27 September 1997 (Vol 315, Issue 7111)

Editor's Choice

The stories behind the headlines

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News

US president announces own tobacco deal

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French plan to bail out social security system

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In brief

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Transatlantic collaboration on ethnic minority health announced

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Computers beat doctors in interpreting ECGs

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US journal attacks unethical HIV trials

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Thirty NHS trusts to merge

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Progesterone's role in cardiac protection revealed

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Blinding reviewers to authors' identity does not improve quality

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Gender bias exists in research

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Citing of research shows national bias

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Editorials

Optimising the investigation of meningococcal disease

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Climate change—thinking widely, working locally, acting personally

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Peer review: reform or revolution?

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Diagnostics in developing countries

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Determining prognosis after acute myocardial infarction in the thrombolytic era

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Letters

Hyperglycaemia after acute stroke

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More money is needed to care for patients with cancer

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Cancer self help groups are underused

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Letters - continued

Case-control study of sudden infant death syndrome in Scotland

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Giving thyroid hormones to clinically hypothyroid but biochemically euthyroid patients

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Diagnosing pulmonary embolism

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Pneumococcal vaccine campaign based in general practice

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Managing eye conditions in general practice

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Medical managers

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Minerva

Minerva

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Fillers

A patient who changed my practice: The importance of touch

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Any questions: Physical activity is best for back pain

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This Week In the BMJ

Clinical Reviews

Social phobia: epidemiology, recognition, and treatment

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ABC of palliative care: Principles of palliative care and pain control

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Papers

Papers - continued

General practice

Information in practice

Evaluation of computer support for prescribing (CAPSULE) using simulated cases

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Netlines

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Education and debate

Global climate change: the potential effects on health

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Soundings

This month's new journals

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Personal Views

The wrong job at the wrong time

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Ban the bottle

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Medicine and books

Clinical Applications of the Interferons

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Culture of Fear: Risk Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation

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Career focus

Planning to work in Canada?

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Briefing

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Briefing

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Briefing

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Correction

Obituary