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31 July 2010 (Vol 341, No 7766)
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Breast screening and other fights
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2010;341:c4096 (Published )
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Nutrition in people with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes
Peter Clifton
BMJ  2010;341:c3393 (Published )
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Neonatal outcomes in babies born out of hours
David Field, Lucy Smith
BMJ  2010;341:c3087 (Published )
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What will the white paper mean for GPs?
Martin Roland
BMJ  2010;341:c3985 (Published )
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Rudeness at work
Rhona Flin
BMJ  2010;340:c2480 (Published )
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Improving productivity in the NHS
Albert G Mulley
BMJ  2010;341:c3965 (Published )
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GPs in accident and emergency: Forget quantity, think quality
Christine E Voyce
BMJ  2010;341:c4023 (Published )
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GPs in accident and emergency: Gatekeeper version 2
Alfred P J Lake
BMJ  2010;341:c4030 (Published )
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GPs in accident and emergency: NICE guidelines may not help
Steve Goodacre
BMJ  2010;341:c4026 (Published )
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Emergency readmissions: Non-clinical bed management strategies in psychiatry
Shubulade M Smith, Daniel Herlihy
BMJ  2010;341:c3889 (Published )
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Budget crises and health: Let’s hear it for housing
Peter J Ambrose
BMJ  2010;341:c4018 (Published )
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Budget crises and health: Reporting of the UK debt
Denis Pereira Gray
BMJ  2010;341:c4020 (Published )
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Antibiotic prophylaxis: MRSA and Clostridium difficile are falling
Peter A Riley
BMJ  2010;341:c4016 (Published )
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Safety of planned home births: Findings of meta-analysis cannot be relied on
Gill Gyte, Miranda Dodwell, Mary Newburn, Jane Sandall, Alison Macfarlane, Susan Bewley
BMJ  2010;341:c4033 (Published )
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Transdermal testosterone gel: Don’t take blood from the arm where gel is applied
Hisham Nizar, Anjali Balasanthiran, Daniel Morganstein, Bernard Norman, Kevin Shotliff
BMJ  2010;341:c4014 (Published )
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Competing interests: NICE reply
Fergus Macbeth
BMJ  2010;341:c4012 (Published )
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Female genital mutilation: US policy on genital cutting
Judith S Palfrey
BMJ  2010;341:c4013 (Published )
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Response: "Antivaccine Lobby" replies to the BMJ
K B Saxena, Debabar Banerji, Imrana Qadeer, N J Kurian, Ritu Priya, Mira Shiva, Jacob Puliyel, Gopal Dabade
BMJ  2010;341:c4001 (Published )
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Government halves number of NHS quangos to save £180m
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2010;341:c4074 (Published )
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Coalition scraps plan for adjudicator to judge doctors’ fitness to practise
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;341:c4063 (Published )
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GPs will have to perform well to earn a "quality premium" in shake up of commissioning
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2010;341:c4015 (Published )
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NHS staff numbers begin to fall as fears rise over effect of efficiency savings
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2010;341:c4005 (Published )
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Specialists question agency’s proposal to time limit methadone prescribing
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2010;341:c3998 (Published )
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Local bodies should decide whether to fund homoeopathy, says government
Caroline White
BMJ  2010;341:c4073 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2010;341:c4022 (Published )
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FDA puts rosiglitazone post-marketing trial on hold
Deborah Cohen
BMJ  2010;341:c4017 (Published )
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Doctors call for ban on multidose vials after hepatitis C outbreak in US
Jane Feinmann
BMJ  2010;341:c4057 (Published )
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Lead poisoning in Nigeria causes "unprecedented" emergency
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2010;341:c4031 (Published )
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First patient to receive complete face transplant can leave hospital
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2010;341:c4088 (Published )
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HIV infection is rising among over 50s across the world, figures show
Sophie Arie
BMJ  2010;341:c4064 (Published )
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MRC did not fund IVF pioneers’ research because they weren’t in "medical establishment"
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2010;341:c4045 (Published )
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Russia embarks on £10bn reform of its "deplorable" health system
Andrew Osborn
BMJ  2010;341:c4025 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2010;341:c4007 (Published )
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White paper: More brickbats than bouquets?
