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This week's Editorials

Lessons from the Pearce affair: handling scientific fraud
Stephen Lock
BMJ  1995;310:1547
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Vitamin C and vascular disease
Christopher J Bulpitt
BMJ  1995;310:1548-1549
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Psychiatric services for people with learning disabilities
Andrew H Reid
BMJ  1995;310:1549-1550
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The BMJ family
Richard Smith, Tony Delamothe
BMJ  1995;310:1550-1551
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Family mediation
Thelma Fisher
BMJ  1995;310:1551
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Their lordships on medical research
Richard Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1552
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This week's Letters

The shaken infant syndrome
Stephen Leadbeatter, Ryk James, Susan Claydon, Bernard Knight
BMJ  1995;310:1600
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Deal with minor episodes of abuse to prevent more serious injuries
Alison M Kemp, Jo Sibert
BMJ  1995;310:1600
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Serious effects of shaking were described in 1971
A Norma Guthkelch
BMJ  1995;310:1600
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Authors' reply
Helen Carty, Jane Ratcliffe
BMJ  1995;310:1600-1601
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Maternal haemoglobin and birth weight in different ethnic groups
Sarah Vause, Michael Maresh, Khaled Khaled
BMJ  1995;310:1601
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Study's conclusions are implausible
A Houghton
BMJ  1995;310:1601
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Lower haemoglobin may be the result rather than the cause of larger fetuses
David Howe
BMJ  1995;310:1601
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Figure for lower end of range of maximal haemoglobin is too low
Alan F Fleming
BMJ  1995;310:1601-1602
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Author's reply
Philip Steer
BMJ  1995;310:1602
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Outcomes of neonatal intensive care
David Field
BMJ  1995;310:1602
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Water births
C N Barry
BMJ  1995;310:1602
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Trends in sudden infant death
A N Stanton
BMJ  1995;310:1602-1603
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Infant respiratory death rates mirror sudden infant deaths
D L Crombie, K W Cross, D M Fleming
BMJ  1995;310:1603
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Dutch doctor convicted of murdering disabled infant
Janet Goodall
BMJ  1995;310:1603
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Misleading meta-analysis
James Le Fanu
BMJ  1995;310:1603-1604
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Registers for clinical trials already exist
J A Muir Gray
BMJ  1995;310:1604
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Variability among studies should be investigated
A Perry, R Persaud
BMJ  1995;310:1604
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Fish oils and cardiovascular disease
Andrew Haines, John S Yudkin
BMJ  1995;310:1604
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Advance directives
Paul A J Hardy
BMJ  1995;310:1604
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Law Commission's report makes no provision for dissenting doctors
A P Cole
BMJ  1995;310:1604-1605
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Incompetence develops gradually
John P Wattis
BMJ  1995;310:1605
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Keyhole surgery
R S Taylor, T M Loosemore
BMJ  1995;310:1605
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Accident and emergency radiology
A H Troughton, I Kendall
BMJ  1995;310:1605
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Comparison view radiographs are not routinely required
T F Beattie, M Hendry, M Mcphillips, S Mackenzie
BMJ  1995;310:1605
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Elderly people and the 1990 act
Farshid Namdaran, James Sherval, Martin Bull
BMJ  1995;310:1605-1606
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Medical schools and racial discrimination
Peter Richards, Chris Mcmanus
BMJ  1995;310:1606
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Treating mental health problems in health care workers
James Barrett
BMJ  1995;310:1606
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Failing sick doctors
Sydney Brandon
BMJ  1995;310:1606
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British Doctors' and Dentists' Group will provide an intervention service from 1 July
I M Joiner
BMJ  1995;310:1606-1607
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FHSA's or health commission's medical adviser can support and advise
Gordon Barclay
BMJ  1995;310:1607
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Treatment in the air
D R Farquhar-Thomson, T Skinner
BMJ  1995;310:1607
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Trust withdraws allegations against consultant
Su Maddock
BMJ  1995;310:1607
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Suspension was waste of talent
Wendy Savage
BMJ  1995;310:1607
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This week's News

