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16 August 2008 (Vol 337, No 7666)
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Editor's choice: Meddling and bearing witness
Jane Smith
BMJ  2008;337:a1293 (Published )
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Migraine with aura
Richard B Lipton, Carol A Derby
BMJ  2008;337:a745 (Published )
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Treatment of unexplained infertility
Tarek A El-Toukhy, Yacoub Khalaf
BMJ  2008;337:a772 (Published )
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Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis
D Ncayiyana, L London, D Sanders, A Kalebi, J Kasolo
BMJ  2008;337:a1286 (Published )
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Prevention of HIV in young people in Africa
Richard Hayes
BMJ  2008;337:a743 (Published )
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Is choice working for patients in the English NHS?
Gwyn Bevan
BMJ  2008;337:a935 (Published )
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Sex lives of older people: Self reported sexual activity in Australian sexagenarians
Jason A Ferris, Anthony M A Smith, Marian K Pitts, Juliet Richters, Julia M Shelley, Judy Simpson
BMJ  2008;337:a1250 (Published )
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Seroprotection and meningitis C: Meningococcal C booster not recommended by evidence
H Lucy Thomas, Nick Andrews, Caroline Trotter, Mary Ramsay, Elizabeth Miller
BMJ  2008;337:a1139 (Published )
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Funding cancer treatments: Ethics of PCT decision making on funding cancer treatments
Timothy S Maughan, Joanne Rule
BMJ  2008;337:a1243 (Published )
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New prostate cancer drug: Prostate cancer’s day in the sun
Gerhardt Attard, Alison H Reid, David Dearnaley, Johann S De Bono
BMJ  2008;337:a1249 (Published )
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Competing interests: Any affiliation can lead to bias
Tammy L Boyce, Bob Ward
BMJ  2008;337:a1256 (Published )
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Doctors and researchers in Italy protest against dismissal of drug regulator
Fabio Turone
BMJ  2008;337:a1276 (Published )
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Mexico conference considers pre-exposure prophylaxis for AIDS
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2008;337:a1278 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2008;337:a1290 (Published )
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Government announces advisory team for consultation on NHS constitution
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2008;337:a1263 (Published )
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Government to offer MMR vaccine to all children in England
Helen Mooney
BMJ  2008;337:a1254 (Published )
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Student with spent conviction gains place at medical school
Jessie Colquhoun
BMJ  2008;337:a1261 (Published )
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Watchdog set to reject four drugs for kidney cancer on the NHS
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2008;337:a1262 (Published )
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Small Australian town is model for community campaigns against obesity
Ray Moynihan
BMJ  2008;337:a1238 (Published )
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US senators propose institute to evaluate treatments similar to NICE
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;337:a1277 (Published )
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Doctors favour changes in India’s abortion law
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2008;337:a1273 (Published )
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German court ruling on smoking in public places leads to demands for federal law
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2008;337:a1258 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2008;337:a1260 (Published )
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Environmental Health: Health costs of recycling
Patralekha Chatterjee
BMJ  2008;337:a296 (Published )
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Border Crossing: Orphan diseases: which ones do we adopt?
Tessa Richards
BMJ  2008;337:a1225 (Published )
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Operational independence for the NHS
Rhema Vaithianathan, Geraint Lewis
BMJ  2008;337:a497 (Published )
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Migraine, vascular risk, and cardiovascular events in women: prospective cohort study
Tobias Kurth, Markus Schurks, Giancarlo Logroscino, J Michael Gaziano, Julie E Buring
BMJ  2008;337:a636 (Published )
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Clomifene citrate or unstimulated intrauterine insemination compared with expectant management for unexplained infertility: pragmatic randomised controlled trial
S Bhattacharya, K Harrild, J Mollison, S Wordsworth, C Tay, A Harrold, D McQueen, H Lyall, L Johnston, J Burrage, S Grossett, H Walton, J Lynch, A Johnstone, S Kini, A Raja, A Templeton
BMJ  2008;337:a716 (Published )
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Impact of Stepping Stones on incidence of HIV and HSV-2 and sexual behaviour in rural South Africa: cluster randomised controlled trial
Rachel Jewkes, M Nduna, J Levin, N Jama, K Dunkle, A Puren, N Duvvury
BMJ  2008;337:a506 (Published )
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Contribution of problem drug users’ deaths to excess mortality in Scotland: secondary analysis of cohort study
Michael Bloor, Maria Gannon, Gordon Hay, Graham Jackson, Alastair H Leyland, Neil McKeganey
BMJ  2008;337:a478 (Published )
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Management of postnatal depression
Charles Musters, Elizabeth McDonald, Ian Jones
BMJ  2008;337:a736 (Published )
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Qualitative Research: An introduction to reading and appraising qualitative research
Ayelet Kuper, Scott Reeves, Wendy Levinson
BMJ  2008;337:a288 (Published )
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Rational Imaging: Investigating severe interscapular pain
Ali A Haydar, Gareth Morgan-Hughes, Carl Roobottom
BMJ  2008;337:a688 (Published )
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Personal View: A tale of two cities
Rosie Wellesley
BMJ  2008;337:a1285 (Published )
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Review of the Week: Medical error: the plane truth
Robin E Ferner
BMJ  2008;337:a1281 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Room for improvement
Des Spence
BMJ  2008;337:a1177 (Published )
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In and Out of Hospital: Are you ready?
James Owen Drife
BMJ  2008;337:a1257 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Making the fur fly
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2008;337:a1265 (Published )
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Medical Classics: McMinn’s Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy
Andrew Fletcher
BMJ  2008;337:a1247 (Published )
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Jan van Es
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2008;337:a1270 (Published )
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James Cameron Gould
Ian M Gould
BMJ  2008;337:a1124 (Published )
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George Stewart Graham
Greig Carlaw
BMJ  2008;337:a1122 (Published )
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Mary Louise Grove-White (née Wilson)
Ion Grove-White
BMJ  2008;337:a1192 (Published )
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Conrad Latto
Marshall Barr
BMJ  2008;337:a1216 (Published )
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Shyamal Kumar Mukerjea
Peter Sheldon
BMJ  2008;337:a972 (Published )
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John Michael Roberts
Bruce Lees
BMJ  2008;337:a1199 (Published )
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Ronald Stanley Thorpe
Neil Cardoe, N Alan Green
BMJ  2008;337:a964 (Published )
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Elaine Jolly, Paul Warwicker
BMJ  2008;337:a1155 (Published )
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Paradoxical medicine
Sobia Ikram, M Arfan Ikram, M Kamran Ikram
BMJ  2008;337:a565 (Published )
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