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19 August 2000 (Vol 321, No 7259)
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Homoeopathic dilutions may be better than placebo [Full text]
Venous thromboembolism rates have not fallen since "pill scare" [Full text]
Mothers want help in telling their children about their cancer [Full text]
Most pregnant teenagers access general practice before conception [Full text]
Changes in psychiatric care may have caused increases in mortality in patients with schizophrenia [Full text]
Simple test helps initial assessment for malaria in returned travellers with fever [Full text]

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Never underestimate the force of reproduction
Basil Donovan
BMJ  2000;321:461-462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.461
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Telling children about a parent's cancer
Duncan Keeley
BMJ  2000;321:462-463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.462
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Gastro-oesophageal cancer: death at the junction
Janusz Antonio Jankowski, Ian Perry, Rebecca Faith Harrison
BMJ  2000;321:463-464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.463
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New system for GP recruitment
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  2000;321:464-465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.464
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Information technology and telemedicine in sub-Saharan Africa
Hamish S F Fraser, St John D McGrath
BMJ  2000;321:465-466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.465
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The BMJ Christmas revue
Richard Smith
BMJ  2000;321:466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.466
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Reducing error, improving safety
Victor Barley, Graham Neale, Christopher Burns-Cox, Paul Savage, Sam Machin, Adel El-Sobky, Anne Savage, Aziz Sheikh, Brian Hurwitz, C K Connolly, Pia Maria Jonsson, Göran Tomson, Lars Räf, Ken McCune, Ron Law, Roger M Goss, Anonymous, Carlos A Estrada, James Carter, Clyde Brooks, Ann C Jobe, Jonathan Aldridge, Peter Freeland, Brenda Ashcroft, Max Eistein, Nicholas Boreham, Peter J Shirley, Leo Strunin, Maldwyn Morgan, Paul Cartwright, Robert P Coffey
BMJ  2000;321:505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.505
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Crisis in the air
Andrew McIndoe, Paul Walsh
BMJ  2000;321:509, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.509
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Cost effectiveness of sildenafil calls for political discussion
Elly Stolk, Jan Busschbach
BMJ  2000;321:510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.510
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Debate about medical treatment of life prisoners
J Ellis Cameron-Perry
BMJ  2000;321:510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.510/a
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General practitioners have important roles in cancer
Mike Sadler
BMJ  2000;321:510, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.510/b
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Reviving academic medicine in Britain
Sam Leinster, Clive B Archer
BMJ  2000;321:511, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.511
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Improving education for senior house officers
Mark Rickenbach, Joan Dunleavey
BMJ  2000;321:511, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.511/a
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Preventive home visits to elderly people in the community
Jonathan Newbury, John Marley, Astrid Fletcher, Christopher Bulpitt, Andreas Stuck, Matthias Egger, Christoph E Minder, Steve Iliffe, John C Beck, Jolanda C M van Haastregt
BMJ  2000;321:512, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.512
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Ethnicity and analgesia in accident departments
Peter Leman, Paul Yate, Paul Kalinda, Elizabeth A Paul
BMJ  2000;321:513, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.513
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Why I am not a pretentious pseudo-intellectual
Greg O'Neill
BMJ  2000;321:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.514
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Magnets and children---an attractive combination?
