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		<title>Stephen Ginn on David Nutt being sacked</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Having been sacked from his position as the chief UK government drugs advisor Professor David Nutt may today be reflecting on the precarious position of anyone who seeks to advise politicians on controversial matters.
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		<title>Richard Smith: The beginning of the end for impact factors and journals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Domhnall Macauley on exercise is medicine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Fergie lost it with the referee. The Manchester United manager’s public criticism of the referee’s fitness in their recent match against Sunderland made headlines. Although subsequently making a personal apology he did raise the more general issue...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>David Pencheon: We face a SSTEEEP learning curve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[If the health service takes environmental, social and economic sustainability seriously, it is amazing how many co-benefits there are - for the health of individuals, for the health of the population, and for the cost and quality of the health care...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tom Nolan on what every doctor should know about the swine flu vaccine</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/30/tom-nolan-on-what-every-doctor-should-know-about-the-swine-flu-vaccine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flu pandemic updates]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The H1N1 vaccination programme is underway in the UK and many other countries across the globe. In Sweden a million people have already been vaccinated. One swine flu vaccine manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, expects to produce 440 million doses over...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>David Payne: Open access and the editor’s choice</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/9nyuzuS_yho/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/30/open-access-and-the-editors-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A management consultant friend confessed last week that despite advising many media company clients about their digital strategy, he had little interest in Web 2:0 and social networking, shunned the TV when he got home, and ate dinner with his wife...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Siddhartha Yadav:  My first conference as a speaker</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/29/siddhartha-yadav-my-first-conference-as-a-speaker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Junior doctors]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The adrenaline rush was unbearable. I could feel my palms sweating. When I tried to clip the microphone on to my coat, my hands were trembling. Eager looking eyes of the audience were pinned on me. I took a deep breath and with my heart still...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: We don’t know what to eat</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/GB9dx5iov8g/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/28/richard-smith-we-dont-know-what-to-eat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Smith]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[WHO is currently setting priorities for research in chronic or non-communicable disease, and generally the first research question is “Will what has worked in rich countries work in low and middle income countries?” We know, for example, what to do...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Harvey Marcovitch: a flea-market hunter-gatherer</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/uH2iscopiYQ/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/28/harvey-marcovitch-a-flea-market-hunter-gatherer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Editors at large]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[BMJ bloggers are in the habit of going to exotic places to listen to exciting lectures. In my time I’ve done my share of all that but a few weeks ago my medical education leapt ahead in an unlikely place – the Malvern Giant Flea Market.  In a...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>John Coggon: Can a conscience dictate?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/nAiYjEQslO4/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/26/john-coggon-can-a-conscience-dictate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[If I asked a physiologist to show me where her conscience is, I’m fairly sure she’d not be able to.  Yet, it seems, a great many doctors appeal directly to their consciences, or at least wish to be free to do so.  This is a little strange.  If a...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Julian Sheather on Mandelson’s distemper</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/HZkk4AEVy5E/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/23/julian-sheather-on-mandelsons-distemper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BMJ Group</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Sheather]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Reader I am sick, sick if not quite unto death then very nearly unto despair. There is a gnawing within that will not let me rest. I have searched in vain for what to call my malediction. I have been sacking my shelves, rifling my dictionaries and...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall MacAuley attends a BMJ Masterclass</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/C7vNLKJaONA/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/23/domhnall-macauley-on-a-respiratory-medicine-masterclass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Editors at large]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[respiratory medicine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sleep apnoea]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[That articulated lorry hurtling towards you may be driven by one of your fat beer drinking patients- who just has fallen asleep at the wheel. Sleep apnoea used to be a rather esoteric research field in the backroads of respiratory medicine but is...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Liz Wager: Are men more dishonest than women?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/SAPmbWf3i6A/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/21/liz-wager-are-men-more-dishonest-than-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liz Wager]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[research ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[research fraud]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Frank Wells, who is probably the UK&#8217;s first professional fraud buster, says he has &#8220;yet to meet a female research fraudster.&#8221; All the 26 cases of proven villainy he has dealt with have been men. That&#8217;s interesting, but not...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tom Nolan on the swine flu vaccine</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/LyA7Z0reeN4/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/21/tom-nolan-on-the-swine-flu-vaccine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Flu pandemic updates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Swine flu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tom Nolan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[swine flu vaccine]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The swine flu vaccine is officially here. The UK government announced on Friday that over 400,000 doses of the swine flu vaccine will be delivered to hospitals this week. The first to get the jab (from Wednesday) will be hospital inpatients...