Lessons from medicine's shameful past
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

This week in the BMJ [Full text] [PDF]

	Treatment to change sexual orientation did not benefit patients... [Full text]

	...and health professionals had doubts about efficacy and ethics [Full text]

	Evidence of success of blinding in clinical trials is scant [Full text]

	Aspirin induced asthma is more common than previously suggested [Full text]

	Activation leaflets may improve patients' satisfaction... [Full text]

	...but perceived pressure from patients affects doctors' behaviour [Full text]

Editorials

	Human cells from cloned embryos in research and therapy
	Ian Wilmut
	BMJ  2004;328:415-416, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.415 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Patients' expectations of consultations
	Nicky Britten
	BMJ  2004;328:416-417, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.416 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Making amends for negligence
	Paul Fenn, Alastair Gray, Neil Rickman, Adrian Towse
	BMJ  2004;328:417-418, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.417 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	No time to train the surgeons
	Joanna Chikwe, Anthony C de Souza, John R Pepper
	BMJ  2004;328:418-419, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.418 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prognosis after cochlear implantation
	Richard T Ramsden
	BMJ  2004;328:419-420, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.419 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Sickness certification system in the United Kingdom: Doctors are indeed agents of social control
	James N Hardy
	BMJ  2004;328:461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.461 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sickness certification system in the United Kingdom: Maybe charging for certificates clarifies matters
	Paul V Mackey
	BMJ  2004;328:461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.461-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sickness certification system in the United Kingdom: Medical certificates are challenging but essential part of job
	Graeme Mackenzie
	BMJ  2004;328:461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.461-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sickness certification system in the United Kingdom: Department for Work and Pensions is trying to address challenges
	Mansel Aylward
	BMJ  2004;328:461-462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.461-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public involvement in health care: Every voice counts, not just that of patients
	Andrew Craig
	BMJ  2004;328:462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.462 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public involvement in health care: Public involvement is needed at highest level
	Peter M Lapsley
	BMJ  2004;328:462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.462-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public involvement in health care: Process needs to be transparent and open
	Ike Anya
	BMJ  2004;328:462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.462-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Public involvement in health care: Some things do count
	Martin W McNicol
	BMJ  2004;328:462-463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.462-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NHS Modernisation Agency's way to improve health care
	Hugh Rogers, Kate Silvester, Jill Copeland
	BMJ  2004;328:463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.463 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health needs of women who have sex with women: Maybe new subspecialty is needed
	Justin Varney
	BMJ  2004;328:463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.463-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health needs of women who have sex with women: Methodological assumptions underlying conclusions should have been questioned
	Kirsti Malterud
	BMJ  2004;328:463-464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.463-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health needs of women who have sex with women: Evidence is lacking that women who have sex with women are high risk group for cancer
	Morten Frisch
	BMJ  2004;328:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.464 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health needs of women who have sex with women: Cervical screening is offered without asking for sexual preferences
	Julietta Patnick, Catherine M Davison
	BMJ  2004;328:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.464-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health needs of women who have sex with women: Authors' reply
	Clare Hughes, Amy Evans
	BMJ  2004;328:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.464-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health risks of overseas travel: Ignorance and complacency prevail about infectious diseases
	Ulf R Dahle, Fernanda C Petersen
	BMJ  2004;328:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.464-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health risks of overseas travel: Perhaps treatment on return home should depend on having taken drug prophylaxis
	Jonathan S Charlton
	BMJ  2004;328:465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.465 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Validity of Canadian studies: Author's response
	Ranjit K Chandra
	BMJ  2004;328:465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.465-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Validity of Canadian studies: Response of editor of BMJ
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2004;328:465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.465-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Validity of Canadian studies: Response of editor in chief of Nutrition
	Michael M Meguid
	BMJ  2004;328:465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.465-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Korean scientists clone 30 human embryos
	Tim Radford
	BMJ  2004;328:421, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.421 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Study finds no connection between MMR vaccine and autism
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;328:421, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.421-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;328:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.422 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GlaxoSmithKline staff told not to publicise ineffectiveness of its drug
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2004;328:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.422-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	100 000 children die needlessly from cancer every year
	Vittal Katikireddi
	BMJ  2004;328:422, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.422-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Charity makes cancer gene freely available across Europe
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;328:423, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.423 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Reid refuses to accept all recommendations of Blofeld report
	Mark Gould
	BMJ  2004;328:423, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.423-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Mothers suspected of killing their babies might be dealt with outside criminal system
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:425, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.425-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bearing witness
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2004;328:426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.426 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	One in 12 older people are prescribed the wrong drug
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;328:424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.424 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Pregnant women should have two scans, Scottish agency says
	Bryan Christie
	BMJ  2004;328:424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.424-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Officials warn of looming humanitarian crisis in Sudan
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2004;328:424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.424-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Coughing can reduce pain of injection, study shows
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2004;328:424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.424-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New body aims to give public a bigger voice in shaping health care
	Mark Gould
	BMJ  2004;328:424, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.424-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Loophole to be closed on recognition of qualifications
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2004;328:425, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.425 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New HIV cases in England and Wales increase by 20% in past year
	Stephen Pincock
	BMJ  2004;328:425, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.425-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Australia makes concessions on drug approvals after US pressure
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2004;328:425, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.425-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	WHO warns that avian flu could still be in the environment
	Jane Parry
	BMJ  2004;328:426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.426-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Europe to have its own centre for disease control
	Rory Watson
	BMJ  2004;328:426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.426-b [Extract] [Full text]

