Editorial

Editorial: Risks to offspring of consanguineous marriage: we need straight, not crooked thinking
N Qureshi, S Raeburn

Clinical

• A pilot audit of a protocol for ambulatory investigation of predicted low-risk patients with possible pulmonary embolism
  AH McDonald, R Murphy

Awareness and uptake of recommended vaccines among immunosuppressed patients
J Savage, F Muller, A Ormerod

Anaemia is of prognostic significance in patients with oesophageal adenocarcinoma
I Tanswell, H Steed, J Butterworth, G Townson

Case of the quarter:
Central pontine myelinolysis without hyponatraemia
P Bose, A Kunnacherry, P Maliakal

Case of the quarter:
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome associated with deoxycoformycin and alemtuzumab
T Cooksley, P Haji-Michael


Case of the quarter:
Tumefactive multiple sclerosis in a young patient with hemiplegia and seizures associated with radiological appearance mimicking cerebral tumour
K Khadjooi, G Esposito, C Dimopoulos

Clinical opinion:
Two papers on carbamazepine-induced hypersensitivity and its relationship to HLA status
A Anstey

Clinical opinion:
Revised diagnostic criteria for Marfan syndrome
P Brennan

Education

• Current controversies:
  Ring-fencing a budget for cancer drugs: is it fair?
  J Graham, J Cassidy, D Hughes, M Duerden
  
  CME: Hyperuricaemia and gout
  M Shipley

  CME: New biologics for rheumatoid arthritis
  E Choy

  Medicine for the elderly symposium review:
  The challenges of renal replacement therapy and renal palliative care in the elderly
  C Isles, S Robertson, A Almond, K Donaldson, D Clark

  Medicine for the elderly symposium report:
  Medicine for the elderly symposium report
  RJ Harrison

  Palliative care symposium review:
  Chronic inflammatory states: their relationship to cancer prognosis and symptoms
  N MacDonald

  Palliative care symposium report:
  Palliative care symposium report
  K Henriksen

History

• Robert Garrett, Tasmanian penal colony surgeon: alcoholism, medical misadventure and the penal colony of Sarah Island
  P Stride

  The use of lithotomy by missionary surgeons in nineteenth-century China
  L Fu

  Dr William Wilson Ingram (1888–1982): doctor-soldier, physician and Antarctic expeditioner
  JH Pearn

  Ex libris: A Venetian edition of Avicenna’s works owned by Lonicer: Part 2
  IML Donaldson

• Notable fellow: Sir James Davidson Stuart Cameron(1901–1969)
  D Doyle

• Exhibition: The Sibbald Library’s summer exhibition
  I Milne

Other

• Letters to the Editor
  In memoriam

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