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30 October 2010 (Vol 341, No 7779)
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Of intended and unintended consequences
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2010;341:c6060 (Published )
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Antenatal haemoglobinopathy screening
Judy Shakespeare
BMJ  2010;341:c5243 (Published )
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Avoidance of high concentration oxygen in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
B Ronan O'Driscoll, Richard Beasley
BMJ  2010;341:c5549 (Published )
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Chinese health care in rural areas
Zhanlian Feng
BMJ  2010;341:c5254 (Published )
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The impact of the spending review on health and social care
David J Hunter
BMJ  2010;341:c6022 (Published )
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New international guidelines on resuscitation
Peter Morley
BMJ  2010;341:c6051 (Published )
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Screening for prostate cancer: First, standardise the assay
Ann-Marie R Howell, Arie Parnham, Omer Karim, Rajesh Kavia
BMJ  2010;341:c5813 (Published )
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Screening for prostate cancer: Consider the harms
Susan Bewley
BMJ  2010;341:c5811 (Published )
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Chronic pelvic pain in women: Pain and pathology
G R Harrison
BMJ  2010;341:c5995 (Published )
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Hip resurfacing: Early failures cause concern
Ben J R F Bolland, Jeremy M Latham, Duncan Whitwell
BMJ  2010;341:c5632 (Published )
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Dabigatran v warfarin: Compare with higher standard
Duncan Edwards
BMJ  2010;341:c5984 (Published )
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Subclinical hypothyroidism: Risk factor for heart disease for over 40 years
Richard A Savage, Samuel Savage, Helen Platts, Amanda Platts, Suzanne Savage, Michael B Fowler, Guy Fowler
BMJ  2010;341:c5990 (Published )
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Price of wishful thinking: Royal College of Physician’s wishful lead in stroke
Nigel Dudley
BMJ  2010;341:c5994 (Published )
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Price of wishful thinking: Royal College of Physicians replies
Martin Else
BMJ  2010;341:c6000 (Published )
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Bisphosphonates and cancer: Two studies, same data source, two answers
Frank de Vries
BMJ  2010;341:c5980 (Published )
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Communicating with deaf people: Risk of ill health is increased
Jeetesh V Patel
BMJ  2010;341:c5986 (Published )
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Communicating with deaf people: Turn the computer screen round
Anthony N Glaser
BMJ  2010;341:c5989 (Published )
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Communicating with deaf people: Stethoscope is a hearing aid
Philip D Welsby
BMJ  2010;341:c5985 (Published )
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Oil, health, and healthcare: Problem of centralisation
Martin Hensher
BMJ  2010;341:c5795 (Published )
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Infections from tattooing: Outbreak of Mycobacterium chelonae in France
Joana Goldman, Francois Caron, Julie de Quatrebarbes, Martine Pestel-Caron, Philippe Courville, Martin Xavier Dore, Damien Picard, Anne-Benedicte Duval-Modeste, Pierre Bravard, Pascal Joly
BMJ  2010;341:c5483 (Published )
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Why copyright science?: Because we can?
G D Perera
BMJ  2010;341:c5803 (Published )
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Experts question government delays in improving end of life care
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2010;341:c6018 (Published )
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European regulators urge commission to tighten regulations on doctors’ cross border working
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;341:c6016 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2010;341:c5987 (Published )
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Two in five doctors don’t think government reforms will improve patient care
Jo Carlowe
BMJ  2010;341:c6032 (Published )
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NHS budget rises slightly but money "will have to stretch further than ever"
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;341:c5952 (Published )
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People would have died if government had not been so "precautionary" during swine flu outbreak, says former CMO
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2010;341:c5950 (Published )
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Doctors can force woman to have lifesaving treatment
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;341:c5951 (Published )
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Haiti’s cholera outbreak could spread to neighbours
Sophie Arie
BMJ  2010;341:c6057 (Published )
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Drug companies are accused of using unsuitable doctors to promote their products
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2010;341:c6026 (Published )
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Spain takes tough stance on smoking with new legislation
Aser Garcia Rada
BMJ  2010;341:c5983 (Published )
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Russia cracks down on tobacco advertising and smoking in public places
Tom Parfitt
BMJ  2010;341:c6010 (Published )
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Baby P doctor is refused permission to remove herself from medical register
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;341:c6042 (Published )
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Doctors continue fight for David Kelly inquest despite release of autopsy report
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;341:c6013 (Published )
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US health insurer begins shift from fee for service payments
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2010;341:c6015 (Published )
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German MPs are to vote on allowing preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2010;341:c6017 (Published )
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Obesity related illness consumes a sixth of US healthcare budget
Jeanne Lenzer
BMJ  2010;341:c6014 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2010;341:c6002 (Published )
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Health Economics: Where do the cuts leave the NHS?
