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This week's Editorials

Twenty five years of vascular trauma in Northern Ireland
Aires A B Barros D'Sa
BMJ  1995;310:1-2
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Immunisation against chickenpox
Lainie Friedman Ross, John D Lantos
BMJ  1995;310:2-3
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Thrombolysis in patients with diabetes
Helen Ward, John S Yudkin
BMJ  1995;310:3-4
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Bronchiolitis
David Isaacs
BMJ  1995;310:4-5
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Growing pressure on BMJ's obituaries
Liz Crossan, Richard Smith
BMJ  1995;310:5-6
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Emergency care in general practice
Anthony Avery, Mike Pringle
BMJ  1995;310:6
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This week's Letters

Driving, glaucoma, and the law
Nicholas P Jones, Janet Marsden, Jeffrey Kwartz
BMJ  1995;310:56
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Patients need more information
B O Adegbehingbe, C Williams, D L Easty
BMJ  1995;310:56
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Diabetic patients must also satisfy regulations
J Hickman Casey, C J McLean, J Jagger
BMJ  1995;310:56
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Visual field required for safe driving wrongly defined
Andrew R Elkington
BMJ  1995;310:56-57
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Childhood antecedents of schizophrenia
Chris Hollis
BMJ  1995;310:57
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Environmental influences should not be ignored
Brian Martindale
BMJ  1995;310:57
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Conclusions not supported by data
John Temple
BMJ  1995;310:57
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Authors' reply
D John Done, Timothy J Crow, Amanda Sacker, Eve C Johnstone
BMJ  1995;310:57-58
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Side effects of dental materials
Harald J Hamre
BMJ  1995;310:58
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Author's reply
Ivar A Mjor
BMJ  1995;310:58
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Antibiotics for sore throats
Christopher Del Mar
BMJ  1995;310:58
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Potential of antigen detection tests
Jorgen Steen Andersen, Niels Jerne Borrild, Steen Hoffmann
BMJ  1995;310:58-59
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Should doctors charge doctors for medical services?
Norman Pollitt
BMJ  1995;310:59
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Doctors should continue to choose NHS care
Lesley Morrison
BMJ  1995;310:59
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Future of purchasing
Naomi J Fulop
BMJ  1995;310:59-60
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Contracting is a recipe for inefficiency
A M Will
BMJ  1995;310:60
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Coronary artery disease in women
Peter Bourdillon
BMJ  1995;310:60
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Treatment of myocardial infarction
M D Stevenson
BMJ  1995;310:60
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Agism and provision of thrombolysis
Diane Ketley, Kent L Woods
BMJ  1995;310:60-61
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Secondary prophylaxis after myocardial infarction
D G Julian
BMJ  1995;310:61
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Smoking in China
Tsung O Cheng
BMJ  1995;310:61
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Vaccination against hepatitis A for travellers
Keith Neal
BMJ  1995;310:61
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All relevant costs and consequences should be measured
Rachel Hardie
BMJ  1995;310:61-62
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Generalists as gatekeepers to secondary care
Frances Klemperer
BMJ  1995;310:62
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Myths in medicine
Richard Horton
BMJ  1995;310:62
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Surveillance-containment is key to eradication of smallpox
Derrick Baxby
BMJ  1995;310:62
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Word of warning to junior ophthalmologists
B Hopkisson
BMJ  1995;310:62
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This week's News

Cot deaths
BMJ  1995;310:7
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Britain: Incidence reduced by two thirds in five years
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;310:7-8
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Headlines
BMJ  1995;310:8
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America: A hesitant downward trend
John Roberts
BMJ  1995;310:8
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New Zealand: Campaign falters over bed sharing
Charles Essex
BMJ  1995;310:8-9
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India: Syndrome is overshadowed by infections
Meenal Mudur
BMJ  1995;310:9
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France: The incidence has risen
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;310:9-10
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Hong Kong: Supine tradition holds firm
Elizabeth Wilcox
BMJ  1995;310:10
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Israel: Government endorses back to sleep policy
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
BMJ  1995;310:10
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Health education funding to go private
Jack Warden
BMJ  1995;310:10-11
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Swiss opt for compulsory health insurance
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;310:11
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Egypt sees U turn on female circumcision
Peter Kandela
BMJ  1995;310:12
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Ending night calls is good for MPs
John Warden
BMJ  1995;310:12
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This week's General practice

