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Previous back trouble predicts new back pain in nurses [Full text] FREE
Mutation in mannose binding protein gene leads to more infections in children [Full text] FREE
Evidence of secular changes in HIV infection [Full text] FREE
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Modern treatments for internal haemorrhoids
John L Pfenninger
BMJ  1997;314:1211
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The future of locality commissioning
Nicholas Mays
BMJ  1997;314:1212
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Is one arterial graft enough?
Malcolm Underwood, Graham Cooper, Bruce Keogh
BMJ  1997;314:1213
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The private finance initiative
Seán Boyle
BMJ  1997;314:1214
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Drug treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia
Andrew Farmer, Jeremy Noble
BMJ  1997;314:1215
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Bureaucracy of purchaser-provider split delays treatment
Iain Hutchison, Peter Hardee, Catherine Barns
BMJ  1997;314:1275
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Counting the cost of social disadvantage in primary care
D P Kernick, Charles A West, Adrian Worrall, Nicolas Rea, Yoav Ben-Shlomo
BMJ  1997;314:1275
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Community mental health teams in London are being increasingly stretched
Ben Hannigan, Richard Laugharne, Anna Stafford
BMJ  1997;314:1276
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Cervical screening
Sophia Williamson, Viney Wadehra, C Mary Anderson, Amanda Herbert
BMJ  1997;314:1277
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Home medical students account for less than half the full registrants Britain requires
E W L Fletcher
BMJ  1997;314:1278
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Recommendations for improving national data on congenital anomalies are being implemented
Eva Alberman, Beverley Botting
BMJ  1997;314:1278
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Crisis in London's mental health services
Scott Weich, Nick Bouras, Geraldine Holt, Alan Beadsmoore, Pollyanna Hardy, David Goldberg, Graham Thornicroft, Richard Duffett, John Cookson, Lena Lessof, Stephen Hatch
BMJ  1997;314:1278
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Bodybuilders find it easy to obtain insulin to help them in training
S L Elkin, S Brady, I P Williams
BMJ  1997;314:1280
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Dangers of sunbeds are greater in the commercial sector
Andrew Wright, Graham Hart, Liz Kernohan
BMJ  1997;314:1280
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Junior surgeons are becoming deskilled as result of Calman proposals
F David Skidmore
BMJ  1997;314:1281
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New government must reassess its criminal justice policy
Tom McClintock
BMJ  1997;314:1281
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Prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism
Thomas H S Dent, Monica A Dent, T M Cook, R J H Baylis, R Marjot, M Verstraete
BMJ  1997;314:1281
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Not all those who died after Hillsborough did so by 3 15 pm
Ed Walker
BMJ  1997;314:1283
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Concussive convulsions
John Stephenson, David Chadwick
BMJ  1997;314:1283
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Tobacco companies seek to pay $300bn as lawsuit settlement
Terri Rutter
BMJ  1997;314:1217
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The BMJ's Question Time
BMJ  1997;314:1217
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In brief
BMJ  1997;314:1217
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PFI condemned as a failure
Jackie Cresswell
BMJ  1997;314:1217
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Canada retreats over tobacco laws
David Spurgeon
BMJ  1997;314:1217
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Health authority pays out £2m over radiation blunder
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1997;314:1217
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Young doctors feel isolated
Stephanie Swafford
BMJ  1997;314:1217
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General Medical Council attacks medical training
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  1997;314:1217
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Family accuses doctors of failing to warn of risk
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1997;314:1217
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AIDS drug trials attacked
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  1997;314:i
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US doctors rush to join unions
Fred B Charatan
BMJ  1997;314:1217
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This week's Information in practice

