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Humanitarian action: the duty of all doctors
Vivienne Nathanson
BMJ  1997;315:1389-1390
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Human rights and medical education
Jennifer Leaning
BMJ  1997;315:1390-1391
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Blinding laser weapons
John Marshall
BMJ  1997;315:1392
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South Africa: does a truth commission promote social reconciliation?
Derek Summerfield
BMJ  1997;315:1393
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Embargoes that endanger health
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  1997;315:1393-1394
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Prison health services
Michael Levy
BMJ  1997;315:1394-1395
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Strengthening "DOTS" through community care for tuberculosis
S Bertel Squire, David Wilkinson
BMJ  1997;315:1395-1396
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Progress in reducing inpatient mortality from acute myocardial infarction is slow
C David Naylor, Jack V Tu
BMJ  1997;315:1462
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Risk of testicular cancer in boys with cryptorchidism
Mark Davenport, A J Swerdlow, C D Higgins, M C Pike
BMJ  1997;315:1462
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Trial of thyroxine treatment for biochemically euthyroid patients has been approved
E H McLaren, C J G Kelly, M A Pollock
BMJ  1997;315:1463
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Doctors have moral imperative to call for end to embargo on Cuba
Delia Parnham-Cope
BMJ  1997;315:1463
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Reduction in use of temazepam is factor in deaths related to overdose
T C Gilhooly
BMJ  1997;315:1463-1464
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Local research ethics committees
D Talbot, D J M Reynolds, Peter G Stone, Colin E Blogg, Richard Rawlins, Andrew Barton
BMJ  1997;315:1464
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Total ban on landmines is unnecessary
Eddie Chaloner, Steve Mannion
BMJ  1997;315:1465
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Treating alcohol dependence
David M Keeling, C C H Cook, A D Thomson, Andrés Herrán, José Luis Vázquez-Barquero, Peter Haddad, Christopher Daly, Mark Ashworth, Claire Gerada
BMJ  1997;315:1465
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Lactic acidosis induced by phenformin is still a public health problem in Italy
G Enia, M Garozzo, C Zoccali
BMJ  1997;315:1466-1467
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Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
Edwina R L Williams, Jean Meadows, Jose Catal, Mark Shevlin, Viv Brunsden, Stephanie Walker, Mark Davies, Tina Ramkalawan
BMJ  1997;315:1467
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Review of interventions to prevent heart disease
David Batty, Shah Ebrahim, George Davey Smith
BMJ  1997;315:1468
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Academia: the view from below
Sonia Saxena, Elspeth Webb
BMJ  1997;315:1468-1469
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Public health information on world wide web is hard to find
David A Agbamu, Ewen Sim
BMJ  1997;315:1469
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UK adheres to Formula One exemption
John Warden
BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402
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In brief
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Yves Montand to be exhumed to test paternity
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402
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British court allows terminally ill baby to die
Clare Dyer
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Clinton proposes patients' bill of rights
Terri Rutter
BMJ  1997;315:1397-1402
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JAMA wants campaign on clinical alerts
Deborah Josefson
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British public wants more money for NHS
Linda Beecham
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Canada re-examines its AIDS and HIV programmes
David Spurgeon
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Death rate from HIV infection rises in Bombay
Ganapati Mudur
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Children living away from home need safeguards
Caroline White
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British families win compensation over CJD deaths
Clare Dyer
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EU takes action over food safety
Rory Watson
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SmithKline Beecham fined in Hungary
Carl Kovac
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Médecins Sans Frontières faces new challenges
Hilary Bower
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Recent advances :General management of end stage renal disease
Robert Walker
BMJ  1997;315:1429-1432
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ABC of palliative care: HIV infection and AIDS
Chris G A Wood, Sally Whittet, Caroline S Bradbeer
BMJ  1997;315:1433-1436
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The validity of general practitioners' self assessment of knowledge: cross sectional study
Jocelyn Tracey, Bruce Arroll, Philip Barham, David Richmond
BMJ  1997;315:1426-1428
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Downsizing at Rhinoceros General
George Dunea
BMJ  1997;315:1472
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This week's Personal views

