Editorials

Neville W Goodman

The policing of science
J R Soc Med 97(6): 259-261; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.259 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Issue of the day

Aziz Sheikh, Adrian Cook, and Richard Ashcroft

Making cycle helmets compulsory: ethical arguments for legislation
J R Soc Med 97(6): 262-265; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.262 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Original articles

Michael Vassallo, Raj Vignaraja, Jagdish C Sharma, Roger Briggs, and Stephen C Allen

Predictors for falls among hospital inpatients with impaired mobility
J R Soc Med 97(6): 266-269; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.266 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review articles

C Mark B Edwards

GLP-1: target for a new class of antidiabetic agents?
J R Soc Med 97(6): 270-274; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.270 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Shahzad G Raja and Gilles D Dreyfus

Will off-pump coronary artery surgery replace conventional coronary artery surgery?
J R Soc Med 97(6): 275-278; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.275 [Full Text] [PDF]  

National Health Service

Darrell Allen, Rick Popert, and Tim O'Brien

The two-week-wait cancer initiative in urology: useful modernization?
J R Soc Med 97(6): 279-281; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.279 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Case reports

Philip Alexander and Timothy B L Ho

An infectious cause of metastatic bone disease
J R Soc Med 97(6): 282-283; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.282 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Aqeel Bhutta and Akhtar Nasim

Left arm pain 22 years after repair of aortic coarctation
J R Soc Med 97(6): 283-284; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.283 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Arjun S Takhar, Amit Thaper, Andrew Byrne, and Dileep N Lobo

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a patient with myotonic dystrophy
J R Soc Med 97(6): 284-285; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.284 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sukhbinder Bassi, Raj Amersey, Robert Henderson, and G Keith Morris

Thyrotoxicosis, sumatriptan and coronary artery spasm
J R Soc Med 97(6): 285-287; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.285 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Claire L Warren and I M S Sawhney

Encephalopathy with hypothyroidism
J R Soc Med 97(6): 287-288; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.287 [Full Text] [PDF]  

H U Ahmed, S Wajed, B Krijgsman, V Elliot, and M Winslet

Acute abdomen from a Meckel lipoma
J R Soc Med 97(6): 288-289; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.288 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Pravin Jha, Stuart Hutchinson, Bob Spychal, and Chi-Yeung Lee

Respiratory distress after heavy lifting
J R Soc Med 97(6): 290-291; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.290 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Medical History

Anne Charlton

Medicinal uses of tobacco in history
J R Soc Med 97(6): 292-296; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.292 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

J M S Pearce

Thomas Addison (1793-1860)
J R Soc Med 97(6): 297-300; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.297 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Medicine and art

Horton A Johnson

Gerard de Lairesse: genius among the treponemes
J R Soc Med 97(6): 301-303; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.301 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Book of the month

David Seamark

Oxford Textbook of Primary Medical Care
J R Soc Med 97(6): 304; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.304 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Books

Amanda Howe

Teaching Medical Students in Primary and Secondary Care: a Resource Book
J R Soc Med 97(6): 305; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.305 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Barry Monk

Classics in Clinical Dermatology with Biographical Sketches: 50th Anniversary 2nd Edition
J R Soc Med 97(6): 305-306; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.305-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oliver Morgan

Child Health and the Environment
J R Soc Med 97(6): 306; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.306 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Milo Keynes

The Sickly Stuarts—the Medical Downfall of a Dynasty
J R Soc Med 97(6): 306-307; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.306-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

John Main

Evidence-based and complementary medicine
J R Soc Med 97(6): 308; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.308 [Full Text] [PDF]  

R Fuller, N J Dudley, J Maule, and T Stewart

Dilemmas in managing intracerebral haemorrhage and thromboembolism
J R Soc Med 97(6): 308-309; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.308-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joanna Chikwe and Lauren Ovens

Dilemmas in managing intracerebral haemorrhage and thromboembolism
J R Soc Med 97(6): 309; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.309 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard J Motley

Surgical waiting lists are not inevitable
J R Soc Med 97(6): 309; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.309-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nick Black

Author's reply
J R Soc Med 97(6): 309-310; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.309-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard Smith

Ophthalmic surgical training
J R Soc Med 97(6): 310; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.310 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Helena Posnett and J Derodra

Diagnostic devices in the undergraduate curriculum
J R Soc Med 97(6): 310; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.310-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Henry Connor

The language of medicine
J R Soc Med 97(6): 310-311; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.310-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

H E Emson

Thyroid swellings in Renaissance art
J R Soc Med 97(6): 311; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.311 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

A I Malik, S Tou, and A Huang

Waiting times for cancer treatment
J R Soc Med 97(6): 311; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.311-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corrections

Teenage pregnancy rates: high compared with where and when?
J R Soc Med 97(6): 312; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.312 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neonatal and Laboratory Medicine
J R Soc Med 97(6): 312; doi:10.1258/jrsm.97.6.312-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

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