Volume 173 Issue 11

Journal activities

• More submissions and an expanding readership Bronwyn Gaut (MJA 2000; 173: 565-567)

Editorials

• "Should we treat leuchæmia in children?" Peter J Smith (MJA 2000; 173: 568-569)
• General practice research in Australia: a timely reality check Martin B Van Der Weyden (MJA 2000; 173: 569-570)
• Media and young minds George C Patton, Susan M Sawyer (MJA 2000; 173: 570-571)

Conference report

• XIII International AIDS Conference, Durban, 9-14 July, 2000 John B Ziegler, Rosemary A Ffrench (MJA 2000; 173: 572-574)

Responding to crisis

• Crevasse fall in the Antarctic: a patient's perspective Raina K Plowright (MJA 2000; 173: 576-578)
• Sydney hailstorms: the health role in the recovery process Lynette A Lee, Anne Collings (MJA 2000; 173: 579-582)
• Malaria in the Australian Defence Force during and after participation in the International Force in East Timor (INTERFET) Scott J Kitchener, Alyson M Auliff, Karl H Rieckmann (MJA 2000; 173: 583-585)
• Medical assistance to civilians during peacekeeping operations: wielding the double-edged sword Michael C Reade (MJA 2000; 173: 586-589)

Cracking the code

• Cracking the code: how will the Human Genome Project affect life as we know it? Mabel Chew (MJA 2000; 173: 590)
• Milestones in the Human Genome Project: genesis to postgenome Ronald J A Trent (MJA 2000; 173: 591-594)
• Just how long can we live? Grant R Sutherland (MJA 2000; 173: 594-596)
• The Human Genome Project: how do we protect Australians? Natasha Stott Despoja (MJA 2000; 173: 596-598)
• The Human Genome Project in the Dock Michael Kirby (MJA 2000; 173: 599-600)
• Social consequences of manufactured longevity Riaz Hassan (MJA 2000; 173: 601-603)

Forensic medicine

• Shotgun suicide with a difference Peter B Herdson (MJA 2000; 173: 604-605)
• Homicide or suicide? A jigsaw puzzle of incinerated human remains Alanah M Buck, Clive Cooke, Peter de la Motte, Stephen Knott (MJA 2000; 173: 606-607)

The research enterprise

• General practice research in Australia, 1980-1999 Alison M Ward, Derrick G Lopez, Max Kamien (MJA 2000; 173: 608-611)
• Exploring the unknown: the challenges of a career in biomedical research Gordon L Ada (MJA 2000; 173: 612-615)
• John Kerr and apoptosis Michael G E O'Rourke, Kay A O Ellem (MJA 2000; 173: 616-617)

Rural health

• A revolution in rural and remote Australia: bringing health education to the bush Kerrie A Lawson, Mabel Chew, Martin B Van Der Weyden (MJA 2000; 173: 618-624)

Medicine and the media

• From Karrawingi the emu to Care factor zero. Mental health issues in contemporary Australian adolescent literature Kathleen M Bokey, Garry Walter, Joseph M Rey (MJA 2000; 173: 625-628)
• Healthcare on the Internet: buyers beware Peter M Yellowlees (MJA 2000; 173: 629-630)
• Medicine, the media and monetary interests: the need for transparency and professionalism Ray Moynihan, Melissa Sweet (MJA 2000; 173: 631-634)

Medicine and beyond

• Death and the comedian Peter Goldsworthy (MJA 2000; 173: 635-637)
• Life after medicine Ron Elisha (MJA 2000; 173: 635-638)

Power of one

• A clinician with a passion for pathology Priscilla Kincaid-Smith (MJA 2000; 173: 639-642)
• Service in three careers Peter E Baume (MJA 2000; 173: 643-646)

Medicine and the community

• A swimming program for children with asthma Colleen P Wardell, Clair Isbister (MJA 2000; 173: 647-648)

Bites and stings

• Pressure immobilisation bandages in first-aid treatment of jellyfish envenomation: current recommendations reconsidered Peter L Pereira, Teresa Carrette, Paul Cullen, Richard F Mulcahy, Mark Little, Jamie Seymour (MJA 2000; 173: 650-652)
• Envenomation by the billygoat plum stinging caterpillar (Thosea penthima) Geoffrey K Isbister, Peter I Whelan (MJA 2000; 173: 654-655)

Christmas offerings

• Alice in Blunderland Brian J Fotheringham (MJA 2000; 173: 659-660)
• De-skilling me softly: a cautionary ballad Edwin Harari (MJA 2000; 173: 661)
• Would the pharmaceutical companies please mind their Ps and Qs, and their Xs, Ys and Zs Gordon B Parker (MJA 2000; 173: 662-663)
• Olympic couch potatoes Garry Walter (MJA 2000; 173: 664)
• The Internist Len Green (MJA 2000; 173: 664)

Matters arising

• Australian general practice: the need for leaders and vision James A Dickinson (MJA 2000; 173: 668)
• R&D in general practice: time to move forward David P Weller (MJA 2000; 173: 668)
• The current situation of general practice Paul J H Hemming (MJA 2000; 173: 669)

Letters

• What a louse! Paul Prociv (MJA 2000; 173: 603)
• A possible case of intestinal myiasis due to Eristalis tenax Phillip B Whish-Wilson (MJA 2000; 173: 652)
• Chromomycosis George R Crowe, Michael Martin (MJA 2000; 173: 656)
• Setting the (medical) record straight Alan C Young, Peter W Holmes (MJA 2000; 173: 670)
• Incongruous infants: facial features in old paintings John E Gault (MJA 2000; 173: 670)
• The cough that packed a punch: is boxing a risk for tuberculosis transmission? Michael H Levy, Craig Gater (MJA 2000; 173: 670)
• Ulcerative "nintendinitis": a new kind of repetitive strain injury T H H Guan Koh (MJA 2000; 173: 670)

Departments

• Snapshots John A M Taylor (MJA 2000; 173: 571)
• David C Wong, Gail Durbridge (MJA 2000; 173: 646) Dorothy J Radford (MJA 2000; 173: 658)
• Geoffrey J Coltheart (MJA 2000; 173: 658) John Roche, Warwick B Lee (MJA 2000; 173: 658)
• Brian Jones (MJA 2000; 173: 658)

  Book reviews Stalkers and their victims, reviewed by J Murray Wright (MJA 2000; 173: 664)

• For the love of children. My life and medical career, reviewed by David M Danks (MJA 2000; 173: 666)

  Christmas competition (MJA 2000; 173: 669)