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Articles in April 7, 2001 issue of British Medical Journal

• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  by Paul (Football coach) Brown
• Home delivery: chemotherapy and pizza?
  by A M Young
• Israel to allow women to donate their eggs
  by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
• The doctor's carriage and his coachman
• Non-combatants are often injured while clearing mines
  by Shehan Hettiaratchy
• Radiation dose from depleted uranium can now be measured
  by Richard F Mould
• Website Of The Week
  by Marcus Mullner
• Spanish sex workers forced to health check cards
  by Paul Rigg
• US judges rule in favour of abortion "hit list"
  by Fred Charatan
• Sex inequalities in ischaemic heart disease in general practice: cross sectional survey
  by Julia Hippisley-Cox
• Falls in late life and their consequences—implementing effective services
  by Cameron G Swift
• Medical software's free future
  by Tim Benson
• Tobacco control in developing countries
  by Merete Osler
• Minerva
• The BMJ: competing with football
• [Beta] Blocker response may have gene link
  by Scott Gottlieb
• New stroke drug in trials
  by Abi Berger
• Faint praise
• Using patient identifiable data without consent
  by Charles Warlow
• Distinguishing between partial seizures and panic attacks
  by Mark C Dale
• DEAD: An End to Conveyor Belt Funerals
  by Joan Beadle
• Fatigue: time to recognise and deal with an old problem
  by Anne-Marie Feyer
• Health select committee criticises public health directors
  by Rhona MacDonald
• The UK accelerated immunisation programme and sudden unexpected death in infancy: case-control study
  by Peter J Fleming
• The medical profession as an example
• Could fewer islet cells be transplanted in type 1 diabetes?
  by James Shapiro
• Empathy is important for enablement
  by Stewart W Mercer
• Valuable voyeurism?
  by Boleslav Lichterman
• A new beginning for care for elderly people?
  by John Grimley Evans
• Down's children received "less favourable" hospital treatment
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• Longitudinal cohort study of childhood IQ and survival up to age 76
  by Lawrence J Whalley
• Randomised trial of personalised computer based information for patients with schizophrenia
  by Ray B Jones
• Postherpetic neuralgia
  by Rory Greet
• Delivering bad news
• The Dying Process: Experiences of Patients in Palliative Care
  by Esther Waterhouse
• In brief
• US considers medical role for marijuana
  by Deborah Josefson
• Oh yes
• Evidence based bloodletting
  by Mike Crilly
• Television programmes could market breast feeding
  by Virginia Thorley
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  by John Quin
• Obtaining consent for examination and treatment
  by Alexander McCall Smith
• Hong Kong wants adults to save for their health care in old age
  by Jane Parry
• Compliance, satisfaction, and quality of life of patients with colorectal cancer receiving home chemotherapy or outpatient treatment: a randomised controlled trial
  by J M Borras
• The evidence and Audrey
  by Ross Camidge
• Africa deserves better treatment from the West
  by Yohannes Damtew Tefera
• Trial experience and recollection of consent
  by Heather Goodare
• NETLINES
  by Harry Brown
• New centre to investigate global health threats
  by Tessa Richards
• World Psychiatric Association asked to act over Chinese dissidents
  by Fred Charatan
• Relation between socioeconomic status and tumour stage in patients with breast, colorectal, ovarian, and lung cancer: results from four national, population based studies
  by David H Brewster
• External assessment of health care
  by Charles Shaw
• High dose methylprednisolone must be given for 24 or 48 hours after acute spinal cord injury
  by Michael B Bracken
• [+ or -] Nothing
  by John Quin
• Some diseases must declare themselves
  by George Dunea
• The anaemia of chronic disease
  by E J Fitzsimons
• Two more medical schools to open
  by Lynn Eaton
• Wise advice
  by Fred Charatan
• Transplantation of the liver and pancreas
  by K R Prasad
• Osteoporosis is a risk factor, not a disease
  by K E Pearce
• Most psychiatrists oppose plans for new mental health act
  by M J Crawford
• Is ignorance bliss?
  by Derrick Baxby
• Scientists attack Bush over U turn on climate change treaty
  by Polly Ghazi
• Locums in Wales are poorly managed, says Audit Commission
  by Roger Dobson
• Fatigue, alcohol, and serious road crashes in France: factorial study of national data
  by P Philip
• Potential impact of the Human Rights Act on psychiatric practice: the best of British values?
  by Rosanne Macgregor-Morris
• Refugee doctors find it hard to get back into practice
  by Genc Rumani
• Obituaries
• Everything you wanted to know about your anatomy but were too afraid to ask
  by Michael Arnold Glueck