BMJ  2003;327:466 (30 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7413.466

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NICE issues draft guidance on IVF: Couples should be able to have three cycles of in vitro fertilisation treatment on the NHS, and no more than two embryos should be transferred during any one cycle, suggest the latest draft guidelines on fertility treatments from the National Institute for Clincial Excellence (see www.nice.org.uk).

Hungarian doctors ousted after strike threat: Dr Péter Kupcsulik has been ousted as president of the Hungarian Medical Chamber, along with several other leading members of the organisation, because of their reluctance to push for amendments to a hospital privatisation bill enacted in June. Chamber members said they were prepared to strike if certain revisions to the bill were not made.

Production of antiepilepsy drug extended: The British Epilepsy Association has welcomed AstraZeneca's decision to extend production of primidone (Mysoline) until August 2004. It was due to be discontinued by January 2004 owing to low demand. The association feared that the estimated 10 000 UK patients taking primidone had not been given enough time to withdraw from the drug safely.

Women delay seeking help for breast cancer: One in three women are likely to delay seeking medical help for breast cancer for as long as three months, says a study based on 500 women carried out at Guy's, King's, and St Thomas's medical school. See British Journal of Health Psychology (2003:8; part 3).

Florida's malaria identified: Health officials have said that three cases of malaria in Palm Beach county are due to Plasmodium vivax. While searching for the index case, officials have started a telephone campaign to nearly half a million households, with a recorded 15 second warning to remind people to protect themselves against mosquito-borne diseases.

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