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29 April 1995 (Vol 310, No 6987)
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This week's Editorials

Anti-therapeutic community mental health law
Nigel Eastman
BMJ  1995;310:1081-1082
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Cigarettes and addiction
Jack E Henningfield, Neal L Benowitz
BMJ  1995;310:1082-1083
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Health checks in general practice
Peter D Toon
BMJ  1995;310:1083-1084
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Patients' demands for prescriptions in primary care
Nicky Britten
BMJ  1995;310:1084-1085
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Evidence based medicine
Frank Davidoff, Brian Haynes, Dave Sackett, Richard Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1085-1086
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Fillers
Roger Robinson
BMJ  1995;310:1086
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This week's Letters

Carotid endarterectomy
Richard Keatinge
BMJ  1995;310:1135
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Is cost effective
G E Mead, A D Parry, P A O'Neill, C N Mccollum
BMJ  1995;310:1135
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Evidence is available for selected patients in selected units
J H N Wolfe
BMJ  1995;310:1135-1136
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Should be offered to appropriately selected patients
Peter Humphrey, Peter Enevoldson, Gavin Young, Peter Harris
BMJ  1995;310:1136
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Preoperative angiography is outdated
P R F Bell
BMJ  1995;310:1136
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Efficacy is proved
M I Aldoori, J D Beard
BMJ  1995;310:1136
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Continuous ambulatory electrocardiography in elderly people
Ismo Raiha
BMJ  1995;310:1136-1137
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The persistent vegetative state
Bryan Jennett
BMJ  1995;310:1137
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Report is unnecessarily negative
Keith Andrews
BMJ  1995;310:1137
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Eclampsia in the United Kingdom
D G Daniel, R H Golding
BMJ  1995;310:1137
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Better standards of care will reduce morbidity and mortality
Edward O'Donnell, David Somerset
BMJ  1995;310:1137-1138
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Authors' reply
K A Douglas, C W G Redman
BMJ  1995;310:1138
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Treating leg cramp
Martin J Connolly, J B Young, J R Naylor
BMJ  1995;310:1138
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Study quoted had flawed design
N R Dunn, M Campbell
BMJ  1995;310:1138
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Protection afforded by cycle helmets
Francis McDermott, John Lane
BMJ  1995;310:1138-1139
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Pain in the neck, shoulder, and arm
Gabriel Symonds
BMJ  1995;310:1139
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Long acting steroid injections are safe and effective if given correctly
Malcolm DeSilva
BMJ  1995;310:1139
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Authors' reply
Maurice Barry, Jumbo Jenner
BMJ  1995;310:1139
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Detection of prostate cancer
William Foulkes
BMJ  1995;310:1139-1140
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Methods are changing rapidly
F C Hamdy, D E Neal
BMJ  1995;310:1140
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Evaluation of sexual health interventions
Pilar Garcia, Sue Ziebland
BMJ  1995;310:1140
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Who uses the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Database?
Chris Hyde
BMJ  1995;310:1140-1141
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Evidence based policymaking
E M Armstrong
BMJ  1995;310:1141
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Policymakers may need to make a break with the past
Michael Tremblay
BMJ  1995;310:1141
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Academic experts don't have a monopoly on wisdom
Ikechukwu O Azuonye
BMJ  1995;310:1141
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Pharmaceutical donations to eastern Europe
Barry W Bradley
BMJ  1995;310:1141
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This week's News

GPs to be balloted on proposals for night visits
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:1087
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Headlines
BMJ  1995;310:1088
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US specialists face unemployment
Fred B Charatan
BMJ  1995;310:1088
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Study links low dose radiation and Down's syndrome
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:1088-1089
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Dutch are split over donor consent
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  1995;310:1089
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Equality guaranteed in cancer care shake up
Luisa Dillner
BMJ  1995;310:1090
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"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
Simon Chapman
BMJ  1995;310:1090
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This week's General practice

Effectiveness of health checks conducted by nurses in primary care: final results of the OXCHECK study
BMJ  1995;310:1099-1104
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The impact of health care advice given in primary care on cardiovascular risk
L H Lindholm, T Ekbom, C Dash, M Eriksson, G Tibblin, B Schersten
BMJ  1995;310:1105-1109
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Strategies for reducing coronary risk factors in primary care: which is most cost effective?
K Field, M Thorogood, C Silagy, C Normand, C O'Neill, J Muir
BMJ  1995;310:1109-1112
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This week's Soundings

The war is over
Colin Douglas
BMJ  1995;310:1143
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Bloody kids
Ian Robertson
BMJ  1995;310:1143
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This week's Personal views

Rites of passage of a medical career
BMJ  1995;310:1144
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Continuity of care--sacred cow or vital necessity?
Christopher Bulstrode
BMJ  1995;310:1144-1145
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This week's Medicine and books

Tipping the Balance Towards Primary Health Care
Chris Silagy
BMJ  1995;310:1146
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Evidence-Based General Practice: A Critical Reader
Aneez Esmail
BMJ  1995;310:1146-1147
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Adverse Events Associated with Childhood Vaccines: Evidence Bearing on Causality
Angus Nicoll, Mary Ramsay
BMJ  1995;310:1147
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Selection
Alex Paton
BMJ  1995;310:1147
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This week's Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: Managing lower urinary tract symptoms in older men
Paul Abrams
BMJ  1995;310:1113-1117
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Lesson of the Week: Insulin dependent diabetes in nonagenarians
Nigel D C Sturrock, Simon R Page, Pat Clarke, Robert B Tattersall
BMJ  1995;310:1117-1118
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South Africa's Health: Impressions of health in the new South Africa: a period of convalescence
Rajendra Kale
BMJ  1995;310:1119-1122
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Evidence based medicine: an approach to clinical problem-solving
William Rosenberg, Anna Donald
BMJ  1995;310:1122-1126
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Evidence based medicine: Socratic dissent
David Grahame-Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1126-1127
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ABC of Rheumatology: RASHES AND VASCULITIS
R A Watts, D G I Scott
BMJ  1995;310:1128-1132
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;310:1148
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This week's Fillers

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
BMJ  1995;310:1098
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A MEMORABLE PATIENT
Ray Towey
BMJ  1995;310:1104
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ANY QUESTIONS?
T W Meade
BMJ  1995;310:1118
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;310:1141
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

An orgy of mental illness
Kwame Mckenzie
BMJ  1995;310:1145
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

GPs need to keep abreast of genetics • BMA chairman explains disillusionment with NHS • No safe limits to alcohol consumption, warns BMA • GPs get guidance on fundraising • Accidents in hospital to be studied
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:1142
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This week's Papers

Paramedics and technicians are equally successful at managing cardiac arrest outside hospital
U M Guly, R G Mitchell, R Cook, D J Steedman, C E Robertson
BMJ  1995;310:1091-1094
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Stopping drinking and risk of oesophageal cancer
K K Cheng, S W Duffy, N E Day, T H Lam, S F Chung, P Badrinath
BMJ  1995;310:1094-1097
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Repeated oral vitamin K prophylaxis in West Germany: acceptance and efficacy
Rudiger von Kries, Alexandra Hachmeister, Ulrich Gobel
BMJ  1995;310:1097-1098
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