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		<title>Tom Nolan: Welcome to the Fold</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 10:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet“You need a lot of patience to play this game,” one of the Foldit community replied after I asked for some tips on how to rebuild my protein’s backbone. “Just keep wiggling,” another suggested. The frustration of watching my score plummet as my protein unfolded was getting to me. I might have...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Edzard Ernst: Thousands of patients cannot be wrong or can they?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 13:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Edzard Ernst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surveys]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetThe subject of alternative medicine (AM) is littered with surveys, and it almost seems as though a new one crops up every other day. Typically these surveys assess how many patients use AM. The resulting prevalence figures show an extremely wide range. One reason for this huge variability is...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall MacAuley: Exporting UK style quality and outcomes to Switzerland</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/30Pir44PdSY/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 10:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Domhnall MacAuley]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetClocks, watches, mountains, and trains. Clean Swiss efficiency. So, I was fascinated to learn about Swiss primary care when speaking at a recent conference in Lausanne; mostly single handed, still predominantly male, and with limited use of electronic records. Joining me from the UK was...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: Why I won’t be retiring to the seaside</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/21/richard-smith-why-i-wont-be-retiring-to-the-seaside/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 09:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Richard Smith]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet Taxi drivers rank alongside hairdressers as sources of deep information about communities, and the one who drove me on Sunday morning from Padstow on the Cornish Coast to Bodmin Parkway confirmed for me that it&#8217;s a bad idea to move to the seaside when you retire. “A lot of my business...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Lehman’s journal review – 21 May 2012</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/Yac2bqxReh8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 09:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Richard Lehman's weekly review of medical journals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetJAMA  16 May 2012  Vol 307 Do we all live on the same planet? I’m nearing the end of an amazing year at Yale, surrounded by superlatively intelligent people working on the outcomes of US healthcare. I myself occupy a space with brilliant newly qualified young doctors from India, Iran, and...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Lisa Hallgarten: Where hospital delivery does not guarantee good care</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/KuMN8kVw3u8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet A key focus of work in the field of safe motherhood has been on increasing deliveries in medical facilities with access to skilled birth assistants and emergency obstetric care. In many places more and more women are reaching clinics to deliver. However, there has been too little focus on the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Amanda Glassman on the difficult task of setting priorities at the WHO</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/LRnRnjnskSo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 10:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=17141</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetAs country delegations prepare for the 65th session of the World Health Assembly next week, the reform of the institution itself is only one topic on a list of 20 agenda items and 52 sub-items to be considered by the organisation’s governing bodies. Setting priorities and fully funding those...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Lesley Henderson: Gender, sexuality and mental illness in Homeland</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/7wnRGoCMflo/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/17/lesley-henderson-gender-sexuality-and-mental-illness-in-homeland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 10:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=17149</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetThe American television network Showtime is becoming synonymous with highly acclaimed drama and post 9/11 series Homeland (2011) is no exception. Barack Obama is reportedly a huge fan of the programme and millions of UK viewers watched the tense series finale  on Sunday 6 May. The plot...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Elizabeth Loder on tackling unnecessary treatment in the US: This time “it feels different”</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/uwXeRyxbYsc/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/15/elizabeth-loder-on-tackling-unnecessary-treatment-in-the-us-this-time-it-feels-different/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet US healthcare costs are unsustainable and a large amount of money is being wasted on unnecessary treatment.  There was general agreement about these statements among the audience, speakers and panelists at the recent Avoiding Avoidable Care conference, held in Boston. The summit was organized...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Carl Heneghan and Deborah Cohen on PiP breast implants: implants need rigorous and transparent assessment of the evidence in future</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/_-9EI2AzdEU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet A Department of Health review into the Poly Implant Prothèse (PiP) breast implant scandal has found that although the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), acted appropriately and followed scientific and clinical advice, there are “areas where...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Florian Sparr on strengthening the global R&amp;D system: innovation for health needs in developing countries</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/23lj_UtH6ag/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/15/strengthening-the-global-rd-system-innovation-for-health-needs-in-developing-countries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetOn Friday 4 May 2012 “Strengthening the Global R&#38;D System: Innovation for Health Needs in Developing Countries” took place in Geneva. The keynote address, &#8221;Investing in Global Public Goods&#8221; was given by Joseph E Stiglitz, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: Will economic problems finally fix London healthcare?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/XZ2sC7NDksE/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/15/richard-smith-will-economic-problems-finally-fix-london-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet There were no dissenters from the view at last week&#8217;s Cambridge Health Network meeting that London has chronic overcapacity in its acute hospitals. It&#8217;s been the case for decades. One reason for the continuing failure to reform lies in the story of one woman that all three local...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Deborah Cohen on Nestlé and the International Diabetes Federation: comfortable bedfellows?