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This week's Editorials

Organ transplantation: approaching the donor's family
Alan Stein, Tony Hope, J D Baum
BMJ  1995;310:1149-1150
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The future of fundholding
Chris Ham, Jonathan Shapiro
BMJ  1995;310:1150-1151
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Commissioning complementary medicine
Iain Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1151-1152
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Tackling inequalities in health
Johan P Mackenbach
BMJ  1995;310:1152-1153
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Amblyopia: could we do better?
Geoffrey Woodruff
BMJ  1995;310:1153-1154
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Calculating drug doses
Lee Baldwin
BMJ  1995;310:1154
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This week's Letters

Rethinking sexual health clinics
Ravi Sockanathan
BMJ  1995;310:1193
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Family planning doctors should refer patients with sexually transmitted diseases to specialists
P D Woolley
BMJ  1995;310:1193
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Primary and secondary sexual health services need a consistent philosophy
Peter Greenhouse
BMJ  1995;310:1193
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Clinics may miss those in greatest need
M Q Choyche, A K Maitra
BMJ  1995;310:1193-1194
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Australia and New Zealand have taken the lead
Basil Donovan, Graham Neilsen, Adrian Mindel
BMJ  1995;310:1194
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Most genitourinary physicians are trained in family planning
David Nunns, D Mandal
BMJ  1995;310:1194
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Patients prefer clinics to have non-descriptive titles
C Sonnex, C A Carne, Sarah Edwards
BMJ  1995;310:1195
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Improved communication and referral process may be a better use of resources
Elizabeth Carlin, Sue Mann, Simon E Barton, Fiona C Boag
BMJ  1995;310:1195
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Hospital banned from doing neonatal heart operations
H S Joffe
BMJ  1995;310:1195
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Why do so few patients appeal against detention under section 2 of the Mental Health Act?
P C Naik, L Klenka
BMJ  1995;310:1195-1196
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Managers should review patients who do not appeal
Gordon Langley
BMJ  1995;310:1196
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Intellectually elite are more likely to appeal
Jane O'Dwyer, Ingrid Whitton
BMJ  1995;310:1196
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Low appeal rate may reflect trust in doctors' judgment
Tom Burns, Frances Raphael
BMJ  1995;310:1196
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New Zealand's system has much to offer
T H Turner
BMJ  1995;310:1196-1197
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Possible problem with section 12
John Harding Price
BMJ  1995;310:1197
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Authors' reply
Max Marshall, Caroline Bradley, Dennis Gath
BMJ  1995;310:1197
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APACHE scoring and prediction of survival in intensive care
S N Pilkington
BMJ  1995;310:1197
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Sexual health education interventions for young people
Trevor G Stammers
BMJ  1995;310:1197
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Peripheral vascular disease--a term to be eschewed
C V Ruckley
BMJ  1995;310:1197
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Paternal irradiation and childhood leukaemia
Mark Little, Richard Wakeford, Monty Charles
BMJ  1995;310:1198
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Preventing crime and violence
Shelley Rifkin, Anthony Zwi
BMJ  1995;310:1198
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Includes victims of domestic violence
Jo Richardson, Gene Feder
BMJ  1995;310:1198
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Emergency delays
Christine H Dearden
BMJ  1995;310:1199
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Antenatal screening for cystic fibrosis
Nicholas J Wald, David J H Brock, James E Haddow, Richard A Doherty
BMJ  1995;310:1199
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Short stature and diabetic nephropathy
Nish Chaturvedi, John Fuller, Judith Stephenson
BMJ  1995;310:1199
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Shared care in diabetes
S M McGhee, A J Hedley
BMJ  1995;310:1199-1200
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Consultants' response to clinical complaints
Linda Mulcahy, Marie Selwood
BMJ  1995;310:1200
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Interpreting hospital death rates
Dorothy Moir
BMJ  1995;310:1200
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Applicants for senior medical positions in New Zealand
Ian Powell
BMJ  1995;310:1200
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This week's News

