26 July 1997(vol 315, issue 7102)

This Week In the BMJ

• Decrease in bone density with age contributes only a little to increased risk of hip fracture with age

  BMJ 1997; 315 :c (Published 26 July 1997)

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• Screening for chlamydia may be viable in general practice

  BMJ 1997; 315 :d (Published 26 July 1997)

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• Class differences in mortality in Finland are related to alcohol

  BMJ 1997; 315 :a (Published 26 July 1997)

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• Medicine should not rely on the memories of experts

  BMJ 1997; 315 :e (Published 26 July 1997)

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• Cleansing birth canal with chlorhexidine reduces postpartum infections

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Editorials

• Preventing perinatal infections

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• Regulating the pharmaceutical industry

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• Misconduct in research: editors respond

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• User feesLimited success at managing demandProfound effects on access

  BMJ 1997; 315 :202 (Published 26 July 1997)

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• When the next influenza pandemic comes

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Letters

• Informed consent

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• French committee will investigate proposed link between activities of nuclear reprocessing plant and leukaemia

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• Plans are needed on how to cope with demand for ventilation during pandemic influenza

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  • Responses
• Scientists should inform public of risks of transgenic experimentation

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• Public should know of efficacy of early hospital treatment of paracetamol overdose

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• Balance in long term follow up between secondary and primary care is necessary

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News

• Consultant struck off over research fraud

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• Number of Welsh trusts likely to be cut

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• In brief

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• Two doctors confess to helping patients to die

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• More freedom for doctors to move within EU

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• European Commission looking to cut junior doctors' hours

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• Patenting of genes moves one stage closer

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• Pain is often misdiagnosed

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• Half of the world lives in “medieval” squalor

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• Screening for fragile X is cost effective and accurate

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• GP fundholders can no longer jump the queue

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• Romania to change health system

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• US tobacco firms target Asia

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• Over a third of trusts in England face financial difficulties

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Clinical Reviews

• Science, medicine, and the future: Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

  BMJ 1997; 315 :236 (Published 26 July 1997)

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• ABC of mental health: Psychosexual problems

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Minerva

• Minerva

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FOCUS

• Turmoil at New South Wales Cancer Council

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Editor's Choice

• Unaided minds, science, and euthanasia

  BMJ 1997; 315 :0 (Published 26 July 1997)

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Papers

• Contribution of deaths related to alcohol use to socioeconomic variation in mortality: register based follow up study

  BMJ 1997; 315 :211 (Published 26 July 1997)

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• Effect of cleansing the birth canal with antiseptic solution on maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality in malawi: clinical trial

  BMJ 1997; 315 :216 (Published 26 July 1997)

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• Commentary: Sources of bias must be controlled

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• Bone density and risk of hip fracture in men and women: cross sectional analysis

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General practice

• Comparison of two methods of screening for genital chlamydial infection in women attending in general practice: cross sectional survey

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Information in practice

• New connections between medical knowledge and patient care

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• Netlines

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Education and debate

• How to read a paper : getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about)

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• GPs warned about pilot schemes£1.2bn boost for health will not be enoughHome Office tackles underage drinking

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Soundings

• Hello sailor

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Personal Views

• More money for training?

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• A very special day

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Medicine and books

• Practical Anaesthesia and Analgesia for Day Surgery

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• Prevention and Control of Pain in Children. A Manual for Health Care Professionals

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Career focus

• Associate general practitioners

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• A person who profoundly affected my life: The eye doctor

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• A memorable patient: Out of Africa: a rash occurrence

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• When I use a word…: Oe no!

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Obituary

• Hilda CantrellSeán CoyleBenjamin Glen DaltonConstance Marion (“Con”) Davis (née Bradbury)Freda C J Fawcett (née Nicoll)Walter Stephen HartThomas Michael HennebryJohn Glyn JonesCharles LangmaidDouglas Craig LillieJohn Lawrence PattonJohn Ernest TinneAlexander Hutton (“Sandy”) Wilson

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