Volume 170 Issue 11

Editorials

• Parasitic meningitis Paul Prociv (MJA 1999; 170: 517-518)
• Primary stenting in acute myocardial infarction: paving the way to arterial patency Ian T Meredith (MJA 1999; 170: 518-519)
• Australians with renal disease: a new national survey Esther M Briganti, John F Knight, Robert C Atkins, John J McNeil (MJA 1999; 170: 520-521)
• Living from day to day -- or generation to generation Charles S Guest (MJA 1999; 170: 521-522)

Research

• Hormone replacement therapies in women at risk of cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis in South Australia in 1997 Alastair H MacLennan, David H Wilson, Anne W Taylor (MJA 1999; 170: 524-527)
• Japanese encephalitis in north Queensland, Australia, 1998 Jeffrey N Hanna, Scott A Ritchie, Debra A Phillips, Jonathan M Lee, Susan L Hills, Andrew F van den Hurk, Alyssa T Pyke, Cheryl A Johansen, John S Mackenzie (MJA 1999; 170: 533-536)

Healthcare

• A primary stenting strategy as an alternative to fibrinolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction. An analysis of results in hospital and at 6 weeks and 6 months Peter S Hansen, Helge H Rasmussen, John Vinen, Gregory I C Nelson (MJA 1999; 170: 537-540)

Diagnostic Dilemmas

• A fatal case of angiostrongyliasis in an 11-month-old infant Claire M Cooke-Yarborough, Andrew J Kornberg, Geoffrey G Hogg, David M Spratt, Jocelyn R L Forsyth (MJA 1999; 170: 541-543)

Clinical Update

• Androgen treatment in women Susan R Davis (MJA 1999; 170: 545-549)

Medicine and the Law

• Lipovac v Black: was Dr Black negligent? Paul Gerber (MJA 1999; 170: 550-552)

MJA Practice Essentials -- Cardiology

• The slow pulse: is a pacemaker necessary? Susan J Corcoran, Lynne Pressley (MJA 1999; 170: 556-561)