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/MGLuR8vVV4w/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet Nestlé has just announced a three year partnership with the International Diabetes Federation (IDF)—an umbrella organisation representing national diabetes societies from around the world— as part of its contribution to the fight against non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Such diseases include...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Lehman’s journal review – 14 May 2012</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/1A7ez61e_i0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet JAMA  9 May 2012  Vol 307 1925    In a wonderful letter to Humphry Davy in 1800, Coleridge declared that science, as a human activity, &#8220;being necessarily performed with the Passion of hope, is poetical.&#8221; All good science is inspired with the poetry of hope; but, alas, so also is a...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Jeremy Sare: Drug driving in the Queen’s Speech</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/-ysUxPnag14/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[drug driving]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet Enforcing the law on drug driving has not been a problem historically of either political will, or policing priorities. The main issue has always been applying the science and technology to make the law work. This week’s announcement of a &#8220;crackdown&#8221; on the &#8220;blight&#8221; of...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Kelley Swain reviews Leonardo da Vinci: anatomist</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/379jTuIHa4Q/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetIn 1512, Leonardo da Vinci set out to clarify the function of a specific, bulbous part of the heart. He injected molten wax into an ox heart to make a cast. This was the second time in medical history that wax casting had been used: the first time was between 1504-1507, when Leonardo came up...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall Macauley: A tongue in cheek letter to consultant colleagues</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/e1nQgtmcRvQ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetDear consultant colleague, The standard of consultant letters is very variable so we have decided to introduce a new proforma for consultant letters to GPs. Patients attend many different outpatient departments and we intend to introduce a different proforma for every department in each of the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Andrew Moscrop: Nutrition and gender in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/Ferggnhil2g/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet Into the Kuchlak nutrition clinic shuffles a pale blue burqa. From within the sky-coloured folds of fabric, the Pashtu woman pulls a tightly swaddled infant. Her son is eleven months old. Unwrapped, the boy’s ribs stick out, the skin hangs loosely from his limbs and his head seems too big for...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Annabel Ferriman: Ann McPherson: the Peoples’ Practitioner?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/AbWBSKmpJVI/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/11/annabel-ferriman-ann-mcpherson-the-peoples-practitioner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 09:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Editors at large]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health charities]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetWhat was Ann McPherson’s secret?  How did she manage to accomplish so much, but still remain a warm hearted person, who remembered birthdays, gave porridge to Jon Snow when he turned up for breakfast time meetings, and offered the keys of her house to friends needing somewhere to stay? She was...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>David Kerr: Medical underwear</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/OhhbJMeftG4/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/10/david-kerr-medical-underwear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 10:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[David Kerr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nanotechnology]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetCould the e-bra save the NHS? Recently researchers at the University of Arkansas announced that they had developed a remote monitoring system that could be integrated with an individual’s underwear. The “e-bra” consists of a series of nanostructured, textile sensors integrated into clothing...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: Teaching is stand-up comedy</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/ryakp_nsho8/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/09/richard-smith-teaching-is-stand-up-comedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical education]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet Teaching, it seems to me,  is much the same as stand-up comedy. One is much scarier than the other, but which is the scariest depends on who you are. I was left thinking about the connection after a recent bad experience of teaching. I do a lot of teaching these days, most of it unpaid [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Deborah Cohen 9 May 17h30: Where’s the data, DePuy?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/Q8v6idPf7IU/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/09/deborah-cohen-9-may-17h30-wheres-the-data-depuy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[BMJ investigations blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editors at large]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet Back in February, the BMJ reported that a whole class of implant—in this case large diameter metal-on-metal total hip replacement—was allowed to enter the global market without any clinical studies to assess their safety and effectiveness. Hundreds of thousands of patients around the world...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tracey Brown: A defamation bill in the Queen’s speech</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/Cdv5c6SQykY/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/08/tracey-brown-a-defamation-bill-in-the-queens-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 15:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet If we were asked to design a defamation law that would silence awkward criticism in science and medicine, and protect powerful interests, how would that look? Let’s say we’ve got a company manufacturing a medical product that does not produce the benefits it claims to and there is the awkward...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Deborah Cohen 8 May 15h30: BMJ/CEBM submission to select committee about medical implants regulation</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/tZiBUFwi_PA/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[BMJ investigations blog]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet Over the coming weeks, the House of Commons science and technology committee will take verbal evidence about the regulation of medical implants. The BMJ—together with the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University—has already submitted a report based on research and investigations...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: Can Devi Shetty make healthcare affordable across the globe?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/6rtJDJgzw9c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetIt&#8217;s impossible not to be impressed by Devi Shetty, heart surgeon and the &#8220;the Henry Ford of healthcare.&#8221; We can be impressed by his surgical skill and his refusal to turn away the poor. But perhaps even more impressive is his entrepreneurship and his vision of making...