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19 July 2008 (Vol 337, No 7662)
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Conquering old age
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2008;337:a847 (Published )
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Sexuality and older people
Peggy J Kleinplatz
BMJ  2008;337:a239 (Published )
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Improving the safety of peripheral intravenous catheters
Dennis G Maki
BMJ  2008;337:a630 (Published )
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Incidence of bullous pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris
Pascal Joly
BMJ  2008;337:a209 (Published )
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Cross border health care in Europe
Martin McKee, Paul Belcher
BMJ  2008;337:a610 (Published )
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The future of primary and community care in England
Chris Ham
BMJ  2008;337:a819 (Published )
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Cancer drugs and copayments: Why not adopt the blacklist of yore?
L Sam Lewis
BMJ  2008;337:a807 (Published )
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Cancer drugs and copayments: Critical issue is rapidity of review of new drugs
Alan Rodger
BMJ  2008;337:a779 (Published )
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Darzi review: Clinical dashboards and open kimonos
Neil J Hughes
BMJ  2008;337:a787 (Published )
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NHS at 60: Doctors’ infantalisation
Alexandra Thomson-Moore
BMJ  2008;337:a791 (Published )
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Media and health service: How the government is failing the health service
Richard A D O'Brien
BMJ  2008;337:a784 (Published )
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Key opinion leaders: Thus are our medical meetings managed
Adriane Fugh-Berman
BMJ  2008;337:a789 (Published )
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Key opinion leaders: Getting them while they’re young
Carl J Reynolds, Tom Yates, Robert Hughes
BMJ  2008;337:a792 (Published )
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Key opinion leaders: How it really works
Bernard J Carroll
BMJ  2008;337:a788 (Published )
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Key opinion leaders: How to spot one
Alexander S D Spiers
BMJ  2008;337:a790 (Published )
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Key opinion leaders: High tech gadgetry introduced by stealth
Su Sethi, Claire O'Donnell
BMJ  2008;337:a782 (Published )
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A friend in need: General practitioners must have their own list
Alexander Michael Hall-Smith
BMJ  2008;337:a797 (Published )
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A friend in need: Caring still lives
David R Warriner
BMJ  2008;337:a798 (Published )
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Manners in medicine: What’s in a name?
Anke Medrington
BMJ  2008;337:a687 (Published )
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Antipsychotics for dementia: Antipsychotics for dementia is metaphor for elderly care
Paddy Quail
BMJ  2008;337:a796 (Published )
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Roche is suspended from ABPI for "actions likely to bring discredit" on the industry
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2008;337:a835 (Published )
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Prosecution over drug price fixing collapses
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2008;337:a814 (Published )
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Debate on abortion is deferred until autumn
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2008;337:a815 (Published )
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Standards for adult sickle cell disease aim to reduce gaps in care
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2008;337:a771 (Published )
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Report calls for better UK coordination to solve devolution problems
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2008;337:a832 (Published )
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Student rejected by Imperial because of conviction is granted interview at Manchester
Jessie Colquhoun
BMJ  2008;337:a830 (Published )
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Rising age of starting family in Netherlands reflects fall in younger not rise in older mothers
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2008;337:a773 (Published )
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US paediatricians and cardiologists are criticised for recommending statins for children
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;337:a813 (Published )
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European Commission plans free fruit and vegetable scheme in schools
Rory Watson
BMJ  2008;337:a829 (Published )
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FDA adds "black box" warning label to fluoroquinolone antibiotics
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;337:a816 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2008;337:a823 (Published )
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BMA meeting: Doctors call for Royal Commission on copayments
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;337:a765 (Published )
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News feature: Costly US anticancer drugs pose problems for doctors and patients
Fred Charatan
BMJ  2008;337:a778 (Published )
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Consensus emerges on need for US agency similar to NICE
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2008;337:a817 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2008;337:a774 (Published )
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Should disadvantaged people be paid to take care of their health? Yes.