British hospital doctor wins hours settlement
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:1155
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European Union considers laws to curb working hours
Rory Watson
BMJ  1995;310:1155-1156
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Headlines
BMJ  1995;310:1156
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Specialist medical training will require changes to the law
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:1156-1157
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NHS hospitals invest in arms trade
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:1157
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Aboriginal health gap widens
Christopher Zinn
BMJ  1995;310:1157-1158
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4.5 Million outpatients miss appointments
John Warden
BMJ  1995;310:1158
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French doctors lack knowledge of AIDS
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;310:1158
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Nurses to vote on no strike rule
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;310:1158
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Working party speaks out on use of human tissue
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:1159
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Oral snuff "geared to addiction," claim researchers
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1995;310:1159-1160
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German heart valve scandal continues
Helmut Karcher
BMJ  1995;310:1160
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Gallo gets ready to try the other fork in the road
John Roberts
BMJ  1995;310:1160
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This week's General practice

Adults with a history of child sexual abuse: evaluation of a pilot therapy service
David Smith, Linda Pearce, Mike Pringle, Richard Caplan
BMJ  1995;310:1175-1178
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"Explain in simple words--ensure the words are understood"*
W St C Symmers
BMJ  1995;310:1178
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This week's Soundings

The Eurospeaker
James Owen Drife
BMJ  1995;310:1203
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Grandfathers threatened with extinction
Tony Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1203
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This week's Personal views

Gaps exist between policy and reality
Ann Jacoby, Kathy McCann
BMJ  1995;310:1204
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Stress in general practice must be tackled
BMJ  1995;310:1204-1205
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This week's Education and debate

Protecting elderly people: flaws in ageist arguments
Michael M Rivlin
BMJ  1995;310:1179-1182
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South Africa's Health: Traditional healers in South Africa: a parallel health care system
Rajendra Kale
BMJ  1995;310:1182-1185
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Lesson of the Week: Subarachnoid haemorrhage presenting as head injury
Damianos E Sakas, Lal S Dias, David Beale
BMJ  1995;310:1186-1187
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How To Do It: Set up and run an objective structured clinical exam
Colin Selby, Liesl Osman, Margery Davis, Michael Lee
BMJ  1995;310:1187-1190
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;310:1214
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This week's Fillers

A MEMORABLE PATIENT
Veronica White
BMJ  1995;310:1174
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
BMJ  1995;310:1185
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;310:1164
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Correction
BMJ  1995;310:1174
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Realism about mental illness
Declan McLoughlin
BMJ  1995;310:1205
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Junior doctors' fears for the future • BMA proposes alternative models for the NHS • GPs should consider a list of preferred drugs • Defence medical services to be halved • MPs question whether performance bill will work
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:1201
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This week's Papers

Measured bronchodilator use in preschool children with asthma
Allison E Ferguson, Neil A Gibson, Thomas C Aitchison, James Y Paton
BMJ  1995;310:1161-1164
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Mortality associated with moderate intakes of wine, beer, or spirits
Morten Gronbaek, Allan Deis, Thorkild I A Sorensen, Ulrik Becker, Peter Schnohr, Gorm Jensen
BMJ  1995;310:1165-1169
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Acyclovir given as prophylaxis against oral ulcers in acute myeloid leukaemia: randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial
Olav J Bergmann, Svend Ellermann-Eriksen, Soren C Mogensen, Jorgen Ellegaard
BMJ  1995;310:1169-1172
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Jaundice in babies: implications for community screening for biliary atresia
D A Kelly, A Stanton
BMJ  1995;310:1172-1173
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Ability of hospital doctors to calculate drug doses
S Rolfe, N J N Harper
BMJ  1995;310:1173-1174
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This week's SPRING BOOKS

Risk
Simon Carter
BMJ  1995;310:1206
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The State We're In
Mel Bartley
BMJ  1995;310:1206-1207
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If Symptoms Persist
Paul Bowden
BMJ  1995;310:1207
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On Being a Doctor
Virginia Warren
BMJ  1995;310:1207-1208
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The Marlborough Doctors
Roger Rolls
BMJ  1995;310:1208
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Sir Hans Sloane: Collector, Scientist, Antiquary
Christopher Booth
BMJ  1995;310:1209
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Approaching Hysteria: Disease and its Interpretations
Simon Wessely
BMJ  1995;310:1209-1210
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Doctor's Diary and Memoirs: Pond's Party, F Force, Thai-Burma Railway
Ian W B Grant
BMJ  1995;310:1210-1211
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The Truth in the Light
Nigel Eastman
BMJ  1995;310:1211
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Health Promotion in Canada: Provincial, National and International Perspectives
Alan Maryon Davis
BMJ  1995;310:1212
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Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Land Mines Crisis
Eoin O'Brien
BMJ  1995;310:1212-1213
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Sean Spence
BMJ  1995;310:1213
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