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This week's Editorials

Directly observed therapy for tuberculosis
Dale I Morse
BMJ  1996;312:719-720
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The future shape of accident and emergency services
Penny Newman
BMJ  1996;312:720-721
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Tobacco funding for academics
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1996;312:721-722
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Helping sick doctors
Ruth Chambers, Richard Maxwell
BMJ  1996;312:722-723
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Time to redefine authorship
Richard Horton, Richard Smith
BMJ  1996;312:723
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Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and motor neurone disease
Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Alexander Steven Whitehead, George Davey Smith
BMJ  1996;312:724
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This week's Letters

Paediatric intensive care beds: the problem is distribution rather than numbers
S Tibby, M Hatherill, M J Marsh, I A Murdoch
BMJ  1996;312:773
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Publishing research supported by the tobacco industry
Gabriel Scally
BMJ  1996;312:773
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A higher principle is at stake than simply freedom of speech
David F Marks
BMJ  1996;312:773-774
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It's folly to allow the enemy access to your camp
Martin J Connolly
BMJ  1996;312:774
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Not to publish research is a slur on those who work for the industry
David S Wright
BMJ  1996;312:774
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Proposed BAT professorship at University of Cambridge should be opposed
Donald Reid
BMJ  1996;312:774
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Tuberculosis in the United Kingdom
John M Watson, Anne H C Uttley, Francis Drobuiewski
BMJ  1996;312:774-775
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Coverage by selective neonatal BCG vaccination should be monitored
Nicholas Hicks, A Hamilton
BMJ  1996;312:775
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Standards for control may not be consistent across United Kingdom
Peter Ormerod
BMJ  1996;312:775
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Treatment should be free for everyone
Craig Davidson, David Hughes, John Moore-Gillon
BMJ  1996;312:775
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Public health legislation should be changed
G H Stewart, S Nelson
BMJ  1996;312:775-776
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System for screening new immigrants is inadequate
Mike Lavender
BMJ  1996;312:776
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Tuberculosis as a predictor of survival in AIDS
William C Holmes, Elly T Katabira
BMJ  1996;312:776
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Authors' reply
Thomas V Perneger, Philippe Sudre, Bernard Hirschel, Jens D Lundgren
BMJ  1996;312:776
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Standardised coding is needed for reports of adverse drug reactions
J M Bonnetblanc, J C Roujeau, C Benichou
BMJ  1996;312:776-777
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Endogenous sex hormones and cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women
Paola Muti, Maurizio Trevisan
BMJ  1996;312:777
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Authors' reply
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Deborah Goodman-Gruen
BMJ  1996;312:777
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Hepatitis B vaccination
Anna Pallecaros, Angela Robinson
BMJ  1996;312:777
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All GPs in Brent and Harrow offer hepatitis B vaccination to drug users
Chris Ford
BMJ  1996;312:777-778
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Risk of diarrhoea due to Clostridium difficile during cefotaxime treatment
Eugene Rothschild, Alain Rauss, Gaby Danan
BMJ  1996;312:778
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Mortality due to C difficile colitis in elderly people has been underestimated
M Lesna, D M Parham
BMJ  1996;312:778
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Authors' reply
M Impallomeni, J Starr, T Rogers
BMJ  1996;312:778
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Randomised controlled trials in general practice
Tom Fahey
BMJ  1996;312:779
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Internal validity of trials is more important than generalisability
Jonathan Mant, Martin Dawes, Susanna Graham-Jones
BMJ  1996;312:779
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General practice research framework carries out such trials
Julian Tudor Hart
BMJ  1996;312:779
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Neonatal circumcision does not protect against penile cancer
Paul M Fleiss, Frederick Hodges
BMJ  1996;312:779-780
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Brachial plexus neuropathy after radiotherapy can be treated by specialist surgeons
L C Bainbridge
BMJ  1996;312:780
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Benefits of fetal surgery must be carefully evaluated
Mark D Kilby, Martin J Whittle
BMJ  1996;312:780
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NHS will be left with high risk, low profit services under private finance initiative
D N Bennett-Jones
BMJ  1996;312:780
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Advertisement's selective quotation from old article misrepresentscurrent situation
Catherine Pope
BMJ  1996;312:780
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This week's News

United States tobacco company rolls over
John Roberts
BMJ  1996;312:725
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BMA will review guidelines on PVS
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1996;312:725-726
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Headlines
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French court jails anti-abortion doctor
Claudia Court
BMJ  1996;312:726
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German doctor cleared by GMC
Stuart Smith
BMJ  1996;312:726
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Germany cuts funds for methadone treatment
Helmut Karcher
BMJ  1996;312:727
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Israel issues guidelines on prolonging life
Judy Siegelitzkovich
BMJ  1996;312:727
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Dutch investigation launched into abortion clinics
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  1996;312:727-728
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Amyloid has new role in Alzheimer's disease
Alison Boulton
BMJ  1996;312:728
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Tobacco industry plans to fund Cambridge chair
Claudia Court
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New targets set for cervical screening
Owen Dyer
BMJ  1996;312:728-729
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UV radiation peaks at record high in UK
Claudia Court
BMJ  1996;312:729
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NHS managers are found wanting
John Warden
BMJ  1996;312:729
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Israel legalises surrogate motherhood
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
BMJ  1996;312:729-730
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Fraud squad gets to work on prescriptions
John Warden
BMJ  1996;312:730
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France regulates organ imports
Alexander Dorozynski
BMJ  1996;312:730
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The commodification of prevention
Simon Chapman
BMJ  1996;312:730
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This week's Papers

