10 November 2001(vol 323, issue 7321)

This Week In the BMJ

• Chickenpox can still kill adults

  BMJ 2001; 323 :b (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Grommet insertion fell after distribution of evidence based guidelines on treating glue ear

  BMJ 2001; 323 :e (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Intensive case management does not reduce violence in psychosis

  BMJ 2001; 323 :c (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Toe ulceration may complicate four layer compression bandaging for venous ulceration

  BMJ 2001; 323 :d (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Personal and patient feelings affect how GPs apply clinical evidence

  BMJ 2001; 323 :f (Published 10 November 2001)

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Editorials

• Why active euthanasia and physician assisted suicide should be legalised

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1079 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Reducing violence in severe mental illness

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1080 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Non-attendance at general practices and outpatient clinics

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1081 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• The future of rehabilitation

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1082 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Treatment of head lice

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Letters

• Racism in medicine

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1125 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Equity in the new NHS

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1127 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Drugs for Alzheimer's disease

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1127 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Bacteriotherapy may be useful in treating bacterial vaginosis

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1128 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Antihypertensive treatment and compliance

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1129 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• No blame should be apportioned in corporate failure

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1130 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• An unmerciful end

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1131 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Office of NHS cancer screening programme misrepresents Nordic work in breast screening row

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1131 (Published 10 November 2001)

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News

• Report clears researcher who broke drug company agreement

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1085 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1086 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• US doctors' group opposes war in Afghanistan

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1086 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Europe needs “urgent focus” on bioterrorism

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1086 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Health department to fund interferon beta despite institute's ruling

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1087 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Tobacco company prepares its first social responsibility report

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1089 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Indian doctors decry proposal to teach traditional medicine

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1090 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Private and public sectors should face same rules

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1090 (Published 10 November 2001)

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Clinical Reviews

• Radiotherapy

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• Evidence based management of seizures associated with fever

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1111 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1115 (Published 10 November 2001)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1138 (Published 10 November 2001)

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Editor's Choice

• The agonies of evidence

  BMJ 2001; 323 :0 (Published 10 November 2001)

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• Baxter identifies processing fluid as possible cause of deaths

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1088 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• NHS breast screening report contradicts Cochrane findings

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1088 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Abortion clinics fail to meet standards

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1088 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• New law requires doctors to learn care of the dying

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1088 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Rise in world population threatens the planet

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1088 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Carers face poverty and isolation, report says

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1089 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• New General Medical Council president elected

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Eastern Cape tightens law on circumcision to stem casualties

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1090 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Stem cell registry moves closer to launch

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1090 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Fast track patients more likely to beat colorectal cancer

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1090 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Right to die case goes to House of Lords

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1090 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Gatekeeping may not be cost effective

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1090 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Government refuses to fund flexible training in England

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1090 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Trade liberalisation threatens public health systems

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Papers

• Deaths from chickenpox in England and Wales 1995-7: analysis of routine mortality data

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1091 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Reducing violence in severe mental illness: randomised controlled trial of intensive case management compared with standard care

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1093 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Impact of Effective Health Care bulletin on treatment of persistent glue ear in children: time series analysis

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1096 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• General outbreaks of infectious intestinal diseases linked with private residences in England and Wales, 1992-9: questionnaire study

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1097 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Toe ulceration associated with compression bandaging: observational study

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Primary care

• Why general practitioners do not implement evidence: qualitative study

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1100 (Published 10 November 2001)

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Information in practice

• Ethical issues in qualitative research on internet communities

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1103 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• The internet and the globalisation of medical education

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1106 (Published 10 November 2001)

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Education and debate

• Effect of a formal education programme on safety of transfusions

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1118 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Navigating across medicine's electronic landscape, stopping at places with Pub or Central in their names

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• Analysing controlled trials with baseline and follow up measurements

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Books

• Presidential Disability

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1134 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1135 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1135 (Published 10 November 2001)

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PRESS

• Cannabis the wonder drug?

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1136 (Published 10 November 2001)

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• Headlice

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1136 (Published 10 November 2001)

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Personal View

• Beyond breaking point

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1137 (Published 10 November 2001)

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Soundings

• Consultants' hootenanny

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1137 (Published 10 November 2001)

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Fillers

• Beaten

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• A headache to diagnose sometimes

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1110 (Published 10 November 2001)

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• Informed consent

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1124 (Published 10 November 2001)

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Obituary

• Edward Parrish RadfordAndrew AllisonQahtan Abdul-Rahman Al-SamarraiStephen David CrabtreeKathleen Agnes Dru DruryFrancis George HattersleyWilliam Edgar ParkesPatrick Morries Gordon RussellPatrick McIlroy Smyth

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1132 (Published 10 November 2001)

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