Facts and ideas from anywhere

William C. Roberts, MD, Editor in Chief

Topics:

Scientific humility
Drinking water and pollution
Trash
More on statins
Usefulness of an antidepressive drug (sertraline) for major depression in patients with acute myocardial infarction or unstable angina pectoris
Obesity and heart failure
Biventricular pacing in chronic heart failure
Religious involvement and cigarette smoking in young adults
Extended-release niacin for dyslipidemia in diabetes mellitus
More on good and bad diets
Antibiotics in livestock
E. coli on the tabletop
West Nile
The intestinal pillcam
Botulinum-based drugs
Relation of demand for cosmetic facial plastic surgery and its costs
Effect of hand-rubbing with an aqueous alcoholic solution vs traditional surgical hand-scrubbing on surgical site infection rates
FDA advisory on xenotransplantation
Effect of mandatory parental notification on adolescent girls' use of sexual health care services
Harold Shipman, MD
Paraplegic swims the English channel
"Pet owners" to "pet guardians"
Ten commandments for responsible pet guardians
The king of clubs
Medicare and payment to physicians
Medicare drug benefit
Physician career satisfaction among various specialties

(BUMC Proceedings 2002;15:445-453)