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6 February 2010 (Vol 340, No 7741)
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MMR and other controversies
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2010;340:c706 (Published )
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MMR vaccine and autism
Helen E Bedford, David A C Elliman
BMJ  2010;340:c655 (Published )
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Etanercept for psoriatic arthritis
Dafna D Gladman
BMJ  2010;340:c229 (Published )
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Measurement of postpartum blood loss
Ndola Prata, Caitlin Gerdts
BMJ  2010;340:c555 (Published )
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Rising hospital admissions
Stephen Gillam
BMJ  2010;340:c636 (Published )
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BMJ policy on data sharing
Trish Groves
BMJ  2010;340:c564 (Published )
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Homoeopathy debate: What parliamentary witnesses also said about homoeopathy
Robert T Mathie, Peter Fisher
BMJ  2010;340:c592 (Published )
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Homoeopathy debate: Editorial ignores evidence
Peter A Fisher, on behalf of Robert T Mathie, David Owen, Anita E Davies, Jeremy Swayne, Tom Whitmarsh, Gary J Smyth, Noel Thomas, Boris Morrice, George Lewith, Saul Berkovitz, Sosie Kassab, David Peters, Joyce Frye, Mike Cummings, Menachem Oberbaum, and seven others
BMJ  2010;340:c594 (Published )
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Homoeopathy debate: Herbal medicine and acupuncture: protecting patients
Robert M Pittilo
BMJ  2010;340:c595 (Published )
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Homoeopathy debate: Protecting patients?
Edzard Ernst
BMJ  2010;340:c597 (Published )
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Homoeopathy debate: Regulation is about patient safety
Mike O'Brien
BMJ  2010;340:c617 (Published )
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Homoeopathy debate: It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry
Michael Power
BMJ  2010;340:c598 (Published )
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Homoeopathy debate: Author’s reply to the minister
David Colquhoun
BMJ  2010;340:c640 (Published )
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English mortality from A/H1N1: Comparisons with recent flu mortality
Liam J Donaldson, Paul D Rutter, Benjamin M Ellis, Felix E C Greaves, Oliver T Mytton, Richard G Pebody, Iain E Yardley
BMJ  2010;340:c612 (Published )
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English mortality from A/H1N1: Discrepancies in published data
John Stone
BMJ  2010;340:c613 (Published )
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WHO surgical checklist: Needs to be customised by specialty
Stephen Clark, Leslie Hamilton
BMJ  2010;340:c589 (Published )
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Gagging and duty: Gagging on it?
Frank W Arnold
BMJ  2010;340:c601 (Published )
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Gagging and duties: Administrative accountability
Brian J Golden
BMJ  2010;340:c602 (Published )
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Unrecognised scurvy: Signs and requirements
John Pemberton
BMJ  2010;340:c590 (Published )
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Risk money for trial volunteers: Not payment, but compensation
Joseph More
BMJ  2010;340:c587 (Published )
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Lancet retracts Wakefield’s MMR paper
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;340:c696 (Published )
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Relatives are furious that GP can continue practising
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;340:c619 (Published )
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Relatives demand answers on care at Mid Staffordshire
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2010;340:c656 (Published )
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Scotland says no to commercialisation of GP services
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2010;340:c614 (Published )
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Author calls for UK to set up tribunal for assisted suicide
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2010;340:c648 (Published )
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New campaign focuses on "unseen harms" of alcohol
Sophie Cook
BMJ  2010;340:c600 (Published )
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Council of Europe launches investigation into H1N1 pandemic
Rory Watson
BMJ  2010;340:c641 (Published )
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Rise in US teen pregnancies and births is "deeply troubling"
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;340:c638 (Published )
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Abdominal symptoms are poor at predicting ovarian cancer, study finds
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2010;340:c581 (Published )
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Killer of Kansas abortion doctor is convicted
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2010;340:c634 (Published )
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In brief
BMJ  2010;340:c645 (Published )
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BMJ Group Awards: Research Paper of the Year: And the nominees are...
Elizabeth Loder
BMJ  2010;340:c445 (Published )
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Germans face {euro}8 a month rise in health insurance bills to pay for deficit
Ned Stafford
BMJ  2010;340:c615 (Published )
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Gates Foundation gives $10bn for research and delivery of vaccines
Anne Gulland
BMJ  2010;340:c650 (Published )
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All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ  2010;340:c580 (Published )
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Disaster management: Appropriate response to humanitarian crises
Charles S Krin, Christos Giannou, Ian M Seppelt, Steve Walker, Kenneth L Mattox, Richard L Wigle, David Crippen
BMJ  2010;340:c562 (Published )
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GMC Wakefield Verdict: Why did the Lancet take so long?
