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29 May 2010 (Vol 340, No 7757)
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The iPad cometh
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2010;340:c2835 (Published )
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Reduced serum vitamin B-12 in patients taking metformin
Josep Vidal-Alaball, Christopher C Butler
BMJ  2010;340:c2198 (Published )
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Diagnosing diabetes using glycated haemoglobin A1c
Wenying Yang
BMJ  2010;340:c2262 (Published )
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HIV transmission in serodiscordant heterosexual couples
Marie-Claude Boily, Anne Buve, Rebecca F Baggaley
BMJ  2010;340:c2449 (Published )
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Wellbeing in the workplace
Michael F Roizen, Keith W Roach
BMJ  2010;340:c1743 (Published )
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Acupuncture transmitted infections
Patrick C Y Woo, Ada W C Lin, Susanna K P Lau, Kwok-Yung Yuen
BMJ  2010;340:c1268 (Published )
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Hospital mortality ratios: A plea for reason
Brian Jarman, Paul Aylin, Alex Bottle
BMJ  2010;340:c2744 (Published )
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Hospital mortality ratios: Good national data needed
Chris Sherlaw-Johnson, Nick Bishop, Heather Wood
BMJ  2010;340:c2777 (Published )
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Hospital mortality ratios: Death is final: getting the balance right
David I Ben-Tovim
BMJ  2010;340:c2741 (Published )
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Hospital mortality ratios: What about community standardised mortality ratios?
Mark J Dayer
BMJ  2010;340:c2749 (Published )
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Hospital mortality ratios: Hospitals fit for purpose
David J Jolley
BMJ  2010;340:c2751 (Published )
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Hospital mortality ratios: What about older people?
Helen Gaskell, Hywel W Jones
BMJ  2010;340:c2768 (Published )
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Hospital mortality ratios: Possible misuse of "palliative care" coding
Ronald J Clearkin
BMJ  2010;340:c2753 (Published )
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Cardiovascular prevention: How Scotland targets
John C Stout
BMJ  2010;340:c2764 (Published )
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Babies bringing up feeds: What about breastfed babies?
Catherine E Walshe
BMJ  2010;340:c2759 (Published )
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Babies bringing up feeds: Dietary and nutritional advice
June T McMahon
BMJ  2010;340:c2762 (Published )
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Modern genetics: No blind alleys in the clinic
Andrew G L Douglas
BMJ  2010;340:c2754 (Published )
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Intelligence and mortality: Only ignorance stops progress
Anton Lager, Sven Bremberg, Denny Vagero
BMJ  2010;340:c2765 (Published )
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Assessing patient capacity: Remember CURB BADLIP in the UK
Matthew Hoghton, Stephanie Chadwick
BMJ  2010;340:c2767 (Published )
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After traumatic death: Benefits of viewing the body
Sophie Tarassenko
BMJ  2010;340:c2757 (Published )
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Queen’s speech presages independent board for the NHS
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2010;340:c2822 (Published )
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Wakefield is struck off for the "serious and wide-ranging findings against him"
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;340:c2803 (Published )
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New £800 000 study sets out to discover what goes wrong in motor neurone disease
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;340:c2761 (Published )
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Scientists report first self replicating bacteria with synthetic genome
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2010;340:c2796 (Published )
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Swine flu pandemic review panel seeks access to confidential documents between WHO and drug companies
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2010;340:c2792 (Published )
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Former Roche employee questions marketing of oseltamivir to businesses
Andrew Jack
BMJ  2010;340:c2805 (Published )
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Pan-European organ transplant scheme promises to cut waiting times
Rory Watson
BMJ  2010;340:c2785 (Published )
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Regulations on medical research need to be reinterpreted not rewritten
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;340:c2732 (Published )
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Medicalisation costs $77 billion in US, study says
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2010;340:c2779 (Published )
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FDA advisers to assess drug for low sexual desire in women
Ray Moynihan
BMJ  2010;340:c2786 (Published )
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IN BRIEF
BMJ  2010;340:c2745 (Published )
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WHO agrees new code on ethical recruitment of international health personnel
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2010;340:c2784 (Published )
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Government promises new money for cancer drugs after NICE rejects liver cancer treatment
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;340:c2832 (Published )
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Campaign is launched to reduce number of babies born with HIV
Helen Mooney
BMJ  2010;340:c2780 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2010;340:c2740 (Published )
