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16 January 2010 (Vol 340, No 7738)
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H1N1: now entering the recrimination phase
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2010;340:c225 (Published )
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Reducing the risk of fractures with calcium and vitamin D
Opinder Sahota
BMJ  2010;340:b5492 (Published )
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Prevention of lymphoedema after axillary surgery for breast cancer
Andrea Cheville
BMJ  2010;340:b5235 (Published )
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Antihypertensive agents and prevention of dementia
Colleen J Maxwell, David B Hogan
BMJ  2010;340:b5409 (Published )
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Exhaled nitric oxide in the diagnosis of childhood asthma
Malcolm Brodlie, Michael C McKean
BMJ  2009;339:b5418 (Published )
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The truth about Tamiflu?: Neuraminidase inhibitors in pandemic A/H1N1 flu
J Todd Weber, Angus Nicoll, Carolyn B Bridges, Bruno C Ciancio
BMJ  2010;340:c130 (Published )
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The truth about Tamiflu?: Data access is matter of trust
Alan R Maryon-Davis
BMJ  2010;340:c134 (Published )
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The truth about Tamiflu?: Zanamivir should be inhaled, not nebulised
Barry A Eagel
BMJ  2010;340:c131 (Published )
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A/H1N1 flu pandemic: Life threatening infections labelled swine flu
Catherine F Houlihan, Sanjay Patel, David A Price, Manoj Valappil, Uli Schwab
BMJ  2010;340:c137 (Published )
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Drug firm conflicting interests: Radical change, not tweaking, is needed
John H Noble Jr
BMJ  2009;339:b5656 (Published )
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Drug firm conflicting interests: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Jerry R Whitmarsh
BMJ  2009;339:b5657 (Published )
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Drug firm conflicting interests: If only industry funded trials were as well done as the WHI
Keith J Barrington
BMJ  2009;339:b5655 (Published )
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The price of silence: Liverpool chairman responds
Ken Morris
BMJ  2010;340:c144 (Published )
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The price of silence: Two doctors?
Andrew Bousfield
BMJ  2010;340:c145 (Published )
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The price of silence: Gagging and duties
Paul J Galea
BMJ  2010;340:c148 (Published )
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Varenicline and suicide: Safety data from New Zealand
Mira Harrison-Woolrych
BMJ  2009;339:b5654 (Published )
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Osteoporosis and antiandrogens: An under-recognised risk
Jennifer M Sherriff, Janet E Brown, Nicholas D James
BMJ  2010;340:c143 (Published )
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The mysterious Dr Foster: Coders need guidance
Sunku H Guptha
BMJ  2010;340:c139 (Published )
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Baby P hospital: Putting the matter straight
Jane Collins
BMJ  2010;340:c146 (Published )
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Politician accuses drug companies of overplaying dangers of H1N1
Rory Watson
BMJ  2010;340:c198 (Published )
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WHO vaccine expert had conflict of interest, Danish newspaper claims
Jo Carlowe
BMJ  2010;340:c201 (Published )
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Snow in UK results in cancellation of surgery and outpatient clinics
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2010;340:c194 (Published )
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Doctors told to declare all income or risk investigation and high penalties
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;340:c193 (Published )
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The art of diagnosis
Michael Day
BMJ  2010;340:c150 (Published )
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Health department consults on automatic substitution of generics
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2010;340:c135 (Published )
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MPs criticise government for ignoring doctors’ advice on alcohol
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2010;340:c136 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2010;340:c162 (Published )
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Consultants’ distinction awards need overhauling, Scottish government says
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2010;340:c151 (Published )
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Private companies challenge policy that NHS organisations are "preferred providers"
Nicholas Timmins
BMJ  2010;340:c132 (Published )
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Harvard tightens rules on industry payments to top professors
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;340:c172 (Published )
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US Democrats work to reconcile two health reform bills
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;340:c173 (Published )
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China is accused of "warehousing" and denying treatment to its illicit drug users
Jane Parry
BMJ  2010;340:c101 (Published )
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Preoperative MRI fails to reduce risk of incomplete tumour excision in small breast cancers
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2010;340:c207 (Published )
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BMJ Group Awards: Best Quality Improvement category: Teams vie to find ways to improve care of patients
Jane Smith, Fiona Moss
BMJ  2010;340:c140 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2010;340:c123 (Published )
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Xenotransplantation: Bit of an animal
Geoff Watts
BMJ  2010;340:b5595 (Published )
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Should healthy volunteers in clinical trials be paid according to risk? Yes
Eleri Jones, Kathleen Liddell
