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9 August 2008 (Vol 337, No 7665)
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Amnesia strikes the memory business
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2008;337:a1116 (Published )
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Human papillomavirus vaccination in the UK
Jane J Kim
BMJ  2008;337:a842 (Published )
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Open access to research
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2008;337:a1051 (Published )
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Providing information for patients
Elizabeth Murray
BMJ  2008;337:a280 (Published )
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Early vaccination against measles in developing countries
H Broutin, M A Miller
BMJ  2008;337:a406 (Published )
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Doctors’ complicity with torture
Steven H Miles
BMJ  2008;337:a1088 (Published )
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Sun and melanoma: Consequences of saying sun is not major cause of melanoma
Ashley J Cooper
BMJ  2008;337:a1126 (Published )
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Sun and melanoma: Time to go to get your hat
Richard Quinton, Simon H S Pearce, John L Sievenpiper
BMJ  2008;337:a1130 (Published )
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Sun and melanoma: Use your head and put a hat on it
Marc D Moncrieff, Jennifer Garioch
BMJ  2008;337:a1131 (Published )
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Sun and melanoma: What about acral lentiginous melanoma?
Andrew Burd
BMJ  2008;337:a1133 (Published )
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Imported malaria: Imported malaria is falling in Netherlands and Europe
Perry J van Genderen, Dennis A Hesselink, Jacob M Bezemer
BMJ  2008;337:a1026 (Published )
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Imported malaria: Travel industry should highlight malaria prophylaxis
Edward Green, Rohit Bazaz, Steve T Green
BMJ  2008;337:a1027 (Published )
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Bullous pemphigoid: Is the incidence of pemphigoid really increasing?
Richard W Groves, Balbir Bhogal, Kathy Taghipour, Paola Caposciutti, Monika Saha
BMJ  2008;337:a1138 (Published )
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Payment to look after health: Incentive mechanisms require deeper understanding
Richard E Ashcroft, Theresa M Marteau, Adam Oliver
BMJ  2008;337:a1135 (Published )
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Payment to look after health: Family payments: a cautionary tale for policy makers
Patricia J Lucas
BMJ  2008;337:a1134 (Published )
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Internet and health care: iwantgreatcare: problems
Sukhpal S Gill
BMJ  2008;337:a1136 (Published )
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Internet and health care: Bush telegraph more effective
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2008;337:a1137 (Published )
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League of disruptive specialties: Disruptive, neurologists?
Richard J Davenport
BMJ  2008;337:a1141 (Published )
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FDA oversight of drug company promotion of off-label use is poor, US watchdog says
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;337:a1163 (Published )
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Number of homicides related to mental disorder has fallen since 1970s in England and Wales, study finds
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2008;337:a1113 (Published )
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Over 60s’ use of prescription drugs has doubled in past decade in England
Andrew Cole
BMJ  2008;337:a1132 (Published )
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Public health is at risk of mainstreaming jargon, study shows
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2008;337:a1109 (Published )
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One in seven people in England can’t get GP appointment within two days, survey shows
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2008;337:a1117 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2008;337:a1173 (Published )
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WHO says more HIV patients should be screened for tuberculosis
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2008;337:a1181 (Published )
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Performance related pay doesn’t improve quality of primary care, US study finds
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;337:a1160 (Published )
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Munich surgeons perform world’s first transplantation of whole arms
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2008;337:a1162 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2008;337:a1129 (Published )
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Are learning portfolios worth the effort? Yes
Erik Driessen
BMJ  2008;337:a513 (Published )
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Are learning portfolios worth the effort? No
Geoff Norman
BMJ  2008;337:a514 (Published )
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NHS Care for Overseas Patients: Free for all?
Jane Cassidy
BMJ  2008;337:a1111 (Published )
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Personal Profile: George Godber at 100
David Brindle
BMJ  2008;337:a1151 (Published )
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Only Connect: Too quietly into the night
Nicholas A Christakis
BMJ  2008;337:a696 (Published )
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Use of GRADE grid to reach decisions on clinical practice guidelines when consensus is elusive
Roman Jaeschke, Gordon H Guyatt, Phil Dellinger, Holger Schunemann, Mitchell M Levy, Regina Kunz, Susan Norris, Julian Bion, for the GRADE working group
BMJ  2008;337:a744 (Published )
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Economic evaluation of human papillomavirus vaccination in the United Kingdom
Mark Jit, Yoon Hong Choi, W John Edmunds
BMJ  2008;337:a769 (Published )
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Interventions before consultations to help patients address their information needs by encouraging question asking: systematic review
Paul Kinnersley, Adrian Edwards, Kerry Hood, Rebecca Ryan, Hayley Prout, Naomi Cadbury, Fergus MacBeth, Phyllis Butow, Christopher Butler
BMJ  2008;337:a485 (Published )
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Protective efficacy of standard Edmonston-Zagreb measles vaccination in infants aged 4.5 months: interim analysis of a randomised clinical trial
Cesario L Martins, May-Lill Garly, Carlito Bale, Amabelia Rodrigues, Henrik Ravn, Hilton C Whittle, Ida M Lisse, Peter Aaby
BMJ  2008;337:a661 (Published )
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Open access publishing, article downloads, and citations: randomised controlled trial
Philip M Davis, Bruce V Lewenstein, Daniel H Simon, James G Booth, Mathew J L Connolly
BMJ  2008;337:a568 (Published )
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Violence between intimate partners: working with the whole family
Kelsey Hegarty, Angela Taft, Gene Feder
BMJ  2008;337:a839 (Published )
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A Patient's Journey: Epilepsy
Sarah Lightbody
BMJ  2008;337:a799 (Published )
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Personal View: Don’t read the label
BMJ  2008;337:a1092 (Published )
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Review of the Week: Why doctors need to embrace death
Margaret McCartney
BMJ  2008;337:a1024 (Published )
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Live from London: AIDS conference: another dose of junket medicine
Deborah Cohen
BMJ  2008;337:a1191 (Published )
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Past Caring: Searching for Dr Condom
Wendy Moore
BMJ  2008;337:a1166 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Dead wrong
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2008;337:a1176 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Self Portrait with Dr Arrieta
James Curran
BMJ  2008;337:a1121 (Published )
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William Richard Keatinge
Caroline Richmond
BMJ  2008;337:a1150 (Published )
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Alexander Cattanach
Sue Jenner, Siriol Sherlock
BMJ  2008;337:a970 (Published )
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Celina Keenor
Dawn Renfrew
BMJ  2008;337:a967 (Published )
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Anthea Lilian MacBean (Candlin)
Richard Candlin
BMJ  2008;337:a962 (Published )
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Richard Louis Page
Mark Elliott
BMJ  2008;337:a960 (Published )
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Samuel Sloan
David Sloan
BMJ  2008;337:a968 (Published )
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Bryan Eykyn Lomb Thompson
Heather Shamlaye, Rowan Thompson, Kirsteen Dutton
BMJ  2008;337:a912 (Published )
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Helen Macfarlane Thompson (née Mair)
James A M Findlay, Gordon N Dutton
BMJ  2008;337:a913 (Published )
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BMJ  2008;337:a1115 (Published )
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Mark Sillender, Chris Ogwu
BMJ  2008;337:a1114 (Published )
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