From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Bird flu: one dead swan, one billion items of information
J R Soc Med 99(5): 213; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.213 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

Ilora Finlay

`First do no harm'—a clear line in law and medical ethics
J R Soc Med 99(5): 214-215; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.214 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew J Krentz

Self-image in obesity: clinical and public health implications
J R Soc Med 99(5): 215-217; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.215 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ash Samanta

Medical experts, the law and professional regulation
J R Soc Med 99(5): 217-218; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.217 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Abhijit Chaudhuri

Localization in clinical neurology
J R Soc Med 99(5): 219; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.219 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin A Samuels and Allan H. Ropper

Localization in clinical neurology
J R Soc Med 99(5): 219-220; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.219-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

F E James

Depression: epidemic or pseudo-epidemic?
J R Soc Med 99(5): 220; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.220 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oscar Jolobe

Inadvertent toxic drug reaction in the management of atrial fibrillation
J R Soc Med 99(5): 220; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.220-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Simon Lammy

Public health in the UK: success or failure?
J R Soc Med 99(5): 220-221; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.220-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arnold Elliott

Contribution of general practice to NHS patients
J R Soc Med 99(5): 221; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.221 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essays

Liam Donaldson

A pandemic on the horizon
J R Soc Med 99(5): 222-225; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.222 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rory J O'Connor and Vera C Neumann

Payment by results or payment by outcome? The history of measuring medicine
J R Soc Med 99(5): 226-231; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.226 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Series

Richard Smith

Research misconduct: the poisoning of the well
J R Soc Med 99(5): 232-237; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.232 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Reviews

Erlick A C Pereira and Tipu Z Aziz

Surgical insights into Parkinson's disease
J R Soc Med 99(5): 238-244; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.238 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Sagarika Mukherjee, Elizabeth Newby, and John N Harvey

Adrenomyeloneuropathy in patients with `Addison's disease': genetic case analysis
J R Soc Med 99(5): 245-249; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.245 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Majid Ezzati, Hilarie Martin, Suzanne Skjold, Stephen Vander Hoorn, and Christopher J L Murray

Trends in national and state-level obesity in the USA after correction for self-report bias: analysis of health surveys
J R Soc Med 99(5): 250-257; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.250 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand round

F C L Banks, A R Rao, J Beatty, M Laniado, H Motiwala, and O Karim

Erectile incontinence post radical prostatectomy
J R Soc Med 99(5): 258-259; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.258 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

D J Thomson, A Soni, M Ward, and H W Jones

Simultaneous presentation of myasthenia gravis and mesothelioma
J R Soc Med 99(5): 259-260; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.259 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

Irvine Loudon

A History of Britain's Hospitals and the background to the Medical, Nursing and Allied Professions
J R Soc Med 99(5): 261; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.261 [Full Text] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Edward Huth

Quantitative evidence for judgments on the efficacy of inoculation for the prevention of smallpox: England and New England in the 1700s
J R Soc Med 99(5): 262-266; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.262 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

Tom Treasure

From anecdote to EBM
J R Soc Med 99(5): 267-270; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.5.267 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

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