A commentary on commentaries
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Do public smoking bans reduce heart attacks? [Full text]

	Living with people who smoke is risky [Full text]

	"Normal" levels of aminotransferase don't rule out liver disease [Full text]

	Topical capsaicin may be a useful adjunct in chronic pain... [Full text]

	... and salicylate works better in acute pain [Full text]

Editorials

	Nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy
	Tim Coleman, John Britton, Jim Thornton
	BMJ  2004;328:965-966, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.965 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Making public health interventions more evidence based
	Betty Kirkwood
	BMJ  2004;328:966-967, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.966 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Pathogenesis and treatment of varicoceles
	Jay Sandlow
	BMJ  2004;328:967-968, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.967 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Management of acute pancreatitis
	Derek A O'Reilly, Andrew N Kingsnorth
	BMJ  2004;328:968-969, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.968 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Payment by results—new financial flows in the NHS
	Jennifer Dixon
	BMJ  2004;328:969-970, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.969 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	If it doesn't work, stop it: "Ineffective" treatments might be in a patient's best interests
	Peter R Jackson
	BMJ  2004;328:1015, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1015 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	If it doesn't work, stop it: Medicine is a science of prediction and intervention
	Ludovic Reveiz
	BMJ  2004;328:1015, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1015-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	If it doesn't work, stop it: Small question with big answers
	Tom P Marshall
	BMJ  2004;328:1015, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1015-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	If it doesn't work, stop it: Don't just stand there, hold my hand
	Karen Forbes
	BMJ  2004;328:1015-1016, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1015-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	If it doesn't work, stop it: I don't know
	Simon M Loader
	BMJ  2004;328:1016, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1016 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	If it doesn't work, stop it: Summary of rapid responses
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2004;328:1016, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1016-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Confidence intervals illuminate absence of evidence
	Doug Altman, J Martin Bland
	BMJ  2004;328:1016-1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1016-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coeliac disease and schizophrenia: Data do not support hypothesis
	Eugene B Campbell, Stephen Foley
	BMJ  2004;328:1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1017 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coeliac disease and schizophrenia: Authors' reply
	William Eaton, Preben Bo Mortensen, Esben Agerbo, Majella Byrne, Ole Mors
	BMJ  2004;328:1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1017-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Missing evidence that animal research benefits humans: Evidence is all around us
	Y S Bakhle
	BMJ  2004;328:1017, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1017-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Missing evidence that animal research benefits humans: Moratorium is unjustified
	Colin Blakemore, Tony Peatfield
	BMJ  2004;328:1017-1018, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1017-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Well informed uncertainties about the effects of treatment: "Evidence based" must not equal "judgment free"
	John R Kemm
	BMJ  2004;328:1018, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1018 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Well informed uncertainties about the effects of treatment: Paradox exists in dealing with uncertainty
	Benjamin Djulbegovic
	BMJ  2004;328:1018, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1018-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	New system for ethics approval is unacceptable
	John Norman
	BMJ  2004;328:1018, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1018-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Thousands of elderly people face abuse, says Commons report
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2004;328:971, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.971 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;328:972, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.972 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Poor countries lag behind on water goals
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2004;328:972, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.972-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Plans for clinic raise fears of privatisation in Canada
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2004;328:972, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.972-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GMC sees rise in doctors charged with accessing child pornography websites
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2004;328:973, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.973 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	WHO resists food industry pressure on its diet plan
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2004;328:973, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.973-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US consumer group names "dirty dozen" dietary supplements
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;328:975, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.975-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Italian doctors strike over threat to break up state health service
	Fabio Turone
	BMJ  2004;328:976, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.976 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	New Cochrane policy tightens limits on industry funding
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;328:976, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.976-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Audit Commission tells trusts to improve if they want to survive
	Nadeeja Koralage
	BMJ  2004;328:974, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.974 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Drug company raises US price of AIDS drug five-fold
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2004;328:974, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.974-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Bowel cancer survival rates vary across England
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2004;328:974, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.974-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Indian Medical Association wants off-label prescribing
	Ganapati Mudur
	BMJ  2004;328:974, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.974-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Stroke prevention opportunities are being lost, study shows
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2004;328:975, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.975 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	China to offer free HIV testing and treatment
	Nadeeja Koralage
	BMJ  2004;328:975, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.975-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Much health care in rural India comes from unqualified practitioners
	Sanjay Kumar
	BMJ  2004;328:975, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.975-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Websites fail to meet needs of disabled people
	Nadeeja Koralage
	BMJ  2004;328:976, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.976-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Dutch GPs treat more patients and in less time than 20 years ago
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2004;328:976, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.976-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Abolition of agency reduces Aboriginal input on health policy
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2004;328:976, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.976-d [Extract] [Full text]