Trisha Greenhalgh
BMJ  2010;340:c644 (Published )
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GMC Wakefield Verdict: Reflections on investigating Wakefield
Brian Deer
BMJ  2010;340:c672 (Published )
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Life and Death: The double face of discrimination
Iona Heath
BMJ  2010;340:c578 (Published )
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Will financial incentives and penalties improve hospital care?
Alan Maynard, Karen Bloor
BMJ  2010;340:c88 (Published )
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Comparison of two etanercept regimens for treatment of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: PRESTA randomised double blind multicentre trial
Wolfram Sterry, Jean-Paul Ortonne, Bruce Kirkham, Olivier Brocq, Deborah Robertson, Ronald D Pedersen, Joanne Estojak, Charles T Molta, Bruce Freundlich
BMJ  2010;340:c147 (Published )
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Effect of a collector bag for measurement of postpartum blood loss after vaginal delivery: cluster randomised trial in 13 European countries
Wei-Hong Zhang, Catherine Deneux-Tharaux, Peter Brocklehurst, Edmund Juszczak, Matthew Joslin, Sophie Alexander, on behalf of the EUPHRATES Group
BMJ  2010;340:c293 (Published )
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Social variations in access to hospital care for patients with colorectal, breast, and lung cancer between 1999 and 2006: retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics
Rosalind Raine, Wun Wong, Shaun Scholes, Charlotte Ashton, Austin Obichere, Gareth Ambler
BMJ  2010;340:b5479 (Published )
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Myocardial infarction and stroke associated with diuretic based two drug antihypertensive regimens: population based case-control study
Inbal Boger-Megiddo, Susan R Heckbert, Noel S Weiss, Barbara McKnight, Curt D Furberg, Kerri L Wiggins, Joseph A C Delaney, David S Siscovick, Eric B Larson, Rozenn N Lemaitre, Nicholas L Smith, Kenneth M Rice, Nicole L Glazer, Bruce M Psaty
BMJ  2010;340:c103 (Published )
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Preparing raw clinical data for publication: guidance for journal editors, authors, and peer reviewers
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Melissa L Norton, Andrew J Vickers, Douglas G Altman
BMJ  2010;340:c181 (Published )
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Current management of clubfoot (congenital talipes equinovarus)
Joshua Bridgens, Nigel Kiely
BMJ  2010;340:c355 (Published )
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Safety Alerts: Improving the safety of oxygen therapy in hospitals: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency
Tara Lamont, Dagmar Luettel, John Scarpello, B Ronan O'Driscoll, Steven Connew
BMJ  2010;340:c187 (Published )
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Easily Missed?: Long QT syndrome
Dominic J Abrams, Malcolm A Perkin, Jonathan R Skinner
BMJ  2010;340:b4815 (Published )
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Ignacio Ponseti
Donald Campbell
BMJ  2010;340:c584 (Published )
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Haiti: I want to go back
Richard Villar
BMJ  2010;340:c695 (Published )
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Between the Lines: Ye olde antismoking lobby
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2010;340:c585 (Published )
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Medical Classics: Madame Bovary
Kirsten Patrick
BMJ  2010;340:c616 (Published )
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From the Frontline: Bad medicine: osteoporosis
Des Spence
BMJ  2010;340:c643 (Published )
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Past Caring: Elementary, my dear
Wendy Moore
BMJ  2010;340:c586 (Published )
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Picture quiz: Gradually worsening shortness of breath
Andrew Baldwin, David Howlett, David Maxwell
BMJ  2010;340:c396 (Published )
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Case report: A toddler with pallor and recurrent infection
Rachel T Clarke, Chris Mitchell
BMJ  2010;340:b5653 (Published )
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OnExamination quiz: Breast pathology
BMJ  2010;340:c573 (Published )
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Statistical Question: Allocation concealment
Philip Sedgwick
BMJ  2010;340:c537 (Published )
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Rosalind C Simpson, Robert Burd
BMJ  2010;340:c571 (Published )
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The court experience
Adrian P Jennings
BMJ  2010;340:b5050 (Published )
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