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29 November 2008 (Vol 337, No 7681)
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Where commerce and health collide
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2008;337:a2751 (Published )
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Electrocardiography in suspected angina
Beth Abramson
BMJ  2008;337:a2340 (Published )
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BCG vaccination in children
C Fordham von Reyn, Alimuddin I Zumla
BMJ  2008;337:a2086 (Published )
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Falls in older people
A John Campbell
BMJ  2008;337:a2320 (Published )
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International regulation of alcohol
Robin Room, Laura Schmidt, Jurgen Rehm, Pia Makela
BMJ  2008;337:a2364 (Published )
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Global research for health
Martin McKee
BMJ  2008;337:a2733 (Published )
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Guidance on osteoporosis: NOGG guideline should be implemented
Jon H Tobias, Adam Bajkowski, Pamela Holmes, Anthony Nunn, Diana Moran, Judy Stenmark, Clare Marx, John Wass, Roy Jones
BMJ  2008;337:a2691 (Published )
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Guidance on osteoporosis: Confusion from analyses and conflicts of interest
J Lennert Veerman, Theo Vos
BMJ  2008;337:a2683 (Published )
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Guidance on osteoporosis: Say Dr No to shifting from falls to osteoporosis
Emilio Maestri, On behalf of Oreste Capelli, Giulio Formoso, Lucia Magnano, Anna Maria Marata, and Nicola Magrini
BMJ  2008;337:a2684 (Published )
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Controlling pain in cancer: Breakthrough cancer pain
Andrew N Davies, Andrew Dickman, Colette Reid, Anna-Marie Stevens, Giovambattista Zeppetella
BMJ  2008;337:a2689 (Published )
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Prescribing placebos: Value in the placebo response
David C Flemming
BMJ  2008;337:a2685 (Published )
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Prescribing placebos: Illusion is disease mongering
Alain Braillon, Aurore Bernardy-Prud'homme
BMJ  2008;337:a2686 (Published )
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Generic substitution of drugs to be introduced in 2010
Andrew Jack
BMJ  2008;337:a2699 (Published )
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Resources must be diverted to allow people to die at home
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2008;337:a2750 (Published )
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UK government hopes to introduce new "fit note" in 2009
Ann McGauran
BMJ  2008;337:a2745 (Published )
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HIV testing should rise in areas of high prevalence, report says
Oona Mashta
BMJ  2008;337:a2748 (Published )
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Scotland sets six week target for diagnostic tests from April
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2008;337:a2709 (Published )
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More staff training needed to promote breast feeding when babies leave neonatal care
Daloni Carlisle
BMJ  2008;337:a2671 (Published )
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Uninsured people get poor deal from organ donation in the US
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2008;337:a2704 (Published )
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Doctors must warn women who seek abortion in South Dakota
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;337:a2707 (Published )
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Patient makes good recovery after transplant of a bioengineered airway
Alison Tonks
BMJ  2008;337:a2676 (Published )
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FDA opens office in China to regulate safety of exported drugs
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2008;337:a2700 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2008;337:a2716 (Published )
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Dutch health minister announces measures to enforce smoking ban
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2008;337:a2679 (Published )
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Zimbabwe faces a "major health disaster," as hospitals close
Ryan Truscott
BMJ  2008;337:a2710 (Published )
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Developing countries should have a greater say in local research agendas
Robert Walgate
BMJ  2008;337:a2713 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2008;337:a2681 (Published )
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HIV and AIDS: The invisible epidemic
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2008;337:a2566 (Published )
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HIV and AIDS: AIDS and the irrational
Helen Epstein
BMJ  2008;337:a2638 (Published )
