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British medical journal: BMJ

Journal Volume: 339
Journal Issue:
Journal Year: 2009
Articles in SafetyLit: 27

Brown backtracks on promise to allow local authorities to ban 24 hour drinking

Children in deprived areas at most risk of road injuries

Christmas: Years Like This. Ingested foreign bodies and societal wealth: three year observational study of swallowed coins

Darfuri refugees in Chad have no escape from sexual violence

Euthanasia and other end of life decisions and care provided in final three months of life: nationwide retrospective study in Belgium

Fall in child mortality in Africa and Asia is "grossly insufficient" to meet millennium development goal, says UNICEF

Fall prevention with supplemental and active forms of vitamin D: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Fear of minimum alcohol pricing spreading to other countries led to opposition in Scotland

Guidelines spell out when someone assisting a suicide risks prosecution

Homicide might have been avoided, says Welsh review

Hospitals must plan for full evacuation, concludes review of fires

Lead poisoning as possible cause of deaths at the Swedish House at Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, winter 1872-3

Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada: 11 year follow-up study

Policy makers face a growing range of illicit drugs and aggressive marketing

Prevalence and structural correlates of gender based violence among a prospective cohort of female sex workers

Road deaths three times higher in poorer European countries

Schemes to collect and destroy handguns help to cut homicide rate

Smoking cessation agents and suicide

Supermarket chains warn that minimum pricing of alcohol will not stop binge drinking

The direct and indirect costs of explosive violence

The Israeli Medical Association and doctors' complicity in torture

Traffic speed zones and road injuries

Ultraorthodox Jews riot in Israel after mother arrested for Munchausen by proxy

UN expert calls for greater care and assistance for victims of child pornography

Varenicline and suicidal behaviour: a cohort study based on data from the General Practice Research Database

Varenicline and suicide. Safety data from New Zealand

When to suspect child maltreatment: summary of NICE guidance