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Articles in July 17, 1999, issue of British Medical Journal

• Minimally invasive cardiac surgery
  by Brian Glenville
• Florida jury finds tobacco companies guilty of fraud
  by Fred Charatan
• Dynamics of bed use in accommodating emergency admissions: stochastic simulation model
  by Adrian Bagust
• Exacerbating cervical spine injury by applying a hard collar
  by Marios C Papadopoulos
• Chlamydia screening can have high take-up rates if right methodology is used
  by John Macleod
• NHS reforms—more funds, less haste
• Revalidation needs time and resources
• Annual report criticised as inadequate
• Reducing errors in medicine
  by Donald M Berwick
• Tobacco could be used to produce interleukin 10
  by David Spurgeon
• The rise in emergency admissions-crisis or artefact? Temporal analysis of health services data
  by Kieran Morgan
• Sore throat: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas
  by Anna Graham
• Effect of discussion and deliberation on public's views of priority setting
• The BMA in Belfast
• Meeting calls for action on racial abuse
• Urgent steps needed to improve NHS recruitment
• Chaperones for genital examination
  by C J Bignell
• Doctors fear that inequalities are slipping down agenda
  by Katherine Burke
• Use of chaperones in clinics for genitourinary medicine: survey of consultants
  by Caroline J Torrance
• ABC of intensive care: Other supportive care
  by Sheila Adam
• Probiotics used in trials should be independently checked microbiologically
  by J M T Hamilton-Miller
• Doctors call for campaign on PFI
• Students with hepatitis B should not be excluded from medical school
• The meeting …
• Treating behavioural and psychological signs in Alzheimer's disease
  by Clive Ballard
• Quebec nurses enter third week of strike
  by David Spurgeon
• Review of randomised controlled trials of traditional Chinese medicine
  by Jin-Ling Tang
• Planning the "new" NHS: downsizing for the 21st century
  by Allyson M Pollock
• Patient education is way to influence maternal requests for caesarean section
  by Laurie Montgomery Irvine
• Inequalities in health care deplored
• Consultants want their 50m [pound sterling]
• Over our dead bodies: Port Arthur and Australia's fight for gun control
  by Mary E Black
• Saving lives or sustaining the public's health?
  by Naomi Fulop
• Scientists raise possibility of vaccine for Alzheimer's disease
  by Deborah Josefson
• The ideal
  by W.H. Auden
• Magic and medicine
  by Carlo Levi
• Use of mini-mental state examination by GPs to diagnose dementia may be unnecessary
  by Hein van Hout
• GMC asked to re-examine 1999 election
• Rationing decisions should be evidence based
• Performing Arts: The Consulting Room
  by Sian Knight
• BMA wants presumed consent for organ donors
  by Linda Beecham
• Childhood thyroid cancers rise 10-fold in the Ukraine
  by Deborah Josefson
• Surgeons' and occupational health departments' awareness of guidelines on post-exposure prophylaxis for staff exposed to HIV: telephone survey
  by S E Duff
• Baseline imbalance in randomised controlled trials
  by Chris Roberts
• Conservative management of genuine stress incontinence in women
• Refugee doctors need positive help
• In the grip of spin
  by Kamran Abbasi
• German drug agency approves mifepristone
  by Annette Tuffs
• Educator with a vision
• Drug points
• Cholesterol lowering margarine may not be useful in healthy fat modified diet
  by Charles van Heyningen
• Private medical care surely benefits NHS indirectly
  by C O Lister
• BMA calls for smoking ban in public places
• There must be appropriate pay for millennium work
• Website Of The Week
  by Douglas Carnall
• In brief
• Breast feeding and obesity: cross sectional study
  by Rudiger von Kries
• Correction
• Diet and the prevention of cancer
• Economics of PFI in the NHS
  by Colin Reeves
• BMJ criticised over "black boxing" policy
• Doctors fear extension of NHS Direct
• Making a mark
  by Andrew Hodges
• London whistleblower left with career in tatters
  by Clare Dyer
• Does zygosity influence the metabolic profile of twins? A population based cross sectional study
  by Pernille Poulsen
• Improving quality in general practice: qualitative case study of barriers faced by health authorities
  by Martin N Marshall
• Anomalies occur in registrations of fetal deaths in multiple pregnancies
  by POD Pharoah
• Obituaries
• Meeting defeats legalisation of cannabis
• Obstetrics and gynaecology is in crisis
• In England now
  by Trisha Greenhalgh
• Anaesthetists do not need separate consent before surgery
  by Roger Dobson
• The future of the woman physician
• Recent advances: Diagnostic radiology
  by Jane Hawnaur
• Should immunisation against hepatitis B take priority over provision of clean drinking water?
  by Jacob M Puliyel
• BMA reiterates support for NHS principles
• BMA divisions to be canvassed about their role
• TV dramas misrepresent NHS
• Minerva