	US agency proposes 10 point plan to cut smoking
	Charles Marwick
	BMJ  2004;328:426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.426-c [Extract] [Full text]

	FAO/WHO meeting warns of contamination of powdered infant formula
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;328:426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.426-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Surgeons introduce computer assisted, minimally invasive surgery for hip replacement
	Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
	BMJ  2004;328:426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.426-e [Extract] [Full text]

	MRC creates clinical research board
	Vittal Katikireddi
	BMJ  2004;328:426, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.426-f [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Randomised controlled trial of effect of leaflets to empower patients in consultations in primary care
	Paul Little, Martina Dorward, Greg Warner, Michael Moore, Katharine Stephens, Jane Senior, Tony Kendrick
	BMJ  2004;328:441, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37999.716157.44, (Published 13 February 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Importance of patient pressure and perceived pressure and perceived medical need for investigations, referral, and prescribing in primary care: nested observational study
	Paul Little, Martina Dorward, Greg Warner, Katharine Stephens, Jane Senior, Michael Moore
	BMJ  2004;328:444, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38013.644086.7C, (Published 13 February 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Effect of consultation time and intervention][extra: Effect of consultation time and interventions on generalisability] FREE

Clinical review

	How strong is the evidence of a link between environmental chemicals and adverse effects on human reproductive health?
	Richard M Sharpe, D Stewart Irvine
	BMJ  2004;328:447-451, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.447 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extended explanations of figures and references]