Richard Cookson
BMJ  2008;337:a589 (Published )
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Should disadvantaged people be paid to take care of their health? No
Jennie Popay
BMJ  2008;337:a594 (Published )
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Public Health: New York’s road to health
Karen McColl
BMJ  2008;337:a673 (Published )
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Body Politic: A discriminating judgment
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2008;337:a809 (Published )
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Has the time come to take on time itself?
Colin Farrelly
BMJ  2008;337:a414 (Published )
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New model of health promotion and disease prevention for the 21st century
Robert N Butler, Richard A Miller, Daniel Perry, Bruce A Carnes, T Franklin Williams, Christine Cassel, Jacob Brody, Marie A Bernard, Linda Partridge, Thomas Kirkwood, George M Martin, S Jay Olshansky
BMJ  2008;337:a399 (Published )
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Secular trends in self reported sexual activity and satisfaction in Swedish 70 year olds: cross sectional survey of four populations, 1971-2001
Nils Beckman, Margda Waern, Deborah Gustafson, Ingmar Skoog
BMJ  2008;337:a279 (Published )
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Prognosis in patients with recent onset low back pain in Australian primary care: inception cohort study
Nicholas Henschke, Christopher G Maher, Kathryn M Refshauge, Robert D Herbert, Robert G Cumming, Jane Bleasel, John York, Anurina Das, James H McAuley
BMJ  2008;337:a171 (Published )
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Routine care of peripheral intravenous catheters versus clinically indicated replacement: randomised controlled trial
Joan Webster, Samantha Clarke, Dana Paterson, Anne Hutton, Stacey van Dyk, Catherine Gale, Tracey Hopkins
BMJ  2008;337:a339 (Published )
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Bullous pemphigoid and pemphigus vulgaris—incidence and mortality in the UK: population based cohort study
S M Langan, L Smeeth, R Hubbard, K M Fleming, C J P Smith, J West
BMJ  2008;337:a180 (Published )
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Management of breast cancer—Part II
Nicholas C Turner, Alison L Jones
BMJ  2008;337:a540 (Published )
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Pregnancy Plus: Inflammatory bowel disease in pregnancy
Charles B Ferguson, Samina Mahsud-Dornan, R Neil Patterson
BMJ  2008;337:a427 (Published )
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Lesson of the Week: Omeprazole and refractory hypomagnesaemia
N Shabajee, E J Lamb, I Sturgess, R W Sumathipala
BMJ  2008;337:a425 (Published )
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Personal View: The great NHS communication breakdown
Peter Davies
BMJ  2008;337:a664 (Published )
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Review of the Week: The secret of HIV control can be found in the back streets
Joanna Busza
BMJ  2008;337:a800 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Spam medicine
Des Spence
BMJ  2008;337:a810 (Published )
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Outside the Box: Anyone for Club Med?
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2008;337:a677 (Published )
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Between the Lines: The benefits of gout
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2008;337:a781 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Essays on the First Hundred Years of Anaesthesia
Aidan O'Donnell
BMJ  2008;337:a794 (Published )
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Qiu Fazu
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2008;337:a812 (Published )
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Joseph Michel Gaston Assing
Hedwig Assing
BMJ  2008;337:a767 (Published )
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Reginald Frederick Bolam
Susan Bolam
BMJ  2008;337:a668 (Published )
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Peter John Lennox Holt
Ruth Holt, Tom Warnes, Robert Bernstein
BMJ  2008;337:a751 (Published )
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Derek Conrad James
Matt James, Bob Graham
BMJ  2008;337:a768 (Published )
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Margery Lila Moncrieff (née Allen)
Clare Markham
BMJ  2008;337:a750 (Published )
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Harold Holmwood Reynard
P W Wenham
BMJ  2008;337:a689 (Published )
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Maxwell Stanley Sewell
Helen Sewell
BMJ  2008;337:a758 (Published )
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BMJ  2008;337:a783 (Published )
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Victoria H Smith, Stephen K Jones
BMJ  2008;337:a793 (Published )
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Drips, drains, and dressings
Anthony Craighill
BMJ  2008;337:a98 (Published )
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When I would use a new word: Abformation
Jonathan O'B Hourihane
BMJ  2008;337:a566 (Published )
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