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This week's Editorials

HTLV-I screening in Britain
A Pagliuca, R Pawson, G J Mufti
BMJ  1995;311:1313-1314
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New incentives for general practitioners in London
John Hayward, Michael Modell
BMJ  1995;311:1314-1315
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Outpatient follow up
Mark Emberton
BMJ  1995;311:1315-1316
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Psychosocial interventions in cancer
Lesley Fallowfield
BMJ  1995;311:1316-1317
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Registering patients and paying capitation in family practice
Jonathan Lomas, Julia Abelson, Brian Hutchison
BMJ  1995;311:1317-1318
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This week's Letters

Avoiding drug errors
David S Nunn
BMJ  1995;311:1367
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Reporting of errors should be free of recrimination
D R Upton, D H Cousins
BMJ  1995;311:1367
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Adopting new NHS specification helps
P Duffy
BMJ  1995;311:1367
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Pharmacists and computerised prescribing can help
Siobhan M Cotter
BMJ  1995;311:1367
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Reporting of critical incidents shows how errors occur
Naresh Nandwani
BMJ  1995;311:1368
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Inappropriate prescribing is "treatable"
Raymond C Tallis
BMJ  1995;311:1368
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Preventing local complications of depot neuroleptics
Chris Muldoon
BMJ  1995;311:1368
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Suicide after discharge from psychiatric hospitals in Scotland
Cameron Stark, David Hall, Fiona O'Brien, Helen Smith
BMJ  1995;311:1368-1369
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Clinical efficacy of treatment for head lice
Manice Stallbaumer, Joanna Ibarra
BMJ  1995;311:1369
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Authors differ on assessment of flaws in trials
Ian F Burgess
BMJ  1995;311:1369
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Authors' reply
R H Vander Stichele, M G Bogaert
BMJ  1995;311:1369-1370
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Public lacks knowledge about genetic testing and gene therapy
Ruaraidh Hill, Martin Stanisstreet, Edward Boyes, Helen O'Sullivan
BMJ  1995;311:1370
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Elective ventilation is cost effective and humane
Hany Riad, Anthony Nicholls, Charles Collins
BMJ  1995;311:1370
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Changes to obituaries are insensitive
V P Smith
BMJ  1995;311:1371
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Low back pain
Stuart Skyte
BMJ  1995;311:1371
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The hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
R G Priest, R W Beard
BMJ  1995;311:1371
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Decision analysis and screening for Down's syndrome
David Murray, Barry Tennison
BMJ  1995;311:1371
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Not using age specific values invalidates study
Kevin Spencer
BMJ  1995;311:1371
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Costs were overestimated
T M Reynolds
BMJ  1995;311:1372
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Testing should be in all women
Nicholas J Wald, Anne Kennard, Hilary Watt, James E Haddow, Glenn E Palomaki, George J Knight, Jacob A Canick
BMJ  1995;311:1372
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Authors' reply
J Fletcher, N R Hicks, J D S Kay, P A Boyd
BMJ  1995;311:1372-1373
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Right to choose
Margaret White
BMJ  1995;311:1373
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GMSC's extraordinary general meeting
Christopher Tiarks
BMJ  1995;311:1373
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BMA secretary's reply
E M Armstrong
BMJ  1995;311:1373
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This week's News

Czech doctors threatened with prosecution
Joe Cook
BMJ  1995;311:1319
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US poised to outlaw late abortion technique
Diana Bozalis
BMJ  1995;311:1319-1320
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Headlines
BMJ  1995;311:1320
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British ministry condemned for Gulf war response
Luisa Dillner
BMJ  1995;311:1320-1321
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Tobacco sales soar in developing countries
Sharon Kingman
BMJ  1995;311:1321
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Dutch appeal court dismisses case against doctor
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  1995;311:1322
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Britain restricts lice treatment
Alison Boulton
BMJ  1995;311:1322
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Ban on stage hypnotism is not needed, says report
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;311:1322
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Patients with hip fractures need better care, says report
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;311:1323
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Israel condemned for torture by shaking
Kamilla Porter
BMJ  1995;311:1323
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Overseas doctors face new rules to work in Britain
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;311:1324
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Silencing the whistleblowers
John Roberts
BMJ  1995;311:1324
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This week's General practice

