Editorial

The pursuit of knowledge
JD Polk

Clinical

• A readability assessment of online Parkinson’s disease information
  PR Fitzsimmons, BD Michael, JL Hulley, GO Scott

  Hyperventilation in men claiming compensation for benign asbestos-related diseases
  GK Crompton

  The prevalence of proteinuria in patients presenting with fluid retention due to heart failure
  K Peeroo, A Clark

  The Newcastle NHS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Service: not all fatigue is the same
  JL Newton, H Mabillard, A Scott, A Hoad, G Spickett

  Case of the quarter: Lemierre’s syndrome complicated
  by an infected branchial cyst
  AA Lwin, S Lohani

• Case of the quarter: A circadian rhythm sleep disorder: melatonin resets the biological clock
  A Abbas, J Raju, J Milles, S Ramachandran

  Case of the quarter: Adrenal incidentalomas: a simple guide to a disease of modern technology
  S Ghosh, M Jones, K Swaminathan

  Clinical opinion: Painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures and vertebroplasty: where is the black swan?
  AP Toms

  Clinical opinion: New treatments and new choices for type 2 diabetes mellitus
  D Bhatnagar

  Clinical opinion: Tiotropium bromide in asthma patients: an alternative to inhaled long-acting beta-agonists?
  M Lane
  

Education

• Current controversies: The evolution of advanced techniques for the management of symptomatic aortic stenosis in the elderly population: conventional surgical management vs transcatheter valve implantation
  M Jahangiri, A Kappetein, M van Geldorp, AJ Bogers
  

  CME: Cannabis and the lung
  PT Reid, J Macleod, JR Robertson

  CME: Breast cancer
  SV Barrett

  CME: Non-surgical treatment for early prostate cancer
  AB Law, DB McLaren

  CME: Head and neck cancer
  RJ Casasola

  Care of the elderly symposium report
  ML Patterson

  Care of the elderly symposium review:
  Improving outcomes in older people undergoing elective surgery
  J Dhesi

History

• Observations regarding historical accounts of pneumococcal diseases due to serotypes 1 and 3
  DJ Inverarity, MA Diggle

  Churchill, Moran and the struggle for survival
  AW Beasley

  Survival of the ttest: a comparison of medicine and health on Lord Howe Island and St Kilda
  P Stride

  Ex libris: Robert Hooke’s Micrographia of 1665 and 1667
  IML Donaldson

  Exhibition: The Sibbald Library Engraving Collection
  I Milne

  Notable Fellows: Sir Stuart Threipland (1716–1805)
  D Doyle
  
  

Other

• Letters to the Editor
  In memoriam

Online only

• Scottish Renal Association and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Joint Renal Meeting: abstracts

• Trainees and Members' Comm

• ittee Symposium:
  Clinical lessons

• Diabetes and Endocrinology Symposium abstracts:
  Learning from other Specialists Care for the Elderly Symposium abstracts