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Articles in March 28, 1998 issue of British Medical Journal

• Consultant suspended for not getting consent for cardiac procedure
  by Clare Dyer
• China moves to change policy on child quotas
  by Doug Payne
• Using epidemiological data to guide clinical practice: review of studies on cardiovascular disease and use of combined oral contraceptives
  by Philip C Hannaford
• Studies that do not have informed consent from participants should not be published
  by Heather Goodare
• Lumbar puncture and headache
• College wants GPs and social workers to have closer links
• Publication of pictures of patient on BMJ's website was mistake
• Plan proposed for healthier NHS workforce
  by Linda Beecham
• Benefit of heparin in peripheral venous and arterial catheters: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
  by Adrienne G Randolph
• Changing the BMJ's position on informed consent would be counterproductive
  by J S Tobias
• Good engineering is not good medicine
• Specialist Outreach Clinics in General Practice
  by Roland Petchey
• Canada faces more strikes
  by David Spurgeon
• Satisfaction with clinical nurse specialists in a breast care clinic: questionnaire survey
  by Linda Garvican
• Informed consent—a publisher's duty
  by Mary Warnock
• Meta-analysis of cigarette smoking, bone mineral density, and risk of hip fracture
• Task force will involve NHS staff
• The Mad Cow Crisis: Health and the Public Good
  by Tom Wilkie
• Minerva
• NHS Executive stands by Read codes
  by John Warden
• Health beliefs and folk models of diabetes in British Bangladeshis: a qualitative study
  by Trisha Greenhalgh
• Trial subjects must be fully involved in design and approval of trials
  by Lisa Power
• Blood products produced from plasma from donors in UK are still being made
• Health minister reassures GPs on primary care groups
• WHO identifies 16 countries struggling to control tuberculosis
  by Jacqui Wise
• Is day care equivalent to inpatient care for active rheumatoid arthritis? Randomised controlled clinical and economic evaluation
  by C Michael Lambert
• Informed consent in medical research
  by Len Doyal
• Economic evaluation: an introduction
  by James Raftery
• Decline in cognitive function in Parkinson's disease may be due to dementia with Lewy bodies
• Do We Still Need Doctors?
  by Peter Herbert
• India to ban female sterilisation with malaria drug
  by Ganapati Mudur
• Use of anticonvulsants in eclampsia and pre-eclampsia: survey of obstetricians in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
  by A Metin Gulmezoglu
• Clinical management of meningococcal disease
• Obituaries
• The Pocket Guide to Grant Applications
  by Nick Black
• Smoking, alcohol and coffee consumption, and H pylori infection
• MMR vaccine policy is backed
  by Hilary Bower
• UK public calls for legislation over living wills
  by Clare Dyer
• Transferring medical images on the world wide web for emergency clinical management: a case report
  by David S Johnson
• Thrombolytic treatment for acute ischaemic stroke: consent can be ethical
  by Richard I Lindley
• Mistakes
  by George Dunea
• Labour talks tough on waiting lists
  by John Warden
• Fluid resuscitation with colloid or crystalloid solutions in critically ill patients: a systematic review of randomised trials
  by Gill Schierhout
• Asthma and allergy
  by A J Newman Taylor
• Separation and other problems that threaten relationships
  by Robert S Weiss
• Patients offered treatment for CHD need full information to make decision
• What Are Doctors For?
  by Peter Herbert
• In brief
• Dutch coalition, tackles waiting lists
  by Tony Sheldon
• When can odds ratios mislead?
  by Huw Talfryn Oakley Davies
• Informed consent and research
  by David Benatar
• UN Declaration of Human Rights
• Most patients don't read the BMJ
  by James J Rankine
• Correction
• The children's advocate
  by David Southall
• Periodontitis for medical practitioners
  by Trevor L P Watts
• Videos, photographs, and patient consent
  by Catherine A Hood
• Medical Devices Agency wants to see prospective clinical study of contraceptive device
• Nuchal translucency—screening without consent
  by Josephine Venn-Treloar