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Articles in March 24, 2001 issue of British Medical Journal

• In brief
• Nuffield Council invites public to join genetics debate
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• Clinical and communication skills conquer all
  by A F Dinah
• Using internet to access confidential patient records
  by S N Walker
• Obituaries
• Death through selfishness and failure of imagination: President Bush should lead on global warming, not retreat
  by Richard Savage
• Belfast and Glasgow top the league for heart attacks in women
  by Annabel Ferriman
• Benzodiazepines and hip fractures in elderly people: case-control study
  by Corinne Pierfitte
• Care of older people: promoting health and function in an ageing population
  by Gary R Andrews
• Research in complementary medicine is essential
  by Michael A Cornbleet
• No surrender
  by Colin Douglas
• Reforming the GMC: current proposals make a muddle of the possibilities for radical change
  by Steve Dewar
• Campaign to reduce waiting lists in Ireland has had little impact
  by Doug Payne
• Effectiveness and economic evaluation of a nurse delivered home exercise programme to prevent falls: controlled trial in multiple centres
  by M Clare Robertson
• Postpsychiatry: a new direction for mental health
  by Patrick Bracken
• Driving after hernia surgery
  by J F Colin
• Learning respect
  by Andrew West
• Plastic surgeon sacked days before employment tribunal due to begin
  by Clare Dyer
• Haematologist may face disciplinary action for research fraud
  by Annette Tuffs
• Sex differences in speed of emergence and quality of recovery after anaesthesia: cohort study
  by Paul S Myles
• Cancer registries fear collapse
  by Tim Helliwell
• Hamster health care can be solved with more funding
  by Gerson T Lesser
• Minerva
• Regulators accused of bias against cannabis based medicines
  by Annabel Ferriman
• British Columbia to launch 24 hour health helpline
  by David Spurgeon
• Understanding the clinical dilemmas that shape medical students' ethical development: questionnaire survey and focus group study
  by Lisa K Hicks
• Rights involve responsibilities for patients
  by Richard Doll
• Continuity in general practice
  by George Taylor
• Abdominal obesity and the "hypertriglyceridaemic waist" phenotype: it's probably not yet time to implement screening
  by Paul Little
• Poll shows public still has trust in doctors
  by Annabel Ferriman
• Effectiveness and economic evaluation of a nurse delivered home exercise programme to prevent falls: randomised controlled trial
  by M Clare Robertson
• Pancreatic tumours
  by P C Bornman
• NHS needs plan for all acute, rehabilitative, and long stay care
  by Peter H. Millard
• Benzodiazepines
  by Gavin Yamey
• Doctors: still disorganised but still trusted
• Drug company to sell AIDS drugs at less than cost price
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Israel extends smoking ban
  by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
• Model for directly assessing and improving clinical competence and performance in revalidation of clinicians
  by Robert K McKinley
• Undertreatment of heart failure has high cost to patients
  by Colin Berry
• Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology
  by Paul Higgs
• Indian scientists warn of "mutant measles" virus
  by Ganapati Mudur
• Thromboprophylaxis after replacement arthroplasty: anticoagulants are more effective than aspirin
  by Duncan P Thomas
• Company played down drug's risks, report says
  by Scott Gottlieb
• Corrections and clarifications
• Limits to demand for health care
  by Alan Maynard
• Science and the Swastika
  by Paul Weindling
• US healthcare spending to rise sharply
  by Fred Charatan
• Rubella vaccine may be safe in early pregnancy
  by Deborah Josefson
• The future of the British Medical Association
• Menorrhagia
  by Kathryn Robinson
• Final Duty
  by John Melmoth
• Closing the gap between professional teaching and practice: a policy can help protect students from being asked to behave unethically
  by Len Doyal
• Low tar cigarettes linked to rise in adenocarcinomas
  by Tony Sheldon
• Doctors give guarded response to 100m [pounds sterling] for GP services
  by Mark Hunter
• Treatment of obesity: need to focus on high risk abdominally obese patients
  by Jean-Pierre Despres
• Postoperative pressure sores after epidural anaesthesia
  by Franz J Wiedermann
• Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture 1660-1815
  by Jeremy Hugh Baron