Vol 20, No 2 (2006)

Medicine at the Extremes

Table of Contents

Editorial PDF
Hywel Room, Helen Carnaghan
Foreword PDF
Diana Wood

Theme

Interview with Dr Kevin Fong PDF
Nihal Sinha
The Death Zone PDF
Matthew Smith
The 2007 Everest Medical Research Expedition Exploring Human Physiology at Extreme Altitude PDF
Elizabeth Ingall
Hitting the wall – a brief overview of marathon physiology PDF
Simon Harger
Medicine at the Roadside: An overview of Prehospital Emergency Care in East Anglia PDF
Sarah Maidment
Down and Outs Down Under? The health issues faced by Aborigines in Western Australia PDF
Nick Evans, Jack Hodd
Into The Deep – The physiology of deep sea diving medicine PDF
Laura-Jane Smith

Medicine

Medical Research - past, present and future: an interview with Professor Colin Blakemore, Chief Executive of the Medical Research Counci PDF
Helen Grote
Magic bullets? Monoclonal antibodies as medications PDF
James Pickett
Case Report: Hemiparesis and aphasia in a bone marrow transplant patient PDF
Joyce Poon
Gene Therapy: the Cure for Cystic Fibrosis? PDF
Laurence Si Chong Lok

Surgery

Articular Cartilage Defects of the Knee: Surgical Treatment Options PDF
David Noble, Stephen Hunt
Massachussetts General Hospital: The Surgical Experience PDF
Grainne McKenna
INTEGRA – artificial skin PDF
Marko Nikolić

Science & Technology

Spectrophotometric Intracutaneous Analysis (SIA): Recent Advances in the Diagnosis of Malignant Melanoma PDF
John Biddlestone, Dan Lane
Cancer Vaccines: The Challenges and the Promise of Novel Cancer Vaccines PDF
Meng Wang
From The Nose To The Spinal Cord PDF
Justin Wang

Policy & Law

The Herceptin Saga: The efficacy of the "wonder-drug" and the implications for decision making in the NHS PDF
Diarmuid Nugent
An Alternative Political Perspective PDF
Andrew Lansley

Arts

Al-Rāzi – Physician, Philosopher and Reformer PDF
Sameer Kurmani
The Motorcycle Diaries PDF
Suneet Nayee

Books

Book Review: Clinical MR Neuroimaging PDF
Jon Evans
Book Review: Neonatal Hematology PDF
Anna Curley
Book Review: Clinical Skills: Oxford Core Text PDF
Louise Murphy

Homefront

Developing Addenbrooke's PDF
Section Editor
Excellence at Addenbrooke's PDF
Section Editor
Wilderness Medicine Conference 2005 PDF
Anne Gumbley
The Sharks Society PDF
Katie Evans
Mile-high Medicine: A Medico-legal Minefield? PDF
Rachel Newby