	World Medical Association 'appalled' at oral mutilation in parts of Africa
	Chibuzo Odigwe
	BMJ  2004;328:976, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.976-e [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Systematic review of topical capsaicin for the treatment of chronic pain
	Lorna Mason, R Andrew Moore, Sheena Derry, Jayne E Edwards, Henry J McQuay
	BMJ  2004;328:991, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38042.506748.EE, (Published 19 March 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Systematic review of efficacy of topical rubefacients containing salicylates for the treatment of acute and chronic pain
	Lorna Mason, R Andrew Moore, Jayne E Edwards, Henry J McQuay, Sheena Derry, Philip J Wiffen
	BMJ  2004;328:995, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38040.607141.EE, (Published 19 March 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Commentary: It's not just about rubbing—topical capsaicin and topical salicylates may be useful as adjuvants to conventional pain treatment
	Martin R Tramèr
	BMJ  2004;328:998, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.998 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Learning in practice

	The need for needs assessment in continuing medical education
	Geoffrey R Norman, Susan I Shannon, Michael L Marrin
	BMJ  2004;328:999-1001, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.999 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Recent developments in fetal medicine
	Sailesh Kumar, Anna O'Brien
	BMJ  2004;328:1002-1006, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1002 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of smoking cessation: Policy priorities for tobacco control
	Konrad Jamrozik
	BMJ  2004;328:1007-1009, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1007 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Integrating qualitative research with trials in systematic reviews
	James Thomas, Angela Harden, Ann Oakley, Sandy Oliver, Katy Sutcliffe, Rebecca Rees, Ginny Brunton, Josephine Kavanagh
	BMJ  2004;328:1010-1012, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1010 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Assessing ethics of trials in systematic reviews
	Michael A Weingarten, Mical Paul, Leonard Leibovici
	BMJ  2004;328:1013-1014, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1013 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	TV: My Foetus
	Deirdre J Murphy
	BMJ  2004;328:1021, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1021 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Abortion, Motherhood, and Mental Health: Medicalizing Reproduction in the United States and Great Britain
	Stuart W G Derbyshire
	BMJ  2004;328:1022, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1022 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Physician's Guide to Terrorist Attack
	Paul Grant
	BMJ  2004;328:1022, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1022-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Screening must remain a free choice
	Margaret McCartney
	BMJ  2004;328:1023, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1023 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Pedalling up the Amazon
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2004;328:1023, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1023-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;328:1024, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1024 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Eradication of chronic H pylori reduces risk of gastric cancer
	BMJ  2004;328, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.0-e [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Many a true word spoken in jest
	Michael Warner
	BMJ  2004;328:986, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.986 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	NHS change management (or how many people it take to change a light bulb)
	Graham Ellis
	BMJ  2004;328:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.987-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Your time's up
	Iain Bamforth
	BMJ  2004;328:990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.990 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The brutalised poor of our manufacturing districts
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2004;328:994, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.994 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Three memorable consultations
	Sylvia Potter
	BMJ  2004;328:998, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.998-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Diagnosing cardiac chest pain
	Ajay L Mahajan
	BMJ  2004;328:1001, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1001 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Illness
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2004;328:1006, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1006 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2004;328:1019, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1019-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Intimate partner violence
	BMJ  2004;328:997, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.997 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Smoking and blindness
	BMJ  2004;328:997, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.997-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	This week in the BMJ: Children treated for heart conditions survive equally well across UK
	BMJ  2004;328:997, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.997-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	Could someone please explain the different NHS pay bands, how one qualifies for a particular band, and how overtime is paid?
	Simon Eccles
	BMJ  2004;328:s162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.s162, (Published 24 April 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I have an idea for a book related to general practice which is aimed at GP registrars. How do I go about trying to get it published, and how difficult is it to get any medical book published?
	Tim Albert
	BMJ  2004;328:s162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.s162-a, (Published 24 April 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Can I enter a palliative medicine specialist registrar training scheme with the MRCPsych qualification?
	Idris Baker
	BMJ  2004;328:s162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.s162-b, (Published 24 April 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What are the subspecialties of psychiatry?
	Rahul Rao
	BMJ  2004;328:s162, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.s162-c, (Published 24 April 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;328:s163, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.s163, (Published 24 April 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Getting to grips with general surgery
	Yu Sin Lau
	BMJ  2004;328:s163-s164, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.s163-a, (Published 24 April 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How to pass the MRCS
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2004;328:s165, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.s165, (Published 24 April 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Practical problem solving techniques: part 2
	Deana Midmer
	BMJ  2004;328:s166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.s166, (Published 24 April 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Penny gets pregnant: the pitfalls of pregnancy and work
	Anne Rossiter
	BMJ  2004;328:s167-s168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.s167, (Published 24 April 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Pregnant doctors: health and safety risks in the real world
	Joanna Smith
	BMJ  2004;328:s168-s169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.s168, (Published 24 April 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Resolving conflict in the workplace
	Mark Griffiths
	BMJ  2004;328:s169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.s169, (Published 24 April 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	David's new haircut<$DOWNLINK>
	Nicola Sharp
	BMJ  2004;328:s170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.s170, (Published 24 April 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Zhong Wei Chen
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2004;328:1019, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1019 [Extract] [Full text]

