24 July 2004 (Vol 329, Issue 7459)

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This Week In the BMJ

Sex on holiday increases the risk of STIs

BMJ 2004;329:0.6 (Published 22 July 2004)

Ask three questions to detect bacterial conjunctivitis

BMJ 2004;329:0.5 (Published 22 July 2004)

NICE faces many challenges

BMJ 2004;329:0.4 (Published 22 July 2004)

Passive smoking increases the risk of heart disease

BMJ 2004;329:0.3 (Published 22 July 2004)

Dummies do not affect breast feeding

BMJ 2004;329:0.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

Gulf war veterans have fertility problems

BMJ 2004;329:0.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

Editor's Choice

The triumph of NICE

BMJ 2004;329:0.8 (Published 22 July 2004)

Editorials

Treating depression in later life

BMJ 2004;329:181 (Published 22 July 2004)

Which drugs should be available over the counter?

BMJ 2004;329:182 (Published 22 July 2004)

Social networks and collateral health effects

BMJ 2004;329:184 (Published 22 July 2004)

Condoms and prevention of HIV

BMJ 2004;329:185 (Published 22 July 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Firm foundation for senior house officers: Five years is long enough

BMJ 2004;329:230.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

Firm foundation for senior house officers: Junior doctors should become progressively more enabled

BMJ 2004;329:230.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

Firm foundation for senior house officers: Quality assurance programme needs to be in place

BMJ 2004;329:230.3 (Published 22 July 2004)

Firm foundation for senior house officers: A firm foundation for general practice

BMJ 2004;329:230.4 (Published 22 July 2004)

Bone scanning in lung cancer: Evidence is not sufficient to justify routine bone scanning

BMJ 2004;329:230.5 (Published 22 July 2004)

Bone scanning in lung cancer: Pretest probability is of value

BMJ 2004;329:231.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

Bone scanning in lung cancer: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;329:231.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

Low back pain: Sacroiliac joint pain may be myth

BMJ 2004;329:232.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

Low back pain: Author's reply

BMJ 2004;329:232.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

Monitoring procalcitonin is of value in acute pancreatitis

BMJ 2004;329:232.3 (Published 22 July 2004)

Responsibility for ancillary care in clinical trials: Research patrimony and unintended coercion are hazards

BMJ 2004;329:232.4 (Published 22 July 2004)

Responsibility for ancillary care in clinical trials: Finding out what participants think may be way forward

BMJ 2004;329:232.5 (Published 22 July 2004)

A time to live or a time to die?: Are we losing our humanity?

BMJ 2004;329:233.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

A time to live or a time to die?: Let those who have ears hear

BMJ 2004;329:233.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

A time to live or a time to die?: Summary of responses

BMJ 2004;329:233.3 (Published 22 July 2004)

News

UK Health Commission downgrades four foundation trusts

BMJ 2004;329:187.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

Blair pledges £150m to support and protect AIDS orphans

BMJ 2004;329:187.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;329:188.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

“Impending crisis” in journals provision requires radical solutions

BMJ 2004;329:188.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

News - continued

Shipman inquiry recommends tighter rules on controlled drugs

BMJ 2004;329:188.3 (Published 22 July 2004)

FDA's counsel accused of being too close to drug industry

BMJ 2004;329:189.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

Drug companies frame rules to work with NHS

BMJ 2004;329:189.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

Inquiry into death of boy from induced illness recommends tightening of child protection rules

BMJ 2004;329:191.4 (Published 22 July 2004)

Bush accused of pressuring countries to stop producing generic drugs

BMJ 2004;329:192.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

Bush's AIDS plan criticised for emphasising abstinence and forbidding condoms

BMJ 2004;329:192.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Sex, sun, sea, and STIs: sexually transmitted infections acquired on holiday

BMJ 2004;329:214 (Published 22 July 2004)

Acute visual loss and pituitary apoplexy after surgery

BMJ 2004;329:218 (Published 22 July 2004)

Intensive care management and control of infection

BMJ 2004;329:220 (Published 22 July 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;329:240 (Published 22 July 2004)

Minerva

BMJ 2004;329:E313 (Published 22 July 2004)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Doctor shortage forces leading African children's hospital to refuse emergencies

BMJ 2004;329:190.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

South African doctors charged with involvement in organ trade

BMJ 2004;329:190.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

BMA appoints new chief executive and publishing group chairman

BMJ 2004;329:190.3 (Published 22 July 2004)

