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19 August 2006 (Vol 333, No 7564)
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Changing China
Rajendra Kale
BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.0-f
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Chinese women want small families and male children [Full text]
Hyperbaric oxygen may help neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy [Full text]
Serum vitamin B-12 assay results can mislead [Full text]
Women exposed to environmental tobacco smoke have increased mortality [Full text]
How to manage psoriasis [Full text]

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China's one child policy
Malcolm Potts
BMJ  2006;333:361-362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38938.412593.80
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Overweight and obesity in China
Yangfeng Wu
BMJ  2006;333:362-363, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.362
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Meeting the needs of elderly people in China
Tuohong Zhang, Yude Chen
BMJ  2006;333:363-364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.363
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China's health challenges
Tao Liu
BMJ  2006;333:365, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38943.408021.80
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Evidence based publishing
Leanne Tite, Sara Schroter
BMJ  2006;333:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.366
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Child Protection Companion: editorial group's reply to royal college rewriting history
Jean Price, Chris Hobbs, Jacqueline Mok, Alison Mott, Margaret Crawford, Sara Ghulam
BMJ  2006;333:395, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.395
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Antibiotics and acute purulent rhinitis: There is no significant difference between antibiotics
Christopher J Cates
BMJ  2006;333:395, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.395-a
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Antibiotics and acute purulent rhinitis: Are antibiotics effective for acute purulent rhinitis?
Joanne Rimmer, John Almeyda
BMJ  2006;333:395-396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.395-b
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Antibiotics and acute purulent rhinitis: Review is symptomatic of medicine today
Raymond Friedman
BMJ  2006;333:396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.396
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Antibiotics and acute purulent rhinitis: Authors' reply
B Arroll, T Kenealy
BMJ  2006;333:396, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.396-a
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Subarachnoid haemorrhage: lumbar puncture for every negative scan?
Timothy J Coats
BMJ  2006;333:396-397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.396-b
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Interpretation of screening test results: Best performers have the most to learn
Mark R Nelson
BMJ  2006;333:397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.397
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Interpretation of screening test results: Scenario does not reflect day to day practice
Mike Divers
BMJ  2006;333:397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.397-a
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Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia
Charis Marwick, William J Olver
BMJ  2006;333:397, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.397-b
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Outpatient treatment of falciparum malaria is possible
Mark Melzer
BMJ  2006;333:397-398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.397-c
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Overcoming barriers to recruitment in health research: Concerns of potential participants need to be dealt with
Iain K Crombie, Marion E T McMurdo, Linda Irvine, Brian Williams
BMJ  2006;333:398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.398
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Overcoming barriers to recruitment in health research: Some research ethics committees believe in facilitating ethical research
Michael S Pegg
BMJ  2006;333:398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.398-a
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Reforming death certification
Peter N Furness
BMJ  2006;333:398, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.398-b
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Rich nations are failing on universal access to antitretrovirals
Jocalyn Clark
BMJ  2006;333:367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.367
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NHS hospitals urged to improve medicines management
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2006;333:367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.367-a
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In brief
BMJ  2006;333:368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.368
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GSK breached marketing code
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2006;333:368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.368-a
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Execution of aid workers sparks outrage
Ganapati Murdur
BMJ  2006;333:368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.368-b
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Health risks emerge as ceasefire allows some humanitarian relief
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2006;333:369, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.369
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US academy warns of risks from shopping trolleys
Doug Kamerow
BMJ  2006;333:369, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.369-a
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One of us
Mark Gould
BMJ  2006;333:370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.370
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Women must take control of HIV prevention to curb spread of infection
Jocalyn Clark
BMJ  2006;333:370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.370-a
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Dutch government must meet cost of refugees’ psychiatric care
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2006;333:370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.370-b
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JAMA’s editor stresses authors’ need to disclose financial ties
Janice Tanne
BMJ  2006;333:370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.370-c
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Family size, fertility preferences, and sex ratio in China in the era of the one child family policy: results from national family planning and reproductive health survey
Qu Jian Ding, Therese Hesketh
BMJ  2006;333:371-373, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38775.672662.80, (Published 11 May 2006)
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Clinical effectiveness of treatment with hyperbaric oxygen for neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy: systematic review of Chinese literature
Zulian Liu, Tengbin Xiong, Catherine Meads
BMJ  2006;333:374, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38776.731655.2F, (Published 11 May 2006)