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Douglas Noble: Patient safety - diagnostic errors</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/20/douglas-noble-patient-safety-diagnostic-errors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week I fell onto an outstretched hand and clinically had an obvious fracture on the ulnar side of my left wrist.  Interestingly, the very diligent nurse practitioner who examined me became fixated on my scaphoid - having pushed extraordinarily...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Paul Hodgkin: It’s a two way street now</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/20/paul-hodgkin-its-a-two-way-street-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=851</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Medicine has always been a pretty one-way business. We know, they don’t. It is us that ask the questions, their bodies that slip under our knives. Patients of course have always had their own opinions, told their side of the story to families and...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Til Wykes on the Declaration on Mental Health Research</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/OkPZBz3tMD4/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/19/til-wykes-on-the-declaration-on-mental-health-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last Wednesday was the launch of the Declaration on Mental Health Research. This initiative is aimed at drawing attention to the imbalance of resources devoted to research on mental illnesses as compared to other disabling conditions (see...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Georg Röggla: Evidence and quality in intensive care medicine</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/K4fH5FPef6I/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/16/georg-roggla-evidence-and-quality-in-intensive-care-medicine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[ESICM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[intensive care medicine]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[‘The H1N1 pandemic-are we prepared?’ was the first hot topic at the 22nd congress of the European society of intensive care medicine (ESICM) in Vienna from 11th to 14th October 2009. The question of whether there will there be enough intensive care...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Vidhya Alakeson on the US Finance Committee bill</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/EzjvKVYs__8/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/15/vidhya-alakeson-on-the-us-finance-committee-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Few people outside of Washington have heard of Olympia Snowe, the senator from Maine. But on Tuesday, she became the most important person in healthcare reform. Her vote in the Senate Finance Committee gave the Obama Administration its first...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Julian Sheather on the trouble with Darwin</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/sTIvyHLbkqU/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/15/julian-sheather-on-the-trouble-with-darwin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As this is a scientific journal, I imagine its readers will have more than a passing interest in Darwin. It is hardly surprising. Darwinism is a scientific hypothesis of such revelatory brilliance, of such simplicity and such reach, of such sheer...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Elizabeth Loder on neurologic controversies discussed at The 3rd World Congress on Controversies in Neurology</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/cYbeXzbOGBs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/14/elizabeth-loder-on-neurologic-controversies-discussed-at-the-3rd-world-congress-on-controversies-in-neurology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Anticoagulation in patients with microbleeds and TPA for stroke beyond 3 hours
The 3rd World Congress on Controversies in Neurology, held in Prague October 8-11, used an all-debate format to highlight areas of uncertainty and disagreement in current...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith at last has access to his medical records online</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/M1vMgkcW4vY/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/12/richard-smith-at-last-has-access-to-his-medical-records-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Smith]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[online medical records]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At last I have online access to my medical records. I wrote a blog some six months ago about how a talk by Harold Shipman’s successor had convinced me that I should get access.  I do most of my work online, complete my tax return online, make all my...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tony Waterston on an inspirational lunch</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/05fuGx-BN-Y/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/12/tony-waterston-on-an-inspirational-lunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tony Waterston]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Can a book launch set the mind afire? Unlikely – sounds more a chance to get cheap copies and the author’s autograph and maybe some nice canapés. But the launch I attended this week for the ‘Health practitioners’ guide to climate change’ (Jenny...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Oliver Ellis on ivory towers and elevator music</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/12/oliver-ellis-on-ivory-towers-and-elevator-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I had the good fortune to attend the Don and Dusted debate at the British Library on Wednesday (9 October). Up for debate was whether traditional scholarly work, where dons have wide academic freedom to do more or less as they please, is being...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tom Nolan on flu: A lucky break</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/CxadE5ESUl4/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/12/tom-nolan-on-flu-a-lucky-break/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flu pandemic updates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Swine flu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tom Nolan]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[England&#8217;s chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson can sound gloomy and pessimistic but he sounded very upbeat in this week’s swine flu update, saying: &#8220;We may have got a lucky break in how the virus has behaved at the start of our flu...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Louise Kenny: Flying solo</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/Ddku3g87H8Q/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/09/louise-kenny-flying-solo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BMJ Group</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Junior doctors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Louise Kenny]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[developing countries]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[medical training]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[obstetrics]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[After the blow to my confidence last week with obstetrics patients, I have developed a healthy fear of the uterus and have understandably been reluctant to see ante-natal, labouring, or post-natal patients.  