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Presents letters to the editor for the week of June 28, 2003. Ethics of clinical trials from bayesian perspective; Maintaining perioperative normothermia; Screening for cancer with computed tomography; Increasing of fruit and vegetable consumption; Helicobacter pylori in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease needs comparator; Need for doctors' performance to be discussed; Booster campaign that is no incentive for parents.

Presents letters to the editor in relation to medicine. Responses about screening for depression in primary care; Comments about cardiovascular mortality after radiotherapy for breast cancer; Views on the idea of monitoring the marketing of infant formula feeds.

Presents letters to the editor on medical topics as of January 25, 2003. Call for Prime Minister Tony Blair of Great Britain to prevent escalating violence and a war in Iraq; Use of computers and information technology by physicians; Perception that medical management needs to be re-thought in Britain; Risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome which increase danger from infection; The long-term effects of advice to reduce dietary salt; Objections of Indian scientists to the export of human tissue for research; Idea that an ethics dialogue between rich and poor countries is needed; Complication of issues relating to abortions in Nigeria.

Presents several letters concerning medicines in Great Britain. Efficacy of taurine and lecithin treatment for alzheimer's disease; Examination of cerebral palsy and neonatal encephalopathy cases; Identification of factors affecting development of oral cell carcinoma.

Deals with the increasing use of postoperative adjuvant irradiation for breast cancer and after mastectomy. Analysis of cardiac toxicity; Risk factors in irradiation of the internal mammary nodes.

This article presents a letter to the editor in response to the article "Is the private finance initiative dead?," by Atun and McKee that appeared in the October 8, 2005 issue of the "British Medical Journal."

Presents a letter to the editor in response to the article "Healthcare lessons from Australia: what can Michael Howard learn from John Howard?" by J. Hall and A. Maynard, in the February 12, 2005 issue.

Reviews the BBC radio program "Why Did We Do That?" presented by Chris Bowlby, which traces the background of the overuse of antibiotics in hospitals in the pre-penicillin era. Description of the program; Discussion of antibiotic resistance.

Presents a letter to the editor in response to the article "Descriptive survey of non-commercial randomised trials in the United Kingdom 1980-2002," by I. Chalmers in the November 1, 2003 issue.

Presents a letter to the editor in response to an article by Smith about the need to appoint a minister of health and how that would effect all areas of the NHS.