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22 August 2009 (Vol 339, No 7718)
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Pandemic flu: will there be a second wave?
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2009;339:b3394 (Published )
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Risk of suicidal behaviour in adults taking antidepressants
John Richard Geddes, Corrado Barbui, Andrea Cipriani
BMJ  2009;339:b3066 (Published )
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Diagnosis of venous thromboembolism
Pierre-Marie Roy
BMJ  2009;339:b2799 (Published )
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BMJ pico for original research in the print BMJ
Trish Groves, Sara Schroter
BMJ  2009;339:b3168 (Published )
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White matter and ageing: Osteoarthritis and protection from global functional decline
David J Robinson, Diarmuid O'Shea
BMJ  2009;339:b3352 (Published )
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A/H1N1 pandemic: Case definition is too loose
Emma J Wilson, John Williams, Brendan McCarron
BMJ  2009;339:b3365 (Published )
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Quinine for malaria in children: Increasing adherence to quinine
Peter Hoglund
BMJ  2009;339:b3349 (Published )
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Antihistamines for anaphylaxis?: Primary outcome measures
Simon G A Brown
BMJ  2009;339:b3368 (Published )
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Thyroid swellings: Nodules and hyperthyroidism
Bob Bury
BMJ  2009;339:b3346 (Published )
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Thyroid swellings: Thyroid cancer and the young
Ian N Scobie
BMJ  2009;339:b3347 (Published )
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British Pain Society manoeuvres: Why the desperation?
G Lorimer Moseley
BMJ  2009;339:b3345 (Published )
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Making trial data public: Astronomical data lead the way
Norman R Williams
BMJ  2009;339:b3344 (Published )
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Health secretary urges GPs to be "creative" in prescribing exercise
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2009;339:b3364 (Published )
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Obama tries to defuse anger over healthcare reforms
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2009;339:b3385 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2009;339:b3377 (Published )
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Full impact in Taiwan of typhoon is yet to emerge
Jane Parry, Kelly Her
BMJ  2009;339:b3376 (Published )
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Four at-risk groups will be first to be vaccinated against swine flu, says chief medical officer
Paul Dinsdale
BMJ  2009;339:b3363 (Published )
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Preventing diarrhoea should be global priority, says WHO
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2009;339:b3372 (Published )
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Sub-Saharan Africa needs to double number of health workers, study finds
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2009;339:b3332 (Published )
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Doctors condemn NHS comparison website
Jo Carlowe
BMJ  2009;339:b3341 (Published )
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Bringing some breathing space to the NHS
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2009;339:b3358 (Published )
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City council considers adults only certificate for films featuring smoking
Mark Pownall
BMJ  2009;339:b3379 (Published )
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Recession could increase alcohol and drug addiction and mental health problems, watchdog warns
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2009;339:b3361 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2009;339:b3350 (Published )
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Pandemic flu: Pandemic lessons from Australia
Melissa Sweet
BMJ  2009;339:b3317 (Published )
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Border Crossing: Views from Venice
Tessa Richards
BMJ  2009;339:b3362 (Published )
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What’s the difference between a hospital and a bottling factory?
