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This week's Editorials

Sunscreens, suntans, and skin cancer
J M Mcgregor, A R Young
BMJ  1996;312:1621-1622
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European health policy: must redefine its raison d'etre
Tessa Richards
BMJ  1996;312:1622-1623
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Specialist rehabilitation after stroke
John Gladman, David Barer, Peter Langhorne
BMJ  1996;312:1623-1624
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Primary care: restoring the jewel in the crown
Ian Bogle, John Chisholm
BMJ  1996;312:1624-1625
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The rights of HIV infected healthcare workers
Peter Erridge
BMJ  1996;312:1625-1626
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Preparing the BMJ for the electronic revolution
Jane Smith, Richard Smith
BMJ  1996;312:1626
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This week's Letters

Neuroleptic prescribing in residents of nursing homes
A P Passmore, V L S Crawford, T R O Beringer, K J Fullerton, P M Mccaffrey
BMJ  1996;312:1667
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Dangerous to extrapolate local audit findings
R H Mcallister-Williams, I N Ferrier
BMJ  1996;312:1667
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Access to psychiatrists should be improved
Andrew F Tarbuck
BMJ  1996;312:1667-1668
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Substantial study is imminent
Simon Thacker, Rob Jones
BMJ  1996;312:1668
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Behaviour problems are underdocumented
Heather Cameron
BMJ  1996;312:1668
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Use may be justified if other factors have been considered
Robert Tobiansky, Martin Blanchard
BMJ  1996;312:1668-1669
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Authors' reply
Alice Mcgrath, Graham A Jackson
BMJ  1996;312:1669
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Costs and getting ethical approval deter doctors from participating in multicentre trials
S W Crooks, S B Colman, I A Campbell
BMJ  1996;312:1669
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Diazepam is more useful than magnesium for immediate control of eclampsia
Robert Fox, Tim Draycott
BMJ  1996;312:1669-1670
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Screening for diabetic retinopathy
P M Hart, D B Archer, A B Atkinson
BMJ  1996;312:1670
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True costs are different from those given in paper
N R Waugh
BMJ  1996;312:1670
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Authors' reply
J P O'Hare
BMJ  1996;312:1670-1671
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Drug testing has been used in schools for several years
Peter Kilvert, Ruth Bryant
BMJ  1996;312:1671
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Drug users and people with HIV infection need better care in prison
Chris Ford
BMJ  1996;312:1671
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Providing intensive care
Mick Nielsen, Aileen Sced, John Pappachan
BMJ  1996;312:1671
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For neurosciences, proposals are "too little too late"
Andrew Mcevoy, Martin Smith, Neil Kitchen, Michael Powell
BMJ  1996;312:1671-1672
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Severe problems with interhospital transfer of critically ill children will continue
Andrew Sharples, Oliver Dearlove
BMJ  1996;312:1672
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Surgeons will not want jobs in hospitals that do not do emergency surgery
Russell Hopkins
BMJ  1996;312:1672
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Television and radio should be used to disseminate important information
Judy Murty, Janet Harris, Stephen Killick
BMJ  1996;312:1672
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Gynaecological problems should continue to be treated in primary care initially
Clare J Seamark, David A Seamark
BMJ  1996;312:1672-1673
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Home versus hospital delivery
Rona Campbell
BMJ  1996;312:1673
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Author's reply
Ralph S Settatree
BMJ  1996;312:1673
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Good quality evidence is lacking
Henrietta Lang, Michael Joffe
BMJ  1996;312:1673-1674
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Making British blood supply safer
Peter Flanagan
BMJ  1996;312:1674
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Wrong comparison quoted for breast screening
Gary Rubin
BMJ  1996;312:1674
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Study of breast feeding and hypertrophic pyloric stenosis does not conflict with others
John A Dodge
BMJ  1996;312:1674
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Global commissioning by GPs could be detrimental to rehabilitation services
John Charlton, Richard Morton, Christian Murray-Leslie, Christopher Ward
BMJ  1996;312:1674
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Guidelines on managing stable angina omit important point
R M Norris
BMJ  1996;312:1675
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Helping sick doctors
Jane Sims, Pippa Oakeshott
BMJ  1996;312:1675
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Confidential voluntary scheme has been set up in Britain
R M Brown
BMJ  1996;312:1675
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Torture continues in Algeria
Michael Peel
BMJ  1996;312:1675
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This week's News

