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20 June 2009 (Vol 338, No 7709)
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Individual or public good
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2009;338:b2475 (Published )
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Community involvement in dengue vector control
John P Elder, Kara Ballenger-Browning
BMJ  2009;338:b1023 (Published )
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Independent midwifery care versus NHS care in the UK
Allison Shorten, Brett Shorten
BMJ  2009;338:b2210 (Published )
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HIV infection in older people
Kelly A Gebo
BMJ  2009;338:b1460 (Published )
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The economic crisis and suicide
David Gunnell, Stephen Platt, Keith Hawton
BMJ  2009;338:b1891 (Published )
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Confidentiality and sharing health information
Julian Sheather
BMJ  2009;338:b2160 (Published )
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UVB phototherapy for psoriasis: Narrowband UVB phototherapy
Heather Cameron, Robert Dawe
BMJ  2009;338:b2213 (Published )
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UVB phototherapy for psoriasis: Authors’ reply
Mayke B G Koek, Erik Buskens, Carla AFM Bruijnzeel-Koomen, Vigfus Sigurdsson
BMJ  2009;338:b2215 (Published )
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Deprivation of liberty: Liberty safeguards in hospital
Nitin Gupta
BMJ  2009;338:b2430 (Published )
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US healthcare reform: Choice and equality in health
Adam M Ali
BMJ  2009;338:b2423 (Published )
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A/H1N1 flu: NSAIDs and flu
Rokuro Hama
BMJ  2009;338:b2345 (Published )
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A/H1N1 flu: Aspirin in the 1918 pandemic
Tsunetoshi Shimazu
BMJ  2009;338:b2398 (Published )
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Swine flu claims first European death, as cases worldwide rise to 36 000
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2009;338:b2470 (Published )
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Australia plans to restrict antiretrovirals to high risk cases as swine flu spreads
Rada Rouse
BMJ  2009;338:b2448 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2009;338:b2438 (Published )
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NHS is told to think radically and move quickly to survive public spending squeeze
Caroline White
BMJ  2009;338:b2450 (Published )
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US health reform debate is reaching critical phase, says expert
Caroline White
BMJ  2009;338:b2458 (Published )
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Salaried GPs should not be exploited, conference hears
Deborah Cohen
BMJ  2009;338:b2442 (Published )
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Sharing of patients’ data should not be based on implied consent, say GPs’ representatives
Andrew Cole
BMJ  2009;338:b2441 (Published )
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Clinic of murdered Kansas abortion doctor will not reopen
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2009;338:b2437 (Published )
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Human rights organisation condemns university’s attempt to discredit one of its staff
Natasa Skaricic
BMJ  2009;338:b2455 (Published )
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UK’s largest hospital for children opens in Manchester
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2009;338:b2401 (Published )
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Deaths from road traffic injuries will nearly double to 2.4 million a year unless safety measures are strengthened
John Zarocostas
BMJ  2009;338:b2464 (Published )
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Images plus text work best to put people off smoking
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2009;338:b2415 (Published )
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Agencies collaborate to tackle world’s biggest killers
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2009;338:b2421 (Published )
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Men need primary care at work, debate hears
Deborah Cohen
BMJ  2009;338:b2471 (Published )
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Famine threatens Horn of Africa as global number of hungry people tops a billion
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2009;338:b2449 (Published )
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New group aims to detect misuse of statistics by government and media
Emily Pull
BMJ  2009;338:b2469 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2009;338:b2417 (Published )
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Tropical Diseases: The end of lymphatic filariasis?
Moses J Bockarie, David H Molyneux
BMJ  2009;338:b1686 (Published )
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Yankee Doodling: How to waste a billion dollars
Douglas Kamerow
BMJ  2009;338:b2432 (Published )
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Palivizumab and the importance of cost effectiveness
Alison Teale, Sanjeev Deshpande, Amanda Burls
BMJ  2009;338:b1935 (Published )
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Community involvement in dengue vector control: cluster randomised trial
V Vanlerberghe, M E Toledo, M Rodriguez, D Gomez, A Baly, J R Benitez, P Van der Stuyft
BMJ  2009;338:b1959 (Published )
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Inequalities in reported use of breast and cervical screening in Great Britain: analysis of cross sectional survey data
Kath Moser, Julietta Patnick, Valerie Beral
BMJ  2009;338:b2025 (Published )
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Outcomes for births booked under an independent midwife and births in NHS maternity units: matched comparison study
Andrew Symon, Clare Winter, Melanie Inkster, Peter T Donnan
BMJ  2009;338:b2060 (Published )
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Statin use and risk of community acquired pneumonia in older people: population based case-control study
Sascha Dublin, Michael L Jackson, Jennifer C Nelson, Noel S Weiss, Eric B Larson, Lisa A Jackson
BMJ  2009;338:b2137 (Published )
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Prognosis and prognostic research: application and impact of prognostic models in clinical practice
Karel G M Moons, Douglas G Altman, Yvonne Vergouwe, Patrick Royston
BMJ  2009;338:b606 (Published )
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Acute leukaemia in children: diagnosis and management
Chris Mitchell, Georgina Hall, Rachel T Clarke
BMJ  2009;338:b2285 (Published )
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Change Page: Advise use of rear facing child car seats for children under 4 years old
Elizabeth A Watson, Michael J Monteiro
BMJ  2009;338:b1994 (Published )
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A Patient's Journey: The invisible worm: ovarian cancer
Gill Reeve, Stuart Mackay-Thomas
BMJ  2009;338:b2072 (Published )
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George R Tiller
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2009;338:b2465 (Published )
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Alan Geoffrey Atkinson
Alan Atkinson
BMJ  2009;338:b2279 (Published )
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John Collings-Wells
James Collings-Wells
BMJ  2009;338:b2444 (Published )
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Geoffrey Stanley Charles Hibbert
Heather Hibbert, John McQueen
BMJ  2009;338:b2420 (Published )
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Allan Hulme
Edward C Hulme
BMJ  2009;338:b2274 (Published )
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Frank Robert Cassels Manning
C J F Manning
BMJ  2009;338:b2446 (Published )
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George Davidson Scarrow
R W Galloway
BMJ  2009;338:b2422 (Published )
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Christopher Neville Watson
Geoffrey Chandler, Myles Gibson
BMJ  2009;338:b2445 (Published )
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Personal View: Who would want to be medicine’s sacrificial lamb?
Julian Sheather
BMJ  2009;338:b2414 (Published )
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Review of the Week: If the price is right
Ike Iheanacho
BMJ  2009;338:b2463 (Published )
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Between the Lines: The end of civilisation
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2009;338:b2408 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Life & Death
Roy Williamson
BMJ  2009;338:b2411 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Getting on message
Des Spence
BMJ  2009;338:b2466 (Published )
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In and Out of Hospital: Health risks of volunteering
James Owen Drife
BMJ  2009;338:b2404 (Published )
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Statistical question: Study design
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2009;338:b2381 (Published )
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OnExamination quiz: Asthma
BMJ  2009;338:b2387 (Published )
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Picture Quiz: A renal riddle
Thomas C Booth, Rikin Hargunani
BMJ  2009;338:b1424 (Published )
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Ahmad Khalil, Niall O'Donnell
BMJ  2009;338:b2456 (Published )
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Vocation: to be prepared to go beyond the call of duty
Amit Bhattacharyya
BMJ  2009;338:b1121 (Published )
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