Volume 170 Issue 4

Editorials

• The pneumococcus in the new millennium Joseph G McCormack (MJA 1999; 170: 147-148)
• Hospital in the home: take the evidence and run Michael Montalto (MJA 1999; 170: 148-149)
• Disability and work-related injury: time for a change? Allan R Molloy, Fiona M Blyth, Michael K Nicholas (MJA 1999; 170: 150-151)
• The Lundberg affair Martin B Van Der Weyden (MJA 1999; 170: 151)

Research

• Rapidly emerging antimicrobial resistances in Streptococcus pneumoniae in Australia John D Turnidge, Jan M Bell, Peter J Collignon, on behalf of the Pneumococcal Study Group (MJA 1999; 170: 152-155)
• Apolipoprotein E polymorphism in indigenous Australians: allelic frequencies and relationship with dyslipidaemia Joanne TE Shaw, Jill Tate, Janine B Kesting, Maureen Marczak, Janet R Berkholz, Paul K Lovelock, David Purdie, Peter Hickman, Donald P Cameron (MJA 1999; 170: 161-164)

Healthcare

• Characteristics of patients with community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia Alexander A Padiglione, Jessika Willis, Michael Bailey, Christopher K Fairley (MJA 1999; 170: 165-167)

Diagnostic Dilemma

• Cat scratch disease diagnosed by polymerase chain reaction in a patient with suspected tuberculous lymphadenitis Tom Gottlieb, Bridget L Atkins, Jenny M B Robson (MJA 1999; 170: 168-170)

Viewpoint

• Primary care psychiatry is not specialist psychiatry in general practice Ian B Hickie (MJA 1999; 170: 171-173)

For Debate

• The 100-year conflict: salt intake and cardiovascular disease
  • Universal recommendations for sodium intake should be avoided
  • Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, Michael H Alderman (MJA 1999; 170: 174-175)
  • Restriction of salt intake is needed to ameliorate the cardiovascular disease epidemic
  • Trefor O Morgan (MJA 1999; 170: 176-178)
  • The salt dilemma: some answers, many questions
  • M Gary Nicholls, A Mark Richards (MJA 1999; 170: 178-179)

Information Technology

• Information technology in medical practice: safety and privacy lessons from the United Kingdom Ross J Anderson (MJA 1999; 170: 181-184)