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Articles in March 11, 2000 issue of British Medical Journal

• Should treatment recommendations for lipid lowering drugs be based on absolute coronary risk or risk reduction?
  by S Ramachandran
• Estimating cardiovascular risk for primary prevention: outstanding questions for primary care
  by John Robson
• Seasonality of birth in children with diabetes
  by Hongxin Zhao
• "Absolute" is inappropriate for quantitative risk estimation
  by Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
• In brief
• Scientists find a new way around blood clotting disorders
  by Abi Berger
• Mother's milk
  by Gordon M Black
• Authors take issue with commentary on their paper
  by Lena A Sanci
• The Nazi War on Cancer
  by Roger Cooter
• Cannabinoids might reduce spasticity in multiple sclerosis
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Coronary and cardiovascular risk estimation for primary prevention: validation of a new Sheffield table in the 1995 Scottish health survey population
  by Erica J Wallis
• Unnecessary surgical treatment of fungal kerions in children
  by Karen L Gibbon
• Osteoporosis and coeliac disease
  by W E Fickling
• Some talk of genocide
  by Tony Delamonthe
• Australian government attacked for tobacco funding
  by Christopher Zinn
• Using the Framingham model to predict heart disease in the United Kingdom: retrospective study
  by S Ramachandran
• Non-invasive methods of arterial and venous assessment
  by Richard Donnelly
• Hospital of the future
  by L C Luke
• Risk of cardiovascular disease
  by Douglas Carnall
• Heart disease framework aims to cut deaths in England
  by Susan Mayor
• Surgeon in kidney inquiry himself faces surgery suit
  by Roger Dobson
• Risk assessment in primary prevention of coronary heart disease: randomised comparison of three scoring methods
  by Christopher G Isles
• Health minister clarifies Care Standards Bill
  by Gisela Stuart
• PM replies on funding promise
  by Linda Beecham
• Doctors fail to follow advice in giving tPA
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Romanian national insurance cannot cover GPs' prescriptions
  by Tudor Toma
• Acute ischaemic stroke
  by Gord Gubitz
• Development and evaluation committees' methods for appraising new drugs
  by Nick Bosanquet
• Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine
  by John Hartley
• UN condemns Australian plans for "safe injecting rooms"
  by Gavin Yamey
• US launches new clinical trials database
  by Fred Charatan
• Drug points: Allergy associated with ciprofloxacin
  by P Burke
• Joint British recommendations on prevention of coronary heart disease in clinical practice: summary
• Centralisation of cancer services in rural areas has disadvantages
  by A Gordon Baird
• Seize the day
  by Kevin Barraclough
• Malaria epidemic expected in Mozambique
  by Pat Sidley
• Evaluation of computer based clinical decision support system and risk chart for management of hypertension in primary care: randomised controlled trial
  by Alan A Montgomery
• Managing self poisoning
  by Madhur Dev Bhattarai
• Health secretary wants to change NHS workforce planning
  by Linda Beecham
• Patients must disclose infectious diseases, Israeli doctors say
  by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
• Using thresholds based on risk of cardiovascular disease to target treatment for hypertension: modelling events averted and number treated
  by Simon Baker
• A very peculiar dream
  by Robin Gatenby
• Obituaries
• Minerva
  by Stephen M Bianchi
• India eradicates guinea worm disease
  by Rohit Sharma
• Discovery of a Temple of AEsculapius
• Updated New Zealand cardiovascular disease risk-benefit prediction guide
  by Rodney Jackson
• BMA wants open debate on regulation of doctors
  by Linda Beecham