BMJ  2009;339:b4142 (Published )
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Should healthy volunteers in clinical trials be paid according to risk? No
John Saunders
BMJ  2009;339:b4145 (Published )
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On the Contrary: Repeat after me: "Mid Staffordshire"
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2010;340:c188 (Published )
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Practical challenges of introducing WHO surgical checklist: UK pilot experience
A Vats, C A Vincent, K Nagpal, R W Davies, A Darzi, K Moorthy
BMJ  2010;340:b5433 (Published )
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The association between symptomatic, severe hypoglycaemia and mortality in type 2 diabetes: retrospective epidemiological analysis of the ACCORD study
Denise E Bonds, Michael E Miller, Richard M Bergenstal, John B Buse, Robert P Byington, Jeff A Cutler, R James Dudl, Faramarz Ismail-Beigi, Angela R Kimel, Byron Hoogwerf, Karen R Horowitz, Peter J Savage, Elizabeth R Seaquist, Debra L Simmons, William I Sivitz, Joann M Speril-Hillen, Mary Ellen Sweeney
BMJ  2010;340:b4909 (Published )
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The effects of baseline characteristics, glycaemia treatment approach, and glycated haemoglobin concentration on the risk of severe hypoglycaemia: post hoc epidemiological analysis of the ACCORD study
Michael E Miller, Denise E Bonds, Hertzel C Gerstein, Elizabeth R Seaquist, Richard M Bergenstal, Jorge Calles-Escandon, R Dale Childress, Timothy E Craven, Robert M Cuddihy, George Dailey, Mark N Feinglos, Farmarz Ismail-Beigi, Joe F Largay, Patrick J O'Connor, Terri Paul, Peter J Savage, Ulrich K Schubart, Ajay Sood, Saul Genuth, for the ACCORD Investigators
BMJ  2010;340:b5444 (Published )
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Patient level pooled analysis of 68 500 patients from seven major vitamin D fracture trials in US and Europe
The DIPART (vitamin D Individual Patient Analysis of Randomized Trials) Group
BMJ  2010;340:b5463 (Published )
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Effectiveness of early physiotherapy to prevent lymphoedema after surgery for breast cancer: randomised, single blinded, clinical trial
Maria Torres Lacomba, Maria Jose Yuste Sanchez, Alvaro Zapico Goni, David Prieto Merino, Orlando Mayoral del Moral, Ester Cerezo Tellez, Elena Minayo Mogollon
BMJ  2010;340:b5396 (Published )
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Use of angiotensin receptor blockers and risk of dementia in a predominantly male population: prospective cohort analysis
Nien-Chen Li, Austin Lee, Rachel A Whitmer, Miia Kivipelto, Elizabeth Lawler, Lewis E Kazis, Benjamin Wolozin
BMJ  2010;340:b5465 (Published )
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Diagnosis and management of vitamin D deficiency
Simon HS Pearce, Tim D Cheetham
BMJ  2010;340:b5664 (Published )
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A Patient's Journey: Childhood asthma
Chantelle Down, Anna Chappell
BMJ  2009;339:b2889 (Published )
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Lesson of the Week: Unrecognised scurvy
Clarisa T P Choh, S Rai, M Abdelhamid, W Lester, R K Vohra
BMJ  2009;339:b3580 (Published )
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Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
Pat Sidley
BMJ  2010;340:c127 (Published )
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Stanley Bernard Cohen
Stuart Cohen
BMJ  2010;340:c155 (Published )
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Brian Patrick Dillon
Michael Dillon, Tom King
BMJ  2010;340:c159 (Published )
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Ghassan Hanna
Una Hanna, Sally Hanna
BMJ  2010;340:c169 (Published )
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Charles James Frederick Maguire
Desmond Archer
BMJ  2010;340:c158 (Published )
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David Mattingly
Clare Seamark
BMJ  2010;340:c166 (Published )
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Ruth Martha Scott-Jupp (née Perrott) (Mrs Deane)
Robert Scott-Jupp
BMJ  2010;340:c168 (Published )
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Review of the Week: Snorting and lunching
James Owen Drife
BMJ  2010;340:c195 (Published )
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Review: The cost of survival
David C Taylor
BMJ  2010;340:c99 (Published )
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Personal View: Multiculturalism and the NHS—the experience of a not so foreign "foreign doctor"
Andrew Low
BMJ  2010;340:c96 (Published )
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Between the Lines: An aural question
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2010;340:c164 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Microbe Hunters
H V Wyatt
BMJ  2010;340:c98 (Published )
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From the Frontline: A letter to me at 23
Des Spence
BMJ  2010;340:c180 (Published )
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Outside the Box: All made up
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2010;340:c161 (Published )
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Picture Quiz: A congenital anomaly in a preterm newborn
Marijn J Schuurman, Simon G Robben, Jasper V Been
BMJ  2010;340:b5241 (Published )
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Statistical Question: Sampling III
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2010;340:c93 (Published )
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Case Report: Diagnostic difficulties with a lipaemic blood sample
Augustin M S Brooks, Richard B Paisey, Michael J Waterson, Jamie C Smith
BMJ  2010;340:b5530 (Published )
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OnExamination quiz: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
BMJ  2010;340:c102 (Published )
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H Kahal, M Malik
BMJ  2010;340:c90 (Published )
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A patient’s narrative
Katharine Thomas
BMJ  2010;340:b2950 (Published )
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Supportive psychotherapy
Devender Singh Yadav
BMJ  2010;340:b5452 (Published )
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