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- No more brainless psychiatry
- New techniques have opened the brain to inspection, allowing the hardware and software approaches to analysing our thought processes to converge. Ending the division between psychiatry and neurology, the reborn discipline of neuropsychiatry promises advances in mental health medicine.
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- The Invisible Killers
- Modern sanitation, vaccines and antibiotics have put a stop to many of the infections that were killers a hundred years ago. But we must not allow their success to lull us into a false sense of security. Bacteria, viruses and parasites are still a force to be reckoned with.
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- Waking Up to HIV
- The European Parliament first discussed AIDS in 1983, but it was not until 1987 that the EC as a whole started serious AIDS research under the Fourth Medical and Health Research Programme. Collected papers from this work record the history of Europe's parallel advances in epidemiology, basic research and clinical studies over the period 1987-1993.
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- The Novel and the Natural
- When it comes to food, what is "natural"? How safe is "safe"? The rules on the classification and labelling of food are struggling to keep up with changes in farming practice and manufacturing technology.
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June 1998