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Brain structure and function: after preterm birth and in dyslexic adults
Measuring risk behaviour among injecting drug users
Prion protein genotype and sporadic CJD
Inside Macedonia's refuge camps
 
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Journal: The Lancet
ISSN   : 0140-6736
Volume : 353
Issue  : 9165
Date   : 15-May-1999
 
 
pp 1633
Editorial - Chaos surrounds high-dose chemotherapy for breast cancer
The Lancet
 
pp 1634
Commentary - Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: another disease of affluence
Oliver James, Christopher Day
 
pp 1636
Commentary - Prevention of postherpetic neuralgia
Robert H Dworkin
 
pp 1637
Commentary - Better coronary risk assessment in women
Jonathan Silberberg
 
pp 1638
Commentary - Prophylaxis against contrast-induced nephropathy
David B G Oliveira
 
pp 1639
Commentary - Public disclosure of performance data: does the public get
what the public wants?
Huw Talfryn Oakley Davies, Martin Neil Marshall
 
pp 1641
Articles - Postoperative radiotherapy in high-risk postmenopausal
breast-cancer patients given adjuvant tamoxifen: Danish Breast Cancer
Cooperative Group DBCG 82c randomised trial
Marie Overgaard, Maj-Britt Jensen, Jens Overgaard, Per S Hansen, Carsten
Rose, Michael Andersson, Claus Kamby, Mogens Kjar, Carl C Gadeberg,
Birgitte Bruun Rasmussen, Mogens Blichert-Toft, Henning T Mouridsen
 
pp 1649
Articles - Markers of inflammation and prediction of diabetes mellitus in
adults (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study): a cohort study
Maria Ines Schmidt, Bruce B Duncan, A Richey Sharrett, Gunnar Lindberg,
Peter J Savage, Steven Offenbacher, Maria Ines Azambuja, Russell P Tracy,
Gerardo Heiss, for the ARIC Investigators
 
pp 1653
Articles - Brain structure and neurocognitive and behavioural function in
adolescents who were born very preterm
A L Stewart, L Rifkin, P N Amess, V Kirkbride, J P Townsend, D H Miller, S
W Lewis, D P E Kingsley, I F Moseley, O Foster, R M Murray
 
pp 1657
Articles - Audio-computer interviewing to measure risk behaviour for HIV
among injecting drug users: a quasi-randomised trial
Don C Des Jarlais, Denise Paone, Judith Milliken, Charles F Turner, Heather
Miller, James Gribble, Qiuhu Shi, Holly Hagan, Samuel R Friedman
 
pp 1662
Early report - Association of abnormal cerebellar activation with motor
learning difficulties in dyslexic adults
Roderick I Nicolson, Angela J Fawcett, Emma L Berry, I Harri Jenkins, Paul
Dean, David J Brooks
 
pp 1667
Early report - Development of a nurse-led sedation service for paediatric
magnetic resonance imaging
M R J Sury, D J Hatch, T Deeley, C Dicks-Mireaux, W K Chong
 
pp 1672
Case report - A sore anus for 6 months
S J Winceslaus, J Schofield
 
pp 1673
Research letters - Codon 129 prion protein genotype and sporadic
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
A Alperovitch, I Zerr, M Pocchiari, E Mitrova, J de Pedro Cuesta, I Hegyi,
S Collins, H Kretzschmar, C van Duijn, RG Will
 
pp 1674
Research letters - Low 1-year prevalence of atopic eczema in very low
birthweight infants
Christoph Buhrer, Ingrid Grimmer, Bodo Niggemann,  Michael Obladen
 
pp 1674
Research letters - Alcohol injection: a new method of treating placental
chorioangiomas
Umberto Nicolini, Guglielmo Zuliani, Elena Caravelli, Roberto Fogliani,
Andres Poblete, Alistair Roberts
 
pp 1675
Research letters - Relative eosinophilla and functional adrenal
insufficiency in critically ill patients
Albertus Beishuizen, Istvan Vermes, Bonno S Hylkema, Clemens Haanen
 
pp 1676
Research letters - Percutaneous radiofrequency interstitial thermal
ablation of small hepatocellular carcinoma
H Peter Allgaier, Peter Deibert, Ina Zuber,  Manfred Olschewski, Hubert E
Blum
 
pp 1677
Research letters - Contribution of immediate and delayed ischaemic damage
to the volume of final infarcts
Wolf-Dieter Heiss, Alexander Thiel, Martin Grond, Rudolf Graf
 
pp 1678
Research letters - Latent dysbetalipoproteinaemia precipitated by
HIV-protease inhibitors
R K Lister, M Youle, D R Nair, A F Winder, M H A Rustin
 
pp 1678
Research letters - Neurological complications in heparin-induced
thrombocytopenia
Christoph Pohl, Thomas Klockgether, Andreas Greinacher,  Peter Hanfland,
Ursula Harbrecht
 
pp 1680
Research letters - Liver transplantation in a Jehovah's witness
O Detry, P Honore, J Delwaide, R F Dondelinger, M Meurisse,  N Jacquet
 
