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This week's Editorials

Structural adjustment and health
Angela M Wakhweya
BMJ  1995;311:71-72
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Is aid to developing countries hitting the spot?
Paul Garner
BMJ  1995;311:72-73
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Protecting adolescent girls against tetanus
Loretta Brabin, Julia Kemp, Sheila M Maxwell, John Ikimalo, Orikomaba K Obunge, Nimi D Briggs
BMJ  1995;311:73-74
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Falls after strokes
Peter W Overstall
BMJ  1995;311:74-75
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Labour's health policy
Rudolf Klein
BMJ  1995;311:75-76
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This week's Letters

Transfer of patients requiring
F S Haddad, A R J Manktelow
BMJ  1995;311:121
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Burr holes are within the remit of every competent surgeon
Charles Langmaid
BMJ  1995;311:121
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Mr Percy's reply
A J L Percy
BMJ  1995;311:121
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Elective ventilation of potential organ donors
Peter G M Wallace
BMJ  1995;311:121
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Intensive care units have good reasons not to do it
Alex Manara, Claire Jewkes
BMJ  1995;311:121-122
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Written protocols do not solve difficulties
M S Nielsen
BMJ  1995;311:122
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Protocol balanced ethical principles
John Searle
BMJ  1995;311:122
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Increase in incidence of tuberculosis
John Millard, Charlotte Rayner
BMJ  1995;311:122
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Bottle feeding and the sudden infant death syndrome
E A Mitchell, A W Stewart, R P K Ford
BMJ  1995;311:122-123
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Authors' reply
Ruth Gilbert, Peter Fleming, Ruth Wigfield, Jem Berry, Peter Rudd
BMJ  1995;311:123
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Diabetes and breast feeding
D F O'Sullivan
BMJ  1995;311:123
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Vitamin A deficiency
David James
BMJ  1995;311:123
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Use non-invasive dark adaptometry to screen children and adolescents
Stephen A Vernon
BMJ  1995;311:124
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Effect of alfacalcidol on renal bone disease in mild to moderate renal failure
Mark S Mcgregor, Peter A Rowe, Brian J R Junor
BMJ  1995;311:124
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Questions remain over alfacalcidol's efficacy in preventing secondary hyperparathyroidism
A Fournier, R Oprisiu, N E L Esper, P Moriniere, A Marie
BMJ  1995;311:124
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Authors' reply
John A Kanis, Naveen A T Hamdy, Ian T Fairey
BMJ  1995;311:124-125
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Psychosis due to "skunk"
A S Wylie, R T A Scott, S J Burnett
BMJ  1995;311:125
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Rationing is not inevitable
Will Podmore
BMJ  1995;311:125
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Education and prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia
Ronan O'Carroll, Klaus Ebmeier
BMJ  1995;311:125-126
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A study of patients living in institutes may bias the findings
John M Starr
BMJ  1995;311:126
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Author's reply
Alewijn Ott
BMJ  1995;311:126
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Promoting cost effective prescribing
Adrian Towse, Nicholas Wells
BMJ  1995;311:126
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More trials from general practice are needed
Dennis M Tracey
BMJ  1995;311:126
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Cost effectiveness rapidly becomes cost containment
Kerry D Bell, Mendel P Grobler
BMJ  1995;311:126-127
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Fundholding and prescribing
A D Shaw
BMJ  1995;311:127
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Similar savings in non-fundholding practices are not similarly rewarded
A D Birchall, P W Horsfield, Jj Maskery, K L Hambleton, J E Clark
BMJ  1995;311:127
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Capitation payments would be fairer
R V Millard
BMJ  1995;311:127-128
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High spending practices may benefit most from fundholding
George Raitt
BMJ  1995;311:128
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Patient dissatisfaction may be underreported
Roland Petchey, Tony Avery
BMJ  1995;311:128
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Prescribing practice may have been inefficient
David J Torgerson, Alan Maynard
BMJ  1995;311:128
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Reorganisation of prescribing practices should not be delayed
A D McKendrick, H Leslie, P W Thornton, F R G Crosby, A I M Easton, E McNaughton, L J Morton, J E Hunter, S Pflanz
BMJ  1995;311:128
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Most savings come from a small number of generic drugs
Jeffrey Easton
BMJ  1995;311:128
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Authors' reply
Jon Dowell
BMJ  1995;311:128-129
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Continuing medical education does not guarantee standards
Peter Burrows
BMJ  1995;311:129
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Use of albumin
Nigel G B Richardson, Denise F O'Shaughnessy
BMJ  1995;311:129
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Roger's ants: a new pest in hospitals
K J Gray, C Porter, P M Hawkey, S G Compton, J P Edwards
BMJ  1995;311:129
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This week's News

