14 November 1998(vol 317, issue 7169)

This Week In the BMJ

• Doctors need an answer on the duty to prescribe

  BMJ 1998; 317 :g (Published 14 November 1998)

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• Evidence based indicators are needed for primary care groups

  BMJ 1998; 317 :f (Published 14 November 1998)

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• Childhood energy intake might explain the link between height and cancer risk

  BMJ 1998; 317 :d (Published 14 November 1998)

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• Starting angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in primary care is safe

  BMJ 1998; 317 :e (Published 14 November 1998)

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• Obstetric care may be associated with subsequent suicides

  BMJ 1998; 317 :c (Published 14 November 1998)

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• Nut consumption may protect against heart disease

  BMJ 1998; 317 :b (Published 14 November 1998)

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Editor's Choice

• Three linked editorials

  BMJ 1998; 317 :0 (Published 14 November 1998)

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Editorials

• Height, early energy intake, and cancer

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• Nuts to you (… and you, and you)

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• Violent suicide and obstetric complications

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• Age related outcome in acute myocardial infarction

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• Hours, sleep, teamwork, and stress

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Letters

• Breast feeding: the baby friendly initiative

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• Fentanyl is not best anaesthetic induction agent in rapid sequence intubation

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• Relative's consent to treatment of patient is not needed

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• Evidence based case reports

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• Statistics on misuse of drugs have been misused

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1388 (Published 14 November 1998)

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• Screening for hydroxychloroquine retinopathy

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1388 (Published 14 November 1998)

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• Routine episiotomy should be abandoned

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• Elimination of elder abuse would be fitting way to mark millennium

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1389 (Published 14 November 1998)

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• Fever from the tropics

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• Single parents need home visits by health visitors

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News

• Scientists cultivate stem cells in the laboratory

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1337 (Published 14 November 1998)

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• UK report recommends medical trials of cannabis

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• Government gives NHS £250m for UK winter health pressures

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1338 (Published 14 November 1998)

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• Israel to increase fluoridated drinking water Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, Jerusalem

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1338 (Published 14 November 1998)

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• UK to limit legal aid for medical negligence cases to specialist lawyers

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• UK Human Rights Act will allow challenges to treatment refusals

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• Californian voters increase cigarette tax

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• Sheep dip patients deserve better care

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• Indian women's groups question contraceptive vaccine research

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• New UK hospital care plan for elderly

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• Role of UK chief medical officer has been eroded

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Clinical Reviews

• Bladder cancer

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• Oxygen transport2. Tissue hypoxia

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Views & Reviews

• October bestsellers

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• Three linked editorials

  BMJ 1998; 317 :a (Published 14 November 1998)

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Papers

• Frequent nut consumption and risk of coronary heart disease in women: prospective cohort study

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• Obstetric care and proneness of offspring to suicide as adults: case-control study

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1346 (Published 14 November 1998)

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• Leg length and risk of cancer in the Boyd Orr cohort

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• Height and mortality from cancer among men: prospective observational study

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• Initiating angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in mild to moderate heart failure in general practice: randomised, placebo controlled trial

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General practice

• Performance indicators for primary care groups: an evidence based approach

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General Practice

• Primary care groups and the right to prescribeCommentary: Bevan's covenant continues intact

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Filler

• A doctor's family

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Education and debate

• The rise of doctor-patient working groups

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• Systems and strategies for managing the drugs budget in Glasgow

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• Theories of race, ethnicity and culture

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• Cost of NHS operations varies widelyGovernment advises on food borne infectionsWMA aims to improve children's rights to health careGMC wants to limit scope of order making power

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Review

• The Third Way: New Politics for the New Century

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1394 (Published 14 November 1998)

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MEDICINE AND MULTIMEDIA

• Cannabis and Cognitive Functioning

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• RCOG Dialog CD ROM: Vol 1: Issue 1: January 1998

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• Core Values in Primary Care

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• WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

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• Shell shock patients: from cowards to victims

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Soundings

• Getting about

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Personal View

• Britain needs a national cancer institute

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Career focus

• Rehabilitation medicine

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• The new NHS: NHS

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• The philosopher and the chicken

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• Patient heal thyself

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• Saved by the chaplain

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Correction

• Reporting on quality of life in randomised controlled trials: bibliographic study

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1353 (Published 14 November 1998)

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Obituary

• Sir John David Nunes NabarroEdoardo ParmaMary Veronica Porter (n£e Burdett-Smith)Anthony Watson PurdieRory SadlerNorah Patricia SherlockMichael Edward SkinnerMark SticklandJohn WallaceWilliam Derek WylieStuart Young

  BMJ 1998; 317 :1391 (Published 14 November 1998)

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