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HIV and AIDS: How homophobia is fuelling Africa’s HIV epidemic
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2010;340:c2245 (Published )
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MMR: After Wakefield: the real questions that need addressing
Evan Harris
BMJ  2010;340:c2829 (Published )
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Should health policy focus on physical activity rather than obesity? Yes
Richard Weiler, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Steven Blair
BMJ  2010;340:c2603 (Published )
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Should health policy focus on physical inactivity rather than obesity? No
Timothy P Gill, Louise A Baur, Lesley A King
BMJ  2010;340:c2602 (Published )
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Need for a wider view of autonomy in epidemiological research
Mats G Hansson
BMJ  2010;340:c2335 (Published )
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Impact of an informed choice invitation on uptake of screening for diabetes in primary care (DICISION): randomised trial
Theresa M Marteau, Eleanor Mann, A Toby Prevost, Joana C Vasconcelos, Ian Kellar, Simon Sanderson, Michael Parker, Simon Griffin, Stephen Sutton, Ann Louise Kinmonth
BMJ  2010;340:c2138 (Published )
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Long term treatment with metformin in patients with type 2 diabetes and risk of vitamin B-12 deficiency: randomised placebo controlled trial
Jolien de Jager, Adriaan Kooy, Philippe Lehert, Michiel G Wulffele, Jan van der Kolk, Daniel Bets, Joop Verburg, Ab J M Donker, Coen D A Stehouwer
BMJ  2010;340:c2181 (Published )
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Glycated haemoglobin A1c for diagnosing diabetes in Chinese population: cross sectional epidemiological survey
Yuqian Bao, Xiaojing Ma, Huating Li, Mi Zhou, Cheng Hu, Haiya Wu, Junling Tang, Xuhong Hou, Kunsan Xiang, Weiping Jia
BMJ  2010;340:c2249 (Published )
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Combined antiretroviral treatment and heterosexual transmission of HIV-1: cross sectional and prospective cohort study
Jorge Del Romero, Jesus Castilla, Victoria Hernando, Carmen Rodriguez, Soledad Garcia
BMJ  2010;340:c2205 (Published )
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Impact of bariatric surgery on hypertensive disorders in pregnancy: retrospective analysis of insurance claims data
Wendy L Bennett, Marta M Gilson, Roxanne Jamshidi, Anne E Burke, Jodi B Segal, Kimberley E Steele, Martin A Makary, Jeanne M Clark
BMJ  2010;340:c1662 (Published )
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An IV for the RCT: using instrumental variables to adjust for treatment contamination in randomised controlled trials
Jeremy B Sussman, Rodney A Hayward
BMJ  2010;340:c2073 (Published )
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From Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin: Management of seasonal affective disorder
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
BMJ  2010;340:c2135 (Published )
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Guidelines: Neonatal jaundice: summary of NICE guidance
Janet Rennie, Shona Burman-Roy, M Stephen Murphy
BMJ  2010;340:c2409 (Published )
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Easily Missed?: Biliary atresia
Jane Hartley, Anthony Harnden, Deirdre Kelly
BMJ  2010;340:c2383 (Published )
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A Patient's Journey: The war in my head: coping with arteriovenous malformation after a brain haemorrhage
Linda Dauwerse, T A Abma, John G Wolbers
BMJ  2010;340:b5400 (Published )
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Susanna Isaacs-Elmhirst
Wendy Moore
BMJ  2010;340:c2809 (Published )
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William Jonathan Abel
Peter S Harper
BMJ  2010;340:c2775 (Published )
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Mary Richmond Ellis
Juliet Boyd
BMJ  2010;340:c2772 (Published )
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David Landsborough
Donald Landsborough, David Landsborough, Katharine King
BMJ  2010;340:c2773 (Published )
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Andrew Alexander Matchett
Geoffrey Moore
BMJ  2010;340:c2776 (Published )
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Kenneth Fletcher Malcolm Thomson
Rachel Thomson, Angus Thomson, Alistair Thomson
BMJ  2010;340:c2770 (Published )
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David Hughes Vaughan
Rosemary Beal
BMJ  2010;340:c2771 (Published )
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Personal View: It could happen to anybody: why 20 mph speed limits matter
Nick Foreman
BMJ  2010;340:c2813 (Published )
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Review of the Week: Life is Sweet
John Quin
BMJ  2010;340:c2791 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Ill at ease
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2010;340:c2797 (Published )
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Medical Classics: The Men
Kate Robertson
BMJ  2010;340:c2795 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Talking about a revolution
Des Spence
BMJ  2010;340:c2793 (Published )
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Starting Out: Good at what we know: doctors are rationed too
Kinesh Patel
BMJ  2010;340:c2748 (Published )
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Picture Quiz: Severe perianal ulceration
Naomi Kate Webber, Alistair Robson, Eithne Macmahon, Ann-Marie Powell
BMJ  2010;340:c2157 (Published )
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Statistical Question: Study design
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2010;340:c2667 (Published )
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OnExamination Quiz: Child protection
BMJ  2010;340:c2720 (Published )
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Karen Simpson, Helen Ford, Ruqqia Mir, John Spencer
BMJ  2010;340:c2636 (Published )
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