Is drug regulation failing?
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2004;329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.0-g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

This week in the BMJ

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

	Screening for aneurysm fails to reduce mortality [Full text]

	Doctors leave UK for better lifestyles [Full text]

	Infections kill preterm infants [Full text]

	Implementing WHO's "3 by 5" initiative [Full text]

	Suppressing uterine natural killer cells is not justified [Full text]

	Quality of diabetes records varies with social mix [Full text]

Editorials

	The white paper on public health
	Rosalind Raine, Gill Walt, Ian Basnett
	BMJ  2004;329:1247-1248, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1247 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Angiotensin receptor blockers and myocardial infarction
	Subodh Verma, Marty Strauss
	BMJ  2004;329:1248-1249, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1248 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Mexico Summit on Health Research 2004
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2004;329:1249-1250, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1249 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Standards for Better Health: fit for purpose?
	Charles D Shaw
	BMJ  2004;329:1250-1251, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1250 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Case management and community matrons for long term conditions
	Elaine Murphy
	BMJ  2004;329:1251-1252, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1251 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Olfactory detection of human bladder cancer by dogs: Cause or association?
	Michael Leahy
	BMJ  2004;329:1286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1286 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Olfactory detection of human bladder cancer by dogs: Authors' reply
	Carolyn M Willis, Noel McCarthy
	BMJ  2004;329:1286, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1286-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Olfactory detection of human bladder cancer by dogs: Another cancer detected by "pet scan"
	James S Welsh
	BMJ  2004;329:1286-1287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1286-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Epidemiology of preterm birth: Delayed cord clamping used to be taught and practised
	David J R Hutchon
	BMJ  2004;329:1287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1287 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Epidemiology of preterm birth: Authors' reply
	Janet Tucker, William McGuire
	BMJ  2004;329:1287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1287-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Colonoscopy completion rates: Technologies have evolved
	Peter Irving, Joel Mawdsley, Richard Makins
	BMJ  2004;329:1287, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1287-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Colonoscopy completion rates: Should less successful endoscopists be removed or retrained?
	Christiana Laban, Akil Elewa
	BMJ  2004;329:1287-1288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1287-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Colonoscopy completion rates: Author's reply
	Mark R Welfare
	BMJ  2004;329:1288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1288 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Life span and disability in Sweden and Russia: Paper highlights poor health among Russian women
	Martin McKee, Vladimir M Shkolnikov, Evgueni Andreev
	BMJ  2004;329:1288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1288-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Life span and disability in Sweden and Russia: Authors' reply
	Martin Bobak, Michael Marmot
	BMJ  2004;329:1288, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1288-b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Completion lymphadenectomy may not increase in-transit disease in malignant melanoma
	Robin Russell-Jones, Ciaran Healy, Ann-Marie Powell, Katharine Acland, Michael O'Doherty, Eduardo Calonje
	BMJ  2004;329:1288-1289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1288-c [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Infectious diseases in Iraq have international implications
	Nick Wilson
	BMJ  2004;329:1289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1289 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NICE and BHS guidelines on hypertension differ importantly
	Neil R Poulter
	BMJ  2004;329:1289, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1289-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references w1 - w3]

News

	FDA is incapable of protecting US "against another Vioxx"
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;329:1253, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1253 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2004;329:1254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1254 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	TV programme raises fresh allegations about MMR doctor
	Trevor Jackson
	BMJ  2004;329:1254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1254-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US pro-choice groups prepare for fight over Supreme Court nominee
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2004;329:1254, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1254-b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug maker urges group to lobby FDA on testosterone for women
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2004;329:1255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1255 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Public interest group accuses FDA of trying to discredit whistleblower
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2004;329:1255, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1255-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Women are increasingly affected by AIDS epidemic, report shows
	Raghav Chawla
	BMJ  2004;329:1257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1257-c [Extract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Mexico summit calls for greater commitment to health research
	Kamran Abbasi
	BMJ  2004;329:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1258 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Six GPs who signed cremation forms for Shipman face GMC
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;329:1256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1256 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Drug industry is not tackling threats to public health, says WHO
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2004;329:1256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1256-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Landmine casualties are falling, but the wounded need more help
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2004;329:1256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1256-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Government programmes driven by politics not evidence, report says
	Ann McGauran
	BMJ  2004;329:1256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1256-c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Review of child care cases finds few instances that raise "serious doubt"
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2004;329:1256, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1256-d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Patients with head or neck cancer should be treated at specialist centres
	Madeleine Brettingham
	BMJ  2004;329:1257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1257 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Inquiry finds that Gulf war veterans face extra burden of disease
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2004;329:1257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1257-a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Moving 15% of procedures to private sector will wreck NHS
	Ann McGauran
	BMJ  2004;329:1257, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1257-b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	UK report warns of continued increase in HIV infection
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;329:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1258-a [Extract] [Full text]

	Antibiotic halves number of AIDS related deaths in children in Zambian study
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2004;329:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1258-b [Extract] [Full text]

	UN delays decision on human cloning
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;329:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1258-c [Extract] [Full text]

	Users of SSRIs face risk of abnormal bleeding
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;329:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1258-d [Extract] [Full text]

	NICE issues guideline to prevent falls in elderly people
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;329:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1258-e [Extract] [Full text]

	Advisory group to review NHS research ethics committees
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2004;329:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1258-f [Extract] [Full text]

