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This week's Editorials

Polyunsaturated fat and the risk of cancer
Walter C Willett
BMJ  1995;311:1239-1240
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Publishing information about patients
Richard Smith
BMJ  1995;311:1240-1241
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Atopic eczema
Hywel C Williams
BMJ  1995;311:1241-1242
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New arrangements for specialist training in Britain
John Biggs
BMJ  1995;311:1242-1243
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Evaluating new surgical procedures
Ian Russell
BMJ  1995;311:1243-1244
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Corticosteroids in the management of croup
Iolo Doull
BMJ  1995;311:1244
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This week's Letters

Survey illustrates misconception of the Calman proposals
J N Johnson
BMJ  1995;311:1298
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Nurses may make surgical house officers obsolete
Sean Williamson
BMJ  1995;311:1298
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Junior doctors' hours
T Ninan, J Robertson, M Wollens
BMJ  1995;311:1298-1299
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Flexible partial shifts should be made to work
Ed O'Neill
BMJ  1995;311:1299
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Wong has support of retired physician
I Lenox-Smith
BMJ  1995;311:1299
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Wong should join Junior Doctors Committee
Eithne Cummins
BMJ  1995;311:1299
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Harmonising specialist training in Europe
Jochen G W Theis
BMJ  1995;311:1299
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Summative assessment for general practitioner registrars
T Stuart Murray
BMJ  1995;311:1299-1300
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Summative assessment will protect patients from incompetent GPs
Jacky Hayden
BMJ  1995;311:1300
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NRPB will provide advice on radiation
Chris Sharp, John Harrison
BMJ  1995;311:1300
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Bone mineral densitometry in clinical practice
Andrew Simmons, Sally Barrington, Michael J O'Doherty, Anthony J Coakley
BMJ  1995;311:1300-1301
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Different guidelines will yield different estimates of prevalence
S S Yeap, N A Keating, T D Kennedy
BMJ  1995;311:1301
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Authors' reply
Juliet Compston, Cyrus Cooper, John Kanis
BMJ  1995;311:1301
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Comparing hospital and chiropractic treatment for back pain
Alison Wakefield, Martin Bull
BMJ  1995;311:1301-1302
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Results were clinically trivial
C G Greenough
BMJ  1995;311:1302
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Authors' reply
T W Meade, Sandra Dyer, Wendy Browne, A O Frank
BMJ  1995;311:1302
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Practical pulse oximetry
P M Robbins, M D Brunner
BMJ  1995;311:1302
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Overnight oximetry is easy and useful
Paul C Deegan, Richard Liston
BMJ  1995;311:1302
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Advance directives increase personal autonomy
C M Tonks
BMJ  1995;311:1302-1303
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Prejudice against Basildon is unwarranted
M R Lowe
BMJ  1995;311:1303
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Government health warnings may encourage adolescents to smoke
David Cummins
BMJ  1995;311:1303
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Misleading meta-analysis
M R Law, N J Wald
BMJ  1995;311:1303
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Subject to many potential biases
Simon Gilbody, Allan House, Fujian Song, Trevor Sheldon
BMJ  1995;311:1303-1304
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Exercise reponses in the chronic fatigue syndrome
Alan S Hutchison
BMJ  1995;311:1304
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Russell J M Lane, Adrian P Burgess, Janis Flint, Leonard C Archard
BMJ  1995;311:1304
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Volume and mortality in coronary artery bypass grafting
Harold S Luft, Jennifer D Parker
BMJ  1995;311:1304-1305
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Medical library innovates on the Internet
Celia Hukins, Malcolm Pitcher
BMJ  1995;311:1305
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Nurse triage increases emergency department waiting times
Steve George, Susan Read, Brian Williams
BMJ  1995;311:1305
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Charity appeals for contributions
Josephine Barnes
BMJ  1995;311:1305
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How the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund can help
Anonymous
BMJ  1995;311:1305
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This week's News

GMC finds doctors not guilty in consent case
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;311:1245-1246
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Headlines
BMJ  1995;311:1246
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WHO sets new guidelines for air pollution
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1995;311:1246
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Black and Asian nurses in the NHS report harassment
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;311:1247
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French protest at health budget cuts
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;311:1247-1248
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Doctor wins claim over patent ownership
Clare Dyer, Chris Hughes
BMJ  1995;311:1248
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Foreign doctors strike over new French law
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1995;311:1248-1249
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Minister defends immunisation campaign
Claudia Court
BMJ  1995;311:1249
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Health network will work to reduce poverty
Elisabeth Kalbfuss
BMJ  1995;311:1249-1250
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Australian wins right to fight tobacco company
Simon Chapman
BMJ  1995;311:1250
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Litigation Authority to focus on malpractice
John Warden
BMJ  1995;311:1250
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This week's Papers

