• Getting to the heart of Africa's health problems

  One out of 10 of the half billion people in subSaharan Africa is dying from cardiovascular disease. Their plight seems to go unnoticed by local governments and international relief agencies who are preoccupied with the AIDS crisis. p
  

• Facing tragedy on the tracks

  When young boys dream of becoming train drivers, they never imagine that part of their training will involve advice on coping with suicides on the track. p
  

• Families fined for suicides in Japan

  Losing a family member to suicide is traumatic enough, but in Japan, families of train suicide victims face extra trauma in the form of a hefty bill from the train company involved. There are 13 train companies in the Tokyo region and the majority have a policy of charging the victim's family for the cost of the rail stoppage. p
  

• Lifelines

  Eight out of 10 pregnant women are frightened of giving birth, according to a new survey, perhaps because of increased levels of medical intervention. In a poll of 2,000 mothers carried out for motherandbaby.co.uk, just 7 per cent of women had natural births. More than a third had an epidural, a quarter were induced and almost half needed stitches after the delivery. (BBC Health News). p
  

• Explaining those aches and pains

  One of the commonest complaints to family doctors is that of muscular pain. Up to 30 per cent of visits to a typical practice will be from patients complaining of chronic widespread aching which waxes and wanes and which is often accompanied by fatigue. p
  

• Major Characteristics of Fibromyalgia

  Criterion % of patients with symptom p
  

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