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Let’s cut some carbon out of health care
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2010;341:c5553 (Published )
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Glomerular filtration rate and the risk of stroke
Vlado Perkovic, Alan Cass
BMJ  2010;341:c4390 (Published )
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Prevention of migraine
David W Dodick
BMJ  2010;341:c5229 (Published )
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Bacteria in the respiratory tract and wheeze in children
Jakob P Armann, Erika von Mutius
BMJ  2010;341:c4836 (Published )
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A new professional code in sports medicine
Simona Giordano
BMJ  2010;341:c4931 (Published )
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Prohibition of cannabis
Robin Room
BMJ  2010;341:c5492 (Published )
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Advanced directives and suicidal behaviour: What to do about treatment refusal at 3 am?
Stephen Davies
BMJ  2010;341:c5477 (Published )
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Advanced directives and suicidal behaviour: "If in doubt treat" is not as easy as it sounds
Jonathan R Benger
BMJ  2010;341:c5478 (Published )
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Government readmission proposals: Improved data collection is needed to support these proposals
Daniel J Wilks, Tawfiq Elahi, Sharif K Al-Ghazal
BMJ  2010;341:c5456 (Published )
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FDA on PROMs: Two important points
D Rowen, J Carlton, J E Brazier, B Mulhern, S Palfreyman, K Stevens, A Tsuchiya
BMJ  2010;341:c5454 (Published )
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Millennium development goals: Focus on the needs of the existing health workforce
Neil M Pakenham-Walsh
BMJ  2010;341:c5466 (Published )
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Millennium development goals: Listen to the needs of existing healthcare workers
Catriona Connolly
BMJ  2010;341:c5461 (Published )
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Speed cameras "do a good job" in reducing road deaths and injuries
Helen Mooney
BMJ  2010;341:c5489 (Published )
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IVF pioneer Robert Edwards wins Nobel prize
Geoff Watts
BMJ  2010;341:c5533 (Published )
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Tobacco giant fails to prevent Scottish ban on display in shops
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2010;341:c5473 (Published )
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New doctors’ group challenges medical bodies’ opposition to assisted dying
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;341:c5498 (Published )
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Six in 10 heart attack patients in England are treated with primary angioplasty
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;341:c5402 (Published )
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Stem cell therapy doctor struck off by the GMC
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;341:c5410 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2010;341:c5502 (Published )
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President Obama apologises to Guatemala over 1940s syphilis study
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;341:c5494 (Published )
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Countries should consider legalising cannabis in light of futility of bans
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;341:c5471 (Published )
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First antiretroviral patent in global drug pool puts pressure on companies to follow suit
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2010;341:c5514 (Published )
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Protests by staff save Berlin’s Charité hospital
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2010;341:c5486 (Published )
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Do drugs have a role in turning indifference into passion?
