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17 October 2009 (Vol 339, No 7726)
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When things go wrong
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2009;339:b4226 (Published )
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Obesity and depression or anxiety
Evan Atlantis, Robert D Goldney, Gary A Wittert
BMJ  2009;339:b3868 (Published )
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Should HPV vaccine be given to men?
Philip E Castle, Isabel Scarinci
BMJ  2009;339:b4127 (Published )
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Risk factors for SIDS
Edwin A Mitchell
BMJ  2009;339:b3466 (Published )
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Disclosure of competing interests
Jeffrey M Drazen, Martin B Van Der Weyden, Paush Sahni, Jacob Rosenberg, Ana Marusic, Christine Laine, Sheldon Kotzin, Richard Horton, Paul C Hebert, Charlotte Haug, Fiona Godlee, Frank A Frizelle, Peter W de Leeuw, Catherine D DeAngelis
BMJ  2009;339:b4144 (Published )
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Economic sanctions towards North Korea
Sanghyuk S Shin, Ricky Y Choi, Thomas E Novotny
BMJ  2009;339:b4069 (Published )
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GMC guidance on confidentiality: Muzzling doctors in the name of confidentiality
Jack Gilliat
BMJ  2009;339:b4173 (Published )
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Surgery for obesity: No funding for NICE treatment
Nicola D Jones
BMJ  2009;339:b4177 (Published )
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Clinical audits: Paper or patient safety?
Belinda Sandler, John M Hounsell, Thomas Semple
BMJ  2009;339:b4175 (Published )
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End to GP catchment areas: Promoting health inequality
David Shepherd
BMJ  2009;339:b4188 (Published )
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End to GP catchment areas: Thinking it through ...
Ted Willis
BMJ  2009;339:b4189 (Published )
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From sick notes to fit notes: Vocational rehabilitation
Vera Neumann, Diane Playford
BMJ  2009;339:b4191 (Published )
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Intracranial pathology: Endgames quiz is worrying
George Eralil
BMJ  2009;339:b4181 (Published )
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Intracranial pathology: Reply from BMJ OnExamination
Dean Jenkins
BMJ  2009;339:b4185 (Published )
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Circulation's correction: Graceless
Susan Bewley
BMJ  2009;339:b3951 (Published )
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Nearly half of NHS trusts in England face a challenge in meeting watchdog’s registration requirement next April
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2009;339:b4233 (Published )
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Advisory group sets out measures to boost career prospects of women doctors
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2009;339:b4221 (Published )
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Two health centres are finalists in top UK architecture prize
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2009;339:b4230 (Published )
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Trial that pays patients to take antipsychotic drugs comes under attack
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2009;339:b4202 (Published )
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NHS patient safety incidents rise by 12% in six months, as reporting culture grows
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2009;339:b4153 (Published )
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Pioneering gastroenterologist is accused of faking study results
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2009;339:b4193 (Published )
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Recognising informative and striking images
Annabel Ferriman
BMJ  2009;339:b4231 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2009;339:b4209 (Published )
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Access to legal abortion is needed to help cut 70 000 deaths a year
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2009;339:b4212 (Published )
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Police find range of drugs after trawling bins used by Tour de France cyclists
Paul Benkimoun
BMJ  2009;339:b4201 (Published )
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Texas is most uninsured state, with 32% of residents having no health cover
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2009;339:b4154 (Published )
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Leading German doctors criticise rising use of post-marketing observational studies by drug companies
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2009;339:b4199 (Published )
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Public health doctors angry over McDonald’s tutoring programme for students
Melissa Sweet
BMJ  2009;339:b4174 (Published )
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Radiation overdose in 200 patients leads to FDA safety notice
Paula Gould
BMJ  2009;339:b4217 (Published )
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GSK is sued in US over alleged link of paroxetine to birth defects
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2009;339:b3967 (Published )
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Global initiative is launched to boost protection of hospitals in disasters