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Devi Shetty: India will become the first country in the world to dissociate health care from affluence</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/T4oI7S6cIlY/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetI believe the economy of the 21st century will be driven by the health sector. The economy of the 20th century was driven by machines which addressed human toil. The health sector can create millions of jobs for the extremely skilled, semi skilled, and unskilled workers. These jobs are  vital...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Martin McShane: Ch-Ch-Changes</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/m9GnaLMZcQk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 13:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet Ch,ch,changes. The next couple of months are going to see a sea change in the management of commissioning across England. The appointments to the NHS Commissioning Board (NHSCB) sectors are being made. Appointing to these four posts will allow the wave of appointments to the local offices, to...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Andrew Burd: Ethics and clinical trial registration</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/a3BFVu9qCC0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 13:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet These days I do not so often have a gauntlet dispatched in my direction, but when one lands at my feet I have an irresistible urge to pick it up.  By way of explanation, one of my passing pleasures is to engage in debate and discussion in the WAME list serve, a discussion forum [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Lehman’s journal review – 7 May 2012</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/2z9Fk3NpoFU/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetJAMA 25 Apr 2012 Vol 307 1809    Among the many virtues of JAMA, one cannot number a strong sense of the ridiculous. The poetry and medicine section is the world’s most reliable source of po-faced bad verse, this week’s example being an invective against Decadron; and the first research paper...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Tiago Villanueva: Cutting edge primary care in Denmark</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/GJLM-2m02FI/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/04/tiago-villanueva-cutting-edge-primary-care-in-denmark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetAs a locum GP, I tend to have limited contact with the permanent staff of the practices I work in, and I therefore rely almost entirely on myself to look after my professional development (there is currently no revalidation scheme for doctors in Portugal). Once a year I try to visit and shadow...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: Are we too concerned with confidentiality? A fable</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/wRmzKxmkNhk/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/04/richard-smith-are-we-too-concerned-with-confidentiality-a-fable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Richard Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confidentiality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NHS]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetI am the chief medical officer of our family. I am the bridge between my family members, some of them eccentric and one of them demented, and an unforgiving health system. Many doctors—indeed, anybody familiar with the strange language and rigidities of health systems—fulfil the same role, and...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall MacAuley: The glamour of drink</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/OPuLkFJNUXk/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/03/domhnall-macauley-the-glamour-of-drink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 14:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Domhnall MacAuley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetEarly morning and a young lad, hooded, trainers, hugs his bottle as he staggers home. Last night it started early; cider, beer, and tonic wine. Blue bags on a Friday night. Party time in the park as teenage boys and girls huddle drunken in the dusk. Monday morning, at the surgery. Mother...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Veena Rao on addressing undernutrition in India</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/9MtckJvC-9c/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/03/veena-rao-on-addressing-undernutrition-in-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 14:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[global health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[undernutrition]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetMy previous blog was about the Indian finance minister’s 2012 budget speech, which marked a significant moment for the much awaited, much required, paradigm shift in the government’s approach to reduce undernutrition and micronutrient deficiency. An inter-sectoral strategy to address...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Andrew Moscrop: Emergency training in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/JXCshta_NPo/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/03/andrew-moscrop-emergency-training-in-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 09:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BMJ Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MSF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emergency training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetEvery night, every half-hour, the whistle and stick man visits. We’ve never met, but I know his work. His job is to walk the streets of our neighbourhood between sunset and sunrise, blowing a whistle and tapping a stick to keep the local security guards awake (as if the barking of automatic...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Peter Lapsley: Unfairer charges</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/OzuJ557cLOk/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/02/peter-lapsley-unfairer-charges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Peter Lapsley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prescription charges]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetThey’ve done it again! While prescription charges were abolished in Wales in 2007, Northern Ireland in 2010, and Scotland in 2011, the Department of Health in England increased them from £7.40 to £7.65 from 1 April this year. To put that into more graphic context, anyone required to pay the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: Disclosure of conflicts of interest may increase bias</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/y7EUTgME3fs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/02/richard-smith-disclosure-of-conflicts-of-interest-may-increase-bias/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 09:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Richard Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflicts of interest]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet I&#8217;ve worried that disclosing conflicts of interest may be counterproductive ever since we did an experiment that showed that readers of articles with declared conflicts discounted not only the believability of the results, but every aspect of the paper, including its importance and...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Chris Williams: When will we learn HOW to deliver healthcare?