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14 September 1996 (Vol 313, No 7058)
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This week's Editorials

Lowered serum cholesterol and low mood
S Lori Brown
BMJ  1996;313:637-638
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Summative assessment in general practice
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1996;313:638-639
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Insulin infusion in diabetic patients with acute myocardial infarction
Gail Davey, Paul Mckeigue
BMJ  1996;313:639-640
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Thrombolysis in acute stroke
Julien Bogousslavsky
BMJ  1996;313:640-641
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Deprivation payments revisited (again)
Richard Hobbs, Tim Cole
BMJ  1996;313:641-642
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This week's Letters

Use of hormone replacement therapy
Karen Mckinney
BMJ  1996;313:686
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May depend on whether the menopause is regarded as physiological or pathological
Kim Hinshaw
BMJ  1996;313:686
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Authors gave distorted view through selective citation
David Ross, Malcolm Whitehead, John Stevenson
BMJ  1996;313:686-687
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Hormone replacement therapy may not always be right choice to prevent cardiovascular disease
Salvatore Panico, Rocco Galasso, Egidio Celentano, Luisa Frova, Riccardo Capocaccia, Franco Berrino
BMJ  1996;313:687
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Modes of administration of morphine in cancer pain
V L Crosby, R Corcoran
BMJ  1996;313:687
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Formulations of morphine sulphate are easily confused
Gillian F Cavell
BMJ  1996;313:687-688
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Naming of drugs
Fernando A Navarro
BMJ  1996;313:688-689
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BMJ should use "paracetamol" instead of "acetaminophen" in its index
Nick Bradley
BMJ  1996;313:689
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Cerebral oedema after MDMA ("ecstasy") and unrestricted water intake
T M Cook
BMJ  1996;313:689
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Hyponatraemia must be treated with low water input
Barry Wilkins
BMJ  1996;313:689-690
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Drug workers emphasise that water is not an antidote to drug
Emily Finch, Louise Sell, David Arnold
BMJ  1996;313:690
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S M Matthai, D C Davidson, J A Sills
BMJ  1996;313:690
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Area of skin disease can be used to indicate amount of treatment needed
C Colin Long, Andrew Y Finlay
BMJ  1996;313:690
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Neurological effects of organophosphate pesticides
Fidias E Leon-S, Gustavo Pradilla, Esperanza Vesga
BMJ  1996;313:690-691
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Diagnosis and management of migraine
Andrew D Brown, Paul M Dodson, John R Ainsworth
BMJ  1996;313:691
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Care needs to be taken with treatment
Janet Lock, Dawn Gallagher
BMJ  1996;313:691
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Low dose aspirin may be used for prophylaxis
Catherine Nelson-Piercy, Michael De Swiet
BMJ  1996;313:691
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Peter J Goadsby, Jes Olesen
BMJ  1996;313:691-692
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Problems with the penis and prepuce in children
Esben Techau Jorgensen, Ake Svensson
BMJ  1996;313:692
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Mark Davenport
BMJ  1996;313:692
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Hyperkalaemic cardiac arrest
M K Bresland, A R Bodenham
BMJ  1996;313:692
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Patient may have had a muscular dystrophy or Andersen's syndrome
Philip Jardine
BMJ  1996;313:692-693
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May occur secondary to misuse of diuretics and potassium supplements
Edward Strivens, Ayesha Siddiqi, Richard Fluck, Andrew Hutton, David Bell
BMJ  1996;313:693
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In general practice "registrars" are more likely to be perceived as qualified than are "trainees"
J P Fisher
BMJ  1996;313:693
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GMC's conduct committee is harsher to British than overseas doctors
Tony Keable-Elliott
BMJ  1996;313:693
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This week's News

