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Patients are ready for partnership
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2008;337:a2431 (Published )
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Preventing postextubation airway complications in adults
Duncan Young, Peter Watkinson
BMJ  2008;337:a1565 (Published )
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Eating behaviour and obesity
Elizabeth Denney-Wilson, Karen J Campbell
BMJ  2008;337:a1926 (Published )
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Preventing diabetes in Bangladeshi people in Britain
Shifalika Goenka
BMJ  2008;337:a2010 (Published )
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Enabling women to breast feed
Mary Renfrew, David Hall
BMJ  2008;337:a1570 (Published )
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Fresh thinking about the Declaration of Helsinki
Michael D E Goodyear, Lisa A Eckenwiler, Carolyn Ells
BMJ  2008;337:a2128 (Published )
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Acute gastrointestinal bleeding: Firstly, improve availability of endoscopy
Mohammed A Butt, Umair A Mohammed, Anne B Ballinger
BMJ  2008;337:a2385 (Published )
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Acute gastrointestinal bleeding: Secondly, improve availability of interventional radiology
Tony Nicholson, David Kessel
BMJ  2008;337:a2382 (Published )
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Complementary medicine: Involve complementary medicine practitioners in research
Jon L Wardle
BMJ  2008;337:a2389 (Published )
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Complementary medicine: Inconsistency over payment
Terry J Hamblin
BMJ  2008;337:a2388 (Published )
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Risk reduction policy costs the environment dear: Disposable instrument issue affects lots of doctors too
Edmund Willis
BMJ  2008;337:a2277 (Published )
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Case conferencing an answer to improving generalist end of life care?: Experience from Royal Marsden Hospital
Julia Riley, Clare Smith, Michael Thick, On behalf of Nigel Dodds, Maria Owens, Diedre Adams, Fiona Wheeler, Joy Ross, David Currow
BMJ  2008;337:a2290 (Published )
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Famines and weather: People, not weather, cause mass starvation
Andrew D Lynk
BMJ  2008;337:a2383 (Published )
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Major US consumer group asks FDA to ban drug for diabetes
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;337:a2401 (Published )
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Patients in England are given green light to buy drugs privately alongside NHS care
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;337:a2418 (Published )
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NICE publishes osteoporosis guidance after more than six years of consultation
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;337:a2397 (Published )
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Only a minority of serious patient safety incidents are reported, MPs hear
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2008;337:a2384 (Published )
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Treasure chest of medicine past
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;337:a2415 (Published )
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Clinical audit has lacked a national strategy and cooperation from GPs
Lisa Hitchen
BMJ  2008;337:a2422 (Published )
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Delaying HIV treatment increases risk of mortality
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2008;337:a2369 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2008;337:a2411 (Published )
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US senators inquire into ties between stent makers and doctors
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;337:a2363 (Published )
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FDA warns Bayer about illegally marketing two over the counter products containing aspirin
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;337:a2402 (Published )
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Patient fails in attempt to get law on aiding suicide abroad clarified
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2008;337:a2368 (Published )
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Exhibition captures beauty and power of humanitarian action and the human spirit
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2008;337:a2419 (Published )
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Cardiologist is sued for comments on potential migraine device
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2008;337:a2412 (Published )
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"Humanitarian corridor" for medical aid is vital in Congo, says Miliband
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2008;337:a2413 (Published )
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Teenage rape victim is stoned to death as violence sweeps Somalia
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2008;337:a2403 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2008;337:a2391 (Published )
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Continuing medical education: What price education?
