IOS 5.0.1 empty emails

Since upgrading iPad from 4.3 to 5.0.1 last week, empty emails (no subject, no sender, no content) keep appearing in iPad mail along with real mail on a Gmail IMAP account. 
They show a blue dot for unread,. When one of them is selected the content pane just shows No Content, and the blue dot remains. When Edit is selected for the mailbox, they have no hollow dot to allow selecting them for deletion, just the blue unread dot. So they cannot be eliminated.
Opened the same account via the Gmail web interface, and none of the empty emails were visible. Went back into the account in Mail and they had all vanished (over 50 of them just before). But one or more appears nearly every time that any real mail arrives. Some have the date and time at which they appeared; others show Jan. 1 1969.
This all began right after the upgrade to 5.0.1 so I am fairly sure it represents either a bug in the release, or a corrupted download of the mail app.
Any suggestions to fix it (other than hoping that 5.0.2, apparently about to show up very soon, will fix it)?

Just tried that, and it may have helped. Reboots cure a multitude of ills . If it turns out not to last, I will try the more extensive things suggested by King_Penguin.
Just before reading your suggestion, got another clue. At the same place in Inbox where a 4-email conversation had been located, there was a No Content email marked unread, with a 4 badge on it. Went into Trash to look for something else, and when I returned the No Content email was gone and the conversation had returned.
It looks very much as if at least some of these no content emails are real emails that belong in Inbox, but their content has somehow become disconnected from their index entry. Some other apparently unrelated operation then restores the correct pointer and all appears to be well again.
Looks like a bug, but probably not one that is easy to reproduce to help the developers.

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