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This week's Editorials

Deaths of children in house fires
Ian Roberts
BMJ  1995;311:1381-1382
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Randomised controlled trials in general practice
Mike Pringle, Richard Churchill
BMJ  1995;311:1382-1383
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Reforming England's blood transfusion service
Sally C Davies
BMJ  1995;311:1383-1384
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Violence involving children
Anthony B Zwi, Shelley Rifkin
BMJ  1995;311:1384
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This week's Letters

Managing cleft lip and palate
M J Timmons
BMJ  1995;311:1431
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Trials of management are inevitably long
R W Pigott
BMJ  1995;311:1431
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Specialised multidisciplinary team can solve problems of distance
Augustin Cabre, Kevin P Gibbin, Mark Henley, Robert N Nashed
BMJ  1995;311:1431-1432
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Language outcomes are important
Anne Harding, Kim Harland
BMJ  1995;311:1432
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An invitation for Markus to present his results
D A Sell
BMJ  1995;311:1432
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Authors' reply
Tony Markus, Peter Ward Booth
BMJ  1995;311:1432-1433
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Prefer diazepam for initial control of pre-eclampsic fits
Robert Fox, Tim Draycott
BMJ  1995;311:1433
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Amphetamine misuse in southern Italy
Luigi Reccia, Andrea Rocco, Maurizio Lioniello, Giampiero Fichera
BMJ  1995;311:1433
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Deputising general practitioners' role in emergencies
Josephine Fleming
BMJ  1995;311:1433
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GPs do not have a monopoly on supporting the bereaved
N John Sharvill
BMJ  1995;311:1433
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Romantic expectations of out of hours care cost GPs dear
Fay Wilson
BMJ  1995;311:1433-1434
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Treatment of acute anaphylaxis
L C Luke
BMJ  1995;311:1434
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Remove the patient from contact with the allergen
Glenis K Scadding
BMJ  1995;311:1434
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Benign allergic reactions should not be treated with adrenaline
Jonathan O'B Hourihane, John O Warner
BMJ  1995;311:1434
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Avoid subcutaneous or intramuscular adrenaline
R Alexander, J Pappachan, G B Smith, B L Taylor
BMJ  1995;311:1434-1435
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Expressing the dose of adrenaline in milligrams is easier
Stewart Campbell
BMJ  1995;311:1435
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Treatment takes precedence over monitoring
John Clear, Michael Yeoh, Stephen Cockroft
BMJ  1995;311:1435
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Investigations help to confirm diagnosis
S M Robinson
BMJ  1995;311:1435
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Chart helps with calculation of dose of adrenaline for children
James Stuart
BMJ  1995;311:1435-1436
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Teachers need to know the basics too
Fiona Finlay, Neil Simpson
BMJ  1995;311:1436
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Symptomatic carotid lesions in young adults
Ajith Goonetilleke
BMJ  1995;311:1436
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Authors' reply
Antonio Carolei, Carmine Marini
BMJ  1995;311:1436
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Beneficial effects of simvastatin may be due to non-lipid actions
Uffe Ravnskov
BMJ  1995;311:1436-1437
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Withdrawing artificial feeding from children with brain damage
Alan J Grant
BMJ  1995;311:1437
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Tortuous arguments evade the issue
Keith Andrews
BMJ  1995;311:1437
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Hypocholesterolaemia in hairy cell leukaemia
John Hinnie, Dennis Stj O'Reilly
BMJ  1995;311:1437
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Authors' reply
Gunnar Juliusson, Sigurd Vitols
BMJ  1995;311:1437-1438
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Primary care in accident and emergency departments
Jane Fothergill, R Touquet, P Ward
BMJ  1995;311:1438
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Cost of employing general practitioners in department may outweigh savings
Derek P Burke, Najam Rashid
BMJ  1995;311:1438
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Parents practise triage for paediatric attendances
Terry Bradley, Brigid Mccann, John Glasgow, Chris Patterson
BMJ  1995;311:1438
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Causal link between low cholesterol and cancer is unlikely
A C Sonnichsen, C Otto, W O Richter, P Schwandt
BMJ  1995;311:1438-1439
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Beware of the distorting interpreter
A H Brafman
BMJ  1995;311:1439
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Critique of fundholding study contained errors
Angela Coulter, Jean Bradlow
BMJ  1995;311:1439
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The case for student fundholding
Simon Wilson
BMJ  1995;311:1439
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This week's News

