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12 July 2008 (Vol 337, No 7661)
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Olympic dreams
Domhnall MacAuley
BMJ  2008;337:a739 (Published )
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Sudden cardiac death in young athletes
Jonathan A Drezner, Karim Khan
BMJ  2008;337:a309 (Published )
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Imported malaria in the UK
Jane N Zuckerman
BMJ  2008;337:a135 (Published )
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Genetic engineering in athletes
Dominic Wells
BMJ  2008;337:a607 (Published )
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Antipsychotics for people with dementia
John O'Brien
BMJ  2008;337:a602 (Published )
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Enhancing the quality and transparency of health research
Trish Groves
BMJ  2008;337:a718 (Published )
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Body piercing in England: Health and regulation issues for body piercing
Umo I Esen
BMJ  2008;337:a595 (Published )
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Body piercing in England: Double standards in obtaining consent for piercings
Avril F Danczak
BMJ  2008;337:a593 (Published )
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Emergency anaphylaxis: Role of {alpha} agonists in treating anaphylaxis
Simon T L Hebard, Andy J Ball
BMJ  2008;337:a600 (Published )
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NICE on refeeding syndrome: Attitudes to NICE guidance on refeeding syndrome
Aminda De Silva, Trevor Smith, Mike Stroud
BMJ  2008;337:a680 (Published )
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International conferences: Surgeons have held conferences in Second Life
Julian J Leong, James Kinross, David Taylor, Sanjay Purkayastha
BMJ  2008;337:a683 (Published )
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International conferences: Virtual congress of general practice is thriving
N P Viswanathan
BMJ  2008;337:a681 (Published )
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NHS and private money: National cancer director responds on top-up payments
Mike Richards
BMJ  2008;337:a686 (Published )
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NICE recommendations have had little effect on multiple sclerosis services five years on
Lisa Hitchen
BMJ  2008;337:a734 (Published )
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Junior doctors’ desire to practise falls in first year of training
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;337:a704 (Published )
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Internet crawler uses unconventional information sources to track infectious disease outbreaks
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2008;337:a742 (Published )
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Project seeks to improve dancers’ health
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2008;337:a721 (Published )
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Southall cleared of conducting trial without parents’ consent
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2008;337:a707 (Published )
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Lords committee comes down against presumed consent for organ donation
Siddhartha Yadav
BMJ  2008;337:a698 (Published )
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Portraits aim to highlight women’s contribution to surgery
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2008;337:a724 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2008;337:a738 (Published )
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German watchdog investigates drug company’s online education courses
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2008;337:a723 (Published )
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Legitimise Sydney’s injecting centre, says departing director
Melissa Sweet
BMJ  2008;337:a732 (Published )
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Pfizer stops funding medical education provided by profit making companies
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;337:a708 (Published )
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UN warns of millions at risk of starvation in drought stricken Ethiopia, Somalia, and Afghanistan
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2008;337:a709 (Published )
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BMA chairman denies reports that he opposes copayments
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;337:a715 (Published )
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BMA meeting: "Darzi palaces" are being procured without proper local consultation, say doctors
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;337:a730 (Published )
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BMA meeting: Market reforms have failed to deliver better health care, say doctors
Andrew Cole
BMJ  2008;337:a725 (Published )
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BMA calls for ban on smoking images that "keep the habit cool" among children
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;337:a713 (Published )
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BMJ  2008;337:a694 (Published )
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Should geriatric medicine remain a specialty? Yes
Leon Flicker
BMJ  2008;337:a516 (Published )
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Should geriatric medicine remain a specialty? No
C P Denaro, A Mudge
BMJ  2008;337:a515 (Published )
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Environmental health: How clean is your water?
Geoff Watts
BMJ  2008;337:a237 (Published )
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Life and Death: R-E-S-P-E-C-T—find out what it means
Iona Heath
BMJ  2008;337:a672 (Published )
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Globalisation of anti-doping: the reverse side of the medal
Bengt Kayser, Aaron C T Smith
BMJ  2008;337:a584 (Published )
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Cardiovascular evaluation, including resting and exercise electrocardiography, before participation in competitive sports: cross sectional study
Francesco Sofi, Andrea Capalbo, Nicola Pucci, Jacopo Giuliattini, Francesca Condino, Flavio Alessandri, Rosanna Abbate, Gian Franco Gensini, Sergio Califano
BMJ  2008;337:a346 (Published )
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Association between muscular strength and mortality in men: prospective cohort study
Jonatan R Ruiz, Xuemei Sui, Felipe Lobelo, James R Morrow Jr, Allen W Jackson, Michael Sjostrom, Steven N Blair
BMJ  2008;337:a439 (Published )
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Neuromuscular training and the risk of leg injuries in female floorball players: cluster randomised controlled study
Kati Pasanen, Jari Parkkari, Matti Pasanen, Hannele Hiilloskorpi, Tanja Makinen, Markku Jarvinen, Pekka Kannus
BMJ  2008;337:a295 (Published )
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Secular decline in mortality from coronary heart disease in adults with diabetes mellitus: cohort study
Ane Cecilie Dale, Lars J Vatten, Tom Ivar Nilsen, Kristian Midthjell, Rune Wiseth
BMJ  2008;337:a236 (Published )
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Imported malaria and high risk groups: observational study using UK surveillance data 1987-2006
Adrian D Smith, David J Bradley, Valerie Smith, Marie Blaze, Ron H Behrens, Peter L Chiodini, Christopher J M Whitty
BMJ  2008;337:a120 (Published )
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Management of breast cancer—Part I
Nicholas C Turner, Alison L Jones
BMJ  2008;337:a421 (Published )
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Rational Imaging: Investigating occult gastrointestinal haemorrhage
H R Dalton, G F Maskell
BMJ  2008;337:a422 (Published )
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The problem in setting research priorities: a layman’s experience
Lester Firkins
BMJ  2008;337:a212 (Published )
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Review of the Week: The need for speed: the fast and furious marketing of amphetamines
Allen Shaughnessy
BMJ  2008;337:a741 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Medicine’s living death
Des Spence
BMJ  2008;337:a674 (Published )
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The Best Medicine: A real country herbalist
Liam Farrell
BMJ  2008;337:a712 (Published )
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Between the Lines: The interesting question of the neurotic heart
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2008;337:a700 (Published )
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Medical Classics: The Lives of a Cell
Douglas Kamerow
BMJ  2008;337:a720 (Published )
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Paul Louis Tessier
Barry M Jones
BMJ  2008;337:a693 (Published )
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William Atchison Boyd
Robert Logan
BMJ  2008;337:a667 (Published )
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Lisa Joan Fook
Dawn Fook, Nadine Carroll
BMJ  2008;337:a665 (Published )
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Edmund Frederick Griffith
I A Campbell
BMJ  2008;337:a684 (Published )
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Peter Jespersen Lyne
Brian Latham
BMJ  2008;337:a685 (Published )
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Alexander Maitland Rennie
James McLauchlan
BMJ  2008;337:a662 (Published )
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Anthony Reynold Lucius Weekes
Chineze Otigbah
BMJ  2008;337:a214 (Published )
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Joanna Moore, Barbara Gilbank
BMJ  2008;337:a701 (Published )
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Ageing joints
Ruth Booker
BMJ  2008;337:a61 (Published )
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The carbon footprint of specialty training in general surgery
Laura Hewitt
BMJ  2008;337:a274 (Published )
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