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This week's Editor's choice

The case for slowing down
Kamran Abbasi
BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.0-h
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HRT is associated with increased risk of stroke [Full text] FREE
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This week's Editorials

Treating severe malaria
Christopher J M Whitty, Evelyn Ansah, Hugh Reyburn
BMJ  2005;330:317-318, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.317
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Total hip replacement and NICE
Matthew R Utting, B J A Lankester, L K Smith, R F Spencer
BMJ  2005;330:318-319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.318
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Surgery for congenital heart conditions in Oxford
Bruce Keogh
BMJ  2005;330:319-320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.319
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Rising rates of HIV infection
Angela J Robinson, Brian G Gazzard
BMJ  2005;330:320-321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.320
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Proposed new International Health Regulations
Angus Nicoll, Jane Jones, Preben Aavitsland, Johan Giesecke
BMJ  2005;330:321-322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.321
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Academic medicine: who is it for?: Four old pillars seem to have been replaced by two new ones
Peter N Furness
BMJ  2005;330:360, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.360
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Academic medicine: who is it for?: Wider discussions are needed
Jacqueline M Atkinson
BMJ  2005;330:360, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.360-a
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Academic medicine: who is it for?: Funding gap between clinical and basic science publications is growing
Benjamin G Druss, Steven C Marcus
BMJ  2005;330:360-361, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.360-b
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Academic medicine: who is it for?: Applications to local research ethics committees are down by around 40%
Chris Bentley, Pam Enderby
BMJ  2005;330:361, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.361
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Academic medicine: who is it for?: Five rescue remedies for academic medicine
William House, David Peters
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Academic medicine: who is it for?: Learning package on effective teaching developed by WHO and JHPIEGO Corporation
Rebecca J Bailey, Rick Sullivan
BMJ  2005;330:361, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.361-b
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Academic medicine: who is it for?: We need teachers to train teachers
Jogenananda Pramanik
BMJ  2005;330:361-362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.361-c
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Academic medicine: who is it for?: Medical profession needs to care about academic medicine and promote it
Hanamaraddi T Gangal
BMJ  2005;330:362, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.362
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Academic medicine: who is it for?: Public health faces similar difficulties to academic medicine
Sian M Griffiths
BMJ  2005;330:362-363, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.362-a
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Academic medicine: who is it for?: Data on sex are important for the development of academic medicine
Selena Gray
BMJ  2005;330:363, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.363
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Academic medicine: who is it for?: Country of origin affects potential career in UK academic medicine
Arvindan Veiraiah
BMJ  2005;330:363, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.363-a
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Academic medicine: who is it for?: Academic physicians are affected by specific failures of postgraduate training
Hamish S Fraser
BMJ  2005;330:363, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.363-b
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Academic medicine: who is it for?: Summary of webchat
Birte Twisselmann
BMJ  2005;330:363-364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.363-c
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BMJ should notify doctors whose practice is criticised in interactive case reports
John Hunt, Maxwell Asante, Shamsi El Hasani
BMJ  2005;330:364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.364
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Dealing with editorial misconduct: What about spin?
Clive D Bates
BMJ  2005;330:364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.364-a
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Dealing with editorial misconduct: What about relationship with reviewers and authors?
R E Laube
BMJ  2005;330:364, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.364-b
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Appeal court says US cannot seek payout from tobacco firms
Anne Harding
BMJ  2005;330:323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.323
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BMJ appoints its first woman editor
Caroline White
BMJ  2005;330:323, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.323-a
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In brief
BMJ  2005;330:324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.324
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Mumps cases on the rise in England and Wales
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2005;330:324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.324-a
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Cardiac mortality in children in Oxford hospital is not excessive
Caroline White
BMJ  2005;330:324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.324-b
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Tobacco lobby threatens to derail global antismoking treaty
Fiona Fleck
BMJ  2005;330:325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.325
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Smoke-free workplaces would hit tobacco profits
Lynn Eaton
BMJ  2005;330:325, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.325-a
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Concerted effort needed to stop polio transmission in Asia by 2006
Ganapati Mudur
BMJ  2005;330:327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.327-b
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Opening the door on vested interests
Rebecca Coombes
BMJ  2005;330:328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.328
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This week's News roundup

Rip up draft mental health bill and start again, says BMA
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2005;330:326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.326
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Dutch GPs in protest at modernisation plans
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2005;330:326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.326-a
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Abstinence only programmes do not change sexual behaviour, Texas study shows
Janice Hopkins Tanne
BMJ  2005;330:326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.326-b
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Patients with cancer are at high risk of venous thrombosis
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2005;330:326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.326-c
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Canadian life expectancy varies greatly depending on ethnic origin
Barbara Kermode-Scott
BMJ  2005;330:326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.326-d
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Researchers to clone human stem cells to study motor neurone disease
Zosia Kmietowicz
BMJ  2005;330:327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.327
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Asbestos related cancer deaths set to rise
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2005;330:327, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.327-a
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Austrian medical schools fear influx of German students
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2005;330:328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.328-a
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US institute announces initiative to put all its research on the web
Charles Marwick
BMJ  2005;330:328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.328-b
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This week's Papers

