26 April 1997(vol 314, issue 7089)

This Week In the BMJ

• Mutation in mannose binding protein gene leads to more infections in children

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• GPs change services through locality commissioning

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• Previous back trouble predicts new back pain in nurses

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• Only proved fungal infections should be treated in cancer

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• Evidence of secular changes in HIV infection

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• GPs believe that Health of the Nation targets cannot be met

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Editorials

• Modern treatments for internal haemorrhoids

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• The future of locality commissioning

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• Is one arterial graft enough?

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• The private finance initiative

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• Drug treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia

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Letters

• Bureaucracy of purchaser-provider split delays treatment

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• Counting the cost of social disadvantage in primary care

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• Community mental health teams in London are being increasingly stretched

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• Cervical screening

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• Home medical students account for less than half the full registrants Britain requires

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• Recommendations for improving national data on congenital anomalies are being implemented

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• Crisis in London's mental health services

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• Bodybuilders find it easy to obtain insulin to help them in training

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• Dangers of sunbeds are greater in the commercial sector

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• Junior surgeons are becoming deskilled as result of Calman proposals

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• New government must reassess its criminal justice policy

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• Prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism

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• Not all those who died after Hillsborough did so by 3 15 pm

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• Concussive convulsions

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News

• Tobacco companies seek to pay $300bn as lawsuit settlement

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• The BMJ's Question Time

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• In brief

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• PFI condemned as a failure

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• Canada retreats over tobacco laws

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• Health authority pays out £2m over radiation blunder

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• Young doctors feel isolated

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• General Medical Council attacks medical training

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• Family accuses doctors of failing to warn of risk

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• AIDS drug trials attacked

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• US doctors rush to join unions

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Clinical Reviews

• Science, medicine, and the future : Hypertension

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• ABC of clinical haematology: Haematological disorders at the extremes of life

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Medicine and books

• Selection

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• Multiple Sclerosis (Clinical and Pathogenetic Basis)

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• Mould's Medical Anecdotes, Omnibus Edition

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• Managing Heart Failure in Primary Care

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Editor's Choice

• Vote, vote, vote for …

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Papers

• Prospective cohort study of predictors of incident low back pain in nurses

  BMJ 1997; 314 :1225 (Published 26 April 1997)

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• Association of mutations in mannose binding protein gene with childhood infection in consecutive hospital series

  BMJ 1997; 314 :1229 (Published 26 April 1997)

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• Is the clinical course of HIV-1 changing? Cohort study

  BMJ 1997; 314 :1232 (Published 26 April 1997)

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• Meta-analysis of prophylactic or empirical antifungal treatment versus placebo or no treatment in patients with cancer complicated by neutropenia

  BMJ 1997; 314 :1238 (Published 26 April 1997)

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• Impact of a dedicated service for male mentally disordered remand prisoners in north west London: retrospective study

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General practice

• What does locality commissioning in Avon offer? Retrospective descriptive evaluation

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• Are the Health of the Nation's targets attainable? Postal survey of general practitioners' views

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Information in practice

• Evaluation of a decision support system for initiation and control of oral anticoagulation in a randomised trial

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  • Responses
• Netlines

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Education and debate

• What happens when the private sector plans hospital services for the NHS: three case studies under the private finance initiative

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• Life expectancy, economic inequality, homicide, and reproductive timing in Chicago neighbourhoods

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• Doctors will call for review body to return to original remitStaff grade doctors will have new contractBUPA plans to set up partnerships with consultantsNHS Executive issues guide on GP pilotsBMA Notices

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Soundings

• A-wake?

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Personal Views

• The system must change

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• Electronic nagging

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Career focus

• Developing skills for the broadcast media

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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• Briefing

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Fillers

• One hundred years ago: The General Medical Council election

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• One hundred years ago: Cremation at the hairdresser's

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• Any questions: Is eczema more common in vegetarians?

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Correction

• Clinical Surgery

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Obituary

• Harold William Charles FullerPercival Maclean Andrew HarnarayanRonald Wallace KnowltonPeter Grey Loton ParrySydney Carver Woodhouse

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