From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Who will win the Premiership, Mr Obama?
J R Soc Med 102(4): 123; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k024 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

Saadia Farooq, Sertaz-Niel Kang, and Manoj Ramachandran

Sex, power and orthopaedics
J R Soc Med 102(4): 124—125; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090011 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letter

Kara G Hanson, Lucy Gilson, Catherine Goodman, and Anne Mills

The fallacy of competing interest statements: no shortcut to rigour in research
J R Soc Med 102(4): 126; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k016 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Emma Veitch and Larry Peiperl

Prior disclosure need not be a problem for journals
J R Soc Med 102(4): 126—127; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k018 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lal Madathil and Pratima Rao

Salivary glands and malignancy in pleomorphic adenoma
J R Soc Med 102(4): 127; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090072 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark Aitken

The under-funding of academic cancer research
J R Soc Med 102(4): 127; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k017 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alex E Jewkes

Psychiatry and religion – not such an obscure parallel
J R Soc Med 102(4): 127—128; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k020 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maryam Alfa-Wali

Change in healthcare
J R Soc Med 102(4): 128; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k019 [Full Text] [PDF]  

JK Anand and JW Myles

Change, we must – for the better
J R Soc Med 102(4): 128; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k021 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essay

Rubin Minhas and Claus Wendt

Letter from America: the political economics of US healthcare reform
J R Soc Med 102(4): 129—133; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k022 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edmund Hey

Managing allegations of research misconduct
J R Soc Med 102(4): 134—138; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090037 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review

Manuel Riera, Simon Buczacki, and Zulfiqar AJ Khan

Splenic regeneration following splenectomy and impact on sepsis: a clinical review
J R Soc Med 102(4): 139—142; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090039 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dominic Murphy, Neil Greenberg, and Duncan Bland

Health concerns in UK Armed Forces personnel
J R Soc Med 102(4): 143—147; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.080387 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research

Colin T Brewster and Taimur Shoaib

Caseload of NHS plastic surgeons in Scotland, 2005–2006: analysis of Scottish hospital activity data
J R Soc Med 102(4): 148—156; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.080350 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand Round

DJB Marks, A Cox, A Prodromou, R Gadelrab, F Pakzad, and RA Harrison

Fatal consequences of nasogastric intubation: a clinical reminder
J R Soc Med 102(4): 157—159; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.080395 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Hershel Jick

Learning how to control biases in studies to identify adverse effects of drugs: a brief personal history
J R Soc Med 102(4): 160—164; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k002 [Full Text] [PDF]  

21st century medicine

My working day: Trisha Greenhalgh
J R Soc Med 102(4): 165—166; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k012 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

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