Any organ that bleeds 500ml a minute is a...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Georg Röggla at the 45th meeting of the EASD</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/MwI-mt77q3U/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/06/georg-roggla-at-the-45th-meeting-of-the-easd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cardiovascular mortality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Diabetes]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The 45th annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) took place in Vienna, Austria, from September 30th to October 2nd  The town centre and all places of interest were flooded with the bright red...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tessa Richards: Jobs for health</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/vG_xbPswM00/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/06/tessa-richards-jobs-for-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As UK participants returned from last week&#8217;s European Health Forum in Gastein (read more), Austria, newspaper headlines calling for &#8220;Cuts in wasteful NHS bureaucracy&#8221; and &#8220;Pay freezes for high earners&#8221; will have...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Joe Collier says good riddance to old-fashioned respect</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/z1WINfnQi5s/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/05/joe-collier-says-good-riddance-to-old-fashioned-respect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[respect]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have never liked the idea of showing respect for people simply because of their social standing. I am in favour of treating people with respect in a general sort of way, so being polite and considerate. I respect nature or property, so protecting...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Julian Sheather: Our daily bread</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/ESzREIetcEk/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/05/julian-sheather-our-daily-bread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Campden and Chorleywood]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A few days ago I was reading an account by a journalist of a visit he had made to the refugee camps on the Nord pas de Calais coast just days before they were destroyed by the French police. Known collectively as &#8220;the jungle&#8221;, these...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Sheila McLean on advance directives and the case of Kerrie Wooltorton</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/Sez79Rtf9w0/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/01/sheila-mclean-on-advance-directives-and-the-case-of-kerrie-wooltorton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[advance directives]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The inquest into the death of Kerrie Wooltorton in 2007 has focused some media attention on advance decisions (directives), or so-called ‘living wills&#8217;. While undoubtedly a tragic case, however, it is worth unpicking what we can actually learn...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Louise Kenny’s longest night</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/RUIgOugCQ7Q/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/30/louise-kennys-longest-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Before I arrived here, I was concerned about quite how bad my first on-call could be given the new environment, the language, and the vastly different presentations that I could see.  I’d done my homework, I knew that Guatemala ranked highly in both...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall MacAuley on a cure for cancer found (again)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/JEpE-5M3rNI/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/29/domhnall-macauley-on-a-cure-for-cancer-found-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[clinical trials]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[If every media report of a cure for cancer were true, we should live forever. But, the media like a headline health story, and we cannot really blame the journalists. It is largely the fault of epidemiologists, according to Joe McLaughlin...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Trish Groves: Let SPIRIT take you … towards much clearer trial protocols</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/WU4QnTHwfCo/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/25/trish-groves-let-spirit-take-you-towards-much-clearer-trial-protocols/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Reporting statements like the CONSORT and STROBE statements are making an important and demonstrable difference to the quality of research papers by helping authors report exactly what happened in their studies. But these statements can&#8217;t fix...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tejshri Shah on scrapping healthcare fees in developing countries</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/ohnDIhgjkxM/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/24/tejshri-shah-on-scrapping-healthcare-fees-in-developing-countries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A group of doctors warned last week that if climate change is not effectively tackled we all face a health catastrophe. What they did not say is that the catastrophe is already here for millions of the world’s poorest people, because when they get...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Oscar Yang: A Sino-Kiwi in Scotland</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/9rckhhDurKo/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/22/oscar-yang-a-sino-kiwi-in-scotland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[electives]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So finally, when dusk fades into darkness, I sit down at my computer to type my first BMJ blog entry. I&#8217;m sitting at the warmly-lit dinner table in my second floor apartment on South Clerk Street in Edinburgh, looking over the quiet darkened...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Dr Harry’s Netlines: Crystal ball gazing</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/ZfY5sSPCijM/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/21/dr-harrys-netlines-crystal-ball-gazing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Digital media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Harry Brown]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=827</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It is always good fun to speculate what will be happening in medicine in years to come. There are so many areas to think about clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic breakthroughs; political and economic aspects, and technological innovations. It is...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Joe Collier: A drink for Mr Teetotaller?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/MA4r1iUNygQ/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/21/joe-collier-a-drink-for-mr-teetotaller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Joe Collier]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Two things are certain. First, I am a teetotaller. Second, UK society (in common with society in Europe generally) is awash with the influence of alcohol. If ever there were a risk of a clash of interests, this is one.
