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Gold for the NHS
Ray Robinson
BMJ  2002;324:987-988, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.987
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Managing differentiated thyroid cancer
Pat Kendall-Taylor
BMJ  2002;324:988-989, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.988
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Lithium in bipolar mood disorder
Timothy G Dinan
BMJ  2002;324:989-990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.989
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Confronting the small arms pandemic
Neil Arya
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Health care and the European Union
Elias Mossialos, Martin McKee
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Global voices on HIV/AIDS
Dorothy Logie, Elaine Monisola Baruwa, Richard J Tomlinson, Angelo Madjarov, Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, Valendar F Turner, John M Papadimitriou, Helman Alfonso, Barry A P Page, David Causer, Sam Mhlongo, Todd Miller, Christian Fiala, Anders Nordström
BMJ  2002;324:1034, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1034
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Cancer isn't the only malignant disease
Richard H Sloan, Lesley A M Evans, Marten C Howes
BMJ  2002;324:1035, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1035
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Effect of retroactive intercessory prayer
Andrew M Thornett, Shehan Hettiaratchy, Carolyn Hemsley, John Hopkins, Michael J Brownnutt, Christopher I Price, Max Lagnado, Stephan A Schwartz, Stephen L Black, Leonard Leibovici
BMJ  2002;324:1037, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1037
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Careless talk may cost lives in attributing adverse events to ADP receptor antagonists
Michael J Green, Martin Iveson, Robert Crook, Nichola Burrows, Andrew KS Gough
BMJ  2002;324:1039, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1039
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Proper benchmark for drug prescribing needs to be found
Uwe E Reinhardt
BMJ  2002;324:1039, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1039/a
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Serum magnesium must also be known in profound hypokalaemia
Clodagh M Loughrey
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Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
Patrick Connor, Bernard Guyot
BMJ  2002;324:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1040
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Tour operators should tell clients about potential risks of adventure holidays
Fiona Bellis
BMJ  2002;324:1040, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1040/a
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NHS to receive an extra £40bn over next five years
Wendy Moore
BMJ  2002;324:993, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.993
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GPs get a new contract "to transform their lives"
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2002;324:994, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.994
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Male circumcision linked to lower rates of cervical cancer
Fred Charatan
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In brief
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Amnesty team claims to have found human rights abuses in Jenin
Kendra Inman
BMJ  2002;324:995, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.995
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Anoraks can damage your health, study shows
Roger Dobson
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Court rules that emergency contraception is lawful
Susan Mayor
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New treatment improves symptoms of Parkinson's disease
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2002;324:997, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.997/c
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Wanless report outlines "Rolls- Royce" health service for 2022
Wendy Moore
BMJ  2002;324:998, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.998
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Spanish doctors draw up advice on ethics of virginity certificates
Xavier Bosch
BMJ  2002;324:996, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.996
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Angioplasty better than thrombolytics after heart attack
Deborah Josefson
BMJ  2002;324:996, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.996/a
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Controversial cancer treatment sparks row
Katka Krosnar
BMJ  2002;324:996, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.996/b
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Primary care trusts need local flexibility to deliver on public health
Caroline White
BMJ  2002;324:996, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.996/c
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Rich countries must not exploit poorer nations for research purposes
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2002;324:996, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.996/d
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Mbeki forced to do a U turn over AIDS drugs
Pat Sidley
BMJ  2002;324:997, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.997
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NHS faces increase of £500m in clinical negligence liability
Susan Mayor
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Professor faces inquiry into allegations of fraud
Christopher Zinn
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Internet sales threaten drug companies� supremacy
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2002;324:998, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.998/a
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Randomised trial of endoscopy with testing for Helicobacter pylori compared with non-invasive H pylori testing alone in the management of dyspepsia
K E L McColl, L S Murray, D Gillen, A Walker, A Wirz, J Fletcher, C Mowat, E Henry, A Kelman, A Dickson
BMJ  2002;324:999, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.999
