An A-Z of articles written this year by Dr Thomas Stuttaford for The Times

Dr Stuttaford's Medical Briefing appears in The Times newspaper every Monday and Thursday Acne Acne: the facts and myths of its cause (September 28, 2000) Alternative medicine An alternative point of view (June 26, 2000) Allergies Alcohol allergies (January 15, 2000) Animals A hairy risk of puppy love (September 21, 2000) Cats can spread infections (August 17, 2000) Danger behind awayday for dogs (March 2, 2000) Foxy way of dealing with mange (March 9, 2000) Consult vet before taking pets abroad (April 20, 2000) Perils of ticks in trauma (Lyme disease) (May 25, 2000) Pet passports find favour with fleas (June 5, 2000) Disease spreads its wing (pigeon fanciers' lung) (June 8, 2000) Anorexia The price of fame is a skeletal frame (February 17, 2000) Glossies a small part of agony of anorexia (June 22, 2000) Asthma Asthma: a passing phase? (August 10, 2000) Beauty Helping scars to fade from view (March 9, 2000) Ways to save face as time goes by (June 22, 2000) Breasts Gravity can be a pain in the neck (June 17, 2000) Cancer Telltale signs of bladder cancer (August 31, 2000) Can abortions be linked to breast cancer? (August 14, 2000) New screening should cut smear errors (August 3, 2000) Better care for cancer patients (February 3, 2000) Mice may be more peril than pest (breast cancer) (February 3, 2000) Clues to sports presenter's condition went undetected (colo-rectal cancer) (February 7, 2000) Know your melanoma ABC (March 2, 2000) Political comeback for ovarian cancer (ovarian cancer) (March 23, 2000) "Single-shot" route to therapy success (testicular cancer) (March 30, 2000) Diet link to cancer that killed Dury (colo-rectal cancer) (March 30, 2000) Cancer survey misses likely victims (breast cancer) (April 6, 2000) Diet may prevent recurring polyps (colo-rectal cancer) (May 11, 2000) Drugs with a light touch (throat cancer) (May 15, 2000) Stewart back on song (June 1, 2000) A test that could save thousands of men (prostate cancer) (June 8, 2000) Crohn's disease Milk may be bottling up digestive troubles (April 27, 2000) Diabetes Pinochet: Face of a very sick man (February 17, 2000) Ailing general has classical symptoms (January 17, 2000) Diabetic treatment cuts risk of heart attacks (January 27, 2000) Diverse cases of diabetes but equally deadly (February 21, 2000) Those at high risk 'ignore' diabetes (June 1, 2000) Drugs Russian submarine: Knockout drugs are for animals (August 25, 2000) Genes and gin aid longevity (August 10, 2000) Beware mixing your remedies (January 24, 2000) How your mind can go to pot (January 27, 2000) Psychiatric pill is both a curse and a blessing (March 21, 2000) A dose of pot can relieve the pain (March 24, 2000) Wonder drug to be taken with care (Aspirin) (July 3, 2000) Endometriosis Pelvic pain (August 24, 2000) Eyes Why eyes are a window to health (August 24, 2000) Flu Time for quick fixes against hay fever blues (April 24, 2000) Flu-beating drug the NHS won't prescribe (January 10, 2000) Late injection would provide long-term gain (January 11, 2000) Rescuing the very young from the scourge of flu (January 13, 2000) Genetics 'Designer' babies are a dilemma for doctors (October 4, 2000) Grief Loved ones face life of torment (August 17, 2000) Head lice Truth and lice (August 24, 2000) A silent playground plague (May 11, 2000) Heart Running the London Marathon (April 13, 2000) Chilling way to remove clots (February 17, 2000) Affair of the heart unlikely to prove fatal (February 17, 2000) Patients take heart from ECG in pocket (March 30, 2000) Heart to heart for Scotland's First Minister 39 (April 27, 2000) Tragic reading lesson for doctor and patient (May 11, 2000) Miracle of writer's unimpaired intellect (May 11, 2000) Holiday Time to fight off beach bugs (May 18, 2000) Sun, sea and strokes (August 31, 2000) How to avoid jet lag (August 