Cholera epidemic threatens Sierra Leone
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1995;311:77
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NHS staff should work in developing world, says princess
Bryan Christie
BMJ  1995;311:77-78
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Syphilis soars in Russia
Miranda Ingram
BMJ  1995;311:78
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Labour unveils its health reforms
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;311:79
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Court rules against suing in child abuse cases
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1995;311:79
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Colleges review continuing medical education
Tessa Richards
BMJ  1995;311:80
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Japan could unlock its people with leprosy
Robert Guest
BMJ  1995;311:80
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Juveniles still sent to British prisons
Luisa Dillner
BMJ  1995;311:81
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French government cracks down on abortion protests
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;311:81
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French prosthesis company accused of fraud
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;311:81-82
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North-south divide does not explain British poverty
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1995;311:82
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BMA needs a richer way to encourage participation
Jane Smith
BMJ  1995;311:82
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This week's Papers

Incidence and consequences offalls due to stroke: a systematic inquiry
Anne Forster, John Young
BMJ  1995;311:83-86
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Birth weights of infants of first generation Asian women in Britain compared with second generation Asian women
S Dhawan
BMJ  1995;311:86-88
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Fatal renal failure caused by diethylene glycol in paracetamol elixir: the Bangladesh epidemic
Mohammed Hanif, M Reaz Mobarak, Anne Ronan, Dilruba Rahman, John J Donovan Jr, Michael L Bennish
BMJ  1995;311:88-91
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Changes in body weight and incidence of hip fracture among middle aged Norwegians
Haakon E Meyer, Aage Tverdal, Jan A Falch
BMJ  1995;311:91-92
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This week's General practice

Randomised controlled trial of teaching general practitioners to carry out structured assessments of their long term mentally ill patients
Tony Kendrick, Tom Burns, Paul Freeling
BMJ  1995;311:93-97
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This week's Soundings

Out of the mouths..
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  1995;311:132
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Eating well
Bernard Dixon
BMJ  1995;311:132
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This week's Personal views

The NHS benefits from doctors working abroad
Chris Abell, Sandra Taylor
BMJ  1995;311:133-134
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Mutiny in the cholera centre
Cristina M De Wind
BMJ  1995;311:134
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This week's Medicine and books

Out in the Cold: Academic Boycotts and the Isolation of South Africa
Ralph Crawshaw
BMJ  1995;311:136
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Obstetric Myths versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature
Sandy Oliver
BMJ  1995;311:136
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Emergencies in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
P A Driscoll
BMJ  1995;311:137
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The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950
John Bancroft
BMJ  1995;311:137
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This week's Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: The treatment of gall stones
N Tait, J M Little
BMJ  1995;311:99-105
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ABC of Medical Computing: GETTING YOUR COMPUTER UP AND RUNNING
Nicholas Lee, Andrew Millman
BMJ  1995;311:106-109
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Qualitative Research: Rigour and qualitative research
Nicholas Mays, Catherine Pope
BMJ  1995;311:109-112
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How To Do It: Work in a developing country
Paul Johnstone
BMJ  1995;311:113-115
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Ethical Debate: Doctors' legal position in treating temporarily incompetent patients
BMJ  1995;311:115
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Ethical Debate: Case history: head injury and drunkenness
David W Hodgkinson, Alistair J Gray
BMJ  1995;311:115
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Ethical Debate: Case history: serious drug overdoses
Brian Dalal
BMJ  1995;311:115-116
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Ethical Debate: Legal issues
Petra Wilson
BMJ  1995;311:116-117
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Ethical Debate: Presumption of incompetence
Zbigniew Szawarski
BMJ  1995;311:117
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Ethical Debate: Doctors' duty to patients
Tom Sensky
BMJ  1995;311:117-118
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Ethical Debate: Practical ethics
Grant Gillett
BMJ  1995;311:118
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Ethical Debate: Providing treatment against a patient's wishes
D W Yates
BMJ  1995;311:118
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;311:138
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This week's Fillers

A MEMORABLE PATIENT
Tim Carney
BMJ  1995;311:92
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WORDS TO THE WISE
Grant Hutchison
BMJ  1995;311:98
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A MEMORABLE OUTPATIENT
Harold Ellis
BMJ  1995;311:105
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;311:129
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Partial truths
Charles Essex
BMJ  1995;311:135
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Lifestyle advice from Planet Granada
Alison Tonks
BMJ  1995;311:135
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

The BMA annual representative meeting • Doctors oppose resiting of juniors' contracts • Private hospital given kiss of life • From the local medical committee conference • There should be an alternative to target net remuneration • Core element of general medical services must be defined • GMSC will have triennial elections
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;311:130
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