The triumph of NICE
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  2004;329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Dummies do not affect breast feeding [Full text]

	Gulf war veterans have fertility problems [Full text]

	Passive smoking increases the risk of heart disease [Full text]

	NICE faces many challenges [Full text]

	Ask three questions to detect bacterial conjunctivitis [Full text]

	Sex on holiday increases the risk of STIs [Full text]

Editorials

	Treating depression in later life
	Carolyn Chew-Graham, Robert Baldwin, Alistair Burns
	BMJ  2004;329:181-182, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.181 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Which drugs should be available over the counter?
	Robert R Fenichel
	BMJ  2004;329:182-183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.182 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Social networks and collateral health effects
	Nicholas A Christakis
	BMJ  2004;329:184-185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.184 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Condoms and prevention of HIV
	Anna M Foss, Charlotte H Watts, Peter Vickerman, Lori Heise
	BMJ  2004;329:185-186, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.185 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Firm foundation for senior house officers: Five years is long enough
	Alan Leaman
	BMJ  2004;329:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.230 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Firm foundation for senior house officers: Junior doctors should become progressively more enabled
	Chris M Laing
	BMJ  2004;329:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.230-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Firm foundation for senior house officers: Quality assurance programme needs to be in place
	Rafey A Faruqui, Alia Faruqui
	BMJ  2004;329:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.230-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Firm foundation for senior house officers: A firm foundation for general practice
	Robin Christie
	BMJ  2004;329:230, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.230-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bone scanning in lung cancer: Evidence is not sufficient to justify routine bone scanning
	Rachel E Benamore, James J Entwisle, Mick D Peake
	BMJ  2004;329:230-231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.230-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bone scanning in lung cancer: Pretest probability is of value
	Fabio Puglisi
	BMJ  2004;329:231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.231 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Bone scanning in lung cancer: Authors' reply
	Martin Hetzel, Coskun Arslandemir, Holger Schirrmeister
	BMJ  2004;329:231, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.231-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Full version]

	Low back pain: Sacroiliac joint pain may be myth
	Andrew N Bamji
	BMJ  2004;329:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.232 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Low back pain: Author's reply
	Cathy Speed
	BMJ  2004;329:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.232-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Monitoring procalcitonin is of value in acute pancreatitis
	David Bihari
	BMJ  2004;329:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.232-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Responsibility for ancillary care in clinical trials: Research patrimony and unintended coercion are hazards
	Arvindan Veiraiah
	BMJ  2004;329:232, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.232-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Responsibility for ancillary care in clinical trials: Finding out what participants think may be way forward
	Ike Anya
	BMJ  2004;329:232-233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.232-d [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A time to live or a time to die?: Are we losing our humanity?
	Stephen R Taylor
	BMJ  2004;329:233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.233 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A time to live or a time to die?: Let those who have ears hear
	Barry A Clark
	BMJ  2004;329:233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.233-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A time to live or a time to die?: Summary of responses
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2004;329:233, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.233-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	UK Health Commission downgrades four foundation trusts
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2004;329:187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.187 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Blair pledges £150m to support and protect AIDS orphans
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2004;329:187, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.187-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;329:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.188 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	"Impending crisis" in journals provision requires radical solutions
	Bruno Rushforth
	BMJ  2004;329:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.188-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Shipman inquiry recommends tighter rules on controlled drugs
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;329:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.188-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	FDA's counsel accused of being too close to drug industry
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;329:189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.189 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug companies frame rules to work with NHS
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2004;329:189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.189-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Inquiry into death of boy from induced illness recommends tightening of child protection rules
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;329:191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.191-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bush accused of pressuring countries to stop producing generic drugs
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2004;329:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.192 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Bush's AIDS plan criticised for emphasising abstinence and forbidding condoms
	Robert Walgate
	BMJ  2004;329:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.192-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Doctor shortage forces leading African children's hospital to refuse emergencies
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2004;329:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.190 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	South African doctors charged with involvement in organ trade
	Pat Sidley
	BMJ  2004;329:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.190-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	BMA appoints new chief executive and publishing group chairman
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2004;329:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.190-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US government to open national bank of "approved" embryonic stem cells
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;329:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.190-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Report proposes better ways of measuring NHS output
	Rebecca Coombes
	BMJ  2004;329:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.190-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	UN considers sanctions against Sudanese government for obstructing aid
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2004;329:191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.191 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Doctors' group publishes archive of doctors registered in Nazi era
	Annette Tuffs
	BMJ  2004;329:191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.191-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Draft guidance on clinical trials recognises needs of non-commercial research
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;329:191, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.191-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	US doctors and patients are split on approval of generic thyroid hormone
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;329:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.192-b [Extract] [Full text]

