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This week's Editorials

Selegiline in Parkinson's disease
Donald B Calne
BMJ  1995;311:1583-1584
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The future of breast and ovarian cancer clinics
Harry Campbell, James Mackay, Mary Porteous
BMJ  1995;311:1584-1585
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Delayed childbearing
Roger Gosden, Anthony Rutherford
BMJ  1995;311:1585-1586
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Infertility and the NHS
Donald Evans
BMJ  1995;311:1586-1587
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Developing Britain's police surgeon service
Graham Moon, Kath Kelly, Stephen P Savage, Yvonne Bradshaw
BMJ  1995;311:1587
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Cochlear implantation
Richard Ramsden, John Graham
BMJ  1995;311:1588
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This week's Letters

Scare over oral contraceptives
J L Armstrong, M Reid, A Bigrigg
BMJ  1995;311:1637
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Effect on women in a general practice in Devon ..
Clare J Seamark
BMJ  1995;311:1637
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...and south Wales
A W Davies, J R York, S R Jones
BMJ  1995;311:1637-1638
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Main public health issue is failure to use contraception
Hamish D Simpson
BMJ  1995;311:1638
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New group will review evidence for effective care in family planning
Paul O'Brien
BMJ  1995;311:1638
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Doctors should take warning seriously
Christine Watson
BMJ  1995;311:1638
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If a woman has not had a thrombotic event in years of use she is unlikely to have one now
John Guillebaud
BMJ  1995;311:1638-1639
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Committee's action has compromised continuing studies
M William L Davis, Michael Lewis, Linda De Caestecker, Ronald Mann
BMJ  1995;311:1639
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Risk is highest during first months of use
H B M Reijnen, W J Atsma
BMJ  1995;311:1639
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Studies implicate only gestodene and desogestrel
R J Donnelly
BMJ  1995;311:1639
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Committee's action will undermine further research and development
Victor Wynn, Ian F Godsland, David Crook, John C Stevenson
BMJ  1995;311:1639-1640
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Was Committee on Safety of Medicines' advice arrived at lawfully?
Andrew H Watt
BMJ  1995;311:1640
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Placebo effects
Charlotte Paterson
BMJ  1995;311:1640
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Concept of placebo should be discarded
Peter C Gotzsche
BMJ  1995;311:1640
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Placebos used not to be used in studies
F Dudley Hart
BMJ  1995;311:1641
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Deciding which selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor to prescribe
Anthony J Cleare
BMJ  1995;311:1641
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Treating mentally disordered prisoners
R W K Reeves
BMJ  1995;311:1641
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Solution to treating prisoners in hospital is financial
Kevin Murray, Martin Lock, Akintunde Akinkumni, Tim Weaver, Adrian Renton
BMJ  1995;311:1641-1642
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Transverse myelitis unlikely to be due to measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine
Reinhard Fescharek, Hermann Dass
BMJ  1995;311:1642
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General practitioners' depression
Hester Dunlop
BMJ  1995;311:1642
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Notification of tuberculosis is compatible with venereal diseases regulations
J S Metters
BMJ  1995;311:1642
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Problem based learning at medical school
Richard Farrow
BMJ  1995;311:1642-1643
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...but not all do
W K C Morgan
BMJ  1995;311:1643
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Problem based learning has been used for years in general practice in London..
Richard Savage, Suzanne Savage
BMJ  1995;311:1643
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...and has been introduced successfully in Manchester
P A O'Neill
BMJ  1995;311:1643
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Mobility after amputation of a lower limb
J R Kulkarni
BMJ  1995;311:1643-1644
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Scientific and letter fraud in the Victorian era
Lindsay Edouard
BMJ  1995;311:1644
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A living will is not euthanasia
Steven Luttrell, Celia Bielawska
BMJ  1995;311:1644
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Accident and emergency doctors lack proper training in trauma
A J Price, G Hughes
BMJ  1995;311:1644
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Review of prescribed treatment for children with asthma
A M Ross, D M Fleming
BMJ  1995;311:1644-1645
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More recent data suggest guidelines are being adhered to
Richard Martin, Sean Hil Ton, Sally Kerry
BMJ  1995;311:1645
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Author's reply
J O Warner
BMJ  1995;311:1645
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This week's News

