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Articles in Sept 9, 2000 issue of British Medical Journal

• In brief
• Costs and effectiveness of community postnatal support workers: randomised controlled trial
  by C Jane Morrell
• Computers in clinical practice: applying experience from child psychiatry
  by Andrew Parkin
• Brain stem death
  by Ruth Deroy
• The Antipodes, or The World Turned Upside Down
  by Clare Dover
• Expandable metal stents in malignant colorectal obstruction: promising, but trials are needed on safety and cost effectiveness
  by Tariq Ahmad
• Advice from an American comedian
• Screening for genital chlamydial infection
  by Jeanne Pimenta
• Action on Cataracts should influence surgical training
  by Alistair R Fielder
• Minerva
• Why we need a broad perspective on meta-analysis: it may be crucially important for patients
  by Peter C Gotzsche
• Baby food industry lobbies WHO on breast feeding advice
  by Gavin Yamey
• Accountability for clinical governance: developing collective responsibility for quality in primary care
  by Pauline Allen
• Information needs of patients with cancer
  by Anne Fleissig
• Obituaries
• US patients may gain access to doctors' disciplinary data
  by Deborah Josefson
• HIV vaccine trials begin in Oxford
  by Akil Fazal
• Say cee
  by Jeff Aronson
• Breaking down barriers for refugee doctors
  by Roger Parker
• HIV, Health and your Community: A Guide for Action
  by Julio Collazos
• Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom
• Patients' group to publish names of negligent doctors.
  by Xavier Bosch
• International charity offers health as well as loans
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• Using the internet to access confidential patient records: a case study
  by D W Chadwick
• National service framework for coronary heart disease
  by Roger Lloyd-Mostyn
• International Consensus on the Diabetic Foot
  by Paul Newrick
• Mental health services for people with learning disabilities: a complete overhaul is needed with strong links to mainstream services
  by Angela Hassiotis
• Calcium channel blockers inferior to cheaper drugs
  by Deborah Josefson
• Knowledge and communication difficulties for patients with chronic heart failure: qualitative study
  by A E Rogers
• Breast cancer—epidemiology, risk factors, and genetics
  by K McPherson
• Anticoagulation for patients with atrial fibrillation
• Chekhov's bottle
  by Colin Douglas
• Time expired materials "contributed to 26 deaths"
  by Rohit Sharma
• How to treat haemorrhoids
  by Giuseppe Brisinda
• Short, sharp bouts of exercise good for the heart
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Corrections and clarifications
• Optimal age for starting lipid lowering treatment
• My Addison's disease
  by Kathleen Hilditch
• Israeli doctors angry at change to complaints' procedures
  by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
• Mortality in joggers: population based study of 4658 men
  by Peter Schnohr
• CyberTranscriber—the virtual medical secretary on your desk
  by A Depuyt
• Assessing aggression in psychiatric inpatients
  by David Yeomans
• Not another magic bullet
  by Anne Kent
• A revolution in drug discovery: combinatorial chemistry still needs logic to drive science forward
  by Nigel Beeley
• Parents of Siamese twins appeal against separation
  by Clare Dyer
• Is evidence based medicine neglected by royal college examinations? A descriptive study of their syllabuses
  by Wai-Ching Leung
• Improving the care of patients with genital herpes
  by Susan Drake
• In China, suicide in young women is a problem too
  by Sing Lee
• Jogging
  by Douglas Carnall