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13 February 2010 (Vol 340, No 7742)
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What has social injustice to do with medicine?
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2010;340:c842 (Published )
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Getting to grips with health inequalities at last?
David J Hunter, Jennie Popay, Carol Tannahill, Margaret Whitehead
BMJ  2010;340:c684 (Published )
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Interaction of serotonin reuptake inhibitors with tamoxifen
Frank Andersohn, Stefan N Willich
BMJ  2010;340:c783 (Published )
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Higher hospital volume and specialisation
Stephen Lyman
BMJ  2010;340:c160 (Published )
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Venlafaxine and cardiovascular toxicity
David Taylor
BMJ  2010;340:c411 (Published )
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Chronic fatigue syndrome
Alastair M Santhouse, Matthew Hotopf, Anthony S David
BMJ  2010;340:c738 (Published )
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Britain on the rocks: Politicians, trust the public
Ian Gilmore
BMJ  2010;340:c782 (Published )
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Britain on the rocks: Potential pitfalls
Lawrence Isaac, Adrienn Domok
BMJ  2010;340:c784 (Published )
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Health care and devolution: Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
Stephen McCabe
BMJ  2010;340:c779 (Published )
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Xenotransplantation: Not a solution
K Taylor
BMJ  2010;340:c775 (Published )
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Comorbid disease in psoriasis: Don’t forget mental illnesses
Nitin Gupta
BMJ  2010;340:c781 (Published )
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Survivors of childhood cancer: Integrated follow-up is needed
John Wass, Andy Toogood, Georg Brabant, Steve Ball, Richard Ross
BMJ  2010;340:c588 (Published )
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The Doctor: The real irony of The Doctor
Jane Moore
BMJ  2010;340:c482 (Published )
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Focus on early years will create fairer society and reduce health inequality, Marmot review says
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;340:c818 (Published )
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NHS cuts mean £400 less per person in England over next four years
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;340:c816 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2010;340:c805 (Published )
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Primary care trusts are told to tighten regulation of out of hours services
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;340:c771 (Published )
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Scottish GPs want to be more involved in developing out of hours services
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2010;340:c796 (Published )
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Doctor who was excluded for raising patient safety concerns is entitled to substantial damages
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;340:c739 (Published )
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Report condemns poor care for trauma patients at night
Oona Mashta
BMJ  2010;340:c766 (Published )
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India decides to train non-medical rural healthcare providers
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2010;340:c817 (Published )
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Most leading US medical schools lack rules on ghostwriting
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;340:c799 (Published )
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Major changes are proposed for definitions of female sexual dysfunction
Ray Moynihan
BMJ  2010;340:c830 (Published )
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Stem cell researchers claim some reviewers hamper publication of high quality research
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2010;340:c719 (Published )
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US health spending surges to 17% of GDP
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2010;340:c772 (Published )
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BMJ Group Awards: Corporate Social Responsibility category: Fighting for the environment, the unemployed, and the isolated
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;340:c730 (Published )
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Emasculating hypothetical oddities?
