08 July 1995(vol 311, issue 6997)

Editorials

• Structural adjustment and health

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• Is aid to developing countries hitting the spot?

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• Protecting adolescent girls against tetanus

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• Falls after strokes

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• Labour's health policy

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Letters

• Transfer of patients requiring

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• Burr holes are within the remit of every competent surgeon

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• Mr Percy's reply

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• Elective ventilation of potential organ donors

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• Intensive care units have good reasons not to do it

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• Written protocols do not solve difficulties

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• Protocol balanced ethical principles

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• Increase in incidence of tuberculosis

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• Bottle feeding and the sudden infant death syndrome

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• Authors' reply

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• Diabetes and breast feeding

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• Vitamin A deficiency

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• Use non-invasive dark adaptometry to screen children and adolescents

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• Effect of alfacalcidol on renal bone disease in mild to moderate renal failure

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• Questions remain over alfacalcidol's efficacy in preventing secondary hyperparathyroidism

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• Authors' reply

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• Psychosis due to “skunk”

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• Rationing is not inevitable

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• Education and prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

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• A study of patients living in institutes may bias the findings

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• Author's reply

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• Promoting cost effective prescribing

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• More trials from general practice are needed

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• Cost effectiveness rapidly becomes cost containment

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• Fundholding and prescribing

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• Similar savings in non-fundholding practices are not similarly rewarded

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• Capitation payments would be fairer

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• High spending practices may benefit most from fundholding

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• Patient dissatisfaction may be underreported

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• Prescribing practice may have been inefficient

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• Reorganisation of prescribing practices should not be delayed

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• Most savings come from a small number of generic drugs

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• Authors' reply

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• Continuing medical education does not guarantee standards

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• Use of albumin

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• Roger's ants: a new pest in hospitals

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News

• Cholera epidemic threatens Sierra Leone

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• NHS staff should work in developing world, says princess

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• Headlines

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• Syphilis soars in Russia

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• Labour unveils its health reforms

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• Court rules against suing in child abuse cases

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• Colleges review continuing medical education

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• Japan could unlock its people with leprosy

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• Juveniles still sent to British prisons

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• French government cracks down on abortion protests

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• French prosthesis company accused of fraud

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• North-south divide does not explain British poverty

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• BMA needs a richer way to encourage participation

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Papers

• Incidence and consequences offalls due to stroke: a systematic inquiry

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• Birth weights of infants of first generation Asian women in Britain compared with second generation Asian women

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• Fatal renal failure caused by diethylene glycol in paracetamol elixir: the Bangladesh epidemic

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• Changes in body weight and incidence of hip fracture among middle aged Norwegians

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General practice

• Randomised controlled trial of teaching general practitioners to carry out structured assessments of their long term mentally ill patients

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Education and debate

• Fortnightly Review: The treatment of gall stones

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• ABC of Medical Computing: GETTING YOUR COMPUTER UP AND RUNNING

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• Qualitative Research: Rigour and qualitative research

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• How To Do It: Work in a developing country

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• Ethical Debate: Doctors' legal position in treating temporarily incompetent patients

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• Ethical Debate: Case history: head injury and drunkenness

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• Ethical Debate: Case history: serious drug overdoses

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• Ethical Debate: Legal issues

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• Ethical Debate: Presumption of incompetence

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• Ethical Debate: Doctors' duty to patients

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• Ethical Debate: Practical ethics

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• Ethical Debate: Providing treatment against a patient's wishes

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• The BMA annual representative meetingDoctors oppose resiting of juniors' contractsPrivate hospital given kiss of lifeFrom the local medical committee conferenceThere should be an alternative to target net remunerationCore element of general medical services must be definedGMSC will have triennial elections

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Soundings

• Out of the mouths..

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  • Responses
• Eating well

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Personal Views

• The NHS benefits from doctors working abroad

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• Mutiny in the cholera centre

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MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

• Partial truths

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• Lifestyle advice from Planet Granada

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Medicine and books

• Out in the Cold: Academic Boycotts and the Isolation of South Africa

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• Obstetric Myths versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature

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• Emergencies in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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• The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950

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Fillers

• A MEMORABLE PATIENT

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• WORDS TO THE WISE

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• A MEMORABLE OUTPATIENT

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Correction

• Correction

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