| Date | Topic | Closing date for submission of original research |
| 2001 | ||
| October | Managing chronic diseases | Closed |
| November | Men′s health | Closed |
| 2002 | ||
| January | Global voices on the AIDS catastrophe | Closed |
| February | Evaluating the quality of health information on the internet* | 31 October 2001 |
| March | The limits of medicine and the medicalisation of human experience* | 31 October 2001 |
| May | Road traffic crashes | 15 December 2001 |
| June | Neurodegenerative diseases | 15 January 2002 |
| July | Doctors' wellbeing* | 15 February 2002 |
| September | What is a good doctor and how can we make one?* | 15 March 2002 |
| October | Managing chronic diseases | 15 April 2002 |
| November | Doctor-patient communication and relationships* | 15 May 2002 |
| 2003 | ||
| January | What doesn′t work and how to show it* | 15 June 2002 |
| *Selected by readers |