Geoff Watts
BMJ  2010;340:c726 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2010;340:c754 (Published )
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Profile: Michael Marmot: Putting health inequality on the map
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;340:b5558 (Published )
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Social Partnership Forum: The unions are back in town
Nicholas Timmins
BMJ  2010;340:c565 (Published )
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Lobby Watch: Workers Uniting
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2010;340:c792 (Published )
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Body Politic: Why we went over the top in the swine flu battle
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2010;340:c789 (Published )
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Bucking the inequality gradient through early child development
Clyde Hertzman, Arjumand Siddiqi, Emily Hertzman, Lori G Irwin, Ziba Vaghri, Tanja A J Houweling, Ruth Bell, Alfredo Tinajero, Michael Marmot
BMJ  2010;340:c468 (Published )
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The views of patients and carers in treatment decision making for chronic kidney disease: systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies
R L Morton, A Tong, K Howard, P Snelling, A C Webster
BMJ  2010;340:c112 (Published )
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Relation between hospital orthopaedic specialisation and outcomes in patients aged 65 and older: retrospective analysis of US Medicare data
Tyson P Hagen, Mary S Vaughan-Sarrazin, Peter Cram
BMJ  2010;340:c165 (Published )
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Use of venlafaxine compared with other antidepressants and the risk of sudden cardiac death or near death: a nested case-control study
Carlos Martinez, Themistocles L Assimes, Daniel Mines, Sophie Dell'Aniello, Samy Suissa
BMJ  2010;340:c249 (Published )
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The effect of maternal child marriage on morbidity and mortality of children under 5 in India: cross sectional study of a nationally representative sample
Anita Raj, Niranjan Saggurti, Michael Winter, Alan Labonte, Michele R Decker, Donta Balaiah, Jay G Silverman
BMJ  2010;340:b4258 (Published )
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The influence of preoperative use of ventricular assist devices on survival after heart transplantation: propensity score matched analysis
Jeffrey H Shuhaiber, Kwan Hur, Robert Gibbons
BMJ  2010;340:c392 (Published )
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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and breast cancer mortality in women receiving tamoxifen: a population based cohort study
Catherine M Kelly, David N Juurlink, Tara Gomes, Minh Duong-Hua, Kathleen I Pritchard, Peter C Austin, Lawrence F Paszat
BMJ  2010;340:c693 (Published )
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The role of interventional radiology in trauma
Ian A Zealley, Sam Chakraverty
BMJ  2010;340:c497 (Published )
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Uncertainties Page: Should we use bath emollients for atopic eczema?
Andrea Tarr, Ike Iheanacho
BMJ  2009;339:b4273 (Published )
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Lesson of the Week: Osteoarticular infection of the symphysis pubis and sacroiliac joints in active young sportsmen
Kelly Cheer, Sushmita Pearce
BMJ  2009;339:b5019 (Published )
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Kieran Sweeney
Nick Bradley
BMJ  2010;340:c733 (Published )
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David William Barkham
John Billinghurst
BMJ  2010;340:c627 (Published )
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John Anthony Calvert
Tony Slater
BMJ  2010;340:c628 (Published )
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James Herd
J M R Herd, F Herd
BMJ  2010;340:c630 (Published )
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Mohammed Siddqur Rahman
Jeffrey S Freeman
BMJ  2010;340:c629 (Published )
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Colin Malcolm Douglas Ross
Calum Ross
BMJ  2010;340:c632 (Published )
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Frederick Shelley
James Shelley
BMJ  2010;340:c631 (Published )
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Richard Leslie Woodhead
Allen Shaw
BMJ  2010;340:c626 (Published )
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Personal View: Are the odds stacked against today’s young researchers?
Michael Oliver
BMJ  2010;340:c646 (Published )
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Review of the Week: Getting real about injustice
Iona Heath
BMJ  2010;340:c659 (Published )
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Between the Lines: The man of the crowd
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2010;340:c753 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Doctor Gachet
Jane Moore
BMJ  2010;340:c790 (Published )
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From the Frontline: A death of reason
Des Spence
BMJ  2010;340:c804 (Published )
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Drug Tales and Other Stories: Sorry, sorry, sorry
Ike Iheanacho
BMJ  2010;340:c727 (Published )
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Statistical Question: Generalisation and extrapolation
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2010;340:c717 (Published )
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Picture Quiz: Painless non-itching yellow-white spots on genital mucosa
Matthias Mohrenschlager, Reinhard Engst, Johannes Ring
BMJ  2010;340:c118 (Published )
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OnExamination quiz: Jaundice in infants and children
BMJ  2010;340:c722 (Published )
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Case report: Refeeding syndrome in a patient with anorexia nervosa
Tharaka Gunarathne, Rebecca McKay, Lesley Pillans, Alastair Mckinlay, Philip Crockett
BMJ  2010;340:c56 (Published )
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Roberto G Carbone, Giuseppe Villa, Giovanni Bottino
BMJ  2010;340:c763 (Published )
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BMJ  2010;340:c744 (Published )
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