This month in wjm

Editor's pick

Topics in Review: Depression in medical illness: The role of the immune system

The curriculum template: creating continuing medical education curricula for physicians in practice in managed care settings

Physicians and rural America

The Muslim family: predicament and promise

Commentary: American health care professionals should respect the traditions of other cultures

Medical Myth: Myth: idiopathic wounds are often due to brown recluse or other spider bites throughout the United States

Should patients on insulin inform the vehicle licensing authorities?

News and Features: Short, sharp bouts of exercise good for the heart

News and Features: Scooters cause 9,500 injuries in US in 8 months

News and Features: Patients may gain access to doctors' disciplinary data

Media Watch: HIV disinformation

Medicine and Money: Human tissue for sale: what are the costs?

Is maternal age an independent risk factor for fetal loss?

Does daily use of sunscreen or β-carotene supplements prevent skin cancer in healthy adults?

Commentary

Intractable or chronic pain: there is a difference

Purple spots and chickenpox

Migraine prophylaxis in adult patients

Health care in rural communities

The risks of having children in later life

US women's attitudes to false-positive mammography results and detection of ductal carcinoma in situ: cross-sectional survey

Commentary: Women should be fully informed of the potential benefits and harms before screening mammography

5-Year analysis of mushroom exposures in California

Commentary: The optimal management of mushroom poisoning remains undetermined

On telling the truth to patients with dementia

Commentary: The treacherous path of truth-telling with demented patients

Screening travelers for hepatitis A antibodies: An observational cost-comparison study of vaccine use

Commentary: Screening international travelers for hepatitis A antibodies versus routine vaccination: how generalizable are the results?

Research on race must use justified definitions

Media Watch Update

How to submit your medical images for publication in Med.Pix

Any questions? Any Answers?

Men do better after myocardial infarction

With urine-based screening, do sexually active adolescent girls still need annual pelvic examinations?: Yes: Pelvic examination continues to play a key role

With urine-based screening, do sexually active adolescent girls still need annual pelvic examinations?: No: Recommending annual exams is not evidence based

A community left behind

Poetry: Boundaries