Editorials
90 Drug treatments for Alzheimer's disease
91 Tackling racism in the NHS
92 Europe matters
93 Clinical information systems and the year 2000

News
94 Human cloning Heroin users and research Managerial blunder Torture by doctors Doctors and poverty A pregnant question

Education
97 Understanding fluid balance: Types of intravenous fluids
100 How to examine the nose
102 Ethics from the back row: issues confronting students and junior doctors
104 Symptom or sign: what is in a name?
104 You should know you're a medic: Avoid lightening strikes
105 Picture Quiz
106 Net.Philes
107 ABC of clinical haematology: Macrocytic anaemias
110 Science, medicine, and the future: Role of molecular cell biology in understanding disease
113 Clinical lesson: Hypokalaemia and hypertension associated with use of liquorice flavoured chewing gum

Papers
115 Randomised double blind controlled study of recurrence of gastric ulcer after treatment for eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection
119 Senior house officer training: is it getting better? A questionnaire survey

Life
121 Sports medicine: a specialty for people with multiple interests
122 Elective report: Latvia
124 New kids on the block
126 The not-so-secret diary of a medical student
126 Life as a medical student during the second world war
127 Obituary: Caroline Elliott
127 Out There

Letters
128 Funding PhDs Consent for tests Wasted electives Communiscation skills Corporal punishment Doctor-nurse relationship

Personal view
130 There's nothing I can do, I'm only a doctor

Medicine and the media
130 The fight for the mouths of the babes

Review
131 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

132 Minerva