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7 April 2001 (Vol 322, No 7290)
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This week in the BMJ [Full text]

People with higher IQ may live longer [Full text]
Primary immunisation is not related to sudden infant death [Full text]
Home chemotherapy is a feasible alternative to outpatient clinic [Full text]
Heart disease treatment in general practice favours men [Full text]
Computer based education works for schizophrenic patients [Full text]
The Human Rights Act may change the management of psychiatric patients in England [Full text]

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A new beginning for care for elderly people?
John Grimley Evans, Raymond C Tallis
BMJ  2001;322:807-808, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.807
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Fatigue: time to recognise and deal with an old problem
Anne-Marie Feyer
BMJ  2001;322:808-809, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.808
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Home delivery: chemotherapy and pizza?
A M Young, D J Kerr
BMJ  2001;322:809-810, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.809
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Obtaining consent for examination and treatment
Alexander McCall Smith
BMJ  2001;322:810-811, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.810
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The anaemia of chronic disease
E J Fitzsimons, J H Brock
BMJ  2001;322:811-812, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.811
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Using patient identifiable data without consent
Phillip Cox, Lesley Roberts, Sue Wilson, Barry Evans, Colin N Ramsay, Rustam Al-Shahi, Charles Warlow
BMJ  2001;322:858, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.858
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Postherpetic neuralgia
David Bowsher, Sigurdur Helgason, Johann A Sigurdsson, Judith Breuer, Fiona Scott, Mary Leedham-Green, Tom Marshall, Rory Greer, Andrew Severn
BMJ  2001;322:859, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.859
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Could fewer islet cells be transplanted in type 1 diabetes?
James Shapiro, Edmond Ryan, Garth L Warnock, Norman M Kneteman, Jonathan Lakey, Gregory S Korbutt, Ray V Rajotte, Norman Waugh
BMJ  2001;322:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.861
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Non-combatants are often injured while clearing mines
Shehan Hettiaratchy, Eddie Chaloner, Phil Jones
BMJ  2001;322:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.861/a
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Africa deserves better treatment from the West
Yohannes Damtew Tefera
BMJ  2001;322:861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.861/b
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Osteoporosis is a risk factor, not a disease
K E Pearce
BMJ  2001;322:862, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.862
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Refugee doctors find it hard to get back into practice
Genc Rumani
BMJ  2001;322:862, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.862/a
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High dose methylprednisolone must be given for 24 or 48 hours after acute spinal cord injury
Michael B Bracken
BMJ  2001;322:862, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.862/b
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Television programmes could market breast feeding
Virginia Thorley
BMJ  2001;322:863, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.863
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Medical software's free future
Tim Benson, Andrew Skinner, Douglas Carnall
BMJ  2001;322:863, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.863/a
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Distinguishing between partial seizures and panic attacks
Mark C Dale, H-J Huppertz, A Schulze-Bonhage
BMJ  2001;322:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.864
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Delivering bad news
Charles Essex, Paul C Nolan, Peter Davies
BMJ  2001;322:864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.864/a
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Empathy is important for enablement
Stewart W Mercer, Graham C M Watt, David Reilly
BMJ  2001;322:865, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.865
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Radiation dose from depleted uranium can now be measured
Richard F Mould
BMJ  2001;322:865, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.865/a
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Trial experience and recollection of consent
Heather Goodare, Charlotte Williamson
BMJ  2001;322:866, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.866
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Most psychiatrists oppose plans for new mental health act
M J Crawford, W Hopkins, P Thomas, J Moncreiff, J Bindman, A J Gray
BMJ  2001;322:866, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.866/a
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Scientists attack Bush over U turn on climate change treaty
Polly Ghazi
BMJ  2001;322:813, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.813
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New centre to investigate global health threats
Tessa Richards
BMJ  2001;322:813, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.813/a
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In brief
BMJ  2001;322:814, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.814
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Spanish sex workers forced to carry health check cards
Paul Rigg
BMJ  2001;322:814, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.814/a
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beta Blocker response may have gene link
Scott Gottlieb
BMJ  2001;322:814, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.814/b
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Down's children received "less favourable" hospital treatment
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2001;322:815, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.815
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US considers medical role for marijuana
Deborah Josefson
BMJ  2001;322:817, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.817/a
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US judges rule in favour of abortion "hit list"
Fred Charatan
BMJ  2001;322:818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.818
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New stroke drug in trials
Abi Berger
BMJ  2001;322:818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.818/a
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Health select committee criticises directors of public health
Rhona MacDonald
BMJ  2001;322:816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.816
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Israel to allow women to donate their ova
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
BMJ  2001;322:816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.816/a
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Two more medical schools to open by 2003
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2001;322:816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.816/b
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Locums in Wales are poorly managed, says Audit Commission
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2001;322:816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.816/c
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Hong Kong wants adults to save for their health care in old age
Jane Parry
BMJ  2001;322:816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.816/d
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World Psychiatric Association asked to take up case of Chinese dissidents
Fred Charatan
BMJ  2001;322:817, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.817
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Consultants reprimanded over false allegations
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2001;322:818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.818/b
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Women with gene mutation may respond to chemotherapy differently
Deborah Josefson
BMJ  2001;322:818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.818/c
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PubMed Central increases its appeal
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2001;322:818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.818/d
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Sex inequalities in ischaemic heart disease in general practice: cross sectional survey
Julia Hippisley-Cox, Mike Pringle, Nicola Crown, Andy Meal, Alison Wynn
BMJ  2001;322:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.832
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Randomised trial of personalised computer based information for patients with schizophrenia
Ray B Jones, Jacqueline M Atkinson, Denise A Coia, Lesley Paterson, A Ross Morton, Kate McKenna, Neil Craig, Jillian Morrison, W Harper Gilmour
BMJ  2001;322:835-840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.835
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Regular review: Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Paul Brown
BMJ  2001;322:841-844, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.841
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ABC of diseases of liver, pancreas, and biliary system: Transplantation of the liver and pancreas
K R Prasad, J P A Lodge
BMJ  2001;322:845-847, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.845
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Some diseases must declare themselves
George Dunea
BMJ  2001;322:873, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.873/a
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Is ignorance bliss?
Derrick Baxby
BMJ  2001;322:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.872
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Potential impact of the Human Rights Act on psychiatric practice: the best of British values?
Rosanne Macgregor-Morris, Jane Ewbank, Luke Birmingham
BMJ  2001;322:848-850, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.848
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External assessment of health care
Charles Shaw
BMJ  2001;322:851-854, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.851
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Care of older people: Falls in late life and their consequences---implementing effective services
Cameron G Swift
BMJ  2001;322:855-857, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.855
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Minerva
BMJ  2001;322:874, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.874
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One hundred years ago: The doctor's carriage and his coachman
BMJ  2001;322:830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.830/a
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Endpiece: Wise advice
BMJ  2001;322:830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.830/b
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Endpiece: Oh yes
BMJ  2001;322:830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.830/c
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Endpiece: Faint praise
BMJ  2001;322:832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.832/a
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One hundred years ago: The medical profession as an example
BMJ  2001;322:835, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.835/a
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A memorable patient: The evidence and Audrey
Ross Camidge
BMJ  2001;322:844, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.844
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Evidence based bloodletting
Mike Crilly
BMJ  2001;322:854, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.854
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TV: Valuable voyeurism?
Boleslav Lichterman
BMJ  2001;322:871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.871
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Art: DEAD: An End to Conveyor Belt Funerals
Joan Beadle
BMJ  2001;322:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.870
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Book: ± Nothing • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
John Quin
BMJ  2001;322:869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.869
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Book: Tobacco control in developing countries
Merete Osler
BMJ  2001;322:869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.869/a
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Book: The Dying Process: Experiences of Patients in Palliative Care
Esther Waterhouse
BMJ  2001;322:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.870/a
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The BMJ: competing with football
BMJ  2001;322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.0
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Netlines
Harry Brown
BMJ  2001;322:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.872/a
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The BMJ: competing with football
BMJ  2001;322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.0/a
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Everything you wanted to know about your anatomy but were too afraid to ask
Michael Arnold Glueck, Robert J Cihak
BMJ  2001;322:873, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.873
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Website of the week: Intelligence, schizophrenia, and the corporate industry
Marcus Müllner
BMJ  2001;322:871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.871/a
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This week's obituaries [PDF]

