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One stop breast clinics are costly and reduce only short term anxiety [Full text] FREE
Asian patients have lower levels of cardiac revascularisation than white [Full text] FREE
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Homoeopathy does not reduce allergy to dust mite in people with asthma [Full text] FREE
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The misdiagnosis of epilepsy
David Chadwick, David Smith
BMJ  2002;324:495-496, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.495
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Surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy
Robert D C Elwes
BMJ  2002;324:496-497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.496
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The discomfort of patient power
Richard Smith
BMJ  2002;324:497-498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.497
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Randomised controlled trials for homoeopathy
Gene Feder, Tessa Katz
BMJ  2002;324:498-499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.498
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Brain drain and health professionals
Tikki Pang, Mary Ann Lansang, Andy Haines
BMJ  2002;324:499-500, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.499
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Performance league tables
Jonathan Howell, M F Shiu, B Bridgewater, T Hooper, C Campbell, M Jones, J Carey, P Waterworth, A Deiraniya, N Yonan, Peter M Dunn, Tom Aslan
BMJ  2002;324:542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.542
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Effect of patient centredness and positive approach
David Shepherd, Michael Hurley, Marian Pitts, Jeffrey Grierson
BMJ  2002;324:543, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.543
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Somatisation in primary care
James W Pennebaker, Antonio L Teixeira, Jr, Henrique Alvarenga-Silva, A F Schilte
BMJ  2002;324:544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.544
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Deputy editor of Clinical Evidence replies to letter
Giselle Jones
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Quality of Cochrane reviews
Mark Petticrew, Paul Wilson, Kath Wright, Fujian Song, Helen Handoll, Rajan Madhok
BMJ  2002;324:545, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.545/a
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Reye's syndrome revisited
M Casteels-Van Daele, C Wouters, C Van Geet, M C McGovern, J F T Glasgow, M C Stewart
BMJ  2002;324:546, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.546
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Demand for prostate specific antigen testing in primary care
Keith Hopcroft, Gurmukh Singh Kalsi
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Despite author's opinion, radiology guideline was correct
Bob Bury
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Dishonest doctors should not continue to practise
Nigel Dudley
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Clinical medication review by pharmacists would improve care
Joe Neary
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Dementia is being avoided in NHS and social care
Alastair Macdonald, Tom Dening
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GPs asked to do more for drug misusers
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2002;324:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.501
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NHS settles claim of patients treated with LSD
Clare Dyer
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In brief
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Blair warns of tax increases to pay for NHS
Zosia Kmietowicz
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US encourages flu jabs for infants aged under 2
Deborah Josefson
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Embryo cell research should continue, committee says
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2002;324:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.503
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Watchdog approves embryo selection to treat 3 year old child
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2002;324:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.503/a
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Bush moves to tighten security around scientific research
Fred Charatan
BMJ  2002;324:505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.505/c
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US issues new guidelines as mammography debate continues
Deborah Josefson
BMJ  2002;324:506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.506
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First cases of type 2 diabetes found in white UK teenagers
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2002;324:506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.506/a
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"No star" NHS trust slated by CHI report
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2002;324:504, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.504
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Women more likely than men to die after heart surgery
David Spurgeon
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Private medical services in state hospitals in Israel to be shut down
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
BMJ  2002;324:504, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.504/b
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Surgeon criticised for performing kidney operation using living donor
Annette Tuffs
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Netherlands to run trials of marijuana in patients with multiple sclerosis
Tony Sheldon
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Judge criticises expert witness for misrepresenting research findings
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2002;324:505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.505
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India faces drug resistant leishmaniasis
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2002;324:505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.505/a
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More clinics for younger people needed to reduce sex infections
Lynn Eaton
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Costs and benefits of a one stop clinic compared with a dedicated breast clinic: randomised controlled trial Commentary: one stop clinics should not be abandoned
Paola Dey, Nigel Bundred, Alan Gibbs, Penny Hopwood, Andrew Baildam, Caroline Boggis, Marilyn James, Fiona Knox, Vicki Leidecker, Ciarán Woodman, J Michael Dixon
BMJ  2002;324:507, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.507
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Ethnic differences in invasive management of coronary disease: prospective cohort study of patients undergoing angiography
Gene Feder, Angela M Crook, Patrick Magee, Shrilla Banerjee, Adam D Timmis, Harry Hemingway
BMJ  2002;324:511-516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.511
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Eliciting views of patients with head and neck cancer and carers on professionally derived standards for care Commentary: Patients' involvement in their treatment matters
M Birchall, A Richardson, L Lee, P Morton
BMJ  2002;324:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.516
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Use of ultramolecular potencies of allergen to treat asthmatic people allergic to house dust mite: double blind randomised controlled clinical trial
G T Lewith, A D Watkins, M E Hyland, S Shaw, J A Broomfield, G Dolan, S T Holgate
BMJ  2002;324:520, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.520
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A comparative case study of two models of a clinical informaticist service
Trisha Greenhalgh, Jane Hughes, Charlotte Humphrey, Stephen Rogers, Deborah Swinglehurst, Peter Martin
BMJ  2002;324:524-529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.524
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Recent developments: Renal transplantation
Peter A Andrews
BMJ  2002;324:530-534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.530
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ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Bradycardias and atrioventricular conduction block
David Da Costa, William J Brady, June Edhouse
BMJ  2002;324:535-538, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.535
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Bad smells are good
Liam Farrell
BMJ  2002;324:553, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.553/a
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This week's Personal views

Prosecution or persecution?
Kosalakumar Karunaratne, John Gibbs
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This week's Education and debate

Evidence base of clinical diagnosis: The architecture of diagnostic research
D L Sackett, R B Haynes
BMJ  2002;324:539-541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.539
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Donald William Gould
Caroline Richmond
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James Robert Clark
Marjorie Clark
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Edward Beresford Davies
Alan Broadhurst
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Margaret Joan Fingland (née Croall)
Ian W Fingland, Ian G Fingland, Alison M Dunsire
BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/c
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Ann Annam Herrick (née Ponnudarai)
Peter Herrick, Max Bayer
BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/d
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Michael Gerard McEntegart
Kevin McCarthy
BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/e
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Harry Stafford Morton
C J Cameron
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Rani Rajasekaran
P Mohamed Bashir
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John Baynes Searle
Robert Searle
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William Simpson
Jean Adams
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Frances Sorrell
Colin Gillespie, John R Wedley
BMJ  2002;324:549, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.549/j
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This week's Minerva

Minerva
BMJ  2002;324:554, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.554
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Endpiece: Cleanliness and godliness
BMJ  2002;324:516, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.516/a
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Endpiece: What's possible
BMJ  2002;324:520, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.520/a
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A patient who changed my practice: Never say, "never" again
B Sadananda Naik
BMJ  2002;324:529, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.529
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A memorable patient: My important surgical appliance
Kenneth S Holt
BMJ  2002;324:534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.534
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One hundred years ago: A new statue to Pasteur
BMJ  2002;324:539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.539/a
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This week's FILM

Film: The curious adoption of John Q
Gavin Yamey
BMJ  2002;324:551, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.551
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Diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnosis
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This week's PUBLISHING

Publishing: A doctor's guide to Dr Foster
Ruth Little
BMJ  2002;324:552, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7336.552
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This week's WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Website of the week: Nosing around:
Birte Twisselmann
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