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Articles in Dec 16, 2000 issue of British Medical Journal

• Using injury data for violence prevention: government proposal is an important step towards safer communities
  by Jonathan P Shepherd
• Gut cells engineered to produce insulin
  by Abi Berger
• Patient dies of alternative cancer remedy
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Always double check
  by Lloyd Bradley
• Primary care is natural place for clinical research and practice
  by Mauricio Bonati
• Agenda: Heroin
  by Ian Sutherland
• Plans for tackling research fraud may not go far enough
  by Caroline White
• Calcium antagonists not best therapy for hypertension
  by David Spurgeon
• Relation between private health insurance and high rates of caesarean section in Chile: qualitative and quantitative study
  by Susan F Murray
• An integrated national pharmaceutical policy for the United Kingdom?
  by Tom Walley
• Obituaries
• The empty chair
  by Colin Douglas
• In brief
• Guide to ethics of treating children published
  by Clare Dyer
• Choosing a collaborator
  by Stephen M Shalet
• Effect of screening programme on mortality from breast cancer
  by Anthony B Miller
• From Chaos to Coercion: Detention and the Control of Tuberculosis
  by David Wilkinson
• Getting closer to patients and their families
• Public's satisfaction with the NHS declines
  by Annabel Ferriman
• Cloned chickens to help fight cancer
  by Bryan Christie
• Qualitative study of views of health professionals and patients on guided self management plans for asthma
  by Alan Jones
• Pitfalls of pharmacoepidemiology
  by James A Kaye
• Agenda: Ecstasy
  by Ian Sutherland
• Managing chronic disease—round 2
• Unicef calls for children to head the health agenda
  by Susan Mayor
• The Old Man
• Doctors should advise adolescents to abstain from sex
  by Trevor Stammers
• In praise of mercury sphygmomanometers
  by E G Lawes
• Christmas Day in London: darling, I'm pregnant
  by Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza
• University must tell patients that they were research "guinea pigs"
  by Deborah Josefson
• Doctor who revealed patient details cleared by GMC
  by Clare Dyer
• Presence of relatives during testing for brain stem death: questionnaire study
  by Janet Pugh
• Referral and diagnostic process in suspected colorectal cancer needs to be improved to achieve two week target
  by Coliette Riesewyk
• StatsDirect—Statistical Software for Medical Research in the 21st Century
  by Nick Freemantle
• Minerva
• Self management in asthma care: professionals must rethink their role if they are to guide patients successfully
  by Bart Thoonen
• Trusts must use, not just collect, clinical data
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• US doctors consider access to health care for all
  by Deborah Josefson
• Quality of web based information on treatment of depression: cross sectional survey
  by Kathleen M Griffiths
• Giving medicine a fair trial
  by Laurie Allan
• Agenda: Cocaine
  by Ian Sutherland
• Research misconduct: Britain's failure to act
  by Michael Farthing
• Patients will consult doctors through a TV screen in 2020
  by Rhona MacDonald
• Outcome of case finding among relatives of patients with known heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia
  by D Bhatnagar
• Much ado about a monument
• Could fewer islet cells be transplanted in type 1 diabetes?
  by Norman Waugh
• Abstinence
  by Gavin Yamey
• Screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia: effective, safe treatments and DNA testing make screening attractive
  by J J P Kastelein
• Early x ray for low back pain confers little benefit
  by Annabel Ferriman
• Untying the strings
  by Tessa Richards
• Menopausal symptoms
  by Janice Rymer
• Increased high risk sexual behaviour in homosexual men
  by Neil Macdonald
• Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity: Studies of Verbal Hallucinations
  by David Ames
• Meningitis: the making of a "scandal"
  by Trevor Jackson
• Emerging arboviral encephalitis: newsworthy in the West but much more common in the East
  by Tom Solomon
• Sanctions against Iraq "double" child mortality
  by Roger Dobson
• Reduction of postoperative mortality and morbidity with epidural or spinal anaesthesia: results from overview of randomised trials
  by Anthony Rodgers
• Corrections and clarifications
• Income inequality and mortality in Canada and the United States
  by Tony Blakely