Contents of the Lancet, August 7 to 13, 2004

Main Category: CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease
Article Date: 06 Aug 2004 - 12:00 PDT


Contents of The Lancet, Volume 364, August 7-13, 2004

Editorial

475 WHO's African regional of.ce must evolve or die
476 How not to grade hospital safety

Comment

477 Transfusion transmission of vCJD: a crisis avoided? K Wilson, M N Ricketts
479 Mean times in transfusion-carrots and sticks for practice in England. M Sekhar
481 Show me the money-immunosuppression in kidney transplantation. G W Burke, G Ciancio
483 When to deliver the stunted fetus? D A Grimes
484 Myths about spider envenomations and necrotic skin lesions. R S Vetter
485 Autism-prenatal insults or an epiphenomenon of a strongly genetic disorder? C M Hultman, P Sparén
487 Time for the ghosts to take on physical form. A Jacobs
488 The Wakley Prize 2004. A James

World Report

489 The law of consent. S Pincock
491 Organ failure. C Ionescu

Perspectives

493 Book: It's my baby and I'll try if I want to. W P Sharpe
494 In brief. H M Salihu; L Morrison
495 Historical keywords. R Hayward
495 Lifeline. F M Burkle, Jr

Obituary

496 George Widmer Thorn. I Oransky

Correspondence

497 Adolescent health. F Aslam; N Zdanowicz, Ch Reynaert
498 NEOPAIN: a question of survival. C Pechlaner; S S Kronsberg and others
498 Drug intervention trials in sepsis. C Ritter and others
498 Arguments for live .avivirus vaccines. J Hombach and others; B R Murphy and others; A de Silva, W Messer
500 hGISA: seek and ye shall .nd. R A Howe, T R Walsh
501 Herpes simplex virus type 2 and recurrent meningitis. N Davies and others
502 Pituitary apoplexy presenting as chemical meningitis. R Brouns and others
502 Povidone-iodine for herpes zoster. F Shann

Articles

503 Mycophenolate mofetil versus azathioprine for prevention of acute rejection in renal transplantation. (MYSS). G Remuzzi and others
513 Infant wellbeing at 2 years of age in the Growth Restriction Intervention Trial (GRIT). The GRIT study group
521 Novel methods for disinfection of prion-contaminated medical devices. G Fichet and others

Research Letters

527 Preclinical vCJD after blood transfusion in a PRNP codon 129 heterozygous patient. A H Peden and others
529 Effectiveness of leucoreduction for removal of infectivity of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies from blood. L Gregori and others

Clinical Picture

532 Intranuclear biotin. E Marbaix and others

Seminar

533 Kawasaki syndrome. J C Burns, M P Glodé

Hypothesis

545 Multiorgan failure is an adaptive, endocrine-mediated, metabolic response to overwhelming systemic in.ammation. M Singer and others

Viewpoint

549 Necrotic arachnidism: the mythology of a modern plague. G K Isbister

Case Report

554 A puzzling case of transient global amnesia. P Bonnet and others

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