Positive and negative factors in defensive medicine: a questionnaire study of general practitioners
Nicholas Summerton
BMJ  1995;310:27-29
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Antibiotics carried in general practitioners' emergency bags: four years on
M J Colbridge, G G Baily, E M Dunbar, E L C Ong
BMJ  1995;310:29-30
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This week's Soundings

The 1995 Name Awards
James Owen Drife
BMJ  1995;310:65
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Pretending physicians and other new breeds
George Dunea
BMJ  1995;310:65
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This week's Personal views

Never again
Cathal Foy
BMJ  1995;310:66
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My mother's tormented death
BMJ  1995;310:67
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This week's Medicine and books

Trends in Cancer Incidence and Mortality (Cancer Surveys 19/20)
H A Valkenburg
BMJ  1995;310:68
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Mothers, Babies, and Disease in Later Life
Matthew W Gillman
BMJ  1995;310:68-69
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The Doctor's Communication Handbook
Alec Logan
BMJ  1995;310:69
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Seminars in Alcohol and Drug Misuse
Karen Williams
BMJ  1995;310:69
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This week's Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: Bone marrow transplantation
Richard L Soutar, Derek J King
BMJ  1995;310:31-36
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Controversies in Management: Should obstetricians see women with normal pregnancies? Obstetricians should be included in integrated team care
Patrick Walker
BMJ  1995;310:36-37
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Obstetricians should focus on problems
David K James
BMJ  1995;310:37-38
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Commentary: recognise the different strengths
Peter C Rubin
BMJ  1995;310:38
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ABC of Breast Diseases: CARCINOMA IN SITU AND PATIENTS AT HIGH RISK OF BREAST CANCER
D L Page, C M Steel, J M Dixon
BMJ  1995;310:39-42
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A fundamental problem of consent
John Mitchell
BMJ  1995;310:43-46
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Commentary: The legal position
Michael A Jones
BMJ  1995;310:46-47
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An anaesthetist's view
John N Lunn
BMJ  1995;310:47-48
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Lesson of the Week: Hypocalcaemic stridor and infantile nutritional rickets
J J A Train, R W Yates, M R J Sury
BMJ  1995;310:48-49
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
J P Fisher, D T Hassan, N O'Connor
BMJ  1995;310:70
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This week's Fillers

ANY QUESTIONS
Michael Powell
BMJ  1995;310:19
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A MEMORABLE PATIENT
Frances Carter
BMJ  1995;310:26
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ANY QUESTIONS
D Craig Brater
BMJ  1995;310:30
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TWO MEMORABLE PATIENTS
K B Orr
BMJ  1995;310:38
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A PATIENT WHO CHANGED MY PRACTICE
Hugh Jackson
BMJ  1995;310:49
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Instructions to authors
BMJ  1995;310:50-52
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;310:26
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

PRESS RELEASE OF THE WEEK
Patricia MacNair
BMJ  1995;310:67
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

GPs' leader writes to review body on out of hours stalemate • BMA council supports consultants' sanctions • Request deferred for referendum on GMSC membership • BMA will consider investigating racism in the NHS • More work will be done on telephone helpline • GPs can appeal over dispensing decision • NHS Executive issues guidance on NHS occupational health service • GPs comment on drug budget proposals
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:63
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This week's Papers

Meta-analysis of efficacy of quinine for treatment of nocturnal leg cramps in elderly people
Malcolm Man-Son-Hing, George Wells
BMJ  1995;310:13-17
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Weight in infancy and prevalence of coronary heart disease in adult life
C H D Fall, M Vijayakumar, D J P Barker, C Osmond, S Duggleby
BMJ  1995;310:17-20
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Knowledge and experience of young people regarding drug misuse, 1969-94
J Denham Wright, Laurence Pearl
BMJ  1995;310:20-24
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Arterial versus capillary sampling for analysing blood gas pressures
Khavar Dar, Tim Williams, Richard Aitken, Kent L Woods, Susan Fletcher
BMJ  1995;310:24-25
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Antiplatelet treatment in elderly people with transient ischaemic attacks or ischaemic strokes
Juhani Sivenius, Paavo J Riekkinen Sr, Markku Laakso
BMJ  1995;310:25-26
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