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Articles in June 26, 1999 issue of British Medical Journal

• England publishes first tables of hospital performance
  by Pat Anderson
• Food safety remains high on EU agenda
  by Rory Watson
• Three very unwise men
  by B M Colls
• Discontinuation of ventilation after brain stem death
  by J M A Swinburn
• Politicians may not have same goals as clinicians with regard to mergers
  by Trevor Sheldon
• Obituaries
• Popularising hospital performance data
  by Pat Anderson
• Closed circuit television does not reduce violence
  by Roger Dobson
• Men using IVF inadequately screened for cystic fibrosis
  by David Spurgeon
• A painful lesson
  by Solomon Almond
• Confidence intervals for the number needed to treat
  by Christopher Cates
• Doctors Talking
  by Nikki Britten
• NHS ombudsman will name doctors who do not accept ruling
  by Annabel Ferriman
• Corrections and clarifications
• Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
• Sponsored trials do not necessarily give more-favourable results
  by J N S Matthews
• Role of the routine neonatal examination
  by David Walker
• Kerala's Demographic Transition: Determinants and Consequences
  by John A Black
• Wellcome Trust boosts pay to keep researchers in Britain
  by Hilary Bower
• Alcohol consumption and mortality from all causes, coronary heart disease, and stroke: results from a prospective cohort study of Scottish men with 21 years of follow up
  by Carole L Hart
• Circulatory support
  by C J Hinds
• Patients must be told of unintended injuries during treatment
  by Philip C Hebert
• BOOKCASE
  by Christopher Martyn
• BMA calls for extra safeguards for life and death decisions
  by Richard Woodman
• England gets more medical students
  by Sian Knight
• Randomised controlled trial of effect of Baby Check on use of health services in first 6 months of life
  by Hilary Thomson
• Cooperative language in consultations by male and female doctors
  by T A Roper
• Ethics of GMC's decision to suspend doctor need to be explained
  by J M Kellett
• Action needed to help demoralised consultants
• BMA criticises report on prescribing
• Onset of adolescent eating disorders
• Oestrogen modulator reduces risk of breast cancer
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Stillbirth as risk factor for depression and anxiety in the subsequent pregnancy: cohort study
  by P M Hughes
• Gallbladder disease
  by Malcolm C Bateson
• Job applications could be electronic
  by Graeme M Sanders
• Assessment of competence to complete advance directives
• Time of Our Lives
  by Susan Charlifue
• US research funding depends on lobbying, not need
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Model predicts who benefits from carotid endarterectomy
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• [Beta] Blockade after myocardial infarction: systematic review and meta regression analysis
  by Nick Freemantle
• We do need a new word for patients?
  by Julia Neuberger
• Views on rationing of treatments for erectile dysfunction are mixed
  by Genine Riley
• Medical academic staffs conference
• Website Of The Week
  by Douglas Carnall
• UK will ban tobacco advertisements by December
  by Linda Beecham
• Kansas sues internet medicine suppliers
  by Fred Charatan
• Correction
• Health bodies could improve financial management
• Developments have been made on cardiac surgical audit in Bristol
  by Bruce E Keogh
• Needs of patients with learning disabilities are not being met
  by Mayur Lakhani
• Minerva
• "Health care is a human right" is a meaningless and devastating manifesto
  by Imre J P Loefler
• WHO's cancer chief resigns
  by Phyllida Brown
• Risk factors for human hantavirus infection: Franco-Belgian collaborative case-control study during 1995-6 epidemic
  by N S Crowcroft
• Oranges and grapefruit
  by Jeff Aronson
• Doctors can benefit from spending time with their dying patients
  by Sally Mirando
• Consultant contract talks move forward
• Abandoning diastole
  by Peter Sever
• In brief
• EU plans more antibiotic resistance surveillance
  by Rory Watson
• Bristol inquiry reveals that inspections were inadequate
  by Clare Dyer
• Improvement in clinical work through feedback: intervention study
  by Rolf Jorde
• Caring for and about acute general medicine
• Spacer devices increase dose of inhaled corticosteroids delivered
  by Owen J Dempsey
• Bed blocking for beginners
  by Colin Douglas