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Articles in Nov 6, 1999 issue of British Medical Journal

• Christmas firework "sweets" kill hundreds of children
  by Claire Wallerstein
• Tobacco companies win delay on advertising ban
  by Linda Beecham
• Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
• Love and respect after 30 years
  by Terry Whitt
• How often should we go to the dentist?
  by Martin C Downer
• HIV testing in pregnancy
  by Douglas Carnall
• New England Journal's publisher in conflict of interest dispute
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Differentiating between audit and research: postal survey of health authorities' views
  by Andrew Wilson
• Corrections and clarifications
• Patients' physical disability may influence doctors' perceptions of suitability for risk assessment of CHD
  by Matthew Banks
• Medical students criticise delay over loans
  by Linda Beecham
• Prime minister launches NHS inspectorate
  by Andy McSmith
• Surgeons' college launches campaign to save research
  by Katherine Burke
• Massage therapies
  by Andrew Vickers
• Alcohol consumption and mortality
  by Martin Ashton-Key
• EU's power to act on health issues will be increased
  by Linda Beecham
• American Medical Association launches new internet "supersite"
  by Fred Charatan
• BMA's patient confidentiality rules are deemed unlawful
  by Clare Dyer
• Testing for Helicobacter pylori infection: validation and diagnostic yield of a near patient test in primary care
  by Anne E Duggan
• Before transfusion became established procedure
  by Frank Boulton
• Smoking by young people
  by Caroly Levy
• Removing patients should be subject to further research
  by Linda Beecham
• In brief
• Panel needed to combat research fraud
  by Bryan Christie
• Antibiotic prescribing and antibiotic resistance in community practice: retrospective study, 1996-8
  by J T Magee
• Tragic choices in health care: lessons from the Child B case
  by Chris Ham
• Children are another group at risk of hyponatraemia perioperatively
  by Desmond Bohn
• In Your Right Mind
  by Kwame McKenzie
• Drug resistant TB is spreading worldwide
  by Janice Hopkins
• Cost effectiveness analysis of antenatal HIV screening in United Kingdom
  by A E Ades
• Oestrogen and calcium homeostasis in women with hypoparathyroidism
  by Janet McIlroy
• Chaperones for genital examination
  by Michael Croft
• GPC advises on becoming a primary care trust
  by Linda Beecham
• Adults will be able to appoint proxies to make health decisions
  by Clare Dyer
• Council aims to integrate arts and humanities into the NHS
  by Sian Knight
• Randomised trial of personalised computer based information for cancer patients
  by Ray Jones
• The hospital of the future: Changing hospitals
  by Jane Haycock
• Only about 1 in 30 predictions of assault by discharged psychiatric patients will be correct
  by Tom Palmstierna
• The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
  by John P Bunker
• US courts in conflict over late term abortion
  by Fred Charatan
• Virtual colonoscopy
  by Steve Halligan
• Research questions for systematic reviews must be unambiguous from protocol stage
  by Gunther Eysenbach
• Obituaries
• Minerva
• Surgeon infects patient with hepatitis C
  by Phyllida Brown
• Twice daily versus four times daily insulin dose regimens for diabetes in pregnancy: randomised controlled trial
  by Zohar Nachum
• Cross sectional survey of patients' satisfaction with information about cancer
  by Ray Jones
• ABC of labour care
  by Dominic Aldington
• A principle to die for
  by Susan Pocklington
• Dutch consider obligatory testing of surgeons for hepatitis B
  by Tony Sheldon
• Vertical transmission rates for HIV in the British Isles: estimates based on surveillance data
  by Trinh Duong
• Developing world needs access to low cost pharmaceutical information from reliable sources
  by Neil Pakenham
• Fetus papyraceus is being registered increasingly in Wessex
  by Melanie J Gompels
• Fading away
  by Colin Douglas