06 March 1999(vol 318, issue 7184)

This Week In the BMJ

• Women with learning disability are not being screened for cervical cancer

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• Consensus on criteria for evaluating health related web sites is emerging

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• Children from lower social classes consult more often

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• Patients want more information than doctors want to give

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• Once is enough for neonatal screening

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• Rivastigmine may improve functioning in mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease

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Editorials

• Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimer's disease

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• Something borrowed from the blues?

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• Endoscopic treatment of bile duct stones in elderly people

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• The role of the routine neonatal examination

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• BMJ introduces a fast track system for papers

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Letters

• Carriage of meningococci in contacts of patients with meningococcal disease

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• Primary care arrangements for elderly people in residential and nursing homes

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• Treating type 2 diabetes

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• Long stay care and the NHS

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• Scotland needs a bed inquiry

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• Sildenafil (Viagra) is used as a recreational drug in England

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• Contributors to antibiotic resistance

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• “Medication concordance” is best helped by improving consultation skills

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• Meeting health needs of asylum seekers

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• Register cannot replace prospective studies in sickle cell disease

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• Helping airline passengers

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News

• Swedish study questions mammography screening programmes

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• UK introduces “NHS Oscars”

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• In brief

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• UK commission recommends new ways to fund care of elderly people

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• US launches campaign to combat Medicare fraud

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• Adding chemotherapy improves survival in cervical cancer

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• UK class tobacco action nears collapse

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• Hungarian university starts first migration medicine course

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• Research shows optimal spacing for healthy babies

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• China cracks down on counterfeit medicines

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• NHS to come under Race Relations Act

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• Surgery increases risk ofsporadic CJD

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• Autoimmune reaction links chlamydia to heart disease

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• Vancomycin resistant staphylococcus reported in Hong Kong

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• UK medical schools should expand to meet staff shortages

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• Irish government to set up tribunal for hearing loss in soldiers

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Clinical Reviews

• Intracoronary stents

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• Sexual variations

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Editor's Choice

• Error and institutionalised racism

  BMJ 1999; 318 :0 (Published 06 March 1999)

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• AIDS vaccines tested in Thailand and Uganda

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• Study finds disparity in care after heart attack

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• Parents demand names of children given faulty vaccine

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• UK launches study to follow childhood cancer survivors

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• US considers routine childhood hepatitis A vaccination in high risk states

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• In brief

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Papers

• Neonatal examination and screening trial (NEST): a randomised, controlled, switchback trial of alternative policies for low risk infantsCommentary: “Switchback” allocationdangerous bends ahead!

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• Efficacy and safety of rivastigmine in patients with Alzheimer's disease: international randomised controlled trialCommentary: Another piece of the Alzheimer's jigsaw

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• Science commentary: Rational drug design for Alzheimer's disease

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• Patients' and doctors' attitudes to amount of information given after unintended injury during treatment: cross sectional, questionnaire survey

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• Cross sectional survey of cervical cancer screening in women with learning disability

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General Practice

• Socioeconomic differences in childhood consultation rates in general practice in England and Wales: prospective cohort study

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Information in practice

• Published criteria for evaluating health related web sites: review

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Education and debate

• Roles and responsibilities of the problem based learning tutor in the undergraduate medical curriculum

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• Legal and political considerations of clinical practice guidelines

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• GPs will set up an English committeeDefence medical services have been cut too steeplyHelping to learn about medicineConsultants' leader meets health ministerNew owner takes over BMA's taxation service

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MULTIMEDIA

• Duchenne and Gachet

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• Blood and Bone

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• Nature Medicine

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• Down and loud

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• WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

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BOOKCASE

• Bookcase

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Personal View

• Tackling institutional racism

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Soundings

• Making them squirm

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Review

• Reviews

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Career focus

• Equity in study leave

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• Footsteps and faces

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• Child labour

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• How to start

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• Medical aid associations

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Correction

• Correction

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Obituary

• ObituariesAnthony Dominic AbdullahShaukat Hussain AnsariRoland BarnesJonathan Joseph BolgerDouglas Victor Vaughan Bowen-JonesMary Forbes BrownlieEdgar Austin Peter CroydonJohn Lewis FrancisHerbert FroodWilliam Stevenson HamiltonAlexander Fordyce JohnstoneJohn Wingrave Landells

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