Volume 79 Number 1, January 2010

  • These articles may be read, searched and printed using any PDF reader.

Table of Contents

Editorial 1 Forging ahead
BE Kelly
Review 3 The iris - a window into the genetics of common and rare eye diseases
PJ Morrison
Papers 6 Are alcohol-related acute surgical admission rates falling?
GJ Fitzmaurice, S Kumar, R Brown, A Hussain, ME O'Donnell
12 Current trends in antenatal screening services: results from a regional survey
F Lynn, J McNeill, F Alderdice
16 Laparoscopic cardiomyotomy for achalasia: a single unit study
R Kennedy, C Menezes, J Ahmad, JA Kennedy
Case Reports 20 Baffling perforation of the colon
JE Losanoff, MD Basson, N Khoury, P Sochacki, WA Salwen, SA Gruber
22 Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis in an elderly patient with small cell lung carcinoma
D White, T Beringer
Medical History 25 Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1735): his life and legacy
SA Hawkins
Letters 30 To the Editor
Embolic stroke as a late complication of inferior vena cava thrombosis.  JA Purvis, DM Campbell, MO McCarron
Sir William Whitla's family name.  P Froggatt
Comparison of public perceptions associated with healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) in Northern Ireland following the 2007/2008 outbreak of Clostridium difficile in the Northern Trust.  JE Moore, BC Millar, PJ Rooney, CE Goldsmith, A Loughrey, J McCormick, J Mallett, JSG Dooley
A third status.  B Artinian
Abstracts 33 12th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Irish Society of Human Genetics, Friday 18th September 2009
Reviews 43 Books
Natural standard herbal pharmacotherapy. An evidence based approach.  C Ulbricht, E Seamon
A physician in spite of himself.  DWC Jones
The health practitioner's guide to climate change. diagnosis and cure.  J Griffiths, M Rao, F Adshead, A Thorpe