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Behavioural counselling in primary care leads to improvements in health behaviour [Full text] FREE
Schools smoking prevention programme based on "stages of change" model does not work [Full text] FREE
Observed association between income inequality and mortality is not a statistical artefact [Full text] FREE
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Contrasting views on human population growth
A J McMichael, J Guillebaud, Maurice King
BMJ  1999;319:931-932
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Impediments to effective fertility reduction
Tim Black
BMJ  1999;319:932-933
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The population policy pendulum
Malcolm Potts
BMJ  1999;319:933-934
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Failure of an intervention to stop teenagers smoking
Donald Reid
BMJ  1999;319:934-935
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Fertility after treatment for cancer
JA Radford, SM Shalet, BA Lieberman
BMJ  1999;319:935-936
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Stumbling into rationing
Richard Smith
BMJ  1999;319:936
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Reasons for not seeing drug representatives
Richard Tiner, Adam Jacobs, P Dodd, T Dexter, A G Benbow
BMJ  1999;319:1002
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Postcodes don't indicate individuals' social class
Philip McLoone, Anne Ellaway
BMJ  1999;319:1003
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Coronary artery disease varies seasonably in subtropics
CM Wong, S Ma, TH Lam, AJ Hedley
BMJ  1999;319:1004
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Acute urinary retention in men
Jeremy J Elkabir, Anup Patel, Justin A Vale, Ross O'N Witherow, Mark Emberton, Ken Anson
BMJ  1999;319:1004
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DEC methods for appraising new drugs
Bruce Campbell, Robert Peveler, Ken Stein, Claire Packer, Dogan Fidan, Andrew Stevens, Nick Payne, Ron Akehurst, Ruairidh Milne, John Gabbay, Amanda Burls, Nick Freemantle, James Mason
BMJ  1999;319:1005
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Drugs arriving in Kosovo need checking
Gian Luca Quaglio, Paolo Mezzelani, Claudi Cuchillo
BMJ  1999;319:1007
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Rates of anxiety and depression in African-Caribbeans may not reflect reality
Kwame McKenzie
BMJ  1999;319:1007
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Data on babies' safety during hospital births are being ignored
James Drife
BMJ  1999;319:1008
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Midwives would prefer a vaginal delivery
Malcolm John Dickson, Mark Willett
BMJ  1999;319:1008
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NICE to rule on influenza flu drug zanamivir
Gavin Yamey
BMJ  1999;319:937
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Japan's worst nuclear accident leaves two fighting for life
Joe Lamar
BMJ  1999;319:937
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London professor struck off for bullying and dishonesty
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1999;319:938
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GP faces 15 charges of murder
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1999;319:938
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In brief
BMJ  1999;319:938
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CSM takes small step towards openness
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  1999;319:939
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Scientists who do not publish trial results are "unethical"
Gavin Yamey
BMJ  1999;319:939
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England to have more walk-in clinics
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1999;319:940
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Mental health services framework welcomed
Annabel Ferriman
BMJ  1999;319:940
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Cooperation could provide better hospital care
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1999;319:940
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Kosovo to shift emphasis to a primary care system
Hilary Bower
BMJ  1999;319:941
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Eight die in outbreak of virus spread from birds
Fred Charatan
BMJ  1999;319:941
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King in a maverick style
BMJ  1999;319:942
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NICE to rule on influenza flu drug zanamivir
Gavin Yamey
BMJ  1999;319:942
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Japan's worst nuclear accident leave two fighting for life
Joe Lamar
BMJ  1999;319:942
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Study finds that most drug donations to developing countries are appropriate
James Ciment
BMJ  1999;319:942
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Scientists discover that old drug is effective in preventing malaria
David Spurgeon
BMJ  1999;319:942
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Antihypertensive drug could be useful for eye disorder
Deborah Josefson
BMJ  1999;319:942
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Placebo surgery provokes controversy
Scott Gottlieb
BMJ  1999;319:942
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Science, medicine, and the future: Contraception
David T Baird, Anna F Glasier
BMJ  1999;319:969-972
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ABC of complementary medicine: Acupuncture
Andrew Vickers, Catherine Zollman
BMJ  1999;319:973-976
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This week's General practice

