Volume 76 Number 1, January 2007

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Table of Contents

Editorial 1 The Johnston - Kennedy Era. A Quarter of a Century of Change
RAJ Spence
Commentaries 3 Are We Failing Those With "The Falling Sickness"? Time to modernise the approach to epilepsy care
SJ Hunt, JI Morrow, JJ Craig
6 Proximate determinants of fertility and reproductive health
MFH Khan, A Shirmeen
Review 8 Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia in The 21st Century
R Frazer, AE Irvine, MF McMullin
Papers 18 Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the Elderly
SJ Walsh, K McAuley, PW Johnston
22 The use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the characterisation of focal liver lesions
JA Soye, CP Mullan, S Porter, H Beattie, AH Barltrop, WM Nelson
Presidential Address 26 Medicine Then and Now
GE McVeigh
Historical Paper 31 The History of Gastric Surgery: the Contribution of the Belfast School
SR McConville, PF Crookes
Case Reports 37 Bowel perforation caused by swallowed chicken bones -a case series
S Akhtar, N McElvanna, KR Gardiner, ST Irwin
39 Acute transverse myelitis following typhoid vaccination
RN Das, J Jaykumar
Letters 41 To the Editor
Profuse per rectal bleeding due to erosion of the inferior epigastric artery following a catheter tube caecostomy.  S Kumar, R Gilliland
Routine Rectal Biopsy?  C Mehta, D McCrory
Peritoneal encapsulation: presenting as small bowel obstruction in an elderly woman.  JM Sherigar, B McFall, J Wali
Interview 45 The new Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland
CT Lundy
Abstracts 46 Ulster Medical Society. Junior Members Forum, Thursday 23 November 2006
The use of a low tilt biphasic waveform lowers the defibrillation threshold for the internal cardioversion of atrial fibrillation.  BM Glover, CJ McCann, MJ Moore, SJ Walsh, G Manoharan, MJ Roberts, JD Allen, AAJ Adgey
Association of common gene polymorphisms in kidney slit diaphragm genes with nephropathy in type 1 diabetes.  G Lewis, DA Savage, CC Patterson, AP Maxwell
Waveform Analysis in Diabetes - A marker for Cardiovascular Risk Stratification.  CJ Lockhart, PK Hamilton, C Quinn, C Agnew, RC McGivern, GE McVeigh
48 Ulster Society of Internal Medicine. Autumn Meeting, Friday 20th October 2006
51 Irish Society of Human Genetics. Ninth Meeting, Thursday 7th September 2006
Reviews 60 Books
Home Telehealth: Connecting Care Within The Community.  Eds R Wootton, SL Dimmick, JC Kvedar
The Doctor's PDA and Smartphone Handbook.  M Al-Ubaydli, C Paton
Ambulatory Hysteroscopy - An evidence-Based Guide to Diagnosis and Therapy in the Outpatient Setting.  SH Bakour, SE Jones, KS Khan
Law for Doctors - Principles and Practicalities. 3rd Edition.  JP Garside
Perspectives on the Face.  MM Cohen Jr
Medicine in Quotations: Views of Health and Disease Through the Ages. 2nd Edition.  Eds EJ Huth, TJ Murray
Recent Advances in Paediatrics - 23.  Ed TJ David
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis.  H Llewelyn, HA Ang, KE Lewis, A Al-Abdullah
The Blood of the Isles.  B Sykes
Ethics Manual, 5th Edition.  L Snyder, C Leffler