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This week's Editorials

Vitamin K at birth
Alvin Zipursky
BMJ  1996;313:179-180
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Sudden infant death syndrome: after the "back to sleep" campaign
Terence Dwyer, Anne-Louise Ponsonby
BMJ  1996;313:180-181
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Inappropriate treatment for dysentery
Richard Cash
BMJ  1996;313:181-182
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Preventing sports and leisure injuries
Harry Campbell, David Stone
BMJ  1996;313:182-183
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Health impact assessment
Alex Scott-Samuel
BMJ  1996;313:183-184
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Climate change: not a threat but a promise
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  1996;313:184
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This week's Letters

Jack Kevorkian: a medical hero?
Robert Twycross
BMJ  1996;313:227
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Possibly a hero, but not a medical one
James Gilbert
BMJ  1996;313:227
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Pope should be doctors' hero
C A Crowther
BMJ  1996;313:227
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Law has a protective function for both patients and doctors
Ilora Finlay, Philip Routledge, Andrew Freedma, Ken Woodhouse, D P Davies, A B Hawthorne, Mike Pritchard, Molly Hall, Peter Beck, Clare Wilkinson
BMJ  1996;313:227-228
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His actions are the antithesis of heroism
Alison Davis
BMJ  1996;313:228
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Editorial's objectivity is in doubt
Andrew Fergusson
BMJ  1996;313:228
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Doctors should indeed cry, "Enough"
Robert P Balfour
BMJ  1996;313:228
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Haem iron intake in young children
Alexander R P Walker, Demetre Labadarios
BMJ  1996;313:228-229
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Authors' reply
Michael Mira, Margaret Karr, Garth Alperstein
BMJ  1996;313:229
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Tea flavonoids have little short term impact on serum antioxidant activity
Simon Maxwell, Gary Thorpe
BMJ  1996;313:229
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Immediate enteral feeding after gastrointestinal resection
S M Gabe, D B A Silk
BMJ  1996;313:229-230
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Study was not sufficiently rigorous
N J Everitt
BMJ  1996;313:230
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Fluid regimen given to control group is increasingly being abandoned
Sudip Ray
BMJ  1996;313:230
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Serum albumin concentration is not a marker of nutritional status
Emma Chojnowska
BMJ  1996;313:230
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Authors' reply
Mervyn Singer, Cornelia Carr
BMJ  1996;313:230
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Serum IgM testing is needed in all cases of suspected measles
M Ramsay, B Cohen, D Brown
BMJ  1996;313:231
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Psychiatric and psychological aspects of hysterectomy
Sandra Simkin
BMJ  1996;313:231
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Study did not reliably exclude possibility of psychological damage
J B Wright, M J Gannon, M Greenberg
BMJ  1996;313:231
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Results will depend on whether hysterectomy was essential or not
Caroline Richmond
BMJ  1996;313:231-232
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Genetic liability to osteoarthritis may be greater in women than men
Jaakko Kaprio, Urho M Kujala, Leena Peltonen, Markku Koskenvuo
BMJ  1996;313:232
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Hospital at home
Celia Palmer
BMJ  1996;313:232
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Scheme in Peterborough is expanding
J W Myles, G A Pryor, M Parker, J K Anand
BMJ  1996;313:232-233
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Use of placebo in studies of postoperative vomiting is unethical
Aileen K Adams
BMJ  1996;313:233
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Efficacy of colchicine in familial Mediterranean fever is well established
Joost P H Drenth
BMJ  1996;313:233
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Proposed academy of medicine
R J Lilford
BMJ  1996;313:233
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Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has its own, independent secretariat
Fiona Caldicott
BMJ  1996;313:233
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Editorial did not acknowledge BMA's work
W M Ross
BMJ  1996;313:234
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Junior Doctors Committee proposed an academy in 1994
A Carney, D Wrede
BMJ  1996;313:234
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Profession should resist further fragmentation
John Cash
BMJ  1996;313:234
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New confidential inquiry established into homicides and suicides by mentally ill people
Louis Appleby
BMJ  1996;313:234
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Mobile surgery
N D Whyatt
BMJ  1996;313:234
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Growth hormone deaths blamed on MRC and DoH
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;313:185
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Court action over smoking report
Christopher Zinn
BMJ  1996;313:185
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Headlines
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Medical community is outraged at tobacco funded chair
Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
BMJ  1996;313:186-187
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Four die in food poisoning outbreak in Japan
Robert Guest
BMJ  1996;313:187
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Fast track scheme for medical negligence starts
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;313:187
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Americans urged to do something rather than nothing
John Roberts
BMJ  1996;313:188
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Antiabortionists hijack fetal pain argument
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  1996;313:188
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Storage period ends for 4000 embryos
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  1996;313:189
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One in 10 people avoid dentists through phobia
Alison Boulton
BMJ  1996;313:189
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BSE agent: there may be even more trouble ahead
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  1996;313:189-190
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Safeguards for surgery by non-doctors produced
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1996;313:190
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Irish determination on drugs
Rory Watson
BMJ  1996;313:190
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This week's Papers

