From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

A subtle change of spots
J R Soc Med 98(10): 439; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.439 [Full Text] [PDF]  

JRSM's peer reviewers
J R Soc Med 98(10): 439; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.439-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

Shahrul Hashim, Rajwinder Jutley, Matloob Shajar, and David Richens

The introduction of endoscopic heart valve surgery into the UK
J R Soc Med 98(10): 440-441; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.440 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Cate Seton-Jones

Taking an 'ethics history'
J R Soc Med 98(10): 442; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.442 [Full Text] [PDF]  

F-E M Murtagh and Andrew Thorns

Taking an 'ethics history'
J R Soc Med 98(10): 442-443; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.442-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gianluca Tamagno, Eugenio De Carlo, Chiara Martini, and Giovanni Murialdo

Neurosarcoidosis
J R Soc Med 98(10): 443; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.443 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essays

Rustam Al-Shahi

Research ethics committees in the UK—the pressure is now on research and development departments
J R Soc Med 98(10): 444-447; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.444 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elizabeth Wager

A concern that drug companies cannot ignore
J R Soc Med 98(10): 448-450; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.448 [Full Text] [PDF]  

H V Wyatt

How Themistocles Zammit found Malta Fever (brucellosis) to be transmitted by the milk of goats
J R Soc Med 98(10): 451-454; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.451 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Reviews

Carol Tan and Tom Treasure

Mesothelioma: time to take stock
J R Soc Med 98(10): 455-458; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.455 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Murad M Khan

Suicide prevention and developing countries
J R Soc Med 98(10): 459-463; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.459 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research

Hasantha Gunasekera, Simon Chapman, and Sharon Campbell

Sex and drugs in popular movies: an analysis of the top 200 films
J R Soc Med 98(10): 464-470; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.464 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grand round

C Green, W Foster, S Iyer, and J Booth

A married couple with streptococcal septicaemia
J R Soc Med 98(10): 471-472; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.471 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

I K Nyamekye, S Begum, and P L Slaney

Post-carotid endarterectomy cerebral hyperperfusion syndrome
J R Soc Med 98(10): 472-474; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.472 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

M T Huggett, A Howieson, C Wakefield, and P C Gartell

An apparent splenic abscess
J R Soc Med 98(10): 474-475; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.474 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

Henry Connor

Poison Arrows
J R Soc Med 98(10): 476; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.476 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew Herxheimer

Public-Private Partnerships and International Health Policy-making: How can Public Interests be Safeguarded?
J R Soc Med 98(10): 476-477; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.476-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

D W Hamer

Oxford Handbook of Accident and Emergency Medicine
J R Soc Med 98(10): 477; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.477 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pat Grey

Adolescents and Sex: The Handbook for Professionals Working with Young People
J R Soc Med 98(10): 477-478; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.477-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Richard Doll

Controlled trials testing two or more treatments simultaneously
J R Soc Med 98(10): 479-480; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.10.479 [Full Text] [PDF]  

To see an article, click its [Full Text] or [PDF] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button. To see one abstract at a time, click its [Abstract] link.