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Volume 192 Issue 2

18 January 2010

From the editor’s desk

Health, bushfires and political procrastination

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 59 Free

In This Issue

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 58 Free

Editorials

Planned home birth in Australia: politics or science?

Andrew F Pesce

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 60-61

Immigration detention and health

Christine B Phillips

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 61-62

Partnership with patients to improve patient safety

Stephanie M Newell, Dorothy A Jones and Martin J Hatlie

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 63-64

Research

The health of people in Australian immigration detention centres

Janette P Green and Kathy Eagar

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 65-70 Free

Symptoms and suffering at the end of life in children with cancer: an Australian perspective

John A Heath, Naomi E Clarke, Susan M Donath, Maria McCarthy, Vicki A Anderson and Joanne Wolfe

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 71-75 Free

Planned home and hospital births in South Australia, 1991–2006: differences in outcomes

Robyn M Kennare, Marc J N C Keirse, Graeme R Tucker and Annabelle C Chan

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 76-80 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

A pandemic response to a disease of predominantly seasonal intensity

Heath A Kelly

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 81-83 Free

Hospitalised adult patients with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in Melbourne, Australia

Justin T Denholm, Claire L Gordon, Paul D Johnson, Saliya S Hewagama, Rhonda L Stuart, Craig Aboltins, Cameron Jeremiah, James Knox, Garry P Lane, Adrian R Tramontana, Monica A Slavin, Thomas R Schulz, Michael Richards, Chris J Birch and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 84-86 Free

The rational clinician in a pandemic setting

David A Bradt and Joseph Epstein

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 87-89 Free

Comparison of adult patients hospitalised with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza and seasonal influenza during the “PROTECT” phase of the pandemic response

Ya-Shu Chang, Sebastiaan J van Hal, Peter M Spencer, Iain B Gosbell and Peter W Collett

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 90-93 Free

The changing phases of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in Queensland: an overview of public health actions and epidemiology

Ranil D Appuhamy, Frank H Beard, Hai N Phung, Christine E Selvey, Frances A Birrell and Terry H Culleton

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 94-97 Free

Clinical update

How do we manage patients who become unemployed?

Mark F Harris, Elizabeth Harris and Timothy D Shortus

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 98-101 Free

For debate

Pandemic influenza testing at the coalface: time for reassessment?

Miles H Beaman and Michael J Leung

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 102-104 Free

Letters

The case for newborn screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia in Australia

Garry L Warne, Katrina L Armstrong, Thomas A Faunce, Bridget M Wilcken, Avihu Boneh, Elizabeth Geelhoed and Maria E Craig

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 107

Glycaemic control in patients with type 1 diabetes after provision of public hospital-funded insulin pumps

Peter W Goss

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 107-108

Norovirus diarrhoeal disease in infants and children

Alison M Kesson, Nicola Benwell and Elizabeth J Elliott

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 108-109

Recognising congenital glaucoma

Peter J Lewindon

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 109

Junior doctors’ perceptions of their preparedness for hospital work: support for the rural clinical school model as a key to better preparation

Diann S Eley

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 109-110

Evidence-based uncertainty: recent trial results on prostate-specific antigen testing and prostate cancer mortality

Peter C Arnold

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 110

Evidence-based uncertainty: recent trial results on prostate-specific antigen testing and prostate cancer mortality

David P Smith, Emily Banks, Mark S Clements, Robert A Gardiner and Bruce K Armstrong

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 110

Patterns of mortality in Indigenous adults in the Northern Territory, 1998–2003

David J Scrimgeour

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 110-111

A national approach to perinatal mental health in Australia: exercising caution in the roll-out of a public health initiative

Marie-Paule Austin, Nicole Reilly, Jeannette Milgrom and Bryanne Barnett

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 111

Is uptake of genetic testing for colorectal cancer influenced by knowledge of insurance implications?

Warwick P Anderson

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 112

Poll tax and preventive cardiology in Australia

V Michael Jelinek

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 112

Book reviews

The “unfortunate experiment” in cervical cancer

Caroline M de Costa

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 75

Cardiology, take two

J H Nicholas Bett

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 97

Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 106