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All about letters
Jane Smith
BMJ  2009;338:b23 (Published )
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Do patients’ preferences matter?
Klim McPherson
BMJ  2008;337:a2034 (Published )
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Promotion of exercise in primary care
Steve Iliffe, Tahir Masud, Dawn Skelton, Denise Kendrick
BMJ  2008;337:a2430 (Published )
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Warm-up programmes in sport
John H M Brooks, Samuel J Erith
BMJ  2008;337:a2381 (Published )
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Obama’s victory
Bernd Rechel, Martin McKee
BMJ  2009;338:a3082 (Published )
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Changes to the regulation of drug prices in the UK
Joe Collier
BMJ  2008;337:a2735 (Published )
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Managing melanoma: Early detection of melanoma is key, so let’s teach it
Stephen F Hayes
BMJ  2009;338:a3138 (Published )
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Amputation by text: See also amputation by internet
Michael H Edwards, Riaz Agha
BMJ  2009;338:a3142 (Published )
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Reporting stab wounds: Duty in reporting stab wounds
Michael Keegan
BMJ  2009;338:a3139 (Published )
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Case of Baby P: Let’s go back to basics in child protection
Minoo Irani
BMJ  2009;338:a3137 (Published )
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Metastatic spinal compression: Coordination improves outcomes in malignant cord compression
Pamela Levack, Lynsay Allan, Lee Baker, Trudy McLeay, Graeme Houston, John Dewar, Sam Eljamel, Robert Grant, Alastair Munro
BMJ  2009;338:a3151 (Published )
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Trading laws and health foods: Lip service legislation
Leslie B Rose, John Garrow
BMJ  2009;338:a3145 (Published )
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English government launches initiative to cut obesity
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2009;338:b1 (Published )
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NICE lifts cost limit on drugs to improve access to end of life treatments
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2009;338:b3 (Published )
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Indian doctors demand better second line treatment for patients with drug resistant tuberculosis
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2009;338:b8 (Published )
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Agencies call for health workers in Gaza to be respected
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2009;338:b30 (Published )
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Controversy sparked in Switzerland after doctor who used unproved, unlicensed therapy is cleared of non-treatment conviction
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2009;338:a3091 (Published )
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Virginity pledge ineffective against teen sex despite government funding, US study finds
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2008;337:a3168 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2009;338:a3181 (Published )
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Colleagues call for doctor acquitted of bomb plots to be released from custody
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2009;338:a3170 (Published )
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Stepping into the therapeutics void
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2009;338:a3179 (Published )
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GP performance website will aid communication with patients, says government
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2008;337:a3180 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2009;338:a3189 (Published )
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Life and Death: The blame game
Iona Heath
BMJ  2009;338:b7 (Published )
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Disease Surveillance: Google watches over flu
Geoff Watts
BMJ  2008;337:a3076 (Published )
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Should smoking in outside public spaces be banned? Yes
George Thomson, Nick Wilson, Richard Edwards, Alistair Woodward
BMJ  2008;337:a2806 (Published )
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Should smoking in outside public spaces be banned? No
Simon Chapman
BMJ  2008;337:a2804 (Published )
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Devolution and divergence in UK health policies
Scott L Greer
BMJ  2008;337:a2616 (Published )
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Minimal access surgery compared with medical management for chronic gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: UK collaborative randomised trial
Adrian M Grant, Samantha M Wileman, Craig R Ramsay, N Ashley Mowat, Zygmunt H Krukowski, Robert C Heading, Mark R Thursz, Marion K Campbell, and the REFLUX Trial Group
BMJ  2008;337:a2664 (Published )
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Commentary: Randomised trials of surgical and non-surgical treatment: a role model for the future
Jane M Blazeby, C Paul Barham, Jenny L Donovan
BMJ  2008;337:a2747 (Published )
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Patients’ preferences within randomised trials: systematic review and patient level meta-analysis
Preference Collaborative Review Group
BMJ  2008;337:a1864 (Published )
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Exercise on prescription for women aged 40-74 recruited through primary care: two year randomised controlled trial
Beverley A Lawton, Sally B Rose, C Raina Elley, Anthony C Dowell, Anna Fenton, Simon A Moyes
BMJ  2008;337:a2509 (Published )
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Renal screening in children after exposure to low dose melamine in Hong Kong: cross sectional study
Hugh S Lam, Pak C Ng, Winnie C W Chu, William Wong, Dorothy F Y Chan, Stella S Ho, Ka T Wong, Anil T Ahuja, Chi K Li
BMJ  2008;337:a2991 (Published )
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Comprehensive warm-up programme to prevent injuries in young female footballers: cluster randomised controlled trial
Torbjorn Soligard, Grethe Myklebust, Kathrin Steffen, Ingar Holme, Holly Silvers, Mario Bizzini, Astrid Junge, Jiri Dvorak, Roald Bahr, Thor Einar Andersen
BMJ  2008;337:a2469 (Published )
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Management of low back pain
Steven P Cohen, Charles E Argoff, Eugene J Carragee
BMJ  2008;337:a2718 (Published )
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Pregnancy Plus: Obesity and pregnancy
Naomi E Stotland
BMJ  2008;337:a2450 (Published )
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Paul Abbey
Maurice Wallace, Tony Jefferis
BMJ  2008;337:a3068 (Published )
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David James Charley
Stanley Pearson
BMJ  2008;337:a3073 (Published )
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Phillip Aduacquah Hagan
Khalil Razvi
BMJ  2008;337:a3072 (Published )
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Philip Allan King-Lewis
Peter Turnpenny
BMJ  2008;337:a3063 (Published )
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William Giles Manson
Fraser Munro
BMJ  2008;337:a3074 (Published )
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Donald McColl
Carol Fell
BMJ  2008;337:a3071 (Published )
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It sticks in our throats too
Sean Ainsworth, Wendy Jones
BMJ  2009;338:a3178 (Published )
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Between the Lines: All in the mind?
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2009;338:b4 (Published )
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Medical Classics: The Magic Mountain
Thomas Rutten
BMJ  2009;338:a3032 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Falling through the ICE
Des Spence
BMJ  2009;338:b5 (Published )
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Starting Out: 'I’ll bet you a fiver it’s not'
Kinesh Patel
BMJ  2009;338:b33 (Published )
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Case report: An elderly man who suddenly lost consciousness
Radhakrishnan Ramaraj
BMJ  2009;338:a3009 (Published )
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Picture quiz: Imaging investigation of postmenopausal bleeding
Anju Sahdev
BMJ  2009;338:a2787 (Published )
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Quiz: Obsessive-compulsive disorder
BMJ  2009;338:a3192 (Published )
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Statistical question: Study design
John Fletcher
BMJ  2009;338:a3191 (Published )
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BMJ  2009;338:a3158 (Published )
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K Y Chin, B Wee, K Maleki
BMJ  2009;338:a3160 (Published )
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Ideas, concerns, and expectations
J Lilleker
BMJ  2008;337:a3135 (Published )
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Watch out for infection control
James Hotham, Katie Warren
BMJ  2008;337:a2167 (Published )
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