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On 23 September 1996 Professor Praveen Aggarwal in New Delhi appealed to doctors and researchers around the world for help. 'We are facing a near epidemic of dengue haemorrhagic fever [...]

Community Care: The First Year Last April the United Kingdom's system for providing community care--practical and social care for ill and disabled people who need help with daily life--was changed [...]

This year we subscribed to 150 journals, which is 11 fewer than the previous year. The total cost is over 21 000 £, double the amount spent for the same [...]

This is the fourth in a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care Bassetlaw is a mainly rural council district in Nottinghamshire, just north of Robin [...]

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) believes that there is an ethical obligation to responsibly share data generated by interventional clinical trials because participants have put themselves at [...]

Primary care in Britain could change considerably from 1998. Now, the first contact with the NHS for most patients is through one of a handful of independently contracted partners in [...]

This is the third in the BMJ's series of theme issues on managing chronic diseases. This focus reflects the increasing demands on practitioners and health systems around the globe posed [...]

Getting more academic but needs greater cooperation between family physicians and primary care internists Primary care is on the up in the United States. Despite the failure of the Clinton [...]

A survey by tile National Schizophrenic Fellowship (NSF) has found that 45 mental illness hospitals in England are to close by 2000, only 10 being replaced by long stay units [...]

Less than six weeks before the start of sweeping reforms to community care in Britain the government's policy on mental health care is getting an increasingly bad press. Public outcry [...]

For many years now the British government has tried to replace institutional care with community care, particularly for people with chronic mental illness and learning disability (mental handicap). According to [...]

'Human kind,' said T S Eliot, 'cannot bear very much reality.' According to Gwen Howe, too many doctors believe this to be true and consequently pussyfoot around when they have [...]

Peer review, although fundamental to science, has been largely an amateur process, with new reviewers learning their trade like apprentices. (1) You can learn about critical appraisal of research papers [...]

Archie Cochrane, the British epidemiologist, posed three key questions to ask about a healthcare intervention: 'Can it work? 'Does it work in practice?' and 'Is it worth it?' (1) It [...]

Both the BMA and the BMJ receive many requests for free medical books and journals from doctors and librarians in less developed countries and other areas of need. Until recently [...]

In 1999 the BMJ started using a process called ELPS (electronic long, paper short) to publish shorter, more reader friendly versions of original research papers in the print journal. (1) [...]

New legal measures are neede to tighten up community care of chronically will psychiatric patients in Britain who are at high risk of relapse or pose a risk to the [...]

Leros revisited No one who saw Channel 4's documentary two years ago on psychiatry in the Greek island of Leros will be surprised that this sequel contains nightmarish scenes of [...]

As night time temperatures dropped and election fever mounted last week the government reminded the public what it is doing to help mentally ill people sleeping rough on London's streets. [...]

Maternal mortality in the United Kingdom is continuing to fall, but many of the deaths that do occur still reflect deficiencies in maternity services. These are the conclusions of the [...]