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30 January 2010 (Vol 340, No 7740)
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Seeing things differently
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2010;340:c545 (Published )
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Synaesthesia
David M Eagleman
BMJ  2010;340:b4616 (Published )
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Home based cardiac rehabilitation
Alexander M Clark
BMJ  2010;340:b5510 (Published )
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Smoking cessation
Tom Treasure, Janet Treasure
BMJ  2010;340:b5630 (Published )
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Preoperative non-invasive stress testing
Davy Cheng
BMJ  2010;340:b5401 (Published )
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High reliability in health care
Charles Vincent, Jonathan Benn, George B Hanna
BMJ  2010;340:c84 (Published )
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Bad medicine: pain: Ignorance, opioids, and bliss
Michael H Basler
BMJ  2010;340:c458 (Published )
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Bad medicine: pain: Competing interests of professional societies
Laurie Allan, Elizabeth Wager
BMJ  2010;340:c470 (Published )
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Bad medicine: pain: Competing interests and the British Pain Society
Joan B Hester
BMJ  2010;340:c476 (Published )
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Bad medicine: pain: Risks of opioids are underplayed
Simon M Holliday
BMJ  2010;340:c464 (Published )
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Thrombolysis in stroke: Example of a health divide?
Pippa J Tyrrell, Charles Sherrington, Jane Wainwright, Craig Smith, Rebecca Grue, Arun Singh, Chris Douglass
BMJ  2010;340:c449 (Published )
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Thrombolysis in stroke: Author’s reply
Hyun Choi
BMJ  2010;340:c452 (Published )
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Thrombolysis in stroke: I’d rather have a stroke in the Netherlands
Jan A Coebergh
BMJ  2010;340:c454 (Published )
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Thrombolysis in stroke: It’s more about the evidence
Brendon Smith
BMJ  2010;340:c455 (Published )
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Thrombolysis in stroke: Stroke and neurological illness: the real lottery
Paul K Morrish
BMJ  2010;340:c457 (Published )
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Primary care's lost cause?: Not all those who wander are lost
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2010;340:c461 (Published )
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Primary care's lost cause?: Not lost if it combines medical and social science approaches
John Howie
BMJ  2010;340:c462 (Published )
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Fever as nature's engine: Part of beneficial host response?
Garth Dixon, Clare Booth, Elizabeth Price, Roger Westran, Malcolm Turner, Nigel Klein
BMJ  2010;340:c450 (Published )
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Fever as nature's engine: Or micro-organisms’ adaptive response?
Bruce M Philp
BMJ  2010;340:c448 (Published )
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Rotavirus vaccine cuts deaths of Mexican babies from diarrhoea by 40%
Anne Gulland
BMJ  2010;340:c511 (Published )
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All hospital patients should be assessed for risk of blood clots, NICE says
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2010;340:c532 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2010;340:c509 (Published )
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Use leftover Tamiflu to grit icy roads, MP suggests
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;340:c501 (Published )
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England’s chlamydia screening programme is inefficient and fragmented, MPs say
Helen Mooney
BMJ  2010;340:c539 (Published )
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Withdrawal of sibutramine leaves European doctors with just one obesity drug
Anna Sayburn
BMJ  2010;340:c477 (Published )
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NHS pay rise may be capped below 1% for next few years
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2010;340:c459 (Published )
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GSK makes structures of potential antimalarials freely available
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2010;340:c465 (Published )
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Editor earned more than $20m in royalties from device manufacturer
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2010;340:c495 (Published )
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Decision to dismiss head of German NICE is "shabby," says MP
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2010;340:c499 (Published )
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Election of Republican senator derails US healthcare reform
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;340:c463 (Published )
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Palestinian doctor’s tragedy prompts plans for women’s college in Gaza
Nathan Jeffay
BMJ  2010;340:c486 (Published )
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BMJ Group Awards: Health Communicator of the Year: Journalists and digital storytellers vie for communicator award
Trevor Jackson
BMJ  2010;340:c443 (Published )
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Contaminated cell lines may have imperilled some cancer research
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;340:c494 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2010;340:c441 (Published )
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Medicine in Developing Countries: How can child and maternal mortality be cut?