Nick Timmins
BMJ  2010;341:c6024 (Published )
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Obesity: Slimmed down surgery
Margaret McCartney
BMJ  2010;341:c5499 (Published )
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Nutrition: Sticky labels
David Payne
BMJ  2010;341:c5861 (Published )
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Presumed consent: a distraction in the quest for increasing rates of organ donation
John Fabre, Paul Murphy, Rafael Matesanz
BMJ  2010;341:c4973 (Published )
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Effectiveness of earlier antenatal screening for sickle cell disease and thalassaemia in primary care: cluster randomised trial
Elizabeth Dormandy, Martin Gulliford, Stirling Bryan, Tracy E Roberts, Michael Calnan, Karl Atkin, Jonathan Karnon, Jane Logan, Fred Kavalier, Hilary J Harris, Tracey A Johnston, Elizabeth N Anionwu, Vicki Tsianakas, Patricia Jones, Theresa M Marteau
BMJ  2010;341:c5132 (Published )
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Effect of high flow oxygen on mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients in prehospital setting: randomised controlled trial
Michael A Austin, Karen E Wills, Leigh Blizzard, Eugene H Walters, Richard Wood-Baker
BMJ  2010;341:c5462 (Published )
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Risk of death during and after opiate substitution treatment in primary care: prospective observational study in UK General Practice Research Database
Rosie Cornish, John Macleod, John Strang, Peter Vickerman, Matt Hickman
BMJ  2010;341:c5475 (Published )
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New evidence on the impact of China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme and its implications for rural primary healthcare: multivariate difference-in-difference analysis
Kimberly Singer Babiarz, Grant Miller, Hongmei Yi, Linxiu Zhang, Scott Rozelle
BMJ  2010;341:c5617 (Published )
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Managing diabetic retinopathy
Zoe Ockrim, David Yorston
BMJ  2010;341:c5400 (Published )
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Guidelines: Management of bedwetting in children and young people: summary of NICE guidance
Vanessa Delgado Nunes, Norma O'Flynn, Jonathan Evans, Laura Sawyer, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
BMJ  2010;341:c5399 (Published )
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A Patient's Journey: Vitiligo
Jennifer Viles, Darryl Monte, David J Gawkrodger
BMJ  2010;341:c3780 (Published )
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Robert M Chanock
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2010;341:c6019 (Published )
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Personal View: Doctors are key to welfare reform
Clare Bambra
BMJ  2010;341:c6029 (Published )
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Personal View: More daylight, better health: why we shouldn’t be putting the clocks back this weekend
Mayer Hillman
BMJ  2010;341:c5964 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Table talk
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2010;341:c5974 (Published )
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Medical Classics: All About My Mother
Richard Hurley
BMJ  2010;341:c6055 (Published )
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From the Frontline: The art of noise
Des Spence
BMJ  2010;341:c6038 (Published )
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The Bigger Picture: Outing the Foley catheter
Mary E Black
BMJ  2010;341:c5973 (Published )
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Anatomy quiz: Coronal computed tomography of the inner ear
James Halls
BMJ  2010;341:c5954 (Published )
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onExamination Quiz: Diarrhoea in a returning traveller
BMJ  2010;341:c5739 (Published )
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Case Report: A hypoglycaemic baby on the postnatal ward
Sagarika Ray
BMJ  2010;341:c4626 (Published )
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Measurement of data
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2010;341:c5929 (Published )
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Zabare Mirza, Jayashree Viswanathan
BMJ  2010;341:c5961 (Published )
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BMJ  2010;341:c5967 (Published )
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