13 September 2008(vol 337, issue 7670)

Editor's Choice

• Getting a patient’s consent for publication

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1633 (Published 11 September 2008)

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Editorials

• Academic performance of ethnic minorities in medical school

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1094 (Published 19 August 2008)

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• The self controlled case series method

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1069 (Published 28 August 2008)

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• Achieving the best from care in early labour

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1165 (Published 28 August 2008)

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• Local accountability in the NHS

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1103 (Published 15 August 2008)

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• Patient confidentiality and consent to publication

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1572 (Published 10 September 2008)

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Letters

• Global shortage of medical isotopes threatens nuclear medicine services

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1577 (Published 05 September 2008)

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• Have dispensed items really risen with free prescriptions?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1581 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• European cooperation could help to lower drug prices

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1584 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Junior doctors’ reaction to 48 hour limit

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1585 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Was editorial written in interests of junior doctors?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1587 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Trusts are already developing solutions to directive

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1586 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Perplexing views on working time directive

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1588 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Combining paracetamol and ibuprofen for fever in children

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1590 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Opt-out from biobanks better respects patients’ autonomy

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1580 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Beware resurgence of malaria where incidence has fallen

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1592 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Does education really alter adolescent sexual behaviour?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1492 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Authors’ reply

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1595 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Teachers, look at how your prejudices affect your teaching

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1589 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• BMA members requested study of Alexander technique in 1937

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1502 (Published 10 September 2008)

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News

• Isotope shortage is limiting nuclear medicine across Europe

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1575 (Published 05 September 2008)

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• Academics draft protocol for handling research misconduct

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1612 (Published 11 September 2008)

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• In brief

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1624 (Published 11 September 2008)

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• Uganda to treat more people infected with HIV with antiretrovirals

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1610 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Deaths from lung cancer in non-smokers are higher in men than in women

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1597 (Published 05 September 2008)

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• Cluster approach improves provision of disaster aid, says WHO

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1571 (Published 05 September 2008)

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• Most children with vaccine allergies can be revaccinated, US experts say

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1609 (Published 08 September 2008)

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• Spanish doctors say “no thank you” to drug industry gifts

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1579 (Published 08 September 2008)

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• Vatican newspaper reopens debate on defining death

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1602 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Most patients at risk of stroke fail to get adequate anticoagulation

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1529 (Published 04 September 2008)

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• African ministers adopt declaration to reduce environmental threats to health

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1547 (Published 03 September 2008)

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• Patients are less satisfied with robot assisted prostatectomy, survey shows

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1557 (Published 05 September 2008)

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Short Cuts

• All you need to read in the other general journals

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1594 (Published 09 September 2008)

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Feature

• Truly independent research?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1332 (Published 21 August 2008)

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Observations

• Argus and the cyclops in the clinic

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1562 (Published 09 September 2008)

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Analysis

• Gaining consent for publication in difficult cases involving children

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1231 (Published 08 September 2008)

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• Commentary: Consent to publication—no absolutes

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1233 (Published 08 September 2008)

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• Commentary: Consent and confidentiality in publishing—the view of the BMJ’s ethics committee

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1232 (Published 08 September 2008)

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Research

• Ethnic stereotypes and the underachievement of UK medical students from ethnic minorities: qualitative study

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1220 (Published 18 August 2008)

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• Commentary: An “ethnic minority” medical student

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1240 (Published 18 August 2008)

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• Exposure to antipsychotics and risk of stroke: self controlled case series study

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1227 (Published 28 August 2008)

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• Effect on birth outcomes of a formalised approach to care in hospital labour assessment units: international, randomised controlled trial

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1021 (Published 28 August 2008)

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• Implementation of computerised physician order entry (CPOE) and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) in the NHS: quantitative before and after study

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a939 (Published 14 August 2008)

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Clinical Review

• Management of sickle cell disease

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1397 (Published 08 September 2008)

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Practice

• Why use theories in qualitative research?

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a949 (Published 07 August 2008)

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Obituaries

• Julius Benjamin Richmond

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1615 (Published 09 September 2008)

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• Ian Blacker

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1480 (Published 02 September 2008)

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• Hugh John Adolphus Coni

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1475 (Published 02 September 2008)

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• John Stanley Cox

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1479 (Published 02 September 2008)

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• Roger Patrick Doherty

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1468 (Published 02 September 2008)

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• Janet Mary Marks

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1462 (Published 02 September 2008)

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• Raymond John Vale

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1389 (Published 22 August 2008)

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Views & Reviews

• The UK needs an Institute of Medicine

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1623 (Published 09 September 2008)

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• A pet prescription

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1616 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• The new counterculture

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1576 (Published 05 September 2008)

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• The herd instinct

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1621 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• The Inner Consultation

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1574 (Published 05 September 2008)

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• Of acupuncture, art, and testicles

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1620 (Published 09 September 2008)

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Endgames

• Abdominal distension and low grade fever in a refugee from Sudan

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1252 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Simple associations

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a197 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• ECG leads to a quick diagnosis

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1030 (Published 10 September 2008)

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• Hernias

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1059 (Published 10 September 2008)

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Minerva

• Minerva

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1582 (Published 09 September 2008)

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• Minerva

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1583 (Published 09 September 2008)

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Filler

• Death in the air

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a845 (Published 05 September 2008)

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• The importance of listening

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a272 (Published 09 July 2008)

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• A tale of two families

  BMJ 2008; 337 :a1203 (Published 05 September 2008)

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