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Editor's choice: Sex and violence
Jane Smith
BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39174.288877.3B
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US editor's choice: Curbing medical enthusiasm
Elizabeth Loder
BMJ  2007;334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39175.409132.3A
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Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis
Rachael Jones, Fiona Boag
BMJ  2007;334:703-704, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.545417.80
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Coeliac disease in primary care
Roger Jones
BMJ  2007;334:704-705, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.410347.80
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The 2006 WHO child growth standards
Martin Bloem
BMJ  2007;334:705-706, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39155.658843.BE
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Intimate partner violence
Lorraine E Ferris
BMJ  2007;334:706-707, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39168.644757.BE
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Hospital acquired infection
John Starr
BMJ  2007;334:708, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39169.601285.80
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Clostridium difficile: Improvement targets for C difficile must be valid
M A Cooper, P M Hawkey
BMJ  2007;334:709, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39169.900475.1F
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Transparency in NICE: Let's open whole process of cost effective modelling
Jack Dowie
BMJ  2007;334:709, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39169.919630.1F
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Global partnership: UK doctors are already put off by changes in training
Malcolm Molyneux
BMJ  2007;334:709-710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39169.916296.1F
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Not even a dog's life: It's not a question of dogs or babies
Andrew A Gardiner
BMJ  2007;334:710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39169.905220.1F
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Not even a dog's life: Wish I was a celebrity's pet
Siddhartha Yadav
BMJ  2007;334:710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39169.914780.1F
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Hyperthyroidism: Total thyroidectomy is best operation for thyrotoxicosis
R James A England, Steve Atkin
BMJ  2007;334:710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39169.908229.1F
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Impact factors: The dark side
Helen E J Miller
BMJ  2007;334:710, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39169.894398.1F
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Hewitt accuses some Muslim GPs of betraying confidentiality
Michael Day
BMJ  2007;334:711, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39174.505185.DB
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Appoint someone to make medical decisions if you are incapacitated, BMA says
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2007;334:711, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39174.355891.DB
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German doctors protest about firm offering fetal sex tests in early pregnancy
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2007;334:712, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.736412.DB
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Electronic prescribing needed in hospitals to monitor use of antibiotics
Lisa Hitchen
BMJ  2007;334:712, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39171.624664.DB
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Experts recommend circumcision to combat male HIV infections in Africa
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2007;334:712-713, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39171.431736.DB
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Drugs are as good as PCI in stable coronary artery disease, study shows
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2007;334:713, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39174.633403.DB
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In Brief: News
BMJ  2007;334:714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39174.391019.DB
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Safety agency makes better use of anticoagulants its top priority
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2007;334:714, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.698356.DB
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Head of UK scheme to improve junior doctors' training resigns over job application debacle
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2007;334:715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39174.463449.DB
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Hewitt predicts 3% NHS growth for three years from 2008
Nicholas Timmins
BMJ  2007;334:715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.517940.DB
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Virtual teaching offers practitioners new style of radiotherapy training
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2007;334:715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39174.441227.DB
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English government consults on new law to reduce spread of infection
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2007;334:715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.633252.DB
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MMR controversy has left parents emotionally scarred, study finds
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2007;334:715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39174.371493.DB
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Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals told to improve team work
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2007;334:715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.684884.DB
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Congress too prescriptive in saying how president's AIDS fund should be spent, report says
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2007;334:715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39174.353079.DB
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Shortcuts from other journals: Hope is fading fast for torcetrapib
BMJ  2007;334:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.502581.80
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Shortcuts from other journals: Rosuvastatin halts early atherosclerosis in low risk adults
BMJ  2007;334:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7596.716-a
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Shortcuts from other journals: People with stable coronary artery disease need drugs first, not stents
BMJ  2007;334:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7596.716-b
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Shortcuts from other journals: Infected prosthetic heart valves are still dangerous
BMJ  2007;334:716, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7596.716-c
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Research ethics: Duplicate publication: a bitter dispute
Jonathan Gornall
BMJ  2007;334:717-720, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39168.517234.AD
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Human papillomavirus vaccine: Life saving treatment or giant experiment?
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2007;334:721-723, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.510127.AD
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Body politic: The royal colleges must up their game—or die
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2007;334:724, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.469780.59
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Screening programmes for chlamydial infection: when will we ever learn?
