11 January 1997(vol 314, issue 7074)

This Week In the BMJ

• Environmental contamination with radiation is associated with childhood leukaemia clusters

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• Short children are not necessarily at a psychosocial disadvantage

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• Validation of a near patient test for H pylori

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• When does the fetus become a viable baby?

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• Replacing dietary saturated fat with other fats significantly reduces blood cholesterol

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Editorials

• Advising patients with genital herpes

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• Setting priorities New Zealand-style

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• Hypoplastic left heart syndrome

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• “I've just been bitten by a dog”

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• Meeting the information needs of health workers in developing countries

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Letters

• Widow's attempt to use her dead husband's sperm

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• Serum cholesterol concentration and postpartum depression

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• Fifth of e antigen negative carriers of hepatitis B virus should not perform exposure prone procedures

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• Resuscitation witnessed by relatives

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• Insulin infusion in diabetic patients with acute myocardial infarction

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• Disagreements still exist over the chronic fatigue syndrome

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• Treating dysentery with metronidazole in Pakistan

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• Measurement error

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• Dietary habits and mortality in vegetarians and health conscious people

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• Safeguards are needed for new proposals for primary care

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• Information shared in mentoring must remain confidential

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Clinical Reviews

• Fortnightly review: Prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism

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• Science, medicine, and the future: Molecular genetic approaches to understanding disease

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• Lesson of the week: Man's best friend: life threatening sepsis after minor dog bite

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Medicine and books

• December bestsellers: BMJ Bookshop

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• Social Factors in the Personality Disorders: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Etiology and Treatment

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• Developing Primary Care-The Academic Contribution: The Conference of Academic Organizations in General Practice

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• Health and Social Organization-Toward a Health Policy for the 21st Century

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Editor's Choice

• Learning about cancer from France and rationing from New Zealand

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Papers

• Are short normal children at a disadvantage? The Wessex growth study

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• Case-control study of leukaemia among young people near La Hague nuclear reprocessing plant: the environmental hypothesis revisited

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• Changing prognosis for babies of less than 28 weeks' gestation in the north of England between 1983 and 1994

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• Dietary lipids and blood cholesterol: quantitative meta-analysis of metabolic ward studies

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• Thermographic changes in keyboard operators with chronic forearm pain

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• Validation of a rapid whole blood test for diagnosing Helicobacter pylori infection

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General practice

• Feasibility and effects of nurse run clinics for patients with epilepsy in general practice: randomised controlled trial

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• Prevalence of arm movements in patients with coronary heart disease: case-control study

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Education and debate

• The New Zealand priority criteria project. Part 1: Overview

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• The new zealand priority criteria project. part 2: coronary artery bypass graft surgery

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• Funding the NHS Can the NHS cope in future?

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Personal Views

• One born every minute

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• Eroding the trust

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MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

• Mental illness as metaphor, yet again

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Career focus

• Locum doctors

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• A memorable interview: None of his business

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• Serious disease saves life

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• Comparing treatments

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• One hundred years ago: Riotous students

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Correction

• Insulin resistance

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Obituary

• Bert Geoffrey AchongLawrence (“Laurie”) Gordon BrockGervais Joly DixonRonald Vincent HarrisHenry Vernon JonesAnne Carmel Marley (née O'Hanlon)William Gordon MillarGavin William MilroyJean Pasmore (née Calman)Bernard Butts ReissKshitindra Nath SenguptaAndrew Charles Sheldon

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