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12 April 2008 (Vol 336, No 7648)
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Editor's choice: Think again
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.558148.47
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Continuous deep sedation in patients nearing death
Scott A Murray, Kirsty Boyd, Ira Byock
BMJ  2008;336:781-782, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39511.514051.80, (Published 14 March 2008)
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out of hospital cardiac arrest
Jasmeet Soar, Jerry P Nolan
BMJ  2008;336:782-783, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39541.489699.80, (Published 7 April 2008)
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Universal RHD genotyping in fetuses
Sailesh Kumar
BMJ  2008;336:783-784, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39533.358252.BE, (Published 3 April 2008)
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Oral bisphosphonates and atrial fibrillation
Sumit R Majumdar
BMJ  2008;336:784-785, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39513.481065.80, (Published 11 March 2008)
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Selecting medical students
Celia A Brown, Richard J Lilford
BMJ  2008;336:786, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39517.679977.80
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Over the counter medicines: Don’t include trimethoprim
Robin A Howe
BMJ  2008;336:787, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.480324.3A
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Direct to consumer advertising: A cynical consultation exercise?
Charles Medawar
BMJ  2008;336:787, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.489329.BE
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Direct to consumer advertising: Include cost of treatment
Anthony N Glaser
BMJ  2008;336:788, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.430451.3A
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UKCAT among the pigeons: Undermining access ...
David G Samuel
BMJ  2008;336:788, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.509063.3A
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UKCAT among the pigeons: ... and excluding the empathic
Geoffrey F Searle
BMJ  2008;336:788, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.467627.3A
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Health of the workers: Sick sick notes (sic)
Peter Hutchison, Colin Jamieson
BMJ  2008;336:788, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.474942.3A
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Health of the workers: Another ethical muddle for GMC
Anthony N Williams
BMJ  2008;336:788-789, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.452662.3A
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Health of the workers: Sick note, fit note, no note?
Martyn J F Davidson
BMJ  2008;336:789, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.435127.3A
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Predicting citations: Validating prediction models
Ewout W Steyerberg, Hester F Lingsma
BMJ  2008;336:789, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.610000.3A
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Ditching impact factors: Time for the single researcher impact factor
Gianluca Castelnuovo
BMJ  2008;336:789, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.514745.3A
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Gynaecomastia: Drugs and surgical concerns
John F Colin
BMJ  2008;336:790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.441539.3A
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Gynaecomastia: Are surgical guidelines realistic?
Negin Shamsian, Luke Jones, Sudip Ghosh
BMJ  2008;336:790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.719699.BE
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Robotic prostatectomy: Data, please
Gary J Schwitzer
BMJ  2008;336:790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.470012.3A
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GMC guidance on beliefs: Denies conscientious objection
Eugene G Breen
BMJ  2008;336:790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.450961.3A
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Multiple health problems: Presentation is important too
Nigel C Smeeton
BMJ  2008;336:790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.465451.3A
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Computer says yes: Let the patient decide
Michael F Vagg
BMJ  2008;336:790, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.463345.3A
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Paediatricians debate a motion of no confidence in General Medical Council
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2008;336:791, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.627685.DB
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BMA angered by below inflation pay offer
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2008;336:791, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.336736.DB
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Roche fined for breaching direct to consumer advertising ban and publishing unbalanced advertisements
Bob Burton
BMJ  2008;336:792, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.583669.DB
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US federal funded website bans "abortion" as search term
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2008;336:792-793, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.500833.DB
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EC proposals fail to distinguish between information and advertising
Rory Watson
BMJ  2008;336:792-793, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.406262.DB
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Growing trend for trials of new cancer drugs to stop early, review shows
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2008;336:793, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.565694.DB, (Published 9 April 2008)
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Survivor competition draws attention to problem of landmines
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2008;336:793, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.703646.BD
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In brief
BMJ  2008;336:794, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.589468.DB
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Doctors urged to prompt action on climate change
Anne Gulland
BMJ  2008;336:794-795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.338623.DB
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Canadian Medical Association launches online health consultations
Barbara Kermode-Scott
BMJ  2008;336:794-795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.351690.DB
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Doctors’ images grace gallery walls
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;336:795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39525.587731.4E
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Trusts need to improve their handling of complaints, commission says
Adrian O’Dowd
BMJ  2008;336:795, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.597743.DB
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Germany has two tier health service, study shows
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2008;336:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.400451.DB
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Exhibition explores the last taboo: death
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;336:796, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.424097.4E
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Unicef reports progress in reducing vertical transmission of HIV
BMJ  2008;336:796-797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.637512.DB
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Three in five patients on Portuguese waiting lists spurn scheme to get surgery sooner
Tiago Villanueva
BMJ  2008;336:796-797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.393669.DB
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Donors agree financial arrangement to stimulate vaccine development
Andrew Jack
BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.371956.DB
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Company’s decision to lengthen lipid lowering trial causes controversy
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.529028.DB
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US ready for healthcare reform, conference told
Richard Smith
BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.551574.DB
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Plagiarism detection service to be launched in June
Caroline White
BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.337963.DB
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Exposure to chemicals may contribute to risk of breast cancer, report says
Rory Watson
BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.605301.DB
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BMA asks government to support campaign for more consultants
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.513345.4E
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BMA welcomes expanded role for pharmacists
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.348426.DB
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Doctors are mostly happy in their work, but concerned at staffing levels, survey shows
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.442627.DB
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UK doctors show most interest in falls among elderly people, but French more curious about type 2 diabetes
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2008;336:797, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.608866.DB
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2008;336:798-799, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.570509.BE
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Public Health: Suicide and the internet
Lucy Biddle, Jenny Donovan, Keith Hawton, Navneet Kapur, David Gunnell
BMJ  2008;336:800-802, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39525.442674.AD
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Safety nets
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2008;336:803, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.565208.AD
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Public Policy: Does the NHS really need a constitution?