Environment of infants during sleep and risk of the sudden infant death syndrome: results of 1993-5 case-control study for confidential inquiry into stillbirths and deaths in infancy
Peter J Fleming, Peter S Blair, Chris Bacon, David Bensley, Iain Smith, Elizabeth Taylor, Jem Berry, Jean Golding, John Tripp
BMJ  1996;313:191-195
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Smoking and the sudden infant death syndrome: results from 1993-5 case-control study for confidential inquiry into stillbirths and deaths in infancy
Peter S Blair, Peter J Fleming, David Bensley, Iain Smith, Chris Bacon, Elizabeth Taylor, Jem Berry, Jean Golding, John Tripp
BMJ  1996;313:195-198
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Vitamin K and childhood cancer: a population based case-control study in Lower Saxony, Germany
Rudiger von Kries, Ulrich Gobel, Alexandra Hachmeister, Uwe Kaletsch, Jorg Michaelis
BMJ  1996;313:199-203
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Characteristics of orf in a farming community in mid-Wales
J Buchan
BMJ  1996;313:203-204
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Childhood leukaemia and intramuscular vitamin K: findings from a case-control study
Pat Ansell, Diana Bull, Eve Roman
BMJ  1996;313:204-205
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Medical practitioners' knowledge of dysentery treatment in Bangladesh
Carine Ronsmans, Tarique Islam, Michael L Bennish
BMJ  1996;313:205-206
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This week's General practice

Home visiting by general practitioners in England and Wales
Paul Aylin, F Azeem Majeed, Derek G Cook
BMJ  1996;313:207-210
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This week's Soundings

Onwards and upwards, maybe
Colin Douglas
BMJ  1996;313:236
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Death of a KAPI
Judith Hollis-Triantafillou
BMJ  1996;313:236
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This week's Personal views

There must be a better way
Richard Nelson
BMJ  1996;313:237
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This week's Medicine and books

Quality of Life and Health: Concepts, Methods and Applications
Ray Fitzpatrick
BMJ  1996;313:239
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Cystic Fibrosis
David M Orenstein
BMJ  1996;313:239
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This week's Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: Drugs in sport
Domhnall MacAuley
BMJ  1996;313:211-215
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Grand Rounds--Hammersmith Hospital: Tuberculous enteritis
BMJ  1996;313:215-217
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Caring for Older People: Homes and Housing for Elderly People
P Wanklyn
BMJ  1996;313:218-221
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Lesson of the Week: Pitfalls in contact tracing and early diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis
Julia E Clark, Andrew J Cant
BMJ  1996;313:221-222
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ABC of Work Related Disorders: OCCUPATIONAL HEARING LOSS AND VIBRATION INDUCED DISORDERS
C M Jones
BMJ  1996;313:223-226
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1996;313:240
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This week's Fillers

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
BMJ  1996;313:206
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A PATIENT WHO CHANGED MY LIFE
Willie Angus
BMJ  1996;313:210
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This week's Corrections

Corrections
BMJ  1996;313:198
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Correction
BMJ  1996;313:222
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Correction
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This week's Career focus

On and up
Richard Hardern
BMJ  1996;313:2
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Briefing: The Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care was launched in January. The ...
BMJ  1996;313:3
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Briefing: The VSO health network enables health professionals who have worked ...
BMJ  1996;313:3a
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Briefing: A new report from the Trades Union Congress identifies the ...
BMJ  1996;313:3b
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This week's CHOICE

Editor's choice
BMJ  1996;313
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Pressure to entertain
Malcolm Aylett
BMJ  1996;313:238
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Public therapy
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  1996;313:238
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Note
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

GPs to produce a strategy for the future • Academic staff seek prime minister's help over funding • Calman proposals will affect hospital manpower • Tobacco companies curb advertising • NHS chairmen will have charters • Correction
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1996;313:235
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