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Half a billion here, half a billion there
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2010;340:c3072 (Published )
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The multiple sclerosis risk sharing scheme
Neil Scolding
BMJ  2010;340:c2882 (Published )
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Conflicts of interest and pandemic flu
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2010;340:c2947 (Published )
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Improving immunisation coverage in rural India
Jishnu Das
BMJ  2010;340:c2553 (Published )
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High frequency oscillation in acute lung injury and ARDS
Eddy Fan, Gordon D Rubenfeld
BMJ  2010;340:c2315 (Published )
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Which tool is best for colorectal cancer screening?
Michael Bretthauer
BMJ  2010;340:c2831 (Published )
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Laser eye injuries: Maculopathy from handheld green diode laser pointer
Kimia Ziahosseini, John P Doris, George S Turner
BMJ  2010;340:c2982 (Published )
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Sleep apnoea: Multidisciplinary community based approach needed
Sarah L Hartley, Sylvie Royant-Parola
BMJ  2010;340:c2989 (Published )
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Antiphospholipid syndrome: What benefit has the label?
Christoph Pechlaner
BMJ  2010;340:c2983 (Published )
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Child influenza vaccination: Ramifications of adverse events in children in Australia
Peter Collignon, Peter Doshi, Tom Jefferson
BMJ  2010;340:c2994 (Published )
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Tackling antibiotic resistance: International action required
Michael R Millar
BMJ  2010;340:c2978 (Published )
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FINE trial for CFS: Both significant and small?
Sam Carter
BMJ  2010;340:c2988 (Published )
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FINE trial for CFS: Missing data
Tom Kindlon
BMJ  2010;340:c2990 (Published )
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FINE trial for CFS: Authors’ reply
Alison J Wearden, Christopher Dowrick, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Richard P Bentall, Richard K Morriss, Sarah Peters, Lisa Riste, Gerry Richardson, Karina Lovell, Graham Dunn
BMJ  2010;340:c2992 (Published )
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Don't take me to your leader: "Great men" need not apply
Sebastian Kraemer
BMJ  2010;340:c3009 (Published )
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Don't take me to your leader: Aspirational idiocy at large
Rebecca Cooper
BMJ  2010;340:c3007 (Published )
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Response: Barry Miller replies to Des Spence
Barry Miller
BMJ  2010;340:c3011 (Published )
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Doctors are one of the "linchpins" in closing the UK health inequalities gap
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2010;340:c3060 (Published )
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Australian government says healthy under 5s should not be given seasonal flu jab
Ray Moynihan
BMJ  2010;340:c2991 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2010;340:c3039 (Published )
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Number of "oldest old" has doubled in the past 25 years
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2010;340:c3057 (Published )
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Council of Europe condemns "unjustified scare" over swine flu
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2010;340:c3033 (Published )
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Consultant gets green light to sue his former employers for millions
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;340:c2974 (Published )
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Cautious welcome for plans to replace practice based commissioning with budget holding
Rebecca Wilkins
BMJ  2010;340:c3052 (Published )
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Dutch medical alliance moves to change thinking on male circumcision
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2010;340:c2987 (Published )
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Spain considers charging for health care to help plug its financial deficit
Miguel Jara
BMJ  2010;340:c3063 (Published )
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Greek drug price cuts will have knock on effects across Europe, industry warns
Rory Watson
BMJ  2010;340:c3043 (Published )
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Alcohol and drug misuse is taking a "daily toll" on US adolescents
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2010;340:c3035 (Published )
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Global cancer cases and deaths are set to rise by 70% in next 20 years
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2010;340:c3041 (Published )
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South Africa takes steps to stave off real World Cup fever
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2010;340:c3008 (Published )
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GlaxoSmithKline denies it has settled thousands of lawsuits over rosiglitazone (Avandia)
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;340:c3010 (Published )
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Muscular dystrophy patients could live extra 15 years, if care standards implemented
Neil Chanchlani
BMJ  2010;340:c3055 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2010;340:c3004 (Published )
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Conflicts of Interest: WHO and the pandemic flu "conspiracies"
Deborah Cohen, Philip Carter
