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Setting limits to infinite error
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2008;337:a1823 (Published )
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Antipyretic treatment for feverish young children in primary care
Anthony Harnden
BMJ  2008;337:a1409 (Published )
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Medical law and protection of children
David M Foreman, Juliet Williams
BMJ  2008;337:a1380 (Published )
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Community treatment orders
Krishma Jethwa, Nuwan Galappathie
BMJ  2008;337:a613 (Published )
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Evidence based medicine and the medical curriculum
Paul Glasziou, Amanda Burls, Ruth Gilbert
BMJ  2008;337:a1253 (Published )
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Translational research
M E J Lean, J I Mann, J A Hoek, R M Elliot, G Schofield
BMJ  2008;337:a863 (Published )
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Paracetamol with ibuprofen: Ibuprofen increases soft tissue infections in children
Carlos A Calderon Ospina, Alejandra Salcedo
BMJ  2008;337:a1767 (Published )
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Tackling health inequalities: Closing the gap between generations
Sebastien Tassy, Frederique Retornaz
BMJ  2008;337:a1770 (Published )
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Tackling health inequalities: Inequity in the market place
Mark H Wilson
BMJ  2008;337:a1772 (Published )
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Injecting drug use in pregnancy: Outcome in infants exposed to methadone in utero
Laura McGlone, Helen Mactier, Jane R MacKinnon
BMJ  2008;337:a1774 (Published )
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European Working Time Directive: Experience of directive in the Netherlands
Onno T Terpstra
BMJ  2008;337:a1775 (Published )
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Managing theoretical vCJD risk: Policy to reduce the risk costs the environment dear
Julie Hotchkiss
BMJ  2008;337:a1776 (Published )
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Medical error: Lessons health care can learn from aviation
Jim Rodger
BMJ  2008;337:a1777 (Published )
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Pharma and medical education: Some progress in UK psychiatry
Joanna Moncrieff, Philip Thomas, Rhodri Huws
BMJ  2008;337:a1780 (Published )
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Pharma and medical education: Who else but pharma will fund medical education?
Malaki O Ramogi
BMJ  2008;337:a1778 (Published )
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Pharma and medical education: Matters arising from industry link to education
Joseph L Mathew
BMJ  2008;337:a1781 (Published )
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Hypercholesterolaemia (again): More reasons for caution with statins and other such
Andrew N Bamji
BMJ  2008;337:a1782 (Published )
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National qualifying exams: Authors have missed gap between theory and reality
Roderick Neilson
BMJ  2008;337:a1783 (Published )
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National qualifying exams: The joy of diversity
James A Cave
BMJ  2008;337:a1785 (Published )
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China’s tainted infant formula sickens nearly 13 000 babies
Jane Parry
BMJ  2008;337:a1802 (Published )
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English NHS says patient consent necessary before record seen on screen
Michael Cross
BMJ  2008;337:a1814 (Published )
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Southall is allowed to return to child protection work
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2008;337:a1811 (Published )
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London’s catch-up vaccination campaign against measles, mumps, and rubella reaches less than a quarter of children who were unvaccinated
Lisa Hitchen
BMJ  2008;337:a1797 (Published )
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Law might change to protect people who have computed tomography
Lisa Hitchen
BMJ  2008;337:a1729 (Published )
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Judge allows disclosure of workers’ medical records after death
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2008;337:a1794 (Published )
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Italy plans to publish surgeons’ success rates
Michael Day
BMJ  2008;337:a1787 (Published )
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Ethiopian study shows urban children in areas three times as likely to survive to 18 than rural children
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2008;337:a1765 (Published )
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Unicef calls for more action to reduce maternal deaths in developing world
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2008;337:a1800 (Published )
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Germany debates change to law on late abortions
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2008;337:a1803 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2008;337:a1801 (Published )
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Guidelines call for HIV testing to be "normalised"
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2008;337:a1796 (Published )
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Doctors should be alert for virulent community acquired Staphylococcus aureus infection
Lisa Hitchen
BMJ  2008;337:a1739 (Published )
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Germany’s plans to reduce use of tobacco and alcohol provoke protests from industry and local politicians
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2008;337:a1727 (Published )
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New reported risks add to concern about bisphenol A in plastics
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;337:a1766 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2008;337:a1760 (Published )
