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Contents: September 2000

Editorials

Cheating at medical school: reprobates or victims

New pathways into medical school "down under"

The changing profile of medical education in South Africa

WHO faces up to its tobacco links


News

More medical students for England

Male biological clock is ticking

Obesity could be contagious

Israeli surgeons implant first permanent artificial ventricle

New hopes for diabetes cure

Vaccination in utero may cut vertical transmission

"Hands free" mobile phones may be safer than the rest

Put humanities on the curriculum, say medical students

Education

Fastracking through medicine

Picture Quiz

Chest x rays made easy

You should know, you're a medic: Is the MMR vaccine safe?

ABC of arterial and venous disease: Secondary prevention of transient ischaemic attack and stroke

Effectiveness of interventions to help people stop smoking: findings from the Cochrane Library

Effective writing

Studying in France


Papers

Review: Exercise therapy may reduce pain and disability in osteoarthritis of the hip or knee

Review: Adolescent girls and boys differed in how they incorporated diabetes into their identities and how they managed the illness


Life

Carnal art

Thinking global

Planning your elective - Pakistan

Our new writers: results of the column competition

Student soapbox: national medical exams

A guide to medical etiquette: effective daytime sleeping

Avoiding debt


Letters

Student registration with GMC: a cautious vote of confidence

The cost of GMC registration

What to do with the GMC

Equal opportunities must recognise ability

Management of head injuries

Bereavement must not be an excuse for lowering standards

SSMs are my saviour

Discrimination against men

Training of medics and other health care profesionals

Stress is not unique to medics

Reviews

Book review: New Life For Health: The Comissino on the NHS

Book review: An Unquiet Mind

Book review: White Teeth

Book review: Group: Six People in Search of a Life

Vaccination scaremongering

Personal View: Adapt and survive - don't give up

Soundings: Miss Medicine

Minerva: September 2000