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This week's Editorials

Education and dementia
Martin Orrell, Barbara Sahakian
BMJ  1995;310:951-952
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Hospital doctors' work
Peter Jackson
BMJ  1995;310:952-953
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Consultants of the future
Jane Smith
BMJ  1995;310:953-954
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Tuberculosis: old reasons for a new increase?
Janet H Darbyshire
BMJ  1995;310:954-955
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Promoting cost effective prescribing
Nick Freemantle, David Henry, Alan Maynard, George Torrance
BMJ  1995;310:955-956
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This week's Letters

Screening for breast cancer
Hazel Thornton
BMJ  1995;310:1002
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Incidence of interval cancer and detection rate of first screenings are inconsistent
Rob Boer, Harry J De Koning, Gerrit J Van Oortmarssen, Paul J Van Der Maas
BMJ  1995;310:1002
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Maximise compliance as well as radiological sensitivity
T J Anderson, F E Alexander, A E Kirkpatrick
BMJ  1995;310:1002-1003
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Informed consent may increase non-attendance rate
M Baum
BMJ  1995;310:1003
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British women are being offered a cheap deal
A F Macdonald
BMJ  1995;310:1003
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Technicians could be trained to interpret screening mammograms
Michael Robertson
BMJ  1995;310:1003
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Diagnostic performance of radiographers can be improved
C F Loughran
BMJ  1995;310:1003
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Two views mean twice the dose of radiation
Robert Blomfield
BMJ  1995;310:1003-1004
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Has increased the workload for primary care teams
Eleri M Roderick, Jim Cox
BMJ  1995;310:1004
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Uptake of breast screening
Kambiz Boomla, Kath Moser, Jeannette Naish
BMJ  1995;310:1004
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May be influenced by practice specific factors
Vivien Hollyoak
BMJ  1995;310:1004
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Non-responders can be encouraged to attend
Jennifer Stephenson
BMJ  1995;310:1004-1005
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Acyclovir and post-herpetic neuralgia
M W Mckendrick, M J Wood
BMJ  1995;310:1005
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The balance of available evidence supports its use
Simon P Harding
BMJ  1995;310:1005
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Authors' reply
James Mcgill, John White
BMJ  1995;310:1005
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United Kingdom prospective diabetes study
Barrie M Margetts
BMJ  1995;310:1005-1006
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Authors' reply
R R Holman, Robert Turner, Carole A Cull, Charles Fox
BMJ  1995;310:1006
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Services for cleft lip and palate
J Henry Goldin
BMJ  1995;310:1006
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Plastic surgeons support centralisation of services
P J Sykes
BMJ  1995;310:1006
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Needs are never demands
David Wheldon
BMJ  1995;310:1006
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Dying for palliative care
Rodger Charlton
BMJ  1995;310:1007
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Computed tomography in first uncomplicated generalised seizure
Alastair Hay, Michael Ball
BMJ  1995;310:1007
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Should always be performed
P Lafond, B Tardy, F Zeni, A Viallon, Y Page, J C Bertrand
BMJ  1995;310:1007
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Is grossly oversold
Anthony Hopkins, Simon Shorvon
BMJ  1995;310:1007-1008
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Authors' reply
R Schoenenberger, S Heim
BMJ  1995;310:1008
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Thrombolysis in patients with diabetes
D K Newman, M P Snead, D W Flanagan, J D Scott
BMJ  1995;310:1008
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Prophylaxis with aspirin should be considered
K T Moriarty
BMJ  1995;310:1008
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Mersey has changed its policy
Richard C Worth, J N McGalliard, A Harley
BMJ  1995;310:1009
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Risk of intraocular haemorrhage remains unknown
Stephen Fava, Joseph Azzopardi, Hugo Agius Muscat, Frederick F Fenech
BMJ  1995;310:1009
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Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Jerome I Brody
BMJ  1995;310:1009
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Other American studies fail to confirm an association
Shelia Hoar Zahm, Aaron Blair, Kenneth P Cantor, Joseph F Fraumeni Jr
BMJ  1995;310:1009-1010
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Treating mental health problems in health care workers
Sheila C Macpherson
BMJ  1995;310:1010
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Should be no different from other people
Sue Stevens
BMJ  1995;310:1010
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Rationing intensive care
A R Bull
BMJ  1995;310:1010
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High dependency units may be the answer
D W Ryan
BMJ  1995;310:1010-1011
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Neurosurgical intensive care in the south east
B A Bell
BMJ  1995;310:1011
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Failure of consultant expansion
Jammi Nagaraj Rao
BMJ  1995;310:1011
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Priority setting processes for health care
Johan Calltorp, Stefan Holmstrom, Chris Ham, Frank Honigsbaum
BMJ  1995;310:1011
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Priority setting is misunderstood and simplified
Tom Marshall
BMJ  1995;310:1011
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This week's News