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2009;339:b4222 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2009;339:b4165 (Published )
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Profile: Margaret Allen: A force in humanising the American healthcare system
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2009;339:b3938 (Published )
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Out of Hours: Don’t give up the ghost
Christopher Martyn
BMJ  2009;339:b4214 (Published )
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Ethics Man: The unpalatable truth about ethics committees
Daniel K Sokol
BMJ  2009;339:b4179 (Published )
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Meeting the challenge of population ageing
Yvonne Doyle, Martin McKee, Bernd Rechel, Emily Grundy
BMJ  2009;339:b3926 (Published )
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Effect of a multimodal high intensity exercise intervention in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: randomised controlled trial
Lis Adamsen, Morten Quist, Christina Andersen, Tom Moller, Jorn Herrstedt, Dorte Kronborg, Marie T Baadsgaard, Kirsten Vistisen, Julie Midtgaard, Birgitte Christiansen, Maria Stage, Morten T Kronborg, Mikael Rorth
BMJ  2009;339:b3410 (Published )
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Effect of "collaborative requesting" on consent rate for organ donation: randomised controlled trial (ACRE trial)
The ACRE Trial Collaborators
BMJ  2009;339:b3911 (Published )
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Common mental disorder and obesity: insight from four repeat measures over 19 years: prospective Whitehall II cohort study
Mika Kivimaki, Debbie A Lawlor, Archana Singh-Manoux, G David Batty, Jane E Ferrie, Martin J Shipley, Hermann Nabi, Severine Sabia, Michael G Marmot, Markus Jokela
BMJ  2009;339:b3765 (Published )
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Contribution of smoking during pregnancy to inequalities in stillbirth and infant death in Scotland 1994-2003: retrospective population based study using hospital maternity records
Ron Gray, Sandra R Bonellie, James Chalmers, Ian Greer, Stephen Jarvis, Jennifer J Kurinczuk, Claire Williams
BMJ  2009;339:b3754 (Published )
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Cost effectiveness analysis of including boys in a human papillomavirus vaccination programme in the United States
Jane J Kim, Sue J Goldie
BMJ  2009;339:b3884 (Published )
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Incidence of pregnancy after expectant, medical, or surgical management of spontaneous first trimester miscarriage: long term follow-up of miscarriage treatment (MIST) randomised controlled trial
Lindsay F P Smith, Paul D Ewings, Catherine Quinlan
BMJ  2009;339:b3827 (Published )
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Hazardous cosleeping environments and risk factors amenable to change: case-control study of SIDS in south west England
Peter S Blair, Peter Sidebotham, Carol Evason-Coombe, Margaret Edmonds, Ellen M A Heckstall-Smith, Peter Fleming
BMJ  2009;339:b3666 (Published )
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Recommendations for the administration of influenza vaccine in children allergic to egg
M Erlewyn-Lajeunesse, N Brathwaite, J S A Lucas, J O Warner
BMJ  2009;339:b3680 (Published )
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A Patient's Journey: Cancer and chemotherapy
Ann V Salvage, Barry Quinn
BMJ  2009;339:b2875 (Published )
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Lesson of the Week: A diarrhoeal illness with a difference?
Juliet Elvy, Terry Riordan, Patrick Sarsfield, Tariq Ahmad
BMJ  2009;339:b2648 (Published )
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Austin Gresham
Joanna Lyall
BMJ  2009;339:b4176 (Published )
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Personal View: Physician, humble thyself
Erica Frank
BMJ  2009;339:b4218 (Published )
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Review of the Week: Up with ageing
Desmond O'Neill
BMJ  2009;339:b4215 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Jerome K Jerome syndrome
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2009;339:b4194 (Published )
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Medical Classic: On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Supra-renal Capsules
Harold Ellis
BMJ  2009;339:b4183 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Who benefits?
Des Spence
BMJ  2009;339:b4207 (Published )
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Outside the Box: The Ribena girls
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2009;339:b4136 (Published )
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Picture quiz: A 79 year old woman with a swollen right leg
Bryan Joseph Renton
BMJ  2009;339:b3996 (Published )
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Statistical question: Case-control studies
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2009;339:b4135 (Published )
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OnExamination quiz: Gallbladder disease
BMJ  2009;339:b4157 (Published )
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Mark Sillender, Nicholas Wambeek
BMJ  2009;339:b4149 (Published )
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Is a simple "Thank you" too much to ask?
Oliver Rivero-Arias
BMJ  2009;339:b3683 (Published )
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