Editorials

S W B Newsom

MRSA—past, present, future
J R Soc Med 97(11): 509-510; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.509 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Issue of the day

Terence J Wilkin and Linda D Voss

Metabolic syndrome: maladaptation to a modern world
J R Soc Med 97(11): 511-520; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.511 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Original articles

D S Thompson

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a general intensive care unit
J R Soc Med 97(11): 521-526; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.521 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S C Allen and S Raut

Biochemical recovery time scales in elderly patients with osteomalacia
J R Soc Med 97(11): 527-530; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.527 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Review articles

Giles Newton-Howes

What happens when children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder grow up?
J R Soc Med 97(11): 531-535; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.531 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case reports

A Strang and T Pullar

Methotrexate toxicity induced by acute renal failure
J R Soc Med 97(11): 536-537; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.536 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Luís Pinheiro, João Freitas, Margarida Lucas, and Rui M M Victorino

Cerebellar atrophy in systemic sclerosis
J R Soc Med 97(11): 537-538; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.537 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hal Spencer, Panagiota Kitsanta, and Stuart Riley

Cryptogenic multifocal ulcerous stenosing enteritis
J R Soc Med 97(11): 538-540; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.538 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

John C Bladen, Mariya Moosajee, and J H Duncan Bassett

A tense case—Carney’s triad
J R Soc Med 97(11): 540-541; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.540 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

P W X Foley, D Pepperell, Rashid Kazmi, and N P Curzen

Unsuspected acquired haemophilia in a patient with myocardial infarction
J R Soc Med 97(11): 542-543; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.542 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

James Clark and N Theodorou

Appendicitis after appendicectomy
J R Soc Med 97(11): 543-544; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.543 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Personal papers

Derek Steinberg

Child and adolescent psychiatry—a model for medical teaching
J R Soc Med 97(11): 545-546; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.545 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arthur Baskerville

Assessment
J R Soc Med 97(11): 547-548; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.547 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medicine and art

W Hijmans and J Dequeker

Camptodactyly in a painting by Dirk Bouts (c. 1410–1475)
J R Soc Med 97(11): 549-551; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.549 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Book of the month

Mark Harper

MMR: science and fiction
J R Soc Med 97(11): 552-553; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.552 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Books

C Mark B Edwards

International Textbook of Diabetes Mellitus
J R Soc Med 97(11): 554; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.554 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jason Payne-James

Clinical Toxicology: Principles & Mechanisms
J R Soc Med 97(11): 554-555; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.554-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robin Fox

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
J R Soc Med 97(11): 555; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.555 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Michael Irwin

Home or hospital: choices at the end of life
J R Soc Med 97(11): 556; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.556 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tsung O Cheng

Medical abbreviations
J R Soc Med 97(11): 556; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.556-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Rawlins

Helmets for cyclists and the ethics of legislation
J R Soc Med 97(11): 556-557; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.556-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

John K Paterson

Medical care in France
J R Soc Med 97(11): 557; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.557 [Full Text] [PDF]  

R D Pocock, M A Stott, M C Crundwell, A Watkinson, R Thomas, J Coote, and J Harington

Access to scrotal ultrasonography
J R Soc Med 97(11): 558; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.11.558 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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