Autumn 2020 Issue
News & analysis
The strengths and weaknesses of whole-genome sequencing
By Emily Ferguson
Interviews
Success in academic primary care: interview with Dr Matthew Ridd
By Jonathan Chan
Careers
A reflective account of a dental elective in Pokhara, Nepal
By Sumeet Sandhu, Jaini Shah
Reviews
Does at-home, vital tooth bleaching with carbamide peroxide deliver greater patient satisfaction than treatment with hydrogen peroxide?
By Tilly Houston, Hannah Wilkins
Digital dentistry: the revolution
By Simran Chahal
The role of exosomes in breast cancer invasion and metastasis
By Taiwo Oki
Mendelian randomisation: a potential tool to resolve the age-long gut microbiome–depression conundrum
By Temidayo Osunronbi
How perceptions of obesity are constructed through modern social media in Western culture
By Natasha Singhal
Facilitating successful post-school transition for young people with learning disabilities
By Emily Jones
Draft NICE aneurysm guidelines: an end to the endovascular era?
By Kitty Hiu Fung Wong
Case study
The outcome and complications of interposition arthroplasty using an Achilles tendon allograft in juvenile idiopathic arthritis
By Abigail Tattersall
Informed consent: ethical and legal analysis of a fictional case study
By Annie Ablett
Research articles
Behaviour as a means of differentiating healthy from sub-clinically ill cattle
By Celeste Bertolini
Retention and characterisation of a sustained efficacy chlorohexidine-containing gel within a periodontal pocket model
By Kinita Patel
Management of severe malaria in children: current practices and development of a paediatric malaria protocol
By Laura Gordon Lennox
Intraventricular haemorrhage in preterm infants: investigating the pathways involved in astrogliosis to improve neurodevelopmental outcomes
By Tiffany Tuhirman, Andriana Gialeli, Oscar Cordero Llana
The Horse Boy method: an alternative movement method for children with autism and other neurocognitive conditions
By Freya Cooper
A time and motion study in a neonatal intensive care unit
By Thomas Joseph Pike, Anna Taylor, Cora Brigid Doherty
The effects of long-term blood-thinner usage on the operative complications and patient-reported outcome measures of elective lumbar microdecompression surgery
By Madhumita Kolluri
Kidney conundrum: comparing survival outcomes between patients who received live and deceased donor transplants
By Alice Cato
Genetic testing in retinitis pigmentosa: detection rate and phenotype–genotype associations
By Rishi Trivedi
Teaching ophthalmology: mastering the slit lamp examination
By Chanelle Smith