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Volume 176 Issue 11

3 June 2002

From the editor’s desk

From the Editor's Desk

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue, 3 June 2002

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Editorials

Antibiotic guidelines: improved implementation is the challenge

D Ashley R Watson

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 513-514

Kidney disease: are you at risk?

Alan Cass

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 515-516

Bushfires, air pollution and asthma

Peter R Lewis and Stephen J Corbett

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 517 Free

Fire ants in Australia: a new medical and ecological hazard

Keith I McCubbin and John M Weiner

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 518-519

Notable cases

Anaphylaxis due to Red Imported Fire Ant sting

Graham O Solley, Cas Vanderwoude and Gregory K Knight

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 521-523 Free

Research

Ceftriaxone and cefotaxime use in Victorian hospitals

Marion B Robertson, Jonathan G A Dartnell, Tony M Korman, Lisa L Ioannides-Demos, Sue W Kirsa, Julie A V Lord, Liliana Munafo and Graham B Byrnes

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 524-529 Free

Naltrexone in alcohol dependence: a randomised controlled trial of effectiveness in a standard clinical setting

Noeline C Latt, Stephen Jurd, Jennie Houseman and Sonia E Wutzke

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 530-534 Free

Exposure to bushfire smoke and asthma: an ecological study

Fay H Johnston, Anne M Kavanagh, David M J S Bowman and Randall K Scott

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 535-538 Free

Lessons from practice

Fulminant hepatic failure from herpes simplex in pregnancy

Ramesh Nagappan, Geoffrey Parkin, Ian Simpson and William Sievert

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 595-596 Free

The Research Enterprise

Collaborating with industry: choices for Australian medicine and universities

Hamilton Moses III, Abbey Perumpanani and Jon Nicholson

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 543-546 Free

For debate

Cervical screening: time to change the policy

James A Dickinson

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 547-550 Free

MJA Practice Essentials — Infectious Diseases

6: Sexually transmitted infections: new diagnostic approaches and treatments

Francis J Bowden, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Suzanne M Garland and Christopher K Fairley

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 551-557 Free

Snapshot

No room in the womb

Lourdes I St George and John St George

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 558 Free

Letters

Vitamin D deficiency is common in frail institutionalised older people in northern Sydney

Philip N Sambrook, Ian D Cameron, Robert G Cumming, Stephen R Lord, Jennifer M Schwarz, Angelika Trube and Lynnette M March

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 560

Perhexiline toxicity related to citalopram use

Karin Nyfort-Hansen

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 560-561

Cholestasis associated with the use of pravastatin sodium

Robert G Batey and Michelle Harvey

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 561

Paracetamol recall: a natural experiment influencing analgesic poisoning

Corrine R Balit, Geoffrey K Isbister, Andrew H Dawson and Ian M Whyte

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 561-563

Paracetamol recall: a natural experiment influencing analgesic poisoning

David Gunnell and Anthea Steans

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 561-563

Paracetamol recall: a natural experiment influencing analgesic poisoning

David Gunnell

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 561-563

Treatment failure due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin

Anthony J Grabs and Reginald SA Lord

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 563

An ecological perspective of cholesterol

Christopher H Cantor

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 564

Columns

eMJA: In other journals - 3 June 2002

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): 559

Supplement

Supplement: Essential role of fats throughout the lifecycle

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (11): Open Access