Alexander (Sandy) Wylie Logie • Samuel Geoffrey Bedford • Hilary Janet Davies • George Gregor Donaldson • Kenneth Charles Easton • Benjamin Sidney Good • Nicholas Hugh Gordon • Emanuel Silver • Robin Barker Smith
Chris Cameron, P F Taylor, Brian Beach, Andrew McHutchon, K C Hines, Vivien Good, Ivor Davie, Murray Carmichael, Sydney Leigh
BMJ  2001;322:867, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.867
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Longitudinal cohort study of childhood IQ and survival up to age 76
Lawrence J Whalley, Ian J Deary
BMJ  2001;322:819, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.819
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The UK accelerated immunisation programme and sudden unexpected death in infancy: case-control study
Peter J Fleming, Peter S Blair, Martin Ward Platt, John Tripp, Iain J Smith, Jean Golding, the CESDI SUDI research group
BMJ  2001;322:822, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.822
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Compliance, satisfaction, and quality of life of patients with colorectal cancer receiving home chemotherapy or outpatient treatment: a randomised controlled trial
J M Borras, A Sanchez-Hernandez, M Navarro, M Martinez, E Mendez, J L L Ponton, J A Espinas, J R Germa
BMJ  2001;322:826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.826
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Fatigue, alcohol, and serious road crashes in France: factorial study of national data
P Philip, F Vervialle, P Le Breton, J Taillard, J A Horne
BMJ  2001;322:829-830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.829
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Relation between socioeconomic status and tumour stage in patients with breast, colorectal, ovarian, and lung cancer: results from four national, population based studies
David H Brewster, Catherine S Thomson, David J Hole, Roger J Black, Paul L Stroner, Charles R Gillis
BMJ  2001;322:830-831, doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7290.830
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