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A qualitative study of action plans for asthma
Jo Douglass, Rosalie Aroni, Dianne Goeman, Kay Stewart, Susan Sawyer, Frank Thien, Michael Abramson
BMJ  2002;324:1003, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1003
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Decision making processes in people with symptoms of acute myocardial infarction: qualitative study
Jill Pattenden, Ian Watt, Robert J P Lewin, Neil Stanford
BMJ  2002;324:1006, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1006
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Prospective audit of records of deceased patients received in hospital mortuary
Y L Hock, P Stewart, E Livesley
BMJ  2002;324:1009-1010, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1009
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Research pointers: Unexplained differences in sex ratios at birth in Europe and North America
Victor Grech, Charles Savona-Ventura, P Vassallo-Agius
BMJ  2002;324:1010-1011, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1010
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Treating Helicobacter pylori infection in primary care patients with uninvestigated dyspepsia: the Canadian adult dyspepsia empiric treatment---Helicobacter pylori positive (CADET-Hp) randomised controlled trial
Naoki Chiba, Sander J O Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Paul Sinclair, Ralph A Ferguson, Sergio Escobedo, Eileen Grace
BMJ  2002;324:1012, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1012
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Quitting and restarting smoking: cohort study of patients with angina in primary care
Mairead Corrigan, Margaret E Cupples, Mike Stevenson
BMJ  2002;324:1016-1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1016
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Science, medicine, and the future: Bioinformatics
Ardeshir Bayat
BMJ  2002;324:1018-1022, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1018
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ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Myocardial ischaemia
Kevin Channer, Francis Morris
BMJ  2002;324:1023-1026, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1023
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Youthful aspirations
Kevin Barraclough
BMJ  2002;324:1045, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1045/a
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A new hazard of medicine
Saad Shafqat
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Health policy in the European Union: how it's made and how to influence it
Ben Duncan
BMJ  2002;324:1027-1030, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1027
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Quality improvement report: Clinical screening for developmental dysplasia of the hip in Northern Ireland
S L Maxwell, A L Ruiz, K J Lappin, A P Cosgrove
BMJ  2002;324:1031-1033, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1031
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Kenneth David MacRae
Jeremy Wright
BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041
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John Hutley Breed
Nicholas Breed, Bob Davies, Cliff Franklin
BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/a
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Charles Alexander Brown
Stephen Spiro
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Edward Brownrigg
Frank Tovey
BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/c
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Douglas Alton Chandler
R Terry
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William Logan Jack
F L Jack
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Robert Aloysius McCluskie
Dan Miller
BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/f
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Edwin Ian Richardson
Peter Williams, Brian Jacobs
BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/g
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Elspeth Anne Umez-Eronini
Nkemi Umez-Eronini
BMJ  2002;324:1041, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/h
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Stefan Varadi
R. Vaughan Jones
BMJ  2002;324:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1041/i
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Peter Watts
G H Hall
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Minerva
BMJ  2002;324:1046, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1046
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One hundred years ago: Request for advice
BMJ  2002;324:1010, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1010/a
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A paper that changed my life: Dishing the dirt
James Le Fanu
BMJ  2002;324:1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1017
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When I use a word: Meta-
Jeff Aronson
BMJ  2002;324:1022, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1022
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Endpiece: Never apologise
BMJ  2002;324:1027, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1027/a
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ABC of clinical electrocardiography: Atrial arrhythmias
BMJ  2002;324:1002, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1002
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Protein conjugate pneumococcal vaccines
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Exhibition: Last Impressions
Paul Keeley
BMJ  2002;324:1043, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1043
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Book: The Link between Religion and Health: Psychoneuroimmunology and the Faith Factor
Michael Saunders
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Press: How the US news media made patient safety a priority
Michael L Millenson
BMJ  2002;324:1044, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1044
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A bonanza for the NHS
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Website of the week: Is religion good for your health?
Birte Twisselmann
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