10 April 1999(vol 318, issue 7189)

This Week In the BMJ

• Computer support for determining drug doses improves outcomes

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• Overdoses on television may encourage others

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• Black people are twice as likely as white people to suffer stroke

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• Watching medical soaps may increase medical knowledge

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• Fertility effects need not be considered in women with suspected appendicitis

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• Intervention package did not reduce minor injuries in children

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Editorials

• Kevorkian and assisted death in the United States

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• Prisoners: an end to second class health care?

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• Medical fiction

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• Doing something about tuberculosis

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• The largest mass gathering

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• Will the NHS pay awards help recruitment?

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Letters

• Smear tests were not on trial but should have been

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• Postcoital testing

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• Value of breast imaging in women with painful breasts

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• More on the Bristol affair

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• Use of asthma drugs is less among women pregnant with boys rather than girls

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• Australian university students agree with Clinton's definition of sex

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• Prevalence of smoking among pregnant women is lower in Italy than England

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• The profession, not the media, should assess where Kasai portoenterostomy should be performed

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• Political correctness is behind proposed appraisal system

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• Prescribing antibiotics for sore throats

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News

• Breast cancer treatment delays affect survival

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• Strokes at night more likely to delay care

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• In brief

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• Cholesterol lowering margarine launched in United Kingdom

  BMJ 1999; 318 :960 (Published 10 April 1999)

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• Spain tackles eating disorders

  BMJ 1999; 318 :960 (Published 10 April 1999)

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• UN responding slowly to Kosovo refugee crisis

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• Germany plans to make GPs gatekeepers

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• Canada's drug plan hits old, mentally ill, and those on welfare

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• Drug companies criticised for exaggeration

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• UK appeal upholds clinical responsibility of managers

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Clinical Reviews

• Recent advances in haematology

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• Induction

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• The champagne glass of world poverty

  BMJ 1999; 318 :0 (Published 10 April 1999)

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Deputising doctor reported to General Medical Council

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• US Congress considers medical privacy bill

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• NICE opens for business

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• UK private health sector wants NHS regulator

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Papers

• Fertility patterns after appendicectomy: historical cohort study

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• Ethnic differences in incidence of stroke: prospective study with stroke register

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• Effects of a drug overdose in a television drama on presentations to hospital for self poisoning: time series and questionnaire study

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• Effects of a drug overdose in a television drama on knowledge of specific dangers of self poisoning: population based surveys

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General practice

• Preventing injuries in children: cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care

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Information in practice

• Computer support for determining drug dose: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Education and debate

• Probiotics and prebiotics: can regulating the activities of intestinal bacteria benefit health?

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• Under fire

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MULTIMEDIA

• Cardiovascular Disease in the Octogenarian and Beyond

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• Safety, Health and Environmental Hazards at the Workplace

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• Journal of Clinical Effectiveness

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• WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

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Review

• Reviews

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Personal View

• A step towards effective self regulation

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Soundings

• May I take this opportunity …

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Career focus

• The job and the exam

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• All in the family

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• TB or not TB

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• Time

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• The wrong notes

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• The Royal Academy Exhibition

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Correction

• Information in practice: NHSnet—learning from academia

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Obituary

• ObituariesEmyr Wyn JonesWilfrid George OakleyAlexander SherlockPenat Raman Menon Sreevalsan

  BMJ 1999; 318 :1014 (Published 10 April 1999)

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