17, 2000) Simple jab for life in tropics (January 27, 2000) Jabs can ward off the summertime blues (March 23, 2000) Vanity means warnings are on deaf ears (April 26, 2000) Stressed out? Don't go on holiday (June 1, 2000) The only safe sun tan comes out of a bottle (June 8, 2000) No holiday from bugs and bacteria (June 22, 2000) Lungs Breath is deadly enemy (August 15, 2000) Malaria Better ways to treat malaria (September 21, 2000) Mosquito bite that kills 3m every year (July 31, 2000) Measles Measles alert (August 10, 2000) Meningitis Take care with all meningitis (September 7, 2000) Scare echoes fears over Pill (August 28, 2000) Migraine How to stop migraine turning your life Cubist (September 7, 2000) Motor nuerone disease Motor neurone care improves (September 28, 2000) Multiple sclerosis Drug's benefits denied to MS patients (February 10, 2000) Call for increase in MS nurses (April 20, 2000) MS sufferers still hope for 'miracle' (June 22, 2000) Nutrition Greens help the blues (September 28, 2000) When a veggie diet can go awry (August 17, 2000) Shell out for oysters (August 24, 2000) Dietary fat and obesity (August 21, 2000) Plant chemicals could play small part in deciding gender (August 7, 2000) Apple a day may be a bit of a fight (August 3, 2000) Chocoholics beware (January 20, 2000) Fishy tales could be true (January 27, 2000) Salad days not always good for mums (February 3, 2000) Net worth of oily fish for a healthy diet (March 23, 2000) Vitamin pill believers lament a lost guru (May 25, 2000) Happiness is a meal at midday (March 29, 2000) Why alternative therapies should be complementary (April 6, 2000) Muesli mothers should stick to meat two veg (June 2, 2000) Polio Polio can kill in hours (September 28, 2000) Pregnancy Cherie was right to take no chances (May 18, 2000) Wise Madonna? (August 17, 2000) Forty years of the Pill (August 24, 2000) Wish you weren't there to begin with (January 20, 2000) Contraception in the forties (January 27, 2000) Drop of what you fancy does baby no harm (January 31, 2000) Acid test proves that birth defects can be cut (March 2, 2000) Delivery makes obstetrics history (March 10, 2000) Exercise fights post-natal flab (April 7, 2000) Team effort helps ease tension of delivery (May 20, 2000) Pregnant at 40-plus is no joy for some (May 25, 2000) Correct screening is key to disorders (May 31, 2000) Powerful brew in a pot of coffee (June 8, 2000) Blood pressure 'was lethal' (June 23, 2000) Psychology The young have a nose for trouble (August 31, 2000) Gap year anxiety (August 31, 2000) Russian submarine: How life faded away for survivors (August 21, 2000) Russian submarine: Loved ones face life of torment (August 17, 2000) Exam results and stress (August 10, 2000) Singing helps emotional development (August 7, 2000) The process of grief will run its course (August 3, 2000) Shopping for the happiness that money can't buy (August 3, 2000) Puberty Healthy children grow up sooner (June 19, 2000) Sex Premature ejaculation (September 21, 2000) Olympian sperm (September 7, 2000) World of love may be your oyster for St Valentine (February 14, 2000) Sexual abuse Profile of child sex abusers (August 17, 2000) Home kit that may preserve fertility (March 2, 2000) Supra-nuclear palsy Disease that dimmed the lustre of a star (September 4, 2000) Smoking Well-known brands could be outlawed (August 24, 2000) Addicts will smoke more (August 24, 2000) Surgery A Don Juan can overcome prostate surgery (January 13, 2000) If in doubt, check with the patient (January 28, 2000) Tranquillisers Knockout drugs are more fit for animals (August 25, 2000) Virus MEPs find bug in water supply (May 25, 2000) Danger lurking on a rainy day (pneumonia) (May 29, 2000) Infection that's easy to miss and hard to cure (Hepatitis C) (April 3, 2000) Zany Computer games are good for children (May 4, 2000) Risks can lead to recklessness (June 1, 2000)