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US health care: America’s health choices
Vidhya Alakeson
BMJ  2008;337:a1563 (Published )
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US health care: Health and the US presidential campaigns
Barbara Markham Smith
BMJ  2008;337:a1672 (Published )
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Only Connect: Valuing the well connected
Nicholas A Christakis
BMJ  2008;337:a1675 (Published )
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Meeting the challenge of antibiotic resistance
Otto Cars, Liselotte Diaz Hogberg, Mary Murray, Olle Nordberg, Satya Sivaraman, Cecilia Stalsby Lundborg, Anthony D So, Goran Tomson
BMJ  2008;337:a1438 (Published )
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Paracetamol plus ibuprofen for the treatment of fever in children (PITCH): randomised controlled trial
Alastair D Hay, Ceire Costelloe, Niamh M Redmond, Alan A Montgomery, Margaret Fletcher, Sandra Hollinghurst, Tim J Peters
BMJ  2008;337:a1302 (Published )
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Paracetamol plus ibuprofen for the treatment of fever in children (PITCH): economic evaluation of a randomised controlled trial
Sandra Hollinghurst, Niamh Redmond, Ceire Costelloe, Alan Montgomery, Margaret Fletcher, Tim J Peters, Alastair D Hay
BMJ  2008;337:a1490 (Published )
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Diagnostic evaluation of people with hypertension in low income country: cohort study of "essential" method of risk stratification
Gregorio Montalvo, Fausto Avanzini, Mariella Anselmi, Rosanna Prandi, Samuel Ibarra, Monica Marquez, Daniela Armani, Juan-Martin Moreira, Cynthia Caicedo, Maria Carla Roncaglioni, Fabio Colombo, Paola Camisasca, Valentina Milani, Simon Quimi, Felix Gonzabay, Gianni Tognoni
BMJ  2008;337:a1387 (Published )
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Combined impact of lifestyle factors on mortality: prospective cohort study in US women
Rob M van Dam, Tricia Li, Donna Spiegelman, Oscar H Franco, Frank B Hu
BMJ  2008;337:a1440 (Published )
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Treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection
L Fuccio, L Laterza, R M Zagari, V Cennamo, D Grilli, Franco Bazzoli
BMJ  2008;337:a1454 (Published )
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Guidelines: Diagnosis and management of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children, young people, and adults: summary of NICE guidance
Tim Kendall, Eric Taylor, Alejandra Perez, Clare Taylor, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
BMJ  2008;337:a1239 (Published )
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Commentary: Controversies in NICE guidance on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Anne Thompson
BMJ  2008;337:a1466 (Published )
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Uncertainties Page: How effective are some common treatments for traumatic brain injury?
Katharine Ker, Pablo Perel, Karen Blackhall, Ian Roberts
BMJ  2008;337:a865 (Published )
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Lesson of the Week: Fatal reactivation of hepatitis B after chemotherapy for lymphoma
Richard Dillon, Gideon M Hirschfield, Michael E D Allison, Kanchan P Rege
BMJ  2008;337:a423 (Published )
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10-Minute Consultation: Chronic diarrhoea in a teenager
Sonia Saxena, Sally G Mitton, Richard Pollok
BMJ  2008;337:a430 (Published )
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Thomas Huckle Weller
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2008;337:a1779 (Published )
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Robert Charles Hedderwick Bruce
James Knight, Andrew McLeod, Caroline Marshall
BMJ  2008;337:a1741 (Published )
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Gerald Michael Coleman
Charles Zuckerman
BMJ  2008;337:a1731 (Published )
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Andrew Conal Finbarr Gregan
Suzanne Stewart
BMJ  2008;337:a1736 (Published )
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Agnes Jane Adams Maybin
Bob Stout
BMJ  2008;337:a1734 (Published )
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Alan Stewart Wallace
Michael Wallace
BMJ  2008;337:a1651 (Published )
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Alexander Joseph Warrington
Raphael Attard
BMJ  2008;337:a1637 (Published )
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Personal View: What should doctors wear?
Kiran K Turaga, Gargi Bhagavatula
BMJ  2008;337:a938 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Tea with Walter de la Mare
Martin Eastwood
BMJ  2008;337:a1728 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Hero or villain?
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2008;337:a1747 (Published )
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Past Caring: Ye olde guide to healthy living
Wendy Moore
BMJ  2008;337:a1751 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Off the dial
Des Spence
BMJ  2008;337:a1817 (Published )
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Case report: Headache and drowsiness in a 22 year old student
Hon Man Jor, Harry R Dalton
BMJ  2008;337:a1481 (Published )
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Statistical question: P values
John Fletcher
BMJ  2008;337:a201 (Published )
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Prize quiz: Men’s health
BMJ  2008;337:a1815 (Published )
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Picture quiz: An interesting chest radiograph
Sylvia A O'Keeffe, Andrew McGrath, Graham Wilson
BMJ  2008;337:a1505 (Published )
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Ajit Singh Kashyap, Kuldip Parkash Anand, Surekha Kashyap
BMJ  2008;337:a1743 (Published )
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Endpiece: Fear of unemployment
BMJ  2008;337:a561 (Published )
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