Editorials

T J David

Newborn screening for cystic fibrosis
J R Soc Med 97(5): 209-210; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.209 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medicine and law

Ash Samanta and Jo Samanta

Regulation of the medical profession: fantasy, reality and legality
J R Soc Med 97(5): 211-218; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.211 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Issue of the day

Christopher C Butler, Martyn Evans, David Greaves, and Sharon Simpson

Medically unexplained symptoms: the biopsychosocial model found wanting
J R Soc Med 97(5): 219-222; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.219 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review articles

Raymond D'Souza and Graham R Foster

Diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C
J R Soc Med 97(5): 223-225; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.223 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Practice

Owen Greene and Paul Durrington

Clinical management of children and young adults with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia in the UK
J R Soc Med 97(5): 226-229; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.226 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

National Health Service

Mark Kroese, David Kanka, Peter Weissberg, Barbara Arch, and John Scott

Prehospital thrombolysis—calculated health benefit for catchment population of one hospital
J R Soc Med 97(5): 230-234; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.230 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Andy Monro and Graham P Mulley

Hospital bathrooms and showers: a continuing saga of inadequacy
J R Soc Med 97(5): 235-237; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.235 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case reports

D Carlton-Conway, R Tulloh, L Wood, and D Kanabar

Vitamin D deficiency and cardiac failure in infancy
J R Soc Med 97(5): 238-239; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.238 [Full Text] [PDF]  

P A Bodkin, R Bhangoo, A R Walsh, and S Sgouros

Beware of the midline scalp lump
J R Soc Med 97(5): 239-241; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.239 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

P A Whitehouse and G P Gartell

Gastric ligneoma
J R Soc Med 97(5): 241-242; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.241 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

T Coughlan, S Lawson, and D O'Neill

French without tears? Foreign accent syndrome
J R Soc Med 97(5): 242-243; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.242 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical History

Derrick Tovey

The Bradford smallpox outbreak in 1962: a personal account
J R Soc Med 97(5): 244-247; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.244 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Personal papers

J S Huntley and M B Kelly

Animal Hospital—a fairy story
J R Soc Med 97(5): 248-249; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.248 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book of the month

Tim Holt

When Food Kills
J R Soc Med 97(5): 250; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.250 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Books

David Seamark

Cancer in Primary Care
J R Soc Med 97(5): 251; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.251 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Françoise Shenfield

Medical Ethics Today: Its Practice and Philosophy: The BMA's Handbook of Ethics and Law, 2nd edition
J R Soc Med 97(5): 251-252; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.251-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jack Gillon

Bloody Easy: A Guide to Transfusion Medicine
J R Soc Med 97(5): 252-253; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.252 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Theo Fenton

Neonatal and Laboratory Medicine, 2nd edition
J R Soc Med 97(5): 253; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.253 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Tsung O Cheng

Obesity in Chinese children
J R Soc Med 97(5): 254; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.254 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicholas Calder and Robin McGuinness

Swallowed partial dentures
J R Soc Med 97(5): 254; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.254-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Harvey White

Swallowed partial dentures
J R Soc Med 97(5): 254-255; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.254-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas H F Fysh

Swallowed toothbrush
J R Soc Med 97(5): 255; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.255 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Richard J Guy

Shell shock
J R Soc Med 97(5): 255-256; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.255-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

M W J Adams, Pamela Chrispin, and Marisa Spice

An unusual paracetamol overdose
J R Soc Med 97(5): 256; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.256 [Full Text] [PDF]  

A W Beasley

Putrid gums and ‘Dead Men's Cloaths’
J R Soc Med 97(5): 256-257; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.256-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Caitriona Cusack and David John O Gorman

Role of thyroxine in chronic urticaria and angio-oedema
J R Soc Med 97(5): 257; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.257 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreas K Demetriades

Laennec's legacy
J R Soc Med 97(5): 257-258; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.257-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cyril Greenland

Risk factors for neonaticide and infant homicide
J R Soc Med 97(5): 258; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.5.258 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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