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This week's Editorials

Folic acid and the prevention of neural tube defects
Nicholas J Wald, Carol Bower
BMJ  1995;310:1019-1020
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Unified training grade
Trevor J Bayley
BMJ  1995;310:1020-1021
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Toxoplasma and the eye
J Hay, G N Dutton
BMJ  1995;310:1021-1022
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Radiation and women of child bearing potential
Bob Bury, Alan Hufton, Judith Adams
BMJ  1995;310:1022-1023
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Should herbal medicine-like products be licensed as medicines
Peter A G M De Smet
BMJ  1995;310:1023-1024
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New draft on European directive on confidential data
Elsebeth Lynge
BMJ  1995;310:1024
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This week's Letters

Bronchiolitis
M D D Bell
BMJ  1995;310:1065
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Tribavirin may be helpful
Nicholas Hallam, Trevor Edmunds
BMJ  1995;310:1065
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Isolated pulse oximetry readings are unreliable
Ian Waite, Robert W M Walker, Andrew Sharples, Oliver Dearlove
BMJ  1995;310:1065
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David Isaacs
BMJ  1995;310:1065
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Bullying in schools
Vidya Rao
BMJ  1995;310:1065-1066
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Accident and emergency departments need management guidelines
John Wright, Cameron Stark
BMJ  1995;310:1066
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Assessing the consequences of changing childbirth
Nigel Higson
BMJ  1995;310:1066
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Time is ripe for a "pregnancy based system" of data collection
Arabinda Saha
BMJ  1995;310:1066
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Smart cards are expensive and easily damaged
Rupert Fawdry
BMJ  1995;310:1066-1067
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Management of the irritable bowel syndrome
Roger Jones
BMJ  1995;310:1067
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Food intolerance may play a part
Peter J Lewis
BMJ  1995;310:1067
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M J G Farthing
BMJ  1995;310:1067
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Proposed new deprivation index
Nicky Britten, Mel Bartley, David Blane
BMJ  1995;310:1067-1068
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Poor correlation with Jarman index may be due to changes in deprivation since 1981
R S James
BMJ  1995;310:1068
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May perpetuate variation in prescribing unrelated to patients' need
Sarah J Roberts
BMJ  1995;310:1068
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Authors' reply
David C E F Lloyd, Conrad M Harris, David W Clucas
BMJ  1995;310:1068
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Academic integrity
James Bird
BMJ  1995;310:1068-1069
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Most people are not disgusted by the Portman group
John Rae
BMJ  1995;310:1069
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Referral of women with breast lumps
B M Hogbin
BMJ  1995;310:1069
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Appropriate prescribing in asthma
Mark Campbell, D Nicholas Bateman, Sarah J Roberts, James M Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1069
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NHS Executive promotes prophylaxis
Philip Leech
BMJ  1995;310:1069-1070
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Cost and cost effectiveness are different
Dennis Tracey
BMJ  1995;310:1070
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Good prescribing is encouraged
Cheryl Shine, Amalin Dutt
BMJ  1995;310:1070
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Bottle feeding and the sudden infant death syndrome
D M Tappin
BMJ  1995;310:1070
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Type of formula was not specified
J A Walker-Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1070
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Ruth Gilbert, Ruth Wigfield, Peter Fleming, Jem Berry, Peter Rudd
BMJ  1995;310:1071
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Sudden infant death in France
Marie-Helene Bouvier-Colle, Benoit Salanave
BMJ  1995;310:1071
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Cot mattresses and the sudden infant death syndrome
B A Richardson
BMJ  1995;310:1071
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Sampling for analysing blood gas pressures
Jaideep J Pandit
BMJ  1995;310:1071-1072
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Capillary sampling is routine in Germany
A Bernhardt
BMJ  1995;310:1072
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Mount Everest study supports use of capillary samples
Peter W Barry, Nicholas P Mason, David Collier
BMJ  1995;310:1072
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Geographical relations between patients and general practitioners
Steven Ford
BMJ  1995;310:1072
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Paracetamol and self poisoning
John B Spooner
BMJ  1995;310:1072
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Preventing suicide
Margaret Stevens, Stephen Zubrick, Sven Silbum
BMJ  1995;310:1072-1073
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Multiple significance tests
Simon Voss, Steve George
BMJ  1995;310:1073
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The Gulf war syndrome
Tony Revell
BMJ  1995;310:1073
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Referencing medical articles on computer networks
Steven H Cray
BMJ  1995;310:1073
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This week's News

