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Water, water everywhere
Rhona MacDonald explains why there is still not a clean drop to drink for a large proportion of the worlds population [Full text] [PDF]
Should medical students be taught rational prescribing?
Robin Ferner argues why this is important [Full text] [PDF]
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Water and sanitation: the targets and challenges
Alex Vass discusses the inequality of access to clean water and what the world is doing about it [Full text] [PDF]
10 minute consultation: Low back pain
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Ophthalmology: ocular manifestations of systemic disease
In the sixth and final article in our series, Sophia Pathai and Andrew McNaught highlight some diseases and drugs that can affect the eye [Full text] [PDF]
Trauma surgery: Back to basics
Trauma fascinates many medical students, but to handle acute emergencies it is necessary to follow the principles of the primary and secondary survey. In the first part of a new series, Omar Mukhtar and Kirsten Jones go back to basics [Full text] [PDF]
Hitting the headlines: journalism for medical students
Potentially, any medical student could set up as a freelance journalist. Do you just write something and send it in? Peter Cross says no, and gives advice on how to do it [Full text] [PDF]
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Reducing the stigma of mental illness
The days of telling your patients to "pull themselves together" should be over. Jim Bolton discusses the various ways in which health professionals can help to reduce the stigma of mental illness at a professional, service, and individual level [Full text] [PDF]
Liaison psychiatry
Ignasi Agell explains this branch of psychiatry in the United Kingdom [Full text] [PDF]
Getting ahead
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Make peace not war
Jocalyn Clark talks to Canadian family doctor Neil Arya about his anti-war activism with Peace Through Health [Full text] [PDF]
Profile Anne Merriman
Rebecca Goody talks to Anne Merriman, founder of hospice care in Uganda [Full text] [PDF]
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Mortality from cardiovascular disease more than 10 years after radiotherapy for breast cancer [Full text] [PDF]
Commentary
Jocalyn Clark takes you through the paper and explains what it means [Full text] [PDF]
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WaterAid: living well
How do you help improve living conditions in areas that are short of water? Where do you start? Eleanor Hazell explains the principles behind WaterAid, a UK charity dedicated to exactly this
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Saris saving lives
Monica Desai explains how researchers have found a short term solution to stopping transmission of cholera: filtering water through saris [Full text] [PDF]
Braving Brazil
Erlick Pereira went to Brazil for his elective to learn Portugese and find out about the culture and infectious diseases [Full text] [PDF]
Planning your elective: Brazil
Mark Wilson gives you some tips on arranging your elective in Brazil [Full text] [PDF]
Tuberculosis in Romania: a devastating revival of a destructive disease
Tuberculosis is a major threat to the health of Romania's people, with an incidence of more than 10 times that of western European countries. In the lead up to World TB Day 2003 on the 24 March, Alice Scriven describes some aspects of the tuberculosis problem in this changing European country [Full text] [PDF]
Bringing up baby
Carmel Curtis and Diana Rosof-Williams are medical students, and parents of small children. Here they give some practical advice on how to cope if you decide to have a baby at medical school
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Medical mum
Caroline Burchell has a baby daughter. She tells us what life is like for her and how she copes studying medicine and bringing up a baby [Full text] [PDF]
10 green bottles
Tessa Haynes visited Uganda and was surprised to find palliative care so well established. She explains why this high priority is justified, given the stretched resources of many developing countries [Full text] [PDF]
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