This month in wjm

Editor's Pick

Evidence-Based Case Review: Diagnosis and treatment of deep vein thrombosis

Topic in Review: Reframing the professional ethic: the Council of Medical Specialty Societies consensus statement on the ethic of medicine

Clinical Evidence: Eye disorders: bacterial conjunctivitis

White coat ceremonies for new medical students

Medical myth: A digital rectal examination should be performed on all individuals with possible appendicitis

News and Features: US cancer institute funds trial of complementary therapy

News and Features: Mouth-to-mouth ventilation does not improve CPR

News and Features: France heads WHO's health systems league table

Media Watch: Challenging ER's psychokiller

Commentary: Clanging critics

On earth as it is in hell

In people with no evidence of cardiovascular disease, how effective are interventions aimed at controlling risk factors in reducing all-cause and coronary artery disease mortality?

Commentary

Can the prophylactic use of raloxifene, a selective estrogen-receptor modulator, prevent bone mineral loss and fractures in women with diagnosed osteoporosis or vertebral fractures?

Commentary

Correcting the record

Reducing errors by increasing legibility

The palms and soles

Migraine: pharmacotherapy in the emergency department

Should Physicians Give Tpa to Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke?: For: Thrombolytics in stroke: whose risk is it anyway?

Should Physicians Give Tpa to Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke?: Against: And just what is the emperor of stroke wearing?

Reproductive health care is marginalized

Violence and its injury consequences in American movies: a public health perspective

Commentary: The mind sees more than the movie frame

Development of a telemedicine program: A review of 1,000 videoconferencing consultations

Commentary: What do we know about telemedicine, and what will it mean for primary care physicians?

Achieving further glycemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus

Commentary: The target for good glycemic control should be an Hb A_1C concentration of less than 0.07

Participation in maternal serum screening for Down syndrome, neural tube defects, and trisomy 18 following screen-positive results in a previous pregnancy

Commentary: What can we do to prepare patients for test results during pregnancy?

Medicine in the 1800s

Cartoons contain violence

History repeats itself

Face-to-face advice to patients can help

Walnuts and macadamia nuts benefit lipid profiles

Acupressure bands don't prevent nausea

A patient who changed my life “You heard all wrong”

Netphiles

Does yogurt have healing properties?

On taking my mother's blood pressure

Acute stroke

The theatre of medicine

Letter from Abroad: Medical training under fire