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This week's Editorials

What should be done about interval breast cancers?
S Field, M J Michell, M G W Wallis, A R M Wilson
BMJ  1995;310:203-204
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What general practitioners should do about breast screening
Paul A Creighton
BMJ  1995;310:204-205
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Suicide and antidepressants
J Guy Edwards
BMJ  1995;310:205-206
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Unlinked anonymous HIV screening programme in England and Wales
J E Banatvala
BMJ  1995;310:206-207
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Rising emergency admissions
Richard Hobbs
BMJ  1995;310:207-208
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Health care: what's science got to do with it?
Michael Peckham, Richard Smith
BMJ  1995;310:208
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This week's Letters

Treating asthma
J M Smith, D N Bateman
BMJ  1995;310:254
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Prescription pricing authority aims to promote high quality prescribing
John Ferguson, C M Harris, G England, N Hough, M G Lee, D Archer, T Ewington, P Clappison
BMJ  1995;310:254
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Oxygen is the first drug to use in acute asthma
Graham Stewart
BMJ  1995;310:254-255
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ß agonists are widely used
Alan Jones
BMJ  1995;310:255
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Scoring system developed for drug related morbidity
C F A Pantin, R King, U Pathak, D R Baldwin, P Sherwood Burge, M J Cushley
BMJ  1995;310:255
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Simple aspiration for spontaneous pneumothorax
Graham Bradley
BMJ  1995;310:255-256
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May not reduce the need for pleurectomy
David C Currie
BMJ  1995;310:256
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Enteroviral hypothesis for motor neurone disease
N Nowotny, G Durr
BMJ  1995;310:256
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Homoeopathy for recurrent upper respiratory tract infections
Peter Fisher, David Reilly, David Spence, David Ratsey, Barry Rose, John English
BMJ  1995;310:256
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Use of daily symptom score not validated
Andrew Vickers
BMJ  1995;310:256-257
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Power of study was not estimated
Hagen Rampes
BMJ  1995;310:257
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Authors' reply
E S M De Lange De Klerk, J Blommers, D J Kuik, P D Bezemer, L Feenstra
BMJ  1995;310:257
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The health of leaders
G E P Vincenti
BMJ  1995;310:257
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Churchill's biographers disagree over alcohol consumption
Geoffrey Nicholson
BMJ  1995;310:257
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Use of personal records for research purposes
Lindsay Edouard, Nigel S B Rawson
BMJ  1995;310:257-258
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Records prematurely destroyed
M M Hawkins, A W Craft
BMJ  1995;310:258
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Restrictions unnecessary and obstructive
James E Haddow, Glenn E Palomaki
BMJ  1995;310:258
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Guidelines may affect audit
Allistair N Stark
BMJ  1995;310:258
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Unusual cause of pseudomonal infection
R Levy, D T Hindley, R Burman, S A Haider, J Blease
BMJ  1995;310:258
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Psychotic illness in ethnic groups
Nicholas Airey
BMJ  1995;310:258-259
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Conclusions of study are unwarranted
Philip A Sugarman
BMJ  1995;310:259
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Social observations on childhood
Louise Greenberg
BMJ  1995;310:259
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Circumcision
S Mullick
BMJ  1995;310:259
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Triglyceride concentration and coronary heart disease
Alan M Garber, Andrew L Avins
BMJ  1995;310:259-260
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Child and adolescent mental health services
David Cottrell
BMJ  1995;310:260
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Hepatitis C in asymptomatic blood donors
C B Summerton
BMJ  1995;310:260
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Authors' reply
D J Mutimer, E Elias
BMJ  1995;310:260
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Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
Peter Scheuer, Jenny Chambers, Alison Rogers
BMJ  1995;310:260
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Infectivity of pneumonic plague
Frederick J Wright
BMJ  1995;310:261
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Certifying incapacity for work
Mansel Aylward
BMJ  1995;310:261
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Determining the number of psychiatric beds needed
David Roy, Marios Pierides, Tom Craig
BMJ  1995;310:261
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Ethics of rationing health care services
Dennis Cox
BMJ  1995;310:261-262
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Electronic health records
J T Lawson
BMJ  1995;310:262
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War pensions
P Castaldi
BMJ  1995;310:262
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Careers in academic general practice
Sean Hilton
BMJ  1995;310:262
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Out of hours care
A Z Kadri
BMJ  1995;310:262-263
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Two tier fee for night visits preferred
G M J Ross
BMJ  1995;310:263
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Guidelines are needed on when to visit
Bruce Court
BMJ  1995;310:263
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Establish primary care centres in hospitals
David B Olney
BMJ  1995;310:263
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Consequences of GPs opting out
Ann Barton
BMJ  1995;310:263
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Results of survey of general practitioners' opinion
M D Stevenson
BMJ  1995;310:263
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This week's News

