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29 July 2000 (Vol 321, No 7256)
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Psychiatric disorders predispose to risky sexual behaviour [Full text]
Prevention of acute mountain sickness depends on ascent rate and drug dose [Full text]
Long allele alpha  oestrogen receptor genotype may increase risk of coronary artery disease [Full text]
Early neonatal mortality and asphyxia related deaths are greater for night births [Full text]
General practices use a wide variety of methods for controlling their prescribing costs [Full text]
Reliance on endoscopy makes NSAID studies unreliable [Full text]

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Adolescent mental health and risky sexual behaviour
David L Bennett, Adrian Bauman
BMJ  2000;321:251-252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.251
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Thiazolidinediones for type 2 diabetes
Andrew J Krentz, Clifford J Bailey, Arne Melander
BMJ  2000;321:252-253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.252
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Training overseas doctors in the United Kingdom
Christopher Welsh
BMJ  2000;321:253-254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.253
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Molecular stool screening for colorectal cancer
David A Ahlquist
BMJ  2000;321:254-255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.254
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Which clinical studies provide the best evidence?
Stuart Barton
BMJ  2000;321:255-256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.255
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The quality of systematic reviews
Stephen Senn, Douglas G Altman, Jonathan J Deeks, Mike Clarke, Christopher Cates, N C Barnes, C Hallett, T A J Harris, Carole Wilson, Paula Waugh, Paul Garner, Alejandro R Jadad, Michael Moher, George P Browman, Lynda Booker, Christopher Sigouin, Mario Fuentes, Robert Stevens
BMJ  2000;321:297, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.297
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Paramedics should delay giving aspirin to patients with stroke
Michael Ward, Peter M Rothwell
BMJ  2000;321:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.299
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Acute ischaemic stroke
Michael D Hill, Philip A Barber, Andrew M Demchuk, Alastair M Buchan, Philip Bath, Fiona Bath, Parveen Rashid, Chris Weaver
BMJ  2000;321:299, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.299/a
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Patients in rheumatology clinics need reassurance
Eleanor Grogan, Andrew Frank, Andrew Keat
BMJ  2000;321:300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.300
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Clinical academic medicine
Peter L Weissberg, Roger Jones, John Moxham, I Taylor, Roger Jones, Sean Hilton
BMJ  2000;321:300, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.300/a
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Quick fixes for research assessment exercise will not work
Selwyn St Leger
BMJ  2000;321:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.302
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Feedback is necessary in strategies to reduce hospital acquired infection
Sheldon Stone, Christopher Kibbler, Anne How, Anita Balestrini
BMJ  2000;321:302, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.302/a
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Police surgeons are important part of criminal justice system
Margaret M Stark
BMJ  2000;321:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.303
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Infant feeding and HIV study does not support Minerva's view
Magda Sachs, Phyll Buchanan, Mary Broadfoot, Ted Greiner
BMJ  2000;321:303, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.303/a
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MPs call for far reaching reforms to mental health services
Linda Beecham
BMJ  2000;321:257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.257
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Executives fly the koop.com
Fred Charatan
BMJ  2000;321:257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.257/a
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Gynaecologist struck off the medical register
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2000;321:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.258
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Women doctors earn $63000 less than male counterparts
Deborah Josefson
BMJ  2000;321:258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.258/a
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In brief
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UK licence for cisapride suspended
Annabel Ferriman
BMJ  2000;321:259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.259
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Cancer drug may cause heart failure
Scott Gottlieb
BMJ  2000;321:259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.259/a
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Relatives of Shipman victims win first round in fight for open inquiry
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2000;321:260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.260
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$1bn drug deal creates debt for "tomorrow's AIDS orphans"
Annabel Ferriman
BMJ  2000;321:260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.260/a
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Better screening needed for sickle cell and thalassaemia
Jenny Blythe
BMJ  2000;321:260, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.260/b
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Lumpectomy as good as mastectomy for tumours up to 5 cm
Scott Gottlieb
BMJ  2000;321:261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.261
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Irish blood service sues its former medical consultant
Doug Payne
BMJ  2000;321:261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.261/a
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US judge approves distribution of marijuana
Deborah Josefson
BMJ  2000;321:261, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.261/b
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Concern mounts over female genital mutilation
BMJ  2000;321:262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.262
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MPs call for far reaching reforms to mental health services
BMJ  2000;321:262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.262/a
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$1bn drug deal creates debt for "tomorrow's AIDS orphans"
BMJ  2000;321:262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.262/b
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Women doctors earn $63 000 less than male counterparts
BMJ  2000;321:262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.262/c
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Junior doctor faces manslaughter charge
BMJ  2000;321:262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.262/d
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Better screening needed for sickle cell and thalassaemia
BMJ  2000;321:262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.262/e
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UK government should be "tough" on smoking
BMJ  2000;321:262, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.262/f
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Recent advances: Medical ethics
Peter A Singer
BMJ  2000;321:282-285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.282
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Lesson of the week: Horse allergy in children
Graham Roberts, Gideon Lack
BMJ  2000;321:286-287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.286
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ABC of oral health: Improving occlusion and orofacial aesthetics: orthodontics
Susan Cunningham, Elisabeth Horrocks, Nigel Hunt, Steven Jones, Howard Moseley, Joseph Noar, Crispian Scully
BMJ  2000;321:288-290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.288
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A prescription for improvement? An observational study to identify how general practices vary in their growth in prescribing costs • Commentary: Beware regression to the mean
Anthony J Avery, Sarah Rodgers, Tara Heron, Robert Crombie, David Whynes, Mike Pringle, Darrin Baines, Roland Petchey, T J Cole
BMJ  2000;321:276-281, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.276
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Gourmets
Ricardo S Silva
BMJ  2000;321:307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.307/a
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What is the future for training overseas graduates?
