Myths on the rocks: Using and abusing alcohol

Kim Moore, Behr Golda

Listings

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Richard Brown

Heartlines

Drug therapy

Ian Tritschler MRPhamiS

Intra-aortic balloon pumps

Stephen Thomas

Cardiogenic shock

Nick Robinson

Dunce?

Joe Winters

The ideal home inhibition

Linda Nazarko

Correction

Information exchange

What a lovely IPR you have, grandma

Jill Diaper

Exposed: lifting pics snap nurses’ backs

Keith Kolsteren

If you can’t stand the heat, leave the legion

Graeme Morrison

Support overstocking won’t wear nurses

E Maureen

RCN hike takes rise out of part-timers

Beryl Roberts

Hit patients? strike me out of the RCN

Express nurse hits out at slowcoaches

Trudy Rawlins

Nurses’ attitudes to patient activation

Bernard Gibbon, Maria Kenney

The adolescent in accident & emergency

Lynda Holt

Protocols: guidance for good practice

Community placement: establishing links

George Bell, Joanne Bennett

The waiting game

Joan Lynn

Students: the soft drug approaches

Chronic pain and topical morphine

Benefits of Warfarin overlooked in AF

Chemotherapy increases risk of second tumour

Paracetamol absorption slow in vegetarians

Predicting lung injury in premature neonates

Emotional support can cut high mortality in men

News in brief

Health club helps the chronically ill to keep fit

News featured

Students’ image of specialty is still poor

News

News in brief

CHCs criticise complaints procedure

News

Waiting lists will worsen warn unions

More work needed before NHS implements case management

Ageism’s influence on practice

Strong future ahead thanks to older consumers

Call for rethink on role of nursing home

Action needed to safeguard the care of elderly patients

Battle for qualified nursing

Time to be more vocal about how good you are

Elderly care conference

Capital health care in danger of decay

News in brief

News

More CPNs required in deprived areas

RCN fears VAT threat to libraries

Young people shun GPs’ sex advice

News

News

Job loss fears in NW as deficit bites

Guy’s and St Thomas’ reject single site plan

News

New fears for Review Body as ministers question its future

Drugs misuse ‘spiralling out of control’

Simon Canning

News

News in brief

Plans for private money in NHS ignores patients’ needs

Edinburgh’s modernisation plans attacked

Income support study tragic’

Nurses call for review of HIV education

Rael Martell

ROM attacks restaurants over breastfeeding

Number of UK nursing posts continues to fall

Pride and prejudice

Noarh Casey