Third generation oral contraceptives-- the controversy
Douglas Carnall, Helmut Karcher, Leiv Gunnar Lie, Tony Sheldon, David Spurgeon, Deborah Josefson, Christopher Zinn
BMJ  1995;311:1589-1590
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BMJ  1995;311:1590
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NHS managers to go in new purge by Dorrell
John Warden
BMJ  1995;311:1591
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Science throws light on HIV suppression
Alison Boulton
BMJ  1995;311:1591
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Foie gras war hots up for Christmas
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;311:1592
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Canadian bill could hurt confidentiality
David Spurgeon
BMJ  1995;311:1592
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Israeli doctors and patients face conflict
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
BMJ  1995;311:1592-1593
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Expert group finds no evidence for cot death theory
John Warden
BMJ  1995;311:1593
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Researchers argue over gene patents
Tessa Richards
BMJ  1995;311:1593-1594
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BMA surveys doctors' attitudes
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1995;311:1594
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Overseas doctors face problems in New Zealand
Carmel Williams
BMJ  1995;311:1594
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This week's General practice

Health checks and coronary risk: further evidence from a randomised controlled trial
P Hanlon, J McEwen, L Carey, H Gilmour, C Tannahill, A Tannahill, M Kelly
BMJ  1995;311:1609-1613
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Magnetic resonance imaging of the knee: direct access for general practitioners
R Watura, David C F Lloyd, S Chawda
BMJ  1995;311:1614
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This week's Soundings

F(r)iends
Liam Farrell
BMJ  1995;311:1646
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Purine biosynthesis and other hits
Bernard Dixon
BMJ  1995;311:1646
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This week's Personal views

Silent suffering
Jill Emery
BMJ  1995;311:1647
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Was it wrong to want a baby?
Alison Cobb
BMJ  1995;311:1647-1648
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Cardiac surgery in the Dunkirk spirit
Tom Treasure
BMJ  1995;311:1648
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This week's Medicine and books

Sexual Health Promotion in General Practice
T A Carney
BMJ  1995;311:1649
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Human Cytokines: Their Role in Disease and Therapy
Andrew P Greening
BMJ  1995;311:1649
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This week's Education and debate

Recent Advances: Dermatology
Mark H Lowitt, Nancy Ryan Lowitt
BMJ  1995;311:1615-1617
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Ethical Debate: Should doctors be more proactive as advocates for victims of violence?
BMJ  1995;311:1617
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Ethical Debate: Towards interagency procedures to protect victims and prevent violence
Jonathan Shepherd
BMJ  1995;311:1617-1618
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The sociologist's view More convictions won't help victims of domestic violence
Rebecca Morley
BMJ  1995;311:1618-1619
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The psychiatrist's view Preventing violent crime is not a medical role
Gwen Adshead
BMJ  1995;311:1619-1620
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The moral philosopher's view The victim should decide
Grant Gillett
BMJ  1995;311:1620
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The police surgeon's view Medical paternalism is unacceptable
M A Knight
BMJ  1995;311:1620-1621
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Clinical trials and rare diseases: a way out of a conundrum
Richard J Lilford, J G Thornton, D Braunholtz
BMJ  1995;311:1621-1625
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Guide to the Internet: Logging in, fetching files, reading news
Mark Pallen
BMJ  1995;311:1626-1630
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ABC of Atrial Fibrillation: DRUGS FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION
Gregory Y H Lip, Robert D S Watson, Shyam P Singh
BMJ  1995;311:1631-1634
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;311:1650
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This week's Fillers

Air sickness
Richard Mann
BMJ  1995;311:1608
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A patient's view: endoscopy
Allen Samuels
BMJ  1995;311:1625
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;311:1608
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Correction
BMJ  1995;311:1645
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This week's Papers

Screening to prevent renal failure in insulin dependent diabetic patients: an economic evaluation
Bryce A Kiberd, Kailash K Jindal
BMJ  1995;311:1595-1599
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Commentary: Economics of diabetes care must move forwards
P D Home
BMJ  1995;311:1599
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Improved survival in homozygous sickle cell disease: lessons from a cohort study
Allison Lee, Peter Thomas, Lena Cupidore, Beryl Serjeant, Graham Serjeant
BMJ  1995;311:1600-1602
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Comparison of therapeutic effects and mortality data of levodopa and levodopa combined with selegiline in patients with early, mild Parkinson's disease
A J Lees
BMJ  1995;311:1602-1607
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Cancers coinciding with childbearing: delayed diagnosis during pregnancy?
Mats Lambe, Anders Ekbom
BMJ  1995;311:1607-1608
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