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This week's Editorials

BMJ on the internet
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  1995;310:1343-1344
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Ebola virus
Diane Bennett, David Brown
BMJ  1995;310:1344-1345
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Spinal cord injuries in rugby union players
Timothy Noakes, Ismail Jakoet
BMJ  1995;310:1345-1346
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Primary care at last for Brazil?
Andrew Haines, Elizabeth Wartchow, Airton Stein, Eliana Mattos Dourado, Jon Pollock, Barbara Stilwell
BMJ  1995;310:1346-1347
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Corneal transplantation in Britain
A B Tullo, P A Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:1347-1348
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Recertifying general practitioners
Tessa Richards
BMJ  1995;310:1348-1349
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Cooperating, not competing, to improve health care
Don Berwick, Richard Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1349-1350
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This week's Letters

Increasing the number of organ transplants
Rafael Matesanz, Blanca Miranda, Carmen Felipe
BMJ  1995;310:1404
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Opting out scheme for donors has support in Britain
Colin Francome, Caryl Bryant, Marie Dunne
BMJ  1995;310:1404
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Establishing a minor illness nurse in a busy general practice
Anita Campbell, Michelle Herdman, Nicholas Kearsley, Steve Maric
BMJ  1995;310:1404-1405
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Busy is a weasel word
Simon Barley
BMJ  1995;310:1405
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Preregistration house officers in general practice
W McN Styles, I G Bogle
BMJ  1995;310:1405
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Problems will arise over who pays
B W McGuinness
BMJ  1995;310:1405
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Training in general practice is also important for postregistration doctors
Bill Cunningham, Brian Toms, Paddy Harrigan, Julian Turner, David Morgan
BMJ  1995;310:1405
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Posts are purely educational
George Freeman
BMJ  1995;310:1405-1406
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Services for cleft lip and palate
Peter Ward Booth
BMJ  1995;310:1406
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Surgical caseload is only one variable that influences outcome
Christopher Penfold
BMJ  1995;310:1406
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The fibromyalgia syndrome
Geoff Littlejohn
BMJ  1995;310:1406
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Electroacupuncture is a potentially valuable treatment
Adrian White
BMJ  1995;310:1406
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Unreliability of reports of hypoglycaemia by diabetic patients
M R Kiln
BMJ  1995;310:1407
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Hypoglycaemia was validated
Brian M Frier, Ian J Deary
BMJ  1995;310:1407
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Private prescribing of controlled drugs needs closer scrutiny
Elizabeth Parameshwar
BMJ  1995;310:1407
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Drug users' views on general practitioners
Robin Ireland, Iain Mcleod
BMJ  1995;310:1407-1408
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Methadone maintenance treatment
Richard Mattick, Wayne Hall, Jeff Ward, Michael Farrell, Michael Gossop, John Strang, Gerry Stimson
BMJ  1995;310:1408
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Environmental lead and children's intelligence
Herbert L Needleman
BMJ  1995;310:1408
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Britain must replace its lead pipes to meet WHO standards for drinking water
Erik Millstone, John Russell
BMJ  1995;310:1408-1409
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Authors' reply
Stuart J Pocock, Marjorie Smith, Peter Baghurst
BMJ  1995;310:1409
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Emergency care in general practice
Francis Richardson, Peter Donnelly, Caroline Lester
BMJ  1995;310:1409
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Nicotine patches
Neal L Benowitz
BMJ  1995;310:1409-1410
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Limitations of randomised controlled trials
L Peter Fielding, Roger Grace, Rosemary Hittinger
BMJ  1995;310:1410
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Childhood antecedents of schizophrenia
Ian Jones
BMJ  1995;310:1410
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Palliative care in terminal cardiac failure
Craig Gannon
BMJ  1995;310:1410-1411
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Small numbers of patients with terminal cardiac failure may make considerable demands on services
J M Beattie, R G Murray, Jan Brittle, Trish Catanheira
BMJ  1995;310:1411
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Reperfusion injury after myocardial infarction
B Paul Morgan
BMJ  1995;310:1411
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Sleep related vehicle accidents
C C H Cook, I P Albery
BMJ  1995;310:1411
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Screening overseas students for tuberculosis
S Sebugwawo, G H Stewart, J R Catterall, M Kirkup, A V J Butler
BMJ  1995;310:1411-1412
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GPs accept patients' vote on fundholding
Michael A Varnam, Malcolm Barker
BMJ  1995;310:1412
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A global health disaster network is needed
Earl W Ferguson, Anthony Villasenor, Stephen Cunnion, Claude De Ville De Goyet, Frank E Young, Ronald E Laporte
BMJ  1995;310:1412
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Rationing intensive care
G B Smith, B L Taylor, P J McQuillan, E Nials
BMJ  1995;310:1412-1413
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Data from one high dependency unit supports their effectiveness
J E Peacock, D L Edbrooke
BMJ  1995;310:1413
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Torture in Israel
Derek Summerfield
BMJ  1995;310:1413
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This week's News

