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CMO Update 20

A communication to all doctors from the Chief Medical Officer (November 1998)

  • Last modified date:
    9 February 2007
  • Gateway reference:
    1998
  • Series number:
    CMO Update 20

CMO's Update is a newsletter sent by the Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health to all doctors in England. It will incorporate some topics that might otherwise have required an individual letter, progress reports on earlier letters, and other information from the Department of Health that should be of interest to practising doctors.

Contents

  •  Personal note from the Chief Medical Officer
  • Information to the coroner
  • Vitamin B6
  • Meningococcal infection
  • New variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • Prospective Diabetes Study
  • CO poisoning : pulse oximetry
  • Colorectal cancer screening
  • Drug-resistant tuberculosis
  • On the State of the Public Health 
  • Men and cancer
  • Recent publications

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