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This week's Editorials

Inflammation in ischaemic heart disease
Attilio Maseri, Luigi M Biasucci, Giovanna Liuzzo
BMJ  1996;312:1049-1050
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Managing peanut allergy
Hugh A Sampson
BMJ  1996;312:1050-1051
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Smoking in public places
Simon Chapman
BMJ  1996;312:1051-1052
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Chernobyl 10 years on
Denis L Henshaw
BMJ  1996;312:1052-1053
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Drugs and the fetus
Patrick Vallance
BMJ  1996;312:1053-1054
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Describing race, ethnicity, and culture in medical research
Kwame McKenzie, N S Crowcroft
BMJ  1996;312:1054
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This week's Letters

Cognitive behaviour therapy for the chronic fatigue syndrome
S A Chilton
BMJ  1996;312:1096
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Good general care may offer as much benefit as cognitive behaviour therapy
Charles Shepherd
BMJ  1996;312:1096
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Patients were not representative of all patients with the syndrome
Ray Gibbons, Anne Macintyre, Chris Richards
BMJ  1996;312:1096-1097
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Use an interdisciplinary approach
K K Eaton
BMJ  1996;312:1097
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Essential elements of the treatment must be identified
Stephen M Lawrie, Anthony J Pelosi
BMJ  1996;312:1097
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Cognitive behaviour therapy should be compared with placebo treatments
Jim Pearce
BMJ  1996;312:1097
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Patients' beliefs about their illness were probably not a major factor
D O Ho-Yen
BMJ  1996;312:1097-1098
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Authors' reply
Michael Sharpe, Keith Hawton, Tim Peto
BMJ  1996;312:1098
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Tobacco funding for academics
A J Hedley, T H Lam, R Fielding, C L Betson, R M Hardie, S M Mcghee
BMJ  1996;312:1098
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Buying respectability
Simon Chapman
BMJ  1996;312:1098-1099
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Cheese and salmonella infection
K G Kerr, Christopher S Nice, Richard W Lacey
BMJ  1996;312:1099
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Cheese lovers should not be condemned to a pasteurised and tasteless product
Eric Rose
BMJ  1996;312:1099
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All milk products should be heat treated
D M Campbell, J M Cowden, G Morris, W J Reilly, S J O'Brien
BMJ  1996;312:1099
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Exceptional cheeses can be made only from raw milk
Arthur Cunynghame
BMJ  1996;312:1099-1100
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Prenatal and postnatal prevalence of Turner's syndrome
Claes Lundsteen, Karen Brondum Nielsen, Peter K A Jensen, Gert Bruun Petersen, Kirsten Rasmussen
BMJ  1996;312:1100
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No reason to doubt standard of prenatal diagnosis
Johanne M Hahnemann, Lars O Vejerslev
BMJ  1996;312:1100
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Author's reply
C H Gravholt
BMJ  1996;312:1100-1101
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Minocycline for acne
F P Meyer
BMJ  1996;312:1101
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Doctors should not change the way they prescribe for acne
W J Cunliffe
BMJ  1996;312:1101
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Magnesium is underused in acute atrial fibrillation
Daniel Dietch, Andrew Wilson, Anthony Thomas
BMJ  1996;312:1101
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Alternatives to hospital care
Nigel Sylvester
BMJ  1996;312:1102
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Emergency consultation clinics avert unnecessary admissions
Helen Coleman, Fiona Finlay
BMJ  1996;312:1102
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Nursing shortages
Alan Maynard
BMJ  1996;312:1102
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Nationally determined pay could result in high marginal costs
Paul Flower
BMJ  1996;312:1102
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Neonatal prevention of iron deficiency
D G Daniel, A N A Weerakkody
BMJ  1996;312:1102-1103
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Placental transfusion might reduce prevalence of iron deficiency
G Markey, T C M Morris
BMJ  1996;312:1103
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John Wayne Cancer Institute is mainly funded by National Cancer Institute
Michael Mosley
BMJ  1996;312:1103
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Goals and methods of audit should be reappraised
R A Fulton
BMJ  1996;312:1103
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Finding meaning from loss
Sheila Clark
BMJ  1996;312:1103
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Britain reverses landmine policy
Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
BMJ  1996;312:1055
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Mercy killing of mother prompts inquiry
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;312:1055-1056
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BMJ  1996;312:1056
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China steps up battle against AIDS
Richard Tomlinson
BMJ  1996;312:1056
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Trial begins into victims of CJD growth hormone
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;312:1057
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Medical researchers challenge antivivisectionists
Claudia Court
BMJ  1996;312:1057
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US doctors warned about test for breast cancer gene
Deborah Josefson
BMJ  1996;312:1057-1058
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New US theory on Gulf war syndrome
John Roberts
BMJ  1996;312:1058
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British GPs take charge of health promotion
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1996;312:1058
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Brazilian health workers go on strike
John Dunn
BMJ  1996;312:1059
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Frozen embryos to be stored for longer
Geraldine Martell
BMJ  1996;312:1059
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Condom failure is on the increase
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1996;312:1059
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German company halts delivery of HIV test kits
Helmut L Karcher
BMJ  1996;312:1059-1060
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Planning blunders hit new NHS base
BMJ  1996;312:1060
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European parliament gets ambitious about health
Rory Watson
BMJ  1996;312:1060
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This week's General practice

