The art of the demographic dividend.

Volume 377 · Number 9780 · May 28–June 3, 2011
The Lancet—London
32 Jamestown Road,
London NW1 7BY,
UK
T +44 (0)20 7424 4910
F +44 (0)20 7424 4911
The Lancet—New York
360 Park Avenue South,
New York, NY 10010–1710,
USA
T +1 212 633 3810
F +1 212 633 3853
The Lancet—Beijing
Unit 1–6, 7F, Tower W1,
Oriental Plaza, Beijing 100738
China
T + 86 10 85208872
F + 86 10 85189297
Editorial
Articles
1807 The making of a modern medic
1808 Half a century of Amnesty International
1808 Patients’ power and PACE
1837 5 versus 10 days of treatment with ceftriaxone for
bacterial meningitis in children: a double-blind
randomised equivalence study
Comment
1809 Fine with five? Shorter antibiotic courses for
childhood meningitis
M D Snape, D F Kelly
1810 Salvage with erlotinib plus bevacizumab: not in NSCLC
J-P Sculier and others
editorial@lancet.com
1812 Fetal growth standards: individual and
global perspectives
Editor
Richard Horton
1814 Reclassifying personality disorders
Deputy Editor
Astrid James
J Gardosi
P Tyrer and others
1816 The first flight of DSM-5
E Molyneux and others
1846 Efficacy of bevacizumab plus erlotinib versus erlotinib
alone in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer after
failure of standard first-line chemotherapy (BeTa):
a double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial
R S Herbst and others
1855 A global reference for fetal-weight and
birthweight percentiles
R T Mikolajczyk and others
Clinical Picture
1862 Hydatid pericardial tamponade: a grape soup
C-A Mestres and others
Series
1863 Health in Brazil 2
Maternal and child health in Brazil: progress
and challenges
Senior Executive Editors
Pam Das
Sabine Kleinert
William Summerskill
Executive Editors
Justine Davies
David McNamee
Ros Osmond
Pia Pini
Stuart Spencer
Managing Editor
Stephanie Clark
1821 Political tussle continues over US health-care reform
Web Editors
Richard Lane
Erika Niesner
1823 Australian scientists lobby for antimicrobial
oversight body
1890 PAS-positive macrophages—not always infection
Assistant Web Editor
Nicolai Humphreys
Senior Editors
Niall Boyce
Jane Godsland
Seema Kang
Selina Lo
Zoë Mullan
Joanna Palmer
Udani Samarasekera
Richard Turner
N Boyce
1817 Metabolic phenotyping for monitoring
surgical patients
J M Kinross and others
1820 Offline: Thailand steals the show
R Horton
World Report
N Bristol
T Kirby
W Meersseman and others
S M Griffiths
1827 Keryn Christiansen: a household name in microbiology
T Kirby
D O’Neill
Conference Editors
Laura Hart
Elvira Manjaji
1830 Alfred Mordecai Freedman
Deputy Managing Editor
Hannah Cumber
Correspondence
The Lancet® is a registered
trademark of Elsevier Properties
S A, used under licence.
D Holmes
Obituary
Editorial Assistants
Holly Baker
Neil Bennet
Emma Rogulska
Katherine Rolfe
Ambreen Tariq
Case Report
1826 Progress and pollution: the challenges for China
North American Senior Editor
Maja Zecevic (New York)
Media Relations Manager
Tony Kirby
M L Barreto and others
1825 Falling from their pedestal—doctors on film
1828 The art of the demographic dividend
Assistant Editors
Olaya Astudillo
Abi Cantor
Mario Christodoulou
Dara Mohammadi
Zena Nyakoojo
Frances Whinder
C G Victora and others
1877 Health in Brazil 3
Successes and failures in the control of infectious
diseases in Brazil: social and environmental context,
policies, interventions, and research needs
Perspectives
Asia Editor
Helena Hui Wang (Beijing)
Senior Assistant Editors
Laura Benham
Tim Dehnel
Katrina Phillips
Onisillos Sekkides
Lucy Wilkie
Farhat Yaqub
G Watts
1831 The PACE trial in chronic fatigue syndrome
J Giakoumakis; J T Mitchell Jr; S M Feehan and others; A J Kewley; B Stouten and
others; T Kindlon; M Shinohara; J W S Vlaeyen and others; P D White and others
1835 The IHP+: a welcome initiative with an uncertain future
D McCoy and others
1836 A crucial factor in shared decision making:
the team approach
S J Head and others
1836 Department of Error
Peer reviewed and fast-tracked to publication in 4 weeks
Previously published online
See www.thelancet.com for WebExtra content
International Advisory Board
Karen Antman (Boston)
Valerie Beral (Oxford)
Robert Beaglehole (Auckland)
Anthony Costello (London)
Robert Fletcher (Boston)
Suzanne Fletcher (Boston)
Karen Gelmon (Vancouver)
David Grimes (Durham)
Ana Langer (Mexico City)
Judith Lumley (Melbourne)
Elizabeth Molyneux (Blantyre)
Christopher Murray (Seattle)
Alwyn Mwinga (Lusaka)
Marie-Louise Newell (Somkhele)
Magne Nylenna (Oslo)
Peter Piot (London)
Stuart Pocock (London)
Giuseppe Remuzzi (Bergamo)
Caroline Savage (Birmingham)
Ken Schulz (Chapel Hill)
Frank Shann (Melbourne)
Jan Vandenbroucke (Leiden)
Cesar Victora (Pelotas)
Nick White (Bangkok)
Information for Authors
See www.thelancet.com for
guidelines for authors.
Ombudsman
Charles Warlow
(c/o The Lancet or ombudsman@lancet.com)