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Racism and health
Kwame McKenzie says racism may be aetiologically important in the development of an illness [Full text] [PDF]
Myalgic encephalomyelitis: a unique medical challenge Action for ME
Samantha Radford looks at the controversy surrounding myalgic encephalomyelitis [Full text] [PDF]
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Ophthalmology: Gritty, irritable eyes
In the fourth part of the series, Sophia Pathai and Andrew McNaught explain possible causes of gritty, irritable eyes [Full text] [PDF]
10 minute consultation: Food allergy
As part of a series of problems common in primary care (see p 1), Aziz Sheikh and Samantha Walker take you through food allergy
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They just can't help it
Sara Alsaraf and Mary Robertson explain Tourette's syndrome and look at the disease behind a highly stigmatised illness [Full text] [PDF]
The evidence based clinician: part 5--applying evidence to your patient
In the final part of this series, Christopher Ball explains how to apply evidence about prognosis to your patient [Full text] [PDF]
Picture quiz: Vaginal bleeding and vomiting in early pregnancy
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Midlife medicine
Tosan Okoro talks to Ged Garbutt, a former sports scientist and professor of health science, about why he made the switch to medicine at the tender age of 41 [Full text] [PDF]
Emotional intelligence
In the second article in his series on intelligence, Brian McMullen explores how doctors can get in touch with their feelings and why this is important [Full text] [PDF]
Soap opera
Episode 1: The body in the evidence base room [Full text] [PDF]
Profile James Jobanputra
Sabina Dosani talks to the doctor behind Sexpression--a national network of sex education initiatives led by students in the community [Full text] [PDF]
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Teething symptoms
Cross sectional survey of five groups of child health professionals [Full text] [PDF]
Commentary
Mona Okasha takes you through this paper and explains what it means [Full text] [PDF]
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Hey gringo
Jenny Hall spent a month working in a hospital in Honduras. She tells of her experiences working in a poorly funded health service and the great hospitality that she received [Full text] [PDF]
Caught between two worlds
Tin Do and Natasha Marston went to Honduras and spent time working with the indiginous population, the Lenca Indians. They learnt about many of the problems unique to indigenous people and talk about some of them here [Full text] [PDF]
Planning your elective--Honduras
Mark Wilson gives you some tips on arranging your elective in Honduras [Full text] [PDF]
Let's talk about sex
Sabina Dosani explains Sexpression, a project in which medical students go into schools and teach pupils about sex and relationships [Full text] [PDF]
Filtering guinea worms in Sudan
Anita Suri Kass explains how Dr Anders Seim had the initiative to put a simple prevention measure into large scale production to help eradicate a painful and debilitating parasitic disease.
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The Glostavent
Victoria Harris explains the difficulties of using and maintaining anaesthetic equipment in isolated or developing parts of the world; she tells us how a doctor from Gloucester invented and developed a solution [Full text] [PDF]
Witty Ticcy
Nadeeja Koralage looks at the stigma around Tourette's syndrome and the impact of the media
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Who examines evidence?
John Garrow looks at evidence based medicine and considers who really provides the evidence; Very Senior Clinicians or Omniscient Meta-analysts? He asks whether medical students consider evidence [Full text] [PDF]
The bag
Zoe Ash investigates the neurologist's bag and explains what you can tell about these specialists by the state of their toolkit [Full text] [PDF]
A neurologist says...
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