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Crunch time for doctors’ hours
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2009;339:b4569 (Published )
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Working time regulations for trainee doctors
Roy Pounder
BMJ  2009;339:b4488 (Published )
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Supine positioning after intrauterine insemination
William L Ledger
BMJ  2009;339:b4274 (Published )
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Prediction rules in cervical spine injury
Vinod K Podichetty, Hikaru Morisue
BMJ  2009;339:b4139 (Published )
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Smoking cessation agents and suicide
Jill E Lavigne
BMJ  2009;339:b4360 (Published )
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Alcohol use in South Asians in the UK
Gurprit Pannu, Shahid Zaman, Neeraj Bhala, Rashid Zaman
BMJ  2009;339:b4028 (Published )
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HPV vaccination: What about male specific HPV related diseases?
Carlo Foresta, Alberto Ferlin, Andrea Garolla
BMJ  2009;339:b4514 (Published )
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HPV vaccination: Inaccurate assumptions about oropharyngeal cancer
Erich M Sturgis, Kristina R Dahlstrom
BMJ  2009;339:b4525 (Published )
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Seeding trials: Just say no
David Egilman
BMJ  2009;339:b4527 (Published )
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Organ donation: Informed choice, not coercion
Janka Koschack
BMJ  2009;339:b4511 (Published )
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GMC's guidance on confidentiality: Patients’ right to privacy
Michael Keegan
BMJ  2009;339:b4509 (Published )
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GMC's guidance on confidentiality: Author’s reply
Jack Gilliat
BMJ  2009;339:b4516 (Published )
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Physician assistants: UK universities are on the case
James V Parle, Phil Begg
BMJ  2009;339:b4520 (Published )
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Surgery for obesity: Role of plastic surgery
Christopher Abela, Rishi Sharma, Mark Soldin
BMJ  2009;339:b4283 (Published )
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Scientists want more protection after government adviser is sacked
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2009;339:b4563 (Published )
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Report calls for public education on screening to ensure more realistic expectations
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2009;339:b4533 (Published )
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Number of swine flu patients going into intensive care is rising
Nayanah Siva
BMJ  2009;339:b4528 (Published )
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Parents go to court over whether baby son should be allowed to die
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2009;339:b4573 (Published )
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Most patients rely on their own experiences to choose hospitals, shows survey
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2009;339:b4529 (Published )
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Where youth grows pale . . .
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2009;339:b4508 (Published )
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Professor is charged with dishonesty over statements on access to full trial data
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2009;339:b4556 (Published )
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Half of people dying within four days of hospital admission lack input from senior doctors, inquiry finds
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2009;339:b4539 (Published )
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US drug agency is slow to exclude doctors who commit research crimes from further trials
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2009;339:b4518 (Published )
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Glasgow hospital wins design award
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2009;339:b4536 (Published )
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US lags behind 10 other countries in primary care
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2009;339:b4561 (Published )
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Poor progress is made in India’s effort to control measles
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2009;339:b4542 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2009;339:b4541 (Published )
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Task force hopes to deliver affordable cancer drugs to developing countries
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2009;339:b4506 (Published )
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Four US drug companies pay $124m for defrauding Medicaid
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2009;339:b4500 (Published )
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Explore the humanities in illness and medicine
Geoff Watts
BMJ  2009;339:b4494 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2009;339:b4534 (Published )
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International Aid: Innovative financing of health care
Tatum Anderson
BMJ  2009;339:b4235 (Published )
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Global Health: Commercial solutions to malnutrition
Ben Bland
BMJ  2009;339:b4482 (Published )
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Reducing the burden of malnutrition in Bangladesh
Tahmeed Ahmed, A M Shamsir Ahmed
BMJ  2009;339:b4490 (Published )
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Border Crossing: Brave new world
Tessa Richards
BMJ  2009;339:b4537 (Published )
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How long does it take to train a surgeon?
