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Volume 178 Issue 8

21 April 2003

From the editor’s desk

The new genetics: private or public property?

Martin B Van Der Weyden

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 361 Free

Editorials

Improving triage of patients with chest pain

M Andrew Fitzpatrick

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 364-365

Asleep at the wheel: who's at risk?

R Doug McEvoy

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 365-366

Changing times in the treatment of myocardial infarction

James W Leitch

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 367-368

Research

Use of an accelerated chest pain assessment protocol in patients at intermediate risk of adverse cardiac events

Con N Aroney, Heather L Dunlevie and JH Nicholas Bett

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 370-374 Free

Impact of a chest-pain guideline on clinical decision-making

Soufiane Boufous, Bin B Jalaludin, Charles H Pain, Susan Ieraci, Anne-Louise Gray, Susan E Harris, Craig P Juergens, Peter W Kelleher and Linda M Dann

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 375-380 Free

Call-to-needle times for thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction in Victoria

Anne-Maree Kelly, Debra Kerr, Ian Patrick and Tony Walker

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 381-385 Free

Impact of a web-based antimicrobial approval system on broad-spectrum cephalosporin use at a teaching hospital

Michael J Richards, Lyn-Li Lim, Marion B Robertson, Nicholas R Jones, Simone E Taylor, Margarida M Duarte, Dale A Kerr, Graham J Stanton, Peter D Ritchie and Jonathan G A Dartnell

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 386-390 Free

Clinical update

Management of common vulval conditions

Belinda M Welsh, Karen N Berzins, Kathy A Cook and Christopher K Fairley

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 391-395 Free

Medicine and the law

Fatal distraction: a case series of fatal fall-asleep road accidents and their medicolegal outcomes

Anup V Desai, Ronald R Grunstein, Elizabeth Ellis and John R Wheatley

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 396-399 Free

History

An Anzac's childhood: John Simpson Kirkpatrick (1892–1915)

John H Pearn and David Gardner-Medwin

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 400-402

EBM in action

Is sunlight an effective treatment for infants with jaundice?

Renea V Johnston, Jeremy N Anderson and Cheryl Prentice

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 403

Lessons from practice

A diagnosis unmasked by an unusual reaction to ceftriaxone therapy for gonorrhoeal infection

Derek J Chan, Harry M Michelmore and Julian Gold

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 404-405 Free

The New Genetics

The "new genetics" and clinical practice

Ronald J A Trent, Robert Williamson and Grant R Sutherland

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 406-409 Free

Letters

Magnesium infusion to treat Irukandji syndrome

Michael A Corkeron

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 411

Black cohosh and other herbal remedies associated with acute hepatitis

Luis Vitetta, Michael Thomsen and Avni Sali

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 411-412

Hormone replacement therapy after a diagnosis of breast cancer: cancer recurrence and mortality

Theresa M Hayes, Craig R Underhill, Kerrie Clarke and Martin HN Tattersall

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 412-413

In reply: Hormone replacement therapy after a diagnosis of breast cancer: cancer recurrence and mortality

Eva M Durna, Barry G Wren, Gillian Z Heller, Leo R Leader, Peter Sjoblom and John A Eden

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 413

Thalidomide and cancer?

J Mark Elwood

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 413

Low-molecular-weight heparins and heparinoids

Barry NJ Walters and Dorothy Graham

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 413-414

Low-molecular-weight heparins and heparinoids

Owen D Williamson and Alison M. Street

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 414

In reply: Low-molecular-weight heparins and heparinoids

John W Eikelboom and Graeme J Hankey

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 414-415

Religion, spirituality and health

Hedley G Peach

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 415

In reply: Religion, spirituality and health

Harold G Koenig

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 415-416

Religion, spirituality and health

Alan J Gijsbers

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 416

National ethics committee urgently needed

Christopher D Hogan

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 416

Snapshot

Muir–Torre syndrome and early detection of internal malignancy

Celia S Chen, Lindy Loweinstein, Shyamala C Huilgol, Dinesh Selva and Craig James

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 368 Free

Medical history and the European Union: Papanicolaou and Asklepios

Theodor Tirilomis and Stella Malliarou

Med J Aust 2003; 178 (8): 380 Free