The development of antidepressants is a continuing process and starting or finishing a review in any particular year risks the creation of arbitrary breaks. However a decade is as reasonable as any other time period to choose for a look to take stock. This editorial will not attempt to be comprehensive, but is a personal view of some issues which have emerged, as seen by a clinician and clinica...

Two strains of Vibrio cholerae are currently significant in cholera: a remnant from the sixth pandemic (1899-1923) still present in South Asia and the seventh pandemic strain which emerged in 1961. The 1990s were marked by spread of the seventh pandemic to South America in 1991 and appearance of an O139 form of the seventh pandemic strain in 1992 (or possibly 1991), which in 1993 predominated i...