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The NHS in our hands
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2008;337:a663 (Published )
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What does the future hold for the NHS at 60?
Rudolf Klein
BMJ  2008;337:a549 (Published )
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Drugs for cancer and copayments
Ilora Finlay, Nigel Crisp
BMJ  2008;337:a527 (Published )
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Affect and heart disease
Virginia W Chang
BMJ  2008;337:a177 (Published )
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Endoscopic ablation for benign enlargement of the prostate
Sean P Elliott
BMJ  2008;337:a535 (Published )
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Mental capacity and psychiatric admission
John Dawson
BMJ  2008;337:a116 (Published )
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Complementary medicine: A very bad report on regulating complementary medicine
David Colquhoun
BMJ  2008;337:a591 (Published )
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Complementary medicine: Regulating herbal medicine and acupuncture: author’s reply
Robert M Pittilo
BMJ  2008;337:a590 (Published )
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Community acquired pneumonia: What about viral community acquired pneumonias?
G Y Shin
BMJ  2008;337:a598 (Published )
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Should we pay organ donors?: Case against paying donors was a litany of errors
Benjamin Hippen
BMJ  2008;337:a596 (Published )
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Sodium in drug treatments: Information about sodium in medicines is available
Joanne E McEntee
BMJ  2008;337:a599 (Published )
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Man of wit and clinical wisdom: Richard Asher’s resignation: not entirely honourable
Martin W McNicol
BMJ  2008;337:a601 (Published )
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Darzi review: Reward hospitals for improving quality, Lord Darzi says
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2008;337:a642 (Published )
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Darzi review: Government publishes a constitution for the NHS
Andrew Cole
BMJ  2008;337:a640 (Published )
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Darzi review: GPs will face more competition
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2008;337:a644 (Published )
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Darzi review: New body will oversee medical education in England
Edward Davies
BMJ  2008;337:a635 (Published )
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Darzi review: Right of patients to drugs recommended by NICE is strengthened
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2008;337:a660 (Published )
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Darzi review: Annual "quality accounts" will help improve services and increase choice for patients, says Lord Darzi
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;337:a646 (Published )
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WHO European region commits to new health charter
Tessa Richards
BMJ  2008;337:a621 (Published )
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Black women in US have lower survival rates from breast cancer than white women
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2008;337:a586 (Published )
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Publishing data on patient survival does not deter surgeons from taking difficult cases
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2008;337:a583 (Published )
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German soap opera has thinly veiled references to branded drugs, regulator says
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2008;337:a619 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2008;337:a625 (Published )
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Smoking bans reduce heart attack admissions
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2008;337:a597 (Published )
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Bethlem seeks home for collection of art by psychiatric patients
Wendy Moore
BMJ  2008;337:a626 (Published )
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WHO launches guide to safer surgery
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2008;337:a623 (Published )
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Is the food crisis eclipsing the importance of water?
Geoff Watts
BMJ  2008;337:a604 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2008;337:a582 (Published )
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Ethics Man: "What does the law say?"
Daniel K Sokol
BMJ  2008;337:a617 (Published )
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NHS at 60: How the media are failing the health service
Jon Snow
BMJ  2008;337:a572 (Published )
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NHS Anniversary: The NHS debate
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2008;337:a628 (Published )
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NHS at 60: A fairly happy birthday
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2008;337:a524 (Published )
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Personal paper: A friend in need: why friendship matters in medicine
David Loxterkamp
BMJ  2008;337:a528 (Published )
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Positive and negative affect and risk of coronary heart disease: Whitehall II prospective cohort study
Hermann Nabi, Mika Kivimaki, Roberto De Vogli, Michael G Marmot, Archana Singh-Manoux
BMJ  2008;337:a118 (Published )
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Alternative approaches to endoscopic ablation for benign enlargement of the prostate: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
Tania Lourenco, Robert Pickard, Luke Vale, Adrian Grant, Cynthia Fraser, Graeme MacLennan, James N'Dow, and the Benign Prostatic Enlargement team
BMJ  2008;337:a449 (Published )
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Mental capacity to make decisions on treatment in people admitted to psychiatric hospitals: cross sectional study
Gareth S Owen, Genevra Richardson, Anthony S David, George Szmukler, Peter Hayward, Matthew Hotopf
BMJ  2008;337:a448 (Published )
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Multiple vaccinations, health, and recall bias within UK armed forces deployed to Iraq: cohort study
Dominic Murphy, Matthew Hotopf, Simon Wessely
BMJ  2008;337:a220 (Published )
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All Greek to me
Helen Halpern
BMJ  2008;337:a550 (Published )
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Use and misuse of drugs and alcohol in adolescence
Paul McArdle
BMJ  2008;337:a306 (Published )
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Practice Pointer: Consultations for people from minority groups
Aziz Sheikh, Rashid Gatrad, Sangeeta Dhami
BMJ  2008;337:a273 (Published )
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Personal View: Top-ups for cancer drugs: can we kill the zombie for good?
Cam Donaldson
BMJ  2008;337:a578 (Published )
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Review of the Week: 1948 and all that
Peter Davies
BMJ  2008;337:a573 (Published )
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From the Frontline: University blues
Des Spence
BMJ  2008;337:a609 (Published )
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Past Caring: Two hundred and thirty years before Beveridge
Wendy Moore
BMJ  2008;337:a571 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Poetry in potions
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2008;337:a612 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
Kate Robertson
BMJ  2008;337:a614 (Published )
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Oscar Davis Ratnoff
Caroline Richmond
BMJ  2008;337:a606 (Published )
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Alfred Michael Emmerson
Lisa Smyth
BMJ  2008;337:a581 (Published )
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Frederic James Flint
Alan Caunt
BMJ  2008;337:a580 (Published )
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Douglas Harrett
Gareth Crompton
BMJ  2008;337:a552 (Published )
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Peter Morgan
John F Morgan
BMJ  2008;337:a577 (Published )
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Thomas Cyril Noble
Alan Craft
BMJ  2008;337:a331 (Published )
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Anita Panda (née Pal)
Sudipta Banerjee
BMJ  2008;337:a322 (Published )
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Michael Symons
Peter Leedham
BMJ  2008;337:a579 (Published )
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BMJ  2008;337:a588 (Published )
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Susannah Hoey, Sai Yee Chuah, Helen Poole, Sam Allen
BMJ  2008;337:a587 (Published )
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