Articles

ISSUE

EDITORIAL

4 December 2004

(1) Non-specific "non effects" of vaccination

(2)Suicide pacts and the internet

(3)Benign parotid tumours

(4)Managing osteoarthritis of the knee

(5)Dealing with editorial misconduct

27 November 2004

(1) The white paper on public health

(2)Angiotensin receptor blockers and myocardial infarction

(3)TheMexico summit on Health Research 2004

(4)Standards for Better Health: fit for purpose?

(5)Case management and community matrons for longterm conditions

20 November 2004

(1) Legislation on smacking

(2)Standardisation of glycated haemoglobin

(3)Full engagement in health

(4)Treating insomnia

(5)Revisiting phenobarbital for epilepsy

13 November 2004

(1) Poor countries make the best teachers-discuss

(2)Standrads of care in research

(3)Lessons from thalassaemia screening in Iran

(4)Health systems and the community

(5)Highly active antiretroviral therapy

(6)Knowledge for better health

06 November 2004

(1) Betting your life on it

(2)Developing primary palliative care

(3)Emergency care networks

(4)Long term outcome of treating schizophrenia

(5)Hepatitis B infections

30 October 2004

(1) What has evidence based medicine done for us?

(2)Evidence based policy making

(3)Teaching evidence based medicine

(4)Evidence based medicine has come a long way

(5)The essence of EBM

23 October 2004

(1) Placebos in practice

(2)What causes chronic fatigue syndrome?

(3)Reforming the consultant contract again?

(4)Computed tomography in children

(5)Back to the future?

(6)Safety of antipsychotic drugs for pregnant and breastfeeding women with non-affective psychosis

16 October 2004

(1) Lessons from the withdrawal of rofecoxib

(2)The scandal of poor epidemiological research

(3)Self monitoring of blood pressure at home

(4)Primary care trusts

09 October 2004

(1) Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

(2)Why the GMC is right to appeal over life prolonging treatment

(3)Antenatal screening for Down's syndrome

(4)Managing metastatic bone pain

(5)Publsihing tobacco tar measurements on packets

(6)bmj.com behind access controls

02 October 2004

(1) Who cares about academic medicine?

(2)Academic medicine and global health responsibilities

(3)Academic medicine as a resource for global heatlth:the case of Brazil

(4)Home blood glucose monitoring in type2 Diabetes

(5)Aspartame and its effects on health

25 September 2004

(1) The national framework service for children

(2)Back pain and physiotherapy

(3)Treatment for impetigo

(4)Making sense of rising caesarian section rates

(5)HIV in injecting drug users in Asian countries

18 September 2004

11 September 2004

(1)Using monoamino oxidase type B inhibitors in Parkinson's disease

(2)The patient's journey:travelling through life with a chronic illness

(3)The ethnic profile of the doctors in the United Kingdom

(4)Doctors and Nurses with HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

(5)Early life intelligence and adult health

4 September 2004

(1)Preventing the spread of MRSA

(2)Health care in Armenia

(3)Treating hypertension with guidelines in general practice

(4)Bioterrorism and compulsory vaccination

(5)Stopping clinical trials early

28 August 2004

(1)To scan or not to scan in headache

(2)Screening research papers by reading abstracts

(3)Is good cholesterol always good?

21 August 2004

(1)Misconceptions about new combination vaccine

(2)Women in medicine

(3)Reporting systems for cardiac surgery

(4)People with intellectual disabilities

(5)Access to high costs drugs in Australia

14 August 2004

(1)Vaginal delivery after caesarian section

(2)What is intermediate care?

(3)Guidelines for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

(4)Delivering mental health services for a diverse society

7 August 2004

(1)How protective is the working time directive?

(2)How many eggs?

(3)Policing access to primary care with identity cards

(4)Topical NSAIDs in osteoarthritis

(5)Preventing malaria in UK travellers

31 July 2004

(1)Clinical research under the cosh again

(2)Travelling but never arriving: reflections of a retiring editor

(3)Fine needle aspiration in cancer diagnosis

(4)The future of psychotherapy in the NHS

24 July 2004

(1)Treating depression in later life

(2)Which drugs should be available over the counter?

(3)Social networks and collateral health effects

(4)Condoms and prevention of HIV

17 July 2004

(1)Comabting HIV/AIDS in developing countries

(2)Compulsion and psychiatry--the role of advance  statements

(3)Spiritual needs in healthcare

(4)New treatments for colon cancer

(5)Getting ethics into practice

10 July 2004

(1)Patient choice in the NHS

(2)Non-parenteral vaccines

(3)Transplantation for alcoholic liver disease

(4)Open access to industry's clinically relevant data

(5)Doctors and the war on terrorism

3 July 2004

1)The road to health care

(2)Benefits and harms of drug treatments

(3)New interventional procedures

(4)Phramacogenetics--expectations and reality

(5)Collecting and sharing information about harms

(6)Assessing the benefit-harm balance at the bedside

26 June 2004

(1)New insights from the British doctors study

(2)Opening doors to medicine

(3)Is epidural injection of steroids effective for low back pain?