US government to open national bank of “approved” embryonic stem cells

BMJ 2004;329:190.4 (Published 22 July 2004)

Report proposes better ways of measuring NHS output

BMJ 2004;329:190.5 (Published 22 July 2004)

UN considers sanctions against Sudanese government for obstructing aid

BMJ 2004;329:191.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

Doctors' group publishes archive of doctors registered in Nazi era

BMJ 2004;329:191.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

Draft guidance on clinical trials recognises needs of non-commercial research

BMJ 2004;329:191.3 (Published 22 July 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

US doctors and patients are split on approval of generic thyroid hormone

BMJ 2004;329:192.3 (Published 22 July 2004)

Ombudsman reports record number of complaints

BMJ 2004;329:192.4 (Published 22 July 2004)

MSF reports encouraging results with AIDS treatment

BMJ 2004;329:192.5 (Published 22 July 2004)

Canada accused of failing women patients

BMJ 2004;329:192.6 (Published 22 July 2004)

Commission invites discussion on the future of genetics in reproduction

BMJ 2004;329:192.7 (Published 22 July 2004)

Risk of suicidal behaviour is similar for SSRIs and tricyclics

BMJ 2004;329:192.8 (Published 22 July 2004)

Papers

Effect of bottles, cups, and dummies on breast feeding in preterm infants: a randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2004;329:193 (Published 22 July 2004)

Infertility among male UK veterans of the 1990-1 Gulf war: reproductive cohort study

BMJ 2004;329:196 (Published 22 July 2004)

Passive smoking and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: prospective study with cotinine measurement

BMJ 2004;329:200 (Published 22 July 2004)

Acquisition of Helicobacter pylori infection after outbreaks of gastroenteritis: prospective cohort survey in institutionalised young people

BMJ 2004;329:204 (Published 22 July 2004)

Anterior uveitis is associated with travoprost

BMJ 2004;329:205 (Published 22 July 2004)

Primary care

Predicting bacterial cause in infectious conjunctivitis: cohort study on informativeness of combinations of signs and symptoms

BMJ 2004;329:206 (Published 22 July 2004)

Information in practice

Ruling a diagnosis in or out with “SpPIn” and “SnNOut”: a note of caution

BMJ 2004;329:209 (Published 22 July 2004)

Education and debate

National Institute for Clinical Excellence and its value judgments

BMJ 2004;329:224 (Published 22 July 2004)

Challenges for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence

BMJ 2004;329:227 (Published 22 July 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood

BMJ 2004;329:236.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

Abortion in the USA and the UK

BMJ 2004;329:236.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

The Good Body

BMJ 2004;329:237.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

Calculating the risk of disease

BMJ 2004;329:237.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

Medical Mysteries

BMJ 2004;329:238 (Published 22 July 2004)

The legal aid folly that damages us all

BMJ 2004;329:239.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

Unsung heroes

BMJ 2004;329:239.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

BMJ USA

Changing what we do

BMJ 2004;329:E309 (Published 22 July 2004)

Pharmacologic treatment of erectile dysfunction

BMJ 2004;329:E310 (Published 22 July 2004)

Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm

BMJ 2004;329:E311 (Published 22 July 2004)

Fillers

Spanking infants is associated with behaviour problems

BMJ 2004;329:0.7 (Published 22 July 2004)

A sequence of errors

BMJ 2004;329:213 (Published 22 July 2004)

Submitting articles to the BMJ

BMJ 2004;329:217 (Published 22 July 2004)

Women and halfe witted men

BMJ 2004;329:219 (Published 22 July 2004)

How life events change patients' perspectives of their conditions

BMJ 2004;329:229 (Published 22 July 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Anthony Francis Rickards

BMJ 2004;329:234.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

Donal Felix Mary Early

BMJ 2004;329:234.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

Peter Hayne Bright

BMJ 2004;329:235.1 (Published 22 July 2004)

Mary (“Moya”) Patricia Cole

BMJ 2004;329:235.2 (Published 22 July 2004)

Arnold Gourevitch

BMJ 2004;329:235.3 (Published 22 July 2004)

Edward Leighton John

BMJ 2004;329:235.4 (Published 22 July 2004)

Nimmo James McKellar

BMJ 2004;329:235.5 (Published 22 July 2004)

Clive Colquhoun Spicer

BMJ 2004;329:235.6 (Published 22 July 2004)

James Derek Watson

BMJ 2004;329:235.7 (Published 22 July 2004)