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From the Editor's Desk: The e-health personal record   Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 345.

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In This Issue . . .   Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 346.

Editorials

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Cycling and health: an opportunity for positive change?
Adrian E Bauman and Chris Rissel — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 347-348.

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Making sense of differing bowel cancer screening guidelines
Hooi C Ee and John K Olynyk — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 348-349.

Postcard from New York

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The high cost of drugs in the United States
Jeffrey D Zajac — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 352.

Research

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Bicycling injuries and mortality in Victoria, 2001–2006
Mirjana Sikic, Antonina A Mikocka-Walus, Belinda J Gabbe, Francis T McDermott and Peter A Cameron — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 353-356.

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Use of gastrostomy tubes in older Western Australians: a population-based study of frequency, indications and outcomes
Janine Calver, Kieran A McCaul, Melinda Burmas, Barbara J Horner and Leon Flicker — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 358-361.

Access Block

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Access block: it’s all about available beds
Daniel M Fatovich, Geoff Hughes and Sally M McCarthy — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 362-363.

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Access block can be managed
Peter A Cameron, Anthony P Joseph and Sally M McCarthy — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 364-368.

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Myths versus facts in emergency department overcrowding and hospital access block
Drew B Richardson and David Mountain — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 369-374.

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Interventions to circumvent intensive care access block: a retrospective 2-year study across metropolitan Melbourne
Graeme J Duke, Michael D Buist, David Pilcher, Carlos D Scheinkestel, John D Santamaria, Geoff A Gutteridge, Peter J Cranswick, David Ernest, Craig French and John A Botha — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 375-378.

New Drugs, Old Drugs

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The direct factor Xa inhibitor rivaroxaban
Abhishek K Verma and Timothy A Brighton — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 379-383.

Notable Cases

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Chromobacterium violaceum endocarditis and hepatic abscesses treated successfully with meropenem and ciprofloxacin
Ivan W M Lim, Peter J Stride, Robert L Horvath, Christian R Hamilton-Craig and Phi P Chau — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 386-387.

Viewpoint

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Pertussis prevention and treatment: a call for wider access to azithromycin
Asha C Bowen, Mark J Ferson, Linda V Graudins and Pamela Palasanthiran — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 388-389.

Diagnostic Dilemma

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“My foot hurts”: a flare of rheumatoid arthritis?
Manish Dugar, Wayne A Rankin, Emily Rowe and Malcolm D Smith — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 392-393.

Letters

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Doctor displacement: a political agenda or a health care imperative?
Guy L Ludbrook and Guy J Maddern || Peter M Brooks and Charles A Mitchell || Martin B Van Der Weyden — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 396-397.

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Isoniazid hypersensitivity in a child
Tony D Merritt and Peter D Massey — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 397.

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Curtain cords and accidental childhood hanging
Roger W Byard — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 397-398.

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Health information privacy and patient safety
Anthony P Morton, Susan E Smith, Peter R Croll and R Michael Whitby — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 398.

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Rational thromboprophylaxis in medical inpatients: not quite there yet
John P Fletcher, Donald MacLellan, Harry Gibbs and Geoff Matthews — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 398-399.

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What is the health service for?
Amanda E James — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 399.

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Effect of smoking among Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers on preterm birth and full-term low birthweight
Barry N J Walters — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 400.

Supplement

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Depression and anxiety with physical illness — Contents

Book Reviews

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Therapeutic guidelines. Toxicology and wilderness.
reviewed by Mark Little — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 391.

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Travel medicine. 2nd ed.
reviewed by Deborah J Mills — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 391.

Obituary

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Frederick Charles Schwarz
Derek H Meyers — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 368.

Snapshot

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Black bones: a case of incidental discovery of ochronotic arthropathy
See-Seong Chang, Eugene T Ek and Vicki Pliatsios — Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 390.

Columns

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In Other Journals   Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 394.

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