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Articles in March 27, 1999 issue of British Medical Journal

• Statins being prescribed for those "least in need"
  by Bryan Christie
• Germany: doctors' training to change
  by Deirdre Cooper-Mahkorn
• Antivascular therapy: a new approach to cancer treatment
  by A J Hayes
• Fear of hypercapnia is leading to inadequate oxygen treatment
  by G G Lavery
• Obituaries
• Website Of The Week
  by Douglas Carnall
• In brief
• Drug trial investigators asked to declare financial interests
  by Annabel Ferriman
• Commentary: Socioeconomic position should be measured accurately
  by Yoav Ben-Shlomo
• Commentary: Bone density can be used to assess fracture risk
  by Richard Eastell
• Patients who are eligible but not randomised should be included as additional comparative arm in study
  by L Peter Fielding
• Dementia Reconsidered: the Person Comes First
  by Leon Flicker
• UK juniors to be surveyed over action on pay
  by Linda Beecham
• Lifetime prevalence, characteristics, and associated problems of non-consensual sex in men: cross sectional survey
  by Adrian Coxell
• Control of house dust mite in managing asthma
• Review on bladder cancer
  by Jeremy Millar
• Clinical Governance: Making it Happen
  by Pam Garside
• "Thrifty gene" identified in Manitoba Indians
  by David Spurgeon
• Reflux "increases risk of adenocarcinoma of oesophagus"
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Deaths from nvCJD rise sharply
  by Judy Jones
• Government sets out vision for clinical governance
  by Linda Beecham
• Joining up care in London—establishing the North Southwark Primary Care Group
  by J L Campbell
• More thoughts prompted by the Bristol case
• Use of health services by children
• Screening stories
  by Luisa Dillner
• GPs face escalating litigation
  by Clare Dyer
• Postcodes as useful markers of social class: population based study in 26 000 British households
  by John Danesh
• Changing perceptions in osteoporosis
  by Terence J Wilkin
• Management of drug budgets
• Medicine in the English Middle Ages
  by Christopher Lawrence
• Minerva
• FDA proposes measuring antibiotics in feed
  by James Ciment
• New curriculum at the Charite/ Virchow medical school in Berlin
  by Annette Tuffs
• Turner's syndrome mosaicism in patients with a normal blood lymphocyte karyotype
  by Cristina Azcona
• Having practice pharmacists is not only way of reducing prescribing costs
  by Darryl Tant
• LMCs should be recognised in Health Bill
  by Linda Beecham
• Where there's will, there's a way
  by Roberto Lede
• All GPs to be required to have defence cover
  by John Warden
• Paralytic poliomyelitis associated with live oral poliomyelitis vaccine in child with HIV infection in Zimbabwe: case report
  by Inam Chitsike
• The dawn of medical science in Russia
• How do two meta-analyses of similar data reach opposite conclusions?
  by Morten Lindbaek
• Police forces offer contract to private company
  by Linda Beecham
• American trade union aims to recruit more doctors
  by Fred Charatan
• Eradication of Helicobacter pylori in functional dyspepsia: randomised double blind placebo controlled trial with 12 months' follow up
  by Nicholas J Talley
• Corrections
• Thalassaemia among Asians in Britain
  by N Lakhani
• GPC concludes negotiations on 60m [pounds sterling] fund
  by Linda Beecham
• Spin doctor
  by James Owen Drife
• Japan tackles dioxin levels
  by Claire Wallerstein
• Systematic review of day hospital care for elderly people
  by Anne Forster
• Assessment of mother and fetus in labour
  by Philip Steer
• Costs incurred by one severely ill Jehovah's Witness could run one unit in Africa for one year
  by Nicholas Wooding
• More doctors want to work flexibly
  by Linda Beecham
• US women asked to pay for epidurals in advance
  by James Ciment
• Upper age limit should be raised for cancer screening
  by Caroline White
• Transient hemiparesis with topiramate
  by Linda J Stephen
• Patients' understanding of randomised controlled trials depends on their education
  by E Pucci
• The Cochrane Library 1998 Issue 4
  by Albert G Mulley