Gretchen Purcell Jackson, John L Tarpley
BMJ  2009;339:b4260 (Published )
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Immobilisation versus immediate mobilisation after intrauterine insemination: randomised controlled trial
Inge M Custers, Paul A Flierman, Pettie Maas, Tessa Cox, Thierry J H M Van Dessel, Mariette H Gerards, Monique H Mochtar, Catharina A H Janssen, Fulco van der Veen, Ben Willem J Mol
BMJ  2009;339:b4080 (Published )
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Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada: 11 year follow-up study
Stephen W Hwang, Russell Wilkins, Michael Tjepkema, Patricia J O'Campo, James R Dunn
BMJ  2009;339:b4036 (Published )
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Implementation of the Canadian C-Spine Rule: prospective 12 centre cluster randomised trial
Ian G Stiell, Catherine M Clement, Jeremy Grimshaw, Robert J Brison, Brian H Rowe, Michael J Schull, Jacques S Lee, Jamie Brehaut, R Douglas McKnight, Mary A Eisenhauer, Jonathan Dreyer, Eric Letovsky, Tim Rutledge, Iain MacPhail, Scott Ross, Amit Shah, Jeffrey J Perry, Brian R Holroyd, Urbain Ip, Howard Lesiuk, George A Wells
BMJ  2009;339:b4146 (Published )
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Varenicline and suicidal behaviour: a cohort study based on data from the General Practice Research Database
D Gunnell, D Irvine, L Wise, C Davies, R M Martin
BMJ  2009;339:b3805 (Published )
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Carbon cost of pragmatic randomised controlled trials: retrospective analysis of sample of trials
Katy Lyle, Louise Dent, Sally Bailey, Lynn Kerridge, Ian Roberts, Ruairidh Milne
BMJ  2009;339:b4187 (Published )
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Pain management and sedation for children in the emergency department
Paul Atkinson, Adam Chesters, Peter Heinz
BMJ  2009;339:b4234 (Published )
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Diagnosis in General Practice: Using probabilistic reasoning
Jenny Doust
BMJ  2009;339:b3823 (Published )
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Diagnosis in General Practice: Chest pain
Michael Jelinek, Kevin Barraclough
BMJ  2009;339:b4117 (Published )
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Jehoiada John Brown
John Connell, Andrew Brown
BMJ  2009;339:b4463 (Published )
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Walter Samuel Davis
J Maginness
BMJ  2009;339:b4462 (Published )
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Colin Michael Dent
Chris Wilson
BMJ  2009;339:b4465 (Published )
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Anthony Paul Ryley Eckersley
Catherine Eckersley
BMJ  2009;339:b4467 (Published )
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David Gordon Illingworth
John Wilson
BMJ  2009;339:b4461 (Published )
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Lawrence Guthrie Stewart
Caroline Scott-Lang, Victoria Scott-Lang
BMJ  2009;339:b4472 (Published )
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Personal View: The highs and lows of policy based evidence
David Colquhoun
BMJ  2009;339:b4564 (Published )
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Review of the Week: On the concept of trauma
Simon Wessely
BMJ  2009;339:b4577 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Sound sleep advice
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2009;339:b4523 (Published )
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Medical Classics: De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things)
Birte Twisselmann
BMJ  2009;339:b4562 (Published )
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From the Frontline: It’s better to give
Des Spence
BMJ  2009;339:b4546 (Published )
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The Bigger Picture: An interest in teeth
Mary E Black
BMJ  2009;339:b4526 (Published )
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OnExamination Quiz: Adverse drug reactions
BMJ  2009;339:b4501 (Published )
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Statistical Question: Study design
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2009;339:b4458 (Published )
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Picture Quiz: An occult breast mass
C J Burke, R Thomas, D C Howlett
BMJ  2009;339:b4316 (Published )
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BMJ  2009;339:b4448 (Published )
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Maulina Sharma, Sandeep Varma
BMJ  2009;339:b4379 (Published )
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How would you like your egg?
Dimitri Cozanitis
BMJ  2009;339:b4034 (Published )
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Improperly dressed
Harvey Marcovitch
BMJ  2009;339:b2943 (Published )
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A memorable patient: Delusions of grandeur and the "manic" preacher
Imad M Ali
BMJ  2009;339:b4355 (Published )
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