Editor's Choice From optimism to hubris BMJ 2004; 329 :0-h; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses News What's the evidence that NICE guidance has been implemented? Results from a national evaluation using time series analysis, audit of patients' notes, and interviews BMJ 2004; 329 :999; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses AMA calls for inquiry into doctors' role in abuse of prisoners BMJ 2004; 329 :993; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses BMA says scientists should take part in bioterrorism debate BMJ 2004; 329 :993; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission In brief BMJ 2004; 329 :994; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission BMA continues to oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia BMJ 2004; 329 :997; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Shortage of emergency doctors will take eight years to rectify BMJ 2004; 329 :994; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Doctors and drug companies are locked in “vicious circle” BMJ 2004; 329 :998; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Commission unveils shocking pictures for cigarette packs BMJ 2004; 329 :994; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Companies may face tighter regulation over promoting drugs BMJ 2004; 329 :998; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Doctors need not ventilate baby to prolong his life BMJ 2004; 329 :995; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses NICE guidance on epilepsy recommends specialist diagnosis BMJ 2004; 329 :995; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Clinical Reviews How does evidence based guidance influence determinations of medical negligence? BMJ 2004; 329 :1024; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Minerva Minerva BMJ 2004; 329 :1054; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Minerva BMJ 2004; 329 :1019; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Corrections Systematic review of the relative efficacy of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and opioids in the treatment of acute renal colic BMJ 2004; 329 :1019; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Tobacco companies aimed to keep smokers hooked, court told BMJ 2004; 329 :1019; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Are written responses to some referrals to a general haematology clinic acceptable? BMJ 2004; 329 :1012; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Editorials Teaching evidence based medicine BMJ 2004; 329 :989; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Evidence based medicine has come a long way BMJ 2004; 329 :990; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses The essence of EBM BMJ 2004; 329 :991; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission What has evidence based medicine done for us? BMJ 2004; 329 :987; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Evidence based policy making BMJ 2004; 329 :988; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Letters Adenotonsillectomy in children with mild symptoms: Authors' reply BMJ 2004; 329 :1045; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Biopsy of potentially operable hepatic colorectal metastases is not useless but dangerous BMJ 2004; 329 :1045; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Transradial angiography may deleteriously affect patency of radial artery grafts BMJ 2004; 329 :1046; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Email consultations in health care: Set your auto reply to “no” BMJ 2004; 329 :1046; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Responses Email consultations in health care: Patients need to be given a choice BMJ 2004; 329 :1046; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Compulsory registration of clinical trials: Under-reporting is not an option BMJ 2004; 329 :1044; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Pressures are growing to publish clinical trials BMJ 2004; 329 :1044; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Adenotonsillectomy in children with mild symptoms: Watchful waiting may deny children opportunity for development BMJ 2004; 329 :1045; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Adenotonsillectomy in children with mild symptoms: Watchful waiting is appropriate BMJ 2004; 329 :1045; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Compulsory registration of clinical trials: Maybe European research should be protected BMJ 2004; 329 :1044; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission General practitioners say that evidence based information is changing practice BMJ 2004; 329 :1043; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Truth and evidence based medicine: spin is everything BMJ 2004; 329 :1043; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Compulsory registration of clinical trials: Publicly funded national register of trials would be best in the United Kingdom BMJ 2004; 329 :1043; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Career Focus Space medicine in the United Kingdom BMJ 2004; 329 :s180; (Published 30 October 2004) Permission I am a first year senior house officer considering a career in genitourinary medicine. Should I be following an obstetrics and gynaecology career path or a medical path with MRCP? BMJ 2004; 329 :s176; (Published 30 October 2004) Permission Personality discrimination BMJ 2004; 329 :s177; (Published 30 October 2004) Permission What are the requirements for residence in hospital accommodation as a junior doctor, particularly as a house officer? Is it true that you can get some sort of extra payment if you live in private accommodation? BMJ 2004; 329 :s176; (Published 30 October 2004) Permission Understanding personality type: Introducing personality type BMJ 2004; 329 :s177; (Published 30 October 2004) Permission Limitations of GMC survey on overseas doctors BMJ 2004; 329 :s183; (Published 30 October 2004) Permission I was training in obstetrics and gynaecology and then joined a GP training scheme. Now, after six months, I want to return to obstetrics and gynaecology. What implications will this change have on my future career? BMJ 2004; 329 :s176; (Published 30 October 2004) Permission Racism and exclusion in the NHS: an illustrative analogy BMJ 2004; 329 :s183; (Published 30 October 2004) Permission Career Options in General Practice⇓ BMJ 2004; 329 :s184; (Published 30 October 2004) Permission GMC's response BMJ 2004; 329 :s183; (Published 30 October 2004) Permission How to teach and learn under the European Working Time Directive BMJ 2004; 329 :s179; (Published 30 October 2004) Permission Fifteen minutes with... BMJ 2004; 329 :s182; (Published 30 October 2004) Permission Otolaryngology on the net BMJ 2004; 329 :s184; (Published 30 October 2004) Permission Education and debate Evaluating the teaching of evidence based medicine: conceptual framework BMJ 2004; 329 :1029; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission A conceptual framework may be of limited value BMJ 2004; 329 :1032; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission “Evidence of me” in evidence based medicine? BMJ 2004; 329 :1033; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Putting evidence into practice: how middle and low income countries “get it together” BMJ 2004; 329 :1036; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Inappropriate use of randomised trials to evaluate complex phenomena: case study of vaginal breech delivery BMJ 2004; 329 :1039; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Fillers Buddha and evidence based medicine BMJ 2004; 329 :1016; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Submitting articles to the BMJ BMJ 2004; 329 :1032; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Webchat BMJ 2004; 329 :1035; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission A fishy tale BMJ 2004; 329 :1007; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Effect of postnatal depression on other members of the mother's family BMJ 2004; 329 :1042; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Discoveries BMJ 2004; 329 :1023; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Early lessons BMJ 2004; 329 :1028; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Donepezil is ineffective in long term treatment of dementia BMJ 2004; 329 :0-g; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Learning in practice What is the evidence that postgraduate teaching in evidence based medicine changes anything? A systematic review BMJ 2004; 329 :1017; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses News extra [these stories appear only on the web] Medical students can cause blood pressure to rise, report says BMJ 2004; 329 :998; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Trust guilty of fiddling figures on cancellations but is cleared of accounting faults BMJ 2004; 329 :998; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Responses Shortage of flu vaccine in US sparks political row BMJ 2004; 329 :998; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Colleges join forces to issue guidance on resuscitation training BMJ 2004; 329 :998; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Shorter hospital shifts reduce errors and improve patient outcomes BMJ 2004; 329 :998; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal] Global warming threatens reversal in fight against poverty, says report BMJ 2004; 329 :996; (Published 29 October 2004) Permission Responses United Nations fails to agree on human cloning BMJ 2004; 329 :996; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Responses Doctor fabricated research while depressed BMJ 2004; 329 :996; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Responses Law is introduced in US Congress to give access to details of clinical trials BMJ 2004; 329 :996; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Responses Commission plans to adopt “a lighter touch” BMJ 2004; 329 :997; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Local purchasing of health services is hindering improvements in cancer services BMJ 2004; 329 :997; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Responses Public Library of Science launches “author pays” model BMJ 2004; 329 :996; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Responses Obituaries Christine Anne Ellington (née Wellard) BMJ 2004; 329 :1048; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Audrey Irene Freeth BMJ 2004; 329 :1048; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission John Macbeth BMJ 2004; 329 :1048; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Stanley Arthur Mason BMJ 2004; 329 :1048; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Andrew Shannon Ramsey BMJ 2004; 329 :1048; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Thure von Uexküll BMJ 2004; 329 :1047; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Andrew Henderson Torrance BMJ 2004; 329 :1048; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Dharam Pal Singh Anhal BMJ 2004; 329 :1047; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Errington Miles Blenkinsopp BMJ 2004; 329 :1047; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Dennis Geoffrey Brown BMJ 2004; 329 :1048; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Raymond Colback BMJ 2004; 329 :1048; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Responses Katharina Dorothea Dalton BMJ 2004; 329 :1048; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Responses Papers Is NICE delivering the goods? BMJ 2004; 329 :1003; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Collaborative quality improvement to promote evidence based surfactant for preterm infants: a cluster randomised trial BMJ 2004; 329 :1004; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Video assisted thoracic surgery for treatment of pneumothorax and lung resections: systematic review of randomised clinical trials BMJ 2004; 329 :1008; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Variation in use of video assisted thoracic surgery in the United Kingdom BMJ 2004; 329 :1011; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Half full or half empty VATS? BMJ 2004; 329 :1012; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Primary care Evidence based guidelines or collectively constructed “mindlines?” Ethnographic study of knowledge management in primary care BMJ 2004; 329 :1013; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses Quality Improvement Reports Integrating evidence based medicine into routine clinical practice: seven years' experience at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London BMJ 2004; 329 :1020; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses The fool wonders, the wise (women) ask… about tropical diseases in their practice BMJ 2004; 329 :1023; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Reviews Evidence from samples of one BMJ 2004; 329 :1052; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Learning from evidence based mistakes BMJ 2004; 329 :1053; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Responses Of free condoms BMJ 2004; 329 :1053; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Responses MMR: Science and Fiction. Exploring the Vaccine Crisis; MMR and Autism: What Parents Need to Know BMJ 2004; 329 :1049; (Published 28 October 2004) PDF Permission Responses US media needled over flu vaccine shortage BMJ 2004; 329 :1050; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Responses Does evidence based medicine do more good than harm? BMJ 2004; 329 :1051; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Responses Hit parade BMJ 2004; 329 :1051; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission NETLINES BMJ 2004; 329 :1052; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission This Week In the BMJ Evidence based teaching works best at the bedside BMJ 2004; 329 :0-d; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Evidence based guidance affects courts' rulings BMJ 2004; 329 :0-e; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Routine EBM staff meetings are popular and useful BMJ 2004; 329 :0-f; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission NICE influences prescribing but has more to do BMJ 2004; 329 :0; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Evidence based training improves surfactant use BMJ 2004; 329 :0-a; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission Video assisted thoracic surgery is useful but underused BMJ 2004; 329 :0-b; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission “Mindlines” are still preferred to guidelines BMJ 2004; 329 :0-c; (Published 28 October 2004) Permission