British Medical Journal

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Articles in April 8, 2000, issue of British Medical Journal

• GMC ruling upheld despite records obtained "without consent"
  by Clare Dyer
• Ireland faces shortage of doctors
  by Doug Payne
• Corrections and clarifications
• "Correcting" bmj.com
  by Brian Morgan
• GPs issued with new sickness certification guidelines
  by Linda Beecham
• In brief
• Services for disabled people are "unacceptably poor"
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• Measuring brain natriuretic peptide in suspected left ventricular systolic dysfunction in general practice: cross-sectional study
  by Martin J Landray
• How much to do at the accident scene?
  by John Warwick
• Students want random alcohol and drug testing of doctors
  by Linda Beecham
• Scientists build a peptide to stop toxic shock syndrome
  by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
• Altering a gene in mice prevents obesity
  by Scott Gottlieb
• When I use a word Fortuitous—ambiguously inappropriate to describe maternal death?
  by Graham Howarth
• Predicted impact of intravenous thrombolysis
  by Joris Berwaerts
• The Evolution of Hypnotism
  by David Healy
• Wales launches health promotion strategy
  by Roger Dobson
• Systematic review of comparative efficacy and tolerability of calcipotriol in treating chronic plaque psoriasis
  by Darren M Ashcroft
• Pharmacogenetics
  by C Roland Wolf
• Intention to treat analysis is related to methodological quality
  by Miguel Ruiz-Canela
• Video Casebook: Medicine—The Toy Boy and The Burgundy Car
  by Martin Talbot
• Unsupervised nurses may soon give anaesthetics in United States
  by Deborah Josefson
• Association between postnatal catch-up growth and obesity in childhood: prospective cohort study
  by Ken K L Ong
• When I use a word … Cheque your spelling
  by Jeff Aronson
• Using anticoagulation or aspirin to prevent stroke
  by Simon J Ellis
• Clouding the AIDS issue
  by Pat Sidley
• Tuberculosis is spreading in central and eastern Europe
  by Marta Balinska
• Factors underlying the effect of organisational downsizing on health of employees: longitudinal cohort study
  by Mika Kivimaki
• Secondary prevention of transient ischaemic attack and stroke
  by Kennedy R Lees
• Evidence of a CJD epidemic may still be missed
  by James Lowe
• Website Of The Week
  by Douglas Carnall
• Managers accuse ministers of spin over money for NHS
  by Linda Beecham
• Use of consensus development to establish national research priorities in critical care
  by Keryn Vella
• Role of external evidence in monitoring clinical trials: experience from a perinatal trial
  by Peter Brocklehurst
• Correction
• Medical tourism can do harm
  by Rachel A Bishop
• Research needed into effects of IVF
  by Peter Moore
• Ethnicity and prescription of analgesia in an accident and emergency department: cross sectional study
  by Desiree M A Choi
• Developing learning organisations in the new NHS
  by Huw T O Davies
• Obituaries
• I saw Satan fall like lightning
  by Liam Farrell
• Blair must raise taxes to eradicate child poverty, academics say
  by Wendy Moore
• An unexpected present
  by Gita Mathai
• Analgesic effects of sweet solutions and pacifiers in term neonates
  by Carol Campbell
• Talks continue on intensity payments for consultants
  by Linda Beecham
• Minerva
• Tobacco companies in US to pay smoker $22m
  by Deborah Josefson
• Health minister announces initiatives on men's health
  by Gavin Yamey
• Association between illegal drugs and weapon carrying in young people in Scotland: schools' survey
  by Neil McKeganey
• Diagnose and be damned
  by Derek Pheby
• Revalidation will require a cultural change
  by Linda Beecham