Effectiveness of speed cameras in preventing road traffic collisions and related casualties: systematic review
Paul Pilkington, Sanjay Kinra
BMJ  2005;330:331-334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38324.646574.AE, (Published 14 January 2005)
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Rectal artemether versus intravenous quinine for the treatment of cerebral malaria in children in Uganda: randomised clinical trial
Jane Ruth Aceng, Justus S Byarugaba, James K Tumwine
BMJ  2005;330:334, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.334
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Randomised controlled trial of conservative management of postnatal urinary and faecal incontinence: six year follow up
Cathryn M A Glazener, G Peter Herbison, Christine MacArthur, Adrian Grant, P Don Wilson
BMJ  2005;330:337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38320.613461.82, (Published 22 December 2004)
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Long term psychological outcome for women with congenital adrenal hyperplasia: cross sectional survey
John F Morgan, Helen Murphy, J Hubert Lacey, Gerard Conway
BMJ  2005;330:340-341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38334.427361.D3, (Published 26 January 2005)
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Commentary: A support group's perspective
Melissa L Cull
BMJ  2005;330:341, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38365.883843.79, (Published 3 February 2005)
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This week's Dr Foster's case notes

Monitoring changes in hospital standardised mortality ratios
Brian Jarman, Alex Bottle, Paul Aylin, Mike Browne
BMJ  2005;330:329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.329
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This week's BMJ family highlights

What's new this month in BMJ Journals
Harvey Marcovitch
BMJ  2005;330:330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.330
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This week's Primary care

Association between hormone replacement therapy and subsequent stroke: a meta-analysis
Philip M W Bath, Laura J Gray
BMJ  2005;330:342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38331.655347.8F, (Published 7 January 2005)
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Commentary: Time to review all the evidence for hormone replacement therapy
Fay Crawford, Peter Langhorne
BMJ  2005;330:345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.345
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10-minute consultation: Headache
Sharon K Bal, Gary R Hollingworth
BMJ  2005;330:346, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.346
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This week's Clinical review

Zinc deficiency: what are the most appropriate interventions?
Roger Shrimpton, Rainer Gross, Ian Darnton-Hill, Mark Young
BMJ  2005;330:347-349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.347
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Lesson of the week: Azathioprine-induced pancytopenia in a patient with pompholyx and deficiency of erythrocyte thiopurine methyltransferase
M Konstantopoulou, A Belgi, K D Griffiths, J R C Seale, A W Macfarlane
BMJ  2005;330:350-351, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.350
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Commentary: Testing patients to allow tailored drug treatment
Peter Leman, Shaun Greene
BMJ  2005;330:352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.352
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ABC of adolescence: Consent, competence, and confidentiality
Vic Larcher
BMJ  2005;330:353-356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.353
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This week's Education and debate

Healthcare lessons from Australia: what can Michael Howard learn from John Howard?
Jane Hall, Alan Maynard
BMJ  2005;330:357-359, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.357
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Mollie McGeown
Ciaran Doherty
BMJ  2005;330:365, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.365
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Fraser Brockington
Tim Bullamore
BMJ  2005;330:365, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.365-a
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Stuart Coverley
Carolyn Coverley
BMJ  2005;330:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.366
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Antony Joseph Duggan
G C Cook
BMJ  2005;330:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.366-a
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William ("Bill") George French
Peter Gordon
BMJ  2005;330:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.366-b
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Helen Mary McGregor McNie
Lesley Baker
BMJ  2005;330:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.366-c
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William Henry Moffatt
D H Allen
BMJ  2005;330:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.366-d
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Yok Hing Ng
L-F Ng, L-L Ng
BMJ  2005;330:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.366-e
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Steven Pickford
Roger Pickford
BMJ  2005;330:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.366-f
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Alan Christopher Thackray
Robert M Thackray
BMJ  2005;330:366, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.366-g
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Book: Traffic Safety
Dinesh Mohan
BMJ  2005;330:367, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.367
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Book: Saturday
John Quin
BMJ  2005;330:368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.368
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Press: Are the media running elderly drivers off the road?
Alan Martin, Lucy Balding, Desmond O'Neill
BMJ  2005;330:368, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.368-a
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Theatre: The Lemon Princess
Bruno Rushforth, Amy Evans
BMJ  2005;330:369, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.369
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NETLINES
Harry Brown
BMJ  2005;330:370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.370
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PERSONAL VIEWS: Station interviews: all change?
Philip E M Smith
BMJ  2005;330:370, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.370-a
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PERSONAL VIEWS: A new dawn for antiretrovirals
Rebecca Kay Sutherland
BMJ  2005;330:371, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.371
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SOUNDINGS: Tort
Kevin Barraclough
BMJ  2005;330:371, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.371-a
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Minerva
BMJ  2005;330:372, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.372
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POEM*: Cancer patients are not able to postpone death for important events
BMJ  2005;330, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.0-g
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Endpiece: Publish or perish?
Ian Wright
BMJ  2005;330:336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.336
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Endpiece: Common sense
Fred Charatan
BMJ  2005;330:349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.349
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Basic instinct
Sunil Gupta
BMJ  2005;330:352, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.352-a
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A memorable patient: Miss Fortitude
David Scarfe
BMJ  2005;330:356, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.356
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One hundred years ago: Sick nursing in France
BMJ  2005;330:359, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.359
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Mother who drowned her five children is granted a retrial after witness gave false evidence
BMJ  2005;330:345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.345-a
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Risk of ischaemic stroke in people with migraine: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
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Effectiveness of helmets in skiers and snowboarders: case-control and case crossover study
BMJ  2005;330:345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.345-c
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Agencies "failed miserably" over COX 2 inhibitor
BMJ  2005;330:345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7487.345-d
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