March 2008
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Editor's choice
Curb your excitement, unleash your imagination
News
Newsbites
Medical school expels murderer, and placebo effect
It's good to talk
Feed back on your medical school experience
Letters
Brain drain, televised autopsies, and a useful statistic
Editorials
RNA, but not as we know it
Aptamers might revolutionise therapeutics
Web 3.0 and medicine
What will the evolving internet offer?
Life
Head to head
Are condoms the answer to sexually transmitted infections?
Saving sex for sexual health
Abstinence could be recommended by doctors
Sex, clinics, and video tape
Sexual health of acters in the pornography industry
Mind games: do they work?
To improve cognitive function
Safer by design
Reducing medical errors
Augmented reality in surgery
Computers enhance reality
People
An apoptosis investigator
Meet Sarit Larisch
An emergency medicine doctor and blogger
Meet Nicholas Genes
Careers
Approaching your first clinical year
A practical guide
Peer led training in communication skills
How role play can help
How to choose finals revision courses
It's that time of the year
Education
Tackling depression
Every doctor has a role
Paying research participants
How much should they get?
Lower back pain and bladder dysfunction
Take the picture quiz
Protecting research participants
Today's ethical dilemmas
Haemoptysis, dysphagia, and odynophagia
Take the picture quiz
Without a larynx
Life after laryngeal cancer
Paper+
Risk of surgery for inflammatory bowel disease
Record linkage studies and the threshold for colectomy
Frontiers
The month in research
New MRSA strain, modulating fertility, and selective reporting of trials
Reviews
The organ donation is long overdue
Making do in Nigeria
Finding myself
Asthma
Eyespy
Dangerous dancing, athletic genes, cannabis smoke, and more