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Articles in Feb 20, 1999 issue of British Medical Journal

• All UK doctors to be required to prove competence
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• Preventing sexually transmitted diseases may not reduce HIV risk
  by Susan Mayor
• Symptomatic gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: double blind controlled study of intermittent treatment with omeprazole or ranitidine
  by K D Bardhan
• New diagnostic criteria for diabetes mellitus
  by Helaine E Resnick
• Contact allergy is unlikely to mimic basal cell carcinoma
  by Fiona M Chapman
• Breast feeding and my brain
  by Mary E Black
• Three women win in cancer screening case
  by Clare Dyer
• Correction
• Say what you mean
  by Jim Cox
• Indwelling needles carry greater risks than acupuncture techniques
  by E Ernst
• SOUNDBITES
• English judge rules that smokers' claims are "too late"
  by Clare Dyer
• English prison doctor struck off
  by Clare Dyer
• Questionnaire survey of advice given to patients with fractures
  by Badal Pal
• Repeating the tests
  by Edward Lavendar
• Cervical screening for women with learning disability
  by Peter Hall
• Meningitis in Wales
  by Norman Begg
• In brief
• Legal suit over Norplant collapses
  by Clare Dyer
• Cataract extraction in a lioness
• Potential benefits, limitations, and harms of clinical guidelines
  by Steven H Woolf
• Central regulating body is needed for ATLS courses
  by Sanjeev R Patil
• Website Of The Week
  by Douglas Carnall
• Israel prepares for "Jerusalem syndrome"
  by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
• Database study of antibiotic resistant tuberculosis in the United Kingdom, 1994-6
  by Charles Irish
• Sexual problems of disabled patients
  by Clive Glass
• Advanced trauma life support prolongs patients' lives until specialist help arrives
  by John Stoneham
• Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
  by C R Palmer
• $50m record damages awarded against tobacco company
  by Uy Hoang
• Beijing conference reviews Kashin-Beck disease
  by Richard Tomlinson
• Two case reports of possible noise trauma after inflation of air bags in low speed car crashes
  by Graham Buckley
• Is the English NHS underfunded?
  by Jennifer Dixon
• Few GPs tell patients of their diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
  by CA Vassilas
• Learning from the NHS Internal Market: A Review of the Evidence
  by Chris Ham
• Minister to look again at NHS bill's threat to GMC
  by John Warden
• Bristol parents protest over removal of hearts
  by Roger Dobson
• Randomised controlled trial of effect of feedback on general practitioners' prescribing in Australia
  by Dianne L O'Connell
• GPs should not connect to NHSnet until it is restructured
  by Grant S-B Kelly
• Diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  by M Zeidler
• Guest faculty
  by James Owen Drife
• NHS pay structure to be overhauled
  by John Warden
• Assessment of competence to complete advance directives: validation of a patient centred approach
  by Seena Fazel
• Tethered cord syndrome after myelomeningocoele repair
  by N u Owase Jeelani
• Survey of white coat hypertension
  by Kazuomi Kario
• Obituaries
• Scientists call for moratorium on genetically modified foods
  by Bryan Christie
• Bristol chief executive appeals against GMC
  by Clare Dyer
• 67 years on the national health
  by JMB Hughes
• Prescription of proton pump inhibitors
• Cholesterol: how low is low enough?
• Minerva
• Microscopic changes may double risk of breast cancer
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Single blind, randomised controlled trial of pelvic floor exercises, electrical stimulation, vaginal cones, and no treatment in management of genuine stress incontinence in women
  by Kari Bo
• Cosmetic surgery
  by Jeff L Hoeyberghs
• Insecurity about progression is an added stress for senior house officers
  by Charles SB Galasko
• Women's risk of dying of heart disease is always greater than their risk of dying of breast cancer
  by John Haybittle