Is it better to be smart or stupid?
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2004;329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.0-h [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Dogs sniff out bladder cancer [Full text]

	Basal cell carcinoma should be excised [Full text]

	Advice may be sufficient for back pain [Full text]

	Wound infections are not classified consistently [Full text]

	Advances in treatment may affect cost effectiveness analysis [Full text]

	What's new in narcolepsy? [Full text]

	Cancer risk in coeliac disease is lower than thought [Full text]

Editorials

	The national service framework for children
	Peter Lachman, David Vickers
	BMJ  2004;329:693-694, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.693 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Back pain and physiotherapy
	Domhnall MacAuley
	BMJ  2004;329:694-695, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.694 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references]

	Treatment for impetigo
	Sander Koning, Johannes C van der Wouden
	BMJ  2004;329:695-696, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.695 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Making sense of rising caesarean section rates
	Geoffrey M Anderson
	BMJ  2004;329:696-697, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.696 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	HIV in injecting drug users in Asian countries
	Alex Wodak, Robert Ali, Michael Farrell
	BMJ  2004;329:697-698, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.697 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	NICE and its value judgments: Option of safe "understudy" treatments should be available
	Woody Caan
	BMJ  2004;329:740, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.740 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE and its value judgments: Utilitarian values are inadequate
	William House, David Peters
	BMJ  2004;329:740, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.740-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE and its value judgments: Favourable appraisal amounts to compulsory purchase order
	Jammi N Rao
	BMJ  2004;329:740-741, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.740-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE and its value judgments: Authors' reply
	Michael Rawlins, Tony Culyer
	BMJ  2004;329:741, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.741 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome: Meaning of signature must be made explicit
	Mark Donohoe
	BMJ  2004;329:741, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.741-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome: Competing interest declaration of the 106 authors and an editorial explanation
	Robert M Reece
	BMJ  2004;329:741, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.741-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome: Response to Reece et al from 41 physicians and scientists
	Patrick E Lantz
	BMJ  2004;329:741-742, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.741-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Details of other 40 signatories, competing interests and references]

	Post-immigrant refugee medicine: Population mobility must be considered
	Kevin Pottie, Patricia Topp, Frances Kilbertus
	BMJ  2004;329:742, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.742 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Post-immigrant refugee medicine: Children's needs should not be seen in isolation
	Sonal Singh
	BMJ  2004;329:742, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.742-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Millennium development goals: whose goals and for whom?
	Udaya S Mishra
	BMJ  2004;329:742, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.742-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women in medicine: Doctors of both sexes are seeking balance between life and work
	S F Gray
	BMJ  2004;329:742-743, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.742-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women in medicine: Women do not have to choose
	Clarissa Fabre
	BMJ  2004;329:743, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.743 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women in medicine: Sexism is not only reason for women's "unequal status" in the workplace
	Kingsley R Browne
	BMJ  2004;329:743, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.743-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Women in medicine: Status cannot be the driver
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2004;329:743, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.743-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Framework for children aims to produce "cultural change"
	Kathryn Godfrey
	BMJ  2004;329:699, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.699 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;329:700, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.700 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Rise in spending on NHS has not been matched by rise in activity
	Ahmed Kassem
	BMJ  2004;329:700, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.700-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs will be forced to offer patients private care
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2004;329:700, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.700-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US government opens racketeering case against tobacco industry
	Anne Harding
	BMJ  2004;329:701, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.701 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Routine colonoscopies miss more than 10% of polyps
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;329:701, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.701-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Automatic defibrillator approved for sale without prescription
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;329:703, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.703-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Negotiating research priorities
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2004;329:704, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.704 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	FDA panel urges "black box" warning for antidepressants
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;329:702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.702 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Study quantifies dangers of renal disease after heart attack
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;329:702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.702-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Dutch commemorate doctor shot by Nazis for helping injured soldiers
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2004;329:702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.702-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Patients informed of increased risk of vCJD contact
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2004;329:702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.702-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Continental doctors take up top posts in UK heart medicine and surgery
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2004;329:702, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.702-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Health authorities named for failing to investigate charges for care of elderly
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;329:703, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.703 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Study suggests hepatitis B vaccine increases risk of multiple sclerosis
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;329:703, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.703-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	US House passes bill to protect health providers who won't provide abortions
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;329:703, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.703-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Move to switch statins to non-prescription in US
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;329:704, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.704-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Canada's federal and provincial governments reach agreement over healthcare spending
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2004;329:704, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.704-b [Extract] [Full text]

	New body set up to monitor introduction of computer system into NHS
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2004;329:704, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.704-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Conservative Party proposes a public health commission
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;329:704, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.704-d [Extract] [Full text]

	Irish obstetricians worried by gap in insurance cover
	Muiris Houston
	BMJ  2004;329:704, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.704-e [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Malignancy and mortality in people with coeliac disease: population based cohort study
	Joe West, Richard F A Logan, Chris J Smith, Richard B Hubbard, Timothy R Card
	BMJ  2004;329:716-719, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38169.486701.7C, (Published 21 July 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Morbilliform rash
	Caroline Furness, Rita Sharma, Anthony Harnden
	BMJ  2004;329:719, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.719 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: List of diseases] FREE

