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This week's Editorials

"Variations" in health
Richard G Wilkinson
BMJ  1995;311:1177-1178
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Antenatal screening for carriers of hepatitis B virus
E H Boxall
BMJ  1995;311:1178-1179
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Second opinions for patients with cancer
Karol Sikora
BMJ  1995;311:1179-1180
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European Union policy and health
Mike Rayner
BMJ  1995;311:1180-1181
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Computer based prescribing
Jeremy Wyatt, Robert Walton
BMJ  1995;311:1181-1182
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This week's Letters

Gambling with the nation's health?
Eoin O'Brien
BMJ  1995;311:1225
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Lottery has Orwellian resonances
T D Ivor Cartmill
BMJ  1995;311:1225
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Inability to reason statistically is prime cause of lottery fever
Raj Persaud
BMJ  1995;311:1225
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Majority of secondary school children buy tickets
Emanuel Moran
BMJ  1995;311:1225-1226
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Doctors should concentrate on more serious issues
Frada Eskin
BMJ  1995;311:1226
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On sex education at school
Michael Black
BMJ  1995;311:1226
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Dutch surprise at British question
Annette De La Court
BMJ  1995;311:1226
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Early education about contraception is needed
Lawrence Mascarenhas
BMJ  1995;311:1226
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Non-didactic methods are preferable
Jeyabala Balakrishna
BMJ  1995;311:1226-1227
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Migraine runs in families ..
W E Waters
BMJ  1995;311:1227
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Michael Bjorn Russell, Jes Olesen
BMJ  1995;311:1227
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Screening for intracranial aneurysms
Jeremy Rowe, Shelley Renowden, Thomas Cadoux-Hudson
BMJ  1995;311:1227-1228
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Paper is ambiguous about number with proven aneurysm
Wouter I Schievink
BMJ  1995;311:1228
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Authors' reply
Jacoline E C Bromberg, Gabriel J E Rinkel, Ale Algra, Jan Van Gijn
BMJ  1995;311:1228
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Career choices for generation X
Elspeth Fay
BMJ  1995;311:1228
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Controversy over new data on oral contraceptives
A Rouse
BMJ  1995;311:1228
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GPs were swamped by calls
Sally Hope
BMJ  1995;311:1228-1229
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Perception of risk is affected by presentation
Marion H Hall
BMJ  1995;311:1229
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Screening for diabetic retinopathy
Adrian Parnaby-Price
BMJ  1995;311:1229
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Services are still patchy in Britain
Andrew Wilson, Richard Baker, John Thompson
BMJ  1995;311:1229
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GPs in south London have direct access to screening service
Shirley Smith
BMJ  1995;311:1229-1230
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Annual retinal photography is not an option in India
K J Singh, R N Misra, S Bajaj, A Malik
BMJ  1995;311:1230
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Screening should be organised by GPs
A Rauf, R P L Wormald, Bill Aylward
BMJ  1995;311:1230
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Note
Wallace S Foulds, Angus C Maccuish
BMJ  1995;311:1230
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Approaching 90% sensitivity with new techniques
Graham Leese, Deborah Broadbent, Simon Harding, Jiten Vora
BMJ  1995;311:1230-1231
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Author's reply
Bob Ryder
BMJ  1995;311:1231
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The new deal revisited
David Sanderson
BMJ  1995;311:1231
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Survey showed most anaesthetists have no experience of shifts
Trevor Pickersgill
BMJ  1995;311:1231-1232
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Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis
A B Myles
BMJ  1995;311:1232
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Combined oral contraceptives and thromboembolism
Michael Rawlins
BMJ  1995;311:1232
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Tighter medical controls proposed for boxing
Douglas Carnall, John Warden
BMJ  1995;311:1183
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Dutch doctor given suspended sentence over euthanasia case
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  1995;311:1183-1184
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Headlines
BMJ  1995;311:1184
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New York attacks raccoon rabies from the air
Fred Charatan
BMJ  1995;311:1184-1185
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Health chiefs review London's helicopter ambulance service
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;311:1185
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Patients given LSD may be able to claim compensation
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1995;311:1185-1186
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Mandatory rural practice proposed in India
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  1995;311:1186-1187
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Prenatal testing leads to row in the Netherlands
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  1995;311:1187
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Half a million French are infected with hepatitis C virus
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;311:1187-1188
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Comparative advertising draft worries GMC
John Warden
BMJ  1995;311:1188
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Republicans subtly reform US medicine
John Roberts
BMJ  1995;311:1188
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This week's Papers

