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Editor's choice

Let them experiment

Frontiers

The month in research

Editorials

Renaming schizophrenia
Diagnosis and treatment are more important than semantics say Jeffrey A Lieberman and Michael B First

Screening neonates for cystic fibrosis
Kate Rylance and colleagues consider the debate surrounding genetic carrier testing in children

News

Knock 'em out

News bites

Education

How exactly does the chest wall work?
Using two fictional cases, Rishi Aggarwal and Alistair Hunter explain the physiology and pathophysiology of the human chest wall

Progressively heavier menstrual bleeding
A 46 year old woman presented to her general practitioner with a one year history of progressively heavier menstrual bleeding.

Anaesthesia: Induction and maintenance of general anaesthesia
General anaesthesia is a state of induced reversible unconsciousness. In part two of the series, Jonathan M Behar and colleagues explain the clinical principles of inducing and maintaining general anaesthesia

Laboratory medicine in primary care Lipid management
W Stuart A Smellie considers the pitfalls in testing for lipids and summarises the guidance

Alternatives to animal experimentation

Careers

Geriatric medicine
Caring for older people offers more than you might think, and ageing populations mean geriatricians are in demand, say Aliya H Razaaq and Alexander Robert Brown

Dispelling the MMC myths
Derek Gallen and Shelley Heard consider concerns often expressed about the UK Modernising Medical Careers programme

The MMC story

John Bonner traces the history of Modernising Medical Careers-the reform of doctors' training in the United Kingdom

People

A wake-up call for European medical education
Mariapia Magni is leading a European project that looks at the new challenges facing medical education-Medical Assistance and The  rapy in Europe(MATE).

An inspiring academic
Chris Huang is an inspiration for medical students and doctors wishing to pursue an academic career.

Papers

Animal experiments and clinical trials: systematic review

Do animal experiments have any tangible benefits for assessing the value of a drug for clinical use? Kristina Fister describes a recent paper that attempted to find out

Life

Acoustically challenged, but pick me anyway
Jenny Cwilewicz explains why, despite her deafness, she is certainly not disabled

Billanthropy
Emily Tweed profiles one of the world's largest philanthropic organisations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Introduction to pharmaceuticology
It's a course we should all take seriously, argues Anthony N Fleg

Eating disorders on the wards
Anna Crane and colleagues guide you through two common yet often misconstrued medical conditions in adolescents

Is internship what it's meant to be?
A year of compulsory residential internship is part of the undergraduate medicine in India. Aparna Singhal and Siddharth Bansal wonder if it serves its intended purpose

On the front line - The helpless attendant
As part of our ongoing series, Delan Devakumar writes about his experiences of working for Médecins Sans Frontières in the disputed territory of Kashmir

Reviews

The Last King of Scotland

Infectious diseases

Doctors without work

Anatomy dissection: RIP?

The role of role models

Eyespy