	Lesson of the week: Bradycardia in acute haemorrhage
	Ian Thomas, John Dixon
	BMJ  2004;328:451-453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.451 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of smoking cessation: Nicotine replacement therapy
	Andrew Molyneux
	BMJ  2004;328:454-456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.454 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The future of clinical negligence litigation?
	Brian Capstick
	BMJ  2004;328:457-459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.457 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: what's the problem?
	Bertie Leigh
	BMJ  2004;328:460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.460 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Exhibition: Pain: Passion, Compassion, Sensibility
	Vittal Katikireddi
	BMJ  2004;328:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.468 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Sexual Orientation in Child and Adolescent Health Care; Caring for Lesbian and Gay People: A Clinical Guide
	Sabina Dosani
	BMJ  2004;328:469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.469 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Transplanting Human Tissue: Ethics, Policy, and Practice
	Peter Furness
	BMJ  2004;328:469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.469-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Transplant: From Myth to Reality
	Peter A Andrews
	BMJ  2004;328:470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.470 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: A Physician Reflects: Herman Boerhaave and other essays
	Boleslav L Lichterman
	BMJ  2004;328:470, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.470-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: How (not) to be a good patient
	Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2004;328:471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.471 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Hank at The Shed
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2004;328:471, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.471-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;328:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.472 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Bupropion and telephone support helps smokers quit
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Measuring science
	Zameer Shah
	BMJ  2004;328:440, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.440 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Knowledge
	Ayan Panja
	BMJ  2004;328:446, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.446 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Happiness is...
	Nick Jefferies
	BMJ  2004;328:453, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.453 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interactive case report: Treating nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
	BMJ  2004;328:456, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.456 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Too late for Christmas: quiz answers
	BMJ  2004;328:459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.459 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Pride comes...
	Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
	BMJ  2004;328:460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.460-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	What is the layout of a perfect curriculum vitae?
	Adam Poole
	BMJ  2004;328:s72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.s72, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How do you become an adviser in a medical defence organisation. Do you need a law qualification? If not, would it help?
	Matthew Lee
	BMJ  2004;328:s72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.s72-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is my membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) qualification any use to me if I go into general practice?
	Dave Triffit
	BMJ  2004;328:s72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.s72-b, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I have passed the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) part 1 examination and now I want to do a clinical attachment before taking PLAB part 2. How do I go about this?
	Jo Constable
	BMJ  2004;328:s72, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.s72-c, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;328:s73, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.s73, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Occupational health and general practitioners
	Gordon Parker
	BMJ  2004;328:s73-s74, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.s73-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Emotions revealed: recognising facial expressions
	Gavin Yamey
	BMJ  2004;328:s75-s76, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.s75, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Clinical fellow in medical education
	Tracy Wong, Rebecca Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2004;328:s77, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.s77, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The problems facing academic surgeons
	Zain Khalpey
	BMJ  2004;328:s78, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.s78, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Teaching medical students on the wards
	Bruno Rushforth
	BMJ  2004;328:s78, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.s78-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A chink of light in the academic gloom
	Graham Easton
	BMJ  2004;328:s79, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.s79, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Martha goes to court
	Nicola Sharp
	BMJ  2004;328:s80, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.s80, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Judd Marmor
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;328:466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.466 [Extract] [Full text]

	Thomas David Meurig Adams
	David B Hargrave
	BMJ  2004;328:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.467 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Taylour Doyle Allen
	Dorothy Magennis, David Meldrum
	BMJ  2004;328:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.467-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Francis Exton Crawley
	Evalyn MacLeod
	BMJ  2004;328:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.467-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Albert Davis
	Charles Davis
	BMJ  2004;328:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.467-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Ian Cunningham Sinclair Knight
	Donald C MacPhail
	BMJ  2004;328:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.467-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter Davison Knights
	B S Cole
	BMJ  2004;328:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.467-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Mackenzie Matheson
	Margaret Williams
	BMJ  2004;328:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.467-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Graham Thomas
	C J Thomas
	BMJ  2004;328:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.467-g [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Treatments of homosexuality in Britain since the 1950s—an oral history: the experience of patients
	Glenn Smith, Annie Bartlett, Michael King
	BMJ  2004;328:427, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37984.442419.EE, (Published 29 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Treatments of homosexuality in Britain since the 1950s—an oral history: the experience of professionals
	Michael King, Glenn Smith, Annie Bartlett
	BMJ  2004;328:429, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37984.496725.EE, (Published 29 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Turning a blind eye: the success of blinding reported in a random sample of randomised, placebo controlled trials
	Dean Fergusson, Kathleen Cranley Glass, Duff Waring, Stan Shapiro
	BMJ  2004;328:432, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37952.631667.EE, (Published 22 January 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Systematic review of prevalence of aspirin induced asthma and its implications for clinical practice
	Christine Jenkins, John Costello, Linda Hodge
	BMJ  2004;328:434, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.434 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Training for patients in a randomised controlled trial of self management of warfarin treatment
	Ellen Murray, David Fitzmaurice, Debbie McCahon, Chris Fuller, Hardeep Sandhur
	BMJ  2004;328:437-438, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.437 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Coeliac disease and schizophrenia: population based case control study with linkage of Danish national registers
	William Eaton, Preben Bo Mortensen, Esben Agerbo, Majella Byrne, Ole Mors, Henrik Ewald
	BMJ  2004;328:438-439, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7437.438 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Case-control study of the effect of mechanical trauma on the risk of herpes zoster
	S L Thomas, J G Wheeler, Andrew J Hall
	BMJ  2004;328:439, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37991.511829.F7, (Published 23 January 2004) [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table A] FREE

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