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29 March 2008 (Vol 336, No 7646)
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Of medicine and medicines
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39532.436667.47
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Renal complications of childhood type 1 diabetes
Jean-Claude Carel, Claire Levy-Marchal
BMJ  2008;336:677-678, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.508241.80, (Published 18 March 2008)
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Treatment of brucellosis
Georgios Pappas
BMJ  2008;336:678-679, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39497.431528.80, (Published 5 March 2008)
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African sleeping sickness
Francesco Checchi, Michael P Barrett
BMJ  2008;336:679-680, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39505.490544.BE, (Published 5 March 2008)
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New treatments for kidney cancer
Jonathan Waxman, Laura Kenny, Sarah Ngan
BMJ  2008;336:681-682, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39469.564734.80
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Health of the working age population
David Snashall
BMJ  2008;336:682, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39532.509815.80
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Evaluating diagnostic tests: Selecting diagnostic tests for evaluation
Nicholas Summerton
BMJ  2008;336:683, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39525.550764.3A
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Very tight glucose control: May be high risk, low benefit
John S Yudkin
BMJ  2008;336:683, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39520.531319.3A
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Refused asylum seekers: Seeking medical justice
Frank W Arnold
BMJ  2008;336:683-684, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39520.553438.3A
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Refused asylum seekers: Impractical and unjust
Duncan A H Edwards
BMJ  2008;336:684, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39520.564792.3A
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Cabin fever: "Most experts agree"
Nigel P Dowdall
BMJ  2008;336:684, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39525.512176.3A
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Cabin fever: Practical points
David N Greig,
BMJ  2008;336:684, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39525.516968.3A
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Doctors must put patients’ needs ahead of their personal beliefs
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2008;336:685, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39532.354907.DB
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English trusts will be allowed to advertise their services
Deborah Cohen
BMJ  2008;336:685, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39527.501701.DB, (Published 20 March 2008)
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In brief
BMJ  2008;336:686, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39527.643507.DB
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Drug industry anxious about scrapping price regulation scheme
Andrew Cole
BMJ  2008;336:686, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39526.738345.DB
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GPs working in singlehanded practices earn most
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2008;336:686-687, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39527.688750.DB
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Robotic prostatectomy transmitted live to engineers to promote collaboration
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2008;336:687, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39532.355752.DB
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European agency rejects links between hyperactivity and food additives
Rory Watson
BMJ  2008;336:687, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39527.401644.DB, (Published 20 March 2008)
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Opening the lid on open access
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2008;336:688-689, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39526.467951.DB
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Exhibition hopes to give Gray’s Anatomy artist his proper due
Wendy Moore
BMJ  2008;336:688-689, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39526.647176.DB, (Published 26 March 2008)
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Germany set to introduce electronic patient cards despite doctors’ opposition
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2008;336:689, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39532.359688.DB
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Latin American group created to promote sexual and reproductive health
Sara Carrillo de Albornoz
BMJ  2008;336:689, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39526.549097.DB
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Ethiopia plans to train extra 9000 doctors to fill gap left by migration
Henry Wasswa
BMJ  2008;336:689, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39525.419803.4E
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UK government makes it easier for health professionals to do voluntary work abroad
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2008;336:689, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39527.366065.DB
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GP advised patients to take pills made by company she worked for
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2008;336:689, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39532.350729.DB
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Watchdog scrutinises apparently high death rates at NHS trust
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;336:689, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39525.406308.4E, (Published 18 March 2008)
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Screen all pregnant women for risk factors for gestational diabetes, says NICE
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;336:689, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39532.621435.DB, (Published 26 March 2008)
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2008;336:690, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39526.462905.BE
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Medical Education: UKCAT among the pigeons
Jane Cassidy
BMJ  2008;336:691-692, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39519.621111.59
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Border Crossing: Purely medicinal?
Tessa Richards
BMJ  2008;336:693, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39527.454560.59
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Over the counter medicines: proceed with caution
Robin E Ferner, Keith Beard
BMJ  2008;336:694-696, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39504.389676.AD
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Risk of microalbuminuria and progression to macroalbuminuria in a cohort with childhood onset type 1 diabetes: prospective observational study
Rakesh Amin, Barry Widmer, A Toby Prevost, Phillip Schwarze, Jason Cooper, Julie Edge, Loredana Marcovecchio, Andrew Neil, R Neil Dalton, David B Dunger
BMJ  2008;336:697-701, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39478.378241.BE, (Published 18 March 2008)
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Treatment of human brucellosis: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Keren Skalsky, Dafna Yahav, Jihad Bishara, Silvio Pitlik, Leonard Leibovici, Mical Paul
BMJ  2008;336:701-704, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39497.500903.25, (Published 5 March 2008)
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Safety and effectiveness of first line eflornithine for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense sleeping sickness in Sudan: cohort study
Gerardo Priotto, Loretxu Pinoges, Isaac Badi Fursa, Barbara Burke, Nathalie Nicolay, Guillaume Grillet, Cathy Hewison, Manica Balasegaram
BMJ  2008;336:705-708, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39485.592674.BE, (Published 5 March 2008)
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Gynaecomastia and breast cancer in men
Catherine B Niewoehner, Anna E Schorer
BMJ  2008;336:709-713, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39511.493391.BE
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Guidelines: Management of diabetes from preconception to the postnatal period: summary of NICE guidance
The Guideline Development Group
BMJ  2008;336:714-717, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39505.641273.AD
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Commentary: Controversies in management of diabetes from preconception to the postnatal period
Lucy C Chappell, Sarah J Germain
BMJ  2008;336:717-718, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39518.615058.AE
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Teaching Rounds: Role modelling—making the most of a powerful teaching strategy
Sylvia R Cruess, Richard L Cruess, Yvonne Steinert
BMJ  2008;336:718-721, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39503.757847.BE
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Why promote the findings of single research studies?
Paul Wilson, Mark Petticrew, on behalf of the Medical Research Council’s Population Health Sciences Research Network knowledge transfer project team
BMJ  2008;336:722, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39525.447361.94
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Review of the Week: Food to die for?
Benjamin Caballero
BMJ  2008;336:723, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.639560.34
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From the Frontline: Computer says yes
Des Spence
BMJ  2008;336:724, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39527.440417.59
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The Bigger Picture: Avatars
Mary E Black
BMJ  2008;336:724, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39526.717292.59
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Between the Lines: Modern love
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2008;336:725, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39526.665579.59
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Medical Classics: Ice Anatomy
Boleslav Lichterman
BMJ  2008;336:725, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39372.653981.13
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Rosalione C Gait, Graham A Johnston
BMJ  2008;336:728, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39525.399132.80
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BMJ  2008;336:728, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39525.406574.80
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A lesson relearnt
Vasandhara Mahendrayogam
BMJ  2008;336:721, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39451.595729.DE
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Public-private partnership in cord blood banking
BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39532.426933.AD
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Felix Spector
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2008;336:726, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39520.528264.BE
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Ian Gordon Conn
John W Gibb
BMJ  2008;336:727, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39518.651539.BE
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Terence Gould
Peter Gould
BMJ  2008;336:727, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.664375.BE
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Herbert Hugh John
Catherine John
BMJ  2008;336:727, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.737720.BE
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Ivan David Alexander Johnston
N Alan Green, Peter Craig
BMJ  2008;336:727, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.781493.BE
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Konrad Sigmund Rodan
Christopher Bateman, Colin Rist, Tony Roques
BMJ  2008;336:727, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39512.601551.BE
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James Valentine
James Valentine, Tim Jerram
BMJ  2008;336:727, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.715174.BE
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