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From the Editor's Desk: Covert colonialism   Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 185.

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In This Issue . . .   Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 186.

Editorials

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Alcohol sales data are essential for good public policies towards alcohol
Wayne D Hall, Tanya N Chikritzhs, Peter H N d’Abbs and Robin G W Room — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 188-189.

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The Peoples-uni: public health education for all
Richard F Heller — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 189-190.

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Cancer adds further urgency to prioritising obesity control
Ian N Olver and Paul B Grogan — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 191-192.

Research

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Development and validation of fall risk screening tools for use in residential aged care facilities
Kim Delbaere, Jacqueline C T Close, Hylton B Menz, Robert G Cumming, Ian D Cameron, Philip N Sambrook, Lyn M March and Stephen R Lord — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 193-196.

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Incidence of bariatric surgery and postoperative outcomes: a population-based analysis in Western Australia
Fiona J Smith, C D’Arcy J Holman, Rachael E Moorin and David R Fletcher — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 198-202.

Public Health

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Strongyloidiasis in personnel of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI)
David A Pattison and Richard Speare — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 203-206.

Research Enterprise

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Financial disclosure and clinical research: what is important to participants?
Anastasia Hutchinson and Abe R Rubinfeld — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 207-209.

Medicine In the Community

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Public perceptions of Australia’s doctors, hospitals and health care systems
Elizabeth A Hardie and Christine R Critchley — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 210-214.

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How do Australian patients rate their general practitioner? A descriptive study using the General Practice Assessment Questionnaire
Maria Potiriadis, Patty Chondros, Gail Gilchrist, Kelsey Hegarty, Grant Blashki and Jane M Gunn — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 215-219.

Health Care Reform

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Fixing the problems that beset the Australian hospital system
John M Dwyer — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 220-221.

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Primary health care reform: equity is the key
Michael R Kidd, Ian T Watts and Deborah C Saltman — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 221-222.

For Debate

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Why we need a national registry in interventional cardiology
Ian A Scott — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 223-227.

Notable Cases

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Very late stent thrombosis after discontinuation of clopidogrel therapy
Rohit Barthwal and Brian A Herman — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 229-230.

Book Review

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Handbook of dialysis therapy
Reviewed by Francesco L Ierino — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 206.

Obituary

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David Norrie Fleming Leake
Peter R C Wakeford and Douglas J Harbison — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 228.

Snapshot

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Bilateral renal halo sign in acute pancreatitis
Ganesh Athappan, Venkatesh K Ariyamuthu and Virusankulam K Rajamani — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 228.

Letters

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Effect of community consultation on recruitment of Indigenous women to a human papillomavirus prevalence study
Christine M Read, Deborah J Bateson and Christine J Ohrin — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 233.

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Colorectal cancer screening: ensuring benefits outweigh the risks
Suzanne Kosmider, Kathryn M Field, Finlay A Macrae and Peter Gibbs — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 233-234.

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Comparison of crystalline methamphetamine (“ice”) users and other patients with toxicology-related problems presenting to a hospital emergency department
Paul I Dargan and David M Wood — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 234.

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Medical school selection criteria and the prediction of academic performance
David W Harding and Ian G Wilson || David Wilkinson, Jianzhen Zhang, Gerard J Byrne, Malcolm H Parker and Raymond F Peterson — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 234-235.

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Selecting medical students
Nicholas Jefferson-Lenskyj || Peter C Arnold || David A Powis — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 235-236.

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Encouraging general practitioners to train medical students
Andrew A Beveridge — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 236.

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Preventing primary liver cancer: how well are we faring towards a national hepatitis B strategy?
Niyi Awofeso || Monica C Robotin, Jacob George, Rajah Supramaniam, Freddy Sitas and Andrew G Penman — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 237.

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Teenage smoking in pregnancy and birthweight: a population study, 2001–2004
Elizabeth M Peadon, Carol I Bower and Elizabeth J Elliott — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 237-238.

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Health services under siege: the case for clinical process redesign
Stephen F Wilson and Nicholas Collins || George Larcos || Caroline A Brand, Peter A Cameron, Peter B Greenberg and Ian A Scott || Tony J O’Connell, David I Ben-Tovim, Brian C McCaughan, Michael G Szwarcbord and Katherine M McGrath — Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 238-240.

Columns

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In Other Journals   Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 232.

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