Nicola Low
BMJ  2007;334:725-728, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39154.378079.BE
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Pre-endoscopy serological testing for coeliac disease: evaluation of a clinical decision tool
Andrew D Hopper, Simon S Cross, David P Hurlstone, Mark E McAlindon, Alan J Lobo, Marios Hadjivassiliou, Marion E Sloan, Simon Dixon, David S Sanders
BMJ  2007;334:729, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39133.668681.BE, (Published 23 March 2007)
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Commentary: Reaching a milestone in diagnosing coeliac disease
Mark L Graber, Atul Kumar
BMJ  2007;334:732, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39161.587720.BE, (Published 23 March 2007)
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Operational implications of using 2006 World Health Organization growth standards in nutrition programmes: secondary data analysis
Andrew Seal, Marko Kerac
BMJ  2007;334:733, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39101.664109.AE, (Published 23 February 2007)
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Managing the menopause
Helen Roberts
BMJ  2007;334:736-741, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39153.522535.BE
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Pregnancy Plus: Type 1 diabetes and pregnancy
Roy Taylor, John M Davison
BMJ  2007;334:742-745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39154.700417.BE
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10-minute consultation: Intermittent claudication
Roger W Simon, Andr Simon-Schulthess, Beatrice R Amann-Vesti
BMJ  2007;334:746, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39036.624306.68
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Personal view: Keeping it secret
Anonymous
BMJ  2007;334:747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.639699.59
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Review of the week: Home truths about domestic violence
Piyal Sen
BMJ  2007;334:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.696887.59
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Review of the week: Seeing is believing
Khalid Ali
BMJ  2007;334:749, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.685590.59
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From the frontline: "Whatever"
Des Spence
BMJ  2007;334:750, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.424977.59
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The bigger picture: Rotten jobs
Mary Black
BMJ  2007;334:750, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.612986.59
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Between the lines: Help for hypochondriacks
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2007;334:751, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39164.450475.47
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Medical classics: The Story of San Michele
Richard Smith
BMJ  2007;334:751, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.673808.59
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Minerva
BMJ  2007;334:754, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.528148.791
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Minerva
Sriparna Basu, S Kabiraj, Somprakas Basu
BMJ  2007;334:754, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39170.528148.79
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Analysis articles: advice to authors
BMJ  2007;334:728, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39150.422836.DE
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bmjlearning.com: Pickwick Club: posthumous papers
Kieran Walsh
BMJ  2007;334:745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39140.694664.BE
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The MTAS process
Philip Wilkinson
BMJ  2007;334:s122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7596.s122, (Published 7 April 2007)
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It is time to stand up to the politicians
Richard R Clark
BMJ  2007;334:s122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7596.s122-a, (Published 7 April 2007)
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LETTER OF THE MONTH While we are all so busy worrying about the patients... who is looking after the doctors?
Tafadzwa Makaya
BMJ  2007;334:s122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7596.s122-b, (Published 7 April 2007)
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Clerical and medical
Sabina Dosani
BMJ  2007;334:s123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7596.s123, (Published 7 April 2007)
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Medicine to ministry
Rob McGuire
BMJ  2007;334:s123-s124, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7596.s123-a, (Published 7 April 2007)
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Working in rural South Africa
Anthony Andrews
BMJ  2007;334:s125-s126, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7596.s125, (Published 7 April 2007)
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How to become a good surgeon
Paul D Hamilton
BMJ  2007;334:s127-s128, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7596.s127, (Published 7 April 2007)
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The chief medical officer
Rachel Hooke
BMJ  2007;334:s129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7596.s129, (Published 7 April 2007)
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Certificate in counselling
Sharon McConville
BMJ  2007;334:gp135, doi: 10.1136/bmj.334.7596.sgp135, (Published 7 April 2007)
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Irina Victorovna Gannushkina
Boleslav Lichterman, Irina Konorova
BMJ  2007;334:752, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39168.978067.BE
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Abdul Razzak Jasim Al-Sheikhli
Stephen Al-Sheikhli
BMJ  2007;334:753, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39168.926956.BE
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Joseph Maxime Gerald Midol Brookes
R Gibbons
BMJ  2007;334:753, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.671366.FA
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Thomas Henry Flewett
Dick Madeley, Alasdair Geddes
BMJ  2007;334:753, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39167.721898.FA
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Peter Gordon Harries
Simon Harries, G H Grant McMillan
BMJ  2007;334:753, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39168.749317.BE
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George James Miller
Tom Meade, Norman Miller, Peter MacCallum
BMJ  2007;334:753, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39168.678519.BE
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Saiyid Zafar Husain Zaidi
Makki H Hameed
BMJ  2007;334:753, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39163.244340.BE
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