Volume 170 Issue 1

Editorials

• Oral health for the preschool child Nicky Kilpatrick (MJA 1999; 170: 6-7)
• Modifying use of pathology services Robert AJ Conyers (MJA 1999; 170: 8-9)
• Ethics committees: is reform in order? Robert H Loblay, Donald R C Chalmers (MJA 1999; 170: 9-10)

Research

• A quality management intervention to improve clinical laboratory use in acute myocardial infarction Godfrey Isouard (MJA 1999; 170: 11-14)
• Latex allergy in an Australian population of children and adolescents with spinal dysfunction Jane P Valentine, Jennifer J Kurinczuk, Richard K S Loh, Peter J Chauvel (MJA 1999; 170: 15-18)
• Plasma homocysteine levels in indigenous Australians Joanne T E Shaw, Brett McWhinney, Jill R Tate, Janine B Kesting, Maureen Marczak,David Purdie, Harry Gibbs, Donald P Cameron, Peter E Hickman (MJA 1999; 170: 19-22)

Notable Cases

• Massive prehospital transfusion in multiple blunt trauma Alan A Garner, Robert A Bartolacci (MJA 1999; 170: 23-25)

Ethics

• Are ethics committees retarding the improvement of healthcare services in Australia? Konrad Jamrozik, Marlene Kolybaba (MJA 1999; 170: 26-28)

Viewpoint

• Rethinking the early childcare agenda Peter S Cook (MJA 1999; 170: 29-31)

Medicine and the Community

• Trends in the specialist workforce in internal medicine in Australia, 1981-1995 Owen F Dent, Kerry J Goulston (MJA 1999; 170: 32-35)

Review

• Adult acute myeloid leukaemia: update on treatment James F Bishop (MJA 1999; 170: 39-43)