15 December 2001(vol 323, issue 7326)

This Week In the BMJ

• New glaucoma drugs have dramatically decreased the need for operation

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• Social class at birth may affect outcome in schizophrenia

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• Oral iron can improve motor and language development in preschool children

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• Seeing people smoking in films influences adolescents to try smoking

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• Elderly people respond well to assessment by postal questionnaire

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Editorials

• Iron deficiency and impaired child development

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• Smoking in teenagers and watching films showing smoking

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• Funding medicines for people with multiple sclerosis

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• Updating guidelines on asthma in adults

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• Hormone replacement therapy and the breast

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Letters

• Monitoring clinical trials

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• Getting consent for necropsies

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• Genetics mediate relation of birth weight to childhood IQ

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• Quality of care for people with dementia

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• Teenage pregnancy is not a public health problem

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• National service frameworks

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• Don't GPs have to be good clinicians any more?

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News

• Review of cancer services shows poor coordination in NHS

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1383 (Published 15 December 2001)

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• “Existential” suffering not a justification for euthanasia

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1384 (Published 15 December 2001)

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• Highest French court awards compensation for “being born”

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• In brief

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• Head of the Medical Council of India removed for corruption

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• Doctors sceptical that new policy will greatly increase choice

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• Blinding trachoma almost eliminated from Morocco

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• Rates of liver cirrhosis rise in England, fall in Europe

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• Doctor wins battle against GMC's decision to strike him off

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Clinical Reviews

• Genetics and cardiovascular risk

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• Cancer of the stomach and pancreas

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• The edges of doctoring: the law's view

  BMJ 2001; 323 :0 (Published 15 December 2001)

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• Government insists NHS pays for drugs approved by NICE

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• Scientists “grow” monkey stem cell lines from cloned embryos

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• Boost to NHS information systems as NHS signs Microsoft deal

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• Health service ranked as most violent work environment in Australia

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• Scots think healthy food is “boring and tasteless”

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• Teenager died after surgeon “lost his temper”

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• Breast cancer drug “surpasses” tamoxifen

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• NHS faces critical shortfall in number of consultant surgeons

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• New childhood leukaemia identified by gene chip technology

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• Additional drug treatment approved for heart patients

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• European countries face similar problems of demographic ageing and higher patient expectations

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• Parents lose compensation battle for care of disabled child

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• GMC clears surgeon of 22 charges

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• Review of cancer services in England and Wales reveals poor coordination

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• GP who falsified research data found guilty of professional misconduct

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Papers

• Effects of iron supplementation and anthelmintic treatment on motor and language development of preschool children in Zanzibar: double blind, placebo controlled study

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• Effect of seeing tobacco use in films on trying smoking among adolescents: cross sectional study

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1394 (Published 15 December 2001)

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• Effect of social class at birth on risk and presentation of schizophrenia: case-control study

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• The impact of new drugs on management of glaucoma in Scotland: observational study

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Primary care

• Randomised comparison of three methods of administering a screening questionnaire to elderly people: findings from the MRC trial of the assessment and management of older people in the community

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• First episode psychosis

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Education and debate

• What are the effects of the fifth revision of the Declaration of Helsinki?Fair partnerships support ethical researchGains and losses for rights of consumer and research participantsResearch will be impededSome clauses will hinder development of new drugs and vaccines

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Journal

• Men's Health Journal

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Books

• Integrated Cancer Care: Holistic, Complementary and Creative Approaches

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• Holding Health Care Accountable: Law and the New Medical Marketplace

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RADIO

• Signs of Life

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Ad

• Vincent's bandage

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• The information gap

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Personal View

• In praise of books

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Soundings

• Clients on diets

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Fillers

• Asking the right questions

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• Good Lord, deliver us

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• Some memorable advice

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• The importance of keeping contemporaneous records

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Correction

• Understanding the toll of premature death among men in eastern Europe

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Obituaries

• Charles A Crenshaw

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• Thomas Snowdon Blaiklock

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• Walter Vincent Cuschieri

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• Paul Francis Heffron

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• Colin Hindson

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• George Hamilton Hughes

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• Esther Kerr

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• Kalyanasundaram Subra Mani

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• William (“Bill”) McKellar

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• George William Senter

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