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This week's Editorials

Congenital anterior abdominal wall defects
Lyn Chitty, Joseph Iskaros
BMJ  1996;313:891-892
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Intracoronary stents
Neal G Uren, Nicolas Af Chronos
BMJ  1996;313:892-893
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Lactational amenorrhoea method for family planning
Paul Fa Van Look
BMJ  1996;313:893-894
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Barriers to evidence based policy
Dominique Florin
BMJ  1996;313:894-895
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Drug delivery from inhaler devices
Hans Bisgaard
BMJ  1996;313:895-896
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Cancer registration: integrate or disintegrate?
N E Day, T W Davies
BMJ  1996;313:896
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This week's Letters

Home ventilation of a child with motor and sensory neuropathy
Fraser M Hadden
BMJ  1996;313:940
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Central funding and a central resource providing information are needed
Ian Barker
BMJ  1996;313:940
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Study aims to set up national database of children receiving ventilatory support
E Jardine, C Wallis
BMJ  1996;313:940-941
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GPs need to be more proactive in providing health care to teenagers
Nicola Cowap
BMJ  1996;313:941
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Survival of patients initially resuscitated from out of hospital cardiac arrest
Ian Hatcher
BMJ  1996;313:941
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Author's reply
S M Cobbe
BMJ  1996;313:941
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Data on eligibility for thrombolytic treatment cannot be generalised
Adam D Timmis
BMJ  1996;313:941
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Sunscreens, suntans, and skin cancer
J F B Norris
BMJ  1996;313:941-942
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People do not apply enough sunscreen for protection
B L Diffey
BMJ  1996;313:942
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Knowledge about sunscreens is inadequate
Colin Fleming, Rona Mackie
BMJ  1996;313:942
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Much effort is spent on treating drug misusers in prison
P L Armitage
BMJ  1996;313:942
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Community leg ulcer clinics
R Sheehan-Dare
BMJ  1996;313:942-943
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Early vascular assessment should be carried out
Saboor Ghauri, Isaac Nyamekye, Keith Poskitt, J R Farndon
BMJ  1996;313:943
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Deborah A Simon, Charles N Mccollum
BMJ  1996;313:943
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Reference range for potassium concentration is lower in Barbados than Europe
Egbert Gibson
BMJ  1996;313:943
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Misdiagnosing the persistent vegetative state
Derick T Wade
BMJ  1996;313:943-944
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Misdiagnosis certainly occurs
Nancy L Childs, Walt N Mercer
BMJ  1996;313:944
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Young female doctors report achieving fewer surgical skills than young male doctors
Geir Falck, Guttorm Brattebo
BMJ  1996;313:944
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Advertisement for toremifene
Chris Twelves, Adrian Harnett
BMJ  1996;313:944-945
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Manufacturer's reply
Martin C Eagle
BMJ  1996;313:945
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Community pharmacists are increasingly supervising treatments
Robert Scott, Howard Mcnulty
BMJ  1996;313:945
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Septic arthritis in osteoarthritic hips
D C Howlett
BMJ  1996;313:945
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Authors' reply
F J Gilbert, D J Knight, J D Hutchison
BMJ  1996;313:945
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More emergency insulin distribution projects should be set up
Ron Raab
BMJ  1996;313:945-946
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Stress in general practice
Dick Davies
BMJ  1996;313:946
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General practitioners must educate patients in the appropriate use of services
Nick Bottone
BMJ  1996;313:946
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American guidelines on managed care are not the answer
Rhian Evans
BMJ  1996;313:946
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Statistics should reflect existence of two Indias
B Ramamurthi
BMJ  1996;313:946
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Pesticide link with Gulf war syndrome
John Warden
BMJ  1996;313:897
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BMJ faces (pounds sterling)107000 bill over libel case
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;313:897
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BMJ  1996;313:898
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Smoke does get in your eyes
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  1996;313:898
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Widow backed in legal fight for husband's sperm
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;313:898
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French doctors strike over night visits
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1996;313:899
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South African doctors work to rule
Pat Sidley
BMJ  1996;313:899
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Push to allow relatives to witness resuscitation
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  1996;313:899
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Half of German doctors were Nazis
David Woods
BMJ  1996;313:900
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Australia to reintroduce quotas on foreign doctors
Christopher Zinn
BMJ  1996;313:900
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Flu jab cuts hospital admissions by two thirds
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  1996;313:901
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Furore in Norway over private practice clampdown
Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
BMJ  1996;313:901
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New Zealand's voters focus on health
Carmel Williams
BMJ  1996;313:901
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Prozac linked with minor birth defects
Susan Mayor
BMJ  1996;313:902
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Shooting the messenger
Simon Chapman
BMJ  1996;313:902
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This week's General practice