UKCCCR multicentre randomised controlled trial of one and two view mammography in breast cancer screening
Nicholas J Wald, Philip Murphy, Philippa Major, Carol Parkes, Joy Townsend, Chris Frost
BMJ  1995;311:1189-1193
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Prospective study of endogenous sex hormones and fatal cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Deborah Goodman-Gruen
BMJ  1995;311:1193-1196
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BMJ audit: time to decisions and publication
BMJ  1995;311:1196
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Proposal for routine antenatal screening at 14 weeks for hepatitis B surface antigen
P M Grosheide, J W Wladimiroff, R A Heijtink, J A Mazel, G C M L Christiaens, A S M Nuijten, S W Schalm
BMJ  1995;311:1197-1199
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Programme for preventing perinatal hepatitis B infection through screening of pregnant women and immunisation of infants of infected mothers in the Netherlands, 1989-92
P M Grosheide, J M Klokman-Houweling, M A E Conyn-van Spaendonck
BMJ  1995;311:1200-1202
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Low weight gain in infancy and suicide in adult life
D J P Barker, C Osmond, I Rodin, C H D Fall, P D Winter
BMJ  1995;311:1203
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Drug points: Artificial colourings and adverse reactions
L Gracey-Whitman, S Ell
BMJ  1995;311:1204
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Drug points: Painful dysaesthesia with ciprofloxacin
D Zehnder, R Hoigne, K A Neftel, R Sieber
BMJ  1995;311:1204
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Drug points: High fever induced by sulphasalazine
S D Hearing, S Playfor, S J Bentley
BMJ  1995;311:1204
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Drug points: Angio-oedema associated with risperidone
C Cooney, A Nagy
BMJ  1995;311:1204
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This week's General practice

Prospective study of trends in referral patterns in fundholding and non-fundholding practices in the Oxford region, 1990-4
Rebecca Surender, Jean Bradlow, Angela Coulter, Helen Doll, Sarah Stewart Brown
BMJ  1995;311:1205-1208
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Urinary incontinence: long term effectiveness of nursing intervention in primary care
James O'Brien, Helen Long
BMJ  1995;311:1208
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This week's Soundings

Keeping fit
Judith Hollis-Triantafillou
BMJ  1995;311:1234
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The one that got away
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  1995;311:1234
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This week's Personal views

Relief versus development
Sam Gibbs, Antony Latham
BMJ  1995;311:1236
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This week's Medicine and books

Hypertension for the Clinician
R D S Watson
BMJ  1995;311:1237
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Practical Rheumatology
A J Swannell
BMJ  1995;311:1237
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This week's Education and debate

Recent Advances: Obstetrics
Philip Steer
BMJ  1995;311:1209-1212
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Lesson of the Week: Don't twist my child's head off: iatrogenic cervical dislocation
A T H Casey, M O'Brien, V Kumar, R D Hayward, H A Crockard
BMJ  1995;311:1212-1213
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Treatment for children with brain tumours
M C G Stevens, A D Hockley, D Spooner, A R Walsh
BMJ  1995;311:1213-1214
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Is there a moral obligation not to infect others?
John Harris, Soren Holm
BMJ  1995;311:1215-1217
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ABC of Medical Computing: DIGITAL IMAGING
Hylton B Meire, Ara Darzi, Nicholas Lee
BMJ  1995;311:1218-1221
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;311:1238
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This week's Fillers

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
BMJ  1995;311:1202
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The importance of friendship
Catherine Grebenik
BMJ  1995;311:1221
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;311:1196
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Child B is revealed
Neville W Goodman
BMJ  1995;311:1235
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Brave new world of transplant technology
Sandra Goldbeck-Wood
BMJ  1995;311:1235-1236
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Specialist registrar grade will start on 1 December • Primary care is unequally funded, claims report • Juniors given advice on lodging charges
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;311:1233
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