Woman challenges euthanasia law
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;313:643
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Legal aid won for malaria drug case
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;313:643
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BMJ  1996;313:644
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Neurosurgery for mentally ill given go ahead in Scotland
Bryan Christie
BMJ  1996;313:644
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Internet sales of prescription drugs investigated
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;313:645
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Fetal homicide charge for drinking while pregnant
Norra Macready
BMJ  1996;313:645
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BMA suggests ways to end long waits in casualty departments
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  1996;313:646
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Welfare claimants are less healthy than workers
John Warden
BMJ  1996;313:646
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Nothing innocent about white coat hypertension
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  1996;313:647
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Botched circumcisions lead to arrest for murder
Pat Sidley
BMJ  1996;313:647
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Action call to halt antibiotic-induced hearing loss
Sara Abdulla
BMJ  1996;313:648
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Menstruation linked to asthma attacks
Alison Boulton
BMJ  1996;313:648
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Health costs rise in Germany
Helmut L Karcher
BMJ  1996;313:648
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This week's General practice

Routine follow up of breast cancer in primary care: randomised trial
Eva Grunfeld, David Mant, Patricia Yudkin, Ruth Adewuyi-Dalton, David Cole, Jill Stewart, Ray Fitzpatrick, Martin Vessey
BMJ  1996;313:665-669
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Deprivation payments to general practitioners: limitations of census data
F Azeem Majeed, David Martin, Tim Crayford
BMJ  1996;313:669-670
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This week's Soundings

Second opinion please
Colin Douglas
BMJ  1996;313:694
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No physical signs
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  1996;313:694
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This week's Personal views

This is where I start to draw the line
Neville Goodman
BMJ  1996;313:696
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This week's Medicine and books

The Economic Laws of Scientific Research
Tom Wilkie
BMJ  1996;313:697
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A Good Death: Conversations with East Londoners
Jennifer Barraclough
BMJ  1996;313:697
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This week's Education and debate

An Ethical Debate: Child protection: medical responsibilities
BMJ  1996;313:671-672
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An Ethical Debate: Commentary: A flexible approach--but not too flexible
F N Bamford
BMJ  1996;313:672-673
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An Ethical Debate: Commentary: Too blunt an instrument?
Iona Heath
BMJ  1996;313:673
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ABC of Work Related Disorders: BUILDING RELATED ILLNESSES
P H Appleby
BMJ  1996;313:674-677
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Caring for Older People: Rehabilitation and older people
John Young
BMJ  1996;313:677-681
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Lesson of the Week: Reversible cardiogenic shock complicating subarachnoid haemorrhage
Michael J A Parr, Simon R Finfer, Michael K Morgan
BMJ  1996;313:681-683
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1996;313:698
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This week's Fillers

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO:
BMJ  1996;313:659
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WHEN I USE A WORD ..:
Jeff Aronson
BMJ  1996;313:670
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WHEN I USE A WORD..:
Jeff Aronson
BMJ  1996;313:673
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO:
BMJ  1996;313:683
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This week's Career focus

Developing career services for students
Kate Thomas
BMJ  1996;313:2
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Briefing: Staff grade doctors have little or no opportunity for paid ...
BMJ  1996;313:3
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This week's CHOICE

Editor's choice
BMJ  1996;313
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Deafness in Hollywood
Robert A Crouch
BMJ  1996;313:695
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Humanising therapy
Susan O'Connor
BMJ  1996;313:695-696
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This week's Papers

Serum cholesterol concentration and death from suicide in men: Paris prospective study I
Mahmoud Zureik, Dominique Courbon, Pierre Ducimetiere
BMJ  1996;313:649-651
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Commentary: Having too much evidence (depression, suicide, and low serum cholesterol)
Malcolm Law
BMJ  1996;313:651-652
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Clinical effects of anticoagulant therapy in suspected acute myocardial infarction: systematic overview of randomised trials
Rory Collins, Stephen MacMahon, Marcus Flather, Colin Baigent, Lars Remvig, Svend Mortensen, Paul Appleby, Jon Godwin, Salim Yusuf, Richard Peto
BMJ  1996;313:652-659
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Diabetes mellitus and raised serum triglyceride concentration in treated hypertension--are they of prognostic importance? Observational study
Ola Samuelsson, Kjell Pennert, Ove Andersson, Goran Berglund, Thomas Hedner, Bengt Persson, Hans Wedel, Lars Wilhelmsen
BMJ  1996;313:660-663
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Rapid decrease of serum cholesterol concentration and postpartum depression
Barbara Ploeckinger, Karl Dantendorfer, Martin Ulm, Wolfgang Baischer, Kurt Derfler, Michael Musalek, Christian Dadak
BMJ  1996;313:664
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