Alterations in prescribing by general practitioner fundholders: an observational study
Robert P H Wilson, Iain Buchan, T Walley
BMJ  1995;311:1347-1350
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This week's Soundings

Sins of the fathers
Liam Farrell
BMJ  1995;311:1375
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Evidence Farm
James Owen Drife
BMJ  1995;311:1375
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This week's Personal views

Reflections on a medical childhood
Alan Lloyd-Smith
BMJ  1995;311:1377
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This week's Medicine and books

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance
Kevin M De Cock
BMJ  1995;311:1378
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Alzheimer's Disease: A Medical Companion
Bob Woods
BMJ  1995;311:1378-1379
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Patient Controlled Analgesia
David Rowbotham
BMJ  1995;311:1379
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Selection
Alex Paton
BMJ  1995;311:1379
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This week's Education and debate

Recent Advances: Hepatology
A N B McNair, C J Tibbs, R Williams
BMJ  1995;311:1351-1355
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An evidence based approach to individualising treatment
Paul P Glasziou, Les M Irwig
BMJ  1995;311:1356-1359
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Lesson of the Week: Occult intracranial tumours masquerading as early onset anorexia nervosa
C J DeVile, R Sufraz, B D Lask, R Stanhope
BMJ  1995;311:1359-1360
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ABC of Atrial Fibrillation: HISTORY, EPIDEMIOLOGY, AND IMPORTANCE OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
BMJ  1995;311:1361
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;311:1380
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This week's Fillers

A MEMORABLE PATIENT
Derek J Tuffnell
BMJ  1995;311:1360
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The grateful patients of Arles
A L Wyman
BMJ  1995;311:1363
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;311:1339
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Correction
BMJ  1995;311:1350
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Back to the drawing board?
Harry Snook
BMJ  1995;311:1376
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Dramatic genetics
Kamilla Porter
BMJ  1995;311:1376-1377
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Ombudsman will be given new powers • Doctors' performance bill receives royal assent • BMA wants a bill to protect young people from tobacco • Part time working has implications for GP manpower • Dispensing threatened in Northern Ireland
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;311:1374
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This week's Papers

Psychosis with good prognosis in Afro-Caribbean people now living in the United Kingdom
Kwame McKenzie, Jim van Os, Tom Fahy, Peter Jones, Ian Harvey, Brian Toone, Robin Murray
BMJ  1995;311:1325-1327
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Cognitive behavioural therapy for medically unexplained physical symptoms: a randomised controlled trial
Anne E M Speckens, Albert M van Hemert, Philip Spinhoven, Keith E Hawton, Jan H Bolk, Harry G M Rooijmans
BMJ  1995;311:1328-1332
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Success of cardiopulmonary resuscitation after heart attack in hospital and outside hospital
Richard F Heller, Paula L Steele, Janet D Fisher, Hilary M Alexander, Annette J Dobson
BMJ  1995;311:1332-1336
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Epidural anaesthesia and low back pain after delivery: a prospective cohort study
Alison Macarthur, Colin Macarthur, Sally Weeks
BMJ  1995;311:1336-1339
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Prospective observational study to assess value of prostate specific antigen as screening test for prostate cancer
Carol Parkes, Nicholas J Wald, Philip Murphy, Lynne George, Hilary C Watt, Roger Kirby, Paul Knekt, K J Helzlsouer, J Tuomilehto
BMJ  1995;311:1340-1343
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Increased mortality among Dutch development workers
Erik J Schouten, Martien W Borgdorff
BMJ  1995;311:1343-1344
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Routine surgical follow up: do surgeons agree?
Alison Waghorn, Jeremy Thompson, Martin McKee
BMJ  1995;311:1344-1345
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Increased risk of diarrhoea caused by Clostridium difficile in elderly patients receiving cefotaxime
M Impallomeni, N P Galletly, S J Wort, J M Starr, T R Rogers
BMJ  1995;311:1345-1346
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Prospective seroepidemiological evidence that human papillomavirus type 16 infection is a risk factor for oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma
J Dillner, P Knekt, J T Schiller, T Hakulinen
BMJ  1995;311:1346
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