11 April 1998(vol 316, issue 7138)

This Week In the BMJ

• Violations of code of marketing breast milk substitutes are common

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• Intrauterine systems with levonorgestrel may decrease hysterectomy rate

  BMJ 1998; 316 :b (Published 11 April 1998)

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• Baseline serum cholestanol can predict recurrent coronary events

  BMJ 1998; 316 :c (Published 11 April 1998)

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• Structured method of critical appraisal is better than unstructured method

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• Helicobacter pylori infection is not related to coronary risk factors

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Editor's Choice

• Electronic, international, and ready for anything

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Editorials

• Protecting breast feeding from breast milk substitutes

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• Neurological channelopathies

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• Antidepressant discontinuation reactions

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• Doctors in training: wasteful and inefficient?

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• Rehabilitation for older people

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• The BMJ's website scales up

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Letters

• Many climate change scientists do not agree that global warming is happening

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• BMJ is second most popular journal among surgeons

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• Preventing RhD haemolytic disease of the newborn

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• Medline and Embase complement each other in literature searches

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• What investigations and procedures do patients in hospices want

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• Culyer reforms will create new opportunities for research

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• Clinician scientists face difficult future

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• Early discharge after stroke

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• Basing resource allocation formulas on standardised mortality ratios would be wrong

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• Are part time doctors better doctors?

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• More patients should be excluded from being tissue donors

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• Acute excited states and sudden death

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• Many third molar teeth are probably removed unnecessarily in Sandwell

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News

• Trial supports earlier screening for Down's syndrome

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• MPs seek more research funding

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• In brief

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• First pill for male impotence approved in US

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• WHO reaffirms commitment to women's health

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• Correction

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• Australian government launches inquiry into healthcare system

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• Surgeon blamed beginner's bad luck for cardiac deaths

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• Health action zones set up

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• Sackings and strikes paralyse Nicaraguan health care

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• US eases sanctions on Cuba

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• Companies still breaking milk marketing code

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• The internet and the developing world

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Clinical Review

• The role of nuclear medicine in clinical investigation

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Views & Reviews

• Is this your first time too?

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• Grandma's been in prison

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• Medicine Now RIP

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• Health care for older people; Community care of older people

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• The National Health Service: A Political History

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• Minerva

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Papers

• Violations of the international code of marketing of breast milk substitutes: prevalence in four countries

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• Open randomised study of use of levonorgestrel releasing intrauterine system as alternative to hysterectomyCommentary: Promising results but wider recruitment needed

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• Baseline serum cholestanol as predictor of recurrent coronary events in subgroup of Scandinavian simvastatin survival study

  BMJ 1998; 316 :1127 (Published 11 April 1998)

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• Risk factors for coronary heart disease and infection with Helicobacter pylori: meta-analysis of 18 studies

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• Growth hormone as a risk for premature mortality in healthy subjects: data from the Paris prospective study

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Filler

• A problem often confronting editors

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• Common things are common

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• The gentleman crook

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• Puffin Island biological station

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• The guiding hand

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General Practice

• Randomised controlled trial of the READER method of critical appraisal in general practice

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• Randomised comparison of cost effectiveness of guided self management and traditional treatment of asthma in Finland

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Retraction

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

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Clinical review ABC of allergies

• Allergy and the skin. I—Urticaria

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Education and debate Personal paper

• Ethics and evidence based medicine

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Education and debate

• Framework for analysing risk and safety in clinical medicine

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• Reducing the risk of nosocomial HIV infection in British health workers working overseas: role of post-exposure prophylaxis

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Education and debate Coping with loss

• Blindness and loss of other sensory and cognitive functions

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Career focus

• Obstetrics and gynaecology

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Corrections

• Obituaries

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• Communication among health professionals

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Obituary

• Ernest Colin-RussNina Lettice Dix Dulake (née Robertson)Margaret Elizabeth EvansArthur Blair GriffithsGladys HillWilliam Pierce (“Tim”) KellyIan Wilson KerrMichael McCaheyJames Wallace MannSidney MottersheadAlistair Ian Macintosh NeillMaurice O'DonnellMichael Colin Shannon

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