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Volume 181 Issue 4

16 August 2004

From the editor’s desk

Endless reform versus front-line care

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 177 Free

In This Issue

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): Free

Editorials

The ethics of clinical ethics services

Margaret A Somerville

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 180-181

Cardiac surgery in octogenarians and beyond

John MP Alvarez

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 181-182

“May contain traces of . . .”: hidden food allergens in Australia

Maria Said and John M Weiner

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 183-184

Research

Randomised controlled trial of health assessments for older Australian veterans and war widows

Julie E Byles, Meredith Tavener, Nick H Higginbotham, Lyn Francis, John E Marley, Rachel L O’Connell, Balakrishnan R Nair, Brendan G Goodger, Claire L Jackson, Mary E McKernon, Richard F Heller and Jonathan Newbury

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 186-190 Free

Treatment patterns for cancer in Western Australia: does being Indigenous make a difference?

Sonja E Hall, Caroline E Bulsara, Max K Bulsara, Delia Hendrie, C D'Arcy J Holman, Timothy G Leahy and Margaret R Culbong

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 191-194 Free

Indigenous health

A multifaceted health-service intervention in remote Aboriginal communities: 3-year follow-up of the impact on diabetes care

Ross S Bailie, Damin Si, Samantha J Togni, Gary W Robinson and Peter H N d’Abbs

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 195-200 Free

For debate

Abortion: time to clarify Australia's confusing laws

Lachlan J de Crespigny and Julian Savulescu

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 201-203 Free

Clinical ethics

Acute clinical ethics consultation: the practicalities

Andrew W Gill, Peter Saul, John McPhee and Ian Kerridge

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 204-206 Free

Clinical update

Major advances in bipolar disorder

Philip B Mitchell, Gin S Malhi and Jillian R Ball

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 207-210 Free

Personal perspective

Australian healthcare: perspectives of an immigrant from the UK

Alan Rodger

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 211-212

EBM: Trials on trial

Screening decreases prostate cancer death: first analysis of the1988  Quebec Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial

Alexandra L Barratt and Alan S Coates

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 213-214

Balancing the outcomes: reporting adverse events

Anthony C Keech, Susan M Wonders, Val J Gebski and David I Cook

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 215-218

Lessons from practice

Lupin: a new hidden food allergen

William B Smith, David Gillis and Frank E Kette

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 219-220 Free

Obituary

William Wotherspoon McLaren MB BS, DTM&H

William Muggridge

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 221 Free

Complementary and alternative medicine

The other side of the coin: safety of complementary and alternative medicine

Stephen P Myers and Phillip A Cheras

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 222-225 Free

Letters

Drugs, sport and the Olympics 2000–2004

Michael C Kennedy

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 227

Emergence of heteroresistant vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) infection in Western Australia

Ronan J Murray, Kishore Sieunarine, Peter B Ward and John W Pearman

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 227-228

Fatal necrotising pneumonia due to community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

Anton Y Peleg and Wendy J Munckhof

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 228-229

Fatal leptospirosis presenting as musculoskeletal pain

Lloyd K Morgan

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 229

Australia was indeed the “lucky country” in the recent worldwide SARS epidemic

Marianne E Jauncey, Paul K Armstrong, Emily L Morgan and Jeremy M McAnulty

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 229-230

Teaching on the run tips: doctors as teachers

Jennifer W Majoor and Joseph E Ibrahim

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 230-232

Teaching on the run tips: doctors as teachers

Fiona R Lake

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 230-232

Suboptimal management of subclinical hypothyroidism

Chin-Pin Yeo, Melissa J Gillett and Samuel D Vasikaran

Med J Aust 2004; 181 (4): 232

Book reviews

A medicopolitical whodunit

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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New approach to back pain

C Scott Masters

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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