Volume 175 Issue 11

Journal Activities

• 2001: Almost a (cyber)Space Odyssey Bronwyn Gaut (MJA 2001; 175: 566-568)

Editorials

• Environment, sustainability and health: the learning curve steepens Anthony J McMichael (MJA 2001; 175: 569-570)
• Bridging the divide: global inequities in access to HIV/AIDS therapy Gregory J Dore, David A Cooper (MJA 2001; 175: 570-572)

Conference Report

• Bullfighting in Barcelona Mabel Chew, Ruth M Armstrong (MJA 2001; 175: 573-574)

Year of the Volunteer

• Malaria, malnutrition and MSF David W Evans (MJA 2001; 175: 575-576)
• Arrival and departure Haydn Perndt (MJA 2001; 175: 577-578)

Crisis

• The place of infamy Charles Guest (MJA 2001; 175: 580-582)
• Death in Antarctica Paul G Lamberth (MJA 2001; 175: 583-584)
• So this is Christmas Steven R Doherty (MJA 2001; 175: 585-586)

Asylum Seekers and Healthcare

• Asylum seekers in Australia Mitchell M Smith (MJA 2001; 175: 587-589)
• The health needs of asylum seekers living in the community Mark F Harris, Barbara L Telfer (MJA 2001; 175: 589-592)
• Psychological disturbances in asylum seekers held in long term detention: a participant-observer account Aamer Sultan, Kevin O'Sullivan (MJA 2001; 175: 593-596)
• The mental health implications of detaining asylum seekers Zachary Steel, Derrick M Silove (MJA 2001; 175: 596-599)
• Screening for conditions of public health importance in people arriving in Australia by boat without authority Kathleen King, Peter Vodicka (MJA 2001; 175: 600-602)

Childhood injuries

• Preventing children drowning in Australia W Robert Pitt, Danny T Cass (MJA 2001; 175: 603-604)
• Drowning and near-drowning in Northern Territory children Karen M Edmond, John R Attia, Catherine A D'Este, John T Condon (MJA 2001; 175: 605-608)
• Horse-related injuries in children Andrew J A Holland, Gerard T Roy, Valapha Goh, Frank I Ross, John P Keneally, Daniel T Cass (MJA 2001; 175: 609-612)

Power of One

• Organised curiosity Charles Bridges-Webb (MJA 2001; 175: 613-616)

The Research Enterprise

• The Menzies Centre for Population Health Research Terence Dwyer (MJA 2001; 175: 617-620)

Forensic Medicine

• Not murder most foul Alan D Cala, Christopher H Lawrence (MJA 2001; 175: 621-622)
• Dolphin deaths: forensic investigations Roger W Byard, John D Gilbert, Catherine M Kemper (MJA 2001; 175: 623-624)

Medicine and the Media

• Trial of a trial by media Helge H Rasmussen, Peter S Hansen, Yutaka Koyama, Barbara-Ann Adelstein, Anthony J O'Connell, Gregory I C Nelson (MJA 2001; 175: 625-628)
• Media milking of sacred cows: a heart-stopping tale Simon Chapman (MJA 2001; 175: 629-630)
• Clinical research in the emergency setting: the role of ethics committees Paul A Komesaroff (MJA 2001; 175: 630-631)

Fitness and Fads

• The epidemiology of dog walking: an unmet need for human and canine health Adrian E Bauman, Schroeder J Russell, Susan E Furber, Annette J Dobson (MJA 2001; 175: 632-634)
• Estimating historical changes in physical activity levels Garry J Egger, Neeltje Vogels, Klaas R Westerterp (MJA 2001; 175: 635-636)
• Quick weight loss: sorting fad from fact David C K Roberts (MJA 2001; 175: 637-640)

Bites and Stings

• Outbreak of caterpillar dermatitis caused by airborne hairs of the mistletoe browntail moth (Euproctis edwardsi) Corrine R Balit, Helen C Ptolemy, Merilyn J Geary, Richard C Russell, Geoffrey K Isbister (MJA 2001; 175: 641-643)
• Fatal anaphylaxis following jack jumper ant sting in southern Tasmania Simon G A Brown, Qi-Xuan Wu, G Robert H Kelsall, Robert J Heddle, Brian A Baldo (MJA 2001; 175: 644-647)
• Snakebite and antivenoms in the Asia-Pacific: wokabaut wantaim, raka hebou ("walking together") Allen C Cheng, Kenneth D Winkel (MJA 2001; 175: 648-651)
• Prospective study of jellyfish stings from tropical Australia, including the major box jellyfish Chironex fleckeri Gerard M O'Reilly, Geoffrey K Isbister, Paula M Lawrie, Greg T Treston, Bart J Currie (MJA 2001; 175: 652-655)

Hazards and Help in Communications

• The personal digital assistant: a new medical instrument for the exchange of information at the clinical point of care Robert A Wilcox, Ralph R La Tella (MJA 2001; 175: 659-662)
• Books as carriers of disease Mark J Ferson (MJA 2001; 175: 663-664)

Christmas Offerings

• Carols in the wind John E Marley, Paula Searle, Nicole L Chamberlain, Deborah R Turnbull, Catherine M Leahy (MJA 2001; 175: 656-657)
• Bloodletting and leeching: instruments of healing or torture? Roger W Byard (MJA 2001; 175: 665)
• Conference baggery James A Dickinson (MJA 2001; 175: 666)

Letters

• The mystery of GP research output? Phillip Gray (MJA 2001; 175: 667)
• Australian general practice at a fork in the road: which way forward? Percy S Rogers (MJA 2001; 175: 667)
• Martin B Van Der Weyden (MJA 2001; 175: 667) Medical research into "neglected diseases"
• Mary K Moran, Catherine M Hewison, Rowan D Gillies (MJA 2001; 175: 667-668) Alan H Evans (MJA 2001; 175: 668-669)
• Economy class syndrome: a forgotten lesson Lloyd K Morgan (MJA 2001; 175: 669-670)
• Improving the treatment of leg ulcers Graeme W Johnson (MJA 2001; 175: 670)
• Taenia solium and neurocysticercosis Anthony T Zimmermann, William S Jeffries (MJA 2001; 175: 670-671)
• Eye exposure to squashed spiders John E Stuart (MJA 2001; 175: 671)
• Kangaroo capers Alan E O'Connor (MJA 2001; 175: 672)

Departments

• Christmas competition (MJA 2001; 175: 574)

  Snapshots Goanna oil (MJA 2001; 175: 586)

• An unusual cause of immobility (MJA 2001; 175: 586) A snip in time saves nine (MJA 2001; 175: 608)
• Cockroach bladder! (MJA 2001; 175: 620) Ten-gallon bladder! (MJA 2001; 175: 620)
• Seahorse (MJA 2001; 175: 628) Christmas in the ED (MJA 2001; 175: 651)
• Traumatic false aneurysm in the popliteal artery of a child (MJA 2001; 175: 658)

  Corrections. "On causing death" (Med J Aust 2001; 175: 517-518) 671 "Carotid stenting or endarterectomy for stroke prevention?"(Med J Aust 2001; 175: 430-431) 672