EDITORIAL
Academic medicine and health improvements in India  [TEXT] [PDF] 53
LALIT DANDONA, NIKHIL TANDON, PEUSH SAHNI

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Cardiovascular risk factor prevalence among men in a large industry of northern India [TEXT] [PDF] 59
>D. PRABHAKARAN, PANKAJ SHAH, VIVEK CHATURVEDI, LAKSHMY RAMAKRISHNAN, AJAY MANHAPRA, K. SRINATH REDDY
Safety and efficacy of an indigenous recombinant interferon-alpha-2b in patients with
chronic myelogenous leukaemia: Results of a multicentre trial from India   [TEXT] [PDF] 66
LALIT KUMAR, V. P. GANGADHARAN, D. RAGHUNADHA RAO, TAPAN SAIKIA, SANDIP SHAH, HEMANT MALHOTRA, P. P. BAPSY, KAVITA SINGH, RAMAN RAO
Management of snake-bite in rural Maharashtra: A 10-year experience [TEXT] [PDF] 71
D. P. PUNDE

CLINICAL CASE REPORT
Massive gastrointestinal bleeding in a patient with AIDS [TEXT] [PDF] 76
A. T. MATHEW, P. ZACHARIAS, S. PONNAMBATHAYIL, A. KUMAR, L. MADHAVAN, M. HARRIS, K. G. RAMAMKRISHNAN, P. V. BHAGYANATHAN

REVIEW ARTICLE
von Willebrand disease: A laboratory approach    [TEXT] [PDF] 78
SUCHETA TRASI, KANJAKSHA GHOSH, SHRIMATI SHETTY, DIPIKA MOHANTY

SELECTED SUMMARIES
Proton magnetic resonance (1H MR) spectroscopy in common dementias [TEXT] [PDF] 85
Renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system antagonists: Preventing diabetic nephropathy [TEXT] [PDF] 86

MEDICINE AND SOCIETY
Concurrent alcohol and tobacco use among a middle-aged and elderly population in Mumbai  [TEXT] [PDF] 88
PRAKASH C. GUPTA, PALLAB K. MAULIK, MANGESH S. PEDNEKAR, SHEKHAR SAXENA

MEDICAL EDUCATION
Introducing problem-based learning in physiology in the conventional Indian medical Curriculum [TEXT] [PDF] 92
NEENA BHATTACHARYA, NILIMA SHANKAR, FARAH KHALIQ, C. S. RAJESH, O. P. TANDON

SPEAKING FOR MYSELF
Reducing vascular disease risk: The undesirable and desirable guidelines [TEXT] [PDF] 96
R. TANDON
Toxicology: An ignored specialty? [TEXT] [PDF] 98
V. V. PILLAY

OBITUARY : S. N. Kothare [TEXT] [PDF] 100

BOOK REVIEWS  101

LETTERS [PDF]  
NORTH AMERICA  106 | MUMBAI  107 | LONDON  109

CORRESPONDENCE   110

NEWS FROM HERE AND THERE   112

MASALA  113

NOTICES