Postal questionnaire study of disability in the community associated with psoriasis
Patrick O'Neill, Peter Kelly
BMJ  1996;313:919-921
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Relation between general practitioners' prescribing of antibacterial drugs and their use of laboratory tests
Michael C Kelsey, George A Kouloumas, Peter A Lamport, Cheryl L Davis
BMJ  1996;313:922
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This week's Soundings

Is it a mortgage? Is it a photocopier? No..
Colin Douglas
BMJ  1996;313:948
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Obsolete jingoism
Tony Smith
BMJ  1996;313:948
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This week's Personal views

Bureaucracy gone mad
Peter Wenham
BMJ  1996;313:949
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Consultant vacancies in the NHS--a short term solution?
Peter Sykes
BMJ  1996;313:949-950
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This week's Medicine and books

Care in Chaos
Julian Leff
BMJ  1996;313:951
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Occupation and Disease
Peter Brooks
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This week's Education and debate

For Debate: Collecting ethnic group data for inpatients: is it useful?
Claire Hilton
BMJ  1996;313:923-925
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Lesson of the Week: Methadone maintenance and tuberculosis treatment
Duncan Raistrick, Alistair Hay, Kim Wolff
BMJ  1996;313:925-926
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Caring for Older People: Aids to compliance with medication
A J Corlett
BMJ  1996;313:926-929
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Passive smoking and health: should we believe Philip Morris's "experts"?
George Davey Smith, Andrew N Phillips
BMJ  1996;313:929-933
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ABC of Work Related Disorders: ASSESSING FITNESS FOR WORK
William Davies
BMJ  1996;313:934-938
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1996;313:952
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This week's Fillers

ANY QUESTIONS
Paul N Durrington
BMJ  1996;313:921
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A memorable patient
Gregor Mannes
BMJ  1996;313:933
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This week's Career focus

Career counselling in general practice
Ruth Chambers
BMJ  1996;313:2
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Briefing: Inclusion on the GMC's specialist register will be compulsory for ...
BMJ  1996;313:3
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Briefing: The penultimate tranche of 17 specialties made the transition to ...
BMJ  1996;313:3a
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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

The Elvis of pharmaceuticals
Carl Elliott
BMJ  1996;313:950
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

New Scottish CMO criticises training reforms • Non-principal GPs will have their own committee • BMA warns of growing inequalities in healthcare • New pay system agreed for Medical Research Council staff • Changes agreed to PLAB test • Do performance indicators have a role in health promotion?
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1996;313:947
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This week's Papers

Congenital anterior abdominal wall defects in England and Wales 1987-93: retrospective analysis of OPCS data
Kelvin H Tan, Mark D Kilby, Martin J Whittle, Bryan R Beattie, Ian W Booth, Beverley J Botting
BMJ  1996;313:903-906
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Life expectancy in men who have never smoked and those who have smoked continuously: 15 year follow up of large cohort of middle aged British men
Andrew N Phillips, S Goya Wannamethee, Mary Walker, Andy Thomson, George Davey Smith
BMJ  1996;313:907-908
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Effectiveness of lactational amenorrhoea in prevention of pregnancy in Manila, the Philippines: non-comparative prospective trial
Rebecca Ramos, Kathy Irene Kennedy, Cynthia M Visness
BMJ  1996;313:909-912
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Effectiveness of the BBC's 999 training roadshows on cardiopulmonary resuscitation: video performance of cohort of unforewarned participants at home six months afterwards
C Ll Morgan, P D Donnelly, C A Lester, D H Assar
BMJ  1996;313:912-916
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House dust mite allergen in pillows
T J Kemp, R W Siebers, D Fishwick, G B O'Grady, P Fitzharris, J Crane
BMJ  1996;313:916
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Improving uptake of prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism in general surgical patients using prospective audit
Ged J Byrne, Mark J McCarthy, Stanley H Silverman
BMJ  1996;313:917
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Continuing medical education and training for associate specialists: results of a survey in Yorkshire
Rosemary Macdonald, Mohib A Khan, Carol Singleton
BMJ  1996;313:918
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