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Articles in Feb 17, 2001, issue of British Medical Journal

• The fetal origins of adult disease: no longer just a hypothesis and may be critically important in south Asia
  by Roger Robinson
• Fury as Australia appoints former industry lobbyist to drugs watchdog
  by Christopher Zinn
• India finalises tobacco control legislation
  by Ganapati Mudur
• Corrections and clarifications
• Wellbeing of gay, lesbian and bisexual doctors
  by Brian P Burke
• Explosions may occur if dry ice is placed in airtight transport containers
  by Sally Sharp
• Minerva
  by SN Barnes
• The protective effect of childhood infections: the next challenge is to mimic safely this protection against allergy and asthma
  by Sebastian L Johnston
• Skin sold for chemical warfare research
  by Clare Dyer
• Climate change will affect UK health
  by Rhona MacDonald
• Routinely administered questionnaires for depression and anxiety: systematic review
  by Simon M Gilbody
• Suffering in silence
  by Murad Khan
• Obituaries
• Type 2 diabetes in children: exemplifies the growing problem of chronic diseases
  by Anne Fagot-Campagna
• Middle aged women more likely to die after heart attack
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Randomised controlled trial of patient education to encourage graded exercise in chronic fatigue syndrome
  by Pauline Powell
• Looking backwards in 2001
• NCAA has not been given sufficient tools to identify poorly performing doctors
  by Christopher Bulstrode
• HIV
  by Robert Colebunders
• Prognostic factors in prostate cancer: pathologists glean a wealth of clinical detail from the smallest piece of tissue
  by Rodolfo Montironi
• UK rate of x ray examination less than half the US rate
  by Annabel Ferriman
• Early childhood infectious diseases and the development of asthma up to school age: a birth cohort study
  by Sabina Illi
• Microbicides in HIV prevention
  by Sheena McCormack
• Revaluation should be part of revalidation
  by Chris Manning
• Working with AIDS Bereavement: A Comprehensive Approach for Mental Health Providers
  by Brian Kelly
• The US sisters of the BMJ: The BMJ is becoming more active in the US
  by Ronald M Davis
• Germany turns away UK trained GP
  by Tessa Richards
• Antibiotic susceptibility of streptococci and related genera causing endocarditis: analysis of UK reference laboratory referrals, January 1996 to March 2000
  by Alan P Johnson
• Filled with wonder
  by Manuel Patricio Rodriguez Garcia
• The two tier syndrome behind waiting lists
  by M Pringle
• Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care
  by Joanne Lynn
• Dispute as rival groups publish details of human genome
  by Gavin Yamey
• Few trusts have race employment targets
  by Benjamin Hope
• Longevity in Spain
• Degenerative cervical disc disease causing cord compression in adults under 50
  by P I Bentley
• Maternal age and fetal loss
  by David C Reardon
• Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival
  by Grant Hutchison
• In brief
• End restrictions on prescribing Viagra, urges coalition
  by Gavin Yamey
• Exposure of healthcare workers in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland to bloodborne viruses between July 1997 and June 2000: analysis of surveillance data
  by Barry Evans
• Obstetric intervention among private and public patients in Australia
  by Isidor Papapetros
• BOOKCASE
  by Kiran Somani
• Flu drug still not worth prescribing, experts say
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• New EU rules might hinder research
  by Rory Watson
• Issues in the management of prisoners infected with HIV-1: the King's College Hospital HIV prison service retrospective cohort study
  by Simon Edwards
• Ascites, encephalopathy, and other conditions
  by J E J Krige
• Bupropion for smokers
  by Christopher Harrison
• Doctors find an ally
  by Annabel Ferriman
• Drug company fined for excessive hospitality
  by Tony Sheldon
• Extra 2600 physicians needed in Britain
  by Roger Dobson
• Lessons in communication
  by Marcus Mulcahy
• Should depression be managed as a chronic disease?
  by Gavin Andrews
• Early neonatal mortality and timing of low risk births
  by Rajesh Varma
• A warning to the GMC
  by Iona Heath
• Challenges to orthodoxy?
• US trade action threatens Brazilian AIDS programme
  by Gavin Yamey
• FDA refuses companies' request to drop ulcer warning
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Radiography of the lumbar spine in primary care patients with low back pain: randomised controlled trial
  by Denise Kendrick
• The importance of patient confidentiality
  by Lucy Mansfield
• Patients with primary herpes should be screened for syphilis
  by Deborah Graham
• Cocktails with the headmaster
  by Kevin Barraclough