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Articles in April 24, 1999 issue of British Medical Journal

• World Medical Association opposes Icelandic gene database
  by Nigel Duncan
• Tacrolimus versus cyclosporin for immunosuppression in renal transplantation: meta-analysis of randomised trials
  by Greg A. Knoll
• Low back pain: which is the best way forward?
  by Ash Samanta
• Clinical trials
  by David Barer
• South African government's response to AIDS crisis is sound
  by Udo Schuklenk
• GPs want walk in centres piloted properly
  by Linda Beecham
• Premedical science
  by George Dunea
• Controversy rekindled over pill and risk of breast cancer
  by Richard Woodman
• No extra government funding for NHS staff over millennium period
  by Caroline White
• Is recruitment more difficult with a placebo arm in randomised controlled trials? A quasirandomised, interview based study
  by A J Welton
• Focus on South Asia—II: India and Pakistan
  by Kamran Abbasi
• People are "participants" in research
  by Iain Chalmers
• Medical student electives and infectious diseases
  by Jeanette Meadway
• Prime time torture
  by Kerri Sherlock
• Patients say the NHS is ageist
  by Linda Beecham
• Reducing the risk of major elective surgery: randomised controlled trial of preoperative optimisation of oxygen delivery
  by Jonathan Wilson
• Motor neurone disease
  by Pamela J Shaw
• Children poisoned with illegal drugs in Glasgow
  by Jack Beattie
• Drug misuse stems from a person's autonomy to choose
  by J M Hall
• The introduction of walk in health centres—the end of general practice?
  by Shaun O'Connell
• Website Of The Week
  by Douglas Carnall
• US trial of gene therapy for cystic fibrosis
  by Janice Hopkins Tanne
• Give a remedy a thorough trial
  by J.H. Baron
• Safety and effectiveness of nurse telephone consultation in out of hours primary care
• Dutch system of peer review is different and effective
  by Peter Bourdillon
• Obituaries
• There are ethical issues in ophthalmology
  by M P Clarke
• Former JAMA editor starts electronic journal
  by Janice Hopkins Tanne
• Survey shows haphazard provision of UK stroke services
  by Mark Pownall
• Cyclosporin neurotoxicity after chemotherapy
  by Deborah A Tweddle
• Patients sometimes behave like our Snoopy
  by Tony Fox
• Effects of NSAIDs on bone healing have been widely reported in maxillofacial journals
  by Daryl Godden
• Reviews have to be fair and unbiased
  by Joseph J Y Sung
• Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge
  by David Armstrong
• GP on trial for murder
  by Clare Dyer
• Hospital meals should be part of clinical care
  by Annabel Ferriman
• Our grandfather's patient
  by Geoffrey Russell Steele Grogono
• Definitions of efficiency
  by Stephen Palmer
• Reporting on quality of life in RCTs
• Early discharge after surgery for breast cancer
  by Diana Harcourt
• Turning off the television
  by Miriam E Bar-on
• Wellcome Trust and drug giants fund gene marker database
  by Richard Woodman
• NHS to target smokers
  by John Warden
• Labour in special circumstances
  by Geoffrey Chamberlain
• Prescribing antibiotics for sore throats
  by Morten Lindback
• ECT was never used indiscriminately in early treatment of shell shock
  by Alex Baker
• General practice's main features must be kept
  by Linda Beecham
• An egg a day is not harmful
  by Janice Hopkins Tanne
• Trusts are failing to check on locums
  by Douglas Carnall
• Immunisation of infants at risk of perinatal transmission of hepatitis B: retrospective audit of vaccine uptake
  by Diane E Wallis
• Dealing with racist patients
  by Pippa Gough
• Cholesterol screening and management guidelines
• Population figures for capitation formulas need to be designed differently
  by Roy Carr-Hill
• Evidence-Based Practice in Primary Care
  by Tom Fahey
• Mark Twain on Christian Science
• A man's best friend
• Minerva
• Bone marrow transplants do not help in breast cancer
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Call for international community to protect children in Kosovo
  by Negin Shamsian
• Profile of disability in elderly people: estimates from a longitudinal population study
  by David Melzer
• Prophylaxis against malaria
• Value of educational visits in obstetrics
  by Jane Pannikar
• Junior doctors call for health tax
  by Linda Beecham
• When "NAI" means not actually injured
  by Clifford Mayes
• In brief
• NHS Direct will cover England by end of 2000
  by Linda Beecham
• Prejudices
  by Albert Einstein
• Special correspondence: Berlin
• National code of marketing of formula milks is not properly enforced in Sri Lanka
  by Terence Perera
• Having non-medical readers of papers on internet will enhance peer review
  by Paul Whatling
• BMA receives assurances on Health Bill
  by Linda Beecham