Editorial

Autopsies: an exercise in futility?
RE Horowitz

Clinical

Lyme borreliosis in Scotland during two peak periods
RM Milner, S Mavin, DO Ho-Yen
A prospective survey of acute hospital admissions with atrial fibrillation in Karachi, Pakistan
U Haq, GYH Lip
Is routine screening for coeliac disease of value in people with type 1 diabetes?
KA Adamson, AE White, J Geddes, BM Frier, HR Gillett, MWJ Strachan
Improving the care of patients with advanced heart failure
C Ward
Image of the quarter: Morgagni hernia – a cause of opacification on a chest radiograph
AG Wallis, J Arora, NL Bishop
Image of the quarter: Synchronous gastric polyp and colonic cancer
H Cooper, A Dhar
Image of the quarter: An unusual cause of obstructive jaundice
H Hameed, F Sultan, YI Khan, M Hussain, R Azhar
Short review: Alcohol-related illness in the hospital
WS Hislop
Short review: New treatments for type 2 diabetes
K Kos, JPH Wilding
Clinical opinion: Stroke reduction in patients with atrial fibrillation
B Vezi
Clinical opinion: Severe anaemia in sub-Saharan Africa
T Latham
Clinical opinion: Microalbuminuria in childhood diabetes
K Matyka

Education

Syncope: to admit or not to admit
I Can, DG Benditt
Venous thromboembolism: the role of the clinician
N Curry, D Keeling
Symposium report: Health behaviour change
JK Bray, G McCartney, JK Dunbar, J Thoulass
Symposium report: Palliative medicine
D Buchanan

History

What is the cancer anorexia- cachexia syndrome? A historical perspective
N Bennani-Baiti, D Walsh
Hubert Airy, contemporary men of science and the migraine aura
MJ Eadie
The Residency Mess at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh: history and traditions
RAP Burt
The 1727 St Kilda epidemic: smallpox or chickenpox?
P Stride
Ex libris: Van Helmont’s Ortus Medicinæ
IML Donaldson
Exhibitions: Care for the elderly
Notable Fellows: Sir Thomas Richard Fraser
D Doyle

Other

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