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Articles in March 7, 1998 issue of British Medical Journal

• Immunosuppressive drugs after lung transplantation: new agents may improve long term survival
  by Norman Briffa
• Corrections
• Life in the Balance: Emergency Medicine and the Quest for Survival
  by Tim Ashworth
• Poverty in rural areas is more hidden but no less real than in urban areas
  by Jim Cox
• Effective prescribing at practice level should be identified and rewarded
  by Trisha Greenhalgh
• Blood transfusion risk: protecting against the unknown: worries over variant CJD should not detract from work on other, better known, risks
  by John Barbara
• How often does surgery for peptic ulceration eradicate Helicobacter pylori? Systematic review of 36 studies
  by John Danesh
• Interprofessional working and continuing medical education
  by Linda A. Headrick
• Continuing medical education: where next?
  by Peter Toghill
• Capitation based prescribing budgets will not work
  by Azeem Majeed
• The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification
  by Lois Quam
• Hydroxychloroquine retinopathy: is screening necessary?
  by Chris Blyth
• QT and QTc dispersion are accurate predictors of cardiac death in newly diagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetes: cohort study
  by Abdul A.O. Naas
• Implications for clinical services in Britain and the United States
  by Ann Louise Kinmonth
• Link with bowel disease fuels controversy over vaccine
  by Hilary Bower
• New techniques in laser therapy
  by Stephen G. Bown
• MMR vaccination and autism 1998: deja vu - pertussis and brain damage 1974?
  by Angus Nicoll
• Use of calcium channel blockers and risk of suicide: ecological findings confirmed in population based cohort study
  by Gunnar Lindberg
• Should measles be eradicated?
  by F.T. Cutts
• Ultrasound treatment for treating the carpal tunnel syndrome: randomised 'sham' controlled trial
  by Gerold R. Ebenbichler
• Pathogenic mechanisms: a rational basis for treatment
  by Peter H. Howarth
• Patient data, confidentiality, and electronics: identifiable data should no longer be freely available within the NHS
  by Grant Kelly
• Corrections
• Who cares
  by David Shiers
• Variations in population health status: results from a United Kingdom national questionnaire survey
  by Paul Kind
• New drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease: lessons for healthcare policy
  by David Melzer