Mangalam Sridhar
BMJ  2000;321:307, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.307
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Outcomes studies of drug induced ulcer complications: do we need them and how should they be done?
C J Hawkey
BMJ  2000;321:291-293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.291
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Conflict and health: Peace building through health initiatives
Graeme MacQueen, Joanna Santa-Barbara
BMJ  2000;321:293-296, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.293
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Minerva
BMJ  2000;321:308, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.308
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To coin a phrase
Anthony Alment
BMJ  2000;321:272, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.272
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One hundred years ago: Plague in Glasgow
BMJ  2000;321:276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.276/a
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Great Aunt Rose
Elizabeth Clarke
BMJ  2000;321:285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.285
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Endpiece: Scientists should die at 60
BMJ  2000;321:285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.285/a
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One hundred years ago: Greek and Latin Useless for Doctors
BMJ  2000;321:288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.288/a
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Prospective investigation of transfusion transmitted infection in recipients of over 20 000 units of blood
BMJ  2000;321:266
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ABC of arterial and venous disease: swollen lower limb (part 1---general assessment and deep vein thrombosis)
BMJ  2000;321:266
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Measuring performance in the NHS: what really matters?
BMJ  2000;321:266
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Systematic reviews and meta-analyses on treatment of asthma: critical evaluation
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Book: Don't Tell the Patient: Behind the Drug Safety Net
Stephen Evans
BMJ  2000;321:305, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.305
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Book: Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy
Muiris Houston
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Book: The Meat Business: Devouring a Hungry Planet
Maurice King
BMJ  2000;321:306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.306
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Blemished, unsprayed plums
BMJ  2000;321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.0
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NETLINES
Harry Brown
BMJ  2000;321:306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.306/b
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Blemished, unsprayed plums
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Website of the week: Accessing ethical information
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  2000;321:306, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.306/a
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Mary Lois Cartledge (née Barrett) • John Caughey • Vernon Kenneth Hochuli • Robert Adrian Lloyd-Williams • John McRobert
Sadie Francis, David Caughey, Ann Richmond, Michael Vaile, Nicholas Leach, Peter McWilliam
BMJ  2000;321:304, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.304
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Psychiatric disorders and risky sexual behaviour in young adulthood: cross sectional study in birth cohort
Sandhya Ramrakha, Avshalom Caspi, Nigel Dickson, Terrie E Moffitt, Charlotte Paul
BMJ  2000;321:263-266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.263
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Efficacy and harm of pharmacological prevention of acute mountain sickness: quantitative systematic review
Lionel Dumont, Chahé Mardirosoff, Martin R Tramèr
BMJ  2000;321:267-272, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.267
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Association of polymorphism of human alpha  oestrogen receptor gene with coronary artery disease in men: a necropsy study
Tarja A Kunnas, Pekka Laippala, Antti Penttilä, Terho Lehtimäki, Pekka J Karhunen
BMJ  2000;321:273-274, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.273
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Early neonatal mortality, asphyxia related deaths, and timing of low risk births in Hesse, Germany, 1990-8: observational study
Günther Heller, Björn Misselwitz, Stephan Schmidt
BMJ  2000;321:274-275, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.274
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Drug points: Atrial fibrillation associated with sumatriptan
D R Morgan, M Trimble, G E McVeigh
BMJ  2000;321:275, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7256.275
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