Review of moderate alcohol consumption and reduced risk of coronary heart disease: is the effect due to beer, wine, or spirits?
Eric B Rimm, Arthur Klatsky, Diederick Grobbee, Meir J Stampfer
BMJ  1996;312:731-736
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Alcohol consumption, serum low density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration, and risk of ischaemic heart disease: six year follow up in the Copenhagen male study
Hans Ole Hein, Poul Suadicani, Finn Gyntelberg
BMJ  1996;312:736-741
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Blinding and exclusions after allocation in randomised controlled trials: survey of published parallel group trials in obstetrics and gynaecology
Kenneth F Schulz, David A Grimes, Douglas G Altman, Richard J Hayes
BMJ  1996;312:742-744
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Endothelium and inelastic arteries: an early marker of vascular dysfunction in non-insulin dependent diabetes
Jonathan Goodfellow, Mark W Ramsey, Lisa A Luddington, Christopher J H Jones, Phillip A Coates, Frank Dunstan, Malcolm J Lewis, David R Owens, Andrew H Henderson
BMJ  1996;312:744-745
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Breast feeding and hypertrophic pyloric stenosis: population based case-control study
Alfredo Pisacane, Ugo de Luca, Luciano Criscuolo, Filomena Vaccaro, Adriana Valiante, Angelina Inglese, Giuseppe Caracciolo, Luciano Pinto
BMJ  1996;312:745-746
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Breast feeding and tonsillectomy
Alfredo Pisacane, Nicola Impagliazzo, Carmela De Caprio, Luciano Criscuolo, Angelina Inglese
BMJ  1996;312:746-747
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This week's General practice

Randomised comparison of guided self management and traditional treatment of asthma over one year
Aarne Lahdensuo, Tari Haahtela, Jaakko Herrala, Tuomo Kava, Kirsti Kiviranta, Paula Kuusisto, Erkki Peramaki, Tuija Poussa, Seppo Saarelainen, Thore Svahn
BMJ  1996;312:748-752
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This week's Soundings

Venice from the air
George Dunea
BMJ  1996;312:783
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The new ayatollahs
Ian Robertson
BMJ  1996;312:783
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This week's Personal views

Tackling stress in ourselves
BMJ  1996;312:784
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Driven from efficiency to distraction
G E P Vincenti
BMJ  1996;312:784-785
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This week's Medicine and books

Treatment without Consent Law, Psychiatry and the Treatment of Mentally Disordered People since 1845
Graham Thornicroft
BMJ  1996;312:786
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Child Psychiatric Units: At the Crossroads
Alyson Hall
BMJ  1996;312:786-787
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Psychiatry and Religion: Context, Consensus and Controversies
Christopher S Thomas
BMJ  1996;312:787
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Selection
Alex Paton
BMJ  1996;312:787
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This week's Education and debate

Measuring outcomes other than safety is feasible
T Dowswell, Jg Thornton, J Hewison, Rjl Lilford
BMJ  1996;312:753
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Evidence from US suggests that trials will not alter obstetric behaviour
Jeanne Raisler
BMJ  1996;312:754
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Trial would not answer key question, but data monitoring should be improved
Alison Macfarlane
BMJ  1996;312:754-755
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Uncertainty is likely to persist, but some knowledge would be better than none
Gavin Young
BMJ  1996;312:755-756
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Such a trial should not limit the choices of women who already have a preference
Mary Newburn, Rosemary Dodds
BMJ  1996;312:756
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Mortality is still important, and hospital is safer
R S Settatree
BMJ  1996;312:756-757
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A PAPER THAT CHANGED MY PRACTICE
John Dunn
BMJ  1996;312:757
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Over the Counter Drugs: The interface between the community pharmacist and patients
Christine M Bond, Colin Bradley
BMJ  1996;312:758-760
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North of England evidence based guidelines development project: methods of guideline development
Martin Eccles, Zoe Clapp, Jeremy Grimshaw, Philip C Adams, Bernard Higgins, Ian Purves, Ian Russell
BMJ  1996;312:760-762
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North of England evidence based guidelines development project: summary version of evidence based guideline for the primary care management of asthma in adults
BMJ  1996;312:762-766
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ABC of Urology: BLADDER OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION
Chris Dawson, Hugh Whitfield
BMJ  1996;312:767-770
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Statistics Notes: Transforming data
J Martin Bland, Douglas G Altman
BMJ  1996;312:770
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  1996;312:788
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This week's Fillers

A DOG WHO CHANGED MY PRACTICE, FOR A WHILE
Aideen Landers
BMJ  1996;312:747
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This week's CHOICE

Editor's choice
BMJ  1996;312
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This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

Can we outfox rabies?
Diana N J Lockwood
BMJ  1996;312:785
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This week's MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

How will the hospital service be provided in future? • Concern expressed about GMC's performance procedures • Minister agrees to discussions on the staff grade • BMA meets health secretary on savings exercise • Getting on to the specialist register • GPs' staff should have NHS pensions • Doctors' careers services should be properly funded • Minister rejects bill on patient confidentiality • Final guidance on NHS complaints procedure issued
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1996;312:781
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