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Volume 193 Issue 11

6 December 2010

Journal activities

MJA 2010: the end of an era

Bronwyn Gaut

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 630-632

Whither medicine? The expansion of non-doctor practice

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 634-635

Obesity and global warming: are they similar “canaries” in the same “mineshaft”?

Garry J Egger and John B Dixon

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 635-637

Australiana

A multilevel analysis of three randomised controlled trials of the Australian Medical Sheepskin in the prevention of sacral pressure ulcers

Patriek J Mistiaen, Damien J Jolley, Sunita McGowan, Mark B Hickey, Peter Spreeuwenberg and Anneke L Francke

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 638-641 Free

Toponymous diseases of Australia

Ranil D Appuhamy, Jan Tent and John S Mackenzie

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 642-646 Free

The Melbourne Colorectal Cancer Study: reflections on a 30-year experience

Gabriel A Kune

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 648-652 Free

HIV/AIDS

World AIDS Day

William D Bowtell

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 653-654

The changing age distribution of men who have sex with men diagnosed with HIV in Victoria

Carol El-Hayek, Isabel Bergeri, Margaret E Hellard, Alisa E Pedrana, Nasra Higgins, Alan Breschkin and Mark Stoové

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 655-658 Free

Doctors in training

MD: the new MB BS?

Ross L Roberts-Thomson, Sam D Kirchner and Christopher X J Wong

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 660-661

The difficult problem: assessing medical students’ professional attitudes and behaviour

Malcolm H Parker, Jane Turner, Paul McGurgan, Lynne M Emmerton, Lindy L McAllister and David Wilkinson

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 662-664

Fitness-to-practise policies in Australian medical schools — are they fit for purpose?

Paul M McGurgan, Debbie Olson-White, Marie Holgate and Di Carmody

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 665-667 Free

Back to the future: teaching anatomy by whole-body dissection

George Ramsey-Stewart, Annette W Burgess and David A Hill

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 668-671 Free

TL; DR (too long; didn’t read) medicine and pocket-sized textbooks

Nicholas M Beech

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 672

Power of one

We “never” train women in Sydney

Caroline M de Costa

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 674-678

A balloon, the beach, biology and blood pressure

Warwick P Anderson

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 679-684

History

Osler and his Australian associations — part 1: during his life

Milton G Roxanas

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 686-689

Osler and his Australian associations — part 2: continuing influence

Milton G Roxanas

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 690-693

Bites and stings

Clinical effects of red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) envenoming and correlation with venom concentrations: Australian Snakebite Project (ASP-11)

Andrew Churchman, Margaret A O’Leary, Nicholas A Buckley, Colin B Page, Alan Tankel, Chris Gavaghan, Anna Holdgate, Simon G A Brown and Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 696-700 Free

Medicine and the media

Deconstructing cancer: what makes a good-quality news story?

Amanda J Wilson, Billie Bonevski, Alison L Jones and David A Henry

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 702-706 Free

True stories

From Northern Ireland to northern Australia: medicine in the Top End

R G Peter Watson

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 709-710 Free

Crossing over to the other side

Michael J Mackay

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 711-713

A foray for filaria

John S Whitehall

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 714-716

Straight from the crocodile’s mouth

Samuel J Fitzpatrick and Amanda L Thomas

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 717

The delight that work alone can give

Michael Sorokin

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 718-719

Making little progress to Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 for maternal and child health: a personal perspective from Uganda

Katie M Moynihan

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 721-723

Christmas offerings

Lifetime costs of tobacco smoking

C Ross Philpot

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 713

Mr D Duck

Derrick G Selby and Claudio Coscia

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 713

The hidden menace of non-equine horses

John A Craven and Jacquie K Schutz

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 724-725 Free

Whirl sign — a hurricane on a weather map

Debasish Debnath and Peter Frecker

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 725

Air guitarist’s knee — a new musical injury

Robert J Douglas and Jason Ward

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 726-727

Jelly baby

D Brian Jones

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 727

Piling high: a general practice registrar’s unsolicited mail

Amanda M Torkington, Robyn G Preston and David T Brandts-Giesen

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 728-729 Free

Visiting a sauna: does inhaling hot dry air reduce common cold symptoms? A randomised controlled trial

Daniel Pach, Bettina Knöchel, Rainer Lüdtke, Katja Wruck, Stefan N Willich and Claudia M Witt

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 730-734 Free

Psychic or pure probability?

Lydia M McGee and Richard G E McGee

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 735

Book reviews

Suffer the little children

Jennifer M Fleming

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 684

Science and the soul

Sue Ogle

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 707

Diary of a young doctor

Francis J Bowden

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 707

Creating and marketing illness

Greg Kyle

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 708

Lar(ri)kin’s survival guide

Daniel J Scherer

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 708

Departments

The great race

Alison Williams

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 637

For the editor’s eyes only: quotes from MJA contributors in 2010

Ann T Gregory

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 685

The medical convention

Leonard Green

Med J Aust 2010; 193 (11): 694