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2 April 2011 (Vol 342, No 7800)
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Negative findings
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2011;342:d2053 (Published )
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Protecting public health after major radiation emergencies
Steven M Becker
BMJ  2011;342:d1968 (Published )
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Type of anaesthesia during cancer surgery and cancer recurrence
B C H Tsui, J S Green
BMJ  2011;342:d1605 (Published )
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Why have working hour restrictions apparently not improved patient safety?
Leora I Horwitz
BMJ  2011;342:d1200 (Published )
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Alcohol marketing to children
Gerard Hastings, Nick Sheron
BMJ  2011;342:d1767 (Published )
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The production of generic drugs in India
James Love
BMJ  2011;342:d1694 (Published )
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Turkish healthcare reforms: "Transforming" our health by privatisation
Murat Civaner
BMJ  2011;342:d1959 (Published )
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Turkish healthcare reforms: Article was a gift to minister of health just before general election
Cem Terzi
BMJ  2011;342:d1957 (Published )
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Unethical health reforms: Appeal to doctor-patient relationship is unprofessional and unethical
John D Matthews
BMJ  2011;342:d1944 (Published )
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Unethical health reforms: The reforms are already working
Pauline R Brimblecombe
BMJ  2011;342:d1945 (Published )
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Unethical health reforms: This ethical argument seems irrelevant to the real world
Stephen Black
BMJ  2011;342:d1946 (Published )
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New drugs for hyponatraemia: Cost effectiveness of tolvaptan
Paul Grant
BMJ  2011;342:d1947 (Published )
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Widening access to medical school: Could proficiency in English be a factor?
Mahmood F Bhutta
BMJ  2011;342:d1942 (Published )
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Widening access to medical school: Ethnicity and academic performance
Jean McKendree
BMJ  2011;342:d1943 (Published )
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Widening access to medical school: Access schemes are not enough
Nicholas A Deakin
BMJ  2011;342:d1941 (Published )
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QOF exemptions and care homes: Exemptions should be encouraged in frail elderly people
Martin Wilson
BMJ  2011;342:d1948 (Published )
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Medical radiation exposure: Exposure from fluoroscopy in theatre
Rui V Duarte, Jon H Raphael, Dalvina Hanu-Cernat
BMJ  2011;342:d1949 (Published )
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Medical radiation exposure: Assigning a cumulative "risk score"
A J M Broadley
BMJ  2011;342:d1950 (Published )
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Medical radiation exposure: Making the best use of clinical radiology
Denis J Remedios, Bethan Seymour
BMJ  2011;342:d1951 (Published )
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Health secretary scraps funding for survey of British attitudes to NHS
Nicholas Timmins
BMJ  2011;342:d2035 (Published )
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Campaigners call for university to close down children’s chiropractic clinic in Melbourne
Melissa Sweet
BMJ  2011;342:d1977 (Published )
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Women with raised risk of breast cancer on screening could be given preventive treatment
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2011;342:d1982 (Published )
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A 10th of GPs on consortium boards are also on boards of private firms
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2011;342:d2013 (Published )
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Current law has led to unregulated and dangerous practices, doctors tell commission on assisted dying
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2011;342:d1975 (Published )
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College investigates whether Wakefield was guilty of scientific fraud
Nigel Hawkes
BMJ  2011;342:d2010 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2011;342:d1986 (Published )
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New European online clinical trials register is launched
Rory Watson
BMJ  2011;342:d1994 (Published )
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Second cardiologist is sued for criticising a commercial health product
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2011;342:d2023 (Published )
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Trade talks on patent protection violate right to health, allege advocacy groups
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2011;342:d1993 (Published )
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Wilmshurst faces new libel claim over comments on freedom of speech
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2011;342:d1984 (Published )
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China pushes ahead with ban on indoor smoking
Jane Parry
BMJ  2011;342:d1990 (Published )
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Shareholders are to sue drug firm for not disclosing adverse reactions even though number wasn’t significant
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2011;342:d2011 (Published )
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Hungarian home birth advocate is sentenced to two years in prison
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2011;342:d2026 (Published )
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US authorities face legal challenges over anaesthetics used in executions
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2011;342:d1925 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2011;342:d1979 (Published )
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Databriefing: How satisfied are we with the NHS?
John Appleby
BMJ  2011;342:d1836 (Published )
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Service Integration: A glimpse of the future of healthcare at the seaside
Peter Davies
BMJ  2011;342:d1917 (Published )
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Clinically integrated systems: the future of NHS reform in England?