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Yankee Doodling: Our perfectly designed US healthcare system
Douglas Kamerow
BMJ  2008;337:a2702 (Published )
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Role of routines in collaborative work in healthcare organisations
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2008;337:a2448 (Published )
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Incremental prognostic value of the exercise electrocardiogram in the initial assessment of patients with suspected angina: cohort study
Neha Sekhri, Gene S Feder, Cornelia Junghans, Sandra Eldridge, Athavan Umaipalan, Rashmi Madhu, Harry Hemingway, Adam D Timmis
BMJ  2008;337:a2240 (Published )
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Efficacy of percutaneous versus intradermal BCG in the prevention of tuberculosis in South African infants: randomised trial
Anthony Hawkridge, Mark Hatherill, Francesca Little, Margaret Ann Goetz, Lew Barker, Hassan Mahomed, Jerald Sadoff, Willem Hanekom, Larry Geiter, Greg Hussey, the South African BCG trial team
BMJ  2008;337:a2052 (Published )
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Inability to get up after falling, subsequent time on floor, and summoning help: prospective cohort study in people over 90
Jane Fleming, Carol Brayne, and the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C) study collaboration
BMJ  2008;337:a2227 (Published )
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Recruitment to multicentre trials—lessons from UKCTOCS: descriptive study
Usha Menon, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Andy Ryan, Aarti Sharma, Matthew Burnell, Rachel Hallett, Sara Lewis, Alberto Lopez, Keith Godfrey, David Oram, Jonathan Herod, Karin Williamson, Mourad Seif, Ian Scott, Tim Mould, Robert Woolas, John Murdoch, Stephen Dobbs, Nazar Amso, Simon Leeson, Derek Cruickshank, Ali McGuire, Stuart Campbell, Lesley Fallowfield, Steve Skates, Mahesh Parmar, Ian Jacobs
BMJ  2008;337:a2079 (Published )
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Melanoma—Part 1: epidemiology, risk factors, and prevention
Veronique Bataille, Esther de Vries
BMJ  2008;337:a2249 (Published )
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Teaching Rounds: Giving feedback in clinical settings
Peter Cantillon, Joan Sargeant
BMJ  2008;337:a1961 (Published )
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Robert Shields
Ian Gilmore, Caroline Richmond
BMJ  2008;337:a2470 (Published )
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Isabel Mary Cant (née Martineau)
Jillian R Mann, Richard H R White
BMJ  2008;337:a2356 (Published )
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Norah Helen Colquhoun Clarke
James Clarke
BMJ  2008;337:a2647 (Published )
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Richard John Frankel
Robert Bown
BMJ  2008;337:a2649 (Published )
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Ian McGibbon
J A Harvey
BMJ  2008;337:a2650 (Published )
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Alexander Logan Speirs
Mary T Higgins
BMJ  2008;337:a2653 (Published )
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David Christopher White
John Nunn
BMJ  2008;337:a2652 (Published )
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Life is for living
BMJ  2008;337:a2529 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Our people
Des Spence
BMJ  2008;337:a2715 (Published )
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Live from Liverpool: Would you advise anyone to become a doctor?
Deborah Cohen
BMJ  2008;337:a2739 (Published )
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Between the Lines: The death of the author
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2008;337:a2717 (Published )
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Medical Classics: L’Assommoir
Jim Hardy
BMJ  2008;337:a2573 (Published )
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Review of the Week: The livers of London
John Quin
BMJ  2008;337:a2730 (Published )
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Case report: A case of right sided weakness
Asif Atik Mazumder, George Anthony Pope
BMJ  2008;337:a2427 (Published )
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Picture quiz: Non-healing ulcer on the toe
E E Craythorne, A W P du Vivier
BMJ  2008;337:a2460 (Published )
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Prize quiz: Allergy
BMJ  2008;337:a2734 (Published )
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Statistical question: Who dunnit?
John Fletcher
BMJ  2008;337:a2705 (Published )
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BMJ  2008;337:a2668 (Published )
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J Falvey, R Przemioslo, M Lockett
BMJ  2008;337:a2672 (Published )
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The peril of treating your progeny
Suran Fernando
BMJ  2008;337:a2307 (Published )
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