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2010;341:c5532 (Published )
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Study comes up with 41 definitions of what "having sex" means
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;341:c5491 (Published )
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Ig Nobel awards honour salutary effects of cursing, roller coasters, and bat fellatio
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2010;341:c5509 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2010;341:c5482 (Published )
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Yankee Doodling: Depressed about depression
Douglas Kamerow
BMJ  2010;341:c5516 (Published )
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Climate Change: Giving it 10%
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2010;341:c5448 (Published )
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International Health: Hungry for profit
Sophie Arie
BMJ  2010;341:c5221 (Published )
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Maudsley Debate: Should NHS mental health services fear the private sector? Yes
Allyson M Pollock
BMJ  2010;341:c5382 (Published )
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Maudsley Debate: Should NHS mental health services fear the private sector? No
Elaine Murphy, Philip Sugarman
BMJ  2010;341:c5385 (Published )
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The need to consider the wider agenda in systematic reviews and meta-analyses: breadth, timing, and depth of the evidence
John P A Ioannidis, Fotini B Karassa
BMJ  2010;341:c4875 (Published )
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Low glomerular filtration rate and risk of stroke: meta-analysis
Meng Lee, Jeffrey L Saver, Kuo-Hsuan Chang, Hung-Wei Liao, Shen-Chih Chang, Bruce Ovbiagele
BMJ  2010;341:c4249 (Published )
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Chronic kidney disease and risk of major cardiovascular disease and non-vascular mortality: prospective population based cohort study
Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Rajiv Chowdhury, Nadeem Sarwar, Thor Aspelund, John Danesh, Vilmundur Gudnason
BMJ  2010;341:c4986 (Published )
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Effect of preventive (β blocker) treatment, behavioural migraine management, or their combination on outcomes of optimised acute treatment in frequent migraine: randomised controlled trial
Kenneth A Holroyd, Constance K Cottrell, Francis J O'Donnell, Gary E Cordingley, Jana B Drew, Bruce W Carlson, Lina Himawan
BMJ  2010;341:c4871 (Published )
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Association of bacteria and viruses with wheezy episodes in young children: prospective birth cohort study
Hans Bisgaard, Mette Northman Hermansen, Klaus Bonnelykke, Jakob Stokholm, Florent Baty, Nanna Lassen Skytt, Julia Aniscenko, Tatiana Kebadze, Sebastian L Johnston
BMJ  2010;341:c4978 (Published )
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Sociodemographic patterning of non-communicable disease risk factors in rural India: a cross sectional study
Sanjay Kinra, Liza J Bowen, Tanica Lyngdoh, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Kolli Srinath Reddy, Lakshmy Ramakrishnan, Ruby Gupta, Ankalmadagu V Bharathi, Mario Vaz, Anura V Kurpad, George Davey Smith, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Shah Ebrahim
BMJ  2010;341:c4974 (Published )
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Chronic pelvic pain in women
Jane P Daniels, Khalid S Khan
BMJ  2010;341:c4834 (Published )
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Easily Missed?: Septic arthritis in children
Andrew Howard, Mary Wilson
BMJ  2010;341:c4407 (Published )
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10-Minute Consultation: Hallux valgus
Robert Choa, Robert Sharp, Kamal R Mahtani
BMJ  2010;341:c5130 (Published )
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Michael Black
Jean Harris-Hendriks
BMJ  2010;341:c5419 (Published )
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Claude Neville d’Este Eastes
Judy Holyfield
BMJ  2010;341:c5438 (Published )
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Purdendu Das Gupta
Lyn Perry
BMJ  2010;341:c5439 (Published )
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Alastair Lowry Macafee
David Macafee, Barbara Macafee
BMJ  2010;341:c5435 (Published )
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Malcolm MacIver
John Horsley, Mathew Serlin, Helen MacIver
BMJ  2010;341:c5442 (Published )
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Neville Stotesbury
Alick Dowling
BMJ  2010;341:c5433 (Published )
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Personal View: Rosiglitazone and the need for a new drug safety agency
Silvio Garattini, Vittorio Bertele'
BMJ  2010;341:c5506 (Published )
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Review of the Week: Fight club
Richard Hurley
BMJ  2010;341:c5383 (Published )
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Between the Lines: The beauty in browsing
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2010;341:c5538 (Published )
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Medical Classics: The Poisonwood Bible
Birte Twisselmann
BMJ  2010;341:c5392 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Peddling consumption over health: obesity and reality television
Des Spence
BMJ  2010;341:c5510 (Published )
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Outside the Box: Opera and imaging: none may sleep
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2010;341:c5507 (Published )
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Picture Quiz: A baby with noisy breathing
J Thuerey, D S Urquhart, G Wilkinson
BMJ  2010;341:c4402 (Published )
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Statistical Question: Confounding in randomised controlled trials
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2010;341:c5403 (Published )
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onExamination Quiz: Sepsis
BMJ  2010;341:c5476 (Published )
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Anna Vongerichten, Michael Powell
BMJ  2010;341:c5422 (Published )
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The "OCD bully"
David Veale, Steve Caplin
BMJ  2010;341:c2596 (Published )
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