Primary prevention of arterial thromboembolism in non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation in primary care: randomised controlled trial comparing two intensities of coumarin with aspirin
B S P Hellemons, M Langenberg, J Lodder, F Vermeer, H J A Schouten, Th Lemmens, J W van Ree, J A Knottnerus
BMJ  1999;319:958-964
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Pragmatic randomised controlled trial of local corticosteroid injection and naproxen for treatment of lateral epicondylitis of elbow in primary care
Elaine M Hay, Susan M Paterson, Martyn Lewis, Gillian Hosie, Peter Croft
BMJ  1999;319:964-968
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This week's Soundings

Oracles
Ricardo Silva
BMJ  1999;319:1013
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This week's Personal views

Both sides
Belinda Brewer
BMJ  1999;319:1013
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This week's Education and debate

Human numbers, environment, sustainability, and health
A J McMichael, J W Powles
BMJ  1999;319:977-980
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World population and health in transition
Veena Soni Raleigh
BMJ  1999;319:981-984
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Paths to lower fertility
John Caldwell
BMJ  1999;319:985-987
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Prospects for feeding the world Commentary: Bread for the world---another view
Tim Dyson, Maurice King
BMJ  1999;319:988-991
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China's one child family policy
Penny Kane, Ching Y Choi
BMJ  1999;319:992-994
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India: looking ahead to one and a half billion people
Robert Cassen, Pravin Visaria
BMJ  1999;319:995-997
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The US Department of State is policing the population policy lockstep
Maurice King
BMJ  1999;319:998-1001
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1999;319:1014
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This week's Fillers

When I use a word ...: That's show business
Jeff Aronson
BMJ  1999;319:972
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An unusual treatment: Intractable hiccups
John Macdonald
BMJ  1999;319:976
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A memorable patient: The need to know
Robert W Stout
BMJ  1999;319:1001
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One hundred years ago: The plague
BMJ  1999;319:1001
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Forensic psychiatry
John J Sandford
BMJ  1999;319:2
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Briefing: Transcribing five different perspectives on continuing medical education...
BMJ  1999;319:3
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TV: Curing the incurable
Chris Martyn
BMJ  1999;319:1012
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Book: The Baby Makers
Khaldoun Sharif
BMJ  1999;319:1011
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Book: How the Idea of Profession Changed the Writing of Medical History
Richard Westcott
BMJ  1999;319:1011
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This week's CHOICE

Benign uproar
BMJ  1999;319
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Benign uproar
BMJ  1999;319
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Website of the week: Demographic entrapment
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1999;319:1012
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Doctors need 5% pay rise just to stand still Average cost of college exam is £452 Threat of industrial action has not gone away BMA Notice
BMJ  1999;319:1010
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This week's Obituaries

James Bruce-Smith Austin Braybrooke Kettle Reginald Passmore David Michael Stern John Watson-Farrar
Llewellyn Lloyd, Alasdair Geddes, A B Kettle, Raymond Mills, Colin Stern, Hugh Phillips, J K Tucker
BMJ  1999;319:1009
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This week's Papers

Behavioural counselling in general practice for the promotion of healthy behaviour among adults at increased risk of coronary heart disease: randomised trial Commentary: Treatment allocation by the method of minimisation
Andrew Steptoe, Sheelagh Doherty, Elizabeth Rink, Sally Kerry, Tony Kendrick, Sean Hilton, Simon Day
BMJ  1999;319:943-948
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Cluster randomised controlled trial of expert system based on the transtheoretical ("stages of change") model for smoking prevention and cessation in schools
Paul Aveyard, K K Cheng, Joanne Almond, Emma Sherratt, Robert Lancashire, Terry Lawrence, Carl Griffin, Olga Evans
BMJ  1999;319:948-953
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Relation between income inequality and mortality: empirical demonstration Diminishing returns to aggregate level studies Two pathways, but how much do they diverge?
Michael Wolfson, George Kaplan, John Lynch, Nancy Ross, Eric Backlund, Hugh Gravelle, Richard G Wilkinson
BMJ  1999;319:953-957
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Effect of station design on death in the London Underground: observational study
T J Coats, D P Walter
BMJ  1999;319:957
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