Scottish Medical Journal

The Scottish Medical Journal is a comprehensive medical publication that features original research across various fields of medicine, along with review articles, historical insights into medicine, and clinical notes. Robert Carachi, from the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow, serves as the editor-in-chief.

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A 3D printed biomimetic composite scaffold based on graphene/gelatin/sodium alginate bioink: Cell proliferation effects and toxicity assessments

1 week ago | journals.sagepub.com | Zhenyu Wang |Jiayi Yang |Jun Peng |Jingjing Zhu

Get full access to this articleView all access and purchase options for this article. Data availability statementAll data supporting the findings of this study are included within the article (and any supplementary files). References1. Badoiu SC, Lascăr I, Enescu DM. Peripheral nerve allografting - why and how? Chirurgia (Bucur) 2014; 109: 584–589. 2. Lackington WA, Ryan AJ, O’Brien FJ. Advances in nerve guidance conduit-based therapeutics for peripheral nerve repair.
Associations of Romantic Partners’ Characteristics With Alcohol Consumption and Binge Drinking: Examining Evidence for Gene–Environment Interaction - Mallory Stephenson, Megan E. Cooke, Peter Barr, Hermine H. M. Maes, Antti Latvala, Maarit Piirtola, Karri

1 week ago | journals.sagepub.com | Mallory Stephenson |Megan E. Cooke |Peter Barr |Antti Latvala

Get full access to this articleView all access and purchase options for this article. Open practicesPreregistrationThis article has received the badge for Preregistered. More information about the Open Practices badges can be found at http://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/badges. TransparencyAction Editor: Tamika C. ZapolskiEditor: Jennifer L.
The craft of medicine

2 weeks ago | journals.sagepub.com | Kamran Abbasi

Is it possible to get antibiotic prescribing right, to balance the needs of patients and the push to reduce antibiotic prescribing? In the prevailing climate of financial austerity and plunging global financial markets, every cost and investment is being scrutinised. This doesn’t much help clinicians in primary care who need to decide whether or not to prescribe an antibiotic. Often, too, patients are adamant that an antibiotic is what they need and that it has helped them in the past.
The impact of COVID-19 on participation in Australia’s National Bowel Cancer Screening Program by people with severe mental illness: A national data linkage study - Claudia Bull, Katrina Spilsbury, David Lawrence, Karinna I. Saxby, Steve Kisely, 2025

2 weeks ago | journals.sagepub.com | Claudia Bull |Katrina Spilsbury |David Lawrence |Karinna Saxby

IntroductionAustralia’s National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) provides biennial primary screening for colorectal cancer (CRC). Since 2006, Australians aged 50–74 years have been invited to participate in the NBCSP using an immunochemical faecal occult blood test (iFOBT) via the national postal service (Nickson et al., 2023).
The cost of editorial independence, and the free speech it supports, is eternal vigilance

2 weeks ago | journals.sagepub.com | Jeffrey CL Looi |Gin S Malhi |Steve Kisely

Editorial independence safeguards the rights of authors and readers to freely speak and be heard (Brakoulias and Malhi, 2024; Hoey, 2008; Looi et al., 2024b). This underpins the key goals of medical journals to strive for academic excellence and progress the science of care (Malhi and Brakoulias, 2022). It is enacted by editors having freedom to make decisions about the scientific publication record (Bhui et al., 2025).
To quit quietly or not to quit quietly, that is the existential question

2 weeks ago | journals.sagepub.com | Kamran Abbasi

Quiet quitting is a concept that you might not have heard of. It refers, in its simplest sense, to opting out of tasks beyond assigned duties and/or being less invested in work.1 It’s a post-pandemic phenomenon and isn’t at all confined to healthcare. But you can see that if healthcare professionals become quiet quitters, how this might adversely affect delivery of care and therefore patient wellbeing. The response seems to be one of focusing on Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs.
Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy

3 weeks ago | journals.sagepub.com | Deborah Carr

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The art of resistance

3 weeks ago | journals.sagepub.com | Alessandra Bajec

Tunisia’s creative scene is pushing back against President Kais Saied’s control. ALESSANDRA BAJEC explores three artistic endeavours that are breaking boundaries, and which were all spotlighted at the Nawaat FestivalYASSINE ALOUINI, A young filmmaker, was visiting his hometown Kairouan in the centre of Tunisia, when he had the idea for his short film Décret 25.07. The inspiration came to him after he saw roughly 50 Black people fleeing the city on foot.
Incidence, gross features, and histologic characterization of feline fibrocystic hepatobiliary lesions and extrahepatic biliary malformations

4 weeks ago | journals.sagepub.com | Megan E. Schreeg |John Cullen

Get full access to this articleView all access and purchase options for this article. References1. Adler R, Wilson DW. Biliary cystadenoma of cats. Vet Pathol. 1995;32(4):415–418. 2. Best EJ, Bush DJ, Dye C. Suspected choledochal cyst in a domestic shorthair cat. J Feline Med Surg. 2010;12(10):814–817. 3. Bettini G, Mandrioli L, Morini M. Bile duct dysplasia and congenital hepatic fibrosis associated with polycystic kidney (caroli syndrome) in a rat. Vet Pathol. 2003;40(6):693–694. 4.
Bad decision making on Earth and in space

4 weeks ago | journals.sagepub.com | Kamran Abbasi

Space, the final medical frontier, holds a particular fascination. Aside from the wonder, space exploration has offered potential for scientific advance. That is until Elon Musk assumed the role of space invader in chief. Our current notions of exploring space and exploring the implications of advances in science and healthcare1 are obscured by the dust clouds of Musk’s anti-science agenda on Earth. Science is a complex business. No study is perfect. Few study results provide a definitive answer.