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Volume 179 Issue 10

17 November 2003

From the editor’s desk

“Careful, he might hear you”

Martin B Van Der Weyden

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In This Issue

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): Free

Editorials

Reducing patient time in the emergency department

Drew B Richardson

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 516-517

Population genetic screening for hereditary haemochromatosis

Dorota M Gertig, John L Hopper and Katrina J Allen

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 517-518

Public funding of large-scale clinical trials in Australia

John J McNeil, Mark R Nelson and Andrew M Tonkin

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 519-520

Conference report

NSW Alcohol Summit: getting a better grip on our favourite drug

Paul S Haber, Katherine M Conigrave and Alex D Wodak

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 521-522

Healthcare

Emergency department length of stay independently predicts excess inpatient length of stay

Don Liew, Danny Liew and Marcus P Kennedy

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 524-526 Free

Multidisciplinary care for women with early breast cancer in the Australian context: what does it mean?

Helen Zorbas, Kathy Rainbird, Karen Luxford, Bruce Barraclough and Sally Redman

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 528-531 Free

Indigenous health

The association between birthweight and current blood pressure: a cross-sectional study in an Australian Aboriginal community

Gurmeet R Singh and Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 532-535 Free

Medicine and the community

Community attitudes to assisted reproductive technology: a 20-year trend

Gabor T Kovacs, Gary Morgan, E Carl Wood, Donna Howlett and Catherine Forbes

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 536-538 Free

For debate

A financial case to enable state health jurisdictions to invest in tobacco control

Seham T Girgis and Jeanette E Ward

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 539-542 Free

Viewpoint

The PBS community awareness campaign: how helpful is blaming patients?

Evan Doran and David A Henry

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 544-545

From bench to bedside

Use of human fetal tissue for biomedical research in Australia, 1994–2002

Bernard E Tuch, Hayley Scott, Muhammad T Tabiin, Liping P Wang and Patricia J Armati

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 547-550 Free

Lessons from practice

Serious sequelae of maxillofacial infections

Peter J Aquilina and Anthony Lynham

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 551-552 Free

Snapshot

Bilateral facial paralysis: what’s the cause?

Ali A Haydar, Nabil M Hujairi, Aiman Tawil and Raja A Sawaya

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 553 Free

Letters

Medical workforce issues in Australia: “tomorrow’s doctors — too few, too far”

William J Glasson and Robert A Bain

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 556

Could it be sarcoid arthritis?

Francisco J Ruiz-Ruiz, Fernando J Ruiz-Laiglesia, Juan I Perez-Calvo and Carmen B Torrubia-Perez

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 556

Cardiovascular risk among urban Aboriginal people

Zhiqiang Wang and Wendy E Hoy

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 557 Free

Cardiovascular risk among urban Aboriginal people

Peter L Thompson, Pamela J Bradshaw, Margherita Veroni and Edward T Wilkes

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 557 Free

A comparison of buprenorphine treatment in clinic and primary care settings: a randomised trial

John R M Caplehorn

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 557-558

A comparison of buprenorphine treatment in clinic and primary care settings: a randomised trial

Amy E Gibson

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 557-558

Troponin testing: an audit in three metropolitan hospitals

Paul M Bailey

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 558-559

Troponin testing: an audit in three metropolitan hospitals

Richard X Davey

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 558-559

Pneumococcal meningitis masquerading as subarachnoid haemorrhage

Lloyd K Morgan

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 559-560

Salmonella outbreak associated with chicks and ducklings at childcare centres

Tony D Merritt and Carolyn Herlihy

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 63-64

Pneumococcal meningitis masquerading as subarachnoid haemorrhage

Taposh Chatterjee, John R Gowardman and Tony D Goh

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 559-560

Dosing information for paediatric patients: are they really “therapeutic orphans”?

Amanda J Caswell

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 560

Correction

1: Epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome

Jonathan E Shaw and Donald J Chisholm

Med J Aust 2003; 179 (10): 526

Book reviews

What mole is that?

Rodney D Sinclair

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Antibiotic anniversary

Joseph G McCormack

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Treatment of addiction made easier

Raymond Seidler

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Columns

In Other Journals

Ann Gregory

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