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This week's Editorials

Air pollution: time for more clean air legislation?
David V Bates
BMJ  1996;312:649-650
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Diagnosing motor neurone disease
Andrew M Chancellor
BMJ  1996;312:650-651
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Transplanting porcine hearts to humans
Fritz H Bach, Lewis Thomas
BMJ  1996;312:651-652
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Global commissioning by general practitioners
Jonathan Shapiro
BMJ  1996;312:652-653
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Disclosure and use of personal health information
Beverly Woodward
BMJ  1996;312:653-654
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Providing intensive care
D W Ryan
BMJ  1996;312:654
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This week's Letters

Stopping selegiline may lead to problems for patients
K E Anderson, A C Girdwood, J A Wilson
BMJ  1996;312:702
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Patients taking selegiline may have received more levodopa than necessary
C Warren Olanow, James H Godbold, William Koller
BMJ  1996;312:702-703
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Patients taking selegiline may have received more levodopa than necessary
C Warren Olanow, James H Godbold, William Koller
BMJ  1996;312:702-703
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Parkinson's disease is rarely a primary cause of death
Mark T Silva, Paul M Watts, Peter Jenner
BMJ  1996;312:703
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Selegiline may be toxic in presence of increased dopamine concentrations
P H Yu, C T Lai, A A Boulton
BMJ  1996;312:703-704
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Selegiline may be toxic in presence of increased dopamine concentrations
P H Yu, C T Lai, A A Boulton
BMJ  1996;312:703-704
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Causes of death need confirmation
K A Jellinger
BMJ  1996;312:704
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A J Lees, J Head, Y Ben-Shlomo
BMJ  1996;312:704-705
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A J Lees, J Head, Y Ben-Shlomo
BMJ  1996;312:704-705
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Committee exists to monitor agreements on tobacco advertising
Clive Whitmore
BMJ  1996;312:705-706
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Tobacco advertising
Hiroshi Kawane
BMJ  1996;312:705
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Committee exists to monitor agreements on tobacco advertising
Clive Whitmore
BMJ  1996;312:705-706
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Clinical guidelines may obviate need for thought
Dominic Heaney
BMJ  1996;312:706
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Failure to screen may be a false economy
P Harrison, F A Ala, D W Milligan, S Skidmore
BMJ  1996;312:706-707
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Antenatal screening is important
J N Weber, G P Taylor
BMJ  1996;312:706
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Failure to screen may be a false economy
P Harrison, F A Ala, D W Milligan, S Skidmore
BMJ  1996;312:706-707
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Infertility may lead couples to adopt children
Karen M Barclay, Philip M Barclay
BMJ  1996;312:707
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Computerised prescribing of chemotherapy reduces errors
Nicola S Stoner, Carol J Tanfield, Denis C Talbot
BMJ  1996;312:707
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Infertility may lead couples to adopt children
Karen M Barclay, Philip M Barclay
BMJ  1996;312:707
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Patients who reattend after head injury
Daniele Coen, Barbara Omazzi, Giovanni Pistone
BMJ  1996;312:707-708
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Prevention encompasses more than screening
Kay-Tee Khaw
BMJ  1996;312:708
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Measurement of prostate specific antigen as screening test for prostate cancer
Paul Warren
BMJ  1996;312:708-709
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Prevention encompasses more than screening
Kay-Tee Khaw
BMJ  1996;312:708
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Measurement of prostate specific antigen as screening test for prostate cancer
Paul Warren
BMJ  1996;312:708-709
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Carol Parkes, Nicholas J Wald, Philip Murphy, Lynne George, Hilary C Watt, Roger Kirby, Paul Knekt, K J Helzlsouer, J Tuomilehto
BMJ  1996;312:709-710
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Trials of treatment are needed before trials of screening
S Sandhu, R Morris, V Matveev, A V Kaisary
BMJ  1996;312:709
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Measurement presents technical difficulties
W A Bartlett, A F Jones
BMJ  1996;312:709
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Carol Parkes, Nicholas J Wald, Philip Murphy, Lynne George, Hilary C Watt, Roger Kirby, Paul Knekt, K J Helzlsouer, J Tuomilehto
BMJ  1996;312:709-710
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Student fundholding is a good idea
Domhnall Macauley
BMJ  1996;312:710
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BUMPH in pathology has increased exponentially with move to trust status
M J Galloway
BMJ  1996;312:710
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This week's News

