30 August 1997(vol 315, issue 7107)

This Week In the BMJ

• Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage is linked to deprivation

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• High dose vitamin A gives no benefit in childhood pneumonia

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• GPs' beliefs about their patients' expectations determine whether patients get drugs

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• Deprived areas benefit most from water fluoridation

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Editorials

• Improving the health of the world's poor

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• The trouble with bone allograft

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• Consumer participation in research and health care

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• Adverse drug reactions: finding the needle in the haystack

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Letters

• Intensive insulin treatment after acute myocardial infarction in diabetes mellitus

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• Breast cancer risk with cyst type in cystic disease of the breast

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• General practitioners' workload in primary care led NHS

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• Data on health economics of pulmonary rehabilitation programmes are needed

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• GPs' perceptions of tolerability of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and tricyclic antidepressants

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• Anonymity for unrelated bone marrow donors should remain

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• Diagnosing and managing polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis

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• Doctors should be trained in lifting patients

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• Cognitive dysfunction may complicate assessment of pain in elderly patients

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• EU directive on bovine spongiform encephalopathy will not affect drugs

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• Obstructive sleep apnoea

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News

• Hospital waiting lists grow by 13% in England

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• Psychologist wins damages over theft of research

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• China's smoking epidemic grows

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• American Medical Association apologises for commercial deal

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• Israel places restrictions on health funds

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• French doctors miss out on postmortem examinations

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• Crackdown on locum doctors announced

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• Tuberculosis infection process pinpointed

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• Colombia struggles with health reform

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• Medicinal marijuana provided at cost price

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Clinical Reviews

• Fortnightly review: Stress, the brain, and mental illness

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• ABC of mental health: Mental health on the margins

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• The world's health transition still leaves some behind

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Papers

• Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial of efficacy of vitamin A treatment in non-measles childhood pneumonia

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• Acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in west of Scotland: case ascertainment study

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• Water fluoridation, tooth decay in 5 year olds, and social deprivation measured by the Jarman score: analysis of data from British dental surveys

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• Electronic monitoring of vaccine cold chain in a metropolitan area

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• Reporting of adverse drug reactions by hospital pharmacists: pilot scheme

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General practice

• Prescribing behaviour in clinical practice: patients' expectations and doctors' perceptions of patients' expectations—a questionnaire study

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Information in practice

• The diabetes audit and research in Tayside Scotland (darts) study: electronic record linkage to create a diabetes register

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• Netlines: The medical establishment on the webThe power of plug-insThe Dearing report on lineAnaesthetics on the web

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Education and debate

• How to read a paper: Papers that report diagnostic or screening tests

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  • Responses

Soundings

• A longer view

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Personal View

• A doctor's dilemma

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MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

• Publish and be damned?

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Medicine and books

• Injured Brains of Medical Minds. Views from Within

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• Questioning the Solution: The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival

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Career focus

• Setting up and running a stress management service for doctors

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• Endpiece: Problems of adolescence

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• Any questions: Why does HIV infection progress to AIDS?

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Corrections

• ABC of mental health: Mental health emergencies

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• ABC of mental health: Addiction and dependence—I: Illicit drugs

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Obituary

• Margaret Gwendoline RobertsAnne Templeton Roddie (née Mathews)Barbara Margaret Ann Rogers (née Furniss)Roland Harvey RushtonDavid Gunn Scott

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