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CMO Update 21

A communication to all doctors from the Chief Medical Officer (February 1999)

  • Last modified date:
    9 February 2007
  • Gateway reference:
    1999
  • Series number:
    CMO Update 21

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

  • White Paper on tobacco
  • Cryptosporidium in water: advice to the immunocompromised
  • Antenatal testing for HIV
  • PRODIGY
  • Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths, 1994-96
  • Organophosphate Sheep dip
  • New variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • Withdrawal of Kveim test
  • Names of drugs
  • Additional medical school intake
  • Diet and bone health
  • Meningococcal infection

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