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Research Article

• Which book? A comparative review of 25 introductory epidemiology textbooks. (1 December, 1997)

  R Bhopal
• Cochrane Lecture 1997. What evidence do we need for evidence based medicine? (1 December, 1997)

  J T Hart
• Mortality from venous thromboembolism among young women in Europe: no evidence for any effect of third generation oral contraceptives. (1 December, 1997)

  R D Farmer, R B Newson, K MacRae, R A Lawrenson, F Tyrer
• Low levels of cardiovascular risk factors and coronary heart disease in a UK Chinese population. (1 December, 1997)

  J O Harland, N Unwin, R S Bhopal, M White, B Watson, M Laker, K G Alberti
• Early increases in ischaemic heart disease mortality dissociated from and later changes associated with respiratory mortality after cold weather in south east England. (1 December, 1997)

  G C Donaldson, W R Keatinge
• Life expectancy in England: variations and trends by gender, health authority, and level of deprivation. (1 December, 1997)

  V S Raleigh, V A Kiri
• Widening social inequalities in mortality: the case of Barcelona, a southern European city. (1 December, 1997)

  C Borrell, A Plasència, I Pasarin, V Ortún
• Socioeconomic deprivation and health in Glasgow and the west of Scotland--a study of cancer incidence among male residents of hostels for the single homeless. (1 December, 1997)

  D W Lamont, F M Toal, M Crawford
• Emotional health problems are the most important cause of disability in adults of working age: a study in the four counties of the old Oxford region. (1 December, 1997)

  S Stewart-Brown, R Layte
• Do disease specific characteristics add to the explanation of mobility limitations in patients with different chronic diseases? A study in The Netherlands. (1 December, 1997)

  D M Kriegsman, D J Deeg, J T van Eijk, B W Penninx, A J Boeke
• Campylobacteriosis in New Zealand: results of a case-control study. (1 December, 1997)

  J Eberhart-Phillips, N Walker, N Garrett, D Bell, D Sinclair, W Rainger, M Bates
• Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection among injecting drug users in Australia. (1 December, 1997)

  N Crofts, D Jolley, J Kaldor, I van Beek, A Wodak
• Public awareness of malignant melanoma risk factors in Germany. (1 December, 1997)

  A Pfahlberg, O Gefeller, K F Kölmel
• Conservatively managed tibial shaft fractures in Nottingham, UK: are pain, osteoarthritis, and disability long-term complications? (1 December, 1997)

  D C Greenwood, K R Muir, M Doherty, S A Milner, M Stevens, T R Davis
• Distressed or relieved? Psychological side effects of breast cancer screening in The Netherlands. (1 December, 1997)

  W Scaf-Klomp, R Sanderman, H B van de Wiel, R Otter, W J van den Heuvel
• Pure tone audiometry and impedance screening of school entrant children by nurses: evaluation in a practical setting. (1 December, 1997)

  I Holtby, D P Forster, U Kumar
• Behavioural dynamics of a clinical trial of sunscreens for reducing solar keratoses in Victoria, Australia. (1 December, 1997)

  J Cockburn, S C Thompson, R Marks, D Jolley, P Schofield, D Hill
• Population predictors of community health and social service use in Northern Ireland. (1 December, 1997)

  A M Warnes, G K Armstrong, D Peters
• Quantitative estimates of sensitivity and specificity in mammographic screening. (1 December, 1997)

  U Werneke
• Paracetamol in suicide and non-accidental overdose--are restrictions justified? (1 December, 1997)

  S J Hobson