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Contents: September 1999

Editorials

Online prescibing - the need for greater regulation

Hung up on mobile phones

Chaperones for genital examination

News

Hepatitis B should not rule out entry to medical school

New meningitis research centre opened at QueenÍs University in Belfast

Student nurses set to study with medical students in British university

Meningitis vaccine C will be available this autumn

Student dropout rates in Australia may be as high as 20%

Gulf war leaves legacy of cancer

Viagra makes flowers stand up straight

Blanket ban on treating transsexuals is ruled "unlawful"

Nuns to run first heroin injecting room

Animal tests rise in Great Britain

Government white paper is a poor start for children

Hearing loss among young people is increasing

France's medical education system to change

Education

Emergency!

Picture Quiz

Communication: not just doctors talking to patients

ABC of sexual health: Assessing and managing male sexual problems

You should know you're a medic: Does a cup of tea really do you the world of good?

Evidence based case report Sore throat: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas

Career focus: Child and adolescent psychiatry

Papers

Use of chaperones in clinics for genitourinary medicine: survey of consultants

Review: A nicotine patch plus nicotine nasal spray was more effective than a nicotine patch alone for smoking cessation

Review: Bupropion alone or with a nicotine patch increased smoking cessation rates

EBM - Commentary

When I use a word...

Life

Planning your elective - Punjab

Medical practices in the Punjab

A guide to medical etiquette: article finding

The life of a medical representative - a little food for thought

Do today's doctors really need pharmaceutical reps?

Keeping afloat

Keep your notes clean: tips from an expert in litigation law

Help the aged?

Letters

Racism in psychiatry

Final year medical students may be entitled to full year student loan

Effects of Soho bomb were little compared with Omagh bomb

Reviews

Medical Students' Handbook: Alcohol and Health

Evolutionary Psychiatry. A new beginning

Opium and the People. Opiate Use and Drug Control Policy in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England

The Prehistory of the Mind. A Search for the Origins of Art, Religion and Science

The Definition of Death. Contemporary Controversies

Shopping

Counting Sheep

Medicine & media

Minverva: September 1999