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  • [This Week in Medicine] February 18–24, 2012
    According to a report by the Guttmacher Institute, fewer women aged 15–19 years became pregnant in the USA in 2008 than at any time in almost 40 years. 7% became pregnant that year—a substantial decli …
  • [Editorial] Living with grief
    When should grief be classified as a mental illness? More often than is current practice, proposes the American Psychiatric Association in its forthcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistic …
  • [Editorial] Decreasing NHS productivity: urban myth
    In England, the light illuminating the controversial Health and Social Care Bill is becoming brighter. Despite growing opposition—first from health institutions, and now from Conservative Cabinet mini …
  • [Editorial] Syria's health and humanitarian crisis
    The deadly assault of President Bashar al-Assad's forces on opposition protesters in Syria is getting bloodier by the day. Since the start of the violence in March, 2011, an estimated 7000 people …
  • [Comment] Should attenuated psychosis syndrome be included in DSM-5?
    Over the past 15 years, interest in people presenting with potentially prodromal symptoms of psychosis has increased. If a patient shows one of three presentations then they are classed as at high cli …

  • Tommy
    Tommy provides an education in psychiatric trauma, abuse, and the psychology of inadequate parenting. This musical film and rock opera is one of the key artistic works responsible for helping to move. …
  • Kindness in healthcare: what goes around
    This wonderful book is an urgent plea for kindness as both the driving force and the touchstone of healthcare in the NHS. Anyone who has been seriously ill knows that it is the individual acts of… …
  • Cohen's coefficient {kappa}
    Chest radiographs are the best method for diagnosing pneumonia but are often not available in developing countries. Therefore, in 1990 the World Health Organization developed guidelines for diagnosis. …
  • Doctors in Dickens
    bmj;344/feb22_2/e1193/FIG1F1fig1Everyone has a favourite character from Dickens, whether it’s a selfless hero like David Copperfield, a rapacious villain like Fagin, or a half crazed eccentric like… …
  • Doctors in Dickens
    bmj;344/feb22_2/e1194/FIG1F1fig1A 76 year old woman had a longstanding erythematous eczematous rash in her left axilla that was unresponsive to topical steroids. Punch biopsy showed extramammary… …

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