Editorials

Robin Fox

Symbiogenesis
J R Soc Med 97(12): 559; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.559 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review Articles

Frank P Ryan

Human endogenous retroviruses in health and disease: a symbiotic perspective
J R Soc Med 97(12): 560-565; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.560 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Original Articles

L Bhatia, G J Clesham, and D R Turner

Clinical implications of ST-segment non-resolution after thrombolysis for myocardial infarction
J R Soc Med 97(12): 566-570; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.566 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Arlene M Gallagher, Janice M Thomas, William T Hamilton, and Peter D White

Incidence of fatigue symptoms and diagnoses presenting in UK primary care from 1990 to 2001
J R Soc Med 97(12): 571-575; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.571 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Ethics

Franklin G Miller and Ted J Kaptchuk

Sham procedures and the ethics of clinical trials
J R Soc Med 97(12): 576-578; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.576 [Full Text] [PDF]  

National Health Service

Allan McNaught

Health policy and race equality: an illusion of progress?
J R Soc Med 97(12): 579-581; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.579 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case Reports

Mohammed Fadel, David Luyt, Hitesh Pandya, Sanjiv Nichani, and David Jenkins

Pneumococcal sepsis: should we look for asplenia?
J R Soc Med 97(12): 582-583; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.582 [Full Text] [PDF]  

O E Okosieme and R E Morse

Pseudophaeochromocytoma in two young Africans
J R Soc Med 97(12): 583-584; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.583 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Hadden and Ingrid Allen

Chemical meningitis due to rupture of a craniopharyngioma cyst
J R Soc Med 97(12): 585-586; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.585 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Parham Azarbod, Abhay Rane, and P John R Boyd

Inguinal lumps misidentified as ectopic testis
J R Soc Med 97(12): 586-587; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.586 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Sandeep Basavarajaiah, Paul Sigston, and Kuno Budack

Severe salicylate poisoning treated conservatively
J R Soc Med 97(12): 587-588; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.587 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Charles Bailey, Andrew Toner, John Nottingham, and David Hunter

Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy, dysphagia and aortic fistula
J R Soc Med 97(12): 588-589; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.588 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Profile

Marshall Marinker

John Horder
J R Soc Med 97(12): 590-593; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.590 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Medical History

Dimitri A Cozanitis

One hundred years of barbiturates and their saint
J R Soc Med 97(12): 594-598; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.594 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Damian Gardner-Thorpe, Christopher Gardner-Thorpe, and John Pearn

William Close (1775-1813): medicine, music, ink and engines in the Lake District
J R Soc Med 97(12): 599-602; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.599 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Book of the Month

Ross Kessel

One of Us
J R Soc Med 97(12): 603-604; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.603 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Books

W Bruce Conolly and Jan van Loon

Tumors of the Hand
J R Soc Med 97(12): 605; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.605 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jane Schulte

Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology— a Multidisciplinary Approach
J R Soc Med 97(12): 605; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.605-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edzard Ernst

Marginal to Mainstream: Alternative Medicine in America
J R Soc Med 97(12): 605-606; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.605-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chris Nunn

Beyond Depression: a New Approach to Understanding and Management
J R Soc Med 97(12): 606-607; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.606 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Henry Dinsdale

The surgeon's job
J R Soc Med 97(12): 608; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.608 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gordon Ferns

Achilles tendinopathy
J R Soc Med 97(12): 608; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.608-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ahmes L Pahor

Textbook of Tropical Surgery
J R Soc Med 97(12): 608; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.608-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

E D Myers

The sickly Stuarts
J R Soc Med 97(12): 608-609; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.608-c [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jon K C Yoong

Coxibs and serious adverse cardiovascular events: a class-effect?
J R Soc Med 97(12): 609; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.609 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Suneeta Kochhar

Adult bone-marrow stem cells
J R Soc Med 97(12): 609-610; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.609-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aamir Shahzad, Bruce Campbell, and Peter Littlejohns

Diathermy and tonsillectomy: criticism of NICE • Reply from NICE
J R Soc Med 97(12): 610-611; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.610 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vicki Quincey, R Hull, and D Sinclair

Referral criteria in early rheumatoid arthritis
J R Soc Med 97(12): 611; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.611 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Simon Gandevia

Compulsory helmets for cyclists
J R Soc Med 97(12): 612; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.12.612 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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