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Articles in May 13, 2000 issue of British Medical Journal

• NICE approves Taxol for ovarian cancer
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• Comparing health inequality in men and women: prospective study of mortality 1986-96
  by Amanda Sacker
• Medicine: Art or science?
  by A L Wyman
• Inadvertent dural puncture
  by Allan Cyna
• The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
  by Marian Perkins
• In brief
• Canadians grow dissatisfied with their healthcare system
  by David Spurgeon
• Cost of illness studies
  by Sarah Byford
• Twists in the tale of impossible means
  by Jon Havard Loge
• Minerva
• Israel's doctors take industrial action
  by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
• Nine hospital patients may have been exposed to CJD
  by Christopher Zinn
• On ageing: selfishness
  by Fred Charatan
• Politics surrounding last winter's flu crisis
  by Nigel Edwards
• The Scientification of Love
  by Ichiro Kawachi
• NICE issues guidance on using coronary artery stents
  by Linda Beecham
• Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled study of fluticasone propionate in patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the ISOLDE trial
  by P S Burge
• The pleural cavity
  by Giles J Peek
• Cerebral dysfunction after water pollution incident in Camelford
• Men's Health
  by Mark Emberton
• Mbeki appoints team to look at cause of AIDS
  by Pat Sidley
• WMA to produce guidelines on health databases
  by Kamran Abbasi
• Corrections and clarifications
• Thyroid function tests—time for a reassessment
  by Denis StJ O'Reilly
• Mother radiotherapy resources are needed for children as well as adults
  by Jonathan Punt
• Seven guidelines of wisdom
  by James Owen Drife
• Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
• Intracerebral haemorrhage in young adults: the emerging importance of drug misuse
  by Andrew W McEvoy
• Registering clinical trials
  by Maurizio Bonati
• American Psycho
  by Sean A Spence
• Medical bills account for 40% of bankruptcies
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Home collection of urine for culture from infants by three methods: survey of parents' preferences and bacterial contamination rates
  by Lynster C T Liaw
• Modernising the NHS: a promising start, but fundamental reform is needed
  by Alain C Enthoven
• The debate over complementary medicine continues
  by David Ramey
• The two tier syndrome behind waiting lists
  by Donald Light
• Israeli surgeon accused of killing two patients
  by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
• Cell preselection is key to gene therapy success
  by Abi Berger
• Should asymptomatic haemochromatosis be treated?
  by Clare J Seamark
• High road to independence
  by Iain Bamforth
• Obituaries
• EU to provide incentives for "orphan" drugs
  by Rory Watson
• The right place at the right time
• Cyanide spill could have long term impact
  by Carl Kovac
• Size and quality of randomised controlled trials in head injury: review of published studies
  by Karen Dickinson
• Two memorable patients: Matthew and Adam
  by Anthony K Webb
• Global medical knowledge database is proposed
  by Martin Dawes
• A cry of pain and anger
  by Jeremy Laurance
• Hospital criticised for not obtaining proper consent
  by Adam Legge
• Patients will be paramount in assessments, says CHI
  by Helen Morant
• Suicidal ideation among outpatients at general neurology clinics: prospective study
  by Alan J Carson
• Vasculitis
  by C O S Savage
• Problem solving treatment for depression
  by Charles West
• Head injury
  by Douglas Carnall