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Volume 177 Issue 11

9 December 2002

From the editor’s desk

Freedom of information?

Craig M Bingham and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 581 Free

The croupier's view

Bronwyn Gaut

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 582 Free

Editorial

Australian health policy research and development: where is it?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 586

Conference report

Knowledge and commitment for action: the 14th International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, July 2002

Stephen J Kent, C Jane Dale and Anne M Mijch

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 587-589

Protecting the Planet

Climate change and human health: what do we know?

Anthony J McMichael and Rosalie E Woodruff

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 590-591

The motor car and public health: are we exhausting the environment?

Alistair Woodward, Simon Hales and Sarah E Hill

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 592-593

Ultraviolet radiation and health: friend and foe

Robyn M Lucas and Anne-Louise Ponsonby

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 594-598 Free

The soiled environment: bubble, bubble, soil in trouble

Andrew J Langley

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 599-603 Free

Air pollution and its health impacts: the changing panorama

Tord E Kjellstrom, Anne Neller and Rod W Simpson

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 604-608 Free

Water and the environment: a natural resource or a limited luxury?

Karin Leder, Martha I Sinclair and John J McNeil

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 609-613 Free

Foodborne disease in the new millennium: out of the frying pan and into the fire?

Gillian V Hall, Rennie M D'Souza and Martyn D Kirk

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 614-618 Free

Editorials

A medical school for the Australian National University

Paul A Gatenby and Nicholas J Glasgow

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 8-9

Crisis

Operation Bali Assist

Gregory V Hampson, Steven P Cook and Steven R Frederiksen

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 620-623

Australian doctors in Bali: the initial medical response to the Bali bombing

Graeme J Southwick, Anthony J Pethick, Priya Thalayasingam, Vijith S Vijayasekaran and John HW Hogg

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 624-626

Sojourn in Sweden: a GP activist goes to jail

Elizabeth D Rickman

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 627-628

Indigenous health: chronically inadequate responses to damning statistics

Ian T Ring and Ngaire Brown

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 629-631 Free

North West Frontier

Mission in Afghanistan

Robert A Simpson

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 633-637

Postcards from the North West Frontier

Ivan Cher

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 638-640

Students Abroad

The Medical Students' Aid Project: building partnerships with the developing world

Angus G Ritchie, Adrian T Fung, Peter N Fox, Kathryn E Roberts, John S Vedelago, Rebecca C Blake, Asif A Saber, Jess M Glass and Linda K Martin

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 641-643

A day at Takeo Eye Hospital, Cambodia

Leo J Ryan

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 644-645

Bites and stings

Successful resuscitation after cardiac arrest following massive brown snake envenomation

Michelle A Johnston, Daniel M Fatovich, Andrew D Haig and Frank F S Daly

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 646-649

The Gove chirodropid: a box jellyfish appearing in the "safe season"

Bart Currie, Melita McKinnon, Bernie Whelan and Philip Alderslade

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 649

Puffer fish poisoning: a potentially life-threatening condition

Geoffrey K Isbister, Julie Son, Josef Ujma, Brendon Smith, D G Milder, Frank Wang, Catriona J Maclean, Cindy S-Y Lin, Matthew C Kiernan and Corrine R Balit

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 650-653

Temperature effects on box jellyfish venom: a possible treatment for envenomed patients?

Teresa J Carrette, Jamie E Seymour, Paul Cullen, Peter L Peiera and Mark Little

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 654-655 Free

The Power of One

Bridging the gap between basic science and clinical medicine: mentors and memories

Lawrie W Powell

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 657-660

Agent of change: more than "a nuisance to the tobacco industry"

Simon Chapman

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 661-633

History

Gregg's congenital rubella patients 60 years later

Jill M Forrest, Fiona M Turnbull, Gary F Sholler, Richard E Hawker, Frank J Martin, Margaret A Burgess and Trevor T Doran

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 664-667 Free

"The contagiousness of childbed fever": a short history of puerperal sepsis and its treatment

Caroline M De Costa

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 668-671

True stories

Saving Grace: a Christmas story

Caroline M De Costa

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 673-674 Free

"Mother can't breathe, doctor!"

Andrew R Robertson

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 675

A walk on the wild side: a fortnight in Bougainville

Douglas N Gow

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 676-677

Christmas offerings

The Polaris principle

Richard D Lawson

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 671

Brown-Séquard revisited: a lesson from history on the placebo effect of androgen treatment

Andrea J Cussons, John P Walsh, Chotoo I Bhagat and Stephen J Fletcher

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 678-679 Free

What a shocker! The effects of the M2 virus on the behaviour of young children

Garry Walter

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 680

Evidence-based physicians' dressing: a crossover trial

Balakrishnan R Nair, Stephen R Mears, Karen I Hitchcock and John R Attia

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 681-682 Free

Medicine and sport

David Isaacs and Dominic Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 683

Is anyone coming?

Andrew Beattie

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 683

Boiling beetles

Paul G Chee and Scott M Dunkley

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 685

Letters

Upsizing Australia's waistline: the dangers of "meal deals"

David Cameron-Smith, Shane A Bilsborough and Timothy C Crowe

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 686

"Chop-chop" tobacco smoking

Renee Bittoun

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 686-687

The altered whistle in tetanus

Eric R Dunn

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 687

Anchoring an anaesthetist

Richard H Riley

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 687-688

www.toxinology.com

Julian White

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 687

Communication overload

Christopher D Hogan

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 688

Snapshots

Papaver orchidiformis?

Alan Moskwa

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 591 Free

Hot spot

Antony Nocera

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 598 Free

Torsion of the appendix

Amy L Moten and Randal S Williams

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 632 Free

Care in the chicken coop

Nicholas P Collins, Bradley Warner and Stephen F Wilson

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 632 Free

Beer and oral hygiene

Neville Beer

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 640 Free

Cartoon face

Bit Lock Wong

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 672 Free

A cute appendicitis

Khimseng Tew

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 672 Free

Fishy gallbladder

Nishantha S Karunaratne

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 672 Free

Brain in the left thigh

Rodney H Strahan

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 672 Free

Adventure tours

Edward Brentnall

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 675 Free

Australia antigen

Robert Baird and Bronwyn Munro

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 680 Free

Christmas competition

Open plan and the secret ballot

Ruth Armstrong

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11): 619

Book review

Practical response to disaster

Gordian W O Fulde

Med J Aust 2002; 177 (11):