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Articles in Oct 21, 2000 issue of British Medical Journal

• Statins: underused by those who would benefit
  by Stephen B Hulley
• Hepatitis C victims sue NHS in class action
  by Clare Dyer
• Alliance pledges new cheap TB drug by 2010
  by Tessa Richards
• Rectal bleeding and colorectal cancer in general practice: diagnostic study
  by Hans Wauters
• Meta-analysis of increased inhaled steroid or addition of salmeterol in asthma
  by Stephen Senn
• When people would choose treatment has wide implications
  by Tom Marshall
• Two minutes to change minds
  by Jason Roach
• UK allows insurers to use gene test for Huntington's disease
  by Susan Mayor
• NICE's appraisal procedures attacked
  by Zosia Kmietowics
• Reliability of Snellen charts for testing visual acuity for driving: prospective study and postal questionnaire
  by Zanna Currie
• Guidelines for the prevention of falls in people over 65
  by Gene Feder
• Disability one year after head injury
  by E B Ritson
• Risk Communication and Public Health
  by John C. Licciardone
• In brief
• Obesity surgery grows in popularity in the US
  by Fred Charatan
• Never has a three hour flight seemed so long
  by Thomas C Martin
• The NHS plan
  by Kambiz Boomla
• Provision of age appropriate health services for young people has been ignored
  by Russell Viner
• Killers in the Brain: Essays in Science and Technology from the Royal Institution
  by Saty Satya-Murti
• Tampons could be used to diagnose STDs
  by Scott Gottlieb
• India pledges legislation to improve medical services
  by Ganapati Mudur
• Effects of a programme of multifactorial home visits on falls and mobility impairments in elderly people at risk: randomised controlled trial
  by Jolanda C M van Haastregt
• Private finance scheme for Worcester
  by B McCloskey
• Emergence of multidrug resistant pneumococci in India
  by Vipin M Vashishtha
• NETLINES
  by Harry Brown
• Medical software's free future: open collaboration over the internet is changing development methods
  by Douglas Carnall
• Fears over anthrax vaccination driving away US reservists
  by Fred Charatan
• Randomised controlled trial of atraumatic versus standard needles for diagnostic lumbar puncture
  by S Rachel Thomas
• Screening
  by John H Scholefield
• Isolated systolic hypertension
  by Alexander J N I F Jablanczy
• Handbook of Diseases of the Hair and Scalp
  by Michael Binder
• Innovation
• Florida jury awards husband damages in wife's smoking death
  by Fred Charatan
• WHO holds hearings on tobacco control
  by Tudor Toma
• Unjustified exclusion of elderly people from studies submitted to research ethics committee for approval: descriptive study
  by Antony Bayer
• Managed care of chronically ill older people: the US experience
  by Chad Boult
• Upward trend in acute anaphylaxis continued in 1998-9
  by Richard Wilson
• The Timechart History of Medicine
  by Alex Paton
• Another look at visual standards and driving: better tests are needed to determine driving ability
  by William Westlake
• EU centre calls for policies to help female drug users
  by Rory Watson
• Women's health study signs up millionth woman
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• Untied
  by Jeremy Holmes
• Arterial and venous disease and deep vein thrombosis
  by David Crossley
• Anaesthesia is also risky in patients with porphyria
  by Susan deC Baker
• Drivers' visual acuity
  by Douglas Carnall
• Evidence and belief in ADHD: informed decisions on stimulants must be based on studies with good methodology
  by Morris Zwi
• Government asked to withdraw Griffiths report
  by Clare Dyer
• Use of lipid lowering drugs for primary prevention of coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of randomised trials
  by Michael Pignone
• Only one publication!
  by M E J Wise
• Second editorial on GMC is ironic
  by Brian D Keighley
• Obituaries
• Minerva
• Headaches after diagnostic dural punctures: smaller, atraumatic needles and protocols for early treatment should reduce morbidity
  by M G Serpell
• Marijuana has potential for misuse
  by Abi Berger
• Police investigate deaths of terminally ill patients
  by Clare Dyer
• Tracheal stenosis after intubation
  by Nicholas Spittle
• Babies sleeping with parents and sudden infant death syndrome
  by Paul Davison
• Presumed consent further undermines medical ethics
  by Roger M Goss
• Is this the right way?
  by D R Rimmer
• Correction
• GMC to consult on structural changes
  by Linda Beecham
• NHS still rattling tins for funds
  by Roger Dobson
• Partial seizures presenting as panic attacks
  by Sian A Thompson
• Global medical knowledge database
  by Paul Davison
• Eating disorders are becoming more common in the East too
  by Sing Lee
• The big man
  by Colin Douglas