Researchers in US dispute first case of AIDS
Steve Connor
BMJ  1995;310:957
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AIDS strategy must pay more attention to human rights
Richard Smith
BMJ  1995;310:957-958
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Headlines
BMJ  1995;310:958
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Ireland deals with hepatitis C fallout
Alan Murdoch
BMJ  1995;310:958
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Report of French "blood scandal" is leaked to press
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;310:959
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Talks stall on GPs' out of hours work
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:959
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Hospital banned from doing neonatal heart operations
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:960
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Doctors highlight Australia's youth suicide problem
Christopher Zinn
BMJ  1995;310:960
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Report identifies research priorities in Britain
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;310:961
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Medicare trustees call for spending curbs
Fred B Charatin
BMJ  1995;310:961-962
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France dilutes tobacco and alcohol advertising ban
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;310:962
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Mrs Bottomley and the London lynch mob
John Warden
BMJ  1995;310:962
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This week's General practice

Do doctors accurately assess coronary risk in their patients? Preliminary results of the coronary health assessment study
Steven A Grover, Ilka Lowensteyn, Katja L Esrey, Yvonne Steinert, Lawrence Joseph, Michal Abrahamowicz
BMJ  1995;310:975-978
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This week's Soundings

Three cases of anorexia nervosa
Judith Hollis-Triantafillou
BMJ  1995;310:1013
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The right to be wrong
Tony Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1013
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This week's Personal views

A meeting too far
Eva Lester
BMJ  1995;310:1014
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Cheating in medical school
Frank J Leavitt
BMJ  1995;310:1014-1015
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This week's Medicine and books

Doctors, Dilemmas, Decisions
Vaughan Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1016
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Health Care, Health Promotion and the Future General Practice
C J Watkins
BMJ  1995;310:1016-1017
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Promise and Performance in Managed Care: The Prepaid Group Practice Model
Graham Rich
BMJ  1995;310:1017
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Selection
Alex Paton
BMJ  1995;310:1017
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This week's Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: Treating myopia with the excimer laser: the present position
David S Gartry
BMJ  1995;310:979-985
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The rhetoric of research
Richard Horton
BMJ  1995;310:985-987
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Commentary: Scientific heads are not turned by rhetoric
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  1995;310:987-988
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ABC of Rheumatology: OSTEOPOROSIS
Nicola Peel, Richard Eastell
BMJ  1995;310:989-992
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Time to leave behind genocidal weapons
Bernard Lown
BMJ  1995;310:993-994
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Continuing medical education: a personal view
T M Hayes
BMJ  1995;310:994-996
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Management for Doctors: The importance of quality: sharing responsibility for improving patient care
Fiona Moss, Pam Garside
BMJ  1995;310:996-999
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;310:1018
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This week's Fillers

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
BMJ  1995;310:966
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ANY QUESTIONS
Tanja Pless-Mulloli, Peter Blain
BMJ  1995;310:978
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MEMORABLE PATIENT
Kathleen Abraham
BMJ  1995;310:992
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Thrills of public health
Carl Elliott
BMJ  1995;310:1015
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Mrs Bottomley announces changes to London's health services • GPs report deterioration in community care services • NHS dental care will be targeted on neediest patients • GPs' current night visit fee structure will continue
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:1012
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This week's Papers

Socioeconomic deprivation and notification rates for tuberculosis in London during 1982-91
Punam Mangtani, Damien J Jolley, John M Watson, Laura C Rodrigues
BMJ  1995;310:963-966
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Increasing incidence of tuberculosis in England and Wales: a study of the likely causes
N Bhatti, M R Law, J K Morris, R Halliday, J Moore-Gillon
BMJ  1995;310:967-969
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Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia: association with education. The Rotterdam study
Alewijn Ott, Monique M B Breteler, Frans van Harskamp, Jules J Claus, Tischa J M van der Cammen, Diederick E Grobbee, Albert Hofman
BMJ  1995;310:970-973
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Severity of heart failure and dosage of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors
A L Clark, A J S Coats
BMJ  1995;310:973-974
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Improving notification rates for tuberculosis
J S Brown, F Wells, G Duckworth, E A Paul, N C Barnes
BMJ  1995;310:974
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