Editorial

Editorial: Public health programme and policy options for improving health equitably
SJ Haw, JW Frank, H Frost, RV Geddes, CA Jackson, JD Mooney

Clinical

• Is Tayside becoming a Scottish hotspot for Lyme borreliosis?
  GS Slack, S Mavin, D Yirrell, DO Ho-Yen

The impact of new national HIV testing guidelines at a district general hospital in an area of high HIV seroprevalence
I Page, M Phillips, P Flegg, R Palmer

Presentations of pyogenic liver abscess in one UK centre over a 15-year period
NC Bosanko, A Chauhan, M Brookes, M Moss, PG Wilson

Case of the quarter:
‘No DVT found’ is not a diagnosis: look beyond the D-dimer
A Jamieson

Case of the quarter:
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a rare cause of rapid cognitive decline in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus
I Costello, R Phadke, N Shah


Case of the quarter:
Cytological recognition of herpes simplex virus infection in bronchoscopic samples from the respiratory tract
I Wilkinson, KS Cuschieri, H Monaghan, DM Salter, WA Wallace

Clinical opinion:
Gamma-secretase gene mutations link acne inversa (flexural, scarring acne) with Alzheimer’s disease
A Anstey

Education

• Current controversies:
  Do we need more long-term outcome trials for the treatment of hypertension?
  DG Beevers, GT McInnes
  
  CME: Functional neurological symptoms
  J Stone

CME: Myasthenic syndromes
ME Farrugia

Care of the elderly symposium review:
Vascular cognitive impairment: epidemiology, subtypes, diagnosis and management
S Black

Gastroenterology symposium report:
Gastroenterology 2010: Maximising patient care and safety while minimising unnecessary cost
CA Lamb

Gastroenterology symposium review:
Recent advances in the management of viral hepatitis
A Holt

History

• Hong Kong’s first Professor of Pathology and the laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
  FCS Ho

  The lack of a child, the loss of a throne: the infertility of the first royal couple of Greece (1833–62)
  E Poulakou-Rebelakou, C Tsiamis, N Tompros, G Creatsas

  The history of Ephedra (ma-huang)
  MR Lee

  Ex libris: The Cyrurgia of Albucasis and other works, 1500
  IML Donaldson

  Exhibition: A counterblaste to tobacco: King James’s anti-smoking tract of 1616
  I Milne

  Notable Fellows: William Wright (1735–1819)
  D Doyle

Other

• Thank you to our referees from 2010

• Letters to the Editor
  In memoriam

Online only

• Neurology Symposium report
• S Pal

• Diabetes and Endocrinology Symposium report: learning from other specialists
  F Gibb
  

• When Tomorrow Comes – Delivering Medicine for the Future: Updates in Internal Medicine Symposium report
  J Easterbrook