	Journal calls for new system to monitor post-marketing drug safety
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2004;329:1258, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1258-g [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Association of deprivation, ethnicity, and sex with quality indicators for diabetes: population based survey of 53 000 patients in primary care
	Julia Hippisley-Cox, Shaun O'Hanlon, Carol Coupland
	BMJ  2004;329:1267-1269, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38279.588125.7C, (Published 17 November 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Commentary: Socioeconomic inequalities in indicator scores for diabetes: poor quality or poor measures?
	P G Shekelle
	BMJ  2004;329:1269-1270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38285.603692.7C, (Published 17 November 2004) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	10-minute consultation: Newly diagnosed hypothyroidism
	H U Rehman, T A Bajwa
	BMJ  2004;329:1271, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1271 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Surgical management of metastatic inguinal lymphadenopathy
	Marc C Swan, Dominic Furniss, Oliver C S Cassell
	BMJ  2004;329:1272-1276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1272 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional references w1 - w16]

	ABC of preterm birth: Infection in the preterm infant
	William McGuire, Linda Clerihew, Peter W Fowlie
	BMJ  2004;329:1277-1280, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1277 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Barriers to better care for people with AIDS in developing countries
	Andrew S Furber, Ian J Hodgson, Alice Desclaux, David S Mukasa
	BMJ  2004;329:1281-1283, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1281 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References w1 - w20]

	Natural killer cells, miscarriage, and infertility
	Ashley Moffett, Lesley Regan, Peter Braude
	BMJ  2004;329:1283-1285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1283 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews

	Book: The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology
	Chris Ham
	BMJ  2004;329:1292, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1292 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	TV: Dispatches. MMR: What They Didn't Tell You
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2004;329:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1293 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	NETLINES
	Harry Brown
	BMJ  2004;329:1293, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1293-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Press: Fix for low sex drive puts reporters in a bad patch
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2004;329:1294, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1294 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	PERSONAL VIEW: Grand rounds
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2004;329:1295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1295 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	SOUNDINGS: Remedial nursing
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  2004;329:1295, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1295-a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;329:1296, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1296 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM*: Steroid is effective for vestibular neuritis, valacyclovir is not
	BMJ  2004;329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.0-f [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2004;329:1265, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1265 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	bmjlearning.com: Multimedia learning
	Kieran Walsh
	BMJ  2004;329:1270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1270-c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: The future of London medical education
	BMJ  2004;329:1276, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1276 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	"Bonjour, je m'appelle Oshadi"
	E L Chandrakantha
	BMJ  2004;329:1280, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1280 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Not enough
	Alistair J Tindall
	BMJ  2004;329:1285, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1285 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Hepatitis B infections
	BMJ  2004;329:1270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1270 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	ABC of sexual health: Gender related disorders
	BMJ  2004;329:1270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1270-a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Minerva
	BMJ  2004;329:1270, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1270-b [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Career focus

	I want to specialise in ultrasound (general, vascular, and gynaecological). Do I have to do an MSc in ultrasound or is there any other way?
	Alan Denison
	BMJ  2004;329:s216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.s216, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is it difficult for someone to be selected to work in a practice in England as a general practitioner if they completed their vocational training scheme in Scotland?
	Brian Keighley
	BMJ  2004;329:s216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.s216-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How do I organise some time doing research in the United States, most likely after I have completed the new two year foundation programme?
	Howard Clark
	BMJ  2004;329:s216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.s216-b, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	How and where can I get training in various non-surgical cosmetic procedures (that is, botox and other procedures)?
	Jain Abhilash
	BMJ  2004;329:s216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.s216-c, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Rules
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;329:s217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.s217, (Published 12 February 2004) [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	What happens after foundation programmes?
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2004;329:s217-s219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.s217-a, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Is competency based training and assessment the way forward?
	Rhona MacDonald, Graham Easton
	BMJ  2004;329:s220-s221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.s220, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Rhona's rules (on what being a medical student and doctor is all about)
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;329:s222-s223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.s222, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Getting involved in PMETB
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2004;329:s224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.s224, (Published 12 February 2004) [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Jacques Benveniste
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2004;329:1290, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1290 [Extract] [Full text]

	Matthew Macmaster Garrey
	Malcolm Macnaughton
	BMJ  2004;329:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1291 [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Philip Glazer
	Amanda Glazer, Susan Glazer, John Henville
	BMJ  2004;329:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1291-a [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Margaret Marian Horne (née Robertson)
	Andrew G C Robertson
	BMJ  2004;329:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1291-b [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Margaret Jean Parbrook
	G Parbrook, D Morrison
	BMJ  2004;329:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1291-c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Bruce Thomas
	Ann Louise Kinmonth, John Bain
	BMJ  2004;329:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1291-d [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	David William Phillip Thomas
	Margaret Thomas
	BMJ  2004;329:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1291-e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Peter Holmes Watkins
	Eric Watkins
	BMJ  2004;329:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1291-f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	John Donald ("Paddy") Whiteside
	M W N Nicholls
	BMJ  2004;329:1291, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1291-g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

Papers

	Population based randomised controlled trial on impact of screening on mortality from abdominal aortic aneurysm
	Paul E Norman, Konrad Jamrozik, Michael M Lawrence-Brown, Max T Q Le, Carole A Spencer, Raywin J Tuohy, Richard W Parsons, James A Dickinson
	BMJ  2004;329:1259, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38272.478438.55, (Published 15 November 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Reasons for considering leaving UK medicine: questionnaire study of junior doctors' comments
	Philip J Moss, Trevor W Lambert, Michael J Goldacre, Penelope Lee
	BMJ  2004;329:1263, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38247.594769.AE, (Published 6 October 2004) [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	DRUG POINTS: Fatal exacerbation of rheumatoid arthritis associated fibrosing alveolitis in patients given infliximab
	Andrew J K Ostor, Adrian J Crisp, Margaret F Somerville, David G I Scott
	BMJ  2004;329:1266, doi: 10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1266 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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