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/VhSy5Xlr3zs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetIf I had one thing in healthcare to banish to my room 101, the choice would be easy: waste, inefficiency, and delays. “That’s three things”’ I hear you shout. Yes OK, but: in the NHS they go hand in hand; they are part of the guise that Andrew Lansley used to push through his dubious [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>David Payne: Lord Ashley of Stoke</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/h-pOX6ZnJWE/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/01/david-payne-lord-ashley-of-stoke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 09:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet The BMJ tends not to commission obituaries of non-doctors. I can understand why. The journal&#8217;s print obituary section is already awash with the lives of distinguished doctors from the UK and overseas. It would need to be a lot larger if coverage was extended to eminent nurses, former...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Rhys Davies: The patient will see you now</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/Ck3z-RAneRM/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/05/01/rhys-davies-the-patient-will-see-you-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 07:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetIt’s that time of year again when exams rear their ugly heads. Not for me though—this year’s exams are long over. Instead, the third years are facing their first OSCEs (objective structured clinical exams). Last week, I volunteered for one of the numerous mock OSCEs organised for them by...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Zosia Kmietowicz: Leaping out of inequalities: the power of imaginative play</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/Z-sZ2pdnQxc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetI spent last Wednesday afternoon with seven 3-4 year olds from Levenhall nursery in Musselburgh, East Lothian, just outside Edinburgh. They were taking part in an immersive theatre production by the children’s theatre company Licketyspit. I have known the company’s director, Virginia...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Smith: Our need for clockware and swarmware</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/DFV_aWny0Cs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/04/30/richard-smith-our-need-for-clockware-and-swarmware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tweet Tackling the global pandemic problem of non-communicable disease (NCDs) is a complex problem that needs clockware and swarmware. I imagine that most BMJ readers have no idea what that sentence means, but read a few more paragraphs and you may learn something useful. Problems, said Sian...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Richard Lehman’s journal review – 30 April 2012</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/6mjBRE45kAg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetJAMA  25 Apr 2012  Vol 307 1717   Any budding young cardiology academic wishing to set up a publication of her own could do worse than start a Journal of Negative Stem Cell Trials in Heart Failure. There are enough of these to fill a volume every quarter-year or so, and editorials could...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Gabriel Scally at the World Congress of Public Health</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/iwDrLg-9wOI/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetIn an attention-grabbing presentation, Paul Walker, of the US affiliate Green Cross International, engrossed delegates at the World Congress of Public Health in Addis Ababa with his skillful exposition of the burden on humanity represented by warfare and the preparations for it. Tying the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Kirsten Patrick: COHRED Forum 2012</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/s6eGAxfzHlQ/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/04/27/kirsten-patrick-cohred-forum-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetThis week I attended and participated in a panel discussion at the Council for Health Research and Development (COHRED)’s 14th Global Forum for Health Research in Cape Town, South Africa. Last year the Global Forum merged with COHRED, and this year’s forum has had a distinctly different focus...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Stephen Ginn: The Greatest Silence: Rape in Congo</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/EMqx8uzUXn4/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/04/27/stephen-ginn-the-greatest-silence-rape-in-congo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetThe author Philip Gourevitch once wrote: “Oh Congo, what a wreck. It hurts to look and listen. It hurts to turn away.” Exploited and misruled for much of its modern history, this country has spent more than a decade in a state of semi-permanent civil war. 5.4m people have died, mostly from...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Deborah Cohen: 27 April, 14h00, the lack of implant regulation in Europe is finally starting to bite</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/p8kdAGdrcIc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[hip implants]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetThe reality of the lack of implant regulation in Europe is finally starting to bite. A leaked internal FDA report &#8220;Unsafe and ineffective devices approved in the EU that were not approved in the US,&#8221; has lambasted the European system and highlighted failures in the processes....<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Karim Khan: Why a BMJ Olympics portal?</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/23TsOfhp5k8/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/04/27/karim-khan-why-a-bmj-olympics-portal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetLove them or hate them, you can’t escape them. Almost as big as the Royal Jubilee, the Olympic Games have already taken a grip on London and Londoners. And other parts of the country too by all reports. Various colleagues are going to the Olympics specifically because it is in London. So let’s...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Rebecca Coombes: Soaring rents but Ghana gets it right on vaccinations</title>
		<link>http://feeds.bmj.com/~r/bmj/blogs/~3/AytrQdRXId4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pneumonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TB]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetIt’s boom time in Ghana right now. The country’s economy soared by 14% in 2011 thanks to new oil receipts—earning it a listing as the world’s fastest growing economy. This prosperity is a mixed blessing say the locals. Rents in the capital city Accra are approaching London levels—$2000 a month...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Domhnall MacAuley: Ernest Hart leaps out of the Raidió</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetTootling along in the car on holiday. Brain idling, half listening to the radio when, out of the middle of an Irish language programme, jumped Ernest Hart. A former editor of the BMJ in whose eponymously named room we often have editorial meetings. But, on Raidió na Gaeltachta? A historian...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Edzard Ernst: Pascal’s Wager and alternative medicine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[TweetBlaise Pascal (1623-1662) argued that, because it is impossible to either prove or disprove the existence of God, it would be best to wager in favour of his existence. In case one got it wrong, little would be lost; in case one was correct, everything was gained. The same logic seems to be...<div class="feedflare">
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