01 February 1997 (Vol 314, Issue 7077)

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Editor's Choice

Editors try to be creative

BMJ 1997;314:0.1 (Published 1 February 1997)

News

Routine mammograms not recommended for younger women

BMJ 1997;314:323.1 (Published 1 February 1997)

Protein marker linked with poor cancer outcome

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In brief

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China bids to improve fitness levels

BMJ 1997;314:323.4 (Published 1 February 1997)

Drug testing kit approved for sale in US

BMJ 1997;314:323.5 (Published 1 February 1997)

Politics comes before health care in Quebec

BMJ 1997;314:323.6 (Published 1 February 1997)

Dutch euthanasia procedures relaxed

BMJ 1997;314:323.7 (Published 1 February 1997)

Report criticises French health ministry

BMJ 1997;314:323.8 (Published 1 February 1997)

Rise in legal action hits Britain's GPs

BMJ 1997;314:323.9 (Published 1 February 1997)

Oral cholera vaccine raises hopes

BMJ 1997;314:323.10 (Published 1 February 1997)

Glaucoma gene identified

BMJ 1997;314:323.11 (Published 1 February 1997)

France may ban part time work on nuclear sites

BMJ 1997;314:323.12 (Published 1 February 1997)

Medicare hospital fees will be frozen

BMJ 1997;314:323.13 (Published 1 February 1997)

Mixed sex wards to be phased out

BMJ 1997;314:323.14 (Published 1 February 1997)

US-style health organisations are likely in Britain

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Focus: Westminster – Labour would freeze funds for NHS

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Editorials

New guidelines on asthma management

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Managing measles

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Reducing vitamin A deficiency

BMJ 1997;314:317 (Published 1 February 1997)

Surgery, drugs, and the male orgasm

BMJ 1997;314:319 (Published 1 February 1997)

Cardiac sarcoidosis

BMJ 1997;314:320 (Published 1 February 1997)

Telling patients they have Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 1997;314:321 (Published 1 February 1997)

Letters

Bed shortages

BMJ 1997;314:369.1 (Published 1 February 1997)

Delay in diagnosis of homocystinuria

BMJ 1997;314:369.2 (Published 1 February 1997)

Future of the NHS will be one of change

BMJ 1997;314:370 (Published 1 February 1997)

Many claims about passive smoking are inadequately justified

BMJ 1997;314:371.1 (Published 1 February 1997)

Congenital anterior abdominal wall defects

BMJ 1997;314:371.2 (Published 1 February 1997)

Letters - continued

Giving influenza vaccination to all elderly people would raise ethical issues

BMJ 1997;314:373.1 (Published 1 February 1997)

Helping parents to cope when their preschool children are acutely ill

BMJ 1997;314:373.2 (Published 1 February 1997)

Many trusts find labour productivity index useful

BMJ 1997;314:374.1 (Published 1 February 1997)

The Babinski sign

BMJ 1997;314:374.2 (Published 1 February 1997)

Associate specialists are included in colleges' scheme for continuing medical education

BMJ 1997;314:374.3 (Published 1 February 1997)

Inquiry into homicides by psychiatric patients

BMJ 1997;314:375.1 (Published 1 February 1997)

Stabilisation of the population is necessary for health for all

BMJ 1997;314:375.2 (Published 1 February 1997)

Telling the diagnosis to patients with Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 1997;314:375.3 (Published 1 February 1997)

20% of patients may refuse consent to disclosure of information for Benefits Agency

BMJ 1997;314:376.1 (Published 1 February 1997)

Study about prehospital emergency care was cited incorrectly

BMJ 1997;314:376.2 (Published 1 February 1997)

Women need to be warned about dangers of hormone replacement therapy

BMJ 1997;314:376.3 (Published 1 February 1997)

Effect of psychogeriatric team on depression in frail elderly people at home

BMJ 1997;314:377 (Published 1 February 1997)

Plagiarism in the BMJ

BMJ 1997;314:378 (Published 1 February 1997)

Minerva

Minerva

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Fillers

A Basic Lesson Relearnt: The singing histopathologist

BMJ 1997;314:0.7 (Published 1 February 1997)

A Most Unfortunate Needlestick Injury: Why the doctor paid a taxi for the nurse

BMJ 1997;314:0.8 (Published 1 February 1997)

A Paper That Changed My Thinking: Are patients a myth?

