Editorials

Brian J Kirby

Safety of homeopathic products
J R Soc Med 95(5): 221-222; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.221 [Full Text] [PDF]  

National Health Service

Nancy Devlin, Anthony Harrison, and Sarah Derrett

Waiting in the NHS: Part 1—a diagnosis
J R Soc Med 95(5): 223-226; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.223 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review articles

I O Ebrahim, R S Howard, M D Kopelman, M K Sharief, and A J Williams

The hypocretin/orexin system
J R Soc Med 95(5): 227-230; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.227 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Symposium

Richard V Abadi

Mechanisms underlying nystagmus
J R Soc Med 95(5): 231-234; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.231 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

John S Stahl, Gordon T Plant, and R John Leigh

Medical treatment of nystagmus and its visual consequences
J R Soc Med 95(5): 235-237; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.235 [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Lee

Surgical management of nystagmus
J R Soc Med 95(5): 238-241; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.238 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Original articles

Julian C Hughes, Tony Hope, Steve Reader, and Dee Rice

Dementia and ethics: the views of informal carers
J R Soc Med 95(5): 242-246; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.242 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Practice

I Pearce, S Islam, I G McIntyre, and K J O'Flynn

Suspected testicular torsion: a survey of clinical practice in North West England
J R Soc Med 95(5): 247-249; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.247 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case reports

A J Marshall, N J Ring, and P L Newman

An unexplained foreign body in the myocardium
J R Soc Med 95(5): 250-251; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.250 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

D A Hett and K Fichtner

A plastic explosive by mouth
J R Soc Med 95(5): 251-252; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.251 [Full Text] [PDF]  

H A Vohra, H Vohra, and R L Patel

Cardiac myxoma with three recurrences
J R Soc Med 95(5): 252-253; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.252 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

J S Kalsi, M Arya, J Peters, S Minhas, and D J Ralph

Grease-gun injury to the penis
J R Soc Med 95(5): 254; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.254 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Meetings

R E Stanwell-Smith

More changed against than changing? Public health in the new NHS
J R Soc Med 95(5): 255-256; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.255 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medicine and art

Christopher Goulding

The real Doctor Frankenstein?
J R Soc Med 95(5): 257-259; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.257 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical History

V J Marmion and T E J Wiedemann

The death of Claudius
J R Soc Med 95(5): 260-261; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.260 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book of the month

Chris Milroy

Karch's Pathology of Drug Abuse
J R Soc Med 95(5): 262-263; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.262 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Books

Andre McLean

Fine Wines and Fish Oil: the Life of Hugh Macdonald Sinclair
J R Soc Med 95(5): 263-264; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.263 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Miles Little

The Ethics of Medical Research on Humans
J R Soc Med 95(5): 264-265; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.264 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Timothy Chambers

The Kidney at a Glance
J R Soc Med 95(5): 265-266; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.265 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aileen K Adams

Tarnished Idol: William Thomas Green Morton and the Introduction of Surgical Anesthesia
J R Soc Med 95(5): 266-267; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.266 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aziz Sheikh

Medical Ethics (3rd Edition)
J R Soc Med 95(5): 267-268; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.267 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jennian F Geddes

The Nobel Prize in Medicine and the Karolinska Institute: the Story of Axel Key and Alfred Nobel
J R Soc Med 95(5): 268-269; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.268 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Peter Marks and Tim Daniel

Emergency ambulance triage
J R Soc Med 95(5): 270; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.270 [Full Text] [PDF]  

V Vassiliou, A K Demetriades, G Scott, M Biswas, K Owen, and M K Jones

Fusidic acid monotherapy • Authors' reply
J R Soc Med 95(5): 270-271; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.270-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Helen Bamber, Elizabeth Gordon, Rami Heilbronn, and Duncan Forrest

Attitudes to torture
J R Soc Med 95(5): 271-272; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.271 [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Rawlins

Revalidation of the retired
J R Soc Med 95(5): 272; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.272 [Full Text] [PDF]  

E N Wardle

Revalidation of the retired
J R Soc Med 95(5): 272; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.272-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

John K Paterson

Back pain—whose responsibility?
J R Soc Med 95(5): 272; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.272-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne Savage

Decline in rehabilitation services
J R Soc Med 95(5): 272-273; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.272-c [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marita R Brown

Decline in rehabilitation services
J R Soc Med 95(5): 273; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.273 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Niall Quinn and Kailash Bhatia

The man who walks backwards
J R Soc Med 95(5): 273; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.273-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kristel Longman

Clinical skills in final year medical students
J R Soc Med 95(5): 273-274; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.273-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

M F Corbett

Mystery syndromes
J R Soc Med 95(5): 274; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.274 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Margaret Elmes

Earth-eating
J R Soc Med 95(5): 274; doi:10.1258/jrsm.95.5.274-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

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