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19 March 2011 (Vol 342, No 7798)
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Health reform quackery
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2011;342:d1711 (Published )
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Growth hormone in children with idiopathic short stature
Kerstin Albertsson-Wikland
BMJ  2011;342:d1248 (Published )
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Drug treatment for generalised anxiety disorder
Toshi A Furukawa
BMJ  2011;342:d1216 (Published )
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Excess mortality in osteoarthritis
Cyrus Cooper, Nigel K Arden
BMJ  2011;342:d1407 (Published )
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Reduction of childhood mortality through millennium development goal 4
Adnan A Hyder, Jeffrey Lunnen
BMJ  2011;342:d357 (Published )
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Poor inpatient care for older people
Stuart G Parker, Simon Conroy
BMJ  2011;342:d373 (Published )
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Early life radiation exposure: Withholding imaging in pregnancy may be hazardous
Kenneth Hodson, Jason Waugh, Catherine Nelson-Piercy
BMJ  2011;342:d1486 (Published )
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Utility of lifetime risks: In defence of lifetime risk
Peter D Sasieni
BMJ  2011;342:d1490 (Published )
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Getting welfare to work: Response from the General Medical Council
Jane OBrien
BMJ  2011;342:d1623 (Published )
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Industry sponsored trials: Best practice for statisticians in industry sponsored trials
Steven A Julious, Stephen Pyke, Sara Hughes
BMJ  2011;342:d1636 (Published )
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Mephedrone: Banned but still available on the internet
Giorgia De Paoli, Simon D Brandt, Derrick J Pounder
BMJ  2011;342:d1629 (Published )
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Hypertension risk in the young: Pre-eclampsia is a risk marker
Mark Kilby
BMJ  2011;342:d1631 (Published )
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Dementia as chronic disease: Rigorous health infrastructure is needed
Mahbuba Choudhury, Saiji Nageshwaran
BMJ  2011;342:d1634 (Published )
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Doctors vote for English health bill to be withdrawn
Jacqui Wise
BMJ  2011;342:d1701 (Published )
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MPs call for English hospitals to publish productivity rates
Andrew Cole
BMJ  2011;342:d1705 (Published )
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Government’s public health responsibility deal is met with scepticism
Adrian ODowd
BMJ  2011;342:d1702 (Published )
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Government delays in banning tobacco displays in England lead to frustration
Ann McGauran
BMJ  2011;342:d1609 (Published )
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BMA and other health bodies walk out of "half hearted" national alcohol plan
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2011;342:d1659 (Published )
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Lansley promises to review health bill after Liberal Democrats oppose reforms
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2011;342:d1646 (Published )
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Scottish GPs want no part of English "market driven" reforms
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2011;342:d1633 (Published )
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Japan calls on troops to help relief efforts after devastating earthquake
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2011;342:d1666 (Published )
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Nine million Americans have lost health insurance in recession
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2011;342:d1645 (Published )
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European parliament criticises H1N1 pandemic response
Rory Watson
BMJ  2011;342:d1639 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2011;342:d1688 (Published )
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Oxfam warns countries not to copy Ghana’s "flawed" health insurance scheme
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2011;342:d1630 (Published )
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Indian court says it may sanction euthanasia in the future
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2011;342:d1628 (Published )
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Activists call for Libya to end attacks on health facilities and to let medical supplies in
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2011;342:d1638 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2011;342:d1622 (Published )
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Health Systems: French healthcare: the high cost of excellence
Sophie Arie
BMJ  2011;342:d1524 (Published )
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BMJ Group Awards: Clinical Leadership: Finding the leader of 2011
Helen Morant, Cath McDermott