A Morton, J Cornwell
BMJ  2009;339:b2727 (Published )
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Risk of suicidality in clinical trials of antidepressants in adults: analysis of proprietary data submitted to US Food and Drug Administration
Marc Stone, Thomas Laughren, M Lisa Jones, Mark Levenson, P Chris Holland, Alice Hughes, Tarek A Hammad, Robert Temple, George Rochester
BMJ  2009;339:b2880 (Published )
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Effect of withdrawal of co-proxamol on prescribing and deaths from drug poisoning in England and Wales: time series analysis
Keith Hawton, Helen Bergen, Sue Simkin, Anita Brock, Clare Griffiths, Ester Romeri, Karen L Smith, Navneet Kapur, David Gunnell
BMJ  2009;338:b2270 (Published )
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Five year prognosis in patients with angina identified in primary care: incident cohort study
Brian S Buckley, Colin R Simpson, David J McLernon, Andrew W Murphy, Philip C Hannaford
BMJ  2009;339:b3058 (Published )
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Prevalence and structural correlates of gender based violence among a prospective cohort of female sex workers
Kate Shannon, T Kerr, S A Strathdee, J Shoveller, J S Montaner, M W Tyndall
BMJ  2009;339:b2939 (Published )
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Effect of timing of first postnatal care home visit on neonatal mortality in Bangladesh: a observational cohort study
Abdullah H Baqui, Saifuddin Ahmed, Shams El Arifeen, Gary L Darmstadt, Amanda M Rosecrans, Ishtiaq Mannan, Syed M Rahman, Nazma Begum, Arif B A Mahmud, Habibur R Seraji, Emma K Williams, Peter J Winch, Mathuram Santosham, Robert E Black, for the Projahnmo 1 Study Group
BMJ  2009;339:b2826 (Published )
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Neuraminidase inhibitors for treatment and prophylaxis of influenza in children: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Matthew Shun-Shin, Matthew Thompson, Carl Heneghan, Rafael Perera, Anthony Harnden, David Mant
BMJ  2009;339:b3172 (Published )
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Excluding venous thromboembolism using point of care D-dimer tests in outpatients: a diagnostic meta-analysis
G J Geersing, K J M Janssen, R Oudega, L Bax, A W Hoes, J B Reitsma, K G M Moons
BMJ  2009;339:b2990 (Published )
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The changing epidemiology of lung cancer with a focus on screening
Gerard A Silvestri, Anthony J Alberg, James Ravenel
BMJ  2009;339:b3053 (Published )
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Rational Testing: Initial investigation of amenorrhoea
E H Dickerson, A S Raghunath, S L Atkin
BMJ  2009;339:b2184 (Published )
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10-Minute Consultation: Herpes zoster ophthalmicus
Fook Chang Lam, Allison Law, William Wykes
BMJ  2009;339:b2624 (Published )
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Vasily Aksyonov
Boleslav Lichterman
BMJ  2009;339:b3280 (Published )
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Alexander Gordon Bearn
D Geraint James
BMJ  2009;339:b3190 (Published )
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John Alexander Erskine Clark
Jane Clark
BMJ  2009;339:b3200 (Published )
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Richard Charles Cumming Groves
William Casey
BMJ  2009;339:b3201 (Published )
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Suryamoni Mitra (née Devi)
S Mitra
BMJ  2009;339:b3193 (Published )
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Robert Pringle
Stuart D Pringle
BMJ  2009;339:b3195 (Published )
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Ian Ranger
John F Colin, Piers Ranger
BMJ  2009;339:b3198 (Published )
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Dorothy Lindsay Smith (née Grieve)
Clifton P Lowther
BMJ  2009;339:b3205 (Published )
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Personal View: Priority patients in a pandemonium
Robert Wheeler
BMJ  2009;339:b3321 (Published )
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Review of the Week: Rekindled passion: fire and fallout
Colin Martin
BMJ  2009;339:b3270 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Doctors and the dictator
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2009;339:b3306 (Published )
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Medical Classics: The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak
Richard Hurley
BMJ  2009;339:b3355 (Published )
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From the Frontline: The American crisis
Des Spence
BMJ  2009;339:b3375 (Published )
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Outside the Box: Evidence based medicine: new storylines needed
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2009;339:b3296 (Published )
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Case report: Fever in the vaccinated returning traveller
James Powell
BMJ  2009;339:b2985 (Published )
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Picture quiz: Unusual computed tomography findings in a patient presenting with acute abdominal pain
James K K Chan, Richard Lovegrove, Matt Dunckley, Eric K Woo, Marwan Farouk
BMJ  2009;339:b3192 (Published )
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OnExamination quiz: Orthopaedics: fractures and dislocations
BMJ  2009;339:b3325 (Published )
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Jean-Paul Smith
BMJ  2009;339:b3319 (Published )
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How did he learn to speak Russian?
Ian D Conacher
BMJ  2009;339:b2386 (Published )
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Caution with home fetal Doppler devices
Thomas Aust, David Ankers, Akin Famoriyo
BMJ  2009;339:b3220 (Published )
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Making waves with aneurysms
James Richards
BMJ  2009;339:b3212 (Published )
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