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Meningitis in infancy leads to developmental disabilities [Full text]
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a valid and useful diagnosis [Full text]
Many children develop permanent hearing impairment even after neonatal screening [Full text]
Environmental factors influence sex differences in coronary heart disease mortality [Full text]
Universal screening for diabetes in patients aged over 45 should not be adopted in Britain [Full text]

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Legacy of bacterial meningitis in infancy
Keith Grimwood
BMJ  2001;323:523-524, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.523
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Telemedicine in developing countries
Steven M Edworthy
BMJ  2001;323:524-525, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.524
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Measuring the prevalence of permanent childhood hearing impairment
Shirley Russ
BMJ  2001;323:525-526, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.525
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Problems with temporary cardiac pacing
J J Murphy
BMJ  2001;323:527, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.527
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Measuring the social impact of research
Richard Smith
BMJ  2001;323:528, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.528
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Medical errors and medical culture
Laurie Lyckholm, Stephen Workman, Wayne Lewis, Brendan Harrington
BMJ  2001;323:570, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.570
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Global campaign to eradicate malaria
Sylvia Meek, Jane Edmondson, Dennis Carroll, D H Molyneux, G Barnish, S Looreesuwan, B Liese, J Hemingway
BMJ  2001;323:571, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.571
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Opioids in chronic non-malignant pain
James S Milledge, Richard A Lawhern, Andrew Byrne
BMJ  2001;323:571, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.571a
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Early growth and coronary heart disease in later life
T J Cole, M Fewtrell, A Lucas, C Osmond, D J P Barker, J G Eriksson, T Forsén
BMJ  2001;323:572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.572
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Riluzole for motor neurone disease
David Barnett, Martin Ford, Cyrille Leperlier
BMJ  2001;323:573, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.573
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Antidepressant trials generally have methodological defects
Christian Even, Serge Friedman, Roland Dardennes
BMJ  2001;323:574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.574
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Doctors should tell patients truth about their waiting lists
Noelle O'Rourke
BMJ  2001;323:574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.574a
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Equipoise is not synonymous with uncertainty
R J Lilford
BMJ  2001;323:574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.574b
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Medical litigation
Adrian Rogers, Peter Gray
BMJ  2001;323:575, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.575
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Career advice for doctors with a chronic illness
Ian Aston, Julian Berry
BMJ  2001;323:575, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.575a
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Drugs are not best for obesity
Elliot M Berry
BMJ  2001;323:576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.576
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I was obviously fortunate when my salivary gland was removed
Caroline Richmond
BMJ  2001;323:576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.576a
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A poem to benefit health
Robin Philipp
BMJ  2001;323:576, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.576b
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Concern grows over health of Australia's refugee population
Norman Swan
BMJ  2001;323:529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.529
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Baxter withdraws dialyser after 12 patients die
Xavier Bosch
BMJ  2001;323:529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.529a
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In brief
BMJ  2001;323:530, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.530
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India to tighten rules on human embryonic stem cells research
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2001;323:530, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.530a
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Auditors slate top Indian medical centre
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2001;323:530, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.530b
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Viagra wears off after two years
Scott Gottlieb
BMJ  2001;323:530, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.530c
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Johns Hopkins faces further criticism over experiments
Deborah Josefson
BMJ  2001;323:531, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.531
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AIDS expert challenges ethical stance on drug trials
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2001;323:531, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.531a
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Woman passes first hurdle in right to die case
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2001;323:531, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.531b
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Colombian newspaper delivers free cigarettes
Sophie Arie
BMJ  2001;323:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.532
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Scottish GPs to be sent discussion packs on MMR vaccine
Helen Barratt
BMJ  2001;323:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.532a
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Takeaway shop converts to drug centre
Andrew Byrne
BMJ  2001;323:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.532b
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Safe sex message fails to get through to young people
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2001;323:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.532c
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Single use equipment is used up to 20 times, says report
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2001;323:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.532d
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Israel bans imports of fertilised ova
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
BMJ  2001;323:532, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.532e
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Screening for diabetes in general practice: cross sectional population study
James M Lawrence, Paul Bennett, Alan Young, Anthony M Robinson
BMJ  2001;323:548-551, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.548
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Verifying quality and safety in health informatics services
Michael Rigby, Jari Forsström, Ruth Roberts, Jeremy Wyatt
BMJ  2001;323:552-556, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.552
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Recent advances: Telemedicine
Richard Wootton
BMJ  2001;323:557-560, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.557
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Anyone for tennis?