BMJ  2010;341:c3977 (Published )
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Body Politic: Do GPs have the stomach for the battle ahead?
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2010;341:c4035 (Published )
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Screening for breast cancer—balancing the debate
Klim McPherson
BMJ  2010;340:c3106 (Published )
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Nutritional intervention in patients with type 2 diabetes who are hyperglycaemic despite optimised drug treatment—Lifestyle Over and Above Drugs in Diabetes (LOADD) study: randomised controlled trial
Kirsten J Coppell, Minako Kataoka, Sheila M Williams, Alex W Chisholm, Sue M Vorgers, Jim I Mann
BMJ  2010;341:c3337 (Published )
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Variation between centres in access to renal transplantation in UK: longitudinal cohort study
R Ravanan, U Udayaraj, D Ansell, D Collett, R Johnson, J O'Neill, C R V Tomson, C R K Dudley
BMJ  2010;341:c3451 (Published )
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Four year efficacy of prophylactic human papillomavirus quadrivalent vaccine against low grade cervical, vulvar, and vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia and anogenital warts: randomised controlled trial
The FUTURE I/II Study Group
BMJ  2010;341:c3493 (Published )
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Time of birth and risk of neonatal death at term: retrospective cohort study
Dharmintra Pasupathy, Angela M Wood, Jill P Pell, Michael Fleming, Gordon C S Smith
BMJ  2010;341:c3498 (Published )
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Small study effects in meta-analyses of osteoarthritis trials: meta-epidemiological study
Eveline Nuesch, Sven Trelle, Stephan Reichenbach, Anne W S Rutjes, Beatrice Tschannen, Douglas G Altman, Matthias Egger, Peter Juni
BMJ  2010;341:c3515 (Published )
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Management of alopecia areata
M J Harries, J Sun, R Paus, L E King Jr
BMJ  2010;341:c3671 (Published )
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Guidelines: Diagnosis, prevention, and management of delirium: summary of NICE guidance
John Young, Lakshmi Murthy, Maggie Westby, Anayo Akunne, Rachel O'Mahony, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
BMJ  2010;341:c3704 (Published )
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Easily Missed?: Testicular torsion
Bhaskar K Somani, Graham Watson, Nick Townell
BMJ  2010;341:c3213 (Published )
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Robert Butler
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2010;341:c4051 (Published )
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Dewi Arwyn Evans
Irene Evans
BMJ  2010;341:c4059 (Published )
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Robert Alan Forster
Judith Forster, John Surtees
BMJ  2010;341:c4060 (Published )
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Alexander Philips Fowler
Robert Dinwiddie
BMJ  2010;341:c4065 (Published )
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George Adair Hazleton Heaney
Adair Heaney, Peter Hillenbrand
BMJ  2010;341:c4066 (Published )
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Michael Cautley Holderness
Donald Eyre-Walker
BMJ  2010;341:c4067 (Published )
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Benedict Leigh Hoskyns
Wren Hoskyns
BMJ  2010;341:c4068 (Published )
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Mary Lambourne (née Biddle)
Stephen Bolsin
BMJ  2010;341:c3895 (Published )
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Personal View: The perils of being a doctor in Baghdad
Nabil Al-Khalisi
BMJ  2010;341:c4043 (Published )
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Review of the Week: And the beats go on
Colin Martin
BMJ  2010;341:c4036 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Loveless oblivion
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2010;341:c4028 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Memento Mori
Richard Smith
BMJ  2010;341:c4069 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Doc holiday
Des Spence
BMJ  2010;341:c4042 (Published )
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In and Out of Hospital: Doctors of mirth
James Owen Drife
BMJ  2010;341:c4046 (Published )
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Picture Quiz: A woman with a cough and difficulty walking
Peter Foley, George Oommen, Jonathan O'Riordan
BMJ  2010;341:c3674 (Published )
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Statistical question: Relative risks
Philip Sedgwick, Louise Marston
BMJ  2010;341:c3983 (Published )
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OnExamination Question: Oncology
BMJ  2010;341:c3801 (Published )
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BMJ  2010;341:c3973 (Published )
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Charles M Pearman, Mohammed Andron
BMJ  2010;341:c3975 (Published )
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