US religious groups oppose gene patents
Fred B Charatan
BMJ  1995;310:1351
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First "no win, no fee" case to go to Lords
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:1351-1352
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Headlines
BMJ  1995;310:1352
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Britain ranks poorly for cancer survival rates
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1995;310:1352-1353
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Ebola threat eases
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:1353
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Britain to boost competitiveness and science
Richard Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1353-1354
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Traffic victims call for help
Luisa Dillner
BMJ  1995;310:1354
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Overseas doctors coming to Britain need language test
Jane Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1354
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Spanish doctors strike over pay
Vincente Mateu
BMJ  1995;310:1355
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Consent is not always essential, say Dutch experts
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  1995;310:1355-1356
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Patient packs to come on stream in Britain
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;310:1356
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New infection control measures miss the point
Simon Chapman
BMJ  1995;310:1356
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This week's Papers

Influence of vitamin D receptor genotype on bone mineral density in postmenopausal women: a twin study in Britain
T D Spector, R W Keen, N K Arden, N A Morrison, P J Major, T V Nguyen, P J Kelly, J R Baker, P N Sambrook, J S Lanchbury, J A Eisman
BMJ  1995;310:1357-1360
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Oral versus intravenous antibiotics for community acquired lower respiratory tract infection in a general hospital: open, randomised controlled trial
Robert Chan, Linda Hemeryck, Myra O'Regan, Luke Clancy, John Feely
BMJ  1995;310:1360-1362
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Prevalence and outcome of symptomatic carotid lesions in young adults
Antonio Carolei, Carmine Marini, Patrizia Nencini, Carlo Gandolfo, Cristina Motto, Elietta Zanette, Massimiliano Prencipe, Cesare Fieschi
BMJ  1995;310:1363-1366
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Mental disorders in young and middle aged men who commit suicide
Erkki Isometsa, Markus Henriksson, Mauri Marttunen, Martti Heikkinen, Hillevi Aro, Kimmo Kuoppasalmi, Jouko Lonnqvist
BMJ  1995;310:1366-1367
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Children who miss immunisation: implications for eliminating measles
Meirion R Evans
BMJ  1995;310:1367-1368
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Balti curries and iron
S J Fairweather-Tait, T E Fox, A Mallillin
BMJ  1995;310:1368
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This week's General practice

Need and demand for primary health care: a comparative survey approach
Jane L Hopton, Maria Dlugolecka
BMJ  1995;310:1369-1373
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Sociodemographic variables for general practices: use of census data
F Azeem Majeed, Derek G Cook, Jan Poloniecki, Jo Griffiths, Caroline Stones
BMJ  1995;310:1373-1374
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Guidance for authors: Nutrition guidelines
BMJ  1995;310:1374
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This week's Soundings

No laughing matter?
Liam Farrell
BMJ  1995;310:1415
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The view from Ulm minster
James Owen Drife
BMJ  1995;310:1415
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This week's Personal views

The end of a story
Muntzer Mughal
BMJ  1995;310:1416-1417
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This week's Medicine and books

The Paradox of Progress
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1995;310:1418
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Profession of Conscience: The Making and Meaning of Life-Sciences Liberalism
Peter D Toon
BMJ  1995;310:1418
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Best books on urology: a personal choice
Patrick H O' Reilly
BMJ  1995;310:1419
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This week's Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: Diagnosis and management of Clostridium difficile infection
Soad Tabaqchali, Pauline Jumaa
BMJ  1995;310:1375-1380
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Recent Advances: Medical informatics
Enrico Coiera
BMJ  1995;310:1381-1387
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The death of biomedical journals
Ronald E LaPorte, Eric Marler, Shunichi Akazawa, Francois Sauer, Carlos Gamboa, Chris Shenton, Caryle Glosser, Anthony Villasenor, Malcolm Maclure
BMJ  1995;310:1387-1390
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Telemedicine: lessons remain unheeded
Paul McLaren, C J Ball
BMJ  1995;310:1390-1391
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Teleradiology
Richard Wright, Claire Loughrey
BMJ  1995;310:1392-1393
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Smuggling and cross border shopping of tobacco in Europe
Luk Joossens, Martin Raw
BMJ  1995;310:1393-1397
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South Africa's Health: Restructuring South Africa's health care: dilemmas for planners
Rajendra Kale
BMJ  1995;310:1397-1399
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ABC of Asthma: CHRONIC ASTHMA--GENERAL MANAGEMENT
John Rees, John Price
BMJ  1995;310:1400-1401
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;310:1420
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This week's Fillers

A PATIENT WHO CHANGED MY PRACTICE
Beverley Webb
BMJ  1995;310:1380
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;310:1413
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Conflict of interest in the Times
Richard Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1417
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Fundholders should form wider partnerships • New medical training committee will have more GPs • Health minister threatens future of nurses' review body • Parliament comments on NHS trusts' financial management
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:1414
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