Chris Ham, Jennifer Dixon, Cyril Chantler
BMJ  2011;342:d905 (Published )
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BMJ Group Awards: Health Communicator of the Year: Health communicators have the extra factor
Trevor Jackson
BMJ  2011;342:d1824 (Published )
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On the Contrary: Fukushima: lightening the darkness for next time
Tony Delamothe
BMJ  2011;342:d1987 (Published )
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Perioperative epidural analgesia for major abdominal surgery for cancer and recurrence-free survival: randomised trial
Paul S Myles, Philip Peyton, Brendan Silbert, Jennifer Hunt, John R A Rigg, Daniel I Sessler, for the ANZCA Trials Group Investigators
BMJ  2011;342:d1491 (Published )
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Impact of reduction in working hours for doctors in training on postgraduate medical education and patients’ outcomes: systematic review
S R Moonesinghe, J Lowery, N Shahi, A Millen, J D Beard
BMJ  2011;342:d1580 (Published )
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The influence of study characteristics on reporting of subgroup analyses in randomised controlled trials: systematic review
Xin Sun, Matthias Briel, Jason W Busse, John J You, Elie A Akl, Filip Mejza, Malgorzata M Bala, Dirk Bassler, Dominik Mertz, Natalia Diaz-Granados, Per Olav Vandvik, German Malaga, Sadeesh K Srinathan, Philipp Dahm, Bradley C Johnston, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Basil Hassouneh, Jessica Truong, Neil D Dattani, Stephen D Walter, Diane Heels-Ansdell, Neera Bhatnagar, Douglas G Altman, Gordon H Guyatt
BMJ  2011;342:d1569 (Published )
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Strengths and weaknesses of hospital standardised mortality ratios
Alex Bottle, Brian Jarman, Paul Aylin
BMJ  2011;342:c7116 (Published )
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Investigation and management of unintentional weight loss in older adults
Jenna McMinn, Claire Steel, Adam Bowman
BMJ  2011;342:d1732 (Published )
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Guidelines: Assessment and management of psychosis with coexisting substance misuse: summary of NICE guidance
Tim Kendall, Peter Tyrer, Craig Whittington, Clare Taylor, on behalf of the Guideline Development Group
BMJ  2011;342:d1351 (Published )
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Lesson of the Week: Life threatening myelotoxicity secondary to azathioprine in a patient with atopic eczema and normal thiopurine methyltransferase activity
Jamie S Wee, Anthony Marinaki, Catherine H Smith
BMJ  2011;342:d1417 (Published )
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Dame Barbara Clayton
Peter Davies
BMJ  2011;342:d2004 (Published )
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John George Latham Cole
Andy Cole, Tim Cole
BMJ  2011;342:d1890 (Published )
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Brendan Bethel Jacobs
Fiona Coutts
BMJ  2011;342:d1887 (Published )
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Norman McLennan Piercy
BMJ  2011;342:d1892 (Published )
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Norman Charles Rogers
Pamela Rogers
BMJ  2011;342:d1889 (Published )
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Gillian Sleigh
Claire Burns
BMJ  2011;342:d1886 (Published )
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Kenneth Oswald Albert Vickery
Anthony Vickery, John Surtees
BMJ  2011;342:d1898 (Published )
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Raouf Yassin
Robert A F Bell
BMJ  2011;342:d1895 (Published )
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Personal View: I was misquoted over very premature babies
Daphne Austin
BMJ  2011;342:d1966 (Published )
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Review of the Week: Research misconduct revisited
Michael Fitzpatrick
BMJ  2011;342:d2006 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Bad style
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2011;342:d1923 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Trainspotting
Birte Twisselmann
BMJ  2011;342:d1926 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Bad medicine: sports medicine
Des Spence
BMJ  2011;342:d2025 (Published )
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Starting Out: Let’s talk about pensions
Kinesh Patel
BMJ  2011;342:d1939 (Published )
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Picture Quiz: Chronic diarrhoea in an elderly woman
Jacqueline K Simpson, Anna L Timmis, Shahab Siddiqi
BMJ  2011;342:c7339 (Published )
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Statistical Quiz: Observational study design II
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2011;342:d1903 (Published )
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onExamination Quiz: Visual disturbance
BMJ  2011;342:d1930 (Published )
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Kathir Yoganathan, Susannah Danino
BMJ  2011;342:d1906 (Published )
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When I use a word: Formularies and pharmacopoeias
Jeff Aronson
BMJ  2011;342:d34 (Published )
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Leaks and threats to patient data
Syed Abdul Shabbir, Luis Fernandez-Luque, Yu-Chuan Li, Min-Huei Hsu, Pei-San Lee, Wen-Ta Chiu
BMJ  2011;342:d871 (Published )
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