S R McCormick, P O Brennan, J G Yassa
BMJ  2000;321:514, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.514/a
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Premature babies have high death and disability rate
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2000;321:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.467
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Breastfeeding programmes "should be targeted"
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2000;321:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.467/a
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"Hands-free" mobile phones may be safer than the rest
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2000;321:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.468
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Death keeps Irish doctors guessing
Doug Payne
BMJ  2000;321:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.468/a
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In brief
BMJ  2000;321:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.468/b
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Israelis and Palestinians collaborate over health care
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
BMJ  2000;321:469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.469
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Persistence of tuberculosis explained
Abi Berger
BMJ  2000;321:469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.469/a
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Risk of vCJD lower than expected
Judy Jones
BMJ  2000;321:469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.469/b
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One million threatened by suspension of Sudan's relief lifeline
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2000;321:470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.470
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French men invited to become "vasectomy tourists"
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2000;321:470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.470/a
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Toys can turn hospital cots into "reservoirs of bacteria"
Scott Gottlieb
BMJ  2000;321:470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.470/b
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Toys can turn hospital cots into "reservoirs of bacteria"
BMJ  2000;321:470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.470/c
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Government's plans for private practice are "insulting"
BMJ  2000;321:470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.470/d
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GPs are disappointed at gaps in NHS Plan
BMJ  2000;321:470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.470/e
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Regular review: Drug treatment of multiple sclerosis
C H Polman, B M J Uitdehaag
BMJ  2000;321:490-494, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.490
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ABC of oral health: Oral health care for patients with special needs
Roger Davies, Raman Bedi, Crispian Scully
BMJ  2000;321:495-498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.495
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Consultation patterns and provision of contraception in general practice before teenage pregnancy: case-control study
Dick Churchill, Jane Allen, Mike Pringle, Julia Hippisley-Cox, Dave Ebdon, Marion Macpherson, Sue Bradley
BMJ  2000;321:486-489, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.486
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"I'm suffering from work related stress, doctor"
Kevin Barraclough
BMJ  2000;321:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.519/a
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How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
Neill Simpson
BMJ  2000;321:519, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.519
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UK management guidelines for erectile dysfunction
David Ralph, Tom McNicholas
BMJ  2000;321:499-503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.499
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Statistics Notes: Blinding in clinical trials and other studies
Simon J Day, Douglas G Altman
BMJ  2000;321:504, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.504
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Minerva
BMJ  2000;321:520, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.520
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Homage to delirium
Craig J Wilson
BMJ  2000;321:485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.485
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Endpiece: Artie Shaw's philosophy on life
BMJ  2000;321:486, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.486/a
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A memorable patient: Looking at the evidence
Paul Blenkiron
BMJ  2000;321:494, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.494
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One hundred years ago: Hindu Teeth
BMJ  2000;321:495, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.495/a
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beta Blockade after myocardial infarction: systematic review and meta regression analysis
BMJ  2000;321:482
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TV: Lobes and lights
Rhona MacDonald
BMJ  2000;321:518, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.518
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Art: Interactive science
Laura Kavalier
BMJ  2000;321:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.517/a
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Book: The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Football, Witchcraft, Murder and the King of England
Jeanette Cayley
BMJ  2000;321:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.516
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Book: Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origin of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis
Donald Campbell
BMJ  2000;321:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.516/a
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Book: The Ageing & Development Report 1999: Poverty, Independence & the World's Older People
Shah Ebrahim
BMJ  2000;321:517, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.517
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Powerful forces at work
BMJ  2000;321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.0
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Powerful forces at work
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Website of the week: Homoeopathy
Douglas Carnall
BMJ  2000;321:518, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.518/a
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This week's obituaries [PDF]

Peggy Anderson (née Lankey) Dorothea Bamber (née Kelso) Jamshed Sorab Moos James McElfrish Neilson Elaine Rankin (née Lister) George Yerbury
Christine Bamber, Mea Wright, Kenneth Citron, S G McAlpine, T J Thomson, Archibald Rankin, Elizabeth Rankin, Lewis Eyears
BMJ  2000;321:515, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.515
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Randomised controlled trial of homoeopathy versus placebo in perennial allergic rhinitis with overview of four trial series Commentary: Larger trials are needed
Morag A Taylor, David Reilly, Robert H Llewellyn-Jones, Charles McSharry, Tom C Aitchison, Tim Lancaster, Andrew Vickers
BMJ  2000;321:471-476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.471
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Effect of 1995 pill scare on rates of venous thromboembolism among women taking combined oral contraceptives: analysis of General Practice Research Database
R D T Farmer, T J Williams, E L Simpson, A L Nightingale
BMJ  2000;321:477-479, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.477
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Qualitative interview study of communication between parents and children about maternal breast cancer
Jacqueline Barnes, Leanda Kroll, Olive Burke, Joanna Lee, Alison Jones, Alan Stein
BMJ  2000;321:479-482, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.479
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Time trends in schizophrenia mortality in Stockholm County, Sweden: cohort study
Urban Ösby, Nestor Correia, Lena Brandt, Anders Ekbom, Pär Sparén
BMJ  2000;321:483-484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.483
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Rapid diagnosis of falciparum malaria by using the ParaSight F test in travellers returning to the United Kingdom: prospective study
I M Cropley, Diana N J Lockwood, D Mack, G Pasvol, R N Davidson
BMJ  2000;321:484-485, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7259.484
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