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8 January 2011 (Vol 342, No 7788)
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The fraud behind the MMR scare
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2011;342:d22 (Published )
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Treatment of periodontal disease in pregnancy
George Macones
BMJ  2010;341:c7090 (Published )
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Prevention of Leishmania donovani infection
Philippe Desjeux
BMJ  2010;341:c6751 (Published )
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Is estimating lifetime cardiovascular risk useful?
Rod Jackson, Andrew Kerr, Sue Wells
BMJ  2010;341:c7379 (Published )
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Treating inflammatory arthritis early
Chris Deighton, David L Scott
BMJ  2010;341:c7384 (Published )
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Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent
Fiona Godlee, Jane Smith, Harvey Marcovitch
BMJ  2011;342:c7452 (Published )
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Subarachnoid haemorrhage: Beware adopting rigid rules
Hani Marcus, David Sayer, Tim Harris
BMJ  2010;341:c7398 (Published )
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Subarachnoid haemorrhage: Clinical gestalt needed
Andrew P Webster
BMJ  2010;341:c7404 (Published )
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Subarachnoid haemorrhage: Cases may have been missed
Jonathan Lamb
BMJ  2010;341:c7406 (Published )
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Subarachnoid haemorrhage: Reinventing the wheel, square
Alistair J Jenkins
BMJ  2010;341:c7414 (Published )
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Subarachnoid haemorrhage: Author’s reply
Jeffrey J Perry
BMJ  2010;341:c7421 (Published )
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Resurgence of H1N1 flu: Coordinated response for ECMO
Moronke Noah, Giles Peek, Chris Harvey, Maggie Hickey, Anthony Bastin, Gail Faulkner, Claire Westrope, Richard Firmin
BMJ  2010;341:c7391 (Published )
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Extracorporeal life support: Is recommended for severe accidental hypothermia
Les Gordon, Giles J Peek, John A Ellerton
BMJ  2010;341:c7411 (Published )
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Referrals to secondary care: Referral rates for postmenopausal bleeding are not respectable
John Butler, Sean Kehoe, John Shepherd, Desmond Barton, Jane Bridges, Thomas Ind, Marielle Nobbenhuis, Sadaf Ghaem-Maghami, Tania Adib, Karina Reynolds
BMJ  2010;341:c7407 (Published )
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Drug rationing in new NHS: Return of the postcode lottery
John Graham, Sam Guglani, Sean Elyan, Stephen Falk, Jeremy Braybrooke, Tom Roques
BMJ  2010;341:c7389 (Published )
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Imaging the dead: Can supplement but not replace autopsy in medicolegal death investigation
Christopher J O'Donnell, Noel Woodford
BMJ  2010;341:c7415 (Published )
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Early retirement: Retirement and socioeconomic inequalities
Karel Van Bever, Thomas Engelbeen, Elly Van Reusel, Dirk Van Duppen
BMJ  2010;341:c7400 (Published )
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Income to survive: How much do BMA and RSM pay their lowest paid workers?
W J Stephen
BMJ  2010;341:c7304 (Published )
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Income to survive: BMA pays well over minimum wage
Christine Fielden
BMJ  2010;341:c7305 (Published )
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Medical reports and prisoners: Publish Lockerbie bomber’s medical report
Jeremy Luke
BMJ  2010;341:c7386 (Published )
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Civil rights groups decry conviction of Indian paediatrician who pioneered community health
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2010;341:c7438 (Published )
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US medical school faculty still break conflict of interest rules, report says
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;341:c7435 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2011;342:c7471 (Published )
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Immunity for expert witnesses is under threat from a case coming to Supreme Court
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;341:c7337 (Published )
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More than 700 people need critical care treatment as flu cases surge
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;341:c7459 (Published )
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GP consortium agrees partnership with private firm to run referral service
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2011;342:c7470 (Published )
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BMA chairman urges doctors to monitor "unnecessarily ambitious" reforms
Jo Carlowe
BMJ  2010;341:c7465 (Published )
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US hospital loses Catholic designation after performing a lifesaving abortion
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;341:c7434 (Published )
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Abortions in Spain fell for the first time in a decade in 2009
Aser Garcia Rada
BMJ  2010;341:c7451 (Published )
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Ineffective surgical procedures are used to treat Canadians with osteoarthritis
Barbara Kermode-Scott
BMJ  2010;341:c7436 (Published )
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FDA gets new powers to regulate food safety
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;341:c7433 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2011;342:c7466 (Published )
