"Doctor, come quickly. There's been a nuclear incident"
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Efficacy of malaria treatment shows some decline [Full text]

	Diabetes may influence cognitive decline [Full text]

	High IQ in childhood may protect from cognitive decline [Full text]

	Organisational downsizing affects sickness and mortality [Full text]

	The internet changes patients' experience of cancer [Full text]

	Drug policy trials can be randomised [Full text]

Editorials

	The human tissue bill
	Peter Furness, Richard Sullivan
	BMJ  2004;328:533-534, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.533 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Treating malaria in Africa
	Brian Greenwood
	BMJ  2004;328:534-535, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.534 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	What's the E for EBM?
	Sharon E Straus
	BMJ  2004;328:535-536, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.535 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Efficiency, equity, and NICE clinical guidelines
	Allan Wailoo, Jennifer Roberts, John Brazier, Chris McCabe
	BMJ  2004;328:536-537, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.536 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking and blindness
	Simon P Kelly, Judith Thornton, Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Richard Edwards, Paul Mitchell
	BMJ  2004;328:537-538, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.537 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra references, table and methods]

Letters

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	Tobacco should be excluded from free trade agreement
	Eduardo Bianco, Sinéad Jones
	BMJ  2004;328:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.581 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ionising radiation in infancy and adult cognitive function: Protocols for computed tomography must be optimised
	Jill Meara, Gerry Kendall, Colin Muirhead, Barry Wall
	BMJ  2004;328:581, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.581-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ionising radiation in infancy and adult cognitive function: Radiation may not solely explain later cognitive function
	Rainer Fogelholm
	BMJ  2004;328:581-582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.581-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ionising radiation in infancy and adult cognitive function: Much research on low dose radiation remains hidden
	Lynn Howard Ehrle
	BMJ  2004;328:582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.582 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ionising radiation in infancy and adult cognitive function: Wrong impression was created by study's publicity
	Sanjay P Prabhu
	BMJ  2004;328:582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.582-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ionising radiation in infancy and adult cognitive function: Authors' reply
	Per Hall, Marie Lundell
	BMJ  2004;328:582, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.582-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente: Bed management in the NHS can be improved easily
	Stephen Black, Nathan Proudlove
	BMJ  2004;328:582-583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.582-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente: Do not throw the baby out with the bath water
	P Badrinath
	BMJ  2004;328:583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.583 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente: Debate about Kaiser needs transparency and hard evidence
	David A Evans
	BMJ  2004;328:583, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.583-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente: Quality of care, length of stay, and readmissions need to be considered
	Shah Ebrahim, Stephen Frankel, George Davey Smith
	BMJ  2004;328:583-584, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.583-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente: Authors did not compare like with like
	Mark L Mallet
	BMJ  2004;328:584, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.584 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente: Authors' reply
	Chris Ham, Nick York, Rob Shaw, Steve Sutch
	BMJ  2004;328:584, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.584-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente: Money should be spent on effective, well documented solutions
	Margaret E Allen
	BMJ  2004;328:584, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.584-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Hospital bed utilisation in the NHS and Kaiser Permanente: Ownership, integration, and medical leadership are key
	Robert Morley
	BMJ  2004;328:584-585, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.584-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Systematic reviews of public health in developing countries are in train
	Elizabeth Waters, Jodie Doyle
	BMJ  2004;328:585, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.585 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	School exam results matter in medical job applications
	R E Weir, F H Zaidi, D E J Whitehead, R E MacLaren
	BMJ  2004;328:585, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.585-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	NIH promotes use of lower cost drugs for hypertension
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2004;328:539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.539 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US researchers produce 17 new embryonic stem cell lines
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;328:539, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.539-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;328:540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.540 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Prognosis for teenagers and young people with cancer fails to improve
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2004;328:540, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.540-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New council takes GMC to High Court for undue leniency
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.541 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Patient challenges GMC guidance on withdrawing treatment
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:541, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.541-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US societies to defy ban on editing articles from embargoed countries
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:543, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.543-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Reports show management of CHD has improved
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;328:544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.544 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Documenting life at a renal centre
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2004;328:544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.544-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Palliative care at home to get further funds if it saves money
	Katherine Burke
	BMJ  2004;328:544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.544-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Pfizer will not apply for a licence for sildenafil for women
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;328:542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.542 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	New cases of acute childhood asthma decline
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2004;328:542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.542-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Government must take unpopular decisions to reduce alcohol consumption
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.542-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Second Wanless report welcomed by public health experts
	Colleen Shannon
	BMJ  2004;328:542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.542-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	CHI's methods for inspecting trusts are flawed, says King's Fund
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2004;328:542, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.542-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US universities threaten to cancel subscriptions to Elsevier journals
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:543, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.543 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	People with sickle cell disease should be screened for pulmonary hypertension
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;328:543, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.543-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Combination therapy reduces symptoms and joint erosion in rheumatoid arthritis
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;328:544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.544-c [Extract] [Full text]

