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This week's Editorials

Hormone replacement for men
Marc E Weksler
BMJ  1996;312:859-860
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The prone position in acute respiratory distress syndrome
Dw Ryan, P Pelosi
BMJ  1996;312:860-861
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Second primary cancers after childhood cancer
Leslie L Robison
BMJ  1996;312:861-862
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Long term care of older people
Edward Dickinson
BMJ  1996;312:862-863
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Promoting environmental health
John D Williamson
BMJ  1996;312:863-864
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Enteral nutrition after surgery
Wiley W Souba
BMJ  1996;312:864
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This week's Letters

Contemplating a one child world
Colin Butler
BMJ  1996;312:907
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Medical profession should give more decisive leadership
John Last
BMJ  1996;312:907
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Medical students should be taught to appraise evidence on global health issues
Michael Peel, Anita Berlin, Jack Piachaud, Elisabeth James
BMJ  1996;312:907-908
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Abortion without the woman's consent is unlikely to improve her depression
Janet Menage
BMJ  1996;312:908
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Cost effectiveness of antenatal screening for cystic fibrosis
David J H Brock
BMJ  1996;312:908
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Counsellors do not have to be genetic nurse specialists
Peter Kent
BMJ  1996;312:908
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Couple screening should be preferred for medical reasons
Joan Morris
BMJ  1996;312:908-909
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Couple screening would be easier for many centres
Richard A Doherty, Linda A Bradley, James E Haddow
BMJ  1996;312:909
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Authors should have used marginal analysis
David J Torgerson
BMJ  1996;312:909
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Study might be better described as a cost description of screening
Sarah Walters
BMJ  1996;312:909-910
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Authors' reply
H S Cuckle, G A Richardson, T A Sheldon, P Quirke
BMJ  1996;312:910
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Clinical trials and rare diseases
C K Connolly
BMJ  1996;312:910
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Trials of adequate size are possible with the right organisation
Peter Brocklehurst, Diana Elbourne, Jo Garcia, Rona McCandlish
BMJ  1996;312:910
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GMSC's advice on intrapartum care is unhelpful
Jeremy Bradbrook, Mike Carmi, Judith Danby, Rupert Fawdry, Julian Fletcher, Dinah Gill, Ann Jackson-Baker, David Jewell, Marion McKenzie, Alistair Noble, Richard Porter, Breda Seaman, Lindsay Smith, Gavin Young
BMJ  1996;312:910-911
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Deaths in police custody are being analysed retrospectively
Guy Norfolk, John Cartwright
BMJ  1996;312:911
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Role of police surgeons is changing
Hugh De La Haye Davies, Margaret M Stark
BMJ  1996;312:911
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Drugs for atrial fibrillation
Tom Snow
BMJ  1996;312:911-912
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Digoxin comes from Digitalis lanata
A Hollman
BMJ  1996;312:912
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Authors' reply
Gregory Y H Lip, Shyam P Sing, Robert D S Watson
BMJ  1996;312:912
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Techniques of vasovasostomy should be improved for men seeking fertility
Miles Fox
BMJ  1996;312:912
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Prescribing of quinine and drugs that induce cramp
Hamish D Simpson
BMJ  1996;312:912
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GPs should not be deterred from prescribing quinine
H A Dew Ar
BMJ  1996;312:912-913
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Specialist breast and ovarian cancer clinics should be staffed by oncologist nurses
Basil A Stoll
BMJ  1996;312:913
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The 13 steps to community care
Doris Hollander, Robin B Powell
BMJ  1996;312:913
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BMA should look at inequalities in the NHS
John Yates
BMJ  1996;312:913
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This week's News

Seascale cancer cluster not due to radiation
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  1996;312:865
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US patients seek doctors' help in suicides
Charles-Gene Mcdaniel
BMJ  1996;312:865-866
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Headlines
BMJ  1996;312:866
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RSPCA told to modify animal rights campaigns
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1996;312:866
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Australian surgeons protest at health reforms
Christopher Zinn
BMJ  1996;312:866
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Young children want to look like supermodels
Pritpal S Tamber
BMJ  1996;312:867
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Rwanda's children struggle to face the future
Claudia Court
BMJ  1996;312:867
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British women drink more than is sensible
Claudia Court
BMJ  1996;312:868
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Europe needs gene patent laws
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1996;312:868
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Too many doctors, and more on the way
John Roberts
BMJ  1996;312:868
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This week's General practice

