20 July 2002(vol 325, issue 7356)

This Week In the BMJ

• Morale of general practitioners is a complex issue

  BMJ 2002; 325 :e (Published 20 July 2002)

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• Upward social mobility affects population mortality

  BMJ 2002; 325 :b (Published 20 July 2002)

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• Concern over rising rates of syphilis in England

  BMJ 2002; 325 :h (Published 20 July 2002)

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• Screening for pregnancy complications

  BMJ 2002; 325 :f (Published 20 July 2002)

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• Elderly people do not plan for future illness

  BMJ 2002; 325 :0 (Published 20 July 2002)

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• Reducing transfusion deaths

  BMJ 2002; 325 :g (Published 20 July 2002)

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• Lower haemoglobin levels in women are not due to iron deficiency

  BMJ 2002; 325 :d (Published 20 July 2002)

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• Exercise can prevent falls in older people

  BMJ 2002; 325 :a (Published 20 July 2002)

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• Social trends conceal inequalities in adult height

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Editor's Choice

• Big trials and human stories

  BMJ 2002; 325 :i (Published 20 July 2002)

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Editorials

• Hormone replacement therapy

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• An ethically defensible market in organs

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• Magnetic resonance imaging of the knee

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• Chest pain units

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• Health risks in babies born after assisted reproduction

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Letters

• Are selective COX 2 inhibitors superior to traditional NSAIDs?

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• NHS Direct audited

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• Nurses as NHS gatekeepers

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• Can nurse practitioners provide equivalent care to GPs?

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• Australian GPs are beginning battle faced by other countries

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• Oncologist who stood up to US insurance companies lost work

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News

• GPs vote “yes” for new contract framework

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• UK regulatory authority challenged over embryo screening

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• US issues tablets for potential terrorist attack

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• In brief

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• Experts launch action on acrylamide in staple foods

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• Chickenpox vaccine may reduce risk of shingles

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• Global Fund director admits to $8bn shortfall

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• South African government forced to give mothers antiretroviral drug

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• Pfizer buys Pharmacia for $60bn

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• Candidate for US surgeon general comes under fire from senators

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• Surgeons must know their limitations, but so must governments

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Clinical Reviews

• Blood transfusion medicine

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• Interpretation of rubella serology in pregnancy—pitfalls and problems

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• Depression in medical patients

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Minerva

• Minerva

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News roundup

• Acute care is “suboptimal,” says Royal College of Physicians

  BMJ 2002; 325 :122 (Published 20 July 2002)

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• Deaths from volatile substance misuse fall

  BMJ 2002; 325 :122 (Published 20 July 2002)

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• Scientists manage to manufacture polio virus

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• Prison doctor should not have worked unsupervised, says inquiry

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• Researchers identify gene associated with airways remodelling in asthma

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• Chancellor maps out three year public service spending plans

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News extra

• US may require insurance cover for bowel cancer screening

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• US council calls for four year ban on cloning

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• Botox party at Johns Hopkins comes under fire

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• Parliamentary committee criticises PFI

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Papers

• Planning for death but not serious future illness: qualitative study of housebound elderly patients

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• Randomised factorial trial of falls prevention among older people living in their own homes

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• Are inequalities in height underestimated by adult social position? Effects of changing social structure and height selection in a cohort study

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• Impact of upward social mobility on population mortality: analysis with routine data

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• Haemoglobin and ferritin concentrations in men and women: cross sectional study

  BMJ 2002; 325 :137 (Published 20 July 2002)

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• Bicyclist's vulva: observational studyCommentary: Attitudes to women's bicycling have changed

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Filler

• Congresses and the confusion of tongues

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• Leadership

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• Swimming the water of life

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• The census and the birth-rate

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• An Osler aphorism

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• Ough ough

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Primary care

• Morale among general practitioners: qualitative study exploring relations between partnership arrangements, personal style, and workload

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Education and debate

• Syphilis: old problem, new strategy

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• Pregnancy complications and maternal cardiovascular risk: opportunities for intervention and screening?

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Reviews

• Sense of Belonging: The Tale of Ikpiko

  BMJ 2002; 325 :169 (Published 20 July 2002)

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• Evidence-Based Sports Medicine

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• Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs

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• Booking time: finding locums and devising rotas

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• “Forward!” The experience of a new guide dog owner

  BMJ 2002; 325 :171 (Published 20 July 2002)

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• Occam's razor

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Corrections

• Private finance and “value for money” in NHS hospitals: a policy in search of a rationale?

  BMJ 2002; 325 :142 (Published 20 July 2002)

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• This Week in the BMJ

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Obituaries

• Joseph Hodgson Briggs

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• Andrew Crowcroft

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• John Dermot McCaldin

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• Nina Amy Meyer

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• Thomas St Martin Norris

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