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Secrets of the MMR scare: How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed
Brian Deer
BMJ  2011;342:c5347 (Published )
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Medical Education: Shifting the learning curve
Toby Reynolds, Ming-Li Kong
BMJ  2010;341:c6260 (Published )
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Reality Check: Beware the fortune tellers peddling genetic tests
Ray Moynihan
BMJ  2011;342:c7233 (Published )
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Lobby Watch: ResPublica
Jane Cassidy
BMJ  2010;341:c7371 (Published )
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Ethics of mitochondrial gene replacement: from bench to bedside
Annelien L Bredenoord, Peter Braude
BMJ  2010;341:c6021 (Published )
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Obstetric outcomes after treatment of periodontal disease during pregnancy: systematic review and meta-analysis
Nikolaos P Polyzos, Ilias P Polyzos, Apostolos Zavos, Antonis Valachis, Davide Mauri, Evangelos G Papanikolaou, Spyridon Tzioras, Daniel Weber, Ioannis E Messinis
BMJ  2010;341:c7017 (Published )
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Longlasting insecticidal nets for prevention of Leishmania donovani infection in India and Nepal: paired cluster randomised trial
Albert Picado, Shri Prakash Singh, Suman Rijal, Shyam Sundar, Bart Ostyn, Francois Chappuis, Surendra Uranw, Kamlesh Gidwani, Basudha Khanal, Madhukar Rai, Ishwari Sharma Paudel, Murari Lal Das, Rajiv Kumar, Pankaj Srivastava, Jean Claude Dujardin, Veerle Vanlerberghe, Elisabeth Wreford Andersen, Clive Richard Davies, Marleen Boelaert
BMJ  2010;341:c6760 (Published )
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Derivation, validation, and evaluation of a new QRISK model to estimate lifetime risk of cardiovascular disease: cohort study using QResearch database
Julia Hippisley-Cox, Carol Coupland, John Robson, Peter Brindle
BMJ  2010;341:c6624 (Published )
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Simple ultrasound rules to distinguish between benign and malignant adnexal masses before surgery: prospective validation by IOTA group
Dirk Timmerman, Lieveke Ameye, Daniela Fischerova, Elisabeth Epstein, Gian Benedetto Melis, Stefano Guerriero, Caroline Van Holsbeke, Luca Savelli, Robert Fruscio, Andrea Alberto Lissoni, Antonia Carla Testa, Joan Veldman, Ignace Vergote, Sabine Van Huffel, Tom Bourne, Lil Valentin
BMJ  2010;341:c6839 (Published )
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Diagnosis and management of juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Femke H M Prince, Marieke H Otten, Lisette W A van Suijlekom-Smit
BMJ  2010;341:c6434 (Published )
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Easily Missed?: Febrile neutropenia
Jay D Naik, Suren R K Sathiyaseelan, Naveen S Vasudev
BMJ  2010;341:c6981 (Published )
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A Patient's Journey: Rheumatoid arthritis
Ailsa M Bosworth, Alan Steuer
BMJ  2010;341:c7095 (Published )
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John Waterlow
Joanna Lyall
BMJ  2011;342:c7260 (Published )
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Haroon Rashid Chaudhry
Tanvir Ahmad Rana
BMJ  2011;342:c7318 (Published )
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Abdur Rashid Choudhury
R Choudhury
BMJ  2011;342:c7320 (Published )
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Wilfrid Gerald Harding
Wilfrid Harding, Timothy Harding
BMJ  2010;341:c7312 (Published )
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Geoffrey Christopher Irvine
S A Murray, M McNeil
BMJ  2011;342:c7317 (Published )
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Anthony Bernard McLaughlin
Henry McLaughlin
BMJ  2011;342:c7313 (Published )
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Peter James Denis Milton
Jessica Milton
BMJ  2011;342:c7314 (Published )
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Personal View: Outpatient follow-up ratio targets make no sense
Andrew Bamji
BMJ  2011;342:c7373 (Published )
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Review: Strange cases of twisted vision
Fred Charatan
BMJ  2011;342:c7110 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Perfect prognoses
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2011;342:c7467 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealisation and Denigration of Motherhood
Pamela Ashurst
BMJ  2011;342:c7155 (Published )
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From the Frontline: When marketing masquerades as education
Des Spence
BMJ  2011;342:c7469 (Published )
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The Bigger Picture: My personal mountain
Mary E Black
BMJ  2011;342:c7472 (Published )
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Anatomy Quiz: Axial computed tomography image through the base of the skull (bone windows)
James Halls
BMJ  2010;341:c7322 (Published )
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Statistical Question: T scores and z scores
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2010;341:c7362 (Published )
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Case Report: Repeated falls and broken bones
M Hossain, Paresh Jobanputra
BMJ  2010;341:c5755 (Published )
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onExamination Quiz: Chlamydia screening
BMJ  2011;342:c7338 (Published )
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Joby Cole, Jody Aberdein, Stephen Green
BMJ  2010;341:c7281 (Published )
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Attaining energy balance with the must-have toys this Christmas
Sue L Reeves, Lewis G Halsey
BMJ  2010;341:c7102 (Published )
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