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27 July 2002 (Vol 325, No 7357)
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Exercise improves fibromyalgia [Full text]
Smoke-free workplaces cut smoking [Full text]
Safe alcohol limit rises with age [Full text]
Adult learners need different educational models [Full text]
Sleeping sickness is re-emerging [Full text]
Anthropology is needed in health research [Full text]
"Jaundice hotline" improves care [Full text]
Following guidelines is not efficient [Full text]

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Daily doses of multivitamin tablets
David A Bender
BMJ  2002;325:173-174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.173
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Banning smoking in the workplace
Robert West
BMJ  2002;325:174-175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.174
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Withdrawal of life sustaining treatment
Tom Sensky
BMJ  2002;325:175-176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.175
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The world's most neglected diseases
Gavin Yamey
BMJ  2002;325:176-177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.176
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Performance league tables
Andrew Rixom
BMJ  2002;325:177-178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.177
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The pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering
Richard Tiner, Linda Edwards, Adam Jacobs, Philip Sambrook, Judy Stenmark, Jan Karmali, Matthew Anderson, Alison Karasz, Peter Lurie, Sheila McKechnie, Joanna Moncrieff, Phil Thomas, Ray Moynihan, Iona Heath, David Henry
BMJ  2002;325:216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.216
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Brain drain and health professionals
David I Stein, Thein H Oo, Andres de Francisco, John Kiwanuka Ssemakula, John Hilary
BMJ  2002;325:219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.219
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Cholestatic hepatitis in association with celecoxib
Faiyaz Mohammed, Alastair D Smith, James P O'Beirne, Stuart Cairns
BMJ  2002;325:220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.220
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BMA president clarifies his message
Tony Grabham
BMJ  2002;325:221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.221
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Post-traumatic psychological distress may present in rheumatology clinics
John McCarthy, Andrew Frank
BMJ  2002;325:221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.221/a
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Adults still account for many deaths from chickenpox
Norman Noah
BMJ  2002;325:221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.221/b
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Evaluation of treatments is threatened by EC directive
Charles Warlow, Graham Teasdale, Stuart Cobbe
BMJ  2002;325:222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.222
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Rational, cost effective use of investigations
Sudha Bulusu, Patrick H Dessein, Anne E Stanwix, Laurence A Malcolm
BMJ  2002;325:222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.222/a
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Bravo, brave BMJ, for the rapid response section
Roger Allen
BMJ  2002;325:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.223
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Hospitals struggle to cope with stroke care, says royal college
Anne Gulland
BMJ  2002;325:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.179
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Elderly patients to receive cash to speed up hospital discharge
Alex Vass
BMJ  2002;325:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.179/a
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Scotland pilots new information system on patient outcomes
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2002;325:180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.180
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Oestrogen only HRT increases risk of ovarian cancer
Deborah Josefson
BMJ  2002;325:180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.180/a
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In brief
BMJ  2002;325:180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.180/b
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Indian doctor in protest after using Viagra to save "blue babies"
Sanjay Kumar
BMJ  2002;325:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.181
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Shipman murdered more than 200 patients, inquiry finds
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2002;325:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.181/a
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Tribespeople win £4.5m damages
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2002;325:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.181/b
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Venezuelan project establishes indigenous plant database
Owain Johnson
BMJ  2002;325:183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.183/b
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21st century heart solution may have a sting in the tail
BMJ  2002;325:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.184
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Home testing kit allows parents to detect their children�s drug misuse
Xavier Bosch
BMJ  2002;325:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.182
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US cancer mortality may be underestimated
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2002;325:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.182/a
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Treatment for osteoarthritis thrown into question
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2002;325:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.182/b
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New guidance issued on promoting integrity in scientific research
Caroline White
BMJ  2002;325:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.182/c
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Asylum seekers have low rates of vaccination and screening, report shows
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2002;325:182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.182/d
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Expert panel to look into blocked anaesthetic tubing incidents
Claire McKenna
BMJ  2002;325:183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.183
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US pharmacists cleared to buy in cheap drugs from Canada
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2002;325:183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.183/a
