SMJ Issue 48(3)August 2003

Editorial

Scottish Medical Journal – A Time for change.

Guy Fletcher

Statins in the era of evidence-based medicine – who will not “prosper”?

McDougall C, Perry CG, Sattar N, Petrie JR

CHD and stroke: Scotland’s pandemics also need co-ordinated and vigorous primary prevention programmes  

Alan Mordue, James A Dunbar, Erkki Vartiainen 

Original Articles

Increasing incidence of acute hepatitis B virus infection referrals to the Aberdeen Infection Unit: a matter for concern

AR Mackenzie, PJ Molyneaux, AM Cadwgan, RBS Laing, JG Douglas, CC Smith.

The provision of clinical psychology services within a general hospital: An analysis and interpretation of referral rates

M.R. Wild, K Bowden, N Bell

Compartment Syndrome - Current Trends in Scottish Practice

A Vassalos, B Rana, PRN Patterson, P Grigoris  

Differences in endothelial function and vascular reactivity between Scottish and Arabic populations

Khalid E Elherik, Faisel Khan, Jill JF Belch

An Audit Of Sports Injuries In Children Attending An Accident & Emergency Department.

S.H. Boyce, M.A. Quigley

Case Reports

Claude’s syndrome in association with posterior cerebral artery stenosis

Tarvinder Dhanjal , Matthew Walters , Nigel MacMillan