(4)The human tissue bill and the mental capacity bill

(5)Newer drug combinations for malaria

19 June 2004

(1)Treatment of leprosy

(2)The prejudices of good people

(3)Health protection and sustainable development

(4)Early intervention for first episode psychosis

5 June 2004

(1)Fighting obesity

(2)Financial incentives for doctors

(3)Scars and keloids

(4)Sentinel lymph node biposy

(5)The first wave of NHS foundation trusts

29 May 2004

(1)Global warming

(2)Antibiotics,resistance, and clinical outcomes

(3)The free trade agreement between Australia and the United States

(4)Cervical screening

(5)NICE guidance on newer drugs for epilepsy in adults

22 May 2004

(1)Disclosure of sexual preferences and gay,lesbian, and bisexual practitioners

(2)Another threat to research in the United Kingdom

(3)Affirmative action:the lessons for healthcare

(4)Vulval vestibulitis

(5)Inhaled insulin

15 May 2004

(1)What next for electronic communication and health care?

(2)National programme for information technology

(3)Beyond the gadgets

(4)Will e-learning improve clinical judgment?

(5)The first generation of e-patients

(6)Evaluation of ehealth systems and services

8 May 2004

(1)Informal care giving for disabled stroke survivors

(2)Roll Back Malaria:a failing global health campaign

(3)Nationa screening programme for aortic anurysm

(4)Assisted suicide

(5)Physical activity and coronary heart disease

1 May 2004

(1)The implications for health of European union enlargement

(2)Prevention of respiratory syncytial virus infection in children

(3)Raised cardiac treponins

(4)Data protection,informed consent, and research

24 April 2004

(1)Nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy

(2)Making public health interventions more evidence based

(3)Pathogenesis and treatment of varicoceles

(4)Management of acute pancreatitis

(5)Payment by results--new financial flows in the NHS

27 March 2004

(1)The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome

(2)Shaken baby syndrome

(3)Risk assessment for spinal injury after trauma

(4)"Expert patient"--dream or nightmare?

20 March 2004

(1)Preventing falls in elderly people

(2)Extending CONSORT to include cluster trials

(3)Diagnosis of stroke on neuroimaging

(4)Improving peer review:who's responsible?

(5)BMJ training for peer reviewers

13 March 2004

(1)Guidelines from the British Hypertension Society

(2)Congenital heart disease

(3)Intimate partner violence

(4)Campaign to revitalise academic medicine kicks off

(5)Targets,inspections,and transparency

6 March 2004

(1)The human tissue bill

(2)Treating malaria in Africa

(3)What's the E for EBM

(4)Efficiency,equity, and NICE clinical guidelines

(5)Smoking and blindness

28 February 2004

(1)What doesn't work and how to show it

(2)Why do doctors use treatments that do not work?

(3)Well informed uncertainties about the effects of treatments

(4)Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

(5)Aspirin resistance

(6)Management of anorexia nervosa revisited

21 February 2004

(1)Human cells from clones embryos in research and therapy

(2)Patients' expectations of consultations

(3)Making amends for negligence

(4)No time to train the surgeons

(5)Prognosis after cochlear implantation

14 February 2004

(1)Where are we now with hormone replacement therapy?

(2)Thalassaemia Major: the murky story of deferiprone

(3)Discrete choice experiments in healthcare

(4)Facing upto surgical deaths

(5)Dr Foster case notes

7 February 2004

(1)Secondary prevention for stroke and transient ischaemic attacks

(2)Compulsory screening of immigrants for tuberculosis and HIV

(3)Portable echocardiography

(4)Screening without evidence of efficacy

31 January 2004

(1)Radical surgery for mesothelioma

(2)Pandemic risks from bird flu

(3)Exchanging health lessons globally

(4)Implementing the European clinical trials directive

(5)Access to antiretroviral treatment in Africa

24 January 2004

(1)Chronic disease care

(2)Reconfiguration of surgical,emergency,and trauma services in the United Kingdom

(3)Treatment of acute pyelonephritis in children

(4)Health claims for functional foods

(5)Suspension of doctors

17 January 2004

(1)Health tsars

(2)Recepients of blood or blood products "at vCJD risk"

(3)A revised classification of headache disorders

(4)Longterm cognitive dysfunction in older people

(5)Ethics review roulette:what can we learn?

10 January 2004

(1)Treating inguinal hernias

(2)Health tourism

(3)Preserving today's scientific record for tomorrow

(4)Who should look after people with Parkinson's disease?

(5)Surgery in asymptomatic aortic stenosis

3 January 2004 Vol.328

(1)Open access publishing takes off

(2)Treatment of major depressive disorders in children and adolescents

(3)Choice and responsiveness for older people in the "patient centred" NHS

(4)WHO's World Health Report 2003