pp 1680
Research letters - From effect size into number needed to treat
Toshi A Furukawa
 
pp 1681
News - Public-health message about dioxin remains unclear
 
pp 1681
News - Haemorrhagic fever in Democratic Republic of Congo identified as
Marburg
 
pp 1681
News - New drug attacks fundamental allergy mechanism
 
pp 1681
News - Fatty acids mitigate depression and dementia
 
pp 1681
News - News in brief
 
pp 1681
News - Pseudoephedrine fails the ear-pain test in children during air
flights
 
pp 1681
News - Antibodies against TNF-(alpha)  help close fistulas in Crohn's
disease
 
pp 1681
News - Patent foramen ovale associated with migraine with aura
 
pp 1684
News - International consortium SN(i)Ps away at individuality
Dorothy Bonn
 
pp 1685
News - LONDON On leaving Florence Nightingale behind
 
pp 1685
News - CAPE TOWN  When pharmaceutical wrangles cast a wide net
 
pp 1686
News - AIDS campaigner on trial for testing vaccine on people
 
pp 1686
News - USA starts to identify blood recipients at risk from hepatitis C
 
pp 1686
News - News in brief
 
pp 1686
News - Deportee dies on plane
 
pp 1686
News - Philippines birth rate affects economy
 
pp 1686
News - Junior doctors strike against specialist proposals
 
pp 1686
News - UK government restricts the use of sildenafil
 
pp 1686
News - India reviews immunisation strategies for polio
 
pp 1686
News - WHO put malaria and tobacco top of their agenda
 
pp 1686
News - Pakistan sees huge increase in suicides
 
pp 1689
Review - BCG immunotherapy of bladder cancer: 20 years on
Anton B Alexandroff, Andrew M Jackson, Michael A O'Donnell, Keith James
 
pp 1695
Series - Pain: Management of cancer pain
Russell K Portenoy, Pauline Lesage
 
pp 1701
Essay - Caring for ethnic Albanians in Macedonia's refugee camps
Theresa Agovino
 
pp 1704
Correspondence - Transmyocardial laser revascularisation
John McMurray, Keith A Horvath -  Kamuran A Kadipasaoglu, Allan M Lansing,
R Moosdorf, R Hetzer - T Krabatsch, P M Schofield - L D Sharples - N Caine
-  M Buxton - J Wallwork
 
pp 1707
Correspondence - Osteoporotic fractures in Cornwall
Ira Pande - C Pritchard
 
pp 1707
Correspondence - In-vitro spermatogenesis
Carlo Foresta - Carlo Galeazzi -  Andrea Bettella - Andrea Garolla -
Alberto Ferlin, Jan Tesarik - Mustafa Bahceci -  Cenk Ozcan - Ermanno Greco
-  Carmen Mendoza
 
pp 1708
Correspondence - Deep-vein thrombosis
Pankaj Malhotra
 
pp 1709
Correspondence - Drug resistance among acid-fast bacilli
M Kato-Maeda - J Sifuentes-Osornio -  M Bobadilla-del-Valle - G M
Ruiz-Palacios - A Ponce-de-Leon
 
pp 1709
Correspondence - Salt, diet, and health
G A MacGregor - H E de Wardener, John Swales
 
pp 1710
Correspondence - Provision of treatment for multiple sclerosis
Alastair Compston
 
pp 1711
Correspondence - Smoking and acute appendicitis
Vanessa Spurll Catalan, Scott M Montgomery - Roy E Pounder - Andrew J
Wakefield, Barbara K Butland - David P Strachan
 
pp 1712
Correspondence - Political correctness
Monika Schindl - Peter Birner
 
pp 1713
Correspondence - Informed consent: what did the doctor say?
Melina Gattellari - Phyllis N Butow - Martin H N Tattersall, Christopher
Heneghan
 
pp 1713
Correspondence - Authorship criteria and academic reward
Ana Marusvi#c - Matko Marusvi#c
 
pp 1714
Correspondence - Randomised trials are not unethical
Jayant S Vaidya - Michael Baum
 
pp 1714
Correspondence - Typhoid Mary
John S Marr
 
pp 1715
Dissecting room - Bench and bedside haematological malignancies
Wolfgang Kern
 
pp 1715
Dissecting room - The Spirit of Tibet
 
pp 1716
Dissecting room - Websites in brief
 
pp 1716
Dissecting room - 1954: John Franklin Enders (1897-1985); Thomas Huckle
Weller (b 1915); and Frederick Chapman Robbins (b 1916)
Tonse N K Raju
 
pp 1717
Dissecting room - "Taking a line for a walk"
Colin Martin
 
pp 1718
Dissecting room - Tribute
Bhuvana Chandra
 
pp 1719
Dissecting room - May 14 Monte Carlo
 
pp 1720
Dissecting room - Shades of Dorian Gray
Robin Eastwood
 
pp 1720
Dissecting room - Silvia Franceschi
 
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