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Volume 177 Issue 3

5 August 2002

From the editor’s desk

From the Editor's Desk

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 121 Free

In This Issue, 5 August 2002

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 122 Free

Editorials

Halting the growth in diagnostic testing

Rohan J H Hammett and Roger D Harris

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 124-125

Surgical treatment for Parkinson's disease

Victor S C Fung, John G L Morris and Malcolm F Pell

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 125-126

Cancer control and the National Cancer Control Initiative

J Mark Elwood and Paul D Ireland

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 127-128

Is breastfeeding best practice?

Patricia McVeagh

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 128-129

Research

An interventional program for diagnostic testing in the emergency department

Peter J Stuart, Shelley Crooks and Mark Porton

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 131-134 Free

Delayed referral to a nephrologist: outcomes among patients who survive at least one year on dialysis

Alan Cass, Joan Cunningham, Zhiqiang-Wang, Wendy Hoy, Peter C Arnold and Paul Snelling

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 135-138 Free

High bone turnover in Muslim women with vitamin D deficiency

Terrence H Diamond, Sherel Levy, Angelina Smith and Peter Day

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 139-141 Free

Healthcare

Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease

Robert Iansek, Jeffrey V Rosenfeld and Frances E Huxham

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 142-146 Free

Medicine and the community

Injury caused by baby walkers: the predicted outcomes of mandatory regulations

Peter G Thompson

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 147-148 Free

Clinical update

Vitamin D intake and vitamin D status of Australians

Caryl A Nowson and Claire Margerison

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 149-152 Free

Viewpoint

Trusting numbers: uncertainty and the pathology laboratory

Graham H White

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 153-155 Free

Snapshot

Underestimated damage from multiple impalement injury

Wolfgang Lederer, Hans C Jeske and Kroesen Gunnar

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 155 Free

Lessons from practice

Lingual arteritis in an elderly woman

Eliza A Tweddle, Amanda K Gilligan and Paul W Fogarty

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 156-157 Free

Letters

Current prescribing patterns of bupropion in Australia

Christopher M Doran, Anthony P Shakeshaft, Jennifer A Gates, Julia E Fawcett and Richard P Mattick

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 162

Allergy to hydroxycobalamin, with tolerance of cyanocobalamin

David Heyworth-Smith and Patrick G Hogan

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 162-163

Sedation for endoscopy: the safe use of propofol by general practitioners

Patricia Mackay and Patrick J Hughes

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 163-165

Sedation for endoscopy: the safe use of propofol by general practitioners

Jon P Clarke, Anthony C Clarke and Lybus C Hillman

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 163-165

Sedation for endoscopy: the safe use of propofol by general practitioners

Jon P Clarke

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 163-165

The intention to hasten death of terminally ill patients

Mathew Piercy, Gerald B Fogarty, Aubrey W Jansz, David M Gawler, Luis Vitetta, David Kenner and Avni Sali

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 165-167

The intention to hasten death of terminally ill patients

Mathew Piercy, Gerald B Fogarty, Aubrey W Jansz, David M Gawler, Luis Vitetta, Avni Sali Professor and and David Kenner

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 165-167

Preventing osteoporosis: outcomes of the Australian Fracture Prevention Summit

Roy PL Carey, Walter E Plehwe and Peter R Ebeling

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 167

Preventing osteoporosis: outcomes of the Australian Fracture Prevention Summit

Roy PL Carey, Walter E Plehwe and Peter R Ebeling

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 167

The MJA and the search for evidence

C Ross Philpot

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 167-168

Favourite books

Aubrey W Jansz

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 168

Obituaries

Richmond Baker Rikard-BellMB BS

Ian S Collins

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 274 Free

Correction

Correction: MJA Practice Essentials: Infectious diseases 3: Community-acquired pneumonia

Paul DR Johnson, Lou B Irving and John D Turnidge

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 164

Book review

Sleep apnoea update

Leslie G Olson

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3):

Obituary

Struan Keith SutherlandAO MB BS MD DSc FRACP FRCPA

James Tibballs

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 160 Free

eMJA: In other journals - 5 August 2002

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (3): 161 Free