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This week's Editorials

Open access
J R Hampton, A R Barlow
BMJ  1995;310:611-612
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Advance directives
Len Doyal
BMJ  1995;310:612-613
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Oregon's plans to legalise suicide assisted by a doctor
Melinda A Lee, Susan W Tolle
BMJ  1995;310:613-614
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100 years of x rays
Daniel J Nolan
BMJ  1995;310:614-615
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High resolution computed tomography of the lungs
Sylvia Worthy
BMJ  1995;310:616
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This week's Letters

Obituaries
Sidney Kay
BMJ  1995;310:660
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Commissioned obituaries should be abandoned
D G Craig
BMJ  1995;310:660
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More pages should be given to obituaries
Terence Hypher
BMJ  1995;310:660
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Are important historical records
Jean Loudon
BMJ  1995;310:660
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Death notices are often dull catalogues of success
Ann Dally
BMJ  1995;310:660-661
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Could be sponsored by drug companies
David Berger
BMJ  1995;310:661
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Cut them down to size
John D C Bennett
BMJ  1995;310:661
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Self written obituaries should be preferred
B Essex
BMJ  1995;310:661
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Put them on an electronic bulletin board
Andrew Herxheimer
BMJ  1995;310:661
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Publish fewer poor quality papers
G Hart
BMJ  1995;310:661
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Voluntary agreement of tobacco advertising
Peter Middleton
BMJ  1995;310:662
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Advance directives
Michael Lewis
BMJ  1995;310:662
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Can be no substitute for good communication
G E Noble
BMJ  1995;310:662
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BMA should evaluate Dutch experience with euthanasia
Michael Irwin
BMJ  1995;310:662
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Monographs in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
M D Vickers
BMJ  1995;310:663
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Bulletin editor's reply
Joe Collier
BMJ  1995;310:663
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Treating heart disease
Anthony Hall, D M Humphreys
BMJ  1995;310:663
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Nicotine patches may not be safe
May R Arnaot
BMJ  1995;310:663-664
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Authors' reply
John McMurray, Andrew Rankin
BMJ  1995;310:664
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GPs accept patients' vote on fundholding
Orest Mulka
BMJ  1995;310:664
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Reductions in defence medical services
Tony Revell
BMJ  1995;310:665
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Life expectancy in children with cerebral palsy
Richard K Eyman, Herbert J Grossman, Thomas L Call, Robert H Chaney
BMJ  1995;310:665
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Drivers with sleep apnoea
N J Legg
BMJ  1995;310:665
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Driving, glaucoma, and the law
E A Rowse, Martyn Ford
BMJ  1995;310:665
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Making routine data adequate to support clinical audit
J G Williams
BMJ  1995;310:665-666
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Data collection should be integrated with patient care
Michael Joffe, Jean Chapple, R W Beard
BMJ  1995;310:666
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Myths in medicine
C Bruce Perry, Ian Bailey
BMJ  1995;310:666
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Sudden infant death syndrome in Maoris
S L. Tonkin
BMJ  1995;310:666
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n of1 trials in osteoarthritis
C J Hawkey
BMJ  1995;310:666-667
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Caution in interpretation needed
Stephen Senn, Rajesh Bakshi, Nathalie Ezzet
BMJ  1995;310:667
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Authors' reply
Lyn March, Jennifer Schwarz, Les Irwig, Judy Simpson, Catherine Chock, Peter Brooks
BMJ  1995;310:667
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Childhood antecedents of schizophrenia
Andrew D Paterson
BMJ  1995;310:667-668
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Rates of episiotomy
Michael Turner, Catherine Casey
BMJ  1995;310:668
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Conclusions and validity of data cannot be judged
John F Stratton, H Gordon, M Logue
BMJ  1995;310:668
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Authors' reply
Tine Brink Henriksen, Karl Moller Bek, Morten Hedegaard, Niels Jorgen Secher
BMJ  1995;310:668-669
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Doctors' and nurses' right to refuse to participate in abortions
Gavin Jarvis
BMJ  1995;310:669
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Muslim customs surrounding death
M J H Qureshi
BMJ  1995;310:669
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Late effects after radiotherapy for breast cancer
Margaret Daly, Elizabeth J Junor, Adrian N Harnett
BMJ  1995;310:669
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Series editor's reply
J Michael Dixon
BMJ  1995;310:669
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Breast pain
Jim Barber
BMJ  1995;310:669-670
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Management of sinusitis
Marc De Meyre
BMJ  1995;310:670
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Sinusitis and rhinitis, or rhinosinusitis?
Julian Rowe-Jones, Ian Mackay
BMJ  1995;310:670
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Clinical guidelines
Arabinda Saha
BMJ  1995;310:670
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Treatment for oesophageal achalasia
John R Bennett
BMJ  1995;310:670
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Measuring visual acuity in general practice
Richard D Neal, Teifi James
BMJ  1995;310:670-671
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Many referral letters omit visual acuity measurement
G Prasad Rao, Anthony P Moriarty
BMJ  1995;310:671
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May not be reliable
Merrick J Moseley, Helen S Jones, Philip I Murray
BMJ  1995;310:671
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Helps decide on urgency
James Talks, Kate Lindenbaum, Bryan Hopkisson
BMJ  1995;310:671
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The price of truth
Jack Bavin
BMJ  1995;310:671
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Colour blindness in sport
B O'Connor
BMJ  1995;310:671
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The internal market
C A Porter
BMJ  1995;310:671-672
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Effect size
Colin Borland
BMJ  1995;310:672
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Young people and drug misuse
Mervyn Gifford
BMJ  1995;310:672
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Press release of the week
Alastair Kent
BMJ  1995;310:672
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Eradicating fleas
Bruce Williamson
BMJ  1995;310:672
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This week's News