BMJ 1997;314:0.9 (Published 1 February 1997)

This Week In the BMJ

Children susceptible to glue ear have more rather than longer episodes of effusion

BMJ 1997;314:0.6 (Published 1 February 1997)

New recombinant vaccine improves protection against hepatitis B

BMJ 1997;314:0.2 (Published 1 February 1997)

Patients with Hodgkin's disease have too many follow up visits

BMJ 1997;314:0.5 (Published 1 February 1997)

Respiratory disease persists in survivors of the Bhopal gas leak

BMJ 1997;314:0.4 (Published 1 February 1997)

Prophylactic antibiotics for children with measles seem to have little effect on mortality

BMJ 1997;314:0.3 (Published 1 February 1997)

Clinical Reviews

Science, medicine, and the future: The future of the management of ischaemic heart disease

BMJ 1997;314:356 (Published 1 February 1997)

ABC of Clinical haematology: Iron deficiency anaemia

BMJ 1997;314:360 (Published 1 February 1997)

Lesson of the week: cyclosporin treatment for ulcerative colitis complicated by fatal pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

BMJ 1997;314:363 (Published 1 February 1997)

Papers

Immune response to a new hepatitis B vaccine in healthcare workers who had not responded to standard vaccine: randomised double blind dose-response study

BMJ 1997;314:329 (Published 1 February 1997)

Meta-analysis of trials of prophylactic antibiotics for children with measles: inadequate evidence

BMJ 1997;314:334 (Published 1 February 1997)

Commentary: Summary statistics of poor quality studies must be treated cautiously

BMJ 1997;314:337 (Published 1 February 1997)

Papers - continued

Respiratory morbidity 10 years after the Union Carbide gas leak at Bhopal: a cross sectional survey

BMJ 1997;314:338 (Published 1 February 1997)

Commentary: Industry can damage your health

BMJ 1997;314:342 (Published 1 February 1997)

Commentary: Assessing the effects of environmental pollution when people know that they have been exposed

BMJ 1997;314:343.1 (Published 1 February 1997)

Follow up policy after treatment for Hodgkin's disease: too many clinic visits and routine tests? A review of hospital records

BMJ 1997;314:343.2 (Published 1 February 1997)

Duplication of surgical research presentations

BMJ 1997;314:346 (Published 1 February 1997)

A randomised controlled trial of dictating the clinic letter in front of the patient

BMJ 1997;314:347 (Published 1 February 1997)

Interesting idea, but case not proved

BMJ 1997;314:348 (Published 1 February 1997)

Drug points: Acute eosinophilic pneumonia associated with tenidap

BMJ 1997;314:349.1 (Published 1 February 1997)

Drug points: Potentiation of warfarin anticoagulant activity by miconazole oral gel

BMJ 1997;314:349.2 (Published 1 February 1997)

General practice

Duration and recurrence of otitis media with effusion in children from birth to 3 years: prospective study using monthly otoscopy and tympanometry

BMJ 1997;314:350 (Published 1 February 1997)

Commentary: Reduced confusion over ear effusion?

BMJ 1997;314:354.1 (Published 1 February 1997)

Commentary: Markov models of medical prognosis

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Education and debate

Regulating the price of the uk's drugs: second thoughts after the government's first report

BMJ 1997;314:365 (Published 1 February 1997)

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Government survives attack on NHSBMA prepares for devolutionCharter launched for adult mental health patientsNon-principals launch associationWork begins on osteopaths statutory body

BMJ 1997;314:381 (Published 1 February 1997)

Personal Views

Our brilliant careers

BMJ 1997;314:382.1 (Published 1 February 1997)

Managing gastric cancer in Britain: a Japanese experience

BMJ 1997;314:382.2 (Published 1 February 1997)

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

A very public death

BMJ 1997;314:383 (Published 1 February 1997)

Ethical issues in genetics ignored

BMJ 1997;314:384 (Published 1 February 1997)

Medicine and books

Impure Science. AIDS, Activism and the Politics of Knowledge

BMJ 1997;314:385.1 (Published 1 February 1997)

A Midwife Through the Dying Process

BMJ 1997;314:385.2 (Published 1 February 1997)

Career focus

Flexible training in cardiothoracic surgery

BMJ 1997;314:S2-7077 (Published 1 February 1997)

Briefing

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Briefing

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Briefing

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Correction

Baby milk companies accused of breaching marketing code

BMJ 1997;314:326 (Published 1 February 1997)

Obituary

John Basil RennieGeorge William Albert NeillBernard CashmanRonald HornThomas Geraint Illtyd JamesEibhlin KellyDerek Lorimer PryerKenneth RostronMalcolm ThompsonJohn Charles TurnerAudrey Phyllis WardThomas Murray Welsh

BMJ 1997;314:379 (Published 1 February 1997)