Starring role

Penny Tremayne, Abigail Moriarty, Penny Harrison

Practical guidance on sexual lifestyle and risk

Bob Price

Cardiovascular care of patients with Marfan syndrome

Christopher Nicholson

Psychological assessment during cardiac rehabilitation

Rowena Harrison

The prime minister should put his money where his mouth is

Marion Brown

Shifting professional boundaries

Cris Allen

Pack a fruit bowl every day

Karin Boyton

Lagging behind the US and Canada

Claire Hale

Research that makes a difference

Leslie Gelling

Letter

Daniel Connolly

Choice for patients but not for staff

Judith Bagley

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Outreach insights prove timely

Alister Campbell

Assertive outreach

Alister Campbell

Trust Me I’m a Doctor/Cancer Patient

Sarah Hart

Outside in

David Newnham

Mentoring enhances quality of care

David Rawcliffe

A closer look at chronic pain

Ruth Garner

Playing for keeps

Maura Buchanan

Face the music

Jennifer Percival

Starting Out - Ruth Bateman finds herself admitted to her own surgical unit

Ruth Bateman

Treatment by the book

Mike Lehane

BeverlyMalone

Beverly Malone

Researchnotes

Amelia Sawyer, Paula Roberts

The fertility time bomb

Julie Farrell, Julie Walden, Paul Jebb, Christopher Barber

Myworld-Lost for words

Jane Bates

Standardlife - Every little thing can be turned around to a politician’s advantage

Daniel Allen

Mothers’ milk

Carol Davis

Grand designs

Kathryn Godfrey

Smart cookies

Paul Dinsdale

Backing the ban

Sarah Harrison

No increase in the incidence of gout during the 1990s

Patient controlled analgesia effective for traumatic pain

People in damp homes are more likely to have insomnia

Rheumatoid arthritis patients favour direct access follow up

Welcome home Agatha

Nursing home funding is failing older people

Thelma Agnew

Focus on health of school children

Cancer services audit shows good progress

Scotland’s CNO announces two major reviews

Getting the numbers right

£500,000 investment to boost Scottish staff banks

Jennifer Trueland

News in brief

Students’ poor concept of pain

Bid to involve children in their end of life plans

Bonding not vital for patients

Extend nurse prescribing across bnf, say doctors

Christian Duffin

Smoking targets ‘unachievable’

New recruits fail to stay motivated

Nurses lack guidance on tackling child protection

Christian Duffin

Professor queries ‘limited’ value of most research

Teen ex-smoker helps other pupils quit

Job titles under reviewby NMC

Graham Scott

‘Think clean’ regime reduces mrsa rates

A trip to the light fantastic

News in brief

Concern grows at funding crisis

Regional lottery for new pay scales

Sarah Harrison

Don’t short-change AFC

Jean Gray