In this issue

Guide to Fringe Events At the Party Conferences

News: 'Health Tourism' Row

News: Small chemists to get market protection

News: Bill gets hearing

News: NHS reveals IT shortlist

News: WWF chemical regulation call

News: Doubts over poor pill taking and HIV drug resistance

News: Drug choices vital to schizophrenia recovery

News: Britain Against Cancer

News: Who's the new DG?

News: New HRT scare

News: Draft bill committee membership announced

Diary

Asparagus, Beaujolais and Canapes

Body training

A preventable tragedy

Food and Fitness

Spot lite on labelling

Recipe for disaster

Countering the couch-kid culture

Book Review

Whatever you do stays in Cancun"

Hard to stomach

The hidden disease

Book review

Cracking the Code

Fertility rights

Plane Sailing?

System under strain

Power to the purchaser

A man for all seasons

Moral law

A question of dignity

Fair warning

Minority report

Shock value

Scale of the problem

A lost opportunity

Rough cuts

Injection of hope

Book review