04 October 1997(vol 315, issue 7112)

This Week In the BMJ

• Inhaled steroids are of little benefit in viral associated wheezing in children

  BMJ 1997; 315 :f (Published 04 October 1997)

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• Health risks linked to drinking beer vary with drinking pattern

  BMJ 1997; 315 :c (Published 04 October 1997)

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• Short heavy mothers produce heart disease in their sons

  BMJ 1997; 315 :a (Published 04 October 1997)

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• Recent pregnancy is a poor prognostic factor for breast cancer

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• Smoking increases the risk of hip fracture

  BMJ 1997; 315 :b (Published 04 October 1997)

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• Serial magnetic resonance imaging helps detect prion disease

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Editorials

• The relation between fetal malnutrition and chronic disease in later life

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• The use of statins: a case of misleading priorities?

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• Genetic diagnosis before implantation

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• Hunger strikes

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Letters

• Antibiotics as initial treatment for children with acute otitis media

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• Relative risks are inflated in published literature

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• Study confirms results of systematic review of care in stroke unit

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• Modern treatment for internal haemorrhoids

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• Author preferred to cite substantive references rather than meeting abstracts

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• Effect of deprivation on general practitioners' referral rates

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• Mental health emergencies

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• Data on results of using different antiepileptic drugs do exist

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• Accident and emergency departments should not be considered places of safety

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• Neonatal mortality of low birthweight babies is increased in mothers with higher education

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• Acupuncturists have begun initiative to agree standards to improve safety

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• Caller's telephone number can be permanently withheld

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News

• Agents of new variant CJD and BSE are identical

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• New study reports that diet is critical to cancer prevention

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• In brief

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• Gynaecologist admonished for removing ovaries without consent

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• Unsupervised junior surgeons carry out operations

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• Doctors volunteer to be guinea pigs for AIDS vaccine

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• FDA insists on more women in drug trials

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• When life saving treatment should be withdrawn in children

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• Government reviews law on “posthumous conceptions”

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• Health care in China is highly inequitable

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• Dutch and Swiss support heroin on prescription

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• Liberal Democrats want coalition to run NHS

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• Gagging clauses outlawed

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• Government waives proposed fees for final year medical students

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Clinical Reviews

• Recent advances in endocrine therapy of breast cancer

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• ABC of palliative care: Difficult pain problems

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• An explanation for the epidemic of coronary artery disease?

  BMJ 1997; 315 :0 (Published 04 October 1997)

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Papers

• Mother's weight in pregnancy and coronary heart disease in a cohort of finnish men: follow up study

  BMJ 1997; 315 :837 (Published 04 October 1997)

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• A meta-analysis of cigarette smoking, bone mineral density and risk of hip fracture: recognition of a major effect

  BMJ 1997; 315 :841 (Published 04 October 1997)

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• Beer binging and mortality: results from the kuopio ischaemic heart disease risk factor study, a prospective population based study

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• Time since childbirth and prognosis in primary breast cancer: population based study

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• Audit of child protection procedures in accident and emergency department to identify children at risk of abuse

  BMJ 1997; 315 :855 (Published 04 October 1997)

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• Cerebral and cerebellar atrophy on serial magnetic resonance imaging in an initially symptom free subject at risk of familial prion disease

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General practice

• Effect of inhaled corticosteroids on episodes of wheezing associated with viral infection in school age children: randomised double blind placebo controlled trial

  BMJ 1997; 315 :858 (Published 04 October 1997)

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Education and debate

• Climate change and health: implications for research, monitoring, and policy

  BMJ 1997; 315 :870 (Published 04 October 1997)

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• Resource allocation to health authorities: the quest for an equitable formula in Britain and Sweden

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• Quality of training must be paramountDevolution must not damage Scottish health serviceGPs' out of hours funding must continueJDC group will look at new deal

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Soundings

• Auchendreich says well, yes, maybe

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Personal Views

• Vitiligo: an underestimated problem in general practice?

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  • Responses
• I stopped asking doctors for help

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Medicine and books

• How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence Based Medicine

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• Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision-Support Techniques and Medical Practices

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Career focus

• Working as a deputy in general practice

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• Endpiece: Hopefully, the last word

  BMJ 1997; 315 :h (Published 04 October 1997)

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• When I use a word…: Wool gathering

  BMJ 1997; 315 :g (Published 04 October 1997)

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• Endpiece: Misleading appearances

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Corrections

• Young adults with arthritic hips

  BMJ 1997; 315 :830 (Published 04 October 1997)

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• Age related dietary exposure to meat products from British dietary surveys of teenagers and adults in the 1980s and 1990s

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Obituary

• John KnoweldenMichael Maurice LibermanGeoffrey Colin SheldonJohn Coulthurst Ward

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