Volume 169 Issue 11

Journal Activities

• The year in review Bronwyn Gaut (MJA 1998; 169: 564-566)

Editorials

• Biodiversity loss: a human health issue Gerry Cassis (MJA 1998; 169: 568-569)
• Cancer immunotherapy: new leads on an elusive goal Christopher C Goodnow (MJA 1998; 169: 570-571)

Alternative Medicine

• Promoting evidence-based alternative medicine Michael J Hensley, Peter G Gibson (MJA 1998; 169: 573-574)
• Buteyko breathing techniques in asthma: a blinded randomised controlled trial Simon D Bowler, Amanda Green, Charles A Mitchell (MJA 1998; 169: 575-578)
• Chinese herbal medicines in the treatment of acute respiratory infections: a review of randomised and controlled clinical trials Chaoying Liu, Robert M Douglas (MJA 1998; 169: 579-582)
• Hypericum perforatum (St John's wort) in depression: pest or blessing? Joseph M Rey, Garry Walter (MJA 1998; 169: 583-586)

Soundwaves

• Otoacoustic emissions and recreational hearing loss John T Redhead (MJA 1998; 169: 587-588)
• Latent cochlear damage in personal stereo users: a study based on click-evoked otoacoustic emissions Eric L LePage, Narelle M Murray (MJA 1998; 169: 588-592)

Consumers & Healthcare

• Patient, client or customer? Balakrishnan R Nair (MJA 1998; 169: 593)
• The Internet and the changing roles of doctors, patients and families Patrick J Pemberton, Jack Goldblatt (MJA 1998; 169: 594-595)
• Should patients have access to their medical records? Meredith Carter (MJA 1998; 169: 596-597)
• Children with severe disabilities: options for residential care Kevin J Bain (MJA 1998; 169: 598-600)

Rescue

• Medical response to disasters John Pearn (MJA 1998; 169: 601)
• Orthopaedic surgery after the Aitape tsunami Annette C Holian, Prue P Keith (MJA 1998; 169: 606-609)
• Air medical scene response to blunt trauma: effect on early survival Robert A Bartolacci, Blair J Munford, Anna Lee, Patricia A McDougall (MJA 1998; 169: 612-616)

Medical Research Perspectives

• Medical research in New South Wales 1993-1996 assessed by Medline publication capture Emmanuel J Favaloro (MJA 1998; 169: 617-622)
• The Menzies School of Health Research offers a new paradigm of cooperative research John D Mathews (MJA 1998; 169: 625-629)
• The TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health Research Fiona Stanley (MJA 1998; 169: 630-633)
• Working with the Wellcome Trust Bridget M Ogilvie (MJA 1998; 169: 634-637)

Bites and Stings

• A year's experience of Irukandji envenomation in far north Queensland Mark Little, Richard F Mulcahy (MJA 1998; 169: 638-641)
• Redback spider antivenom used to treat envenomation by a juvenile Steatoda spider Mike South, Peter Wirth, Ken D Winkel (MJA 1998; 169: 642)

Medical Detective

• Lead poisoning from drinking Kombucha tea brewed in a ceramic pot Tri Giang Phan, Jane Estell, Geoffrey Duggin, Ian Beer, Diane Smith, Mark J Ferson (MJA 1998; 169: 644-646)

True Stories

• Acute appendicitis in childhood: did mother know best? A pathological analysis of 1409 cases Roger W Byard, Nicholas D Manton, Richard H Burnell (MJA 1998; 169: 647-648)
• Breaching the bastions. Susannah O'Reilly - pioneer Australian female doctor Kelvin Grose (MJA 1998; 169: 648-650)

Medical Education

• A sea change in Australian medical education Kerrie A Lawson, Ruth M Armstrong, Martin B Van Der Weyden (MJA 1998; 169: 653-658)

Photo Essay

• Practising dermatology in the South Pacific Anthony D White, Ross StC Barnetson (MJA 1998; 169: 659-662)

History

• Arterial disease in antiquity Reginald Magee (MJA 1998; 169: 663-666)

Departments

• Snapshots
•  David J Williams  (MJA 1998; 169: 572)
•  Kevin B Orr  (MJA 1998; 169: 622)
•  Barnabus Bako  (MJA 1998; 169: 637)
•  David J E Lord  (MJA 1998; 169: 641)
•  John Rusli | Alan Parsons and Paul Heaton  (MJA 1998; 169: 646)
•  Malcolm Thomson  (MJA 1998; 169: 650)
•  Cholm W Williams  (MJA 1998; 169: 662)
• Book Review Ann Gregory  (MJA 1998; 169: 652)
• History of Medicine Quiz  (MJA 1998; 169: 666)
•   Quiz answers  (MJA 1998; 169: 672)
• Christmas competition   (MJA 1998; 169: 672)

Letters

• Removing rectal foreign bodies: is the ventouse gender specific? Richard P G Mackinnon (MJA 1998; 169: 670) | Gordian Fulde (MJA 1998; 169: 670)
• Faith healing or Russian roulette? C Norman Shealy (MJA 1998; 169: 671)