BMJ  2010;340:c2912 (Published )
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Yankee Doodling: What I learnt from Mom
Douglas Kamerow
BMJ  2010;340:c2973 (Published )
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Life and Death: Crocodile tears for health inequality
Iona Heath
BMJ  2010;340:c2970 (Published )
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Multiple sclerosis risk sharing scheme: a costly failure
James Raftery
BMJ  2010;340:c1672 (Published )
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Continuing the multiple sclerosis risk sharing scheme is unjustified
Christopher McCabe, Jim Chilcott, Karl Claxton, Paul Tappenden, Cindy Cooper, Jennifer Roberts, Nicola Cooper, Keith Abrams
BMJ  2010;340:c1786 (Published )
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Commentary: Outcome measures were flawed
G C Ebers
BMJ  2010;340:c2693 (Published )
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Commentary: Scheme has benefited patients
Alastair Compston
BMJ  2010;340:c2707 (Published )
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High frequency oscillation in patients with acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS): systematic review and meta-analysis
Sachin Sud, Maneesh Sud, Jan O Friedrich, Maureen O Meade, Niall D Ferguson, Hannah Wunsch, Neill K J Adhikari
BMJ  2010;340:c2327 (Published )
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Improving immunisation coverage in rural India: clustered randomised controlled evaluation of immunisation campaigns with and without incentives
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Dhruva Kothari
BMJ  2010;340:c2220 (Published )
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Safety and immunogenicity of AS03B adjuvanted split virion versus non-adjuvanted whole virion H1N1 influenza vaccine in UK children aged 6 months-12 years: open label, randomised, parallel group, multicentre study
Claire S Waddington, W T Walker, C Oeser, A Reiner, T John, S Wilkins, M Casey, P E Eccleston, R J Allen, I Okike, S Ladhani, E Sheasby, K Hoschler, N Andrews, P Waight, A C Collinson, P T Heath, A Finn, S N Faust, M D Snape, E Miller, A J Pollard
BMJ  2010;340:c2649 (Published )
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Transmission of pandemic A/H1N1 2009 influenza on passenger aircraft: retrospective cohort study
Michael G Baker, Craig N Thornley, Clair Mills, Sally Roberts, Shanika Perera, Julia Peters, Anne Kelso, Ian Barr, Nick Wilson
BMJ  2010;340:c2424 (Published )
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How to investigate a patient with suspected interstitial lung disease
Owen J Dempsey, Keith M Kerr, Hardy Remmen, Alan R Denison
BMJ  2010;340:c2843 (Published )
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Guidelines: Management of lower urinary tract symptoms in men: summary of NICE guidance
Clare Jones, Jennifer Hill, Christopher Chapple, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
BMJ  2010;340:c2354 (Published )
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Diagnosis in General Practice: When no diagnostic label is applied
Roger Jones, Kevin Barraclough, Christopher Dowrick
BMJ  2010;340:c2683 (Published )
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Konrad Jamrozik
Melissa Sweet
BMJ  2010;340:c3005 (Published )
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John Courtney Bull
Julian Neely
BMJ  2010;340:c3025 (Published )
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David Robert Ferguson
Jon McCormack, Sally McCormack
BMJ  2010;340:c3027 (Published )
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John Bryn Thomas Griffiths
Rhys Griffiths
BMJ  2010;340:c3032 (Published )
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Mary Winifred Hart (née Sawday)
Amanda Green
BMJ  2010;340:c3031 (Published )
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Rory Nicol
Daniel Nicol
BMJ  2010;340:c3028 (Published )
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Nina Alexander Bernard Tulloch (née Verity)
Duncan Newton, Elizabeth Newton
BMJ  2010;340:c3030 (Published )
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Salim Abdulmahmed Kassam Suleman Verjee
Mohamud A K S Verjee
BMJ  2010;340:c3029 (Published )
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Personal View: The price of poor pandemic communication
Thomas Abraham
BMJ  2010;340:c2952 (Published )
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Personal View: Preventing iatrogenic pandemics of panic. Do it in a NICE way
Luc Bonneux, Wim Van Damme
BMJ  2010;340:c3065 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Arsenic and old ways
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2010;340:c2951 (Published )
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Medical Classics: A new look at medicine and politics
Richard Smith
BMJ  2010;340:c2958 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Compulsive doing: sport in childhood
Des Spence
BMJ  2010;340:c3071 (Published )
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In and Out of Hospital: Intimate partner violence: Marie Lloyd’s bruises
James Owen Drife
BMJ  2010;340:c2998 (Published )
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Picture Quiz: A is for airway
Harpreet Ranu, Brendan Madden
BMJ  2010;340:c2367 (Published )
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Statistical Question: Multiple significance tests
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2010;340:c2963 (Published )
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OnExamination Quiz: Postoperative problems
BMJ  2010;340:c2962 (Published )
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Tom Ford, Caroline Whitworth, Neeraj Dhaun
BMJ  2010;340:c2887 (Published )
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The wall of fame
Michael J Rosenblum
BMJ  2010;340:c421 (Published )
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