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Articles in Nov 17, 2001 issue of British Medical Journal

• Parents object to watering down of recommendations in infant death case
  by David Spurgeon
• Should elderly patients be told they have cancer? Questionnaire survey of older people
  by A Ajaj
• Corrections and clarifications
• Breast feeding must consider HIV transmission in Latin America and the Caribbean
  by Rafael Perez-Escamilla
• vCJD: health risks and health scares
  by Alex Vass
• Statins are the new aspirin, Oxford researchers say
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• Treatment of chronic hepatitis C: combination therapy permanently eradicates the virus in at least 40% of patients
  by Gary L. Davis
• National smoking cessation services at risk: they are effective and cost effective and must be made permanent
  by Martin Raw
• WTO relaxes rule on drug patents
  by Alex Vass
• GPs need more training in cancer genetics
  by Roger Dobson
• Scientific spirit
  by Shishir Gokhale
• Full time forensic pathology service needs to be established
  by Christopher Milroy
• Increasing email consultations may marginalise more people
  by Geoff Wong
• Critical event audit
  by Trisha Greenhalgh
• Dutch hospital patients "undernourished"
• French government agrees to subsidise private clinics by 300m [pounds sterling]
  by Alexander Dorozynski
• Accuracy of a single question in screening for depression in a cohort of patients after stroke: comparative study
  by Caroline Watkins
• Prospective health impact assessment: pitfalls, problems, and possible ways forward
  by Jayne Parry
• Declaring competing interests
  by Giovanni A Fava
• Do we need another anthrax test?
  by Gavin Yamey
• Belgium imports case of yellow fever
• The World Trade Organization's health agenda: opening up the health services markets may worsen health equity for the poor
  by Debra J Lipson
• Promoting normality in childbirth: women and professionals should be encouraged to consider vaginal birth positively
  by Richard Johanson
• Kyoto protocol ready for ratification after Marrakesh
  by Kathryn Sheridan
• India ups the stakes in the fight against tobacco
  by Rohit Sharma
• Primary care in Bradford: from group to trust and beyond
  by Neil Small
• Heavy drinking by young British women gives cause for concern
  by Moira Plant
• Uptake of antenatal screening for HIV infection can be high outside London too
  by Gillian Dean
• Stuck in the middle?
  by David Lock
• Controversy hits van Velzen cystic fibrosis paper
  by Jane Seymour
• US government moves against doctor assisted suicide
  by Fred Charatan
• Evidence based management of nocturnal enuresis
  by Jonathan HC Evans
• Electronic patient records in general practice
  by Philip J Bayliss Brown
• Obituaries
• Detentions under the Mental Health Act rise by 20 000 over 10 years
  by Alex Vass
• Unwanted caesarean sections among public and private patients in Brazil: prospective study
  by Joseph E Potter
• Criminalisation of HIV transmission: implications for public health in Scotland
  by Sheila M Bird
• Evidence based policy: don't be timid
  by Kieran Walshe
• Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World's Population
  by Maurice King
• Ireland opposes new plant at Sellafield
• Couple has the right to refuse test on newborn child
  by Doug Payne
• The campaign against rats
• Just in time
  by John Zorab
• Systematic reviews of evaluations of diagnostic and screening tests
  by Nicole Jill-Marie Blackman
• Pet bereavement
  by Navin Chohan
• Doctors to get new warning system on complaints
  by Zosia Kmietowicz
• Standards watchdog to get a bigger role in NHS
  by Roger Dobson
• Three important letters and a clue to a long life
• Participation of patients in decisions about treatment for cancer: desire for information is not the same as a desire to participate in decision making
  by Lesley Fallowfield
• Heart pumps improve survival in patients with severe heart failure
  by Susan Mayor
• Correction
• Treatment of chronic hepatitis
  by Paul J Gow
• Nodular thyroid disease
  by G L Sayer
• Moses baskets are a potential health hazard
  by M Hesseling
• Minerva
  by S Alexander Holme
• The moderniser
  by David Fillingham
• Upper abdominal pain: gall bladder
  by C D Johnson
• Patient passports would alert doctors to previous bone marrow transplantation
  by Arabella Smith
• Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
  by Alastair Baker
• Cancer centre at "breaking point"
  by Bryan Christie
• US Red Cross to destroy blood
• Interferon alfa with or without ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C: systematic review of randomised trials
  by Lise L Kjaergard
• When I use a word: -ize right
  by Jeff Aronson
• Vocational rehabilitation
  by Gillian Paschkes-Bell
• Brave New Brain: Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome
  by Sean A Spence
• Charity starts assistance programmes inside Afghanistan