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Sight for sore eyes
Tibetans live in one of the highest inhabited regions in the world at an average 4,500m - and as altitude increases so does exposure to the ultra-violet radiation that damages eyesight.
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Rocking the boat without fear and with confidence
The right to criticise policy must be for the many, not the few
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WEB WATCH
In an era replete with New Age quacks and frauds who assert the curative and health-enhancing benefits of anything from gemstones to the laying on of hands, not to mention their innate superiority over 'western' medicine, it is worthwhile recalling the long, hard slog of intellectual effort which laid the ...
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To retain doctors we must improve their working hours and pay for excess time
Staff shortages on the wards: some solutions
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Party poopers
Radical reforms of US healthcare are urgently needed - just don't expect dynamic solutions from all the presidential candidates, says Howard Berliner
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Teaming with ideas
A multidisciplinary team achieved impressive results in its attempt to alleviate winter pressures. John Edmonstone and colleagues explain
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Schizophenia Drugs
Exciting claims about what 'atypical' antipsychotic drugs can do are marred by the poor quality of much of the research evidence, say Paul Wilson, Simon Gilbody and Anne-Marie Bagnall
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Who cares wins
The changing nature of nursing in a managerial age By Ian Norman and Sarah Cowley Blackwell Science 192 pages £16.99
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A race for the truth
Ethnicity: an agenda for mental health Edited by Dinesh Bhugra and Veena Bahl Gaskell 262 pages £25
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More a musty read than a must-read
Information for evidence-based care By Ruth Roberts Radcliffe Medical Press 79 pages £17.95
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In person
Brendan Ryan has been appointed medical director at South Manchester University Hospitals trust. He succeeds Dr Philip Jones, who stepped down recently after a period of ill-health. Mr Ryan is a consultant in accident and emergency medicine and was formerly one of two trust associate medical directors.