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Articles in August 21, 1999 issue of British Medical Journal

• Netherlands publishes plans for euthanasia law
  by Tony Sheldon
• Screening of newborn infants for cholestatic hepatobiliary disease with tandem mass spectrometry
  by Imran Mushtaq
• ABC of intensive care: Cutting edge
  by Mervyn Singer
• Referral to intensive care units should not be limited to consultants
  by C M Danbury
• Fancy drugs for worried folks
  by George Dunea
• Earlier discharge for newborns may increase health risks
  by David Spurgeon
• Open randomised trial of intermittent very low energy diet together with nicotine gum for stopping smoking in women who gained weight in previous attempts to quit
  by Tobias Danielsson
• QBase: Anaesthesia: 3
  by Ian Barker
• Drug treatment beats prison for cutting crime and addiction rates
  by Judy Jones
• Stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  by Huib A M Kerstjens
• Hand washing
• Website Of The Week
  by Douglas Carnall
• Raloxifene can cut fracture risk
  by Scott Gottlieb
• The qat party
  by D N Baron
• "Black boxing:" response by editor of Hospital Doctor
  by Phil Johnson
• A patient's eye view of quality
  by Claire Rayner
• UK hospitals assess eye damage after solar eclipse
  by Roger Dobson
• The screaming man
  by Sean A Spence
• Intensive care is not expensive compared with other treatments
  by Martin Stockwell
• QBase: Anaesthesia: 2
  by Ian Barker
• Immunotherapy produces long term clinical remission
  by Jacqui Wise
• Correction
• Cancer in the developing world: a call to action
  by Sinead B Jones
• Shakespeare knew the layered clothing sign of schizophrenia
  by Eric Altschuler
• Minerva
• Life expectancy of Russian men falls to 58
  by James Ciment
• Polymorphism in high density lipoprotein paraoxonase gene and risk of acute myocardial infarction in men: prospective nested case-control study
  by Jukka T Salonen
• Hyponatraemia after orthopaedic surgery
• QBase: Anaesthesia: 1
  by Ian Barker
• Global health gap widens says World Bank
  by Roger Dobson
• Now concentrate
  by Jeff Aronson
• Twins and the fetal origins hypothesis
• "Unselling" the cigarette
  by Melanie Wakefield
• In brief
• Population based study of social and productive activities as predictors of survival among elderly Americans
  by Thomas A Glass
• An introduction to bayesian methods in health technology assessment
  by David J Spiegelhalter
• Evaluation of NHS direct
  by Kevin McKenna
• Irish doctors protest over pay and conditions
  by Doug Payne
• Perinatal mortality and morbidity among babies delivered in water: surveillance study and postal survey
  by Ruth E Gilbert
• Contacting GP surgeries over Christmas
• Obituaries