Evaluation of a decision support system for initiation and control of oral anticoagulation in a randomised trial
B Vadher, D L H Patterson, M Leaning
BMJ  1997;314:1252
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Netlines
Mark Pallen
BMJ  1997;314:1257
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Science, medicine, and the future : Hypertension
Morris J Brown
BMJ  1997;314:1258
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ABC of clinical haematology: Haematological disorders at the extremes of life
Adrian C Newland, Tyrrell G J R Evans
BMJ  1997;314:1262
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What does locality commissioning in Avon offer? Retrospective descriptive evaluation
Christine E Hine, Max O Bachmann
BMJ  1997;314:1246
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Are the Health of the Nation's targets attainable? Postal survey of general practitioners' views
Philip Cheung, A Pali S Hungin, Jo Verrill, Andrew J Russell, Helen Smith
BMJ  1997;314:1250
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A-wake?
Liam Farrell
BMJ  1997;314:1286
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The system must change
Helen Gibson
BMJ  1997;314:1286
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Electronic nagging
Geoffrey Bunch
BMJ  1997;314:1287
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Selection
BMJ  1997;314
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Multiple Sclerosis (Clinical and Pathogenetic Basis), by Ed C S Raine, H F McFarland, W W Tourtellotte
P K Newman
BMJ  1997;314:1288
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Mould's Medical Anecdotes, Omnibus Edition, by R F Mould
Liam Farrell
BMJ  1997;314:1288
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Managing Heart Failure in Primary Care, by Henry Dargie
Peter J Herbert
BMJ  1997;314:1289
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This week's Education and debate

What happens when the private sector plans hospital services for the NHS: three case studies under the private finance initiative
Allyson M Pollock, Matthew Dunnigan, Declan Gaffney, Alison Macfarlane, F Azeem Majeed
BMJ  1997;314:1266
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Life expectancy, economic inequality, homicide, and reproductive timing in Chicago neighbourhoods
Margo Wilson, Martin Daly
BMJ  1997;314:1271
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Minerva
BMJ  1997;314:1290
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One hundred years ago: The General Medical Council election
BMJ  1997;314
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Any questions: Is eczema more common in vegetarians?
A C Chu
BMJ  1997;314
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One hundred years ago: Cremation at the hairdresser's
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This week's Corrections

Clinical Surgery
BMJ  1997;314:1289
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This week's Career focus

Developing skills for the broadcast media
Paul Stillman
BMJ  1997;314:2
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Briefing: The current law on maternity rights has been summarised in ...
BMJ  1997;314:3
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Briefing: Long working hours and job insecurity are leading to stress ...
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Briefing: Although doctors are generally exempt from jury service, they may ...
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Vote, vote, vote for ...
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Doctors will call for review body to return to original remit • Staff grade doctors will have new contract • BUPA plans to set up partnerships with consultants • NHS Executive issues guide on GP pilots • BMA Notices
BMJ  1997;314:1285
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This week's Obituaries

Harold William Charles Fuller Percival Maclean Andrew Harnarayan Ronald Wallace Knowlton Peter Grey Loton Parry Sydney Carver Woodhouse
BMJ  1997;314:1284
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Prospective cohort study of predictors of incident low back pain in nurses
Julia Smedley, Peter Egger, Cyrus Cooper, David Coggon
BMJ  1997;314:1225
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Association of mutations in mannose binding protein gene with childhood infection in consecutive hospital series
John A Summerfield, Michiko Sumiya, Michael Levin, Malcolm W Turner
BMJ  1997;314:1229
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Is the clinical course of HIV-1 changing? Cohort study
A Sinicco, R Fora, R Raiteri, M Sciandra, G Bechis, M M Calvo, P Gioannini
BMJ  1997;314:1232
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Meta-analysis of prophylactic or empirical antifungal treatment versus placebo or no treatment in patients with cancer complicated by neutropenia
Peter C Gøtzsche, Helle Krogh Johansen
BMJ  1997;314:1238
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Impact of a dedicated service for male mentally disordered remand prisoners in north west London: retrospective study
Tim Weaver, Fiona Taylor, Barbara Cunningham, Shane Kavanagh, Anthony Maden, Sian Rees, Adrian Renton
BMJ  1997;314:1244
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