Fatty acid proportions in cholesterol esters and risk of premature death from cancer in middle aged French men
Mahmoud Zureik, Pierre Ducimetiere, Jean-Michel Warnet, Genevieve Orssaud
BMJ  1995;311:1251-1254
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Changes in population cholesterol concentrations and other cardiovascular risk factor levels after five years of the non-communicable disease intervention programme in Mauritius
Gary K Dowse, Hassam Gareeboo, K George M M Alberti, Paul Zimmet, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Anil Purran, Djamil Fareed, Pierrot Chitson, Veronica R Collins, Farojdeo Hemraj
BMJ  1995;311:1255-1259
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Individual variation in plasma cholesterol response to dietary saturated fat
Charlotte Cox, Jim Mann, Wayne Sutherland, Madeleine Ball
BMJ  1995;311:1260-1264

Health effects of anticipation of job change and non-employment: longitudinal data from the Whitehall II study
Jane E Ferrie, Martin J Shipley, M G Marmot, Stephen Stansfeld, George Davey Smith
BMJ  1995;311:1264-1269
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Bed sharing and the sudden infant death syndrome
Hillary Klonoff-Cohen, Sharon L Edelstein
BMJ  1995;311:1269-1272
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Protection of patients' rights to privacy
BMJ  1995;311:1272
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The incidence of malaria after splenectomy in Papua New Guinea
Ken E Boone, David A K Watters
BMJ  1995;311:1273
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Commentary
Julie Morris
BMJ  1995;311:1273
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This week's General practice

Twelve month outcome of depression in general practice: does detection or disclosure make a difference?
Christopher Dowrick, Iain Buchan
BMJ  1995;311:1274-1276
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This week's Soundings

Evidence and ideology
Ian Robertson
BMJ  1995;311:1307
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Cleaning up
Bernard Dixon
BMJ  1995;311:1307
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This week's Personal views

Dodgems or doctors, training or education?
Alan Munro
BMJ  1995;311:1309
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This week's Medicine and books

Problem Drugs
Anthony Costello
BMJ  1995;311:1310
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Epidemiology of Work Related Diseases
T C Aw
BMJ  1995;311:1310
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Statistics in Clinical Practice
Tony Johnson
BMJ  1995;311:1311
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Sexuality and Disability (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vol 9, No 2)
Raymond E Goodman
BMJ  1995;311:1311
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This week's Education and debate

Fortnightly Review: Fungal nail disease: a guide to good practice (report of a Working Group of the British Society for Medical Mycology)
D W Denning, E G V Evans, C C Kibbler, M D Richardson, M M Roberts, T R Rogers, D W Warnock, R E Warren
BMJ  1995;311:1277-1281
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Income distribution and life expectancy: a critical appraisal
Ken Judge
BMJ  1995;311:1282-1285
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Commentary: A reply to Ken Judge: mistaken criticisms ignore overwhelming evidence
Richard G Wilkinson
BMJ  1995;311:1285-1287
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Lesson of the Week: Infected right atrial thrombus presenting as pulmonary embolism complicating central venous cannulation
A Sajjad, P A Carey, I R Arnold, S R Smith
BMJ  1995;311:1288
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ABC of Medical Computing: KEEPING YOUR COMPUTER HEALTHY AND LEGAL
Andrew Millman
BMJ  1995;311:1289-1293
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1995;311:1312
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This week's Fillers

A MEMORABLE PATIENT
Kamala-Maria Mueller
BMJ  1995;311:1281
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This week's Corrections

Correction
BMJ  1995;311:1287
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Conduct unbecoming
E D Walker
BMJ  1995;311:1308
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Substandard research or conspiracy?
Malcolm Griffiths
BMJ  1995;311:1308-1309
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

Litigation authority set up for the NHS • GPs in inner London to get £35m • Reducing GPs' paperwork • Juniors' contracts will be held by trusts in Scotland • MPs debate merits of commissioning and fundholding • Government updates health statistics
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1995;311:1306
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