Caring for the carers
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;310:617
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Swedish cancer survey: one in three patients survive
Agneta Maria Lewis
BMJ  1995;310:617-618
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Headlines
BMJ  1995;310:618
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BMA council backs GPs' out of hours efforts
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:618
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Hong Kong doctor cleared of plagiarism
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:618-619
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Brussels rejects biotechnology directive
Rory Watson
BMJ  1995;310:619-620
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BMA to run clinical audit centre
John Warden
BMJ  1995;310:620
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Three strikes and out for the Australian Tobacco Institute?
Simon Chapman
BMJ  1995;310:620
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This week's General practice

Open access echocardiography in management of heart failure in the community
C M Francis, L Caruana, P Kearney, M Love, G R Sutherland, I R Starkey, T R D Shaw, J J V McMurray
BMJ  1995;310:634-636
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This week's Soundings

A different light
Liam Farrell
BMJ  1995;310:675
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Offlimits
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  1995;310:675
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This week's Personal views

Return to Albania
Alan Cameron
BMJ  1995;310:676
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This week's Medicine and books

AIDS in Africa
Charles F Gilks
BMJ  1995;310:678
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Population and Reproductive Rights: Feminist Perspectives from the South
A J McMichael
BMJ  1995;310:678-679
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Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent: Debating the New Reproductive Technologies
John Roberts
BMJ  1995;310:679
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This week's Education and debate

Recent Advances: Rheumatology
Anthony Bradlow, Joel David
BMJ  1995;310:637-640
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Recent Advances: Posters for accident departments: simple method of sustaining reduction in x ray examinations
Eugene McNally, Gerald de Lacey, Philippa Lovell, Theo Welch
BMJ  1995;310:640-642
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Recent Advances: Teaching in accident and emergency medicine: 10 commandments of accident and emergency radiology
Robin Touquet, Peter Driscoll, David Nicholson
BMJ  1995;310:642-648
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Russian Report: Alcoholism and rising mortality in the Russian Federation
Michael Ryan
BMJ  1995;310:648-650
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Management for Doctors: Getting the best from people
Andrew Vallance Owen
BMJ  1995;310:650-652
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ABC of Rheumatology: RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS--II: TREATMENT
M Akil, R S Amos
BMJ  1995;310:652-654
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Lesson of the Week: The mineralocorticoid effects of high dose hydrocortisone
B H Ramsahoye, S V Davies, N El-Gaylani, D Sandeman, M F Scanlon
BMJ  1995;310:656-657
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;310:680
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This week's Fillers

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
T. Wilson Parry
BMJ  1995;310:623
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Lesson of the Week: A MEMORABLE PATIENT
A C Irlam
BMJ  1995;310:657
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;310:672
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

It's life, Jim..
Tom Snow
BMJ  1995;310:677
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A shot in the back
Bill Inman
BMJ  1995;310:677
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Health minister fails to reassure over consultant expansion • Consultants fear for their future • Government must heed inequalities in health • Consultants consider changes to C merit awards • BMA supports nurses' plea for national pay • Transitional local pay cannot apply to most consultants • Ministers refuse to meet clinical academic staff
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:673
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This week's Papers

Impact and sustainability of a "baby friendly" health education intervention at a district hospital in Bihar, India
Bindeshwar Prasad, Anthony M de L Costello
BMJ  1995;310:621-623
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Prospective study of combined use of bronchial aspirates and biopsy specimens in diagnosis and typing of centrally located lung tumours
Eric Piaton, Marie-Helene Grillet-Ravigneaux, Bernard Saugier, Helene Pellet
BMJ  1995;310:624-627
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Apolipoprotein E genotype and association between smoking and early onset Alzheimer's disease
Cornelia M van Duijn, Louis M Havekes, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Peter de Knijff, Albert Hofman
BMJ  1995;310:627-631
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Trends in rates and seasonal distribution of sudden infant deaths in England and Wales, 1988-92
E A Gilman, K K Cheng, H R Winter, R Scragg
BMJ  1995;310:631-632
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Neonatal vitamin K prophylaxis in the British Isles: current practice and trends
J S Barton, J H Tripp, A W McNinch
BMJ  1995;310:632-633
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Statistics notes: Calculating correlation coefficients with repeated observations: Part 2--correlation between subjects
J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
BMJ  1995;310:633
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