12 January 2002(vol 324, issue 7329)

This Week In the BMJ

• Flu is not to blame for excess winter mortality

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• Giving patients more information reduces antibiotic use

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• Effectiveness and safety of aspirin may be overrated

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• Overcoming the problems of performance league tables

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• Mixed response to whether NHS patients should pay extra for their care

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• Costs of cannabis controls may outweigh the benefits

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• Single session intervention does not make smokers quit after myocardial infarction

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• Cost effectiveness in screening for Down's syndrome still unclear

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• Aspirin benefits most patients at high risk of vascular events

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Editorials

• Gathering intelligence on antiplatelet drugs: the view from 30 000 feet

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• Treating extremely low birthweight infants with prophylactic indomethacin

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• Bipolar affective disorder—left out in the cold

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• Clinical networks

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• Helping patients in hospital to quit smoking

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Letters

• Promoting patient safety in primary care

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• Should NHS patients be allowed to pay extra for their care?

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• Screening for Down's syndrome

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• Problems with temporary cardiac pacing

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• Mental health services for children and adolescents

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• Fabricated or induced illness in children

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• Endometriosis

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• Media could be used to better effect than inducing fear

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News

• Drug companies face pressure on profits

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• US links motor neurone disease with Gulf war service

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• New MRI method offers diagnosis option in heart patients

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• Better care of respiratory illness could reduce winter pressures

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• In brief

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• Scientists produce genetically engineered, cloned pigs for xenotransplantation

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• Dolly's arthritis dents faith in cloning

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• GPs refer too many women for genetic tests

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• WHO dissenter warns against plans to retain smallpox virus

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• Journal “should have revealed scientist's connection to company”

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• US relaxes sugar ban for people with diabetes

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• Diabetic care must improve

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• Scientists produce genetically engineered, cloned pigs for xenotransplantation

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Clinical Review

• Antibiotic treatment for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• Journalistic ethics: an oxymoron?

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• Elderly people face extra prescription charge

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• Irish police dismiss Ledward sightings as “pure fantasy”

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• Dutch hospitals should be more accountable, says report

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• Spain decentralises its healthcare system

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• Browns mourn death of baby

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• Pill with high potency progestogen protects against cancer

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• Israeli women can buy ova from abroad

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• Persistence of HPV increases risk of cervical cancer

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Dyslexia likely to be inherited, study shows

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• Admissions to intensive care peak in December

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• Hungarian drug firms threaten to cut supplies to hospitals

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Papers

• Collaborative meta-analysis of randomised trials of antiplatelet therapy for prevention of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke in high risk patients

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• Brief intervention during hospital admission to help patients to give up smoking after myocardial infarction and bypass surgery: randomised controlled trial

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• Excess winter mortality: influenza or cold stress? Observational study

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Primary care

• Reducing antibiotic use for acute bronchitis in primary care: blinded, randomised controlled trial of patient information leafletCommentary: More self reliance in patients and fewer antibiotics: still room for improvement

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Information in practice

• Performance league tables: the NHS deserves better

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• Whisking research into the classroom

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Education and debate

• Preventing atherosclerotic events with aspirin

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• Cannabis control: costs outweigh the benefitsForAgainst

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Books

• In Our Own Image: Eugenics and the Genetic Modification of People

  BMJ 2002; 324 :118 (Published 12 January 2002)

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• Friends in Low Places

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• The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine; The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine

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• Milk and Honey

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PRESS

• Open season on MMR

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NETLINES

• Netlines

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Personal View

• Blast from the past: a cautionary tale

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Soundings

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Fillers

• Missed opportunity

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• A memorable week

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• To win or lose it all

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• The red badge of vaccination

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• What came first and what seems worse

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• The devil in the detail

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Corrections

• Evidence based management of nocturnal enuresis

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• Promoting normality in childbirth

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Obituaries

• David Alexander Pealing Cooke

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• Iain Thomson Boyle

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• David Arthur Wright Edwards

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• Andrew King

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• Victor Levy Lucas

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• Leonard Alexander Ogilvie

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• Richard Morgan Phillips

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• Juliet Rogers

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• Peter Bryan Welsh

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