26 April 1997 (Vol 314, Issue 7089)

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Editor's Choice

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News

Tobacco companies seek to pay $300bn as lawsuit settlement

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The BMJ's Question Time

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In brief

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PFI condemned as a failure

BMJ 1997;314:1217.4 (Published 26 April 1997)

Canada retreats over tobacco laws

BMJ 1997;314:1217.5 (Published 26 April 1997)

Health authority pays out £2m over radiation blunder

BMJ 1997;314:1217.6 (Published 26 April 1997)

Young doctors feel isolated

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General Medical Council attacks medical training

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Family accuses doctors of failing to warn of risk

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AIDS drug trials attacked

BMJ 1997;314:1217.10 (Published 26 April 1997)

US doctors rush to join unions

BMJ 1997;314:1217.11 (Published 26 April 1997)

Editorials

Modern treatments for internal haemorrhoids

BMJ 1997;314:1211 (Published 26 April 1997)

The future of locality commissioning

BMJ 1997;314:1212 (Published 26 April 1997)

Is one arterial graft enough?

BMJ 1997;314:1213 (Published 26 April 1997)

The private finance initiative

BMJ 1997;314:1214 (Published 26 April 1997)

Drug treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia

BMJ 1997;314:1215 (Published 26 April 1997)

Letters

Bureaucracy of purchaser-provider split delays treatment

BMJ 1997;314:1275.1 (Published 26 April 1997)

Counting the cost of social disadvantage in primary care

BMJ 1997;314:1275.2 (Published 26 April 1997)

Community mental health teams in London are being increasingly stretched

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Cervical screening

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Home medical students account for less than half the full registrants Britain requires

BMJ 1997;314:1278.1 (Published 26 April 1997)

Recommendations for improving national data on congenital anomalies are being implemented

BMJ 1997;314:1278.2 (Published 26 April 1997)

Crisis in London's mental health services

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Letters - continued

Bodybuilders find it easy to obtain insulin to help them in training

BMJ 1997;314:1280.1 (Published 26 April 1997)

Dangers of sunbeds are greater in the commercial sector

BMJ 1997;314:1280.2 (Published 26 April 1997)

Junior surgeons are becoming deskilled as result of Calman proposals

BMJ 1997;314:1281.1 (Published 26 April 1997)

New government must reassess its criminal justice policy

BMJ 1997;314:1281.2 (Published 26 April 1997)

Prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism

BMJ 1997;314:1281.3 (Published 26 April 1997)

Not all those who died after Hillsborough did so by 3 15 pm

BMJ 1997;314:1283.1 (Published 26 April 1997)

Concussive convulsions

BMJ 1997;314:1283.2 (Published 26 April 1997)

Minerva

Minerva

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Fillers

One hundred years ago: The General Medical Council election

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One hundred years ago: Cremation at the hairdresser's

BMJ 1997;314:0.10 (Published 26 April 1997)

Any questions: Is eczema more common in vegetarians?

BMJ 1997;314:0.9 (Published 26 April 1997)

This Week In the BMJ

Mutation in mannose binding protein gene leads to more infections in children

BMJ 1997;314:0.3 (Published 26 April 1997)

GPs change services through locality commissioning

BMJ 1997;314:0.6 (Published 26 April 1997)

Previous back trouble predicts new back pain in nurses

BMJ 1997;314:0.2 (Published 26 April 1997)

Only proved fungal infections should be treated in cancer

BMJ 1997;314:0.5 (Published 26 April 1997)

Evidence of secular changes in HIV infection

BMJ 1997;314:0.4 (Published 26 April 1997)

GPs believe that Health of the Nation targets cannot be met

BMJ 1997;314:0.7 (Published 26 April 1997)

Clinical Reviews

Science, medicine, and the future : Hypertension

BMJ 1997;314:1258 (Published 26 April 1997)

ABC of clinical haematology: Haematological disorders at the extremes of life

BMJ 1997;314:1262 (Published 26 April 1997)

Medicine and books

Selection

BMJ 1997;314:0.11 (Published 26 April 1997)

Multiple Sclerosis (Clinical and Pathogenetic Basis)

BMJ 1997;314:1288.1 (Published 26 April 1997)

Mould's Medical Anecdotes, Omnibus Edition

BMJ 1997;314:1288.2 (Published 26 April 1997)

Managing Heart Failure in Primary Care

BMJ 1997;314:1289.1 (Published 26 April 1997)

Papers

Prospective cohort study of predictors of incident low back pain in nurses

BMJ 1997;314:1225 (Published 26 April 1997)

Association of mutations in mannose binding protein gene with childhood infection in consecutive hospital series

BMJ 1997;314:1229 (Published 26 April 1997)

Is the clinical course of HIV-1 changing? Cohort study

BMJ 1997;314:1232 (Published 26 April 1997)

Meta-analysis of prophylactic or empirical antifungal treatment versus placebo or no treatment in patients with cancer complicated by neutropenia

BMJ 1997;314:1238 (Published 26 April 1997)

Impact of a dedicated service for male mentally disordered remand prisoners in north west London: retrospective study

BMJ 1997;314:1244 (Published 26 April 1997)

General practice

What does locality commissioning in Avon offer? Retrospective descriptive evaluation

BMJ 1997;314:1246 (Published 26 April 1997)

Are the Health of the Nation's targets attainable? Postal survey of general practitioners' views

BMJ 1997;314:1250 (Published 26 April 1997)

Information in practice

Evaluation of a decision support system for initiation and control of oral anticoagulation in a randomised trial

BMJ 1997;314:1252 (Published 26 April 1997)

Netlines

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Education and debate

What happens when the private sector plans hospital services for the NHS: three case studies under the private finance initiative

BMJ 1997;314:1266 (Published 26 April 1997)

Life expectancy, economic inequality, homicide, and reproductive timing in Chicago neighbourhoods

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Doctors will call for review body to return to original remitStaff grade doctors will have new contractBUPA plans to set up partnerships with consultantsNHS Executive issues guide on GP pilotsBMA Notices

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Soundings

A-wake?

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Personal Views

The system must change

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Electronic nagging

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Career focus

Developing skills for the broadcast media

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Briefing

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Briefing

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Briefing

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Correction

Clinical Surgery

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Obituary

Harold William Charles FullerPercival Maclean Andrew HarnarayanRonald Wallace KnowltonPeter Grey Loton ParrySydney Carver Woodhouse

BMJ 1997;314:1284 (Published 26 April 1997)