Volume 165 Issue 9

Editorials

• Caring for adolescents with asthma: do we know how to? Susan Sawyer, Glenn Bowes (MJA 1996; 165: 463)
• Improving diagnosis and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Australia Allan Carmichael (MJA 1996; 165: 464)
• Insulin-dependent diabetes: now for some good news Leonard Harrison (MJA 1996; 165: 466)
• Graves' disease 150 years on David Creswell J Eastman (MJA 1996; 165: 467)

Research

• Routine pulmonary function tests in young adolescents with asthma in general practice Peter H Hewson, Elizabeth A Tippett, Danny M Jones, Justin P Madden, Peter Higgs (MJA 1996; 165: 469) Abstract - Article
• Urinary urge incontinence: randomised crossover trials of penthienate versus placebo and propantheline Graham M Coombes, Richard J Millard (MJA 1996; 165: 473)
• Management of children prescribed psychostimulant medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in the Hunter region of NSW Philip L Hazell, Michael J McDowell, Jane M Walton (MJA 1996; 165: 477)

Viewpoint

• The commercialisation of public teaching hospitals is a fundamental error Jan R Stockigt (MJA 1996; 165: 482) [online in pdf format]

Position Statement

• Asthma in pregnancy and lactation
• A position paper for the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand Christine F McDonald, Jonathan G W Burdon (MJA 1996; 165: 485)

Managing HIV

• Challenge and response: HIV in Asia and the Pacific John M Dwyer, Marina Mahathir, Lalit M Nath (MJA 1996; 165: 489)
• Epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region Gregory J Dore, John M Kaldor, Kumnuan Ungchusak, Thierry E Mertens (MJA 1996; 165: 494)
• Managing HIV with limited medical resources Graeme J Stewart, Chaiyos Kunanusont, Praphan Phanuphak, Mattana Hanvanich, Rudolf Wabitsch (MJA 1996; 165: 499)

MJA Practice Essentials - Rheumatology

• Cervical and lumbar pain Milton L Cohen (MJA 1996; 165: 504)

Clinical Practice

• Menorrhagia: a clinical update Carl E Wood (MJA 1996; 165: 510)

Medicine and the Community

• Ageing Jewish Holocaust survivors: anxieties in dealing with health professionals Hugh I Joffe, Charmaine F Joffe, Henry Brodaty (MJA 1996; 165: 517)