Harsh Russian winter takes an early toll
Sue Jameson
BMJ  1995;311:1385
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Indian doctors may be tried in consumer courts
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  1995;311:1385-1386
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BMJ  1995;311:1386
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France faces radical health insurance reforms
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;311:1386
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New Zealand GPs divide over contracts
Carmel Williams
BMJ  1995;311:1387
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US midwives have low caesarean rate
Deborah Josefson
BMJ  1995;311:1387
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US woman wins compensation in breast implant case
Terri L Rutter
BMJ  1995;311:1388
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Counting the cost of alcohol for young people
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;311:1388
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Quebec faces hospital closures to balance books
David Spurgeon
BMJ  1995;311:1389
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Move to reform GPs' committee fails
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;311:1389-1390
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Pregnant women receiving benefit in Britain eat badly
Richard Claxton
BMJ  1995;311:1390
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Sydney's asthma witch hunt
Simon Chapman
BMJ  1995;311:1390
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This week's General practice

Risk of otitis externa after swimming in recreational fresh water lakes containing Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Ilse A van Asperen, Carolien M de Rover, Jack F Schijven, Suparto Bambang Oetomo, Joop F P Schellekens, Nan J van Leeuwen, Cees Colle, Arie H Havelaar, Daan Kromhout, Marc W J Sprenger
BMJ  1995;311:1407-1410
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This week's Soundings

Unofficial secrets
Colin Douglas
BMJ  1995;311:1441
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Travel and tiredness
Tony Smith
BMJ  1995;311:1441
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This week's Personal views

Where we came in
Sandy Cavenagh
BMJ  1995;311:1443
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This week's Medicine and books

Whistleblowing in the Health Service: Accountability, Law and Professional Practice; Whistleblowing: Subversion or Corporate Citizenship?
Naomi Craft
BMJ  1995;311:1444
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ABC of Sports Medicine
John Rushton
BMJ  1995;311:1444
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Law and General Practice
John Cohen
BMJ  1995;311:1445
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Explaining Cardiac Surgery: Patient Assessment and Care
Yoshio Kosakai
BMJ  1995;311:1445
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Community Child Health and Paediatrics
Stephen Jarvis, Mark Bagott
BMJ  1995;311:1445
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This week's Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: Diagnosis and treatment of nasal polyps
Valerie J Lund
BMJ  1995;311:1411-1414
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy: any connection?
BMJ  1995;311:1415
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Will bovine spongiform encephalopathy transmit to humans?
Jeffrey W Almond
BMJ  1995;311:1415-1416
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The jury is still out
Paul Brown
BMJ  1995;311:1416
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More than happenstance: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in farmers and young adults
Sheila M Gore
BMJ  1995;311:1416-1418
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Epidemiological evidence concerning a possible causal link
Albert Hofman, Dorothee P W M Wientjens
BMJ  1995;311:1418-1419
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Who gets Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
R M Ridley, H F Baker
BMJ  1995;311:1419
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Furrowed brow over mad cow
G W Roberts
BMJ  1995;311:1419-1420
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Risk of human exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Kenneth L Tyler
BMJ  1995;311:1420-1421
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Guide to the Internet: Introducing the Internet
Mark Pallen
BMJ  1995;311:1422-1424
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ABC of Atrial Fibrillation: AETIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, AND CLINICAL FEATURES
Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers, Shyam P Singh, Robert D S Watson
BMJ  1995;311:1425-1428
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;311:1446
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This week's Fillers

A MEMORABLE PATIENT
Rajkumar Ramasamy
BMJ  1995;311:1414
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;311:1421
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Correction
BMJ  1995;311:1439
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Legal, decent, honest, and truthful
Gill Langley
BMJ  1995;311:1442
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An innocent incident
Rob Poole
BMJ  1995;311:1442-1443
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Reviewing the GP contract: one step forward • Britons walk out of EU medical meeting • Parliamentary parties clash over rationing
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;311:1440
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This week's Papers

Changes in incidence of and mortality from breast cancer in England and Wales since introduction of screening
Mike Quinn, Elizabeth Allen
BMJ  1995;311:1391-1395
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Patients who reattend after head injury: a high risk group
Miranda Voss, John D Knottenbelt, Margaret M Peden
BMJ  1995;311:1395-1398
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Risk score would be more helpful
Gordon Murray
BMJ  1995;311:1398
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Utilisation of hormone replacement therapy by women doctors
A J Isaacs, A R Britton, Klim McPherson
BMJ  1995;311:1399-1401
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Waist circumference action levels in the identification of cardiovascular risk factors: prevalence study in a random sample
T S Han, E M van Leer, J C Seidell, M E J Lean
BMJ  1995;311:1401-1405
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Increased serum concentration of von Willebrand factor in non-insulin dependent diabetic patients with and without diabetic nephropathy
J-W Chen, M-A Gall, M Deckert, J S Jensen, H-H Parving
BMJ  1995;311:1405-1406
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On the naming of the parts
P Burdett-Smith
BMJ  1995;311:1406
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