Volume 350 Number 9083: The Lancet: Contents

The Lancet



Volume 350, Number 9087 - Saturday 1 November 1997

TALKING POINTS

Highlights from this week's journal

EDITORIAL

Reducing disability among the elderly in Europe


COMMENTARY

Cultivation of Whipple bacillus: the irony and the ecstasy  D N Fredricks, D A Relman

Genetic determination of bone density  E M Greenfield, V M Goldberg

Thin cutaneous malignant melanoma and MIN terminology  L Skov and others

Coronary artery calcification on computed tomography  A K Dixon, R A Coulden

Integrated management of childhood illness  A Costello

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ARTICLES

Randomised controlled trial of ketanserin and aspirin in prevention of pre-eclampsia  D W Steyn, H J Odendaal

Randomised trial of magnesium in in-hospital cardiac arrest  M C Thel and others

Hormone replacement therapy and risk of non-fatal stroke  A T Pedersen and others

Tuberculosis in a prison population in Malawi  D S Nyangulu and others


EARLY REPORT

UKPDS 25: autoantibodies to islet-cell cytoplasm and glutamic acid decarboxylase for prediction of insulin requirement in type 2 diabetes  R Turner and others

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CASE REPORT

Delirium and a subclavian abscess  K Yamasaki and others


RESEARCH LETTERS

Abnormal renal function as a cause of false-positive biochemical screening for Down's syndrome   V Cararch and others

Induction of interstitial collagenase (MMP-1) by UVA-1 phototherapy in morphea fibroblasts  C Gruss and others

Parathyroid allotransplantation without immunosuppression  C Hasse and others

Impairment of bronchoprotection by nitric oxide in severe asthma  F L M Ricciardolo and others

High mortality rates among patients with tuberculosis in Bangui, Central African Republic  G B Garin and others

Autoimmune hepatitis type 2 induced by HCV and persisting after viral clearance  S Vento and others

Cyclic vomiting syndrome and mitochondrial DNA mutations  R G Boles and others

Acute pancreatitis during treatment with amiodarone  X Bosch, O Bernadich

Bat bite?  H M Feder and others

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NEWS

Science & medicine

Prehospital thrombolysis could save lives
Oestrogen speeds wound healing

Inflammatory bowel disease
Study identifies tuberculosis hot spots
News in brief
Managed stress and heart health

Grappling with the technological revolution in sexual health
Resistance to HIV-1
Worrying on the right

Feature

Bringing numbers to bear in breast-cancer therapy

Dispatches

New rationing debate for UK
Will the single European currency be healthy?

Policy & people

US genetics panel urges caution
UK human rights
USA may identify HIV-positive people

Surrogate "twins" in Italy
Sale of Chinese prisoners' organs
North Korean situation "stabilised"

WHO top-job contender
No prosecution for Irish "blood- scandal" doctors
Junk-food tax for Filipinos


SEMINAR

Hepatic encephalopathy and ascites  R Jalan, P C Hayes


VACCINE SERIES

Host immunobiology and vaccine development  G J V Nossal


DEPARTMENT OF ETHICS

Should organs from patients in permanent vegetative state be used for transplantation?  R Hoffenberg and others


CORRESPONDENCE

Terathanasia, folic acid, and birth defects   J G Hall; J Burn, N M Fisk; C J Schorah and others; E B Hook

Persistent vegetative state   T C Britton; J Colover

5-HT2A receptor gene polymorphisms, anorexia nervosa, and obesity   A Hinney and others

Chronotherapy with 5-fluorouracil, oxaliplatin, and folinic acid in colorectal cancer   V Sandor; F Lévi and others

Resistance to methicillin   S Namnyak; M A Bevan and others

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci   R R S Nelson

Left-ventricular volume reduction or mitral valve reconstruction?   K Komamura, K Miyatake

Osteoarthritis of the knee   M-M Gordon and others; M D Bhattarai; P Creamer, M C Hochberg

Mesalazine preparations   A Forbes, C Chadwick

Medical editors' trial amnesty   R Tiner

Tuberculosis control in India: role of private doctors   M Kumar, S Kumar

Ultrasound in developing world   P F Hoyer, J Weber; B Simini


DISSECTING ROOM

A recent history of German medicine  N Hopwood

The company of undertakers  W Hogarth

Incomplete guidance for breast cancer  H Thornton

Status: final  J Kellie

Mouth matters  D H Frankel

Lifeline  R V Short

Thank you for this honour  D S Greenberg


DEPARTMENT OF ERROR

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy


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