21 August 1999(vol 319, issue 7208)

This Week In the BMJ

• Babies delivered in water: perinatal mortality is no higher

  BMJ 1999; 319 :d (Published 21 August 1999)

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• Social activities lengthen life in elderly Americans

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• Single screening test for neonatal cholestasis is not yet feasible from blood spots

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• What should the developing world do about cancer?

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• Weight control measures help women stop smoking

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• A single genetic polymorphism may account for a fifth of infarctions

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Editorials

• Cancer survival in Britain

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• Evidence based palliative care

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• Doctors and nurses: changing family values?

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• What the millennium bug tells us about ourselves

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• The joy of being electronic

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Letters

• Contacting GP surgeries over Christmas

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• Hyponatraemia after orthopaedic surgery

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• Intensive care is not expensive compared with other treatments

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• Orbital trauma

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• Twins and the fetal origins hypothesis

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• Hand washing

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• “Black boxing:” response by editor of Hospital Doctor

  BMJ 1999; 319 :520 (Published 21 August 1999)

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• Referral to intensive care units should not be limited to consultants

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• Shakespeare knew the layered clothing sign of schizophrenia

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• Evaluation of NHS direct

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News

• Utrecht

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• Immunotherapy produces long term clinical remission

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• Irish doctors protest over pay and conditions

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• Life expectancy of Russian men falls to 58

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• In brief

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• UK hospitals assess eye damage after solar eclipse

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• Earlier discharge for newborns may increase health risks

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• Global health gap widens says World Bank

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• Drug treatment beats prison for cutting crime and addiction rates

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• Raloxifene can cut fracture risk

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Clinical Reviews

• Stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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• Cutting edge

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• A global look at cancer

  BMJ 1999; 319 :a (Published 21 August 1999)

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• A global look at cancer

  BMJ 1999; 319 :0 (Published 21 August 1999)

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Papers

• Screening of newborn infants for cholestatic hepatobiliary disease with tandem mass spectrometryCommentary: What is tandem mass spectrometry?

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• Population based study of social and productive activities as predictors of survival among elderly Americans

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• Perinatal mortality and morbidity among babies delivered in water: surveillance study and postal survey

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• Polymorphism in high density lipoprotein paraoxonase gene and risk of acute myocardial infarction in men: prospective nested case-control studyCommentary: Causality—the Achilles' heel of observational studiesCommentary: How high density lipoprotein protects against heart disease

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General practice

• Open randomised trial of intermittent very low energy diet together with nicotine gum for stopping smoking in women who gained weight in previous attempts to quitCommentary: results are unlikely to be as good in routine practice

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Education and debate

• Cancer in the developing world: a call to action

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• An introduction to bayesian methods in health technology assessment

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BOOKS CDS

• QBase: Anaesthesia: 1-3; QBase: Anaesthesia: 1; QBase: Anaesthesia: 2; QBase: Anaesthesia: 3

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BESTSELLERS

• JULY BESTSELLERS

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Ad

• “Unselling” the cigarette

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• Water births

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Personal View

• A patient's eye view of quality

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Soundings

• Fancy drugs for worried folks

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Career focus

• What do directors of postgraduate education in general practice do?

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• The screaming man

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• Now concentrate

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• The qat party

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Correction

• Comparative efficacy of three mumps vaccines during disease outbreak in eastern Switzerland: cohort study

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Obituary

• Charles Peter BroadKenneth Playfair DuncanHoward Larmour EnglishDorothy Younie

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