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Reducing the risk of recurrent coronary heart disease
Fiona Bradley, Margaret E Cupples
BMJ  1999;318:1499-1500
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Angiogenic revascularisation in ischaemic disease
Nicholas P J Brindle, Mark J McCarthy, Peter R F Bell
BMJ  1999;318:1500-1501
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Same information, different decisions: format counts
Jeremy Wyatt
BMJ  1999;318:1501-1502
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The coroner service
Derrick Pounder
BMJ  1999;318:1502-1503
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Managing drug misuse in general practice
Jenny Keen
BMJ  1999;318:1503-1504
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Minimising the impact of visual impairment
Tom H Margrain
BMJ  1999;318:1504
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Use of renal transplants from living donors
A S Daar, Peter J Morris, David Cranston
BMJ  1999;318:1553
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Call to needle times after acute myocardial infarction
David A Sandler, P D Thomas, John Rawles
BMJ  1999;318:1553
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Emerging tobacco hazards in China
T H Lam, S Y Ho, Yonden Lhatoo, Richard Peto, Zheng-Ming Chen, Jillian Boreham
BMJ  1999;318:1554
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I don't want to be invited to invest in the tobacco trade
Chris Johnstone
BMJ  1999;318:1555
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Women must be given fully informed information about cervical screening
John Nottingham
BMJ  1999;318:1555
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Cancer patients should be offered semen cryopreservation
Amir Lass, Naim Abusheikha, Fidelis Akagbosu, Peter Brinsden
BMJ  1999;318:1556
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Few patients with prostate cancer are willing to be randomised to treatment
Paddy O'Reilly, Linda Martin, Gerald Collins
BMJ  1999;318:1556
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Trial of prophylactic mastectomy is needed
C Palmieri
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Article on Colombia should have been more objective
Humberto De la Calle-Lombana
BMJ  1999;318:1557
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Behaviour described in scenario in paper would be unethical
Jeremy Wight
BMJ  1999;318:1557
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Teaching patients with bipolar disorder to identify early symptoms of relapse
Christopher Cates, Richard Morriss, Nicholas Tarrier
BMJ  1999;318:1557
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Recognition of depression and anxiety in primary care
Andrés Herrán, José Luis Vázquez-Barquero, Graham Dunn, Tim Johnston, Peter Talbot
BMJ  1999;318:1558
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Authors' words foster stigmatisation of commercial sex workers in India
Padmaja Patnaik, Rajesh Gupta, Helen Lambert
BMJ  1999;318:1559
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Careers article on psychotherapy was not balanced
Chris Maloney
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Vulvodynia is important cause of vulval pain
B Kirby, J A Yell
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Medical examiners employed by health authorities should audit death certificates
Gordon Pledger
BMJ  1999;318:1559
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Trauma related shin splints
Robert Ashford, M A Macleod
BMJ  1999;318:1560
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All GPs have problems when they first start in practice
James Cave
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Sale of prescription data breaches confidentiality
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1999;318:1505
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Cycle helmets should not be compulsory
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1999;318:1505
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In brief
BMJ  1999;318:1506
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Moratorium on GM food would perpetuate world hunger
Richard Woodman
BMJ  1999;318:1506
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Gonads are the key to a long life
Abi Berger
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Doctors demand AIDS drugs for women who have been raped
Pat Sidley
BMJ  1999;318:1507
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Canada sends patients with cancer to United States
David Spurgeon
BMJ  1999;318:1507
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EU supports delay in reducing doctors' hours
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1999;318:1508
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Scotland appoints health minister
Bryan Christie
BMJ  1999;318:1508
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Scare tactics cut smoking rates in Australia to all time low
Simon Chapman
BMJ  1999;318:1508
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Most deaths related to abortion occur in the developing world
James Ciment
BMJ  1999;318:1509
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Carvedilol seems no better than metoprolol for heart failure
Scott Gottlieb
BMJ  1999;318:1509
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Viagra guidance declared unlawful
Clare Dyer
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Liver cancer toll high in Japan
Adam Easton
BMJ  1999;318:1510
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Report finds no evidence of ethnic bias in GMC
Linda Beecham
BMJ  1999;318:1510
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GP loses libel action
Clare Dyer
BMJ  1999;318:1510
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Smoking bans do not hurt tourism
