27 October 2001(vol 323, issue 7319)

This Week In the BMJ

• Less mobile women with multiple sclerosis make less use of preventive health services

  BMJ 2001; 323 :e (Published 27 October 2001)

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• GP intervention cuts risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes

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• Deprived people die of the same diseases as the affluent—just earlier

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• Secondary prevention programmes in coronary heart disease improve care

  BMJ 2001; 323 :a (Published 27 October 2001)

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• South Asians are less confident about managing their asthma than white patients

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Editorials

• Meeting the needs of chronically ill people

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• The management of diabetes

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• The challenge of chronic conditions: WHO responds

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• Improving outcomes in depression

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• Disparities in outcomes from chronic disease

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Letters

• Prevention of type 2 diabetes

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• Reanalysis of twin studies suggests that diabetes is mainly genetic

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• National screening programme for diabetic retinopathy

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• Single definition of overweight and obesity should be used

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• Predicting risk of death from cardiovascular disease

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• Dietary fats and prevention of cardiovascular disease

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• Lifestyle, progesterone, and risk of breast cancer

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• Study shows that smoking costs 13 times more than it saves

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• Glucosamine for osteoarthritis

  BMJ 2001; 323 :1003 (Published 27 October 2001)

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• Radiotherapy units should be seen as shared resource in EU

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• Open letter: health professions on the aftermath of terrorism

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News

• Anthrax blamed as two postal workers die in United States

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• Caesarean section rate in England and Wales hits 21%

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• In brief

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• GMC accuses surgeon of operating without consent

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• Doctors press for humane treatment of asylum seekers

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• Patients wait longer in emergency units than five years ago

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• High Court throws out “suicide aid” case

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• Doctor struck off after patient dies from detoxification treatment

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• Row over breast cancer screening shows that scientists bring “some subjectivity into their work

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Clinical Reviews

• Chronic asthma

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• Pathophysiology of duodenal and gastric ulcer and gastric cancer

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• Learning from failures

  BMJ 2001; 323 :0 (Published 27 October 2001)

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News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

• Law is effective in protecting whistleblowers, report says

  BMJ 2001; 323 :954 (Published 27 October 2001)

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• Scientists mistakenly study bovine instead of sheep tissue

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• Evidence that public-private partnerships can increase funding is “paltry”

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• Less than a third of Scottish hospitals meet targets on giving thrombolysis

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• English NHS consultants now earn average of £75 000 a year

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• Unsuitable hepatitis C testing kit being used in India

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• Obesity drug approved as problem grows across the world

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• Early research says dust at World Trade Center site not dangerous

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• Canada forced to honour Bayer's patent on ciprofloxacin

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• US company at centre of dialysis scare

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• Israel investigates tobacco firms for misleading the public

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• Teenagers sell and give away their prescription drugs

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• Ireland's staff shortages worsen

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Papers

• Randomised trials of secondary prevention programmes in coronary heart disease: systematic review

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• Influences on hospital admission for asthma in south Asian and white adults: qualitative interview study

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• Deprivation, disease, and death in Scotland: graphical display of survival of a cohort

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• Mobility impairments and use of preventive services in women with multiple sclerosis: observational study

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Primary care

• Randomised controlled trial of structured personal care of type 2 diabetes mellitus

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Education and debate

• Adoption of disease management model for diabetes in region of Maastricht

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• Recommendations for patients undertaking self management of oral anticoagulation

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• Chronic disease management: a Singapore perspective

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• Management of diabetes: are doctors framing the benefits from the wrong perspective?

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ART

• Phantoms

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Books

• An Intelligent Person's Guide to Medicine

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• Encyclopedia of Death and Dying

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• The Great Blue Yonder

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TV

• Living with Cancer

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Personal Views

• Why am I crying?

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• An insider's guide to depression

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• Managing chronic diseases: kids' stuff

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Soundings

• Soundings

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Cover Note

• Cover Note

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Fillers

• Stamps for health education

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• Stamps for health education

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• Nature will help

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Corrections

• Meeting calls for a national body to respond to research misconduct

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• Linking guideline to regular feedback to increase appropriate requests for clinical tests: blood gas analysis in intensive care

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• Using cardiovascular risk profiles to individualise hypertensive treatment

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• Complexity and clinical care

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Obituary

• William G CahanMalcolm MacDonald BellGeoffrey Shirley JonesChristopher (Kit) LewthwaiteArmand LowenthalJohn Eugene Anthony O'ConnellRobert Anthony O'Grady PearsonEdward Gordon PyneDouglas Walter QuantrillErnest Joseph Eric TophamSnehelata Vishwanath

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