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Volume 190 Issue 6

16 March 2009

From the editor’s desk

Care and compassion

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 289 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 290 Free

Editorials

After the fires: looking to the future using the lessons from the past

Alexander C McFarlane and Beverley Raphael

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 291-292

Water recycling — forwards or backwards for public health?

Karin S Leder, Joanne E O’Toole and Martha I Sinclair

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 293-294

The “alcopops” tax: heading in the right direction

Tanya N Chikritzhs, Paul M Dietze, Steven J Allsop, Michael M Daube, Wayne D Hall and Kypros Kypri

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 294-295

Research

Incidence and survival after acute myocardial infarction in Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1992–2004

Jiqiong You, John R Condon, Yuejen Zhao and Steven Guthridge

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 298-302 Free

Natural history of chronic kidney disease in Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous children: a 4-year population-based follow-up study

Leigh Haysom, Rita Williams, Elisabeth M Hodson, Pamela A Lopez-Vargas, Leslie P Roy, David M Lyle and Jonathan C Craig

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 303-306 Free

Patterns of mortality in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory, 1998–2003: are people living in more remote areas worse off?

Karen Andreasyan and Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 307-311 Free

Public health

Are babies getting bigger? An analysis of birthweight trends in New South Wales, 1990–2005

Ruth M Hadfield, Samantha J Lain, Judy M Simpson, Jane B Ford, Camille H Raynes-Greenow, Jonathan M Morris and Christine L Roberts

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 312-315 Free

Position statement

Calcium and bone health: position statement for the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society, Osteoporosis Australia and the Endocrine Society of Australia

Kerrie M Sanders, Caryl A Nowson, Mark A Kotowicz, Kathryn Briffa, Amanda Devine and Ian R Reid

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 316-320 Free

Review

The benefits of oestrogen following menopause: why hormone replacement therapy should be offered to postmenopausal women

Barry G Wren

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 321-325 Free

For debate

Non-inferiority trials: determining whether alternative treatments are good enough

Ian A Scott

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 326-330 Free

Lessons from practice

Subclavian stenosis causing angina after coronary artery bypass grafting

Daniel Tsyvine, Maryanne Hartzell, Marc P Bonaca, Gerard Connors and Scott Kinlay

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 331-332 Free

Notable cases

Clinical, electrophysiological and genetic features of a large Australian family with paramyotonia congenita

Sharavanan Parasivam, Malgorzata Krupa, Mark Slee and Dominic E Thyagarajan

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 334-336 Free

Letters

Management of kidney stone disease in New South Wales

Robert J Davies, R Denby Steele and John Kourambas

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 339

Management of kidney stone disease in New South Wales

Henry H Woo and Michael P Wines

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 339

Homicide and rates of renal transplantation in the United States and Australia

Matthew M Large

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 339-340

Can tuberculosis mimic cancer?

Riad O El Fakih, Bassem M Chehab, Rami A Mortada and Maha Assi

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 340-341

Salt intake and health in the Australian population

Trevor C Beard

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 341

Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma following infliximab therapy for Crohn’s disease

Daniel C Burger and Timothy H J Florin

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 341-342

Peer physical examination: time to revisit?

John E Marley

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 342-343

Peer physical examination: time to revisit?

Suzanne Outram

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 342-343

Standards for health care: a necessary but unknown quantity

Teresa A Lynne

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 343

Misdiagnosis of acute eye diseases by primary health care providers: incidence and implications

Claire L Jackson

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 343-344

Book reviews

Voluntary euthanasia: confronting death

Thomas F Sandeman

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 311

Anorexia: a personal story

Simon D Clarke

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 320

Obituary

Paul Garner Large MB BS, FRCS(Eng), FRACS, MS

Anthony V Large

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 325 Free

Snapshot

Valsalva retinopathy induced by vigorous nightclub dancing

Henri Sueke

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 333 Free

Correction

National mental health reform: less talk, more action

Sebastian Rosenberg, Ian B Hickie and John Mendoza

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 344

Columns

In Other Journals

Tanya Grassi

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (6): 337