	Ombudsman reports record number of complaints
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2004;329:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.192-c [Extract] [Full text]

	MSF reports encouraging results with AIDS treatment
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;329:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.192-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Canada accused of failing women patients
	Barbara Kermode-Scott
	BMJ  2004;329:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.192-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Commission invites discussion on the future of genetics in reproduction
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2004;329:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.192-f [Extract] [Full text]

	Risk of suicidal behaviour is similar for SSRIs and tricyclics
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;329:192, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.192-g [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Predicting bacterial cause in infectious conjunctivitis: cohort study on informativeness of combinations of signs and symptoms
	Remco P Rietveld, Gerben ter Riet, Patrick J E Bindels, Jacobus H Sloos, Henk C P M van Weert
	BMJ  2004;329:206-210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38128.631319.AE, (Published 16 June 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Information in practice

	Ruling a diagnosis in or out with "SpPIn" and "SnNOut": a note of caution
	Daniel Pewsner, Markus Battaglia, Christoph Minder, Arthur Marx, Heiner C Bucher, Matthias Egger
	BMJ  2004;329:209-213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.209 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Sex, sun, sea, and STIs: sexually transmitted infections acquired on holiday
	K E Rogstad
	BMJ  2004;329:214-217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.214 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lesson of the week: Acute visual loss and pituitary apoplexy after surgery
	Joseph Abbott, Graham R Kirkby
	BMJ  2004;329:218-219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.218 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of burns: Intensive care management and control of infection
	Mark Ansermino, Carolyn Hemsley
	BMJ  2004;329:220-223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.220 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	National Institute for Clinical Excellence and its value judgments
	Michael D Rawlins, Anthony J Culyer
	BMJ  2004;329:224-227, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.224 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Challenges for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence
	Alan Maynard, Karen Bloor, Nick Freemantle
	BMJ  2004;329:227-229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.227 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood
	Sean A Spence
	BMJ  2004;329:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.236 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Abortion in the USA and the UK
	James Dixon
	BMJ  2004;329:236, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.236-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Theatre: The Good Body
	Chloe Veltman
	BMJ  2004;329:237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.237 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Web: Calculating the risk of disease
	Giulio Bognolo
	BMJ  2004;329:237, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.237-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Medical Mysteries
	Ayan Panja
	BMJ  2004;329:238, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.238 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: The legal aid folly that damages us all
	Dick Taverne
	BMJ  2004;329:239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.239 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Unsung heroes
	Kevin Barraclough
	BMJ  2004;329:239, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.239-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;329:240, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.240 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Spanking infants is associated with behaviour problems
	BMJ  2004;329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A sequence of errors
	Brian Witcombe
	BMJ  2004;329:213, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.213 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2004;329:217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.217 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Women and halfe witted men
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2004;329:219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.219 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: How life events change patients' perspectives of their conditions
	Alison Duncan, Richard Azurdia, Julian Verbov
	BMJ  2004;329:229, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.229 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BMJ USA

