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Articles in Feb 24, 2001 issue of British Medical Journal

• In brief
• Heart failure study finds more diastolic cases in older patients
  by David Spurgeon
• Preferences of patients for patient centred approach to consultation in primary care: observational study
  by Paul Little
• The failings of NICE
  by Michael D Rawlins
• Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health and a New Environmental Strategy
  by Donald Campbell
• Physical health of people with severe mental illness: can be improved if primary care and mental health professionals pay attention to it
  by Michael Phelan
• Exposure in utero to maternal smoking increases risk of asthma
  by Tudor Toma
• Therapeutic nursing or unblocking beds? A randomised controlled trial of a post-acute intermediate care unit
  by Andrea Steiner
• Where truth lies
  by Martin Amis
• Access to undergraduate medical education is being broadened
  by M A Lumsden
• Feeding frenzy
  by George Dunea
• Drug companies sue South African government over generics
  by Pat Sidley
• Fast track centres aim to cut waiting times
  by Jacqui Wise
• Mortality of third generation Irish people living in England and Wales: longitudinal study
  by S Harding
• All in the family of medicine
  by Syed M Ahmed
• Obituaries
• Wider lessons of the pulmonary artery catheter trial: intensivists are rising to the challenge of evaluating established practices
  by Derek Angus
• US abortion clinics and harassed patients win damages
  by Fred Charatan
• What parents are told after prenatal diagnosis of a sex chromosome abnormality: interview and questionnaire study
  by Lenore Abramsky
• Corrections and clarifications
• Increasing use of abbreviations is unacceptable
  by W Denys Wells
• Undermining data privacy in health information: new powers to control patient information contribute nothing to health
  by Ross Anderson
• Scotland faces GP crisis
  by Bryan Christie
• Antismoking drug comes under scrutiny after deaths
  by Roger Dobson
• Depression in developing countries: lessons from Zimbabwe
  by Vikram Patel
• Editorial on management of anal warts is misleading
  by Lynn A Riddell
• Prioritisation: the new growth of the NHS
  by Brian McCloskey
• Medical research under threat after Alder Hey scandal
  by Mark Hunter
• World's poorest depend on private health care
  by Tessa Richards
• Management of patients in fast track surgery
  by Douglas W Wilmore
• Foundation is helping carers to reduce risk of sudden infant death syndrome
  by Ann Deri-Bowen
• Community Emergency Preparedness: A Manual for Managers and Policy-makers
  by Francine Lortie-Monette
• Prenatal diagnoses of sex chromosome conditions: parents need more than just accurate information
  by Barbara Biesecker
• US employer agrees to stop genetic testing
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Dutch smokers seek tobacco damages
  by Tony Sheldon
• Splenic trauma complicating cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  by A Fitchet
• Addison's disease: after 40 years much remains the same
  by Sarah Baker
• January Bestsellers
• Towards a global definition of patient centred care: the patient should be the judge of patient centred care
  by Moira Stewart
• bmj.com news roundup
  by Caroline White
• Mumps, measles, and rubella vaccine and the incidence of autism recorded by general practitioners: a time trend analysis
  by James A. Kaye
• What brings asylum seekers to the United Kingdom?
  by Angela Burnett
• Practices should determine their own strategies for identifying patients
  by Ruth Cooper
• Minerva
• Complaints against UK doctors rise 50%
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• India plans massive hospital rebuilding after earthquake
  by Rohit Sharma
• Changing stockings
  by Martin Sielk
• Needle length and incidence of local reactions to immunisation
  by John Platt
• The Disease Detectives
  by Bernadette Purcell
• Finding the true track
• Alcohol and drug misuse sweeping world, says WHO
  by Susan Mayor
• Blair unable to fulfil pledge on health spending, says analysis
  by Gavin Yamey
• Liver tumours
  by I J Beckingham
• Comparison of St John's wort and imipramine
  by Peter L Cornwall
• Teach yourself statistics
  by Christopher Martyn