Issue Vol 34/1 2004

Editorial

• Famine and feast

Current Medicine

• Clinical opinion: refining severity scores in community acquired pneumonia: another new index

• Clinical opinion: monoclonal antibody therapy as treatment for advanced cancer – molecular biology becomes clinically relevant

Behind the Headlines

• Obesity in childhood – much more than a cosmetic problem

• Treating childhood cancer – the cost of cure

• An evidence-based approach to preventing healthcare-associated infections in the elderly – the epic initiative in England
  R Pratt

• Delivering the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease
  R Boyle

• Pharmacotherapy in old age
  HU Rehman and S Han

• Nutritional assessment: identifying patients' needs
  J McKinlay

• Non-steroidal anit-inflammatory drug colopathy: case reports and review of literature
  G Malone, VY Kaushik, JA Morris, M Gangopadhyay and CM Brown

Symposium Lectures

Future perspectives in cardiology
P Henriksen and M Denvir

Drug treatment: maximising benefit and minimising risk
B Ofori

SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACTS

• Rheumatology symposium

• James Lind symposium

Occasional Communications

• Guidance for the diagnosis and management of suspected or proven Escherichia coli O157 infection
  Scottish Infection Standards and Strategy Group and the Scottish Executive Health Department

  A review of complementary medicine in Parkinson's disease
  P Ferry and H Desai

Other

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR

  OBITUARIES

  NEW TITLES