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Articles in March 17, 2001 issue of British Medical Journal

• Poor world health and rich world wealth
  by David Taylor
• Chronic pancreatitis
  by P C Bornman
• Glucosamine and chondroitin may help in osteoarthritis
  by Karen Walker-Bone
• Tampons could be used to diagnose sexually transmitted diseases
  by Suzanne M Garland
• Hit parade
• Does the duration of breast feeding matter?
  by Ian Booth
• South African court battle damages drug industry's image
  by Pat Sidley
• Employment status and health after privatisation in white collar civil servants: prospective cohort study
  by Jane E Ferrie
• Inferiority of calcium channel blockers to cheaper drugs
  by J R Cockcroft
• When response rates do matter
  by Mark Ashworth
• Prophets, Cults and Madness
  by Trevor Turner
• Electronic publishing in science
  by Richard Savage
• New alcohol strategy being developed for England
  by Judy Jones
• US doctors call for simpler Medicare rules
  by Fred Charatan
• Registry for torsades de pointes with drug treatment exists
  by Michael J Kilborn
• Drugs may have reduced effect of falls intervention
  by James W Cooper
• Street Foods
  by Sjurour F Olsen
• Providing clean water: lessons from Bangladesh
  by Rhona MacDonald
• Review clears Harefield surgeons
  by Jacqui Wise
• Tsp509I polymorphism in exon 2 of the glucocorticoid receptor gene in relation to obesity and cortisol secretion: cohort study
  by Roland Rosmond
• Testing night vision for driving
  by William Jory
• Census of availability of neonatal intensive care should have used different denominator
  by M Hall
• Hitler's Gift: Scientists Who Fled Nazi Germany
  by Alex Paton
• In brief
• More than 4000 out of date vaccines given to children in Ireland
  by Doug Payne
• Spending on hospital equipment is underfunded by 8m [pounds sterling] in Scotland
  by Bryan Christie
• Prenatal diagnosis of heart defects aids survival after surgery
  by David Spurgeon
• Reducing prescribing of highly anticholinergic antidepressants for elderly people: randomised trial of group versus individual academic detailing
  by Martine E C van Eijk
• A politician
  by H.L. Mencken
• "Kissing the book"
• Insulin-like growth factor-I can be helpful towards end of life
  by Aidan Bolger
• Obituaries
• Obesity genes
  by Thorkild I A Sorensen
• An American professor's view of the medical woman
• Secondary prevention may help intermittent claudication
  by A Vass
• Putting patients first will help interprofessional education
  by Charles Campion-Smith
• Fear of frying: power lines and cancer
  by Simon Chapman
• A fifth of suicides among people with mental illness are preventable
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• Bush urged to lift cash ban to groups offering abortion
  by Sara Pennington
• Review confirms workplace counselling reduces stress
  by Susan Mayor
• Deprivation and late presentation of glaucoma: case-control study
  by Scott Fraser
• Duration of breast feeding and arterial distensibility in early adult life: population based study
  by C P M Leeson
• Different ways of saving lives
  by M. Coate
• Maintaining the dignity and autonomy of older people in the healthcare setting
  by Kate Lothian
• Hospital accreditation is important
  by Richard Rawlins
• Is this the end of the line for flu vaccine as we know it?
  by Nigel Higson
• Minerva
• What is the optimal weight for cardiovascular health?
  by Simin Liu
• Scientists isolate HIV blocker in placenta
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Parents should remove risk factors to reduce asthma in children
  by David Spurgeon
• Cardiovascular events in users of sildenafil: results from first phase of prescription event monitoring in England
  by Saad A W Shakir
• Patient choice modules for summaries of clinical effectiveness: a proposal
  by Margaret Holmes-Rovner
• Vision is needed to address problem of global health information
  by Peter A Singer
• It is time to dismiss calls to ban DDT
  by Fredric M Steinberg
• When a doctor is suspended so is family life
• Use of confidential HIV data helps convict former prisoner
  by Clare Dyer
• Pelvic inflammatory disease
  by Jonathan Ross
• The benefits of attending the dentist
  by Mike Pemberton
• Data collection barriers can be overcome by schemes such as MEDICS
  by Sharon Lamont
• Proposals for preventing community violence are naive
  by Rowland Cottingham
• Such gratitude
  by Liam Farrell