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Articles in July 3, 1999 issue of British Medical Journal

• Antihistamine drug withdrawn by manufacturer
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Donations of useless medicines to Kosovo contributes to chaos
  by Philippa Saunders
• Randomised controlled trial of long term efficacy of captopril on preservation of kidney function in normotensive patients with insulin dependent diabetes and microalbuminuria
  by Elisabeth R Mathiesen
• Diurnal variability—time to change asthma guidelines?
  by Helen Reddel
• Funding long term care for older people
• Iceland's medical database is insecure
  by Ross Anderson
• Withdrawing low risk women from cervical screening programmes
• BUPA moves towards managed care
  by Annabel Ferriman
• Outcome of long stay psychiatric patients resettled in the community: prospective cohort study
  by Noam Trieman
• Behaviour and genes
  by Peter McGuffin
• GMC's current proposals for revalidation are flawed
  by Ian W B Grant
• Website Of The Week
  by Douglas Carnall
• UK introduces far reaching law to protect whistleblowers
  by Clare Dyer
• NHS librarians cannot access the internet
  by Douglas Carnall
• Cost minimisation analysis of provision of oxygen at home: are the Drug Tariff guidelines cost effective?
  by Liam G Heaney
• Renal support
  by Alasdair Short
• Devolution in Latin America has had poor effects on health care
  by Peter Sandiford
• High security facilities must not be closed until viable alternatives are in place
  by Kapil Sayal
• Beastly handwriting
  by George Dunea
• Some operating theatres used only half time
  by Bryan Christie
• Risk of HIV related Kaposi's sarcoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with potent antiretroviral therapy: prospective cohort study
  by Bruno Ledergerber
• A spirit of adventure prevails
  by Emmet Andrews
• Scientific foundation of mammographic screening is based on inconclusive research in Sweden
  by Goran Sjonell
• Annual general meeting of the BMA
  by David Gullick
• Minerva
• Scanning shows structural abnormality in headache
  by Susan Mayor
• Task force for junior doctors' hours in Wales
  by Roger Dobson
• From cerebral malaria to preventive medicine
  by Andy Tembon
• Combining the two neonatal examinations
• Surveillance of congenital rubella in Great Britain
  by A J L Turner
• Doctors as gods
  by Clare Dyer
• Link between magnetic fields and leukaemia is weak
  by David Spurgeon
• Serious hazards of transfusion initiative: analysis of the first two annual reports
  by L M Williamson
• Trains, worry, and disease
• Cyclosporin neurotoxicity after chemotherapy
• Frequent changes in policy risk confusion among health workers
  by P Brettle
• Starting back at the bottom
  by Judith Lindeck
• In Brief
• EU adopts tougher safeguards on genetic modification
  by Rory Watson
• Corrections and clarifications
  by p 1082 American Surgery: An Illustrated History (17 April
• NHS capital expenditure and the private finance initiative—expansion or contraction?
  by Declan Gaffney
• Magnetic resonance necropsy is offered routinely in University College London Hospitals
  by J A S Brookes
• Obituaries
• Surgeons develop composite bone transplants
  by Deborah Josefson
• UK GPs will produce blueprint for the future
  by Linda Beecham
• Computer support for recording and interpreting family histories of breast and ovarian cancer in primary care : qualitative evaluation with simulated patients
  by Jon Emery
• Proposed appraisal system and political correctness
• Patients were more satisfied with chiropractic than other treatments for low back pain
  by T W Meade
• On the History of Lunacy: The 19th Century and After
  by David Healy
• UK government confirms ban on human reproductive cloning
  by Susan Mayor
• Spain aims to slow the rise in spending on drugs
  by Xavier Bosch
• Socioeconomic differences in general practice consultation rates in patients aged 65 and over: prospective cohort study
  by Rosie McNiece
• Children born after intracytoplasmic sperm injection
• Local medical committee conference
  by Linda Beecham
• Arguments in editorial were not "biologically implausible"
  by Klim McPherson
• United States clears silicone breast implants
  by Deborah Josefson
• Royal college demands 2000 more NHS consultant physicians
  by Richard Woodman
• Health information and interaction on the internet: a survey of female urinary incontinence
  by Hogne Sandvik
• UK inquiry should establish why contaminated blood products were given to people with haemophilia
  by Karin Pappenheim
• Surely doctors should follow the spirit, rather than the letter, of the law
  by R Hugh James
• Demanding Medical Excellence
  by David Woods