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Environmental tobacco smoke and mortality in Chinese women who have never smoked: prospective cohort study
Wanqing Wen, Xiao Ou Shu, Yu-Tang Gao, Gong Yang, Qi Li, Honglan Li, Wei Zheng
BMJ  2006;333:376, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38834.522894.2F, (Published 12 July 2006)
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Psoriasis and its management
Catherine H Smith, J N W N Barker
BMJ  2006;333:380-384, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.380
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Lesson of the week: Diagnosing vitamin B-12 deficiency on the basis of serum B-12 assay
Vinod Devalia
BMJ  2006;333:385-386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.385
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Short cuts: What's new in the other general journals
Kristina Fister
BMJ  2006;333:387-388, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.387
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Epidemics: What we have learnt from SARS epidemics in China
Nanshan Zhong, Guangqiao Zeng
BMJ  2006;333:389-391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.389
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Research priorities in traditional Chinese medicine
Jin-Ling Tang
BMJ  2006;333:391-394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.391
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Book: Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2006;333:401, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.401
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NETLINES
Harry Brown
BMJ  2006;333:402, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.402
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TV: Dispatches: Public Service, Private Profit
Trevor Jackson
BMJ  2006;333:402, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.402-a
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Personal view: The relief of communication
William G Pickering
BMJ  2006;333:403, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.403
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Soundings: Marriage à la mode
George Dunea
BMJ  2006;333:403, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.403-a
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Minerva
BMJ  2006;333:404, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.404
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bmjupdates+: Black cohosh does not relieve menopausal hot flushes
BMJ  2006;333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.0-e
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Do you have a gun?
Justin Daniels
BMJ  2006;333:373, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.373
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When going into urinary retention, call a... vet?
Bridget Pearson, Rowland Illing
BMJ  2006;333:379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.379
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Endpiece: Questions to members of the College of Physicians
Jeremy Hugh Baron
BMJ  2006;333:394, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.394
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Advice
BMJ  2006;333:399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.399-a
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I am in my second job of a psychiatry rotation and am due to sit the part 1 examination for membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in September. I am in a three year contract. I would like to move to a different geographical area to continue in psychiatry because of social circumstances. Would this be possible? If so, when would be the best time to do this and how would I be able to go about it?
Maire Cooney
BMJ  2006;333:s72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.s72, (Published 19 August 2006)
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I am a recent medical graduate and my internship will be completed by September 2006. I am interested in building up my career as a surgeon by obtaining the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS). How can I proceed?
Umar Sadat
BMJ  2006;333:s72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.s72-a, (Published 19 August 2006)
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I am looking for educational opportunities in a cancer research centre. I am in my second year of medical school and I want to do it in my summer vacation (two months). Can you advise me? I am an international student and don't know about UK research centres
Graham Williams
BMJ  2006;333:s72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.s72-b, (Published 19 August 2006)
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What is the status of a medical student who is a British graduate who qualifies from outside the European Union regarding the new rules for foundation year 1 and year 2 jobs?
Manoj Kumar
BMJ  2006;333:s72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.s72-c, (Published 19 August 2006)
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this week
Sabina Dosani
BMJ  2006;333:s73, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.s73, (Published 19 August 2006)
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Ambulance service doctor
Giancarlo Camilleri
BMJ  2006;333:s73-s74, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.s73-a, (Published 19 August 2006)
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Organising research meetings: a painless path to perfection
Sarah O'Donnell, Zvoru Makura
BMJ  2006;333:s75, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.s75, (Published 19 August 2006)
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Give me a break
Ian Gurney
BMJ  2006;333:s76-s77, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.s76, (Published 19 August 2006)
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All change: a new era as a specialist registrar
Rajnish Saha
BMJ  2006;333:s78, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.s78, (Published 19 August 2006)
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Foundation year 2 in ophthalmology
Dan Lindfield
BMJ  2006;333:s79, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.s79, (Published 19 August 2006)
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It's different for doctors
Peter Cross
BMJ  2006;333:s80, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.s80, (Published 19 August 2006)
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It's different for doctors
Sabina Dosani
BMJ  2006;333:s80, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.s80-a, (Published 19 August 2006)
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Fred Mosteller
Caroline Richmond
BMJ  2006;333:399, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.399
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Ronald Girdwood
Diana Drife, James Drife
BMJ  2006;333:400, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.400
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Robert Calwell
Nancy Haldane
BMJ  2006;333:400, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.400-a
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Neville Oswald
A R Bailey, S E Richardson, Née Oswald
BMJ  2006;333:400, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.400-b
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Mary Watson
Ian Fraser
BMJ  2006;333:400, doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7564.400-c
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