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Articles in April 3, 1999 issue of British Medical Journal

• UK consultation rejects restriction of impotence treatment funding
  by Mark Pownall
• Health authority appeals on screening negligence
  by Clare Dyer
• Social inequalities and health: ecological study of mortality in Budapest, 1980-3 and 1990-3
  by P Jozan
• Healthcare strategy
  by Kamran Abbasi
• Guidelines in small countries and not translated into English may be ignored
  by Lars Breimer
• Obituaries
• Opening eyes to child abuse
  by Harvey Marcovitch
• UK government announces sex health strategy
  by Vicki Madden
• Multicentre randomised controlled trial of nursing intervention for breathlessness in patients with lung cancer
  by Mary Bredin
• The painful red foot—inflammation or ischaemia?
  by William Humphreys
• Rationing
  by Jammi N Rao
• FDA approves drugs even when experts on its advisory panels raise safety questions
  by Laurence Landow
• The Future of Human Reproduction: Ethics, Choice, and Regulation
  by Arthur L. Caplan
• Study confirms passive smoking increases coronary heart disease
  by Scott Gottlieb
• UK proposes preclinical distance learning course
  by Tessa Richards
• Narrowing social inequalities in health? Analysis of trends in mortality among babies of lone mothers
  by Margaret Whitehead
• Relief of pain
  by Inger Findley
• Trials of postoperative antiemetics need three arms
  by Neville W Goodman
• Needs of teenagers with chronic disability
  by Clare Williams
• Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront A Legend
  by David Healy
• Withdrawal of food supplement judged as misconduct
  by Clare Dyer
• Sexuality and health: the hidden costs of screening for Chlamydia trachomatis
  by Barbara Duncan
• Guidelines for clinical guidelines should distinguish between national and local production
  by J G Williams
• Cholesterol lowering diets and coronary heart disease
• Freud 2000
  by David Healy
• Scientists develop vaccine strategy for peanut allergy
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Science is seldom logical
  by James D. Watson
• Acute urinary retention in men: an age old problem
  by Mark Emberton
• Vitamin A for treating shigellosis
  by Mohammed Abdus Salam
• Paediatric cardiac transplant surgery has improved
  by C Wigfield
• Oxford Handbook of Patients' Welfare: A Doctor's Guide to Benefits and Services
  by Richard Neal
• UK announces partnership between the NHS and prison service
  by Pat Anderson
• Australian hunger strike doctors urged to stop
  by Georgina Kenyon
• Effect of screening on incidence of and mortality from cancer of cervix in England: evaluation based on routinely collected statistics
  by Mike Quinn
• Insult to cabbages
  by John Carey
• Effect on suicide rate of having reduced unemployment is uncertain
  by Ilkka Henrik Makinen
• Oakley's case for using randomised controlled trials is misleading
  by Don Nutbeam
• Sexually Transmitted Infections and AIDS in the Tropics
  by Gerard van Doornum
• Australia set for class action against tobacco industry
  by Georgina Kenyon
• UK specialists urge the setting up of a national screening agency
  by Caroline White
• The doctor in the pulpit
• Inherited predisposition to hypertension confounds the effect of low birthweight
  by Brian R Walker
• Health service in Ulster will be less bureaucratic
  by Linda Beecham
• Website of the week
  by Douglas Carnall
• Open letter disputes WHO hypertension guidelines
  by Richard Woodman
• Twins and maternal smoking: ordeals for the fetal origins hypothesis? A cohort study
  by Sheila Williams
• Curing a spasm
  by Ann Dally
• Selection to medical school in Great Britain
  by C Michael Steel
• Fluoroquinolone resistance in salmonellas and campylobacters from humans
  by E J Threlfall
• NHSE agrees to negotiate over millennium pay
  by Linda Beecham
• Minerva
• In brief
• European Commission proposes public health department
  by Rory Watson
• Severity of heart attacks in US may be declining
  by Fred Charatan
• Effect of discussion and deliberation on the public's views of priority setting in health care: focus group study
  by Paul Dolan
• Times have changed
  by John H Turney
• Competency, consent, and the duty of care
  by Ronan J McIvor
• Is it part of the locum's job to whistleblow?
• There must be "compelling reasons" for trust mergers
  by Linda Beecham
• Outbreak of Japanese encephalitis hits Malaysia
  by Adam Easton
• UK consultants act to limit spiralling workload
  by Linda Beecham
• Effect of UK national guidelines on services to treat patients with acute low back pain: follow up questionnaire survey
  by A G Barnett
• Ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast
  by H.M. Bishop
• Passive smoking affects babies' and children's health
  by Linda Beecham
• Another fine mess
  by Liam Farrell