	GMC invited to counter claims made in Shipman inquiry
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;328:544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.544-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Nigerian president holds key to global polio eradication
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2004;328:544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.544-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Commissioner denies plans for a Europe-wide smoking ban
	Muiris Houston
	BMJ  2004;328:544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.544-f [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors' group calls for new ways to fund health care
	Stephen Pincock
	BMJ  2004;328:544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.544-g [Extract] [Full text]

	Supreme Court holds airline liable for doctor's death
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2004;328:544, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.544-h [Extract] [Full text]

	German cancer specialist cleared of fraud allegations
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2004;328:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.544-i [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Clinical and economic consequences of a reimbursement restriction of nebulised respiratory therapy in adults: direct comparison of randomised and observational evaluations
	Sebastian Schneeweiss, Malcolm Maclure, Bruce Carleton, Robert J Glynn, Jerry Avorn
	BMJ  2004;328:560, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38020.698194.F6, (Published 24 February 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

	How the internet affects patients' experience of cancer: a qualitative study
	Sue Ziebland, Alison Chapple, Carol Dumelow, Julie Evans, Suman Prinjha, Linda Rozmovits
	BMJ  2004;328:564, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.564 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Medical response to radiation incidents and radionuclear threats
	István Turai, Katalin Veress, Bengül Günalp, Gennadi Souchkevitch
	BMJ  2004;328:568-572, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.568 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Three figures, a table and a box]

