This Week In the BMJ

• Children entering care have serious psychiatric disorders

  BMJ 1999; 319 :e (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Malaria incidence is increased around irrigation projects

  BMJ 1999; 319 :b (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Education of general practitioners improves the health of their elderly patients

  BMJ 1999; 319 :g (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Cirrhosis mortality is linked with consumption of spirits

  BMJ 1999; 319 :c (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Intention to treat analysis is often inadequate

  BMJ 1999; 319 :d (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Multifaceted shared care improves outcomes for elderly depressed people

  BMJ 1999; 319 :f (Published 11 September 1999)

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Editorials

• Environmental management for vector control

  BMJ 1999; 319 :651 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Can it work? Does it work? Is it worth it?

  BMJ 1999; 319 :652 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Accepting commercial sponsorship

  BMJ 1999; 319 :653 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Legal safeguards for the audit process

  BMJ 1999; 319 :654 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Zanamivir for influenza: a public health perspective

  BMJ 1999; 319 :655 (Published 11 September 1999)

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Letters

• Guidelines dismay disabled people unable to speak for themselves

  BMJ 1999; 319 :705 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Measuring outcomes in economic evaluations

  BMJ 1999; 319 :705 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Treatment of oral cancer

  BMJ 1999; 319 :706 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Concerns about privacy in research may be exaggerated

  BMJ 1999; 319 :706 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Minimising the impact of visual impairment

  BMJ 1999; 319 :707 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Antithrombotic treatment for atrial fibrillation

  BMJ 1999; 319 :708 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Rationing health care in New Zealand

  BMJ 1999; 319 :708 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Greenwich asthma study

  BMJ 1999; 319 :709 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Psychotherapy for severe personality disorder

  BMJ 1999; 319 :709 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Are postal prompts really ineffective?

  BMJ 1999; 319 :711 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Factors that might have eased principals' entry into practice

  BMJ 1999; 319 :711 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Effectiveness of planned short hospital stays for mental health care

  BMJ 1999; 319 :711 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Moving beyond journals

  BMJ 1999; 319 :712 (Published 11 September 1999)

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News

• AMA backs health reform legislation

  BMJ 1999; 319 :657 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• NIH website of original research to start in January

  BMJ 1999; 319 :657 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Baby to be tested for HIV against parents' wishes

  BMJ 1999; 319 :658 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Medical advice in press is often unsuitable, sometimes dangerous

  BMJ 1999; 319 :658 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• In brief

  BMJ 1999; 319 :658 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Anti-flu drug may not reduce death rate

  BMJ 1999; 319 :659 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• China moves to tackle iodine deficiency

  BMJ 1999; 319 :659 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• UK watchdog issues guidelines to combat medical research fraud

  BMJ 1999; 319 :660 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Storm rages over revisions to Helsinki Declaration

  BMJ 1999; 319 :660 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• ACE inhibitor reduces cardiovascular events by 22

  BMJ 1999; 319 :661 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Project makes emergency pill more available

  BMJ 1999; 319 :661 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• New EU health commissioner airs his priorities

  BMJ 1999; 319 :662 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Commons committee criticises Guy's fiasco

  BMJ 1999; 319 :662 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Apo E4 gene linked to breast cancer

  BMJ 1999; 319 :662 (Published 11 September 1999)

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Clinical Reviews

• Gynaecology

  BMJ 1999; 319 :689 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• What is complementary medicine?

  BMJ 1999; 319 :693 (Published 11 September 1999)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 1999; 319 :718 (Published 11 September 1999)

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Editor's Choice

• An ABC of complementary medicine: a new dawn

  BMJ 1999; 319 :0 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• An ABC of complementary medicine: a new dawn

  BMJ 1999; 319 :a (Published 11 September 1999)

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• New editor takes charge at New England Journal of Medicine

  BMJ 1999; 319 :662 (Published 11 September 1999)

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Papers

• Incidence of malaria among children living near dams in northern Ethiopia: community based incidence survey

  BMJ 1999; 319 :663 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Cirrhosis mortality and per capita consumption of distilled spirits, United States, 1949-94: trend analysis

  BMJ 1999; 319 :666 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• What is meant by intention to treat analysis? Survey of published randomised controlled trials

  BMJ 1999; 319 :670 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Psychiatric disorder among children at time of entering local authority care: questionnaire survey

  BMJ 1999; 319 :675 (Published 11 September 1999)

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General practice

• Multifaceted shared care intervention for late life depression in residential care: randomised controlled trialCommentary: Beyond the boundary for a randomised controlled trial?

  BMJ 1999; 319 :676 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Improving the health behaviours of elderly people: randomised controlled trial of a general practice education programme

  BMJ 1999; 319 :683 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Five year follow up of patients at high cardiovascular risk who took part in randomised controlled trial of health promotion

  BMJ 1999; 319 :687 (Published 11 September 1999)

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Education and debate

• For debateTime to put “cot death” to bed?Not time to put cot death to bed

  BMJ 1999; 319 :697 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• New global Health for All targets

  BMJ 1999; 319 :700 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• How to randomise

  BMJ 1999; 319 :703 (Published 11 September 1999)

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Books

• The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Human Brain

  BMJ 1999; 319 :715 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• HIV and AIDS: Testing, Screening, and Confidentiality

  BMJ 1999; 319 :715 (Published 11 September 1999)

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PRESS

• An end to health scares?

  BMJ 1999; 319 :716 (Published 11 September 1999)

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• Sudden infant death syndrome

  BMJ 1999; 319 :716 (Published 11 September 1999)

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Personal View

• More doctors would aid communication

  BMJ 1999; 319 :717 (Published 11 September 1999)

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Soundings

• Spaced out

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Career focus

• Locum appointments in the specialist registrar grade

  BMJ 1999; 319 :S2-7211 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• A step up in experience

  BMJ 1999; 319 :S2a-7211 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Briefing

  BMJ 1999; 319 :S3-7211 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Briefing

  BMJ 1999; 319 :S3a-7211 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Briefing

  BMJ 1999; 319 :S3b-7211 (Published 11 September 1999)

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Fillers

• The doctor's fault

  BMJ 1999; 319 :687 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Always take a proper drug history

  BMJ 1999; 319 :696 (Published 11 September 1999)

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• Generalisation of salt infusions

  BMJ 1999; 319 :703 (Published 11 September 1999)

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Obituary

• Patrick Forsyth Aitken CrawshawStephen Bernard DaviesEdward Millar DimockHugh Lewis EllisMuriel Frances Mary EvansMichael FeiwelIan Charles FraserLuigi GonsagaWilfred Brian GoughPeter Michael KingWilfred Oakley Nowlan

  BMJ 1999; 319 :713 (Published 11 September 1999)

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