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10 November 2007 (Vol 335, No 7627)
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Plagiarism and punishment
Fiona Godlee
BMJ  2007;335, doi:10.1136/bmj.39392.602523.47
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Pre-eclampsia and increased cardiovascular risk
L A Magee, P von Dadelszen
BMJ  2007;335:945-946, doi:10.1136/bmj.39337.427500.80 (published 1 November 2007)
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Antibiotics for respiratory tract infections in primary care
Samuel Coenen, Herman Goossens
BMJ  2007;335:946-947, doi:10.1136/bmj.39357.571343.80 (published 18 October 2007)
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Community acquired MRSA in Europe
Tristan Ferry, Jerome Etienne
BMJ  2007;335:947-948, doi:10.1136/bmj.39373.465903.BE (published 23 October 2007)
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Surgery for disc disease
J N Alastair Gibson
BMJ  2007;335:949, doi:10.1136/bmj.39315.580637.BE
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Hepatitis B vaccination
Andrew J Pollard
BMJ  2007;335:950, doi:10.1136/bmj.39315.677396.BE
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What to do about CAM?: Funding for CAM
George T Lewith
BMJ  2007;335:951, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.425799.1F
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What to do about CAM?: How much of orthodox medicine is evidence based?
John S Garrow
BMJ  2007;335:951, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.393970.1F
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What to do about CAM?: Evidence is important but should not be the only consideration: patients' and clinicians' views matter too
David I Tovey
BMJ  2007;335:952, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.456065.1F
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Aminoglycoside ototoxicity: Vestibular function is also vulnerable
Barry M Seemungal, Adolfo M Bronstein
BMJ  2007;335:952, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.451019.1F
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Aminoglycoside ototoxicity: How practical is this genetic screening test?
Thomas Rourke
BMJ  2007;335:952, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.449028.1F
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Abortion limit debate: Viability is probably irrelevant
Richard J Lyus
BMJ  2007;335:953, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.430938.1F
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Colorectal cancer: Missing elements of modern management
W J Fawcett, J T Lordon, N F Quiney, N D Karanjia, T A Rockall
BMJ  2007;335:953, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.457662.1F
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Staffing maternity wards: Where are the new posts?
Bob Bury
BMJ  2007;335:953, doi:10.1136/bmj.39381.533125.BE
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GP contract: It's payback time
Graham Wheatley
BMJ  2007;335:953-954, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.494005.1F
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NICE on dementia: Omitting donepezil is hardly a hardship
Thomas E Finucane
BMJ  2007;335:954, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.433137.1F
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Health in an unequal world: What about the needs of health workers in developing countries?
Neil Pakenham-Walsh
BMJ  2007;335:954, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.507731.BE
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Alcohol industry: Review was limited
Gerry V Stimson
BMJ  2007;335:954, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.463113.BE
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More NHS reorganisation is announced in Queen's speech
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2007;335:955, doi:10.1136/bmj.39392.478414.4E
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High death rate among heart transplant recipients prompts investigation
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2007;335:955, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.719329.4E
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In Brief: News
BMJ  2007;335:956, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.785764.4E
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US has highest dissatisfaction with health care
Bob Roehr
BMJ  2007;335:956, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.639028.DB
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Lest we forget
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2007;335:956, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.638924.DB
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Faulty government condoms threaten South Africa's AIDS programme
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2007;335:957, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.651308.DB
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UK's first private medical school will open in September 2008
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2007;335:957, doi:10.1136/bmj.39392.437836.DB
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Research consortium highlights importance of taking part in trials
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2007;335:958, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.660174.DB
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Aid agencies fear for future of pastoralists in Horn of Africa
Peter Moszynski
BMJ  2007;335:958-959, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.667211.DB
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Annual incidence of MRSA falls in England, but C difficile continues to rise
Helen Mooney
BMJ  2007;335:958, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.597569.DB
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US government announces electronic health records project
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2007;335:959, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.490694.4E
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BMA members reject proposal to restrict jobs to EU medical graduates
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2007;335:959, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.698368.DB
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Government wants to freeze GPs' pay until 2009, as figures show income rose by 10% in second year of new contract
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2007;335:960, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.631771.DB
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MPs want to drop second doctor's signature for abortion
Adrian O'Dowd
BMJ  2007;335:960, doi:10.1136/bmj.39386.700949.DB (published 1 November 2007)
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A matter of life or death: China moves towards changing its transplantation practices
Jane Parry
BMJ  2007;335:961, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.546968.DB
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Strategies to change behaviour should involve targeted groups
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2007;335:961, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.460382.4E
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Prevalence of MRSA in US hospitals hits new high
David Spurgeon
