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Editorials
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How political should a general medical journal be?
Tony
Delamothe
BMJ 2002;325
1431-1432
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1431?etoc
Spend (slightly) less on health and more on the arts
Richard
Smith
BMJ
2002;325 1432-1433
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1432?etoc
Time to move beyond the mind-body split
Patrick
Bracken and Philip Thomas
BMJ
2002;325 1433-1434
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1433?etoc
Spirituality and clinical care
Larry
Culliford
BMJ
2002;325 1434-1435
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1434?etoc
The joy of banning
Alison
Tonks
BMJ
2002;325 1436
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1436?etoc
Data dredging, bias, or confounding
George
Davey Smith and Shah Ebrahim
BMJ
2002;325 1437-1438
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1437?etoc
Evidence that really matters
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Admissions for myocardial infarction and World Cup
football: database
survey
Douglas
Carroll, Shah Ebrahim, Kate Tilling, John Macleod, and George
Davey Smith
BMJ
2002;325 1439-1442
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/325/7378/1439?etoc
Scared to death?
Gary Smith
BMJ
2002;325 1442-1443
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1442?etoc
Controlled prospective study of faecal occult blood
screening for
colorectal cancer in Bury, black pudding capital of
the world
Stuart
Fludger, Anne-Marie Turner, Richard F Harvey, and Neil Haslam
BMJ
2002;325 1444-1445
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1444?etoc
Ice cream evoked headaches (ICE-H) study: randomised
trial of accelerated
versus cautious ice cream eating regimen
Maya
Kaczorowski and Janusz Kaczorowski
BMJ
2002;325 1445-1446
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1445?etoc
Sex---can you get it right?
Jonathan E
C Round and Maesha Deheragoda
BMJ 2002;325
1446-1447
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1446?etoc
Shapely centrefolds? Temporal change in body measures:
trend analysis
Martin
Voracek and Maryanne L Fisher
BMJ 2002;325 1447-1448
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1447?etoc
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What should we say to patients with symptoms
unexplained by disease? The
"number needed to offend"
Jon Stone,
Wojtek Wojcik, Daniel Durrance, Alan Carson, Steff Lewis,
Lesley
MacKenzie, Charles P Warlow, and Michael Sharpe
BMJ
2002;325 1449-1450
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1449?etoc
A paradigm shift in the medical literature
Philip A
Atkin
BMJ
2002;325 1450-1451
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1450?etoc
Readability of British and American medical prose at
the start of the 21st
century
William B
Weeks and Amy E Wallace
BMJ
2002;325 1451-1452
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1451?etoc
A tale of two citations: counting on numeracy in the
digital divide
Igor M
Gladstone and Vern L Katz
BMJ
2002;325 1452-1453
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1452?etoc
Can medical education be fun as well as educational?
Gemeah
Howarth-Hockey and Peter Stride
BMJ
2002;325 1453-1454
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1453?etoc
Revalidation: the real life OSCE
Richard
Harrison
BMJ
2002;325 1454-1456
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1454?etoc
A seasonal cost effectiveness analysis: the last Noel?
