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Provision of adult balance services: a good practice guide
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- Our debt to those who are dying: the UK medical establishment should reconsider its stance on assisted suicide
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- An alternative approach to medical genetics based on modern evolutionary biology. Part 4: HERVs in cancer
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- Questioning the value of screening for gonorrhoea in symptomless heterosexual men
- Assessing training in sexual dysfunction for genitourinary medicine registrars
- Destigmatizing genitourinary medicine and sexually transmitted infections in the UK
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- Sexual behaviour, condom use and rates of sexually transmitted infections in HIV clinic attendees in South East London
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- One small cheer
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