Editorials

Ketan Dhatariya

Type 2 diabetes is cardiovascular disease
J R Soc Med 96(8): 371-372; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.371 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elias Mossialos and Martin McKee

Rationing treatment on the NHS—still a political issue
J R Soc Med 96(8): 372-373; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.372 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Special article

Lee Shiu Hung

The SARS epidemic in Hong Kong: what lessons have we learned?
J R Soc Med 96(8): 374-378; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.374 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Original articles

Jean Potter, Irene J Higginson, John W Scadding, and Columba Quigley

Identifying neuropathic pain in patients with head and neck cancer: use of the Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs Scale
J R Soc Med 96(8): 379-383; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.379 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter McCarron, Mona Okasha, James McEwen, and George Davey Smith

Association between course of study at university and cause-specific mortality
J R Soc Med 96(8): 384-388; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.384 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review articles

John M Grange, John L Stanford, Cynthia A Stanford, and Klaus F Kölmel

Vaccination strategies to reduce the risk of leukaemia and melanoma
J R Soc Med 96(8): 389-392; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.389 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Practice

Eric Fontaine, Rachel Leaver, and Christopher R J Woodhouse

Diagnosis of perforated enterocystoplasty
J R Soc Med 96(8): 393-394; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.393 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

National Health Service

Jason J Smith, Rebecca J Mallard-Smith, Victoria Beattie, and David K Beattie

Use of information technology in general practice
J R Soc Med 96(8): 395-397; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.395 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

K R Subramonian, S Puranik, and G R Mufti

How will the two-weeks-wait rule affect delays in management of urological cancers?
J R Soc Med 96(8): 398-399; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.398 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Case reports

Roberto P Casula, Thanos Athanasiou, Ashok Cherian, Ross Bacon, Rodney Foale, and Ara Darzi

Totally endoscopic robotically enhanced coronary artery bypass on the beating heart
J R Soc Med 96(8): 400-401; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.400 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

C M B Edwards, J J Cream, and J Cassar

Swollen lips and a tender neck
J R Soc Med 96(8): 402-403; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.402 [Full Text] [PDF]  

D Mukerjee, E Kingdon, M Vanderpump, and J G Coghlan

Pathophysiological insights from a case of reversible pulmonary arterial hypertension
J R Soc Med 96(8): 403-404; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.403 [Full Text] [PDF]  

A J Stewart, B M Southcott, and E Raweily

Lymphadenopathy after joint replacement for osteoclastoma
J R Soc Med 96(8): 404-406; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.404 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

J Ramus and G A D McPherson

Recurrent bowel infarction in paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria
J R Soc Med 96(8): 406-407; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.406 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

R Abela, S Khan, and A Wells

Priapism at age 94
J R Soc Med 96(8): 407-408; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.407 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Personal papers

Hazel Thornton

Mammographic screening: give us the facts
J R Soc Med 96(8): 409-410; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.409 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Irwin

A new kind of living will
J R Soc Med 96(8): 411; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.411 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medicine and art

A N Williams

Cerebrovascular disease in Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
J R Soc Med 96(8): 412-414; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.412 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Book of the month

Steven W Sinding

Under the Banyan Tree
J R Soc Med 96(8): 415-416; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.415 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Books

J Gareth Jones

Everest: A Thousand Years of Exploration
J R Soc Med 96(8): 417-418; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.417 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Sharp

Population-based Research in South Wales: The MRC Pneumoconiosis Research Unit and the MRC Epidemiology Unit: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine: Vol 13
J R Soc Med 96(8): 418; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.418 [Full Text] [PDF]  

S M Cooper

The Quotable Osler
J R Soc Med 96(8): 419; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.419 [Full Text] [PDF]  

T L Chambers

When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life care for Children and their Families
J R Soc Med 96(8): 419-420; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.419-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

J F Geddes

Trepanation: History, Discovery, Theory
J R Soc Med 96(8): 420; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.420 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark Harper

Consciousness: a User's Guide
J R Soc Med 96(8): 420-421; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.420-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

S L Mackie and A O Frank

Medically unexplained symptoms: (Letter 1 of 2)
J R Soc Med 96(8): 422; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.422 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sudhir Kumar

Medically unexplained symptoms: (Letter 2 of 2)
J R Soc Med 96(8): 422; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.422-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Noble

Abdominal pregnancy and lithopaedion
J R Soc Med 96(8): 423; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.423 [Full Text] [PDF]  

R B Douglas

Effects of exposure to CS
J R Soc Med 96(8): 423-424; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.423-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Surinder Singh

What about GPs in the fight against tuberculosis?
J R Soc Med 96(8): 424; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.424 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jason Warren

Maurice Ravel's amusia
J R Soc Med 96(8): 424; doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.8.424-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

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