Issue Vol 32/4 2002

Editorial

• Scotland's Health - Why is it so Poor and what Should be Done to Improve it?

Current Medicine

• Clinical opinion: progress in gene therapy

• Clinical opinion: the role of acupuncture in asthma

• Clinical opinion: when to treat paracetamol poisoning in chronic alcoholics

• Clinical opinion: despite normal epicardial coronary vessels, cardiac pain in Syndrome X may relate to episodes of sub-endocardial ischaemia

• Clinical opinion: nasal diamorphine provides pain relief in children superior to IM administration

• The Pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis Revisited

Symposium Lectures

Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly

Scotland's Health - Climbing The European League Table?

Communications

• Acute Non Invasive Ventilation: What are the Current Indications?

  Helicobacter Pylori Transmission: is it Due to Kissing?

Occasional Communications

• Ethical Decision Making in Palliative Care Cardiopulmonary resuscitation for people who are terminally ill

History

• Plants against malaria Part 2: Artemisia Annua (Qinghaosu Or The Sweet Wormwood)

Other

• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• OBITUARIES

• NEW TITLES