15 February 1997(vol 314, issue 7079)

This Week In the BMJ

• Small practices have high rates of hospital admission for asthma

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• Misuse of sulphonylureas, rather than an insulinoma, may be the cause of spontaneous hypoglycaemia

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• Long delays exist in diagnosing gastric cancer in Britain

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• Earlier diagnosis currently improves survival in breast cancer

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• Impact factors should not be used for evaluating research

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• Childhood blood pressure is not affected by fetal “programming”

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Editorials

• Surgical management of heart failure

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• Dietary treatment of active Crohn's disease

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• Detaining asylum seekers

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• Primary managed care in Europe

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• The community's response to mentally ill people

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• Food for independence

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• Europe matters

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Letters

• Doctors should work towards elimination of all firearms and knives

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• Rationing health care

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• Angioplasty has been shown to have benefits over thrombolytic treatment

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• Fall in cholesterol after changes in composition of cooking oil in Mauritius

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• Controlling genital chlamydial infection

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• Allergic patients do not comply with doctors' advice to stop owning pets

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• Doctors maintain patients' dependence, whereas counsellors give them control

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• Reduced risk of wheezing in children using feather pillows is confirmed

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• Problems with guidelines

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• Old, frail people are marginalised in Japan

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• Treatment for trigeminal neuralgia

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• Telemedicine

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• Value of magnetic resonance imaging of the breast as a screening tool remains uncertain

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• Doctors who are dependent on alcohol can recover

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News

• Rationing is now accepted as inevitable by all sides

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• Widow can be inseminated with husband's sperm

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• In brief

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• UK government phases doctors' pay award

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• Journal accused of manipulating impact factor

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• Europe does well in science research league

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• Scotland considers radical reform of hospital services

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• Nurse prescribing is a success

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• Day surgery guidance is not being followed

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• US changes polio vaccination programme

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• Staff suspended at Ashworth secure hospital

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• Meningitis outbreak prompts review

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• Research and development programme begins to bite

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Clinical Reviews

• Recent advances: hiv infection—I

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• ABC of clinical haematology: The hereditary anaemias

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  • Responses
• Lesson of the week: Are spontaneous hypoglycaemia, raised plasma insulin and c peptide concentrations, and abnormal pancreatic images enough to diagnose insulinoma?

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• Applying imperfect treatments better, debating rationing, and abusing impact factors

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Papers

• Delays in the diagnosis of oesophagogastric cancer: a consecutive case series

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• Commentary: Japanese point of view

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• Commentary: Britain does better than germany before patients reach hospital

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• Retrospective study of reasons for improved survival in patients with breast cancer in East Anglia: earlier diagnosis or better treatment?

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• Size at birth and blood pressure: cross sectional study in 8-11 year old children

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• Alopecia and breast disease

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• Drug points: Lethargy with omeprazole

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General practice

• Hospital admissions for asthma in east london: associations with characteristics of local general practices, prescribing, and population

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Education and debate

• Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research

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• The rationing debate: Defining a package of healthcare services the NHS is responsible for The case for

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• The case against

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• Primary care: opportunities and threats Deregulating primary care

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• Consultants warn of continuing NHS crisisLabour proposes hospital trouble shootersReview body report 1997

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Personal Views

• The most precious gift

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• Turning off the lights in Northern Ireland

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• Evidence based general practice

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MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

• Let the media work for you, not against you

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Medicine and books

• Who Owns Our Bodies? Making Moral Choices in Health Care

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Career focus

• Dealing with difficult bosses

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• One hundred years ago: A flannel shirt club

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• One hundred years: The prevention of hereditary diseases

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• A memorable patient: Protective pipe smoking

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• One hundred years ago: Samson's riddle

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Corrections

• Hangovers

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• Fortnightly review: Screening for asymptomatic colorectal cancer

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Obituary

• William (“Bill”) WhimsterRichard (“Dick”) AdamsonElizabeth ArkleJames (“J J”) Murray

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