David
Isaacs and Dominic Fitzgerald
BMJ
2002;325 1456
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1456?etoc
Troubled planet
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Empty arms: the effect of the arms trade on mothers
and children
David P
Southall and Bernadette A M O'Hare
BMJ
2002;325 1457-1461
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1457?etoc
How healthy is the world? * Commentary: Gilding the
global lily
Bjorn
Lomborg and Anthony J McMichael
BMJ
2002;325 1461-1466
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1461?etoc
Time and tide wait for no man
David
Shearman
BMJ
2002;325 1466-1468
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1466?etoc
Identity and genetic ancestry tracing
Carl
Elliott and Paul Brodwin
BMJ
2002;325 1469-1471
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1469?etoc
Futurama
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Four futures for scientific and medical publishing
Kamran
Abbasi, Michael Butterfield, Jackie Connor, Tony Delamothe,
Stella
Dutton, Philip Hadridge, Andrea Horgan, Jane Smith, Richard
Smith,
Eunice Walford, and Alex Williamson
BMJ
2002;325 1472-1475
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1472?etoc
Is that it? How online articles have changed over the
past five years
Tony
Delamothe
BMJ 2002;325
1475-1478
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1475?etoc
Papyrus to PowerPoint (P 2 P): metamorphosis of
scientific communication
Ronald E
LaPorte, Faina Linkov, Tony Villasenor, Francois Sauer,
Carlos
Gamboa, Mita Lovalekar, Eugene Shubnikov, Akira Sekikawa, and
Eun Ryoung
Sa
BMJ
2002;325 1478-1481
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1478?etoc
One foot in the past
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The mummy's curse: historical cohort study
Mark R
Nelson
BMJ
2002;325 1482-1484
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/325/7378/1482?etoc
Forgotten transfusion history: John Leacock of
P J Schmidt
and A G Leacock
BMJ
2002;325 1485-1487
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1485?etoc
The Soviet "Doctors' Plot"---50 years on
A Mark
Clarfield
BMJ
2002;325 1487-1489
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1487?etoc
Counsellors and acolytes
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The case of the missing data
James Le
Fanu
BMJ
2002;325 1490-1493
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1490?etoc
Are ethical principles relative to time and place? A
Star Wars perspective
on the Alder Hey affair
Kim D Arcus
and Anthony S Kessel
BMJ
2002;325 1493-1495
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1493?etoc
EBM: unmasking the ugly truth
Clinicians for the Restoration of Autonomous Practice Writing Group
BMJ
2002;325 1496-1498
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1496?etoc
Through the artist's eye
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Visible signs of illness from the 14th to the 20th
century: systematic
review of portraits
C Als, Y
Stussi, U Boschung, U Trohler, and J H Waber
BMJ
2002;325 1499
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/325/7378/1499?etoc
Poverty and painting: representations in 19th century
Philippa
Howden-Chapman and Johan Mackenbach
BMJ
2002;325 1502-1505
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1502?etoc
Doctors versus artists: Gustav Klimt's Medicine
Maria
Bitsori and Emmanouil Galanakis
BMJ
2002;325 1506-1508
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1506?etoc
Fillers
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Slings and roundabouts
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1448?etoc
Pomegranate MRI
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1448/a?etoc
The devil in the test tube
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1471?etoc
A medical mishap: Stix nix
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1481?etoc
Science close up
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1484?etoc
Stocking filler
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1489?etoc
Sing Ho! for the life of a bear
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1489/a?etoc
Collective terms for doctors
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1498?etoc
Extra vigilance required
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1505?etoc
The 31st Pilgrim---Sister Bettie
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/1508?etoc
Career focus
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This week:
Rhona
MacDonald
BMJ
2002;325 207
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/S207?etoc
Working as a healing practitioner and a general
practitioner
Sheelagh
Donnelly
BMJ
2002;325 207
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/S207a?etoc
What on earth is life coaching?
Susan E
Kersley
BMJ
2002;325 207
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/S207b?etoc
TIPS ON...: Merging two organisations
Penelope
Dash
BMJ
2002;325 210
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/S210?etoc
Profile: Judy Craig
Clare
Hughes
BMJ
2002;325 211
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/S211?etoc
The doctor who influenced me most: Divyen Shah on
Sherbaan ben
Divyen Shah
BMJ
2002;325 211
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/S211a?etoc
The way I see it: My experience as the spouse of an
overseas doctor
Rupalee
Suresh
BMJ
2002;325 212
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/S212?etoc
TIPS ON...: Working from home
Mark
Griffiths
BMJ
2002;325 212
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/S212a?etoc
Soap opera: Episode 4: What the papers say
Nicola Sharp
BMJ
2002;325 213
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7378/S213?etoc
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