27 July 1996(vol 313, issue 7051)

Editorials

• Vitamin K at birth

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• Sudden infant death syndrome: after the “back to sleep” campaign

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• Inappropriate treatment for dysentery

  BMJ 1996; 313 :181 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Preventing sports and leisure injuries

  BMJ 1996; 313 :182 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Health impact assessment

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• Climate change: not a threat but a promise

  BMJ 1996; 313 :184 (Published 27 July 1996)

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Letters

• Jack Kevorkian: a medical hero?

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• Possibly a hero, but not a medical one

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• Pope should be doctors' hero

  BMJ 1996; 313 :227 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Law has a protective function for both patients and doctors

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• His actions are the antithesis of heroism

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• Editorial's objectivity is in doubt

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• Doctors should indeed cry, “Enough”

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• Haem iron intake in young children

  BMJ 1996; 313 :228 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Authors' reply

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• Tea flavonoids have little short term impact on serum antioxidant activity

  BMJ 1996; 313 :229 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Immediate enteral feeding after gastrointestinal resection

  BMJ 1996; 313 :229 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Study was not sufficiently rigorous

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• Fluid regimen given to control group is increasingly being abandoned

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• Serum albumin concentration is not a marker of nutritional status

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• Authors' reply

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• Serum IgM testing is needed in all cases of suspected measles

  BMJ 1996; 313 :231 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Psychiatric and psychological aspects of hysterectomy

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• Study did not reliably exclude possibility of psychological damage

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• Results will depend on whether hysterectomy was essential or not

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• Genetic liability to osteoarthritis may be greater in women than men

  BMJ 1996; 313 :232 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Hospital at home

  BMJ 1996; 313 :232 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Scheme in Peterborough is expanding

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• Use of placebo in studies of postoperative vomiting is unethical

  BMJ 1996; 313 :233 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Efficacy of colchicine in familial Mediterranean fever is well established

  BMJ 1996; 313 :233 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Proposed academy of medicine

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• Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has its own, independent secretariat

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  • Responses
• Editorial did not acknowledge BMA's work

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• Junior Doctors Committee proposed an academy in 1994

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• Profession should resist further fragmentation

  BMJ 1996; 313 :234 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• New confidential inquiry established into homicides and suicides by mentally ill people

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• Mobile surgery

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News

• Growth hormone deaths blamed on MRC and DoH

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• Court action over smoking report

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• Headlines

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• Medical community is outraged at tobacco funded chair

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• Four die in food poisoning outbreak in Japan

  BMJ 1996; 313 :187 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Fast track scheme for medical negligence starts

  BMJ 1996; 313 :187 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Americans urged to do something rather than nothing

  BMJ 1996; 313 :188 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Antiabortionists hijack fetal pain argument

  BMJ 1996; 313 :188 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Storage period ends for 4000 embryos

  BMJ 1996; 313 :189 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• One in 10 people avoid dentists through phobia

  BMJ 1996; 313 :189 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• BSE agent: there may be even more trouble ahead

  BMJ 1996; 313 :189 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Safeguards for surgery by non-doctors produced

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• Irish determination on drugs

  BMJ 1996; 313 :190 (Published 27 July 1996)

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• Editor's choice

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Papers

• Environment of infants during sleep and risk of the sudden infant death syndrome: results of 1993-5 case-control study for confidential inquiry into stillbirths and deaths in infancy

  BMJ 1996; 313 :191 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Smoking and the sudden infant death syndrome: results from 1993-5 case-control study for confidential inquiry into stillbirths and deaths in infancy

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  • Responses
• Vitamin K and childhood cancer: a population based case-control study in Lower Saxony, Germany

  BMJ 1996; 313 :199 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Characteristics of orf in a farming community in mid-Wales

  BMJ 1996; 313 :203 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Childhood leukaemia and intramuscular vitamin K: findings from a case-control study

  BMJ 1996; 313 :204 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Medical practitioners' knowledge of dysentery treatment in Bangladesh

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General practice

• Home visiting by general practitioners in England and Wales

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Education and debate

• Fortnightly Review: Drugs in sport

  BMJ 1996; 313 :211 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Grand Rounds—Hammersmith Hospital: Tuberculous enteritis

  BMJ 1996; 313 :215 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Caring for Older People: Homes and Housing for Elderly People

  BMJ 1996; 313 :218 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Lesson of the Week: Pitfalls in contact tracing and early diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis

  BMJ 1996; 313 :221 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• ABC of Work Related Disorders: OCCUPATIONAL HEARING LOSS AND VIBRATION INDUCED DISORDERS

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• GPs to produce a strategy for the futureAcademic staff seek prime minister's help over fundingCalman proposals will affect hospital manpowerTobacco companies curb advertisingNHS chairmen will have chartersCorrection

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Soundings

• Onwards and upwards, maybe

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• Death of a KAPI

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Personal View

• There must be a better way

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MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

• Pressure to entertain

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• Public therapy

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• Note

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Medicine and books

• Quality of Life and Health: Concepts, Methods and Applications

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• Cystic Fibrosis

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Career focus

• On and up

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• Briefing

  BMJ 1996; 313 :S3-7051 (Published 27 July 1996)

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

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• A PATIENT WHO CHANGED MY LIFE

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Corrections

• Corrections

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• Correction

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• Correction

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