Information in practice

	Surgical wound infection as a performance indicator: agreement of common definitions of wound infection in 4773 patients
	A P R Wilson, C Gibbons, B C Reeves, B Hodgson, M Liu, D Plummer, Z H Krukowski, J Bruce, J Wilson, A Pearson
	BMJ  2004;329:720, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38232.646227.DE, (Published 14 September 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Narcolepsy and excessive daytime sleepiness
	Adam Zeman, Tom Britton, Neil Douglas, Andrew Hansen, Jane Hicks, Robin Howard, Andrew Meredith, Ian Smith, Gregory Stores, Sue Wilson, Zenobia Zaiwalla
	BMJ  2004;329:724-728, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.724 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Interactive case report: A 35 year old woman with diabetic nephropathy who wants a baby: case progression
	Giorgina Barbara Piccoli, Elisabetta Mezza, Giorgio Grassi, Manuel Burdese, Tullia Todros
	BMJ  2004;329:729, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.729 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References from literature search]

	ABC of preterm birth: Organisation and delivery of perinatal services
	Janet Tucker, Gareth Parry, Peter W Fowlie, William McGuire
	BMJ  2004;329:730-732, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.730 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Taking account of future technology in cost effectiveness analysis
	Joshua A Salomon, Milton C Weinstein, Sue J Goldie
	BMJ  2004;329:733-736, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.733 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Technical details of the model, references and additional figure]

	The runaway weight gain train: too many accelerators, not enough brakes
	Boyd Swinburn, Garry Egger
	BMJ  2004;329:736-739, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.736 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: Overdo$ed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2004;329:746, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.746 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: The Good Euthanasia Guide 2004: Where, What, and Who in Choices in Dying
	Tony Sheldon
	BMJ  2004;329:747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.747 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Toward a 21st Century Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid Group Practice
	David Woods
	BMJ  2004;329:747, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.747-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: Journalists on Prozac
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;329:748, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.748 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: What if the government refuses to ban smoking in public places?
	Jammi N Rao
	BMJ  2004;329:749, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.749 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Appeal of the week?
	Trisha Greenhalgh
	BMJ  2004;329:749, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.749-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;329:750, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.750 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Outcomes for thiazides are similar
	BMJ  2004;329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Renal transplantation: a paradox
	Amir Kazory
	BMJ  2004;329:715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.715-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medscape conference coverage: American Diabetes Association 64th Annual Scientific Sessions, Orlando, Florida
	BMJ  2004;329:718, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.718 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Your duty
	Allan Withnell
	BMJ  2004;329:719, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.719-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: The white coated man's burden
	John Moore-Gillon
	BMJ  2004;329:723, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.723 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Quackery
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2004;329:728, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.728 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Women
	Jeremy Hugh Baron
	BMJ  2004;329:729, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.729-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2004;329:739, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.739 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Advice
	BMJ  2004;329:745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.745-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

	I am a qualified gynaecologist from India and I suffered a stroke recently, which has affected my left arm (I am right handed) and am now incapable of working as a gynaecologist. What are my chances of getting a training post in radiology after I clear part 1 of the FRCR exam? Also will my disability come in the way of my career as a radiologist?
	Alan Denison
	BMJ  2004;329:s122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.s122, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	I have two medical conditions that are usually well controlled on medication. However, if I were to stop the medication, I would develop difficulty in coping with everyday life. Does this mean they qualify under the Disability Discrimination Act, even though they are normally well controlled? Do I have to declare them to employers or only to occupational health?
	Carl Gray
	BMJ  2004;329:s122, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.s122-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	THIS WEEK
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;329:s123, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.s123, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Training in undergraduate and postgraduate medicine for people with disabilities<$DOWNLINK>
	Karen Hebert
	BMJ  2004;329:s123-s125, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.s123-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Practising medicine when you have colour blindness
	J A B Spalding
	BMJ  2004;329:s126-s127, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.s126, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	"You really listen to me": Life as a doctor with a hearing loss
	Clare Redstone
	BMJ  2004;329:s128-s129, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.s128, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Life as a doctor with Asperger's syndrome
	BMJ  2004;329:s130, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.s130, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
	Kate Goddard
	BMJ  2004;329:s131, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.s131, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How the postgraduate deanery can help doctors with disabilities
	Heather Payne
	BMJ  2004;329:s132-s133, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.s132, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The founder of the Canadian Association of Physicians with Disabilities
	Olubimpe Ayeni
	BMJ  2004;329:s134, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.s134, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Linford Rees
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2004;329:744, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.744 [Extract] [Full text]

	Robert ("Roy") Sutherland Chapman
	Janet Chapman
	BMJ  2004;329:745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.745 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Oliver Holmes
	Sheila Jennett
	BMJ  2004;329:745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.745-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David Hugh McCollum
	Charles N McCollum
	BMJ  2004;329:745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.745-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Marny Ann Mitchell (née Lloyd-Jacob)
	Oscar Mitchell, Desmond Sharland
	BMJ  2004;329:745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.745-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Graham Morton Robertson
	James Fisher
	BMJ  2004;329:745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.745-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Heinz Shire
	O O Dervish
	BMJ  2004;329:745, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.745-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Interventions for basal cell carcinoma of the skin: systematic review
	Fiona Bath-Hextall, Jan Bong, William Perkins, Hywel Williams
	BMJ  2004;329:705, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38219.515266.AE, (Published 13 September 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Table] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial of physiotherapy compared with advice for low back pain
	Helen Frost, Sarah E Lamb, Helen A Doll, Patricia Taffe Carver, Sarah Stewart-Brown
	BMJ  2004;329:708, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38216.868808.7C, (Published 17 September 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Results for patients with valid data at each assessment] FREE

	Olfactory detection of human bladder cancer by dogs: proof of principle study
	Carolyn M Willis, Susannah M Church, Claire M Guest, W Andrew Cook, Noel McCarthy, Anthea J Bransbury, Martin R T Church, John C T Church
	BMJ  2004;329:712, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.712 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Teaching dogs new tricks
	T J Cole
	BMJ  2004;329:715, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.715 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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