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Articles in May 5, 2001, issue of British Medical Journal

• Use of computer terminals on wards to access emergency test results: a retrospective audit
  by Eric S Kilpatrick
• UK investigates possible human cases of foot and mouth disease
  by Susan Mayor
• Milburn proposes to decentralise the NHS
  by Jacqui Wise
• Dysfunctional breathing and asthma: it is important to tell the difference
  by Duncan Keeley
• Health professionals' attitudes to MMR vaccine
  by Jonathan Howell
• Consent to cancer registration—an unnecessary burden
  by I C M Paterson
• Newly available treatments for nicotine addiction
  by Tim Coleman
• US report finds no link between MMR and autism
  by Charles Marwick
• Diplomatic champion of wide public health issues
• Training anaesthetists
  by Colm Lanigan
• Guided self management plans for asthma
  by Martyn Partridge
• Tobacco money
  by Christopher Martyn
• Why Britain needs a nicotine regulation authority
  by John Britton
• BMA threatens to withdraw its support for revalidation
  by Annabel Ferriman
• Analysis of prevalence of HIV-1 drug resistance in primary infections in the United Kingdom: UK Collaborative Group on Monitoring the Transmission of HIV Drug Resistance
• Effect of increasing age on cataract surgery outcomes in very elderly patients
  by Tien Yin Wong
• Changes in policy of refusal of blood by Jehovah's Witnesses
• Internet therapy
  by Claudio Crisci
• Milburn's vision of a new NHS
  by Rudolf Klein
• Researchers discover peptide that may reduce arthritis
  by Xavier Bosch
• Incidence and predictors of severe obstetric morbidity: case-control study
  by Mark Waterstone
• What are the elements of good treatment for hypertension?
  by Cynthia D Mulrow
• Surveillance for Barrett's oesophagus
  by J A Eksteen
• Teaching English as a dead language
  by Colin Douglas
• Understanding the burden of musculoskeletal conditions
  by Anthony D Woolf
• Orthodox Jews demand university bury its bones
  by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
• Increasing prevalence of obesity in primary school children: cohort study
  by Mary CJ Rudolf
• The hidden handicap
  by John Haworth
• Integrated medicine in the East may differ from that in the West
  by Jongbae Park
• Minerva
• NHS faces medical negligence bill of 2.6bn [pounds sterling]
  by Annabel Ferriman
• New vaccine against typhoid could eventually be used for babies
  by Deborah Josefson
• Age of menarche in contemporary British teenagers: survey of girls born between 1982 and 1986
  by PH Whincup
• Blood pressure measurement
  by Eoin O'Brien
• Obituaries
• Hospitals release details of retained organs
  by Lynn Eaton
• Doctors say they are not influenced by drug companies' promotions
  by Fred Charatan
• Validity study of the severity index, a simple measure of urinary incontinence in women
  by Janet Hanley
• Lateral thinking
  by Derek Chase
• Doctors on the Edge: General Practitioners, Health and Learning in the Inner-City
  by Fred Kavalier
• In brief
• Fighting both bugs and tobacco companies
• New theory for the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease proposed
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Correction
• Checklists for improving rigour in qualitative research: a case of the tail wagging the dog?
  by Rosaline S Barbour
• How to be a Good Enough GP: Surviving and Thriving in the New Primary Care Organisations
  by Abi Berger
• Why are doctors so unhappy?
  by Richard Savage
• GPs shut surgeries in protest at government targets
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• Paediatrician to be reinstated
  by Annabel Ferriman
• A magnificent woman
  by Jane Rakowski
• Should Nottingham University give back its tobacco money?
  by Richard Savage
• A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry
  by Clifford Douglas
• Surgeon awarded libel damages of 175 000 [pounds sterling]
  by Clare Dyer
• UN calls for $10bn to wage war on AIDS
  by Annabel Ferriman
• Is transmitted drug resistance in HIV on the rise?
  by Susan J Little
• Prevalence of dysfunctional breathing in patients treated for asthma in primary care: cross sectional survey
  by Mike Thomas
• The primary source
  by Martin Amis
• The Tragedy of Childbed Fever
  by John S G Blair