Editorials

Bryan Williams

Treatment of hypertension in the UK: simple as ABCD?
J R Soc Med 96(11): 521-522; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.521 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew O Frank and Philip Sawney

Vocational rehabilitation
J R Soc Med 96(11): 522-524; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.522 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Original articles

Tom Walley, Andy K Duggan, Alan R Haycox, and Christie J Niziol

Treatment for newly diagnosed hypertension: patterns of prescribing and antihypertensive effectiveness in the UK
J R Soc Med 96(11): 525-531; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.525 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

National Health Service

Alan Maynard and Karen Bloor

Trust and performance management in the medical marketplace
J R Soc Med 96(11): 532-539; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.532 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Review articles

R S Maurice-Williams and J Lafuente

Intracranial aneurysm surgery and its future
J R Soc Med 96(11): 540-543; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.540 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Riaz Agha and Gordon Muir

Does laparoscopic surgery spell the end of the open surgeon?
J R Soc Med 96(11): 544-546; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.544 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Practice

C S Lee and P A McCormick

Telephone reminders to reduce non-attendance rate for endoscopy
J R Soc Med 96(11): 547-548; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.547 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case reports

M J P Biggs and C A Quick

Mysterious dysphagia
J R Soc Med 96(11): 549-550; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.549 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kyo Niijima

An aneurysm is born
J R Soc Med 96(11): 550-551; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.550 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Natasha Khan, Charles Pumphrey, James Clarke, and Marjan Jahangiri

Aortic root replacement in pregnancy
J R Soc Med 96(11): 551-552; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.551 [Full Text] [PDF]  

F M Braeunling, P M Mackey, C Wright, O E Klimach, and D N Ramanaden

Cellulitis of the right thigh, with gas
J R Soc Med 96(11): 553-554; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.553 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ardeshir Bayat, Guyan Arscott, William E R Ollier, Mark W J Ferguson, and D Angus McGrouther

‘Aggressive keloid’: a severe variant of familial keloid scarring
J R Soc Med 96(11): 554-555; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.554 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

I S Whitaker, B Elmiyeh, M N Siddiqui, and T C Holme

Haemopneumothorax after fine needle aspiration of the breast
J R Soc Med 96(11): 555-556; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.555 [Full Text] [PDF]  

G Miles, T K Walters, and C D Shee

Periprosthetic tuberculous breast infection
J R Soc Med 96(11): 556-557; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.556 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul J Gibbs, Peter J Friend, and Chris R Darby

Renal replacement therapy in a patient with phocomelia
J R Soc Med 96(11): 558; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.558 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Special article

W A Liston

Rising caesarean section rates: can evolution and ecology explain some of the difficulties of modern childbirth?
J R Soc Med 96(11): 559-561; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.559 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical History

D Hodgson

Of gods and leeches: treatment of priapism in the nineteenth century
J R Soc Med 96(11): 562-565; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.562 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Books

S M Yentis

Perceptions of Pain
J R Soc Med 96(11): 566; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.566 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew C Swift

Principles and Practice of Head and Neck Oncology
J R Soc Med 96(11): 566-567; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.566-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Simon Stern

ABC of Antithrombotic Therapy
J R Soc Med 96(11): 567-568; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.567 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew Marshall

Tailoring Heart Failure Therapy
J R Soc Med 96(11): 568; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.568 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anthony D Dayan

A History of Cocaine: the Mystery of Coca Java and the Kew Plant
J R Soc Med 96(11): 568-569; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.568-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chris Nunn

The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glas
J R Soc Med 96(11): 569-570; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.569 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

L Dunkley and A S M Jawad

Thyroid function in chronic urticaria and angio-oedema
J R Soc Med 96(11): 571; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.571 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Guy Nash, Rachel Evans, and Richard Cohen

Jumperphagia: a woolly diagnosis
J R Soc Med 96(11): 571-572; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.571-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hannah Lambert and Hilary Wynne

Patients' understanding of anticoagulant therapy
J R Soc Med 96(11): 572; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.572 [Full Text] [PDF]  

James Goodwin

Cerebrovascular disease in The Count of Monte Cristo
J R Soc Med 96(11): 572; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.572-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine Spinou and G W McGarry

Periorbital cellulitis with breast cancer
J R Soc Med 96(11): 573; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.573 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ivor E Doney

Legal considerations of clinical guidelines
J R Soc Med 96(11): 573; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.573-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

E Ernst

Complementary evidence
J R Soc Med 96(11): 573; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.573-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

N H Harris

Medicolegal conferencing
J R Soc Med 96(11): 573-574; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.573-c [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corrections

Tripling of blood pressure by sexual stimulation in a man with spinal cord injury
J R Soc Med 96(11): 574; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.11.574 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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