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JOURNAL ARTICLES - FULL LIST

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Here you can view all the articles that have been included in this section of our site. The links are stored here alphabetically by category and date of publication. (Use the quick-find alphabet or scroll down).

Please click on the first letter of the category of your choice:

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ARTICLE

JOURNAL NOTES REFERENCE

AIDS

(See HIV / AIDS)

 

Anaemia

Anemia in Children Read American Family Physician,  October 15  2001 Comments http://www.aafp.org,  2001/10/22

Asthma

MHS Medical Forum - Asthma
Primary Care - Accessibility, acceptability, and effectiveness in primary care of routine telephone review of asthma: pragmatic, randomised controlled trial Read British Medical Journal.  7 April 2003 Comments http://www.bmj.com,  2001/04/07
Intergenerational 20 year trends in the prevalence of asthma and hay fever in adults: the Midspan family study surveys of parents and offspring Read British Medical Journal.  8 July 2000 Comments http://www.bmj.com,  2001/10/09
Asthma after childhood pneumonia: six year follow up study Read British Medical Journal.  3 June 2000 Comments http://www.bmj.com,  2001/10/08

Cardiology

Heart disease prevention should not be left to professionals Read British Medical Journal, 22 February 2003 Comments http://bmj.com
2003/02/24
Ageism in cardiology - Education and debate Read British Medical Journal,  20 November 1999 Comments http://www.bmj.com,  2001/10/30

Diabetes

MHS Medical Forum - Diabetes
Will new diagnostic criteria for diabetes mellitus change phenotype of patients with diabetes? Reanalysis of European epidemiological data Read British Medical Journal.  9 Aug 2001 Comments http://www.bmj.com,  2001/10/08
Screening for diabetes in general practice: cross sectional population study Read British Medical Journal.  8 Sept 2001 Comments http://www.bmj.com,  2001/10/09

Ear, Nose & Throat

Randomised controlled trial of homoeopathy versus placebo in perennial allergic rhinitis with overview of four trial series Read British Medical Journal,  19 August 2000 Comments http://www.bmj.com,  2001/10/30

Endocrinology

Endocrine disrupting chemicals: New publication shows need for further research

Read WHO - The International Programme of Chemical Safety, 
accessed: 29 August 2002
Comments http://www.who.int/pcs/ emerg_site/edc/ pub_notice.html,  2002/08/29

Family Medicine

(See General Practice)      

General Practice

Improving quality in general practice: qualitative case study of barriers faced by health authorities Read British Medical Journal,  17 July  1999 Comments http://www.bmj.com,  2001/10/18
Challenge of culture, conscience, and contract to general practitioners' care of their own health: qualitative study Read British Medical Journal,  29 Sept, 2001 Comments Thompson WT, Cupples ME, Sibbett CH, Skan DI, Bradley T.  - BMJ 2001;323:728-31.
The Family Practice Management Practice Self-Test Read AAFP - Family Practice Management - Feb 2001 Comments

Robert Edsall, Leigh Ann Backer, Jennifer Bush, Brandi White, Olivia Maresh, Kel Anne Hocker 

Providing Asthma Education in Primary Care Practice Read The American Family Physician, Volume 56, Number 1, July 1997 Comments

STUART W. STOLOFF, M.D. - University of Nevada School of Medicine Reno, Nevada.  SUSAN JANSON, D.N.Sc., R.N., A.N.P. - University of California, San Francisco

Volume 56, Number 1, July 1997
Is It Time to Re-examine Family Practice? Read

AAFP - Family Practice Management -  September 2001

Comments Jennifer Bush, - AAFP Sept 2001
Clinical review - Lesson of the week - A family cluster of Chlamydia trachomatis infection Read British Medical Journal,  16 June, 2001 Comments C Thompson, M Macdonald, S Sutherland - BMJ 2001;322:1473-1474 

Gynaecology / Obstetrics

Referral for menstrual problems: cross sectional survey of symptoms, reasons for referral, and management Read British Medical Journal,  7 July  2001 Comments http://www.bmj.com,  2001/10/22

HIV / AIDS

AIDS in Africa Read British Medical Journal.  1 March 2003 Comments http://www.bmj.com,  2003/03/01
Cost effectiveness analysis of antenatal HIV screening in United Kingdom Read British Medical Journal.  6 Nov 2001 Comments http://www.bmj.com,  2001/10/08
Pleural fluid findings in patients with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
This is a pdf file, so you will need
Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it -

 
Read Southern Medical Journal.  Apr 1999 Comments http://www.sma.org , 2001/10/08

Hypertension

MHS Medical Forum - Hypertension
Effect of Obesity on Electrocardiographic Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Hypertensive Patients Read American Heart Association Journals - Hypertension.  Jan 2000 Comments http://hyper.ahajournals.org, 2001/10/08
Impact of Different Partition Values on Prevalences of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Concentric Geometry in a Large Hypertensive Population Read American Heart Association Journals - Hypertension.  Jan 2000 Comments http://hyper.ahajournals.org, 2001/10/08
Efficacy of Candesartan Cilexetil Alone or in Combination With Amlodipine and Hydrochlorothiazide in Moderate-to-Severe Hypertension Read Hypertension,  3 September 2000 Comments http://hyper.ahajournals.org, 2001/10/18

Immunology

The regulation of CD5 expression in murine T cells Read Biomed Central,  22 May 2001 Comments http://www.
bomedcentral.com,
2001/10/30

Managed Care

Safe treatment or a shorter wait: Hobson’s choice? Read British Medical Journal, 26 March 2003 Comments http://www.bmj.com,
2003/03/26
Bush proposes Medicare reform Read British Medical Journal, 15 March 2003 Comments http://www.bmj.com/,
 2003/03/15
Managed care: origins, principles and evolution Read British Medical Journal.  21 June 1997 Comments http://www.bmj.com,
  2001/10/09
Managed care: Implications of managed care for health systems, clinicians, and patients Read British Medical Journal.  28 June 1997 Comments http://www.bmj.com,
  2001/10/08

Neurology

Population based cost utility study of interferon beta-1b in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis Read British Medical Journal,  11 December 1999 Comments http://www.bmj.com,  2001/10/08

Obstetrics

(See Gynaecology & Obstetrics)

Oncology

World cancer rates set to double by 2020 Read British Medical Journal, 1April 2003 Comments http://www.bmj.com,
2003/04/01
FUNDAMENTALS OF CANCER MEDICINE - The Molecular Perspective: The src Oncogene Read The Oncologist, October 2001 Comments http://theoncologist.
alphamedpress.org,  2001/10/30

Plastic Surgery

Recent developments in plastic surgery Read British Medical Journal,
10 August 2002
Comments http://www.bmj.com,  2002/08/29

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis Management in a Day-Care Centre 
This is a pdf file, so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it -
 
Read Southern Medical Journal,  September 2000 Comments http://www.sma.org/smj2000,  2001/10/1

Virology

Hong Kong and US scientists believe illness is a coronavirus Read British Medical Journal, 5 April 2003 Comments http://bmj.com/,
  2003/04/05
Sudden acute respiratory syndrome - May be a rehearsal for the next influenza pandemic Read British Medical Journal, 29 March 2003
Comments http://bmj.com/,
  2003/03/29