1996;312:449
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This week's Personal views

Removing an obstruction from your own airway
Marilyn Dover
BMJ  1996;312:450
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Commentary
Michael Ward
BMJ  1996;312:450-451
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This week's Medicine and books

Manual of Childhood Infections
David Isaacs
BMJ  1996;312:452
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The Health of the Schoolchild: A History of the School Medical Service in England and Wales
Leon Polnay
BMJ  1996;312:452-453
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Psychosocial Disturbances in Young People: Challenges for Prevention
John Pearce
BMJ  1996;312:453
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Selection
Alex Paton
BMJ  1996;312:453
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This week's Education and debate

East-West mortality divide and its potential explanations: proposed research agenda
Martin Bobak, Michael Marmot
BMJ  1996;312:421-425
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The number needed to treat: a clinically useful nomogram in its proper context
Gilles Chatellier, Eric Zapletal, David Lemaitre, Joel Menard, Patrice Degoulet
BMJ  1996;312:426-429
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Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of infection in patients with an absent or dysfunctional spleen
BMJ  1996;312:430-434
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Lesson of the Week: Wernicke's encephalopathy after vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity
H Seehra, N MacDermott, R G Lascelles, T V Taylor
BMJ  1996;312:434
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ABC of General Surgery in Children: ACUTE PROBLEMS OF THE SCROTUM
Mark Davenport
BMJ  1996;312:435-437
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1996;312:454
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This week's Fillers

A LESSON TO REMEMBER
J N S Simpson
BMJ  1996;312:437
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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

Teen-zine sex is not all it seems
Alex Mellanby
BMJ  1996;312:451
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Immigration rules hit potential GP registrars • Labour promises power to all GPs • Review body report 1996 • Who will give medical advice?
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1996;312:448
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