September 2008

Editor's choice

Organ trafficking
Military recruitment in the US Australian students condemn bullying

Sepsis
The secret assasin

Measuring blood pressure in children
A practice that should be routine

Becoming a live kidney donor
Would you give your friend one of your kidneys?

A doctor's perspective
Kidney donation discussed

The soap opera that saves lives
South African TV is powerful medicine

Rare recruits
Finding participants for research

The end of life
Good palliative care makes a difference

Barred!
Medical schools clash with students' criminal record

Hinduism life and death
Hindu bioethics in medical decisions

A pathologist in Malawi
Dan Milner has vision for pathology in poor countries

An intensive career
Jeremy Bewley talks about working in intensive care

A career in infectious diseases
Doctors who wouldn't do anything else

e-portfolio
All entrants to a UK foundation programme need an e-portfolio

Working nights
A way to get acute experience

Is private care ethical?
Could the NHS exist without private care?

Early warning scores
Is your patient deteriorating?

Hypertension or poor technique?
A badly done procedure can endanger patients

Blood cultures
Tests to diagnose bloodstream infections

Tuberculosis in children
An overview of this potentially lethal disease

Survival of very premature babies
Understanding prospective cohort studies

The month in research
HIV sandwiches, and sudden deaths