Practicality of recording patient ethnicity in general practice: descriptive intervention study and attitude survey
Mike Pringle, Ian Rothera
BMJ  1996;312:1080-1082
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This week's Soundings

Cheese, toes, and mosquitoes
Bernard Dixon
BMJ  1996;312:1105
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On being well groomed
Colin Douglas
BMJ  1996;312:1105
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This week's Personal views

Charity for Chernobyl?
James Fraser, Richard Pullinger
BMJ  1996;312:1107
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This week's Medicine and books

New Rules: Regulation, Markets, and the Quality of American Health Care
Robert J Maxwell
BMJ  1996;312:1108
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Environmental and Health Atlas of Russia
Michael Ryan
BMJ  1996;312:1108-1109
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Family Violence and the Caring Professions
Iona Heath
BMJ  1996;312:1109
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Managing Health Promotion: Developing Healthy Organizations and Communities
John Ashton
BMJ  1996;312:1109
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This week's Education and debate

An epidemic like any other? Rights and responsibilities in HIV prevention
Renee Danziger
BMJ  1996;312:1083-1084
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Lesson of the Week: Addison's disease
C M Brosnan, N F C Gowing
BMJ  1996;312:1085-1087
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Grand Rounds--Hammersmith Hospital: Reactive (AA) systemic amyloidosis
BMJ  1996;312:1087-1089
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ABC of Urology: UROLOGICAL MALIGNANCY--II: UROTHELIAL TUMOURS
Chris Dawson, Hugh Whitfield
BMJ  1996;312:1090-1094
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Style Matters: Ethnicity, race, and culture: guidelines for research, audit, and publication
BMJ  1996;312:1094
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1996;312:1110
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This week's Fillers

MEMORABLE PATIENT
Rex D Last
BMJ  1996;312:1082
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MY MOST UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE
John S M Zorab
BMJ  1996;312:1084
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
BMJ  1996;312:1089
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1996;312:1055
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Correction
BMJ  1996;312:1060
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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

Slings and roundabouts
Ed Walker
BMJ  1996;312:1106
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Just a mixed up vampire
Sean Spence
BMJ  1996;312:1106-1107
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Commons is worried about private finance for NHS • New group will strengthen patient involvement in NHS research • Special conference will consider future of general practice • Transition to new grade must be completed in a year
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1996;312:1104
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This week's Papers

C Reactive protein and its relation to cardiovascular risk factors: a population based cross sectional study
M A Mendall, Praful Patel, Lydia Ballam, D Strachan, T C Northfield
BMJ  1996;312:1061-1065
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Psychiatric problems in children with hemiplegia: cross sectional epidemiological survey
Robert Goodman, Philip Graham
BMJ  1996;312:1065-1069
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Randomised study of n of 1 trials versus standard practice
Jeffrey Mahon, Andreas Laupacis, Allan Donner, Thomas Wood
BMJ  1996;312:1069-1074
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Clinical study of peanut and nut allergy in 62 consecutive patients: new features and associations
Pamela W Ewan
BMJ  1996;312:1074-1078
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Glycophorin A biodosimetry in Chernobyl cleanup workers from the Baltic countries
William L Bigbee, Ronald H Jensen, Toomas Veidebaum, Mare Tekkel, Mati Rahu, Aivars Stengrevics, Ausrele Kesminiene, Juozas Kurtinaitis, Anssi Auvinen, Timo Hakulinen, Kristina Servomaa, Tapio Rytomaa, G Iris Obrams, John D Boice Jr
BMJ  1996;312:1078-1079
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Statistics notes: Transformations, means, and confidence intervals
J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
BMJ  1996;312:1079
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