	Editor's choice: Changing what we do
	Douglas Kamerow
	BMJ  2004;329:E309, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.E309 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Editorial: Pharmacologic treatment of erectile dysfunction
	Stephen B Levine
	BMJ  2004;329:E310-E311, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.E310 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Editorial: Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm
	Paul S Frame
	BMJ  2004;329:E311-E312, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.E311 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;329:E313, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.E313 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	I am considering a career in public health medicine. Do I have to have an MPH to enter the specialty?
	Joyce Carter
	BMJ  2004;329:s32, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.s32, (Published 24 July 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I am a failed aspiring haematologist (six times failed part 2 MRCP on short cases). I have a second degree in maths, physics, and computer science and a little commercial experience as an embedded systems software engineer. I am currently working as a locum. Any ideas on possible career pathways?
	Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
	BMJ  2004;329:s32, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.s32-a, (Published 24 July 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;329:s33, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.s33, (Published 24 July 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A career in forensic psychiatry<$DOWNLINK>
	Inti Qurashi
	BMJ  2004;329:s33-s34, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.s33-a, (Published 24 July 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	A woman of substance
	Peter Cross
	BMJ  2004;329:s35, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.s35, (Published 24 July 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Are you dependent on your work?
	Raj Persaud
	BMJ  2004;329:s36-s37, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.s36, (Published 24 July 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Coffee breaks
	Maighread McKelvey
	BMJ  2004;329:s37, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.s37, (Published 24 July 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Addiction and recovery
	BMJ  2004;329:s38, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.s38, (Published 24 July 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The end of Misplaced Trust
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;329:s39, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.s39, (Published 24 July 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Beginnings and endings<$DOWNLINK>
	Nicola Sharp
	BMJ  2004;329:s40, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.s40, (Published 24 July 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Anthony Francis Rickards
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2004;329:234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.234 [Extract] [Full text]

	Donal Felix Mary Early
	Alan Ogden
	BMJ  2004;329:234, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.234-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Full version]

	Peter Hayne Bright
	WG Jones
	BMJ  2004;329:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.235 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Mary ("Moya") Patricia Cole
	Robin Hunter, Ian Todd
	BMJ  2004;329:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.235-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Arnold Gourevitch
	David Gourevitch, Gillian Jebb, David Jebb, Sam Gourevitch
	BMJ  2004;329:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.235-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Edward Leighton John
	Chris John
	BMJ  2004;329:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.235-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Nimmo James McKellar
	Allan W Reid, Brian Moule, William Henry Reid
	BMJ  2004;329:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.235-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Clive Colquhoun Spicer
	Richard Spicer
	BMJ  2004;329:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.235-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	James Derek Watson
	Peter Watson
	BMJ  2004;329:235, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.235-f [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Effect of bottles, cups, and dummies on breast feeding in preterm infants: a randomised controlled trial
	Carmel T Collins, Philip Ryan, Caroline A Crowther, Andrew J McPhee, Susan Paterson, Janet E Hiller
	BMJ  2004;329:193-198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38131.675914.55, (Published 18 June 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Infertility among male UK veterans of the 1990-1 Gulf war: reproductive cohort study
	Noreen Maconochie, Pat Doyle, Claire Carson
	BMJ  2004;329:196-201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38163.620972.AE, (Published 14 July 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Passive smoking and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: prospective study with cotinine measurement
	Peter H Whincup, Julie A Gilg, Jonathan R Emberson, Martin J Jarvis, Colin Feyerabend, Andrew Bryant, Mary Walker, Derek G Cook
	BMJ  2004;329:200-205, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38146.427188.55, (Published 30 June 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Acquisition of Helicobacter pylori infection after outbreaks of gastroenteritis: prospective cohort survey in institutionalised young people
	Rémi Laporte, Philippe Pernes, Pascale Pronnier, Frédéric Gottrand, Pascal Vincent
	BMJ  2004;329:204-205, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.204 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	DRUG POINTS: Anterior uveitis is associated with travoprost
	Manjula Kumarasamy, Shrivatsa P Desai
	BMJ  2004;329:205, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7459.205 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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