Colin Douglas
BMJ  2001;323:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.581a
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The lost video
Jamie Bahrami
BMJ  2001;323:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.581
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Usefulness and validity of post-traumatic stress disorder as a psychiatric category
Gillian Mezey, Ian Robbins
BMJ  2001;323:561-563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.561
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Should NHS patients be allowed to contribute extra money to their care?
Clive Richards, Robert Dingwall, Alan Watson
BMJ  2001;323:563-565, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.563
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Regulating nursing homes: Caring for older people in the private sector in England
Susan H Kerrison, Allyson M Pollock
BMJ  2001;323:566-569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.566
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Minerva
BMJ  2001;323:582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.582
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A memorable patient: A regular pain
Colm Lanigan
BMJ  2001;323:540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.540
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The skills it takes
James Clover
BMJ  2001;323:547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.547a
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A short case prolonged
Rebekah Schiff
BMJ  2001;323:551, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.551
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One hundred years ago: The anticigarette crusade in America
BMJ  2001;323:557, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.557a
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Two smokers and evidence based medicine
H A Brewster
BMJ  2001;323:569, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.569
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Book: Virtual University? Educational Environments for the Future
Jason O'Neale Roach
BMJ  2001;323:579, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.579
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Book: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Problems, Progress and Possibilities
Heather O Dickinson
BMJ  2001;323:579, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.579a
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Press: Alcohol: the media are in denial
Colin Brewer
BMJ  2001;323:580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.580
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Grabbed
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Grabbed
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Website of the week: Virtual universities
Helen Barratt
BMJ  2001;323:580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.580a
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This week's obituaries [PDF]

Frederic Basil Stileman Barkworth Paul Brian Counsell Samuel Wolfe Hirschmann Mohammed Shahbaaz Khan Robert Kenneth McAll Leslie Alexander McDowell George Hay Marshall Walter John Murfin Bruce Drummond Taylor Scott Nigel John Wilson
Ian Brown, John Surtees, Gordon Black, P N Hirschmann, Jagdip Haer, Margaret Crowley, G E Owen Williams, John Black, David Murfin, Malcolm Walker-Kinnear, M Hull, R Delaney, G Pritchard
BMJ  2001;323:577, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.577
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Meningitis in infancy in England and Wales: follow up at age 5 years
Helen Bedford, John de Louvois, Susan Halket, Catherine Peckham, Rosalinde Hurley, David Harvey
BMJ  2001;323:533, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.533
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Prevalence of permanent childhood hearing impairment in the United Kingdom and implications for universal neonatal hearing screening: questionnaire based ascertainment study Commentary: Universal newborn hearing screening: implications for coordinating and developing services for deaf and hearing impaired children
Heather M Fortnum, A Quentin Summerfield, David H Marshall, Adrian C Davis, John M Bamford, Adrian Davis, Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, Sally Hind
BMJ  2001;323:536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.536
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Sex matters: secular and geographical trends in sex differences in coronary heart disease mortality
D A Lawlor, S Ebrahim, G Davey Smith
BMJ  2001;323:541-545, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.541
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Assessment of therapeutic safety in systematic reviews: literature review
Edzard Ernst, Max H Pittler
BMJ  2001;323:546, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.546
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Drug points: Diabetes inspidus induced by ofloxacin
Anil Bharani, Hrishikesh Kumar
BMJ  2001;323:547, doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7312.547
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