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The therapeutic effects of meditation
The conditions treated are stress related, and the evidence is weak, says Peter Canter [Full text] [PDF]
Medics and their faiths
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Basic plastic surgery techniques and principles: How to suture
In the second article of our series, Ben Taylor and Ardeshir Bayat explain suture techniques, how to prepare a wound, and how to get the best possible scar [Full text] [PDF]
10 minute consultation: Polyarthralgia
A 45 year old woman says she has had joint pains in her hands, knees, and hips for three months. Her symptoms have progressively worsened. Jo Samanta, Julia Kendall and Ash Samanta take you through a common condition in primary care patients with painful joints [Full text] [PDF]
Biomedical ethics: Patients' rights
In the second part of our series on biomedical ethics, Pierre Mallia takes you through the rights of patients [Full text] [PDF]
Trauma surgery: Ballistic trauma
In the third article in our series on trauma, Omar Mukhtar and Kirsten Jones explain how to assess and manage ballistic trauma [Full text] [PDF]
Picture Quiz: Know your enemy
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Tackling a double career
Brendan Venter is a name well known to rugby fans. He has 17 caps as a Springbok rugby player, representing South Africa between 1994 and 1999. More recently he has been both a player and the coach at London Irish rugby club. What many fans might not know is that this Johannesburg born 33 year old is also a qualified doctor. Karen Hebert finds out more [Full text] [PDF]
A career in rheumatology
Inam Haq and Ian Giles explain why you should seriously consider this expanding
specialty [Full text] [PDF]
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Paper plus: Physical activity and cardiovascular death
Domhnall MacAuley takes you through this months paper and explains what it means [Full text] [PDF]
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All change for China
Harriet Clompus went to Beijing and saw the effects the drastically changing society is having
on health [Full text] [PDF]
Kentucky Fried Chicken and communism
For his elective, Neil Stone went to Hong Kong; the province was handed back from British rule to China in 1997. He contrasts the east meets west atmosphere with the communist capital, Beijing [Full text] [PDF]
Planning your elective - China and Hong Kong
Mark Wilson gives you some advice on planning an elective in China and Hong Kong [Full text] [PDF]
Ethical shades of grey
Peter Cross talks to clergyman John Polkinghorne about ethics [Full text] [PDF]
Marching orders
Is conscription a thing of the past? Not for some around the world. Peter Cross investigates how medical students are obliged to spend time in the army after they qualify [Full text] [PDF]
Looking down the barrel
Mark Lister talks to emergency doctors in London and Chicago about the implications gun shot wounds have on health professionals and health services [Full text] [PDF]
Shit scared
Animals do not have a problem with it. Small children even play with it. So why are adult humans so disgusted by faeces? Ayesha Nunhuck investigates [Full text] [PDF]
Neurolinguistic programming: temperament and character types
Knowing what personality type you are can benefit you and your appreciation of others; Joanne Walter and Ardeshir Bayat explain this and more about neurolinguistic programming [Full text] [PDF]
Global Snapshots - Sri Lanka: social values mean good health care
In the second of two parts, international health students give an insight to the highs and lows of health around the world [Full text] [PDF]
Global Snapshots - Thailand: the 30 baht health plan
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Global Snapshots - United States: vast resources for the rich
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Global Snapshots - Kenya: coping with a history of corruption
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Global Snapshots - Chile: problems with dictatorship now resolving
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Global Snapshots - Lebanon: healthcare advanced yet still inaccessible
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