	Lesson of the week: Severe cholestatic hepatitis induced by pyritinol
	Vasco Maria, Adriana Albuquerque, Ana Loureiro, Ana Sousa, Rui Victorino
	BMJ  2004;328:572-574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.572 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of smoking cessation: Special groups of smokers
	Tim Coleman
	BMJ  2004;328:575-577, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.575 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Sustainability of medical imaging
	Eugenio Picano
	BMJ  2004;328:578-580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.578 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Press: Are ribbon campaigns making us loopy?
	Michael Fitzpatrick
	BMJ  2004;328:588, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.588 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: Ribbon development
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2004;328:589, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.589 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Plastic surgery reality show angers doctors
	Sophie Arie
	BMJ  2004;328:590, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.590 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Website of the week: Downsizing
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2004;328:590, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.590-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: The role of a general medical journal
	Joseph Ana
	BMJ  2004;328:591, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.591 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Cotswold churches
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2004;328:591, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.591-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;328:592, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.592 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Fondaparinux is as effective and safe as unfractionated heparin for pulmonary embolism
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable consultation
	Donald D R Williams
	BMJ  2004;328:551, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.551 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: Aggie
	Hyman Davies
	BMJ  2004;328:559, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.559 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A lesson on sustainable living
	Dilip Menon
	BMJ  2004;328:567, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.567 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fluffy thinking
	Rosemarie Anthony-Pillai
	BMJ  2004;328:574, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.574 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2004;328:580, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.580 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Training for patients in a randomised controlled trial of self management of warfarin treatment and Coeliac disease and schizophrenia: population based case control study with linkage of Danish national registers
	BMJ  2004;328:563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.563 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Review of prevalence data in, and evaluation of methods for cross cultural adaptation of, UK surveys on tobacco and alcohol in ethnic minority groups
	BMJ  2004;328:563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.563-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reid refuses to accept all recommendations of Blofeld report
	BMJ  2004;328:563, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.563-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	Can I do ophthalmology if I am colour blind?
	Emma Jain
	BMJ  2004;328:s92, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.s92, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What does a geneticist do?
	Fiona Lalloo
	BMJ  2004;328:s92, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.s92-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I'm coming to the end of my registrar training. Should I do some locum work before I look for a practice?
	Judith Harvey
	BMJ  2004;328:s92, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.s92-b, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Lots of job advertisements stipulate "Must have a driving licence." I do not drive for medical reasons, so does that mean I am automatically excluded from applying for these jobs?
	Joyce Carter
	BMJ  2004;328:s92, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.s92-c, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What is travel medicine?
	Jane N Zuckerman
	BMJ  2004;328:s92, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.s92-d, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;328:s93, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.s93, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Leaving your job: part 1
	Anita Houghton
	BMJ  2004;328:s93-s94, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.s93-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Brain surgery... not rocket science
	Ramesh Chelvarajah
	BMJ  2004;328:s95-s96, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.s95, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	General practice: going paperless
	David Evan Morris
	BMJ  2004;328:s97, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.s97, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Transplant gardener
	Erlick Pereira
	BMJ  2004;328:s98, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.s98, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	European views about accession
	Ioana Vlad
	BMJ  2004;328:s99, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.s99, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Martha returns to work
	Nicola Sharp
	BMJ  2004;328:s100, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.s100, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Gertie Marx
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;328:586, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.586 [Extract] [Full text]

	Steven Dominic Feenan
	Simon Noble, Peter Kelly
	BMJ  2004;328:587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.587 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Gilbert Vincent Griffin
	Mary Sibellas, Mala Rao
	BMJ  2004;328:587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.587-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Charles Brian McShane
	Andrew Clarke
	BMJ  2004;328:587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.587-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Henry Rex Marrett
	Richard E Shaw
	BMJ  2004;328:587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.587-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Musaad Ali Musaad
	Sahar Musaad
	BMJ  2004;328:587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.587-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Rosemary Stephens
	David Kind, John Wilson
	BMJ  2004;328:587, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.587-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Sustained clinical efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in Malawi after 10 years as first line treatment: five year prospective study
	Christopher V Plowe, James G Kublin, Fraction K Dzinjalamala, Deborah S Kamwendo, Rabia A G Mukadam, Phillips Chimpeni, Malcolm E Molyneux, Terrie E Taylor
	BMJ  2004;328:545, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37977.653750.EE, (Published 2 February 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Prospective study of type 2 diabetes and cognitive decline in women aged 70-81 years
	Giancarlo Logroscino, Jae Hee Kang, Francine Grodstein
	BMJ  2004;328:548, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37977.495729.EE, (Published 23 February 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Cognitive ability in childhood and cognitive decline in mid-life: longitudinal birth cohort study
	Marcus Richards, Beverly Shipley, Rebecca Fuhrer, Michael E J Wadsworth
	BMJ  2004;328:552, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37972.513819.EE, (Published 3 February 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Organisational downsizing, sickness absence, and mortality: 10-town prospective cohort study
	Jussi Vahtera, Mika Kivimäki, Jaana Pentti, Anne Linna, Marianna Virtanen, Pekka Virtanen, Jane E Ferrie
	BMJ  2004;328:555, doi: 10.1136/bmj.37972.496262.0D, (Published 23 February 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Use of lithium and the risk of injurious motor vehicle crash in elderly adults: case-control study nested within a cohort
	Mahyar Etminan, Brenda Hemmelgarn, J A C Delaney, Samy Suissa
	BMJ  2004;328:558-559, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38002.514838.94, (Published 19 January 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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