Tatum Anderson
BMJ  2010;340:c431 (Published )
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Yankee Doodling: US healthcare reform is in the dustbin
Douglas Kamerow
BMJ  2010;340:c500 (Published )
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NICE and new: appraising innovation
Robin E Ferner, Dyfrig A Hughes, Jeffrey K Aronson
BMJ  2010;340:b5493 (Published )
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Home based versus centre based cardiac rehabilitation: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis
Hasnain M Dalal, Anna Zawada, Kate Jolly, Tiffany Moxham, Rod S Taylor
BMJ  2010;340:b5631 (Published )
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Treatment of childhood obesity by retraining eating behaviour: randomised controlled trial
Anna L Ford, Cecilia Bergh, Per Sodersten, Matthew A Sabin, Sandra Hollinghurst, Linda P Hunt, Julian P H Shield
BMJ  2010;340:b5388 (Published )
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Influence of smoking cessation after diagnosis of early stage lung cancer on prognosis: systematic review of observational studies with meta-analysis
A Parsons, A Daley, R Begh, P Aveyard
BMJ  2010;340:b5569 (Published )
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Non-invasive cardiac stress testing before elective major non-cardiac surgery: population based cohort study
Duminda N Wijeysundera, W Scott Beattie, Peter C Austin, Janet E Hux, Andreas Laupacis
BMJ  2010;340:b5526 (Published )
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Screening for postnatal depression in primary care: cost effectiveness analysis
Mike Paulden, Stephen Palmer, Catherine Hewitt, Simon Gilbody
BMJ  2009;339:b5203 (Published )
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Managing and preventing depression in adolescents
Anita Thapar, Stephan Collishaw, Robert Potter, Ajay K Thapar
BMJ  2010;340:c209 (Published )
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Guidelines: Reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism in patients admitted to hospital: summary of NICE guidance
Jennifer Hill, Tom Treasure, On behalf of the National Clinical Guideline Centre for Acute and Chronic Conditions
BMJ  2010;340:c95 (Published )
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A Patient's Journey: Synaesthesia
Anonymous, Steve Logsdail
BMJ  2009;339:b3191 (Published )
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Donald Acheson
Sally Sheard
BMJ  2010;340:c419 (Published )
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John George Banton
Dorothy Banton
BMJ  2010;340:c493 (Published )
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Frederick Nii Lomote Engmann
Janet Baker
BMJ  2010;340:c488 (Published )
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James Kerr Finlayson
F L Pierre Fouin, Michael J Williams
BMJ  2010;340:c490 (Published )
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Stanley Leighton Orr Jackson
Kevin Jackson
BMJ  2010;340:c489 (Published )
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Bernard Vincent Lee
John Scotson
BMJ  2010;340:c487 (Published )
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Paul Schleijpen
Martin Hadshar, Gerbo Huisman
BMJ  2010;340:c492 (Published )
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William Francis Toomey
David P Crampsey, Alan D Toomey
BMJ  2010;340:c491 (Published )
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Personal View: Leadership with a small "l"
Richard Bohmer
BMJ  2010;340:c483 (Published )
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Review of the Week: Boxing clever
John Quin
BMJ  2010;340:c514 (Published )
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Between the Lines: A man without gaiety
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2010;340:c505 (Published )
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Round Table: The Tipping Point
Katharine Thomas
BMJ  2010;340:c479 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Pay of distinction
Des Spence
BMJ  2010;340:c498 (Published )
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The Best Medicine: In praise of cows
Liam Farrell
BMJ  2010;340:c410 (Published )
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Picture quiz: Red in the face
Juber Hafiji, Jonathan Batchelor
BMJ  2010;340:b5643 (Published )
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Case report: A massive haematemesis
Kathryn L Nash, Gideon M Hirschfield
BMJ  2010;340:b5534 (Published )
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Statistical Question: Control groups
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2010;340:c391 (Published )
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OnExamination quiz: Management of burns
BMJ  2010;340:c423 (Published )
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Emma Victoria Smith, Richard J Motley
BMJ  2010;340:c420 (Published )
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BMJ  2010;340:c273 (Published )
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Histoptysis or oncoptysis: suggested terms for tissue expectoration
Anthony Papagiannis, Fergus Macbeth
BMJ  2010;340:b5239 (Published )
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Spitting images: our medical philologist, Jeff Aronson, comments
Jeffrey K Aronson
BMJ  2010;340:b5064 (Published )
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