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CMO Update 17

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

  • Last modified date:
    9 February 2007
  • Gateway reference:
    1998
  • Series number:
    CMO Update 17

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

  • Propellant changes in metered-dose inhalers 
  • NHS uses of non-clinical patient-identifiable information
  • Storage of testicular tissue
  • New variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • Quantification of health effects of air pollution
  • Revised public information on air pollution
  • Miscarriage: information for the Asian community
  • National Cancer Forum
  • Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Directory
  • Medical Editors' Trial Amnesty
  • Health Survey for England 1996
  • Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures

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