01 March 1997(vol 314, issue 7081)

This Week In the BMJ

• Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are tolerated better than tricyclic antidepressants

  BMJ 1997; 314 :e (Published 01 March 1997)

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• Antioxidant state may be linked to high heart disease mortality

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• Further coronary events more likely in patients from the Indian subcontinent

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• Structures are needed when nurses take on doctors' work

  BMJ 1997; 314 :c (Published 01 March 1997)

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• Should we be identifying carriers of MRSA?

  BMJ 1997; 314 :f (Published 01 March 1997)

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• Vitamin C deficiency increases risk of myocardial infarction

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Editorials

• Bringing nurses and doctors closer together

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• Tackling racism in the NHS

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  • Responses
• Amiodarone pulmonary toxicity

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• The coming of age of sports medicine

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• Childhood matters

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Letters

• Are research ethics committees behaving unethically?

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• Corporal punishment must not be reintroduced into schools

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• Cancer units are implementing changes from generic to specialist practice

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• Home births

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• Coffee drinking and risk of coronary heart disease

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• Ratio of inhaled corticosteroid to bronchodilator as indicator of quality of asthma prescribing

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• Increasing empathy between medical students and nurses

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News

• Pig virus transfer threatens xenotransplantation

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• Sheep cloned from mammary gland cells

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• In brief

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• Court case may clarify law on caesarean sections

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• Health put at risk by insurers' demands for gene test results

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• New York hospitals are to be paid to train fewer doctors

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• GPs demand a major review of their contracts and pay

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• Call for more research on cannabis

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• “Never again,” says NHS whistleblower

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• British public supports legal abortion for all

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• Obesity increases risk of pulmonary embolism

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• US asthma guidelines stress early steroid use

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• Health gains in Canadian budget

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• Antibody shows promise in Crohn's disease

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Clinical Reviews

• Science, medicine, and the future: Lung cancer

  BMJ 1997; 314 :652 (Published 01 March 1997)

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• Lesson of the week: Mediterranean spotted fever mimicking Kawasaki disease

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• ABC of clinical haematology: Chronic myeloid leukaemia

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• Unravelling heart disease and keeping gynaecologists active

  BMJ 1997; 314 :0 (Published 01 March 1997)

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Selection

• Selection

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Papers

• Antioxidant state and mortality from coronary heart disease in lithuanian and swedish men: concomitant cross sectional study of men aged 50

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• Vitamin C deficiency and risk of myocardial infarction: prospective population study of men from eastern Finland

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• First myocardial infarction in patients of Indian subcontinent and European origin: comparison of risk factors, management, and long term outcome

  BMJ 1997; 314 :639 (Published 01 March 1997)

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• No sex differences in immunisation rates of British south Asian children: the effect of migration?

  BMJ 1997; 314 :642 (Published 01 March 1997)

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• Use of calcium antagonists and need for perioperative transfusion in older patients with hip fracture: observational study

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• Vasospasm of the nipple–a manifestation of Raynaud's phenomenon: case reports

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General practice

• General practitioners' perceptions of the tolerability of antidepressant drugs: a comparison of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and tricyclic antidepressants

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Education and debate

• Personal paper: medicine in the 1990s needs a team approach

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• Controversies: Is it time to stop searching for MRSA?

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• Controversies: Is it time to stop searching for MRSA?

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• The rationing debate: Maximising the health of the whole community. The case for

  BMJ 1997; 314 :667 (Published 01 March 1997)

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• The rationing debate: Maximising the health of the whole community. The case against: what the principal objective of the NHS should really be

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• Primary care: opportunities and threats Broader teamwork in primary care

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• Non-core services will not be negotiated nationallySome European doctors face discriminationProfession secures changes to primary care billMore patients wait longer for hospital admission

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Personal Views

• The gynaecologist in winter

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• We need strong public health leadership

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MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

• Sex sells, and under age sex sells even more

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Medicine and books

• The Environment for Children: Understanding and Acting on the Environmental Hazards that Threaten Children and Their Parents

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Career focus

• Circumventing racism in the NHS

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• A father's death

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• One hundred years ago: Doctors and fishermen

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• Veterinary Counter Practice: A dog's life

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• One hundred years ago: Hampstead Heath in the jubilee year

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Obituary

• Charles Harold EdwardsAlexander Clarkson ForresterJohn Arnott MacDougallLeila Mary Wainman

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