UK reviews intensive care and emergency services
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1996;312:655
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Assisted suicide is legal, says US judge
Norra Macready
BMJ  1996;312:655-656
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Headlines
BMJ  1996;312:656
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Kevorkian cleared again
John Roberts
BMJ  1996;312:656
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Britain and US clash over infanticide
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;312:656
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Pig organs approved for human transplants
Luisa Dillner
BMJ  1996;312:657
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Behavioural disorders are overdiagnosed in US
John Roberts
BMJ  1996;312:657
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Sheep cloned by nuclear transfer
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1996;312:658
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British government highlights neurosciences
Alison Boulton
BMJ  1996;312:658
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Top British school plans drug testing
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1996;312:658-659
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New guidance aims to protect patient records
John Warden
BMJ  1996;312:659
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Company appeals to retain temazepam capsules
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;312:659-660
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Company appeals to retain temazepam capsules
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;312:659-660
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European Union divided over drugs policy
Rory Watson
BMJ  1996;312:660
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European Union divided over drugs policy
Rory Watson
BMJ  1996;312:660
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This week's General practice

Adding retinal photography to screening for diabetic retinopathy: a prospective study in primary care
J P O'Hare, A Hopper, C Madhaven, M Charny, T S Purewal, B Harney, J Griffiths
BMJ  1996;312:679-682
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This week's Soundings

Physical jerks
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  1996;312:713
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How to be Scottish
James Owen Drife
BMJ  1996;312:713
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This week's Personal views

No easy way to deal with violence
Tony McCullagh
BMJ  1996;312:715
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This week's Medicine and books

Scientific Deception
Stephen Lock
BMJ  1996;312:716
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Scientific Deception
Stephen Lock
BMJ  1996;312:716
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Care Management and the New Social Work: A Critical Analysis
Myfanwy Morgan
BMJ  1996;312:717
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Have you read ...?
BMJ  1996;312:717
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This week's Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: Disseminated intravascular coagulation: diagnosis and treatment
Trevor Baglin
BMJ  1996;312:683-686
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Over the Counter Drugs: The interface between self medication and the NHS
D Huw V Thomas, Peter R Noyce
BMJ  1996;312:688-691
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For Debate: Setting priorities: can Britain learn from Sweden?
Martin McKee, Josep Figueras
BMJ  1996;312:691-694
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ABC of Urology: UROLOGICAL EVALUATION
Chris Dawson, Hugh Whitfield
BMJ  1996;312:695-698
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Letter from Bosnia-Hercegovina: Signs of hope
Lynne Jones
BMJ  1996;312:698-700
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Statistics Notes: Logarithms
J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
BMJ  1996;312:700
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1996;312:718
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This week's Fillers

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
Alex Hill
BMJ  1996;312:678
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A MEMORABLE PATIENT
C R Butlin
BMJ  1996;312:682
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This week's CHOICE

Editor's choice
BMJ  1996;312
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

A victory for safe sex
Richard Mendelsohn, Jackie Chambers
BMJ  1996;312:714-715
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

A Labour government will raise public health profile • Consultants will prepare report on casualty services • BMA re-emphasises condemnation of torture • CMO attends consultants' committee • Labour's plan to replace GP fundholding • Reserve forces will not get special treatment • BMA counselling scheme will start in April • BMA supports regional public health consultants • Medical students prepare safety guidelines
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1996;312:711
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This week's Papers

Association between air pollution and acute childhood wheezy episodes: prospective observational study
Roger Buchdahl, Alison Parker, Tabitha Stebbings, Abdel Babiker
BMJ  1996;312:661-665
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Air pollution and daily mortality in London: 1987-92
H Ross Anderson, Antonio Ponce de Leon, J Martin Bland, Jonathan S Bower, David P Strachan
BMJ  1996;312:665-669
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Health care rationing: the public's debate
Ann Bowling
BMJ  1996;312:670-674
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Control of hydatid disease in Wales
S R Palmer, A H Biffin, P S Craig, T M Walters
BMJ  1996;312:674-675
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Do people living near inner city main roads have more asthma needing treatment? Case-control study
Anna Eleri Livingstone, Gavin Shaddick, Christopher Grundy, Paul Elliott
BMJ  1996;312:676-677
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Commentary: Traffic exposure and asthma: problems of interpretation
David P Strachan
BMJ  1996;312:676-677
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Effect of fish oil on heart rate variability in survivors of myocardial infarction: a double blind randomised controlled trial
Jeppe Hagstrup Christensen, Peter Gustenhoff, Eva Korup, Jens Aaroe, Egon Toft, Torn Moller, Klaus Rasmussen, Jorn Dyerberg, Erik Berg Schmidt
BMJ  1996;312:677-678
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