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Articles in Oct 2, 1999 issue of British Medical Journal

• In brief
• Missouri passes antiabortion law
  by Fred Charatan
• Pre-existing risk factor profiles in users and non-users of hormone replacement therapy: prospective cohort study in Gothenburg, Sweden
  by Kerstin Rodstrom
• Discounting
  by David J. Torgerson
• UK's diagnostic criteria for diabetes are different from US's
  by Eric S Kilpatrick
• Intensive Care Medicine
  by Ian Barker
• Dutch doctors call for all pregnant women to be screened for Down's
  by Tony Sheldon
• Street noises
• The law on managing patients who deliberately harm themselves and refuse treatment
  by Barbara Hewson
• Choosing the right antibiotic
  by David Bihari
• BMA amends guidance on abortion
  by Linda Beecham
• Minerva
  by Ray Armstrong
• US government to sue tobacco companies
  by Scott Gottlieb
• New York outbreak of E coli poisoning affects 1000 and kills two
  by Fred Charatan
• Testicular neoplasia in cryptorchid boys at primary surgery: case series
  by Dina Cortes
• The medical service increment for teaching : a 400m [pounds sterling] anachronism for the English NHS?
  by Gwyn Bevan
• Prophylaxis against early anaphylactic reactions to snake antivenom
  by Douglas E Ball
• Corrections and clarifications
• UK juniors demand more talks on pay offer
  by Linda Beecham
• Scottish GPs could save 26m [pounds sterling] by changes in prescribing
  by Bryan Christie
• An inspirational teacher
• Hospital provision, activity, and productivity in England since the 1980s
  by Martin Hensher
• Hit parade
• Naturalistic treatment study of depression in general practice
  by Peter L Cornwall
• Mental health services are failing children and adolescents
  by Gavin Yamey
• Injection with methylprednisolone proximal to the carpal tunnel: randomised double blind trial
  by J W H H Dammers
• Alcohol and life assurance
• Vascular anomalies must be properly classified
  by Patrick Malluci
• NI GPs must have primary role in decision making
  by Linda Beecham
• Do you believe in God?
  by Kevin Barraclough
• Peace process leads to cooperation on health
  by Doug Payne
• Cancer doctors told to become lobbyists
  by Ann Kent
• Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
• Taking a lodger—19th century style
  by A P Radford
• Money to modernise adult mental health services is insufficient
  by Paul Lelliot
• Breast Cancer
  by J Michael Dixon
• Ovarian transplant raises hope for women facing cancer treatment
  by Roger Dobson
• Prospective, randomised, double blind trial of prophylaxis with single dose of co-amoxiclav before percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
  by G Preclik
• Complementary medicine in conventional practice
  by Catherine Zollman
• BenzodiazePine use in pregnancy and major malformations or oral clefts
  by Ester Game
• Public health must not be sidelined
  by Linda Beecham
• The machismo of medicine
  by Stephen Dinniss
• CDC study quantifies foodborne illnesses
  by James Ciment
• Seasonality of birth in children with diabetes in Europe: multicentre cohort study
  by P M Rothwell
• The gifts needed to be prime minister
  by Anthony Trollope
• Work of mental health review tribunals is increasing faster than detentions
  by G E Langley
• The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character
  by Stephen Lock
• A sixth of new cases of HIV are drug resistant strains
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Randomised, double blind placebo controlled trial of pentoxifylline in the treatment of venous leg ulcers
  by J J Dale
• Controversial aspects of thyroid disease
  by F W F Hanna
• Managing patients with deliberate self harm who refuse treatment in accident and emergency departments
  by Alastair Hull
• Obituaries
• The problem with medical advice columns
  by Ann McPherson
• Professor accused of threatening staff
  by Clare Dyer
• Nutritional status and mortality of refugee and resident children in a non-camp setting during conflict: follow up study in Guinea-Bissau
  by Peter Aaby
• Child sexual abuse enquiries and unrecognised vulval lichen sclerosus et atrophicus
  by P L Wood
• Relation between hostility and coronary heart disease
  by Mark Petticrew
• Working lives of doctors must be improved
  by Linda Beecham
• Website Of The Week
  by Douglas Carnall