BMJ  2011;342:d1583 (Published )
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Round Table: "We need to ‘shake’ the bill to make sure it works for patients"
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2011;342:d1637 (Published )
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Yankee Doodling: The rise and likely fall of Don Berwick
Douglas Kamerow
BMJ  2011;342:d1640 (Published )
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Lobby Watch: The Cabinet Office Behavioural Insights Team
Jane Cassidy
BMJ  2011;342:d1648 (Published )
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The rule of ignorance: a polemic on medicine, English health service policy, and history
John V Pickstone
BMJ  2011;342:d997 (Published )
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Impact of growth hormone therapy on adult height of children with idiopathic short stature: systematic review
Annalisa Deodati, Stefano Cianfarani
BMJ  2011;342:c7157 (Published )
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Efficacy of drug treatments for generalised anxiety disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis
David Baldwin, Robert Woods, Richard Lawson, David Taylor
BMJ  2011;342:d1199 (Published )
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All cause and disease specific mortality in patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis: population based cohort study
Eveline Nuesch, Paul Dieppe, Stephan Reichenbach, Susan Williams, Samuel Iff, Peter Juni
BMJ  2011;342:d1165 (Published )
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Adequacy of reporting monitoring regimens of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in clinical guidelines: systematic review
Ivan Moschetti, Daniel Brandt, Rafael Perera, M Clarke, Carl Heneghan
BMJ  2011;342:d1289 (Published )
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Strengthening the reporting of genetic risk prediction studies: the GRIPS statement
A Cecile J W Janssens, John P A Ioannidis, Cornelia M van Duijn, Julian Little, Muin J Khoury, for the GRIPS Group
BMJ  2011;342:d631 (Published )
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The management of abdominal aortic aneurysms
David Metcalfe, Peter J E Holt, Matt M Thompson
BMJ  2011;342:d1384 (Published )
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Therapeutics: Atypical antipsychotic drugs
Paul Mackin, Simon H L Thomas
BMJ  2011;342:d1126 (Published )
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A Patient's Journey: Adult atopic eczema
John Fuller, Andrew Wright
BMJ  2011;342:d644 (Published )
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Ronald Hinchcliffe
Linda M Luxon, Dafydd Stephens
BMJ  2011;342:d1664 (Published )
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Rafid Subhi Adib Baban
Munther Aldoori
BMJ  2011;342:d1588 (Published )
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James Cope
G C Cook
BMJ  2011;342:d1563 (Published )
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Audrey Trevor Evans
Cathy Morton Lloyd
BMJ  2011;342:d1587 (Published )
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George Barnet Forbes
G B Forbes
BMJ  2011;342:d1604 (Published )
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Gavin Philip Henry
Edward Reynolds
BMJ  2011;342:d1561 (Published )
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Alison McDonald
Jane McCusker, Sarah Meredith
BMJ  2011;342:d1601 (Published )
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Personal View: Public health reforms won’t mitigate the cuts
Tim Blackman
BMJ  2011;342:d1597 (Published )
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Review of the Week: Rocking the foundations of hospital architecture
Edwin Heathcote
BMJ  2011;342:d1599 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Murder, mystery, and medicine
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2011;342:d1620 (Published )
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Medical Classics: The Edwin Smith papyrus
Wendy Moore
BMJ  2011;342:d1598 (Published )
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From the Frontline: We need a Sunshine Act in the UK
Des Spence
BMJ  2011;342:d1647 (Published )
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Outside the Box: Working harder for longer
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2011;342:d1616 (Published )
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Picture Quiz: A painful right leg
Laura-Jane E Smith, Sinead M Murphy, Paul Holmes, Mary M Reilly, Lilla Reiniger, Maria Thom, Michael P Lunn
BMJ  2011;342:d1009 (Published )
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onExamination Quiz: Hypertension
BMJ  2011;342:d1592 (Published )
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Statistical Question: Sampling methods III
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2011;342:d1537 (Published )
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Justine Kluk, Robert Charles-Holmes, Richard A Carr
BMJ  2011;342:d1606 (Published )
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Lost in translation
Jennifer Graves
BMJ  2010;341:c414 (Published )
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