02 January 1999(vol 318, issue 7175)

This Week In the BMJ

• Psychological attributes may explain how social origins affect adult health

  BMJ 1999; 318 :c (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Medicines regulation should be more transparent

  BMJ 1999; 318 :g (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Open peer review is feasible and does not reduce quality of reviews

  BMJ 1999; 318 :d (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Migraine increases the risk of ischaemic but not haemorrhagic stroke in young women

  BMJ 1999; 318 :b (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Breast feeding is best learnt by example

  BMJ 1999; 318 :e (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Asian children in the UK may need vitamin D

  BMJ 1999; 318 :f (Published 02 January 1999)

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Editorials

• Being strategic about smoking

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Low plasma vitamin D in Asian toddlers in Britain

  BMJ 1999; 318 :2 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Modernising mental health services

  BMJ 1999; 318 :3 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Opening up BMJ peer review

  BMJ 1999; 318 :4 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Treating thyrotoxicosis in pregnant or potentially pregnant women

  BMJ 1999; 318 :5 (Published 02 January 1999)

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Letters

• Suboptimal ward care of critically ill patients

  BMJ 1999; 318 :51 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Complaints of pain after use of handcuffs should not be dismissed

  BMJ 1999; 318 :55 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Electronic preprints can be categorised

  BMJ 1999; 318 :55 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Meta-analyses of observational data should be done with due care

  BMJ 1999; 318 :56 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Infantile spasms and vigabatrin

  BMJ 1999; 318 :56 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Sex education should begin in primary school

  BMJ 1999; 318 :57 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Improved command of English may explain why non-English speaking countries get more published

  BMJ 1999; 318 :57 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Is it time for an Illich Collaboration to make available information on the harms of medical care?

  BMJ 1999; 318 :58 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Clinical outcome in relation to care in centres specialising in cystic fibrosis

  BMJ 1999; 318 :58 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in adults

  BMJ 1999; 318 :59 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Communicating with patients

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• Author was never appointed to Bristol inquiry

  BMJ 1999; 318 :60 (Published 02 January 1999)

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News

• Prisoner wants to donate his second kidney

  BMJ 1999; 318 :7 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Risks of surgery on unruptured brain aneurysms can outweigh benefits

  BMJ 1999; 318 :7 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• In brief

  BMJ 1999; 318 :8 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Smoking ban improves health of bartenders

  BMJ 1999; 318 :8 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• WHO plans to halve child asthma deaths

  BMJ 1999; 318 :8 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• UK treads softly on smoking

  BMJ 1999; 318 :9 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Shane Warne takes money to give up smoking

  BMJ 1999; 318 :9 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Government plans shake up in NHS pay

  BMJ 1999; 318 :10 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• First doctor suspended under GMC performance procedures

  BMJ 1999; 318 :10 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Private company wins rights to Icelandic gene database

  BMJ 1999; 318 :11 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• North Korean children ravaged by poor nutrition

  BMJ 1999; 318 :12 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Death rates higher in Wales

  BMJ 1999; 318 :12 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Airline passenger dies afterbeing sedated by doctor

  BMJ 1999; 318 :12 (Published 02 January 1999)

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Clinical Reviews

• Neurosurgery

  BMJ 1999; 318 :35 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Florid rickets associated with prolonged breast feeding without vitamin D supplementation

  BMJ 1999; 318 :39 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Female sexual problems I: Loss of desirewhat about the fun?

  BMJ 1999; 318 :41 (Published 02 January 1999)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 1999; 318 :68 (Published 02 January 1999)

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Editor's Choice

• Ethics and narrative

  BMJ 1999; 318 :0 (Published 02 January 1999)

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Editor's Choice [GP]

• Ethics and narrative

  BMJ 1999; 318 :a (Published 02 January 1999)

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Papers

• Migraine and stroke in young women: case-control study

  BMJ 1999; 318 :13 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Social class in childhood and general health in adulthood: questionnaire study of contribution of psychological attributes

  BMJ 1999; 318 :18 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Effect of open peer review on quality of reviews and on reviewers'recommendations: a randomised trial

  BMJ 1999; 318 :23 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Vitamin D concentrations in Asian children aged 2years living in England: population survey

  BMJ 1999; 318 :28 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Incidence of trauma related stress fractures and shin splints in male and female army recruits: retrospective case study

  BMJ 1999; 318 :29 (Published 02 January 1999)

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General Practice

• Qualitative study of decisions about infant feeding among women in east end of London

  BMJ 1999; 318 :30 (Published 02 January 1999)

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Education and debate

• Evidence on peer review—scientific quality control or smokescreen?

  BMJ 1999; 318 :44 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Rethinking transparency and accountability in medicines regulation in the United Kingdom

  BMJ 1999; 318 :46 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Why study narrative?

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• Medicopolitical digestBMA calls for guidelines on new and expensive drugsJuniors to be surveyed on 48 hour directiveJunior doctors want higher rates for 1999-2000 new yearGPs submit proposals on the $60m job weight awardYoung people's health surveyed

  BMJ 1999; 318 :63 (Published 02 January 1999)

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MULTIMEDIA

• Desperately Seeking Solutions: Rationing Health Care

  BMJ 1999; 318 :64 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Gout: The Patrician Malady

  BMJ 1999; 318 :64 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Step by Step Guide to Epidemiological Health Needs Assessment for Ethnic Minority Groups; Dying, Death and Bereavement in a British Hindu Community

  BMJ 1999; 318 :65 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Minor Surgery and Skin Lesions: Diagnosis and Management on CD-ROM

  BMJ 1999; 318 :65 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Shock to stop?

  BMJ 1999; 318 :66 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

  BMJ 1999; 318 :66 (Published 02 January 1999)

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Personal View

• My route to a steroid psychosis

  BMJ 1999; 318 :67 (Published 02 January 1999)

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BOOKCASE

• Bookcase

  BMJ 1999; 318 :67 (Published 02 January 1999)

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Career focus

• Working in Australia

  BMJ 1999; 318 :S2a-7175 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Briefing

  BMJ 1999; 318 :S3a-7175 (Published 02 January 1999)

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Fillers

• Gide's solution

  BMJ 1999; 318 :29 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• The health administration of London

  BMJ 1999; 318 :29 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• The knock on the door

  BMJ 1999; 318 :40 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Special correspondence: Paris

  BMJ 1999; 318 :41 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• A military doctor

  BMJ 1999; 318 :48 (Published 02 January 1999)

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• Useful remedy

  BMJ 1999; 318 :48 (Published 02 January 1999)

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Correction

• Corrections

  BMJ 1999; 318 :29 (Published 02 January 1999)

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Obituary

• ObituariesNilima Choudhury, née KunduPhilip Ross HarbenMonica Cynthia LewinRosemarie Dorothy LincolnMerlin MarshallGeorge Leonard PlesterJohn Albert RichDouglas William Cumming SmithGeoffrey Harvey Martin Stanley-JonesValentine Andrew James SwainSzeming SzeWilliam Waugh

  BMJ 1999; 318 :61 (Published 02 January 1999)

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