I am a teetotaller, and in my...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Louise Kenny: It’s a mystery</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/dsW1MJOvU68/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/21/louise-kenny-its-a-mystery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Louise Kenny]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[desquamation of hands and feet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the most exciting aspects of working here is the opportunity to have a good rummage among the rarities of diagnoses that I learnt about for the MRCP.  There have been a few cases now, which have rung a big bell in my head, related to...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Douglas Noble: Tales of patient safety from the frontline for junior doctors: incident reporting</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/E7reB4-DGxw/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/21/douglas-noble-tales-of-patient-safety-from-the-frontline-for-junior-doctors-incident-reporting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The NHS has so far accumulated almost 3 million incident reports, well on the way to being as tall as the British Telecom Tower if they were all piled up one on top of the other. Many significant research studies have identified the main barrier to...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>David Kerr: UK and US healthcare- public option is the universal, high quality, and efficient way</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/y-TRRzuNbGA/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/21/david-kerr-uk-and-us-healthcare-public-option-is-the-universal-high-quality-and-efficient-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[US health care]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[US health care reform]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Writers of the open letter to America in defence of the NHS rebut clearly and concisely some of the more ludicrous charges leveled against our system of healthcare. It&#8217;s a debate that on the whole leaves me cold. The idea that wittingly a...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Helen Macdonald on Panorama Special; swine flu</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/jIOgMQqQwGs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/18/helen-macdonald-on-panorama-special-swine-flu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Flu pandemic updates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Swine flu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tom Nolan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Panorama]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The BBC trailed it as everything you need to know about swine flu. The title probably raised my expectations too high.
A street poll near the start of the programme showed that the public were a bit confused about who was at the most risk of swine...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Siddhartha Yadav on the challenges in reducing maternal mortality in Nepal</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/KXSEe02ZWAk/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/17/siddhartha-yadav-on-the-challenges-in-reducing-maternal-mortality-in-nepal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[childbirth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[maternal mortality]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Wednesday was an unusual day for the prime minister of Nepal. Right when he was about to leave for the capital from Nepalgunj in his helicopter, he received a call from one his acquaintances pleading to air-rescue a pregnant woman with placental...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Olivia Roberts: More tales from the UN number-crunchers</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/cfhUt6BWYlI/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/14/olivia-roberts-more-tales-from-the-un-number-crunchers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[child mortality]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=818</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Quick follow on from the last blog post on the wonderful world of UN statistics. This time the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) has ploughed through country data.
Good news: The estimated global mortality for children under-5...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Louise Kenny: On-call in Guatemala</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/wKStzPZgtdI/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/14/louise-kenny-on-call-in-guatemala/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Louise Kenny]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[on-call]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=819</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I thought I might be broken in gently to the new job, but I arrived last Friday in Santiago, and was thrown into a 24hr on-call in the ER on Saturday, which was thankfully remarkably quiet.  Sadly I have had to convert to transatlantic terms, as...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: Remember “the disappeared”</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/4RezRWGX02U/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/11/richard-smith-remember-the-disappeared/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Smith]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The most interesting, and certainly the most chilling, experience I had in four days in Buenos Aires was to visit the memorial to &#8220;the disappeared.&#8221;
Two of us were taken there by a doctor whose brother and sister in law were both among...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Vidhya Alakeson on President Obama’s healthcare speech</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/YBZ5cNkGc9I/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/11/vidhya-alakeson-on-us-healthcare-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[US health care]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It is a peculiar trait of American politics: long presidential speeches broadcast at prime time. Just as Bill Clinton did thirteen years ago, yesterday, for an hour, President Obama tried to convince the American people that they had more to gain...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall MacAuley: Equity, human rights, and access to care</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/F3pgn238_Fw/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/10/domhnall-macauley-equity-human-rights-and-access-to-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Domhnall MacAuley]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Editors at large]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=812</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Often the only visible links between a conference and the host city are the presence of intense young researchers with carefully rolled posters and middle aged delegates with matching bags, wandering aimlessly through the streets. But, by inspired...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Síle Lane on keeping libel laws out of science</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BmjBlogs/~3/tXz7XjsChoA/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/09/10/sile-lane-on-keeping-libel-laws-out-of-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julietwalker</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[British Chiropractic Association]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[libel law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sense about Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Simon Singh]]></category>

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		<title>Tracey Koehlmoos: How zinc can save 400,000 lives annually</title>
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