British GPs reject out of hours offer
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:1553
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Headlines
BMJ  1995;310:1554
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Consultant struck off for fraudulent claims
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:1554-1555
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Disabled people take care issues to court
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1995;310:1555
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Peers define best and worst of NHS research
John Warden
BMJ  1995;310:1555-1556
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India moves towards equal rights for disabled people
Meenal Mudur
BMJ  1995;310:1556
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Abortion laws cause problems in Poland
Marek Gajewski
BMJ  1995;310:1556-1557
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Academics call for review of National Lottery's funding
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:1557
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Health ministers to help orphan drugs
Rory Watson
BMJ  1995;310:1557-1558
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Nurses claim breakthrough in pay
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:1558
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How we live now
Jane Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1558
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This week's Papers

Interrelation of vitamin C, infection, haemostatic factors, and cardiovascular disease
Kay-Tee Khaw, Peter Woodhouse
BMJ  1995;310:1559-1563
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Vitamin C and risk of death from stroke and coronary heart disease in cohort of elderly people
Catharine R Gale, Christopher N Martyn, Paul D Winter, Cyrus Cooper
BMJ  1995;310:1563-1566
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Risk factors for acanthamoeba keratitis in contact lens users: a case-control study
Cherry F Radford, Annette S Bacon, John K G Dart, Darwin C Minassian
BMJ  1995;310:1567-1570
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Macular degeneration and early menopause: a case-control study
Johannes R Vingerling, Ida Dielemans, Jacqueline C M Witteman, Albert Hofman, Diederick E Grobbee, Paulus T V M de Jong
BMJ  1995;310:1570-1571
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Lower respiratory infection and inflammation in infants with newly diagnosed cystic fibrosis
David S Armstrong, Keith Grimwood, Rosemary Carzino, John B Carlin, Anthony Olinsky, Peter D Phelan
BMJ  1995;310:1571-1572
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This week's General practice

Extracontractual referrals: safety valve or administrative paperchase?
Barbara Ghodse
BMJ  1995;310:1573-1576
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Hospital investigation of men and women treated for angina
Ian Spencer, Nigel Unwin, Gordon Pledger
BMJ  1995;310:1576
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This week's Soundings

Resting the brain
Tony Smith
BMJ  1995;310:1611
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Microbes and cancer
Bernard Dixon
BMJ  1995;310:1611
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This week's Personal views

General practice's last stand
D P Kernick
BMJ  1995;310:1613
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This week's Medicine and books

A Literature Review of the Cost-Effectiveness of Nuclear Medicine
Tom Jefferson
BMJ  1995;310:1614
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Private Decisions, Public Debate: Women, Reproduction and Population
Monica Das Gupta
BMJ  1995;310:1614-1615
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Management of Disasters and their Aftermath
Patrick K Plunkett
BMJ  1995;310:1615
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The Prisoners' Handbook 1995
Ed Walker
BMJ  1995;310:1615
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This week's Education and debate

Integrating undergraduate and postgraduate education in general practice: experience in Tayside
John Bain, Robin Scott, David Snadden
BMJ  1995;310:1577-1579
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Where should health services go: local authorities versus the NHS?
Allyson M Pollock
BMJ  1995;310:1580-1584
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Local government and health care: the historical perspective
Charles Webster
BMJ  1995;310:1584-1587
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The case for closer cooperation between local authorities and the NHS
David J Hunter
BMJ  1995;310:1587-1589
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Female genital mutilation in Britain
J A Black, G D Debelle
BMJ  1995;310:1590-1592
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Female genital mutilation in France
Colette Gallard
BMJ  1995;310:1592-1593
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Why the problem continues in Britain
Rupert Walder
BMJ  1995;310:1593-1594
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Recent Advances: Respiratory medicine
R M du Bois
BMJ  1995;310:1594-1597
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;310:1616
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This week's Fillers

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
BMJ  1995;310:1566
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WORDS TO THE WISE
Grant Hutchison
BMJ  1995;310:1572
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ANY QUESTIONS
John Rees
BMJ  1995;310:1597
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;310:1615
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Facing the future
Sarah Kelly
BMJ  1995;310:1612
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An everyday story of ICU folk
Graham Baldock
BMJ  1995;310:1612-1613
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

From the public health conference • Transport policies should be reviewed • Public health faculty should be restricted to doctors • Discrimination in admission to medical school should end • Proposal for school family planning clinics defeated • Conference welcomes core values document • Community doctors have had some success • Trainees are concerned over manpower • The conference.. • NHS to have code of practice on openness • Minister gives assurance on GMC's performance review • Health secretary sets out aims • Junior doctors' salaries must be protected • WMA secretary calls for doctors to remain patients' advocates • NHS socialised medicine works, says health secretary • The ethics of audit must be considered
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;310:1608
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