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Contents: April 2000

Editorials

Nicotine addiction

Psychosocial factors in selection for liver transplantation

Voluntary organisations: from Cinderella to white knight?


News

Doctors told to treat nicotine addiction as a disease

Students urged to have meningitis vaccine

Increased risk of melanoma in airline pilots

Drug misuse among teenagers has decreased

OU to open up medical education

Kite mark for beer glasses

US launches new clinical trials database

Cannabinoids might reduce spasticity in multiple sclerosis

Malaria epidemic expected in Mozambique

Education

Surgical emergencies: acute abdominal pain (Part 2)

Cushing's syndrome

ABC of heart failure: Investigation

Extract from Clinical Evidence: Diarrhoea

Picture Quiz


Papers

Difficulties with anonymous shortlisting of medical school applications and its effects on candidates with non-European names: prospective cohort study


Life

Planning your elective-New Zealand

Maori war dances and busy A+E wards

What if it is cancer?

A guide to medical etiquette: revealing yourself-the Do's and Don'ts

The nonsense factor

The editor

Rebuilding people's faces and lives

I feel sorry for the patients


Letters

Recommendations seem to revert to traditional approach

Maybe there are also heartsink doctors

Author's reply

OSCE's don't work

Students have definite views on characteristics of effective clinical teachers

Intorable working conditions of junior doctors must be abolished

Experiment tested students' attitudes towards handwashing

Reviews

Candid Camera

Radio Ga-Ga

Parkland Trauma Handbook

Pocket Clinical Examination

Video Review: The Idiots

Video Casebook: Medicine - the Toy Boy and the Burgundy Car

ADAM Interactive Anatomy, The Anatomy Project

So who's teaching whom?

The stigma of schizophrenia

Minerva: April 2000