Manchester tackles failure rate of Asian students
Luisa Dillner
BMJ  1995;310:209
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Headlines
BMJ  1995;310:210
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Humanitarian aid is not enough, says charity
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;310:210
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Doctors warn of crisis as commission folds
Charles Essex
BMJ  1995;310:210-211
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Crocodiles help to develop artificial blood
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:211
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GPs accuse government of propaganda war
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:211-212
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Childbirth trust calls for rights to home births
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;310:212
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Israel introduces national health insurance system
Judy Siegelitzkovich
BMJ  1995;310:212-213
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HIV infection concentrated in London
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  1995;310:213
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Europe cautious over genetics trials
Rory Watson
BMJ  1995;310:213-214
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NHS seeks reinvestment in long term care
John Warden
BMJ  1995;310:214
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European parliament flexes its muscles over health
Rory Watson
BMJ  1995;310:214
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This week's General practice

Comparison of uptake of breast screening, cervical screening, and childhood immunisation
R Rudiman, F J Gilbert, L D Ritchie
BMJ  1995;310:229
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General practitioners' knowledge and use ofliving wills
Michael Ashby, Melanie Wakefield, Justin Beilby
BMJ  1995;310:230
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This week's Soundings

The unrest cure
Colin Douglas
BMJ  1995;310:265
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Not losing the child
Ian Robertson
BMJ  1995;310:265
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This week's Medicine and books

Patient No More: the Politics of Breast Cancer
Clare Vaughan
BMJ  1995;310:268
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Hepatitis C Virus
Coleman I Smith
BMJ  1995;310:268-269
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Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster: the Structure of Human Chaos
Peter J Baxter
BMJ  1995;310:269
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Selection
Alex Paton
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This week's Education and debate

Purchaser-provider: the international dimension
Alastair Mason, Kieran Morgan
BMJ  1995;310:231-235
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Making an advance directive
George S Robertson
BMJ  1995;310:236-238
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ABC of Rheumatology: PAIN IN THE HAND AND WRIST
Michael Shipley
BMJ  1995;310:239-243
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Management for Doctors: Making finance work for you--strategic issues in clinical directorates
John Stuart, Peter C Spurgeon, Anthony Cook
BMJ  1995;310:244-246
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Controversies in Management: Chemotherapy for solid tumours
G M Mead
BMJ  1995;310:246-247
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Controversies in Management: Important progress in treatment
D Cunningham
BMJ  1995;310:247-248
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Controversies in Management: Commentary: caution still needed
Peter C Rubin
BMJ  1995;310:248
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How To Do It: Participate in an international conference
William A M Cutting
BMJ  1995;310:249-251
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;310:270
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This week's Fillers

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
BMJ  1995;310:218
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A PATIENT WHO CHANGED MY PRACTICE
Christina M De Wind
BMJ  1995;310:230
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ANY QUESTIONS
A C Chu
BMJ  1995;310:235
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;310:263
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

The story of an itch
Andrew Herxheimer
BMJ  1995;310:266
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PRESS RELEASE OF THE WEEK
Richard Smith
BMJ  1995;310:266-267
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Ironies in the abortion war
BMJ  1995;310:267
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Former BMA chairman leaves NHS • GPs drop opposition to end point assessment of trainees • Revised patient's charter promises shorter waiting times • Consultants plan for sanctions over local pay • Improvements announced for health promotion
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:264
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This week's Papers

Antidepressants and suicide
Susan S Jick, Alan D Dean, Hershel Jick
BMJ  1995;310:215-218
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Relative toxicity of benzodiazepines in overdose
N A Buckley, A H Dawson, I M Whyte, D L O'Connell
BMJ  1995;310:219-221
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Relative mortality from overdose of antidepressants
John A Henry, Carol A Alexander, Ersin K Sener
BMJ  1995;310:221-224
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Is the three year breast screening interval too long? Occurrence of interval cancers in NHS breast screening programme's north western region
Ciaran B J Woodman, Anthony G Threlfall, Caroline R M Boggis, Pat Prior
BMJ  1995;310:224-226
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Parental refusal to have children immunised: extent and reasons
Neil Simpson, Simon Lenton, Robina Randall
BMJ  1995;310:225-227
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Eating habits and attitudes among mothers of children with feeding disorders
Alan Stein, Jennifer Stein, Elizabeth A Walters, Christopher G Fairburn
BMJ  1995;310:228
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