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28 March 2009 (Vol 338, No 7697)
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What’s your carbon reduction strategy?
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2009;338:b1272 (Published )
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Mortality and cancer in Porton Down subjects
Malcolm R Sim
BMJ  2009;338:b358 (Published )
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Treatment of depression in primary care
Chris van Weel, Evelyn van Weel-Baumgarten, Eric van Rijswijk
BMJ  2009;338:b934 (Published )
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Tocolytics and preterm labour
Andrew Carlin, Jane Norman, Stephen Cole, Roger Smith
BMJ  2009;338:b195 (Published )
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Environmental waste in health care
Gabriel Scally
BMJ  2009;338:b1129 (Published )
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Managing UK research data for future use
Trish Groves
BMJ  2009;338:b1252 (Published )
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Turning old age into a disease?: Older people are undertreated as much as they are overtreated
David Oliver
BMJ  2009;338:b1200 (Published )
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Turning old age into a disease?: Better evidence is the answer
Miles D Witham
BMJ  2009;338:b1199 (Published )
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Turning old age into a disease?: On disobeying NICE guidance
Peter Gooderham
BMJ  2009;338:b1198 (Published )
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Public-researcher partnership: Realities in accessing records
Adam Finn
BMJ  2009;338:b1196 (Published )
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Aid money wasted, says Oxfam: Oxfam must shed its ideological bias to be taken seriously
Dominic Montague, On behalf of Richard Feachem, Neelam Sekhri Feachem, Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, Heather Kinlaw, and Richard Smith
BMJ  2009;338:b1202 (Published )
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Resting heart rate as predictor: What about absolute risks?
Michael J Campbell
BMJ  2009;338:b1197 (Published )
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Restructuring the NHS: Finsbury Health Centre’s demise
Wendy D Savage
BMJ  2009;338:b1201 (Published )
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US justice department sues company for off-label promotion of antidepressants for children
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2009;338:b1222 (Published )
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People with learning disabilities were treated "less favourably than others"
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2009;338:b1261 (Published )
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Study shows tentative increase in survival from NHS cancer plan
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2009;338:b1260 (Published )
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Climate change could overwhelm relief agencies, experts warn
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2009;338:b1229 (Published )
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Healthcare commission claims it has succeeded in improving standards
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2009;338:b1219 (Published )
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NICE calls for end to "reflex" sick notes
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2009;338:b1259 (Published )
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HIV prevalence in US capital is at epidemic level
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2009;338:b1205 (Published )
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WHO revises upwards estimated number of TB deaths associated with HIV
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2009;338:b1253 (Published )
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Experimental vaccine may have saved Hamburg scientist from Ebola fever
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2009;338:b1223 (Published )
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Pope claims that condoms exacerbate HIV and AIDS problem
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2009;338:b1206 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2009;338:b1214 (Published )
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Shoehorning three into one
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2009;338:b1193 (Published )
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Luxembourg is to allow euthanasia from 1 April
Rory Watson
BMJ  2009;338:b1248 (Published )
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Two thousand Pakistani women in four years were victims of "honour" killings, study says
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2009;338:b1221 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2009;338:b1181 (Published )
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Environment: Saving the planet as well as lives
Andrew Cole
BMJ  2009;338:b933 (Published )
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Yankee Doodling: The papal position on condoms and HIV
Douglas Kamerow
BMJ  2009;338:b1217 (Published )
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Coming round to recycling
David C J Hutchins, Stuart M White
BMJ  2009;338:b609 (Published )
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Mortality in British military participants in human experimental research into chemical warfare agents at Porton Down: cohort study
K M Venables, C Brooks, L Linsell, T J Keegan, T Langdon, T Fletcher, M J Nieuwenhuijsen, N E S Maconochie, P Doyle, V Beral, L M Carpenter
BMJ  2009;338:b613 (Published )
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Cancer morbidity in British military veterans included in chemical warfare agent experiments at Porton Down: cohort study
L M Carpenter, L Linsell, C Brooks, T J Keegan, T Langdon, P Doyle, N E S Maconochie, T Fletcher, M J Nieuwenhuijsen, V Beral, K M Venables
BMJ  2009;338:b655 (Published )
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Adverse drug reactions to tocolytic treatment for preterm labour: prospective cohort study
Roel de Heus, Ben Willem Mol, Jan-Jaap H M Erwich, Herman P van Geijn, Wilfried J Gyselaers, Myriam Hanssens, Linda Harmark, Caroline D van Holsbeke, Johannes J Duvekot, Fred F A M Schobben, Hans Wolf, Gerard H A Visser
BMJ  2009;338:b744 (Published )
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Management of depression in UK general practice in relation to scores on depression severity questionnaires: analysis of medical record data
Tony Kendrick, Christopher Dowrick, Anita McBride, Amanda Howe, Pamela Clarke, Sue Maisey, Michael Moore, Peter W Smith
BMJ  2009;338:b750 (Published )
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Patients’ and doctors’ views on depression severity questionnaires incentivised in UK quality and outcomes framework: qualitative study
Christopher Dowrick, Geraldine M Leydon, Anita McBride, Amanda Howe, Hana Burgess, Pamela Clarke, Sue Maisey, Tony Kendrick
BMJ  2009;338:b663 (Published )
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Chronic constipation in adults
Iain J D McCallum, Sarah Ong, Mark Mercer-Jones
BMJ  2009;338:b831 (Published )
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Guidelines: Rehabilitation after critical illness: summary of NICE guidance
Toni Tan, Stephen J Brett, Tim Stokes, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
BMJ  2009;338:b822 (Published )
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Teaching Rounds: Teaching on a ward round
Jean Ker, Peter Cantillon, Lucy Ambrose
BMJ  2008;337:a1930 (Published )
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Dan Enachescu
Andreea Steriu, Martin McKee
BMJ  2009;338:b1182 (Published )
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Frederick Charles Hurrell
Caroline Walker
BMJ  2009;338:b1163 (Published )
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Mary Ross Kerr
Norma H Smith, W Duncan Smith
BMJ  2009;338:b1151 (Published )
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Martin Lowy
Martin Lowy, Clara Lowy
BMJ  2009;338:b1137 (Published )
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Maurice Parsonage
E H Reynolds
BMJ  2009;338:b1160 (Published )
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William Ian Paterson
Ginny Birrell
BMJ  2009;338:b1145 (Published )
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Ellen Mali Shiffman (née Rosenthal)
Ian Shiffman
BMJ  2009;338:b1142 (Published )
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Personal View: Bareback to basics: how gay porn undermines safe sex campaigns
Richard Hurley
BMJ  2009;338:b910 (Published )
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Review: An insider’s view of the drug industry
Allen F Shaughnessy
BMJ  2009;338:b1138 (Published )
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Between the Lines: The greatest torture
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2009;338:b1226 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Neurological Differential Diagnosis
David Shooman
BMJ  2009;338:b1263 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Squaring circle time
Des Spence
BMJ  2009;338:b1225 (Published )
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The Best Medicine: Wii-habilitation
Liam Farrell
BMJ  2009;338:b1215 (Published )
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Picture quiz: A woman with sudden headache followed by collapse
Daniel A Jones, Fiona Walker, Neha R Chopra, Walter Serino, Farhad Huwez
BMJ  2009;338:b813 (Published )
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Onexamination Quiz: Renal tubules
BMJ  2009;338:b1169 (Published )
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Statistical question: Uncontrolled studies
John Fletcher
BMJ  2009;338:b1164 (Published )
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BMJ  2009;338:b1171 (Published )
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Isabel Teo, Gwotzer Ho
BMJ  2009;338:b1172 (Published )
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