Taking treatment to the people in Ethiopia
Peter J Watkins, Val Watkins
BMJ  1997;315:1472-1473
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Ketamine and Kalashnikovs
James Rogers
BMJ  1997;315:1473-1474
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Medical care in Iraq after six years of sanctions
Richard Garfield, Sarah Zaidi, Jean Lennock
BMJ  1997;315:1474-1475
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This week's Medicine and books

The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security, by Jacob S Hacker
Donald Light
BMJ  1997;315:1476
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The Hidden Epidemic: Confronting Sexually Transmitted Diseases, by Institute of Medicine
Michael Adler
BMJ  1997;315:1477
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They were cheap and available: prisoners as research subjects in twentieth century America
Allen M Hornblum
BMJ  1997;315:1437-1441
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To the point of farce: a martian view of the hardinian taboo—the silence that surrounds population control
Maurice King, Charles Elliott
BMJ  1997;315:1441-1443
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Personal paper Africa in the 21st century: can despair be turned to hope?
Dorothy E Logie, Solomon R Benatar
BMJ  1997;315:1444-1446
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Pitfalls of tuberculosis programmes in prisons
Hernán Reyes, Rudi Coninx
BMJ  1997;315:1447-1450
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Abhorrent weapons and "superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering": from field surgery to law
Robin M Coupland
BMJ  1997;315:1450-1452
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Antipersonnel landmines: facts, fictions, and priorities
Chris Giannou
BMJ  1997;315:1453-1454
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Universal declaration of human rights
BMJ  1997;315:1455-1456
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Walk in peace: banish landmines from our globe
Eoin O'Brien
BMJ  1997;315:1456-1458
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Sudan: eating dust and returning to dust
Hans Veeken
BMJ  1997;315:1458-1460
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Tajikistan: no pay, no care
Hans Veeken
BMJ  1997;315:1460-1461
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Minerva
BMJ  1997;315:1478
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A memorable patient: Effective analgesia
David S H Bell
BMJ  1997;315
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Endpiece: Alternative definitions
Ambrose Bierce
BMJ  1997;315
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A memorable patient: Medical care in the Raj
Brahm Dev
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Endpiece: Badly needed
John Shaw Billings
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Ahead of the times: The changing face of political correctness
Jeannette Naish
BMJ  1997;315
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This week's Corrections

Abortion: Between Freedom and Necessity
BMJ  1997;315:1476
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Thinking of taking a staff grade post?
Graham Buckley
BMJ  1997;315:2
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Briefing: The government has proposed changes to the transitional arrangements for ...
BMJ  1997;315:3
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Briefing: Rose-tinted view of Canada? Editor - Stephen Larssen has done ...
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Human rights begin at home
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Selection
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Consultants' leaders repeat warning about BUPA partnership • NHS appoints charter advisers • Access to GPs' records must have patients' consent • Supporting GPs who are underperforming • WMA support for refusal to take part in torture
BMJ  1997;315:1471
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This week's Obituaries

Sir Anthony Michael ("Tony") Dawson
BMJ  1997;315:1470
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Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of strategies to promote adherence to tuberculosis treatment
Jimmy Volmink, Paul Garner
BMJ  1997;315:1403-1406
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Comparison of cost effectiveness of directly observed treatment (DOT) and conventionally delivered treatment for tuberculosis: experience from rural South Africa
Katherine Floyd, David Wilkinson, Charles Gilks
BMJ  1997;315:1407-1411
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Mefloquine to prevent malaria: a systematic review of trials
Ashley Croft, Paul Garner
BMJ  1997;315:1412-1416
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Weapons injuries during and after periods of conflict: retrospective analysis
David R Meddings
BMJ  1997;315:1417-1420
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The quality of health care in prison: results of a year's programme of semistructured inspections
John Reed, Maggi Lyne
BMJ  1997;315:1420-1424
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Household survey of locomotor disability caused by poliomyelitis and landmines in Afghanistan
Marie-Laurence Lambert, Isabelle François, Cécile Salort, Vincent Slypen, Françoise Bertrand, René Tonglet
BMJ  1997;315:1424-1425
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