	Tom Anderson
	James Anderson
	BMJ  2004;328:1020, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1020 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Charles Peter Beynon Brook
	Tom Dening
	BMJ  2004;328:1020, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1020-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Alexander Campbell Buchan
	Anne B Sutherland
	BMJ  2004;328:1020, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1020-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Francis Cameron Edington
	Hugh C Barr
	BMJ  2004;328:1020, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1020-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Theodore David Fountain Money
	Francis Rutter
	BMJ  2004;328:1020, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1020-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Christopher Richard Sheard
	Peter Sheard
	BMJ  2004;328:1020, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1020-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Ludlow Whitmore
	Margaret Whitmore
	BMJ  2004;328:1020, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.1020-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Reduced incidence of admissions for myocardial infarction associated with public smoking ban: before and after study
	Richard P Sargent, Robert M Shepard, Stanton A Glantz
	BMJ  2004;328:977-980, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38055.715683.55, (Published 5 April 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: How acute and reversible are the cardiovascular risks of secondhand smoke?
	Terry F Pechacek, Stephen Babb
	BMJ  2004;328:980-983, doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7446.980 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Normal serum aminotransferase concentration and risk of mortality from liver diseases: prospective cohort study
	Hyeon Chang Kim, Chung Mo Nam, Sun Ha Jee, Kwang Hyub Han, Dae Kyu Oh, Il Suh
	BMJ  2004;328:983, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38050.593634.63, (Published 17 March 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Liver function tests: defining what's normal
	Paul Roderick
	BMJ  2004;328:987, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38055.451968.55, (Published 17 March 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mortality among "never smokers" living with smokers: two cohort studies, 1981-4 and 1996-9
	Sarah Hill, Tony Blakely, Ichiro Kawachi, Alistair Woodward
	BMJ  2004;328:988-989, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38070.503009.EE, (Published 5 April 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Security statement] FREE

	Effectiveness of nicotine patches in relation to genotype in women versus men: randomised controlled trial
	Patricia Yudkin, Marcus Munafò, Kate Hey, Sarah Roberts, Sarah Welch, Elaine Johnstone, Michael Murphy, Siân Griffiths, Robert Walton
	BMJ  2004;328:989-990, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38050.674826.AE, (Published 19 March 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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