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Editorial. Focuses on growing interest in moral medical oaths and oath-making among students of Great Britain, before starting their first jobs as doctors, as of May 2003. Reasons behind the growing interest; Absence of swearing of moral medical oaths in medieval times; Significance of taking moral medical oaths in medical science. INSET: Filler: On writing prescriptions.

Analyzes the value of BSc programs in the history of medicine in Great Britain. Purpose of the BSc programs; Benefits of the program; Implications for the knowledge of medical practitioners in the region.

Focuses on the social and environmental conditions in Bangladesh. Role of education in improving health; Problems of poverty in the country; Effects of the country's cultural values on health issues.

Features the Friutmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Gallery exhibition of collaborative work; Promotion of collaboration between artistic and hospital communities; Achievement of FUSION program and documenting the art.

Reviews the paintings 'Blood and Semen II', 'Piss Christ' and 'Material and Sexual Body by Andres Serrano.

Focuses on the celebration of World AIDS Day on December 1, 2001 in Great Britain. Increase the awareness of the disease; Culmination of the 2001 World AIDS Day Campaign; Role of men in the AIDS epidemic.

Relates the struggle of the medical student Ann Brodski in pursue of her medical studies and seek an asylum in Great Britain. Family experience in seeking an asylum; Application of Brodski to medical school; Appeal on the imminent deportation of the family.

Reports the inadequate training of medical students and house officers in clinical skills in Sheffield, England. Sample of inadequate basic procedure training; Sponsors on the conducted survey on the medical students; Commentaries on the extent of training accomplished.

Focuses on the measures for the eradication of polio in Africa. Campaigns for polio vaccination; Threat posed by civil war on polio eradication; Problems faced by various immunization strategies.

Highlights a recommendation on breast feeding made by the World Health Organization. Efforts of WHO to raise awareness of its recommendation through the 2001 World Breastfeeding Week; Strategy for infant and young child feeing which will be formulated by WHO; Other initiatives undertaken by the organization to promote its recommendation.

Reports the recommendations made by the World Health Organization concerning the methods for breast feeding. Importance of complementary feeding on six-month old babies; Use of the systematic scientific review of all published literature as basis for the recommendation; Formulation of the global strategy for infant and young child feeding.