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Introduction Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of illness and death in the Western world. In Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States it is the commonest cancer in [...]

In the December issue of STI, Honey et al summarise and critically review studies of cost effectiveness analysis (CEA) of Chlamydia trachomatis screening to provide recommendations for future screening studies. [...]

Accepted wisdom holds that high compliance is essential for a screening programme to be successful. Indeed, a reason that the national breast screening programme is not routinely offered to women [...]

Introduction In England the uptake of antenatal HIV screening is comparatively low despite the existence of guidelines on antenatal screening for pregnant women[1] Detection of HIV infection in pregnant women [...]

Abdominal aortic aneurysm is a potentially lethal condition, much more common in older men, and, sadly, often first recognised only after rupture and death. Some 75% of patients die before [...]

MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is endemic in many British hospitals, and enormous attempts at control have not stemmed its relentless progress. Epidemic strains EMRSA-15 and EMRSA-16 each affect over [...]

The hepatitis C virus is usually transmitted parenterally through blood products or shared needles. Most infected people develop mild chronic hepatitis, which tends to pursue an asymptomatic course over years [...]

Abstract Objective To evaluate the impact of policies for removing women before the recommended age of 64 from screening programmes for cervical cancer in the United Kingdom. Design A mathematical [...]

Owing to an editorial error the authors' corrections were not incorporated in table 3 of this paper by A H Briggs and colleagues (25 May, pp 1321-5). The correct table [...]

To many doctors it seems fumdamentally wrong to let people become ill before intervening when it would be possible to take effective action at an earlier stage - for example, [...]