Objective: To evaluate the acceptability and efficacy of adding cognitive behaviour therapy
to the medical care of patients presenting with the chronic fatigue syndrome. Design …

People with a history of psychiatric disorder are at higher risk of suicide than people without
such a history. The policy of reducing inpatient care in psychiatry has probably meant that …

Objective: To determine the risk of cancers and selected immune related diseases in people
with Down's syndrome, relative to risk in other people. Design: Cohort analysis of a linked …

An improved single-radial-diffusion technique for the assay of influenza haemagglutinin
antigen is described. The modified method enables the results of assays of antigen to be …

Objective To investigate a reported rise in the emergency hospital admission of children in
England for conditions usually managed in the community. Setting and design Population …

OBJECTIVES--To report the incidence of elective total hip replacement and postoperative
mortality, emergency readmission rates, and the demographic factors associated with these …

OBJECTIVES--To determine the symptomatic and functional status during follow up of
patients referred to hospital with unexplained fatigue and to identify patient variables …

BackgroundFor decades there has been interest in the possibility that people with
schizophrenia might have some protection against cancer, and that, if this were so, it might …

STUDY OBJECTIVES Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common cancer in many western
countries and is probably caused in part by dietary factors. Southern European countries …

Editor—Egger et al report that they “found bias in 38% of meta-analyses published in four
leading journals.” 1 This is misleading, at least insofar as our meta-analysis of inpatient …