23 October 1999 (Vol 319, Issue 7217)

Editor's Choice

The everyday

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News

Paediatricians propose plan to insure every US child

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Health secretary will target heart disease

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Professor tried to get surgery stopped

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Doctors not obliged to carry out treatment they think “futile”

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In brief

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Sertraline approved for post-traumatic stress disorder

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WMA to tackle adverse health conditions in prisons

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WHO celebrates triumph over river blindness

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Antismoking campaigns should “target 4 year olds”

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Scottish secretary of the BMA resigns

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Medical abortion still not available in most countries

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Study into medical errors planned for the UK

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Young less tolerant of mentally ill than the old

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MRI found suitable for detecting coronary heart disease

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Lancet editor defends decision to publish GM research paper

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Editorials

Antidepressants and upper gastrointestinal bleeding

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Carbon monoxide poisoning

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Hyperbaric oxygen in carbon monoxide poisoning

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Preventing the cardiotoxicity of anthracyclines by dexrazoxane

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HIV and tuberculosis in the Commonwealth

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Letters

This week's Letters section

Effects of drug overdose in television drama on presentations for self poisoning

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Medical fiction could be misleading

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Association between type 1 diabetes and Hib vaccine

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Radioiodine and thyroid eye disease

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Non-attendance at outpatients departments

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Letters - continued

Anaesthetists need consent, but not written consent

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Risks of medicine and air travel

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Immunosuppression in renal transplantation

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Australia has considerable experience of transporting critically ill patients

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Minerva

Minerva

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Fillers

Knowledge

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A word out of place

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Women in the operating theatre

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The baby and the bathwater

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London operating theatres

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A doctor's reputation

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This Week In the BMJ

Clinical Reviews

Otolaryngology

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Digital examination for oral cancer

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Homoeopathy

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Antismoking campaigns should “target 4 year olds”

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Cell implants reconstruct myelin sheaths

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Tougher guidelines needed for research in developing countries

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Consumer group criticises surgeon general on ECT

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Papers

Papers - continued

General practice

Education and debate

MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Books

Parkinson's Disease: The Treatment Options

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Difficult Asthma

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TV

Learning to be you

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Carbon monoxide

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Personal View

In praise of hunch backing

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Soundings

Words failed me

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Career focus

Career focusBasic surgical trainingUseful contacts

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Briefing

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Briefing

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Briefing

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Corrections

Obituary