BMJ  2007;335:961, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.619780.DB
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China's health insurance system is failing poor people
Mary Hennock
BMJ  2007;335:961, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.527338.DB
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Suicide rate of women doctors in US is twice that of other working women
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2007;335:961, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.422650.4E
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Indian researchers look into vaccine's effectiveness as 300 die in encephalitis outbreak
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2007;335:961, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.481204.DB
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Shortcuts from other journals: Doctors map cortical areas associated with out of body experiences
BMJ  2007;335:962, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.397106.BE
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Shortcuts from other journals: Drug eluting stents not cost effective for low risk patients
BMJ  2007;335:962, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7627.962-a
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Shortcuts from other journals: Many adults have unsuspected brain pathology
BMJ  2007;335:962, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7627.962-b
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Shortcuts from other journals: Chemotherapy prolongs survival after surgery for gastric cancer
BMJ  2007;335:962, doi:10.1136/bmj.335.7627.962-c
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Policing plagiarism
Michael Cross
BMJ  2007;335:963-964, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.668773.47
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Head to Head: Should drugs be decriminalised? Yes
Kailash Chand
BMJ  2007;335:966, doi:10.1136/bmj.39360.489132.AD
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Head to Head: Should drugs be decriminalised? No
Joseph A Califano, Jr
BMJ  2007;335:967, doi:10.1136/bmj.39360.464016.AD
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Yankee doodling: Paying for promising but unproven technologies
Douglas Kamerow
BMJ  2007;335:965, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.630822.59
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Support for self care for patients with chronic disease
Anne Kennedy, Anne Rogers, Peter Bower
BMJ  2007;335:968-970, doi:10.1136/bmj.39372.540903.94
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Measuring quality through performance: Making performance indicators work: experiences of US Veterans Health Administration
Eve A Kerr, Barbara Fleming
BMJ  2007;335:971-973, doi:10.1136/bmj.39358.498889.94
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Leanne Bellamy, Juan-Pablo Casas, Aroon D Hingorani, David J Williams
BMJ  2007;335:974, doi:10.1136/bmj.39335.385301.BE (published 1 November 2007)
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Elisabeth Balstad Magnussen, Lars Johan Vatten, Tom Ivar Lund-Nilsen, Kjell Åsmund Salvesen, George Davey Smith, Pål Richard Romundstad
BMJ  2007;335:978, doi:10.1136/bmj.39366.416817.BE (published 1 November 2007)
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I Petersen, A M Johnson, A Islam, G Duckworth, D M Livermore, A C Hayward
BMJ  2007;335:982, doi:10.1136/bmj.39345.405243.BE (published 18 October 2007)
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Allergic rhinoconjunctivitis in children
Hans de Groot, Paul L P Brand, Wytske F Fokkens, Marjolein Y Berger
BMJ  2007;335:985-988, doi:10.1136/bmj.39365.617905.BE
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A patient's journey: The reluctant patient: Parkinson's disease
Elisabet Helsing
BMJ  2007;335:989-990, doi:10.1136/bmj.39329.606840.AD
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Change Page: In patients allergic to penicillin, consider second and third generation cephalosporins for life threatening infections
Scott Pegler, Brendan Healy
BMJ  2007;335:991, doi:10.1136/bmj.39372.829676.47
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Lesson of the week: Lower abdominal pain in women after binge drinking
M D Dooldeniya, R Khafagy, H Mashaly, A J Browning, S K Sundaram, C S Biyani
BMJ  2007;335:992-993, doi:10.1136/bmj.39247.454005.BE
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Personal view: So, you want to know what's wrong with the NHS?
BMJ  2007;335:994, doi:10.1136/bmj.39378.483414.3A
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Review of the Week: H2O: are we in deep water?
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2007;335:995, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.498727.FA
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From the frontline: Junk reporting
Des Spence
BMJ  2007;335:996, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.449421.59
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The best medicine: The magic of words
Liam Farrell
BMJ  2007;335:996, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.432743.59
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Between the lines: Faking it
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ  2007;335:997, doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.501065.59
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Medical Classics: Don Quixote
Carmen Pinto
BMJ  2007;335:997, doi:10.1136/bmj.39385.616991.FA
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This week's obituaries [PDF]

Mikhail Yakovlevich Yarovinsky
Boleslav Lichterman
BMJ  2007;335:998, doi:10.1136/bmj.39386.657396.BE
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Ian Chisholm Allen
Chris Lennox
BMJ  2007;335:999, doi:10.1136/bmj.39379.605301.BE
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Joseph Callistus Devlin
Maureen Carnighan
BMJ  2007;335:999, doi:10.1136/bmj.39379.620266.BE
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Henry Guy Kennedy Douglas
David Swainston
BMJ  2007;335:999, doi:10.1136/bmj.39379.632106.BE
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Roger Wesley Glenn
Beryl Glenn
BMJ  2007;335:999, doi:10.1136/bmj.39379.648866.BE
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John Edgar Morison
Chris Morison, Denis Biggart
BMJ  2007;335:999, doi:10.1136/bmj.39379.678356.BE
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Robert Bernard William Walker
Ken Toop
BMJ  2007;335:999, doi:10.1136/bmj.39364.712060.BE
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John Wedgwood
M J Denham
BMJ  2007;335:999, doi:10.1136/bmj.39358.550833.BE
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Minerva
Kayvan Shokrallahi, David Camp, Hamish Laing
BMJ  2007;335:1000, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.491563.47
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Minerva
BMJ  2007;335:1000, doi:10.1136/bmj.39388.491563.471
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Systemic lupus erythematosus
BMJ  2007;335, doi:10.1136/bmj.39393.481632.AE
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Perspectives
BMJ  2007;335:970, doi:10.1136/bmj.39372.540903.DE
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Endpiece: Filler
BMJ  2007;335:990, doi:10.1136/bmj.39205.495336.BD
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