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<title>Confidence Intervals</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[It is well recognised that many students and qualified nurses alike struggle to get their heads around statistics.  Confidence intervals are essential to understanding nursing research, but can instil feelings of blind panic in the uninitiated.  Like so many technical concepts they are intimidating...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/LhphPfZeuqw" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:15:54 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Julian Sheather: Should we help people self-harm?</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Once in every while an ethical dilemma will swim across the horizon, a dilemma whose wake will induce in me a bout of moral seasickness. My compass spins, my bearings wheel and lurch. One such is the reappearance of “facilitated self-harm”. I am not over-fond of the word “facilitate”. It drips with...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/n0ND4ojIids" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:56:11 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Joe Collier on swine flu and ministries of fear</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[One thing about the current swine flu pandemic is that it has brought with it a universal sense of fear. As with all fears, individuals respond differently, but we know what they are feeling because the sensation of fear, which varies from a mild anxiety to incapacitating panic, is so much part of...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/W55KvpXUrEs" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:27:53 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>When the Witch Asks a Question, I Can’t Resist</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the replies to this thread, The Witch Doctor asks this:
A Scenario:
Apparently there are some sites on the web just now claiming that the world is going to end in 2012. Some teenagers are becoming agitated.
I don’t want to be around when the world ends, so I’m going to drink some poison and...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/DGGX97tWOv8" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:12:40 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Botulism case in Scotland</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[There are reports of a case of an infant with botulism in Scotland.
“A 16-week-old baby boy is fighting for his life after being diagnosed with botulism.
Logan Douglas was admitted to hospital in Edinburgh where doctors spotted signs of the rare disease and ordered a test.
Health protection experts...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/GKmEXWs0QvE" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:04:04 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Emily Spry’s first impressions of working in Sierra Leone</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’m excited to have started at the Ola During Children’s Hospital in Freetown, after hearing so much about it from the Welbodi Partnership, the charity I’ll be working for over the next year.
On first impressions, things at the hospital look good.  There are freshly painted wards and uniformed...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/BH9mo1koblo" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:48:26 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Harvey Marcovitch: ‘O wad some power the giftie gie us’</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[It’s nice to know how others see us. Several weeks ago, a journal editor based in Europe asked my opinion on a contentious paper he had agreed to publish, had posted online, but about which he now had concerns. I told him that I did not have the scientific expertise to provide a thorough review...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/GtWd2k1BaHg" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:45:18 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>The Art of Making Sense of Life and Death</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[An exhibition of recent work by artist David Marron opened recently at GV Art Gallery in London, writes Marina Wallace, curator of the exhibition. A catalogue, containing the writings of the artist, accompanies the show. Having installed his work, and having been present at the private view and the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/LVuOlUHiZQY" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:23:47 +0000</pubDate>

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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.
For it seems that whilst such an advisory position would appear to call for...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/fw1mZgjI1TE" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:13:55 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Richard Smith: The beginning of the end for impact factors and journals</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Something has just happened that will almost certainly end the tyranny of impact factors and may well mark another step towards the extinction of most scientific journals. Did you notice it? Probably not, and even if you did you may not have understood what it was or what it may lead to.
It was the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/xutnB0zNdCU" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:21:20 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Domhnall Macauley on exercise is medicine</title>
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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 of referee’s fitness. Perhaps it was because he...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/PKQrSVdk8iA" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:18:59 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>David Pencheon: We face a SSTEEEP learning curve</title>
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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 system - genuine win-wins - win now, win later....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/F82KyhHcrAU" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 23:16:19 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Rapid genome analysis for complex diagnoses</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[A rapid genome analysis that took only 10 days helped make the correct diagnosis in a critically ill 5 month old Turkish boy.
http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6988
“In a dramatic illustration of the power of emerging genetic technologies, Yale University researchers have reported making a...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/02teIKCJpfg" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:56:56 +0000</pubDate>

<source url="http://blogs.bmj.com/case-reports">BMJ Case Reports blog</source>


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<title>Biomedical Ethics Film Festival</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Edinburgh, 20-22 November
Details here<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/PurYHAbDRn0" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:55:53 +0000</pubDate>

<source url="http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics">Journal of Medical Ethics blog</source>


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<title>David Nutt and Unpopular Science</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’ve noted David Nutt’s unhappy relationship with the government that employed him before now - it was he who was told by erstwhile Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to apologise for having the temerity to point out that Ecstasy is probably safer than equestrianism; apparently facts play, and ought to...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/9vo3Qz6aoC0" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:32:01 +0000</pubDate>

<source url="http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics">Journal of Medical Ethics blog</source>


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<title>Tom Nolan on what every doctor should know about the swine flu vaccine</title>
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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 the next few months. With newspapers, television...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/92A9ULbEKzE" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:42:46 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>David Payne: Open access and the editor’s choice</title>
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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 while BBC Radio 3 played in the background.

Who...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/9nyuzuS_yho" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:39:19 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Right to a fair trial: St John’s wort</title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The updated NICE guideline for depression is just out. Here is what it has to say about St John’s wort:
Although there is evidence that St John’s wort may be of benefit in mild or moderate depression, practitioners should:
•  not prescribe or advise its use by people with depression because of...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/NmPISRzQ4GE" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:54:31 +0000</pubDate>

<source url="http://blogs.bmj.com/ebmh-talk">HeadtoHead</source>


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<title>Siddhartha Yadav:  My first conference as a speaker</title>
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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 pounding, I said, “Hello everyone!”

This is how my talk...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/zHNYYT7UgVc" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:10:53 +0000</pubDate>

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<title>Richard Smith: We don’t know what to eat</title>
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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 to reduce deaths from heart disease and how to...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmjgroup-blogs/~4/GB9dx5iov8g" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>

<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:57:49 +0000</pubDate>

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