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Articles in August 12, 2000 issue of British Medical Journal

• Gene therapy can reduce tumours
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Research finds high hepatitis B rate in Indian island tribes
  by Ganapati Mudur
• Treves's young patient
  by Michael Lavelle
• Mentally ill people in prisons
  by Steve Gannon
• Psychoactive drugs may have role in pressure sore origin
  by James W Cooper
• Hypothetically speaking
  by Abi Berger
• Cheating at medical school
  by Richard Savage
• Indian agency admits publishing "wrong" HIV figures
  by Ganapati Mudur
• Eating a manchineel "beach apple"
  by Nicola H Strickland
• Doctors' attitudes resemble those of the old aristocracy
  by Joseph Watine
• Drugs do not only relieve male menopause
  by Candido Hernandez-Lopez
• The Edinburgh City Hospital
  by P Dileep Kumar
• Israeli surgeons implant first permanent artificial ventricle
  by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
• Spanish women to sue over breast implants
  by Xavier Bosch
• A taxonomy of generic clinical questions: classification study
  by John W Ely
• Antibiotic prescribing in general practice
  by Toby Lipman
• Tinea capitis should be on the public health agenda
  by Theresa Lamagni
• Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury
  by Christian Murray-Leslie
• Cost effectiveness of multiple sclerosis drugs remains unknown
  by Rhona MacDonald
• India struggles to meet polio deadline
  by Rohit Sharma
• The Temperature of Underground Railway Tunnels
• Family history is important in estimating coronary risk
  by John Younger
• Perhaps it is not time to switch from whole cell to acellular pertussis vaccine
  by David Elliman
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  by Jason O'Neale Roach
• In brief
• Huntington's centre faces closure
  by Claire Wallerstein
• Stem cell transplantationTopic: 76;214
  by A L Lennard
• Prevalence of obesity in asthmatic adults
  by Harmesh Moudgil
• Combination treatment seems rarely to be used in psoriasis
  by Damien Cullington
• For most of it I have no words: genocide, landscape and memory
  by Peter Chapman
• The increasing use of peripheral bone densitometry
  by T Masud
• Canadian prisoners strike over smoking ban
  by David Spurgeon
• Prescribing indicators for UK general practice: Delphi consultation study
  by Stephen M Campbell
• Ramifications of Ledward case
  by W G Sellwood
• Implementing honesty about screening using community informed consent
  by Les Irwig
• Matrons, Medics and Maladies: Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the 1840s
  by P Dileep Kumar
• Herbal medicines: where is the evidence?
  by E Ernst
• Study questions ethics of covert medication
  by Jenny Blythe
• Corrections and clarifications
• NHS Direct
  by Bob Bury
• Ectopic pregnancy with oral contraceptive use has been overlooked
  by Walter L Larimore
• Obituaries
• Minerva
• Will intermediate care be the undoing of the NHS?
  by Allyson M Pollock
• Health watchdog criticises NHS helpline
  by Susan Mayor
• Association of systolic blood pressure with macrovascular and microvascular complications of type 2 diabetes : prospective observational study
  by Amanda I Adler
• Declaration of Helsinki should be strengthened
  by Kenneth J Rothman
• Assessment of competence and performance at interview
  by Jacky Hayden
• Is distribution of vacancies for hospital jobs a reflection of new NHS?
  by A D Jenkinson
• From scalpel to surfboard
  by Greg Williams
• Controlling glucose and blood pressure in type 2 diabetes
  by Jaakko Tuomilehto
• Sildenafil may help diabetic patients
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Influence of maternal age at delivery and birth order on risk of type 1 diabetes in childhood: prospective population based family study
  by Polly J Bingley
• Dangers of anaesthesia, 1884
  by Ann Dally
• Drug use and weapon carrying by young people
  by John Mcleod
• Use of polymorphism analysis requires ethical guidelines
  by Martin A Myers
• Summer news
  by George Dunea