Outrage in Japan over euthanasia without consent
Robert Guest
BMJ  1996;312:1627
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India's women get poor deal on health care, says World Bank
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  1996;312:1627-1628
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Headlines
BMJ  1996;312:1628
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Scientists discover how HIV enters cells
Alison Boulton
BMJ  1996;312:1628
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US responds to new suggestion of Gulf war syndrome
John Roberts
BMJ  1996;312:1629
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Survey finds NHS budgets pushed to the limit
Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
BMJ  1996;312:1629
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US court rules on confidentiality
John Roberts
BMJ  1996;312:1629-1630
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Cockroaches linked with asthma
John Roberts
BMJ  1996;312:1630
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Canadian junior doctors fight fees
David Spurgeon
BMJ  1996;312:1630
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US grants asylum to woman fleeing clitoridectomy
John Roberts
BMJ  1996;312:1630-1631
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Non-transplanted organs can be used for research
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1996;312:1631
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US is short of contraception choices
John Roberts
BMJ  1996;312:1631-1632
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Britain's over-60s are still getting around
Claudia Court
BMJ  1996;312:1632
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Why Tony Blair didn't go to Brighton
Jane Smith
BMJ  1996;312:1632
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This week's General practice

Community leg ulcer clinics: a comparative study in two health authorities
Deborah A Simon, Louise Freak, Annette Kinsella, Julia Walsh, Chris Lane, Louise Groarke, Charles McCollum
BMJ  1996;312:1648-1651
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Improving vaccine storage in general practice refrigerators
Andrew Jeremijenko, Heath Kelly, Beverly Sibthorpe, Robyn Attewell
BMJ  1996;312:1651-1652
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High ambient temperature: a spurious cause of hypokalaemia
P W Masters, N Lawson, C B Marenah, L J Maile
BMJ  1996;312:1652-1653
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Commentary: Replication of results
M D Buckley-Sharp, D A Gardner
BMJ  1996;312:1653
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Statistics notes: Measurement error
J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
BMJ  1996;312:1654
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This week's Soundings

Different standards
Liam Farrell
BMJ  1996;312:1677
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Unusual suspects
Bernard Dixon
BMJ  1996;312:1677
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This week's Personal views

"Coming out"--a personal dilemma
Sandy Logie, A W Logie
BMJ  1996;312:1679
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This week's Medicine and books

American Cardiology: The History of a Specialty and its College
Arthur Hollman
BMJ  1996;312:1680
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Health Sector Reform in Developing Countries
Paul Garner
BMJ  1996;312:1680
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Best books on endocrinology: a personal choice
Jean Ginsburg
BMJ  1996;312:1681
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This week's Education and debate

Speech and language therapy: does it work?
Pam Enderby, Joyce Emerson
BMJ  1996;312:1655-1658
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Inflation in epidemiology: "The proof and measurement of association between two things" revisited
George Davey Smith, Andrew N Phillips
BMJ  1996;312:1659-1661
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Commentary: Strength and importance of the relation of dietary salt to blood pressure
Alan R Dyer, Paul Elliott, Michael Marmot, Hugo Kesteloot, Rose Stamler, Jeremiah Stamler
BMJ  1996;312:1661-1664
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The Ljubljana Charter on Reforming Health Care
BMJ  1996;312:1664-1665
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1996;312:1682
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1996;312:1647
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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

Complementary medicine and the cure for credulity
Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
BMJ  1996;312:1678
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Hollywood goes up in smoke
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1996;312:1678-1679
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

BMA chairman warns against quick fixes • BMA responds to Commission on Social Justice • Labour party will not rule out private finance for health
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1996;312:1676
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This week's Papers

Survival of 1476 patients initially resuscitated from out of hospital cardiac arrest
Stuart M Cobbe, Kirsty Dalziel, Ian Ford, Andrew K Marsden
BMJ  1996;312:1633-1637
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Prospective evaluation of eligibility for thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction
John K French, Barbara F Williams, Hamish H Hart, Susan Wyatt, June E Poole, Christine Ingram, Christopher J Ellis, Miles G Williams, Harvey D White
BMJ  1996;312:1637-1641
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Specialist nurse support for patients with stroke in the community: a randomised controlled trial
Anne Forster, John Young
BMJ  1996;312:1642-1646
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Hormone replacement therapy and tumour grade in breast cancer: prospective study in screening unit
Claudia Harding, W F Knox, E B Faragher, A Baildam, N J Bundred
BMJ  1996;312:1646-1647
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