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2008;337:a2333 (Published )
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Patient safety: Cutting out human error
Jane Feinmann
BMJ  2008;337:a2370 (Published )
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Border Crossing: Copy them in
Tessa Richards
BMJ  2008;337:a2324 (Published )
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Personal Paper: Regulation—the real threat to clinical research
Paul M Stewart, Anna Stears, Jeremy W Tomlinson, Morris J Brown
BMJ  2008;337:a1732 (Published )
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Prophylactic administration of parenteral steroids for preventing airway complications after extubation in adults: meta-analysis of randomised placebo controlled trials
Tao Fan, Gang Wang, Bing Mao, Zeyu Xiong, Yu Zhang, Xuemei Liu, Lei Wang, Sai Yang
BMJ  2008;337:a1841 (Published )
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The joint impact on being overweight of self reported behaviours of eating quickly and eating until full : cross sectional survey
Koutatsu Maruyama, Shinichi Sato, Tetsuya Ohira, Kenji Maeda, Hiroyuki Noda, Yoshimi Kubota, Setsuko Nishimura, Akihiko Kitamura, Masahiko Kiyama, Takeo Okada, Hironori Imano, Masakazu Nakamura, Yoshinori Ishikawa, Michinori Kurokawa, Satoshi Sasaki, Hiroyasu Iso
BMJ  2008;337:a2002 (Published )
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Prevention of type 2 diabetes in British Bangladeshis: qualitative study of community, religious, and professional perspectives
Clare Grace, Reha Begum, Syed Subhani, Peter Kopelman, Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2008;337:a1931 (Published )
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Prescribing "placebo treatments": results of national survey of US internists and rheumatologists
Jon C Tilburt, Ezekiel J Emanuel, Ted J Kaptchuk, Farr A Curlin, Franklin G Miller
BMJ  2008;337:a1938 (Published )
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Managing skeletal related events resulting from bone metastases
Anna N Wilkinson, Raymond Viola, Michael D Brundage
BMJ  2008;337:a2041 (Published )
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Guidelines: Control of pain in adults with cancer: summary of SIGN guidelines
P J Cormie, M Nairn, J Welsh, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
BMJ  2008;337:a2154 (Published )
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Commentary: Controversies in SIGN guidance on pain control in patients with cancer
J R Ross, J Riley
BMJ  2008;337:a2234 (Published )
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Uncertainties Page: Managing the anticoagulated patient with atrial fibrillation at high risk of stroke who needs coronary intervention
Gregory Y H Lip
BMJ  2008;337:a840 (Published )
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Hugh Roland Butt
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2008;337:a2196 (Published )
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Amer Amen
Furrat Amen, Ali Jawad
BMJ  2008;337:a2361 (Published )
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Dick Bruce
Roddy Hughes
BMJ  2008;337:a2242 (Published )
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Hugh John Hughes
Mark Hughes
BMJ  2008;337:a2250 (Published )
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Stephen Lazar
Arthur Hibble
BMJ  2008;337:a2248 (Published )
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Anna Cecilia McKee (née Martin)
Martin McKee, Henry McKee
BMJ  2008;337:a2353 (Published )
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Melanie Peisach
Allan Daitz, Vivienne Watkin
BMJ  2008;337:a2254 (Published )
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Jeremy Rowe
Peter Mayer
BMJ  2008;337:a2252 (Published )
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Personal View: Poppy love
Janet Gillespie
BMJ  2008;337:a2334 (Published )
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From the Frontline: A fat chance
Des Spence
BMJ  2008;337:a2432 (Published )
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Starting Out: The bottom line
Kinesh Patel
BMJ  2008;337:a2395 (Published )
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Between the Lines: In small town America
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2008;337:a2400 (Published )
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Medical Classics: The Death of Ivan Ilych
Boleslav Lichterman
BMJ  2008;337:a2399 (Published )
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Review of the Week: Lessons from the killing fields
Jonathan Kaplan
BMJ  2008;337:a2394 (Published )
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Case report: A noisy teenager
Stephen W Turner
BMJ  2008;337:a2289 (Published )
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Picture quiz: An 11 month old girl with bilateral wrist swelling
R Hodgkinson, D S Urquhart, L Thia, S Padley, A Bush, Atul Gupta
BMJ  2008;337:a2149 (Published )
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Prize quiz: Blood transfusion
BMJ  2008;337:a2297 (Published )
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Statistical question: Relative risk
John Fletcher
BMJ  2008;337:a2295 (Published )
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A D Jordan
BMJ  2008;337:a2372 (Published )
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Old age swimming
Claire Hilton
BMJ  2008;337:a1189 (Published )
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A memorable patient: Crisis
John Baruch
BMJ  2008;337:a551 (Published )
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