Editorials

Alan Earl Slater

The European Unions' Clinical Trials Directive
J R Soc Med 94(11): 557-558 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Issue of the day

R J Lilford, Frances Howie, Irene Scott, and Rachel Warren

Medical practice: where next?
J R Soc Med 94(11): 559-562 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Review articles

Jonathan Rees, Ciaran O'Boyle, and Ruaraidh MacDonagh

Quality of life: impact of chronic illness on the partner
J R Soc Med 94(11): 563-566 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Original articles

D R Camidge

The causes of dysphagia in carcinoma of the lung
J R Soc Med 94(11): 567-572 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Aravinthan Coomarasamy, Pallavi Latthe, Spyros Papaioannou, Mary Publicover, Harry Gee, and Khalid S Khan

Critical appraisal in clinical practice: sometimes irrelevant, occasionally invalid
J R Soc Med 94(11): 573-577 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Practice

Susan J Benbow, Angela Walsh, and Geoffrey V Gill

Brittle diabetes in the elderly
J R Soc Med 94(11): 578-580 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case reports

Lev B Silberstein, Adam N Rosenthal, Simon W Coppack, Kate Noonan, and Ian J Jacobs

Ascites and a raised serum Ca 125—confusing combination
J R Soc Med 94(11): 581-582 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Z A J Khan and J R Novell

A missing vas
J R Soc Med 94(11): 582-583 [Full Text] [PDF]  

S S Dandekar and D A H Laidlaw

Suprachoroidal haemorrhage after addition of clarithromycin to warfarin
J R Soc Med 94(11): 583-584 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

P A Stockton, M J Ledson, and M J Walshaw

Persistent superior vena caval syndrome due to totally implantable venous access systems
J R Soc Med 94(11): 584-585 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

B Vaidya, J Cavet, M D Boggild, G Parry, P Kendall-Taylor, and S G Ball

Pan-hypopituitarism and diabetes insipidus after a heart transplant
J R Soc Med 94(11): 586-588 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Marios C Papadopoulos, Aref Dyer, and Carl Hardwidge

Spontaneous extradural haematoma with sinusitis
J R Soc Med 94(11): 588-589 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Personal papers

Jason Smith and Gary Matthews

A military specialist registrar in your department: free blessing or cuckoo in the nest?
J R Soc Med 94(11): 590-591 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ethics

Leight Turner

Medical ethics in a multicultural society
J R Soc Med 94(11): 592-594 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medicine and art

Allan Beveridge

A disquieting feeling of strangeness?: the art of the mentally ill
J R Soc Med 94(11): 595-599 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Book of the month

D J Weatherall

Palliative Care for Non-Cancer Patients
J R Soc Med 94(11): 600-601 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Books

Roland Littlewood

The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity
J R Soc Med 94(11): 601-602 [Full Text] [PDF]  

C Richard W Lockyer

Comprehensive Urology
J R Soc Med 94(11): 602 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tim Somervaille

Disorders of Hemoglobin: Genetics, Pathophysiology, and Clinical Management
J R Soc Med 94(11): 602-603 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tony Lopez

The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook: Case Studies, Commentaries and Activities
J R Soc Med 94(11): 603-604 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Harold J Cook

The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman
J R Soc Med 94(11): 604-605 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Theo Fenton

Clinical Knowledge and Practice in the Information Age: a Handbook For Health Professionals
J R Soc Med 94(11): 605 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jane C Symonds

So you Want to be a Brain Surgeon? A Medical Careers Guide
J R Soc Med 94(11): 606 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sam Rowlands

Contraception in Practice
J R Soc Med 94(11): 606-607 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

D Melchart and E Ernst

Priorities for research in complementary medicine
J R Soc Med 94(11): 608 [Full Text] [PDF]  

J N Blau

Involving patients and the public—is it worth the effort?
J R Soc Med 94(11): 608 [Full Text] [PDF]  

P L Jenkins

Involving patients and the public—is it worth the effort?
J R Soc Med 94(11): 608 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David K Cundiff

Anticoagulants for deep venous thrombosis
J R Soc Med 94(11): 608-609 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Syed Wamique Yusuf

Cardiovascular manifestations of HIV infection
J R Soc Med 94(11): 609 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ahmes L Pahor

Ocular airgun injury—an ENT perspective
J R Soc Med 94(11): 609-610 [Full Text] [PDF]  

James Kalivas

Fair shares
J R Soc Med 94(11): 610 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corrections

Book review: Iatrogenic Multiple Pregnancy
J R Soc Med 94(11): 610 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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