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This week's Letter

Avoiding AIDS with autologous transfusions.
S E James, R Dodds, M A Smith
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:854, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.854
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Rapid transit system for patients with fractured neck of femur.
P J McKenzie, H Y Wishart
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:856-857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.856-c
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Treatment of septic arthritis due to Mycobacterium kansasii.
G Singh
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.857-b
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Convulsions associated with cyclosporin A.
D P O'Sullivan
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:858, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.858-a
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Medical education and practice in Britain 150 years ago: a verbatim testimony.
D Whittet
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:859-860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.859-c
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This week's Corrections

Can we afford screening for neural tube defects?
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.861-h
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This week's Articles

OBITUARY
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:862-863, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.862
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NEWS AND NOTES
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:864-867, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.864
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This week's Book Review

Medicine and Books
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:848-850, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.848
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This week's Correspondence

AIDS and the health professions
G Glazer, Hugh Dudley
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:852-853, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.852
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AIDS and the health professions
G Ayliffe, A Geddes, M Casewell, J Craske, B Gazzard, D C Shanson, V Hoffbrand, P Kernoff, W Brumfitt, D Jeffries, C T Keane, M Longson, A Percival, D S Reeves, G Ridgway, J Selkon, D C E Speller, R Weiss
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:853, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.853
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AIDS and the health professions
A G Lawrence
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:853-854, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.853-a
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Stagnation and despair in medical research
Bryan Jennett
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:854, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.854-a
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Stagnation and despair in medical research
Malcolm Green
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:854, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.854-b
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Stagnation and despair in medical research
M D Rawlins
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:854-855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.854-c
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Wasted journeys in the NHS
Andrew Bamji
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.855
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Breast cancer
J J Bolger
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.855-a
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Breast cancer
T K Day
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.855-b
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Breast cancer
Michael McLean
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.855-c
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Breast cancer
G M Mead, C J Williams, J M A Whitehouse, R B Buchanan, V L Hall, I Taylor
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:855, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.855-d
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Breast cancer
S G Allan, U Chetty, A P M Forrest, A Rodger, J F Smyth, R C F Leonard
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:855-856, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.855-e
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Breast cancer
Robin Tagart, David Bratherton, Karol Sikora
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:856, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.856
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Breast cancer
J S Tobias, M Baum
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:856, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.856-a
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Containing the use of diagnostic tests
D N Baron
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:856, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.856-b
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Reducing errors in the accident department: using radiographers
I Hudson
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.857
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Reducing errors in the accident department: using radiographers
David V Skinner
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.857-a
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Monitoring drugs
Veronica M Tebbs
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.857-c
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Who should have an intraocular lens?
James Govan
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:857-858, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.857-d
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Who should have an intraocular lens?
Emanuel Rosen
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:858, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.858
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The antiprogesterones are coming
Calbert I Philips
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:858-859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.858-b
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Cerebral haemorrhagic infarction in young patients with hereditary protein C deficiency
J Evans, P D Evans
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.859
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Cerebral haemorrhagic infarction in young patients with hereditary protein C deficiency
A W Broekmans, A R Wintzen
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.859-a
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Confidentiality for NHS employees?
Ian S Symington
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.859-b
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Credit transfers
A J Heber
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.860
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Cremation certificate fees: a case for charity
D G Higgins
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.860-a
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Private practice for whole timers
V B Whittaker
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.860-b
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How many authors does it take to write a paper?
Martin Falkner
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.860-c
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Inadvertent duplicate publication
G Jacob
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:860-861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.860-d
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City of the plain speaking
R T Booth
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.861
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Points: Application of viewdata systems to medicine
Günter Pfaff
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.861-a
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Points: Precipitation of laryngeal obstruction in acute epiglottitis
M H Yardley
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.861-b
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Points: Further developments in psychogeriatrics in Britain
J M A Smithies
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.861-c
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Points: Talking points in child abuse
B Thalayasingam
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.861-d
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Points: Is the flow rate used to drive a jet nebuliser clinically important?
Ian W B Grant
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.861-e
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Points: Dutch doctors in campaign on nuclear weapons
W J E Verheggen
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.861-f
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Points: Underprivileged areas: validation and distribution scores
John Williams
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.861-g
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This week's Medical Practice

Personal Paper: Living! A 5000 watt dose of preventive medicine
Jules Older
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:842-844, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.842
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Medicine and the Media
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:846-847, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.846
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Personal View
M K Williams
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:851, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.851
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This week's Papers and Short Reports

Unreviewed Reports
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:822, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.822
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This week's Research Article

Alternatives to the digitalis glycosides for heart failure.
G D Johnston
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:803-804, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.803
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Benzodiazepine overdose: are specific antagonists useful.
C H Ashton
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:805-806, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.805
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Community care.
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:806, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.806
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Effects of cimetidine and ranitidine on high density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations.
J A Wilson, I F Craig
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:807-808, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.807
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Seroepidemiology of HTLV-III antibodies in a remote population of eastern Zaire.
R J Biggar, M Melbye, L Kestens, M de Feyter, C Saxinger, A J Bodner, L Paluko, W A Blattner, P L Gigase
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:808-810, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.808
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Rapid tightening of blood glucose control leads to transient deterioration of retinopathy in insulin dependent diabetes mellitus: the Oslo study.
K Dahl-Jørgensen, O Brinchmann-Hansen, K F Hanssen, L Sandvik, O Aagenaes
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:811-815, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.811
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Which drug for the adult epileptic patient: phenytoin or valproate?
D M Turnbull, D Howel, M D Rawlins, D W Chadwick
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:815-819, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.815
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Necrotising tongue and skin lesions in temporal arteritis: follow up of a case with a possible iatrogenic factor.
S J Siemssen, O D Larsen, A McNair
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:819-820, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.819
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Erythema nodosum and circulating immune complexes in acne fulminans after treatment with isotretinoin.
J K Kellett, M H Beck, R J Chalmers
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:820, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.820
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Is a local anaesthetic necessary when using fine gauge spinal needles?
M Daniels, G R Park
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:820-821, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.820-a
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How dangerous is sledging?
J P Sloan, M Maheson, A F Dove
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:821, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.821
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Reconstruction of general practice: failure of reform.
F Honigsbaum
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:823-826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.823
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Are problem drinkers dangerous drivers? An investigation of arrest for drinking and driving, serum gamma glutamyltranspeptidase activities, blood alcohol concentrations, and road traffic accidents: the Tayside Safe Driving Project.
J A Dunbar, S A Ogston, A Ritchie, M S Devgun, J Hagart, B T Martin
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:827-830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.827
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Asian families II: conditions that may be found in the children.
J Black
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:830-833, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.830
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Rehabilitation after head injury--1: Cognitive problems.
D Gloag
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:834-836, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.834
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Osteomalacia presenting as pathological fractures during pregnancy in Asian women of high socioeconomic class.
P Dandona, F Okonofua, R V Clements
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:837-838, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.837
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Congenital abnormalities.
C M Ward
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:839-841, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.839
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The Gee case: the BBC continues alone.
C Dyer
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:845-846, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.845
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This week's Supplement

The Week
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:868, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.868
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Mr Powell's opportunism pays off
William Russell
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.869
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Limited list: legality may be challenged
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:870-871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.870
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GMC professional conduct committee
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.871
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From the council: Views on embryo research reaffirmed
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:872-874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.872
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Code of confidentiality: BMA comments
Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)  1985;290:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.290.6471.874
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