Scott Gottlieb
BMJ  1999;318:1510
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Spanish patients with rare diseases demand a better deal
Xavier Bosch
BMJ  1999;318:1510
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Wales sets up cervical screening body
Roger Dobson
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Congenital toxoplasmosis: systematic review of evidence of efficacy of treatment in pregnancy
Martine Wallon, Christiane Liou, Paul Garner, François Peyron
BMJ  1999;318:1511-1514
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Explaining differences in English hospital death rates using routinely collected data
Brian Jarman, Simon Gault, Bernadette Alves, Amy Hider, Susan Dolan, Adrian Cook, Brian Hurwitz, Lisa I Iezzoni
BMJ  1999;318:1515-1520
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Trends in the use of the Mental Health Act: England, 1984-96
Sharon Wall, Matthew Hotopf, Simon Wessely, Rachel Churchill
BMJ  1999;318:1520-1521
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Drug points: Aseptic meningitis after treatment with amoxicillin
W Czerwenka, C Gruenwald, D Conen
BMJ  1999;318:1521
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Influence of data display formats on physician investigators' decisions to stop clinical trials: prospective trial with repeated measures
Linda S Elting, Charles G Martin, Scott B Cantor, Edward B Rubenstein
BMJ  1999;318:1527-1531
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General practitioners' perceptions of effective health care
Zelda Tomlin, Charlotte Humphrey, Stephen Rogers
BMJ  1999;318:1532-1535
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Science, medicine, and the future: Therapeutic angiogenesis
Timothy D Henry
BMJ  1999;318:1536-1539
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Evidence based cardiology: Prevention of ischaemic stroke
Henry J M Barnett, Michael Eliasziw, Heather E Meldrum
BMJ  1999;318:1539-1543
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ABC of intensive care: Criteria for admission
Gary Smith, Mick Nielsen
BMJ  1999;318:1544-1547
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Effect of postal prompts to patients and general practitioners on the quality of primary care after a coronary event (POST): randomised controlled trial
Gene Feder, Chris Griffiths, Sandra Eldridge, Matthew Spence
BMJ  1999;318:1522-1526
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New England journal
James Owen Drife
BMJ  1999;318:1565
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Iceland's database is ethically questionable
Bogi Andersen, Einar Arnason
BMJ  1999;318:1565
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Numbers needed to treat derived from meta-analyses---sometimes informative, usually misleading
Liam Smeeth, Andy Haines, Shah Ebrahim
BMJ  1999;318:1548-1551
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Economics notes: Opportunity cost
Stephen Palmer, James Raftery
BMJ  1999;318:1551-1552
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This week's Obituaries

Saadi Hussain Al-Roumani • Edward Ambrose Cresswell • Charles Hardinge Going • Nicholas Jaswon • Derek Clifford Lamb • John Taylor Smith
Riad Roomi, Duncan Hallam, J J Going, Mervyn Jaswon, Abdul Jaleel, Joyce M Watson
BMJ  1999;318:1561
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Minerva
BMJ  1999;318:1566
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One hundred years ago: Medical practitioners and the plague duty in India
BMJ  1999;318:1521
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A neglected but prevalent tragedy
Fadel Diadhiou, Nathalie Goyaux, Ousseynou Faye, Patrick Thonneau
BMJ  1999;318:1526
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Endpiece: Ideas must be comforting
Richard Asher
BMJ  1999;318:1532
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When I use a word . . .: X marks the spot
Jeff Aronson
BMJ  1999;318:1543
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A memorable patient: What a rotten job you've got
Elizabeth Davies
BMJ  1999;318:1547
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A memorable patient: The one neither of us saw
Anne Seymour
BMJ  1999;318:1552
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Where now for Career focus?
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1999;318:2
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Briefing: The National Association of Non-principals' Yellow Book - already ...
BMJ  1999;318:3
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Briefing: The Standing Committee on Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education may ...
BMJ  1999;318:3a
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Briefing: Article too sanguine on prisoners' health EDITOR If Keavney's article ...
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The mysterious and the prosaic
BMJ  1999;318
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The mysterious and the prosaic
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Exhibition: Artists for Médecins du Monde
Richard Harling
BMJ  1999;318:1562
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Book: Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer: Clinical, Predictive and Ethical Perspectives
Feyruz Rassool
BMJ  1999;318:1563
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A book that changed me: Our NHS: A celebration of 50 years
Nick Bosanquet
BMJ  1999;318:1563
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Media: Skin cancer: in your face
June K Robinson, Darrell S Rigel
BMJ  1999;318:1564
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Website of the week: www.nuffield.org.bioethics/index.html
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  1999;318:1564
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