Rudolf Klein
BMJ  2008;336:804, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.432407.59
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Competition and integration in the English National Health Service
Chris Ham
BMJ  2008;336:805-807, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39532.445197.AD
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Let patients control the purse strings
Vidhya Alakeson
BMJ  2008;336:807-809, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39524.400498.AD
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Continuous deep sedation for patients nearing death in the Netherlands: descriptive study
Judith Rietjens, Johannes van Delden, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Hilde Buiting, Paul van der Maas, Agnes van der Heide
BMJ  2008;336:810-813, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39504.531505.25, (Published 14 March 2008)
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Use of bisphosphonates among women and risk of atrial fibrillation and flutter: population based case-control study
Henrik Toft Sørensen, Steffen Christensen, Frank Mehnert, Lars Pedersen, Roland D Chapurlat, Steven R Cummings, John A Baron
BMJ  2008;336:813-816, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39507.551644.BE, (Published 11 March 2008)
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Effect of high throughput RHD typing of fetal DNA in maternal plasma on use of anti-RhD immunoglobulin in RhD negative pregnant women: prospective feasibility study
Kirstin Finning, Pete Martin, Joanna Summers, Edwin Massey, Geoff Poole, Geoff Daniels
BMJ  2008;336:816-818, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39518.463206.25, (Published 3 April 2008)
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Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
Steven A Lubitz, Avi Fischer, Valentin Fuster
BMJ  2008;336:819-826, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39513.555150.BE
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Teaching Rounds: The self critical doctor: helping students become more reflective
Erik Driessen, Jan van Tartwijk, Tim Dornan
BMJ  2008;336:827-830, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39503.608032.AD
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Lesson of the Week: Pulmonary venous stenosis after treatment for atrial fibrillation
P Kojodjojo, T Wong, A R Wright, O M Kon, W Oldfield, P Kanagaratnam, D W Davies, N S Peters
BMJ  2008;336:830-832, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39457.764942.47
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10-minute consultation: Suspected premature menopause
Georgina Louise Jones, William Ledger, Caroline Mitchell
BMJ  2008;336:833, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39371.652604.94
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Radical Muslim doctors and what they mean for the NHS
Irfan Al-Alawi, Stephen Schwartz
BMJ  2008;336:834, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39282.655035.4E
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Review of the Week: Are doctors heartless about death?
Jerome P Kassirer
BMJ  2008;336:835, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.423530.DF
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From the Frontline: Doublespeak
Des Spence
BMJ  2008;336:836, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.585336.94
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Outside the Box: Benchmarking the turf
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2008;336:836, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.650764.59
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Between the Lines: A touch of class
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2008;336:837, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.516551.59
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Medical Classics: A Treatise of the Rickets: Being a Disease Common to Children
John Black
BMJ  2008;336:837, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39527.699387.4E
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Thomas Flannery, Stephen Cooke
BMJ  2008;336:840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39541.524514.47
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BMJ  2008;336:840, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39541.531586.47
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Hyperthyroidism and pregnancy
BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39545.531771.AD
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Efficacy of antidepressants
BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.427477.AD
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The return of the spoof
BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.444942.AD
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Congenital coronary artery disease
BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.459583.AD
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NHS should bring in measures to reduce its carbon footprint, BMA says
BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39546.613900.AD
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This week's obituaries [PDF]

Stuart Radcliffe Mawson
Harold Ludman
BMJ  2008;336:838, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39542.723958.BE
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John Robert Ball
Kenneth Kyle
BMJ  2008;336:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.763287.BE
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Edwin Robert Bickerstaff
John Walton Dechant, Lord Walto
BMJ  2008;336:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.461435.BE
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Ferdinand Hillman
Martin Hillman
BMJ  2008;336:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.712870.BE
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Frances Felicity Kerr (née Gibbs)
Henry R Rollin
BMJ  2008;336:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39539.733843.BE
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Hilary Owen Meredith King
Ronald LaPorte, University of Pittsburgh, Martin Silnk, International Diabetes Federation, Jean Claude Mbanya, International Diabetes Federation
BMJ  2008;336:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.497025.BE
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Peter Michael Roemmele
Ailbe Beirne
BMJ  2008;336:839, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39540.677083.BE
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