16 May 1998(vol 316, issue 7143)

This Week In the BMJ

• More diabetics are being reviewed in general practice but without a proportionate decline in secondary care

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• Danish out of hours service is working well

  BMJ 1998; 316 :e (Published 16 May 1998)

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• Women may not be receiving most effective pacemakers

  BMJ 1998; 316 :c (Published 16 May 1998)

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• Some small for gestational age fetuses have higher risk of late fetal death than others

  BMJ 1998; 316 :a (Published 16 May 1998)

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• Case upheld for four layer bandaging for leg ulcers

  BMJ 1998; 316 :b (Published 16 May 1998)

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• Rates of depression among men in Scotland have risen since 1980

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Editorials

• Calcium channel blockers

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• Toys and games: poorly recognised hearing hazards?

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• Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis

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• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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• Breaking down language barriers

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Letters

• Majority view of climate scientists is that global warming is indeed happening

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• PACT data for dispensed drugs linked to NHS numbers are available now

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• There is no such thing as ageing

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• Can students learn comparable clinical skills in general practice and hospital settings?

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• Compression ultrasonography for diagnosing deep vein thrombosis

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• Attitudes to questioning in clinical practice may be changed

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• Time to publication of studies was not affected by whether results were positive

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• BMJ has largely met its target for publication time for long papers

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News

• Passive smoking case reaches High Court

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• Global life expectancy rises

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• In brief

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• Self regulation of doctors must work locally

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• British public wants free health care, whatever the cost

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• Britain launches pilot screening programme for chlamydia

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• Women lose legal battle over radiotherapy

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• Trusts face damages after forcing women to have caesareans

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• Parasites likely to have plagued Louis XIV

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• GPs have continuing concern over primary care groups

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• CF gene may protect against typhoid fever

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• UK government backs research on cannabis

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• Researchers discover novel way to get proteins into tumours

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• Scientists uncover how anthrax works

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Clinical Reviews

• Helicobacter pylori and gastric diseases

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• Adverse reactions to drugs

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Views & Reviews

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• Helicobacter, audit, and ageing

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Papers

• Differences in late fetal death rates in association with determinants of small for gestational age fetuses: population based cohort study

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• Cost effectiveness of community leg ulcer clinics: randomised controlled trial

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• Sex differences in selection of pacemakers: retrospective observational study

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• Science commentary: Pacemakers

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• Rapid resolution of symptoms and signs of intracerebral haemorrhage: case reports

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• Admission for depression among men in Scotland, 1980-95: retrospective study

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• Changing proximal femoral geometry in north east Scotland: an osteometric study

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• Management of hyperlipidaemia after coronary revascularisation: follow up study

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• Detection of a variant protein in hair: new diagnostic method in Portuguese type familial amyloid polyneuropathyCommentary: A new hair test for rare antigens

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General practice

• Out of hours service in Denmark: evaluation five years after reform

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• Shifting of care for diabetes from secondary to primary care, 1990-5: review of general practices

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Education and debate

• Too drunk to care?Ethanol, emergencies, and ethical dilemmasCommentary: Guidelines could never be developedCommentary: Balance the risk as best you canCommentary: Doctors can never have a moral holiday

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• Adjuvant tamoxifen: how long before we know how long?

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• BMJ data

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• Facing loss

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• Assessment in primary care: practical issues and possible approaches

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• Perspectives in economic evaluation

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• Royal college proposes solutions for medical SRsChanges in NHS will be “historic”BMA calls for rethink on no fault compensationMedical students face average overdraft of £1000

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Soundings

• Join the club

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Personal View

• Outpatients: a ringside view

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MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

• What makes a healthy website?

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Medicine and books

• Non-random Reflections on Health Services Research

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• Physician-assisted suicide

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Career focus

• Working in the Netherlands

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• The new NHS: Yes and no

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• Deathbed scenes

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• Psychiatric problem dismissed

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• Piano player, pathologist, postmortem, postscript

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• The depopulation of France

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Obituary

• Patrick (“Paddy”) Francis AhernWilliam Maurice AnkersArthur Eliot BarrHugh Kenneth ChildsHarry Lloyd Fairbridge CurreyJames Matheson FlemingElizabeth Rothwell (“Liz”) GermanyGeorge Lees GibsonJohn Ludovic (“Jack”) GrantAndrew GriersonBrian Edyvean HeardNicholas Barrick IngledewHamid Ali KhanElizabeth (“Lizzie”) Mary LenmanAlexander MacdonaldHenry Martyn (“Harry”) McGladderyJohn Miller Hunter MitchellMohammad NadeemHugh Noel O'DonoghueDavid Lewis ParryRichard Edgar Alfred (“Dickie”) Price

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