02 October 1999(vol 319, issue 7214)

This Week In the BMJ

• Co-amoxiclav reduces infection after gastrostomy

  BMJ 1999; 319 :d (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Pentoxifylline does not significantly improve healing of venous ulcers

  BMJ 1999; 319 :b (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Injection close to the carpal tunnel should be first line treatment

  BMJ 1999; 319 :e (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Benefits from hormone replacement therapy may be an artefact of self selection

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• Resident children suffer more than refugee children in a non-camp setting

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Editorials

• When are the seeds of postoperative pressure sores sown?

  BMJ 1999; 319 :863 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• The effects of weapons and the Solferino cycle

  BMJ 1999; 319 :864 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Time to register randomised trials

  BMJ 1999; 319 :865 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Improving access needs a whole systems approach

  BMJ 1999; 319 :866 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Junior doctors: the moment of decision

  BMJ 1999; 319 :868 (Published 02 October 1999)

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Letters

• Managing patients with deliberate self harm who refuse treatment in accident and emergency departments

  BMJ 1999; 319 :916 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Relation between hostility and coronary heart disease

  BMJ 1999; 319 :917 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Benzodiazepine use in pregnancy and major malformations or oral clefts

  BMJ 1999; 319 :918 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Vascular anomalies must be properly classified

  BMJ 1999; 319 :919 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Choosing the right antibiotic

  BMJ 1999; 319 :919 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Work of mental health review tribunals is increasing faster than detentions

  BMJ 1999; 319 :920 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Prophylaxis against early anaphylactic reactions to snake antivenom

  BMJ 1999; 319 :920 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Naturalistic treatment study of depression in general practice

  BMJ 1999; 319 :921 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• UK's diagnostic criteria for diabetes are different from US's

  BMJ 1999; 319 :922 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Money to modernise adult mental health services is insufficient

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News

• US government to sue tobacco companies

  BMJ 1999; 319 :869 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• UK juniors demand more talks on pay offer

  BMJ 1999; 319 :869 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Peace process leads to cooperation on health

  BMJ 1999; 319 :870 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• A sixth of new cases of HIV are drug resistant strains

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• In brief

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• Professor accused of threatening staff

  BMJ 1999; 319 :871 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Ovarian transplant raises hope for women facing cancer treatment

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• Mental health services are failing children and adolescents

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• Dutch doctors call for all pregnant women to be screened for Down's

  BMJ 1999; 319 :872 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• CDC study quantifies foodborne illnesses

  BMJ 1999; 319 :873 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• New York outbreak of E coli poisoning affects 1000 and kills two

  BMJ 1999; 319 :873 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Scottish GPs could save £26m by changes in prescribing

  BMJ 1999; 319 :873 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Missouri passes antiabortion law

  BMJ 1999; 319 :874 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Cancer doctors told to become lobbyists

  BMJ 1999; 319 :874 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• US government to sue tobacco companies

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Clinical Reviews

• Controversial aspects of thyroid disease

  BMJ 1999; 319 :894 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Lesson of the week Child sexual abuse enquiries and unrecognised vulval lichen sclerosus et atrophicus

  BMJ 1999; 319 :899 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Complementary medicine in conventional practice

  BMJ 1999; 319 :901 (Published 02 October 1999)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 1999; 319 :930 (Published 02 October 1999)

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Editor's Choice

• The straightforward and the not so straightforward

  BMJ 1999; 319 :0 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• The straightforward and the not so straightforward

  BMJ 1999; 319 :a (Published 02 October 1999)

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Public interest in child health not matched by government resources

  BMJ 1999; 319 :874 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• German government breaks off talks with doctors

  BMJ 1999; 319 :874 (Published 02 October 1999)

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Papers

• Randomised, double blind placebo controlled trial of pentoxifylline in the treatment of venous leg ulcers

  BMJ 1999; 319 :875 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Nutritional status and mortality of refugee and resident children in a non-camp setting during conflict: follow up study in Guinea-Bissau

  BMJ 1999; 319 :878 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Prospective, randomised, double blind trial of prophylaxis with single dose of co-amoxiclav before percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

  BMJ 1999; 319 :881 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Injection with methylprednisolone proximal to the carpal tunnel: randomised double blind trial

  BMJ 1999; 319 :884 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Seasonality of birth in children with diabetes in Europe: multicentre cohort study

  BMJ 1999; 319 :887 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Testicular neoplasia in cryptorchid boys at primary surgery: case series

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General practice

• Pre-existing risk factor profiles in users and non-users of hormone replacement therapy: prospective cohort study in Gothenburg, Sweden

  BMJ 1999; 319 :890 (Published 02 October 1999)

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Education and debate

• The law on managing patients who deliberately harm themselves and refuse treatment

  BMJ 1999; 319 :905 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• The medical service increment for teaching (SIFT): a £400m anachronism for the English NHS?

  BMJ 1999; 319 :908 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Hospital provision, activity, and productivity in England since the 1980s

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• Discounting

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• Working lives of doctors must be improvedPublic health must not be sidelinedNI GPs must have primary role in decision makingBMA amends guidance on abortion

  BMJ 1999; 319 :925 (Published 02 October 1999)

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Books

• The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character

  BMJ 1999; 319 :926 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Intensive Care Medicine

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• Breast Cancer

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HIT PARADE

• Hit parade

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PRESS

• The problem with medical advice columns

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• Complementary medicine

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Personal View

• The machismo of medicine

  BMJ 1999; 319 :929 (Published 02 October 1999)

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Soundings

• Do you believe in God?

  BMJ 1999; 319 :929 (Published 02 October 1999)

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Career focus

• Medical ethics

  BMJ 1999; 319 :S2-7214 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Briefing

  BMJ 1999; 319 :S3-7214 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• Street noises

  BMJ 1999; 319 :888 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• An inspirational teacher

  BMJ 1999; 319 :889 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

  BMJ 1999; 319 :890 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Alcohol and life assurance

  BMJ 1999; 319 :901 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• The gifts needed to be prime minister

  BMJ 1999; 319 :914 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• Taking a lodger—19th century style

  BMJ 1999; 319 :914 (Published 02 October 1999)

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Corrections

• Minerva

  BMJ 1999; 319 :926 (Published 02 October 1999)

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• A patient's eye view of quality

  BMJ 1999; 319 :926 (Published 02 October 1999)

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Obituary

• John David BaumQueenie Muriel Francis AdamsSinnadorai BalaIan Hamilton BarclaySamuel Lovell DavidsonKenneth HollinrakePeter Anthony Layard HorsfallHenry LachWilliam Tennant McClatcheyJohn Charlton Moor

  BMJ 1999; 319 :923 (Published 02 October 1999)

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