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This week's Editorials

Acute viral encephalitis in childhood
Colin Kennedy
BMJ  1995;310:139-140
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Detection of prostate cancer
Fritz H Schroder
BMJ  1995;310:140-141
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Perinatal and infant postmortem examination
Malcolm Chiswick
BMJ  1995;310:141-142
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Shared care in diabetes
Amanda J Sowden, Trevor A Sheldon, George Alberti
BMJ  1995;310:142-143
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Primary orthostatic tremor
T C Britton, P D Thompson
BMJ  1995;310:143-144
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Assessing the consequences of changing childbirth
James Owen Drife
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This week's Letters

Secrecy in the NHS
Alan Langlands
BMJ  1995;310:189
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Wide public consultation in Cambridge and Huntingdon
Margaret Scott, Stephen Thornton
BMJ  1995;310:189
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Threat of action for libel
Martin McKee
BMJ  1995;310:189
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Dismissal means denial of right to practice
P J Tomlin
BMJ  1995;310:189-190
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Creeping censorship occurs
Stephen J Rose
BMJ  1995;310:190
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Cordial relationships restored
I J T Davies
BMJ  1995;310:190
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Doctors were previously the leading practitioners of secrecy
Vicky Rippere
BMJ  1995;310:190
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Clinicians should not restrict access to basic information
Alan Maynard, Trevor Sheldon
BMJ  1995;310:190
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Title is sensationalist and inaccurate
H J N Andreyev
BMJ  1995;310:190
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Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital has policy of openness
Margaret Turner-Warwick, Andrew Warin, Mark Taylor, Christopher Bayliss
BMJ  1995;310:190-191
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Public health advocacy will remain
Sian Griffiths, Jonathan McWilliam, Dick Mayon White, Aidan Macfarlane
BMJ  1995;310:191
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Advocacy for public health will continue
J M O'Brien
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Defend the principles of our calling together
Harry Keen
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PHLS reports on food poisoning should be published routinely
Richard North
BMJ  1995;310:191-192
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Measles campaign
Nigel Higson
BMJ  1995;310:192
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Little importance placed on infants aged under 15 months
V K Tohani, B Farrell
BMJ  1995;310:192
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Rubella component of vaccine was ignored
Mark Bagott, Linda Johnson
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Parental awareness was high
Anitha Varghese, Nicholas A Woodall
BMJ  1995;310:193
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Ethnic variation in epidemiology of hip fracture
T Solanki, R H Hyatt
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Clinical scores in the differential diagnosis of acute stroke
J P S Burn
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Stroke units
George Duncan, Louise Ritchie, Dawn Jamieson, Linda Donaldson
BMJ  1995;310:193-194
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Written material for non-English speaking patients
P K Iqbal, S Bank, S Hussain
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Intercultural consultations
Sangeeta Patel
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Multilingual literature is useful
Mary Buchanan, E Blanche Butler, O A N Husain
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Prescribing exercise in general practice
Steve Iliffe, Sharon See Tai, Mairi Gould, Margaret Thorogood, Melvyn Hilsdon
BMJ  1995;310:194-195
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Auditing absence due to sickness
S Khan, T C Aw
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Biological washing powders as allergens
Michael Flindt
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Resuscitation skills of MRCP candidates: one year on
P F S Prior-Willeard, J David
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Research shows how HIV exhausts the body
Steve Connor
BMJ  1995;310:145
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Mental health law obsolete, says inquiry
Luisa Dillner
BMJ  1995;310:145-146
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Hunt begins for patients suspected of having hepatitis C
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;310:146-147
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Making Europe's blood safter
Rory Watson
BMJ  1995;310:147
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Report criticises London ambulance service
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;310:147-148
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China fights fall in IQ due to iodine deficiency
Richard Tomlinson
BMJ  1995;310:148
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Study supports screening for the fragile X syndrome
Naomi Craft
BMJ  1995;310:148
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Britain does too many x rays, says Audit Commission
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:149
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Britain will unite doctors' training grades
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:149-150
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Tighter scrutiny for hospital locums
John Warden
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Ambulances and management
Jane Smith
BMJ  1995;310:150
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This week's General practice

Low income scheme index: a new deprivation scale based on prescribing in general practice
David C E F Lloyd, Conrad M Harris, David W Clucas
BMJ  1995;310:165-169
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Statistics notes: Multiple significance tests: the Bonferroni method
J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
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This week's Soundings

Foiling the Treasury
Tony Smith
BMJ  1995;310:197
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Towards a new test
Bernard Dixon
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This week's Personal views

Breathless uncertainty
BMJ  1995;310:199
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This week's Medicine and books

Choosing Medical Care in Old Age
M John Bendall
BMJ  1995;310:200
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Heroin Addiction and Drug Policy: the British System
Nick Heather
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Best books on orthopaedics: a personal choice
C M Court Brown
BMJ  1995;310:201
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This week's Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: Irritable bowel, irritable body, or irritable brain?
Michael J G Farthing
BMJ  1995;310:171-175
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Controversies in Management: Do anticonvulsants alter the natural course of epilepsy? Treatment should be started as early as possible
E H Reynolds
BMJ  1995;310:176-177
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Controversies in Management: Case for early treatment is not established
David Chadwick
BMJ  1995;310:177-178
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Controversies in Management: Commentary: reliable data are not yet available
Peter C Rubin
BMJ  1995;310:178
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The World Health Organisation: WHO's special programmes: undermining from above
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  1995;310:178-182
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The World Health Organisation: What makes a good special programme
BMJ  1995;310:180
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The World Health Organisation: Out of Geneva
BMJ  1995;310:181
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ABC of Rheumatology: PAIN IN NECK, SHOULDER, AND ARM
M Barry, J R Jenner
BMJ  1995;310:183-186
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;310:202
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This week's Corrections

Correction
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

It's all right now
Stephen Nixon
BMJ  1995;310:198
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Embarrassing greed?
Christopher Bulstrode
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

NHS Executive will not give single definition of hours of work • Debate opens on accountability in the NHS • Reductions in defence medical services causes BMA concern • BMA will join managers in top level talks • Labour party accuses government of privatisation by stealth
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:196
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This week's Papers

Randomised controlled trial for evaluation of fitness programme for patients with chronic low back pain
H Frost, J A Klaber Moffett, J S Moser, J C T Fairbank
BMJ  1995;310:151-154
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Value and quality of perinatal and infant postmortem examinations: cohort analysis of 400 consecutive deaths
Patrick H T Cartlidge, Andrew T Dawson, Jane H Stewart, Gordan M Vujanic
BMJ  1995;310:155-158
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Sexual health education interventions for young people: a methodological review
Ann Oakley, Deirdre Fullerton, Janet Holland, Sean Arnold, Merry France-Dawson, Peter Kelley, Sheena McGrellis
BMJ  1995;310:158-162
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Diuretic effect of frusemide in patients with nephrotic syndrome: is it potentiated by intravenous albumin?
Fehmi Akcicek, Turkay Yalniz, Ali Basci, Ercan Ok, Evert J Dorhout Mees
BMJ  1995;310:162-163
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Parents in the recovery room: survey of parental and staff attitudes
P A Hall, J F Payne, C G Stack, M A Stokes
BMJ  1995;310:163-164
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Why patients choose paracetamol for self poisoning and their knowledge of its dangers
Keith Hawton, Christopher Ware, Hamant Mistry, Jonathan Hewitt, Stephen Kingsbury, Dave Roberts, Heather Weitzel
BMJ  1995;310:164
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