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Volume 176 Issue 2

21 January 2002

From the editor’s desk

From the Editor's Desk

Martin Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 45 Free

In this issue - 21 January 2002

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 46 Free

Editorials

Faecal incontinence: common and treatable

Michael A Kamm

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 47-48

Hospital care for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders: appropriateness and decision making

Dale A Fisher and Tarun S Weeramanthri

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 49-51 Free

Measles transmission in healthcare settings in Australia

Heath A Kelly, Michaela A Riddell and Ross M Andrews

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 45-51

Liver biopsy in the 21st century: where and why?

Adrian Griffiths, Charlie H Viiala and John K Olynyk

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 52-53

Research

Prevalence of faecal incontinence and associated risk factors

Jamshid S Kalantar, Stuart Howell and Nicholas J Talley

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 54-57 Free

Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures among Australian hospital patients identified as Indigenous

Joan Cunningham

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 58-62 Free

Reported management of early-pregnancy bleeding and miscarriage by general practitioners in Victoria

Bruce McLaren and Julia M Shelley

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 63-66 Free

Healthcare

Short-stay, out-of-hospital, radiologically guided liver biopsy

Christopher S Pokorny and Mark Waterland

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 67-69 Free

Notable cases

Sickle-cell/β+-thalassaemia in a Papua New Guinean: the first reported case of the sickle gene in Papua New Guinea

Evelyn K Lavu, John D Vince and Gilchrist Oswyn

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 70-71 Free

For debate

Breaking the deadlock over an Australian trial of injectable opioid maintenance

Wayne D Hall, Jo Kimber and Richard P Mattick

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 72-73

Viewpoint

What's wrong with the dead body?

Lisa M Parker

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 74-76 Free

The Profession

Reclaiming the lost meanings of medicine

Zeev E Neuwirth

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 77-79

Clinical ethics

End-of-life issues: Case 2

Paul A Glare and Bernadette Tobin

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 80-82 Free

Matters arising

Asylum seekers and healthcare

Aamer Sultan, Kevin O'Sullivan and Debra Graves

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 86

Asylum seekers and healthcare

Philip Ruddock, Derrick M Silove, Zachary Steel, George Halasz, Michael Block, Leon Petchkovsky, Howard Cooper, Martin B Van Der Weyden, Ruth M Armstrong and Helen M Randall

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 86

Asylum seekers and healthcare

Philip Ruddock

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 86

Asylum seekers and healthcare

Philip Ruddock

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 86

Asylum seekers and healthcare

Philip Ruddock

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 86

Asylum seekers and healthcare

Philip Ruddock

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 86

Letters

Evidence-based healthcare 10 years on: is the National Institute of Clinical Studies the answer?

Louise V Hall

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 88

Evidence-based healthcare 10 years on: is the National Institute of Clinical Studies the answer?

Louise V Hall, Allison E Lauder and Chris A Silagy

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 88

COX-2 inhibition and thrombotic tendency

Christopher G Fenn

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 88

COX-2 inhibition and thrombotic tendency

Leslie G Cleland and Michael J James

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 88

Liver biopsy in hepatitis C: reassessing its role in 2001

Ian F Yusoff, Lindsay Mollison, Leanne Totten and John Olynyk

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 89-90

Changes in serum folate concentrations following voluntary food fortification in Australia

Jack Metz, Ken A Sikaris, Ellen L Maxwell and Mark D Levin

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 90-91

The decline in hospital autopsy rates in 2001

Helen E Ward, Belinda E Clarke, Paul V Zimmerman and Michael I Cleary

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 91

How much alcohol is drunk in Australia in excess of the new Australian alcohol guidelines?

Tim R Stockwell, Penny Heale, Tanya N Chikritzhs, Paul Dietze and Paul Catalano

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 91-92

Correction

What people say about their general practitioners' treatment of anxiety and depression

G Andrews and and G L Carter

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 69

Obituary

Gwendolyn Ruth Nash MB BS, FRANZCP

Felicity Brown, Barbara Overbury and and Kate Nash

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 82 Free

Columns

eMJA: In other journals - 21 January 2002

Med J Aust 2002; 176 (2): 84