October 2008

Editor's choice

Making a difference
UK junior doctors work too may hours Tanzania recruits more medical students

Tackling health inequities
WHO report calls for global action

Prison health care
Losing your freedom shouldn't mean losing your health

Head to head
Should disadvantaged people be paid to take care of their health?

Buy me, I'll change your life
The power of advertising in medical journals

Turn back time
How to deal with the susceptibility to disease that grows with age?

The dangers of facebook
The perils of online social networking discussed

The war on health
Health and medicine suffer in the shadow of terrorism in Pakistan

Working for drug industry
Consider a career in pharmaceutical medicine

Writing your medical CV
How to make a CV work

A GP for homeless people
Bill Nolan helps vulnerably housed people

A pioneering female surgeon
Linda De Cossart is vice president of the Royal College of Surgeons

Management plans
After you've taken the history and examined the patient

Bibliographic databases
Which to use and how

Male infertility
Investigation and treatment

Fungal nail infection
What you can cover in a 10 minute consultation

Screening for and preventing type 2 diabetes
Understand a cost effectiveness analysis

The month in research
A small dose of arsenic and childhood pneumonia