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BMJ B Brueggemann , Richard

Objective To estimate the proportion of school age children with a persistent cough who have evidence of a recent Bordetella pertussis infection. Design Prospective cohort study (October 2001 to March 2005). Setting General practices in Oxfordshire, England. Participants 172 children aged 5-16 years who presented to their general practitioner with a cough lasting 14 days or more who consented t...

BMJ Open Respiratory Research

Correspondence to [email protected] BMJ are pleased to announce the launch of the new online-only fully open access title, BMJ Open Respiratory Research. This is published by BMJ in partnership with the British Thoracic Society. The aim of BMJ Open Respiratory Research is to publish high quality, peer-reviewed medical research in the respiratory field, to help improve healthcare outcomes globally....

Addison’s disease | The BMJ

A 34 year old woman presented with a 12 month history of increasing tiredness, anorexia, weight loss, and depression. During that period, she had tried two different antidepressant tablets without benefit. She saw her general practitioner’s locum, who thought she looked tanned. Her blood pressure was 90/60 mm Hg, although it had always tended to be low. Her serum sodium concentration was 130 (n...

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Bitcoin is an online distributed ledger in which coins are distributed according to the unspent transaction output (UTXO) set, and transactions describe changes to this set. Every UTXO has associated to it an amount and signature verification key, representing the quantity that can be spent and the entity authorized to do so, respectively. Because the ledger is distributed and publicly verifiab...