Waiting list management in general practice: a review of orthopaedic patients
Glyn Jones Elwyn, L A Williams, Suzanne Barry, Paul Kinnersley
BMJ  1996;312:887-888
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This week's Soundings

Pressure points
Bernard Dixon
BMJ  1996;312:915
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Poor old Britain
Tony Smith
BMJ  1996;312:915
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This week's Personal views

Brain injury rehabilitation: jaw jaw not war war
A N Bamji
BMJ  1996;312:916-917
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My brain stem stroke
G F Grant
BMJ  1996;312:917
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This week's Medicine and books

Communication Skills for Medicine
Martyn R Partridge
BMJ  1996;312:918
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Tropical Neurology
Donald G Mclarty
BMJ  1996;312:918
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The Treatment of Epilepsy
Rajendra Kale
BMJ  1996;312:919
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Managing Epilepsy in Primary Care
Ajay Thapar
BMJ  1996;312:919
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This week's Education and debate

Recent Advances: Ophthalmology
Hamish M A Towler, Susan Lightman
BMJ  1996;312:889-892
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Career destinations in 1994 of United Kingdom medical graduates of 1983: results of a questionnaire survey
Trevor W Lambert, Michael J Goldacre, James Parkhouse, Carol Edwards
BMJ  1996;312:893-897
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Lesson of the Week: Something in the air: survival after dramatic, unsuspected case of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning
Richard Pullinger
BMJ  1996;312:897-898
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Grand Rounds--City Hospital, Nottingham: A complicated case of community acquired pneumonia
S R Johnson, I D Pavord
BMJ  1996;312:899-901
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ABC of Urology: SUBFERTILITY AND MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION
Chris Dawson, Hugh Whitfield
BMJ  1996;312:902-905
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1996;312:920
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This week's Fillers

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
BMJ  1996;312:885
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
BMJ  1996;312:886
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A PRACTICE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
David Arathoon
BMJ  1996;312:892
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A MEMORABLE PATIENT
R G Crawford
BMJ  1996;312:905
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This week's CHOICE

Editor's choice
BMJ  1996;312
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Junior doctors deplore phasing of review body award • Ministerial group on new deal should be recalled • GPs will discuss their core services • Patients get guidance on living wills
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1996;312:914
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This week's Papers

Randomised trial of safety and efficacy of immediate postoperative enteral feeding in patients undergoing gastrointestinal resection
Cornelia S Carr, K D Eddie Ling, Paul Boulos, Mervyn Singer
BMJ  1996;312:869-871
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Cohort study of predictive value of urinary albumin excretion for atherosclerotic vascular disease in patients with insulin dependent diabetes
Torsten Deckert, Hiroki Yokoyama, Elisabeth Mathiesen, Birgitte Ronn, Tonny Jensen, Bo Feldt-Rasmussen, Knut Borch-Johnsen, Jan Skov Jensen
BMJ  1996;312:871-874
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Sensitivity and specificity of QTc dispersion for identification of risk of cardiac death in patients with peripheral vascular disease
Dawood Darbar, John Luck, Neil Davidson, Terence Pringle, Gavin Main, Graeme McNeill, Allan D Struthers
BMJ  1996;312:874-878
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Commentary: QTc dispersion may reflect vulnerability to ventricular fibrillation
R Campbell
BMJ  1996;312:878-879
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Twin births to mothers who are twins: a registry based study
Paul Lichtenstein, Petra Otterblad Olausson, A J Bengt Kallen
BMJ  1996;312:879-881
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Haem iron intake in 12-36 month old children depleted in iron: case-control study
Michael Mira, Garth Alperstein, Margaret Karr, Geetha Ranmuthugala, Jane Causer, Anna Niec, Anne-Marie Lilburne
BMJ  1996;312:881-883
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Crossover study of glyceryl trinitrate patches for controlling pain in women with severe dysmenorrhoea
R Pittrof, C Lees, C Thompson, A Pickles, J F Martin, S Campbell
BMJ  1996;312:884
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Intake, output, and drop out in United Kingdom medical schools
James Parkhouse
BMJ  1996;312:885
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Drug points: Bronchospasm induced by isotretinoin
R A Sabroe, R C D Staughton, C B Bunker
BMJ  1996;312:886
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Drug points: Ranitidine and aseptic meningitis
J M Durand, L Suchet
BMJ  1996;312:886
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Drug points: Pravastatin: interaction with oral anticoagulant?
None Given, Thierry Trenque, Henri Choisy, Marie-Laure Germain
BMJ  1996;312:886
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