01 August 1998(vol 317, issue 7154)

This Week In the BMJ

• Decline in NHS beds increases pressure on GPs

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• Obesity from childhood to adulthood may lead to the metabolic syndrome

  BMJ 1998; 317 :c (Published 01 August 1998)

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• Cognitive behaviour therapy reduces psychotic symptoms

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• Deaths from dementia may hide cases of new variant CJD

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• Socioeconomic upheaval has increased mortality in Russia

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• Number needed to screen reveals worthwhile screening programmes

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Editorials

• Beyond conflict of interestA common problemBuilding a convincing caseWhat should the BMJ be doing?

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• Older people with schizophrenia: providing services for a neglected group

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• How can treatment of systemic sclerosis be improved?

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• Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer

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• Change at last at WHO

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Letters

• Consider validity, clinical relevance, and applicability of albumin for critically ill patients

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• Tobacco link with insurance

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• Passive smoking and heart disease

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• Passive smoking and lung cancer

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• The hot air on passive smoking

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• Marketing of breast milk substitutes

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• All scientific content of the BMJ should declare authors' conflicts of interest

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• Skrabanek dedicated his life to generating scepticism

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• Di Bella's method of curing cancer is becoming popular in Italy

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• New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is more common in Britain than elsewhere

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• Health authority was never influenced by party political pressure

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News

• Independent inquiry ordered into thoracic surgeon

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• UN amends policy on breast feeding

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• In brief

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• Fifty mice cloned by new technique

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• New gene associated with Alzheimer's disease

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• Hereditary cancer link supported

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• Mystery of “7000 extra doctors” explained

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• Extra 1000 medical school places by 2005

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• UK doctors may face revalidation

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• Operating the smokescreen

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• The “new WHO” commits to making a difference

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Clinical Review

• Polycystic ovarian syndrome: the metabolic syndrome comes to gynaecology

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• Two unlike people

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Editor's Choice [GP]

• Signposting for general practitioners

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Some encouragement given for research into cannabis

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• Medical negligence awards set to rise

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• Catalonia plans new policy on frozen embryos

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• Ex-ministers to face trial in French “blood scandal”

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Papers

• Randomised controlled trial of intensive cognitive behaviour therapy for patients with chronic schizophrenia

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• Number needed to screen: development of a statistic for disease screening

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• Economic change, crime, and mortality crisis in Russia: regional analysis

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• Relation between obesity from childhood to adulthood and the metabolic syndrome: population based study

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• Mortality from dementias and neurodegenerative disorders in people aged 15-64 in England and Wales in 1979-96

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• Diagnosing fever by touch: observational study

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Filler

• Equanimity upset

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General Practice

• The impact on general practitioners of the changing balance of care for elderly people living in institutions

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• Identification of patients with atrial fibrillation in general practice: a study of screening methods

  BMJ 1998; 317 :327 (Published 01 August 1998)

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Education and debate

• Ethical debateShould industry sponsor research?Tobacco industry research: collaboration, not confrontation, is the best approachTobacco company sponsorship discredits medical but not all researchCondemning the drinks industry rules out potentially useful researchIf the drinks industry does not clean up its act, pariah status is inevitableCollaborative research with infant formula companies should not always be censoredHow much research in infant feeding comes from unethical marketing?

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• Using research findings in clinical practice

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Letter

• Influenza vaccination policy and high risk subjects

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• Medicopolitical digestPrime minister reaffirms review body's independenceQuality document is too centralistGMC consults on consent

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Soundings

• Is this anyone's brolly?

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Personal View

• Doctors fighting, fleeing, or facing up to death

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MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

• A transient frenzy?

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Medicine and books

• A Damn Bad Business: The NHS Deformed

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• General Practice Under the National Health Service, 1948-1997

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Career focus

• Career development for doctors with a disability

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• Heredity and environment

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• Hogarth's paintings at St. Bartholomew's Hospital

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• Happy ending

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Correction

• Correction

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Obituary

• Mohammed Iftikar AkhterMohammed Iftikar AkhterMaurice BergerLindsay Steven CarstairsDesmond Plunkett DunphyDavid GrimeDavid Brian Shaw

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