Germany's home care scheme faces problems
Helmut Karcher
BMJ  1995;310:1025
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Abortion issue goes to US courts
Fred B Charatan
BMJ  1995;310:1025-1026
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BMJ  1995;310:1026
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Australia launches major study of women's health
Christopher Zinn
BMJ  1995;310:1026
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Report urges better psychological care
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;310:1027
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Tropical diseases move north with global warming
Paul Brown
BMJ  1995;310:1027-1028
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Dutch court convicts doctor of murder
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  1995;310:1028
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The French way of controlling drug costs
Rory Watson
BMJ  1995;310:1028
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This week's General practice

The wizard and the gatekeeper: of castles and contracts
Barbara Herd, Andrew Herd, Nigel Mathers
BMJ  1995;310:1042-1044
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This week's Soundings

The way we eat now
George Dunea
BMJ  1995;310:1075
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Eat, drink, and be ...?
Bernard Dixon
BMJ  1995;310:1075
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This week's Personal views

The two faces of Eve
Marilyn Plant
BMJ  1995;310:1076
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Psoriasis--how we coped
Susan Weingarten
BMJ  1995;310:1076-1077
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This week's Medicine and books

An Introduction to Health: Policy, Planning and Financing
Jim Connelly
BMJ  1995;310:1078
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Regulation of the Market in the National Health Service: Competition and the Common Good
R M Kammerling
BMJ  1995;310:1078-1079
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Qualitative Studies in Health and Medicine
Nicholas Mays
BMJ  1995;310:1079
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The True Cost of Conflict
Ian Doucet
BMJ  1995;310:1079
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This week's Education and debate

NHS "indicators of success": what do they tell us?
Radical Statistics Health Group
BMJ  1995;310:1045-1050
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Lesson of the Week: Vitamin A deficiency and xerophthalmia in the United Kingdom
N J Watson, C H Hutchinson, H R Atta
BMJ  1995;310:1050-1051
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Letter from Sarajevo: On a front line
Lynne Jones
BMJ  1995;310:1052-1054
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Management for Doctors: Handling the conflicting cultures in the NHS
James Drife, Ian Johnston
BMJ  1995;310:1054-1056
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ABC of Rheumatology: POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA AND GIANT CELL ARTERITIS
Gillian Pountain, Brian Hazleman
BMJ  1995;310:1057-1059
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Should patients positive for HIV infection receive pneumococcal vaccine?
A Jain, S Jain, V Gant
BMJ  1995;310:1060-1062
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
BMJ  1995;310:1062
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;310:1080
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This week's Fillers

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
BMJ  1995;310:1041
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ANY QUESTIONS
David Elliman
BMJ  1995;310:1044
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;310:1056
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Humane epidemiology
Peter D Toon
BMJ  1995;310:1077
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

WMA looks at doctors' role when resources are limited • GPs were inadequately consulted over community care • MPs reject bill to ban boxing • Rescued private hospital takes NHS patients • Community health councils will have code of conduct • NHS introduces quarterly review • Complaints implementation group needs more doctors
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:1074
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This week's Papers

Health and cancer prevention: knowledge and beliefs of children and young people
Ann Oakley, Gillian Bendelow, Josephine Barnes, Mary Buchanan, O A Nasseem Husain
BMJ  1995;310:1029-1033
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Multicentre study of cancer pain and its treatment in France
Francois Larue, Sophie M Colleau, Louis Brasseur, Charles S Cleeland
BMJ  1995;310:1034-1037
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Incidence of acute symptomatic toxoplasma retinochoroiditis in south London according to country of birth
R E Gilbert, M R Stanford, H Jackson, R E Holliman, M D Sanders
BMJ  1995;310:1037-1040
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Randomised clinical trial of ultrasound treatment for pressure ulcers
Gerben ter Riet, Alphons G H Kessels, Paul Knipschild
BMJ  1995;310:1040-1041
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