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Volume 176 Issue 7

1 April 2002

From the editor’s desk

From the Editor's Desk

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 301 Free

In This Issue, 1 April 2002

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 302 Free

Editorials

Primary stroke prevention: refining the "high risk" approach

Christopher R Levi, Parker J Magin and Balakrishnan R Nair

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 303-304

Clinical practice guidelines: time to move the debate from the how to the who

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 304-305

Iodine intake and prevention of thyroid disorders: surveillance is needed

Peter Laurberg and Susanne B Nøhr

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 45-46

Conference report

National Australian conference on shaken baby syndrome

Kieran T Moran

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 310-311

Research

The Avoid Stroke as Soon as Possible (ASAP) general practice stroke audit

Jonathan W Sturm, Geoffrey A Donnan, Stephen M Davis, John G O'Sullivan and Miriam E Vedadhaghi

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 312-316 Free

Neonatal thyroid-stimulating hormone concentrations in northern Sydney: further indications of mild iodine deficiency?

Aidan McElduff, Patrick McElduff, Jenny E Gunton, Graham Hams, Veronica Wiley and Bridget M Wilcken

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 317-320 Free

Flexible sigmoidoscopy screening for colorectal neoplasia in average-risk people: evaluation of a five-year rescreening interval

Cameron F E Platell, Gillian Philpott and John K Olynyk

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 371-373 Free

Healthcare

Fundholding: learning from the past and looking to the future

Justin J Beilby and Brita Pekarsky

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 321-325

Notable cases

Beware the boogie board: blunt abdominal trauma from bodyboarding

Kelvin L Choo, Deborah M Bailey and John B Hansen

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 326-327 Free

Position statement

Considerations for the safe prescribing and use of COX-2-specific inhibitors

, The Australian COX-2-Specific Inhibitor (CSI) Prescribing Group*

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 328-331 Free

The profession

Patients who stalk doctors: their motives and management

Michele T Pathé, Paul E Mullen and Rosemary Purcell

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 335-338

Genotype–phenotype correlations with personality traits of healthcare professionals: a new use for the Human Genome Project

Dominic A Fitzgerald and David Isaacs

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 339-340 Free

MJA Practice Essentials: Infectious Diseases

5: Hospital-in-the-home treatment of infectious diseases

Benjamin P Howden and M Lindsay Grayson, Series Editors:

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 440-445 Free

3: Community-acquired pneumonia

Paul D R Johnson, Lou B Irving and John D Turnidge

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 341-347 Free

Letters

Visual complications of warfarin

Lionel M Kowal and C Alex Harper

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 351

Quinine-induced disseminated intravascular coagulation and haemolytic–uraemic syndrome

Andrew P Morton

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 351

Guidelines for the management of gestational diabetes mellitus revisited

David S Simmons, Barry N J Walters, Peter Wein and N Wah Cheung, on behalf of the Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 352

Updates in medicine: paediatrics and paediatric surgery

Andrew J A Holland, Daniel T Cass and John Pitkin

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 352-353

Updates in medicine: paediatrics and paediatric surgery

Jillian R Sewell

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 352-353

Impact of changing the criteria for diagnosing diabetes in Australia

Julie A Pasco, Mark A Kotowicz, Margaret J Henry and Geoffrey C Nicholson

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 353-354

Gestational diabetes: what is the relevance of the glucose challenge test?

Robert G Moses

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 354

Mortality from prostate cancer is decreasing

Michael Coory and Peter Baade

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 354-355

Mortality from prostate cancer is decreasing

Julie B Byles

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 354-355

A painful popcorn

T H H Guan Koh

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 356

Columns

eMJA: In other journals - 1 April 2002

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (7): 350