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German doctors accused of health insurance fraud
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2002;325:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.184/a
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"Golden hellos" are needed to attract GPs to Wales, says commission
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2002;325:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.184/b
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Breast feeding reduces risk of breast cancer, says study
Isabel Woodman
BMJ  2002;325:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.184/c
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Indian state bans tobacco based chewing products
Sanjay Kumar
BMJ  2002;325:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.184/d
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Dean denies that Botox was given at Johns Hopkins demonstration
Fred Charatan
BMJ  2002;325:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.184/e
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Resource implications and health benefits of primary prevention strategies for cardiovascular disease in people aged 30 to 74: mathematical modelling study
Tom Marshall, Andrew Rouse
BMJ  2002;325:197, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.197
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Valuing learners' experience and supporting further growth: educational models to help experienced adult learners in medicine
Penny Newman, Ed Peile
BMJ  2002;325:200-202, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.200
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Human African trypanosomiasis
August Stich, Paulo M Abel, Sanjeev Krishna
BMJ  2002;325:203-206, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.203
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ABC of psychological medicine: Anxiety in medical patients
Allan House, Dan Stark
BMJ  2002;325:207-209, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.207
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A gross story
George Dunea
BMJ  2002;325:227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.227/a
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Old docs, new tricks
Nicola Thompson
BMJ  2002;325:227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.227
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Anthropology in health research: from qualitative methods to multidisciplinarity
Helen Lambert, Christopher McKevitt
BMJ  2002;325:210-213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.210
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Quality improvement report: The "jaundice hotline" for the rapid assessment of patients with jaundice
Jonathan Mitchell, Hyder Hussaini, Dermot McGovern, Richard Farrow, Giles Maskell, Harry Dalton
BMJ  2002;325:213-215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.213
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Minerva
BMJ  2002;325:228, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.228
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One hundred years ago: A medical minister in Russia
BMJ  2002;325:185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.185/a
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One hundred years ago: Two remarkable medical women
BMJ  2002;325:203, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.203/a
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Minerva
BMJ  2002;325:195, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.195
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Science, medicine, and the future: New vaccine development
BMJ  2002;325:195, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.195/a
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Unexplained differences in sex ratios at birth in Europe and North America
BMJ  2002;325:195, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.195/b
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Art: Everything I Could Buy on eBayTM about Malaria
Claire McKenna
BMJ  2002;325:225, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.225
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Book: Disturbing Ground
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2002;325:226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.226
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Can this be true?
BMJ  2002;325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.0/h
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Hit parade
BMJ  2002;325:226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.226/b
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Website of the week: Disciplined doctors
Birte Twisselmann
BMJ  2002;325:226, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.226/a
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John ("Jack") Angell-James
Caroline Richmond
BMJ  2002;325:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.224
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Anthony Seymour ("Tony") Barling
Richard Barling
BMJ  2002;325:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.224/a
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Alan Philip Bray
Anne Bray
BMJ  2002;325:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.224/b
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Peter Johnson
Alan Johnson
BMJ  2002;325:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.224/c
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Prescribed exercise in people with fibromyalgia: parallel group randomised controlled trial
Selwyn C M Richards, David L Scott
BMJ  2002;325:185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.185
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Effect of smoke-free workplaces on smoking behaviour: systematic review
Caroline M Fichtenberg, Stanton A Glantz
BMJ  2002;325:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.188
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Alcohol consumption and mortality: modelling risks for men and women at different ages
Ian R White, Dan R Altmann, Kiran Nanchahal
BMJ  2002;325:191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.191
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Analysis of predicted coronary heart disease risk in England based on Framingham study risk appraisal models published in 1991 and 2000
Kiran Nanchahal, John R Duncan, Paul N Durrington, Rodney T Jackson
BMJ  2002;325:194-195, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.194
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The waiting time paradox: population based retrospective study of treatment delay and survival of women with endometrial cancer in Scotland
Simon C Crawford, Jonathan A Davis, Nadeem A Siddiqui, Linda de Caestecker, Charles R Gillis, David Hole, Gillian Penney
BMJ  2002;325:196, doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.196
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