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Volume 179 Issue 8

20 October 2003

From the editor’s desk

The people's research project

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 393 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): Free

Editorials

Evidence and information for health policy: a decade of change

Alan D Lopez

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 396-397

Coax, COX and cola

John S Dowden

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 397-398

Substance use, psychological distress and crime

Toni Makkai

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 399-400

Does every baby get a newborn screening test?

Bridget M Wilcken

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 400-401

Research

Lessons from early large-scale adoption of celecoxib and rofecoxib by Australian general practitioners

Stephen J Kerr, Andrea Mant, Fiona E Horn, Kevin McGeechan and Geoffrey P Sayer

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 403-407 Free

Substance-use disorders and psychological distress among police arrestees

Edward B Heffernan, John B Saunders, Gerard Byrne and Joe Finn

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 408-411 Free

Newborn screening in South Australia: is it universal?

Michael P Metz, Enzo Ranieri, Rosemarie L Gerace, Kevin R Priest, Colin G Luke and Annabelle Chan

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 412-415 Free

Healthcare

The influence of geographical location on the complexity of rural general practice activities

John S Humphreys, Judith A Jones, Michael P Jones, David Mildenhall, Paul R Mara, Bruce Chater, David R Rosenthal, Nola M Maxfield and Michael A Adena

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 416-420 Free

For debate

Heart failure: how can we prevent the epidemic?

Duncan J Campbell

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 422-425 Free

Viewpoint

Adverse event reporting in clinical trials: room for improvement

Winston S Liauw and Richard O Day

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 426-428 Free

Lessons from practice

First report of human angiostrongyliasis acquired in Sydney

Don S Pryor, Pam Konecny, Sanjaya N Senanayake and John Walker

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 430-431 Free

Clinical ethics

Money, morals and the conquest of mortality*

J Miles Little

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 432-435

EBM: Trials on trial

Is early surgical referral for children with persistent otitis media with effusion (OME) appropriate?

Peter S Morris and Amanda J Leach

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 436-437

Inclusion of patients in clinical trial analysis: the intention-to-treat principle

Stephane R Heritier, Val J Gebski and Anthony C Keech

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 438-440

MJA Practice Essentials: Endocrinology

2: Recent advances in therapy of diabetes

Jennifer J Couper and Johannes B Prins

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 441-447 Free

Snapshot

Giant occipital intracranial and extracranial meningioma

Rodney S Allan, Peter J Spittaler and Lindsay J Rowe

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 448 Free

Letters

Energy levels for biphasic defibrillation

Ian G Jacobs, James Tibballs, Peter T Morley, Jennifer Dennett, Jeff Wassertheil, Vic Callanan and John Hall

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 451

Tasmania: doing its wee bit for iodine nutrition

Judy A Seal, Eric M Johnson, Zelda Doyle and Kelly Shaw

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 451-452

Leprosy transmission in the Kimberley, Western Australia: still a reality in 21st-century Australia

Donna B Mak, Eleanor M Platt and Christopher H Heath

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 452

Computerised asthma action plans

Michael South

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 453

Mirtazapine-induced hyponatraemia

Milton G Roxanas

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 453-454

New contraceptive choices across reproductive life

John F Kerin

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 454

New contraceptive choices across reproductive life

Therese M Foran

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 454

Update on treatment of menstrual disorders

David H Eizenberg

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 454-455

Update on treatment of menstrual disorders

Martha Hickey and Cynthia M Farquhar

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 454-455

Latrodectism: a prospective cohort study of bites by formally identified redback spiders

Saul Wiener

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 455-456

Latrodectism: a prospective cohort study of bites by formally identified redback spiders

Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 455-456

Obituaries

Ian Donald Russell GardinerMB BS

Judith R Gardiner and David Pullen

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 428 Free

John Henry Winter BirrellOAM, ISO, MB BS, FRACP, FAMA, LLD(hon causa)

Donald Gibb

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 435 Free

Correction

Nocardia asteroides pneumonia with bacteraemia

Patricia A Figgis, John L Harkness and Allan R Glanville

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (8): 447

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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