From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Doctors: the media’s favourite worst nightmare
J R Soc Med 101(3): 99; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.081012 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

Alimuddin Zumla

Tuberculosis – the tide can be turned, the battle can be won
J R Soc Med 101(3): 100-101; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070395 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Metcalfe

Involving medical students in research
J R Soc Med 101(3): 102-103; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070393 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letter

Dhanya Kalathil, Kashif Mussarat, and George I Varughese

The cardiovascular morbidity associated with hyperglycaemia
J R Soc Med 101(3): 104; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070482 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Milo Keynes and TM Cox

William Bateson, the rediscoverer of Mendel
J R Soc Med 101(3): 104; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.081011 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essay

Kiran CR Patel, Rubin Minhas, Paul Lincoln, and Ranjit K Dhillon

Strategic challenges in the prevention of cardiovascular disease
J R Soc Med 101(3): 105-107; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070430 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark Aitken

The dignity and privacy of patients
J R Soc Med 101(3): 108-109; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2007.070406 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Series

Vincent Marks and Caroline Richmond

Beverly Allitt: the nurse who killed babies
J R Soc Med 101(3): 110-115; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.071002 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Review

Kunal Kulkarni and Douglas EH Hartley

Recent advances in hearing restoration
J R Soc Med 101(3): 116-124; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2007.070420 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Paul M Wilson, Alison M Booth, Alison Eastwood, and Ian S Watt

Deconstructing media coverage of trastuzumab (Herceptin): an analysis of national newspaper coverage
J R Soc Med 101(3): 125-132; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2007.070115 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

R Pearcy, D Waldron, C O'Boyle, and R MacDonagh

Proxy assessment of quality of life in patients with prostate cancer: how accurate are partners and urologists?
J R Soc Med 101(3): 133-138; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.081002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Aziz Sheikh, Julia Hippisley-Cox, John Newton, and Justin Fenty

Trends in national incidence, lifetime prevalence and adrenaline prescribing for anaphylaxis in England
J R Soc Med 101(3): 139-143; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070306 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand Round

Konstantinos Michalopoulos, Sinnappa Gunasekaran, James W Moor, and Chris Bem

Dysphagia with a thyroid nodule: is there a primary aerodigestive malignancy?
J R Soc Med 101(3): 144-145; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.070166 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

Sanjay A Pai

Book review: happy accidents
J R Soc Med 101(3): 146-147; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.071015 [Full Text] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Irvine Loudon

The use of historical controls and concurrent controls to assess the effects of sulphonamides, 1936–1945
J R Soc Med 101(3): 148-155; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.081005 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Podium

Michael J Tidd

The big idea: polonium, radon and cigarettes
J R Soc Med 101(3): 156-157; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2007.070021 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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