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Articles in Dec 2, 2000 issue of British Medical Journal

• MPs recommend tightening the law on female circumcision
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• Irish committee backs genetically modified crops
  by Doug Payne
• Apparent interaction between warfarin and levonorgestrel used for emergency contraception
  by J Ellison
• A practice that changed my patience
  by Ian G Jefferson
• Can heart failure be diagnosed in primary care?
  by Chris Davidson
• Netlines
  by Harry Brown
• Economic evaluation and clinical trials: size matters
  by Andrew Briggs
• EU to test cattle aged over 30 months "at risk" of BSE
  by Rory Watson
• Hospital acquired infections kill 5000 patients a year in England
  by Susan Mayor
• Innovative treatment for colon cancer
  by G A Chung-Faye
• Distinguishing mental illness in primary care
  by David Goldberg
• The Discovery of Insulin
  by Robert Matz
• The failings of NICE: time to start work on version 2
  by Richard Savage
• "Buffer zone" law for abortion clinics declared unconstitutional
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Collusion in doctor-patient communication about imminent death: an ethnographic study
  by Anne-Mei The
• From the auditor
• GPs should take hold of mental health agenda
  by Jace VClarke
• Horizon "The Valley of Life or Death
  by Trevor Jackson
• Lords call for regulation of complementary medicine
  by Jason O' Neale Roach
• South Africa draws up new rules for foreign doctors
  by Pat Sidley
• Using the modified Barthel index to estimate survival in cancer patients in hospice: observational study
  by Mike Bennett
• Doctoring malaria, badly: the global campaign to ban DDT
  by Amir Attaran
• Hospital ethics committees may discourage staff from making own decisions
  by Frank (Yeruham) Leavitt
• Dealing with depression
  by Jason O'Neale Roach
• The People's Health Assembly: revitalising the promise of "Health for All"
  by Zafrullah Chowdhury
• Reducing greenhouse gases will have good short term effect
  by Tony Sheldon
• Data collection system needed for gun injuries
  by Janice Hopkins Tanne
• Medical Interests in the General Election
• Baby food industry lobbies WHO
  by Nancy-Jo Peck
• `Race' and Childbirth
  by Kathryn Ehrich
• Drug resistant cholera in India attributed to antibiotic misuse
  by Ganapati Mudur
• Atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia: systematic overview and meta-regression analysis
  by John Geddes
• Ethnography and health care
  by Jan Savage
• US has placed tobacco imports to China high on priority list for liberalisation
  by James A Dickinson
• AIDS: the Global Killer
  by Trevor Jackson
• Apocalypse soon: doctors needed
• In brief
• US strengthens rights of insured patients
  by Fred Charatan
• Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-behaviour therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with depression: clinical effectiveness
  by Elaine Ward
• Health effects of prisons
  by Bobby P Smyth
• Shouldn't people be responsible for their own actions?
  by John I Levitt
• A grief deferred
• Atypical antipsychotics: patients value the lower incidence of extrapyramidial side effects
  by Shitij Kapur
• Talks on climate change collapse in acrimony
  by Polly Ghazi
• US calls for research into research integrity
  by Richard Savage
• Urology
  by Paul Abrams
• Women's attitudes to false positive mammography results
  by Carol Jean Godby
• The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Millennium
  by David Brewster
• Minerva
• English GP suspended for misleading drug companies
  by Clare Dyer
• US bill on pain relief bars doctor assisted suicide
  by Fred Charatan
• Corrections and clarifications
• Studies in meta-analysis of treatment of stable angina had methodological flaws
  by S C Eccleshall
• Obituaries
• Is general practice losing its way?
  by Oliver Samuel
• Personal medical services: a barometer for the NHS?
  by Jonathan Shapiro
• Doctors question new test for Down's syndrome
  by Abi Berger
• Regulations not keeping up with developments in genetics, says poll
  by Phyllida Brown
• Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-behaviour therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with depression: cost effectiveness
  by Peter Bower
• Management of women with early breast cancer
  by Janine Bell
• 24-Hour Primary Care
  by Morten Bondo Christensen
• Behind every great woman
  by Trisha Greenbalgh